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Self-Hosting for Academics: A Complete Guide to Building Your Own Digital Infrastructure v1.0 N.B: If you come across any errors, or have any suggestions on how to improve this, please don’t hesitate to contact me. What This Is This guide walks through the construction of a personal digital infrastructure — step by step, concept by concept — for an academic reader who has no background in systems administration. It assumes you know how to use a computer, install software, and navigate a web browser, but nothing beyond that. ...

The work of Niklas Luhmann can’t ever be simplified, but I certainly did try. This is an email that I’d sent in response to some of my students from my undergraduate “Sociology and STS through Science Fiction” class at Krea University, who had several questions about Luhmann’s work. For some additional context, we just had finished watching the 2013 movie “Snowpiercer”, and were discussing it in relation to a few different readings. Luhmann’s work came up along the way. ...

The transition from being a Sociologist based in the United States to being a Sociologist in India has been an interesting one to say the very least. In my first term here, I was asked to teach a required course that had been titled “Introduction to Sociological and Anthropological Thought”, which has been a vastly different experience from how I’ve been teaching introductory courses on Sociology in the past. It’s somewhat daunting to blend the histories and particularities of (what have now become) two very distinct disciplines. At the same time, it has been incredibly refreshing to work with literature from Indian scholars that I haven’t read in a long time, or at all for that matter. ...

What started as a satirical post on LinkedIn concerning the ban of Sci-Hub and Libgen in India ended up leading to an interesting interview for C&EN Magazine. I was asked for my comments on the new court verdict to block Sci-Hub in India. The C&EN piece features a truncated set of responses, here are my responses to the interview questions in their entirety (written while I was still an employee at Nazareth University in Rochester, NY, and a few weeks away from moving to India): ...

This is a sample blog post to confirm that my deploy script works.