Toy Choice

Recently a friend was complaining about the "toy university" where we teach. I don't take such a harsh view since I used to teach at Cog in the Machine University, and frankly, I prefer the more playful one.

I began to invent "My Toy Life" "My Toy Husband" "My Toy House" as a way of dealing with this diminutive sense of our world, and realized that in the end, under late capitalism, our choices are consumer choices -- Mac or PC, Verizon or Sprint, Nike or Adidas?