this is triggering for me because i’m remembering when i overheard a dude ask the barista if she’d read audre lorde, before proceeding to tell her that she should write a book called “sister barista”
not the marxist feminists and afropessimists presenting at a conference in germany after the host institution legally threatened its students for speaking out about palestine
Fredric Jameson "made an appearance at a University of Michigan literary conference several years ago conditional on the university also arranging for him to give a public address on Palestine, where he defended the right of self-determination with force and clarity."
to invoke the possibility of “genocide, by either side” is to magically summon a parity that does not exist. only one “side” here has the means—the infrastructure—of genocide at its disposal.
Heartbreaking how many previously sane people on this wretched website are cheering on a genocide, by either side. This is not a damn football match. These are people, most of whom were never asked if they wanted this.
it’s wild that the same job market that wants white applicants to propose projects “decolonizing” their fields also wants non-white applicants to gratuitously perform their own racialization
i will not joke about frank wilderson’s former career as a stockbroker, i will not joke about frank wilderson’s former career as a stockbroker, i will not joke about frank wilderson’s former career as a stockbroker, i will not joke about frank wilderson’s former career as a…
still thinking about how the berkeley dean sending out threatening emails about activism is a scholar of the holocaust, enclosure, biopolitics, sovereignty, etc.
the more i write about adrienne rich (my chapter, like everything i write, is way overdue), the more i realize she was looped in to almost every aspect of american letters and is probably one of the most complicated and strange figures of the 20th century
you will not get a job for studying the contemporary novel! you will not get a job studying romantic poetry! you will not get a job studying victorian drama! you will not get a job for studying modernist anything! you will not get a job!!!!!
more people need to realize that when jameson says "always historicize" it's a demand to historicize from the perspective of the present... and that the "always" is the demand *of* the present
UPDATE: Indigenous activists are now blocking the weapons shipment to Israel from leaving the Tacoma Port from the water.
The boat is still unable to leave the port.
one of the strangest ironies of academy is that sometimes it's gonna be the straight, white cis dude who is the most sympathetic and chill interlocutor. and the queer or whatever, hopped up on their own marginality, is going to be incredibly vicious and territorial.
which literary critic, when asked about BDS/academia in israel, advised graduate students to accept work there because they should be "prioritizing their careers"
i think this sort of misses the point. emory douglas is on the cover *because* of the editor, david velasco. maybe it reads as hypocrisy after the fact of his firing, but under velasco artforum was a place where pro-palestinian positions could be sincerely and openly expressed.
Artforum firing their editor for signing a letter of support for a Free Palestine while having Black Panther artist Emory Douglas on their cover is peak art world hypocrisy. The Black Panthers were extremely vocal in their support for Palestine, absolutely shameful.
walkable neighbourhoods *are* dangerous because i can get a latte, an oat bar, five new books, thrifted pottery, a record, a loaf of sourdough, lube, and local asparagus in one little stroll
#CallForPapers
GLQ is looking for submissions for an upcoming issue entitled "Time after Time: On Cruising the Past," to be edited by Adrián Emmanuel Hernández-Acosta and Kris Trujillo. Submissions due 8/1/24.
Read the full CFP:
i have very serious concerns about my students' capacity to read and reflect on/respond to even mildly complex or challenging writing and it's weighing me down