User:Job L

My username is Job L. I find Wikipedia profoundly interesting as a more democratic form of organizing information and constructing knowledge than more traditional encyclopedias. I am also committed to keeping Wikipedia accurate and up to date, notwithstanding the various (and sometimes ill-informed) critiques of Wikipedia.

Areas of interest
The following lists, of course, are not exhaustive. Rather, the elements listed indicate the objects of my current obsessions. They also represent the pages where one would be most likely to find me lurking at any given moment.

Academic

 * Globalization Studies
 * Arjun Appadurai
 * Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
 * Immanuel Wallerstein
 * Literary theory
 * Marxism
 * Louis Althusser
 * Fredric Jameson
 * Karl Marx
 * Poststructuralism and Deconstruction
 * Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
 * Jacques Derrida
 * Michel Foucault
 * Donna Haraway
 * Twentieth-Century US literature
 * Toni Morrison
 * Richard Powers
 * Thomas Pynchon
 * Art Spiegelman

Personal

 * Seattle culture
 * Seattle Mariners
 * Seattle Seahawks
 * Coffee—it's stereotypical but, for many of us Seattleites, true
 * Seafood
 * Music
 * Leonard Cohen
 * The Decemberists
 * Bob Dylan
 * Randy Newman
 * Pearl Jam
 * Tom Waits