Sven Daniel Wolfe: Multiplicities in the City

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  • Two Drops of Oil

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    It’s probably not very academic to mention Paulo Coelho, I suppose, because of his new age connotations and the seductive sense of superiority that we get from relying on citations and peer review and institutional frameworks. But I don’t care, because it’s Week Forever of the Covid19 lockdown, I don’t talk with anyone outside of…

  • Building Urban Studies in Switzerland – GeoAgenda! Done!

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    It’s out! Please download, read, and share! A pretty massive nationwide effort, all told, and yet we did it! I can’t quite express how grateful I am to all the contributors for getting this done so quickly and so well. It was practically an impossible project, deadline-wise, and yet we did it. So what is…

  • Slowness

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    I know there’s value in slowness, whether in thinking, eating, or spicy Czech-French novels. There’s more, of course, but I’m impatient. I know good work takes time, and I don’t want to rush it. And I love being part of this academic world and having the privilege and luxury of spending my days like this,…

  • A Publication Project in a Last-Minute Rush

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    I’m not the kind of person who likes saying no, which I’ve heard is the “most important word in academia.” As I progress on this path, though, I’ve learned to be more judicious about the things I take on, because I don’t want to sacrifice quality in what I do. That’s a tough balance, though,…

  • Some history

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    Back in 2012, I lost my job in San Francisco. Our whole company did. One day I went into work and the atmosphere was horrible – people were scurrying around, carrying boxes, holding back tears. A bunch of suits had flown out from New York and laid everyone off. Some left that day, and some…

  • My PhD mood, longitudinally. Part 3.

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    So this is the final installment of my probably unnecessarily detailed qualitative and quantitative dissertation analysis. Part 1 is here and you can read Part 2 here, if you want to get up to speed. In those previous installments, my work appeared sporadic and chaotic, with my mood all over the map. Lots of disappointments,…

  • My PhD mood, longitudinally. Part 2.

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    I’ve already written a little about the efforts I took to keep track of my moods, qualitatively and quantitatively, during the process of writing my dissertation. But it was a long road, and so here is Part 2, the endless middle slog. To remind: every day I wrote down what I worked on, what chapter…

  • My PhD mood, longitudinally. Part 1.

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    So I passed my private defense today. I feel both triumphant and exhausted, but now I’m inhabiting a strange null space – kind of like floating between gravitational masses, I’d assume – because the first defense is done, but the public defense still looms. So I’m not Dr Wolfe yet, but everyone keeps telling me…

  • I submitted this today

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    Next step is for the esteemed jury to read through it, and then we’ll all meet for a private defense at the end of June. If I make it through that, then they’ll schedule a public defense for later in the summer. It feels odd, to tell the truth. I was sort of expecting angels…

  • The Endless Dissertation Desert

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    If this project were a movie, this would be the part where the main character slogs through the endless desert – I’m thinking Gobi, but feel free to fill in whatever wasteland you wish. Parched, exhausted, merciless sun beating down, shirt wrapped over the head, stumbling down a dune. You know the drill. I have…