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Doctor of philosophy on what it means to play pretend. Writing about stand-up comedy, sound studies, and the avant-garde.
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i wrote this and i didn't realize it came out! this is a v personal and dear piece to me, i hope you like it!
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I feel like I would really excel as a tenured professor with a very low teaching load at a prestigious university. Anyone else feel this way?
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the self-moralizing over reading less is a coping mechanism. if you admit you don't read a lot bc you don't have the attention span you have to admit that something has been done to you and you haven't stopped it. i want to be compassionate, but the delusion is frustrating
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i'm normally sooooo pablo freire-coded and i'm honestly kind of a pushover in the classroom but students using AI has really made me change. like i do not make enough money to let someone treat me like this and then i hold their hand through it. you get a zero. bye
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this is so much more smug than any literary critic could ever be. unbelievable. ma'am.
I have a degree in English. Every time my profs were explaining symbolism and foreshadowing in books, I wanted to know how they knew that was the author's intention.
Now, as a writer, I'm convinced most of it was bunk. 😄😉
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The only kind of interesting art about this is the barrier in front of it
A word for those who (like me) might need it.
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again it is absolutely insane to me that of all people foucault is the go-to "opaque and annoying writer"
Foucault deserves his reputation as an opaque and annoying writer, but his basic analysis of power is the most parsimonious description of social reality I've ever seen, once you start looking power as he describes it out in the wild, it's as subtle as an avalanche
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i'm increasingly convinced this girl has not read a word of hegel
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why the fuck did i waste my entire adult life in the academic humanities. what is wrong with me. what a fucking IDIOT
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this is the frenchest thing to ever happen lmao
SHIT IS HITTING THE FAN: The Paris Airports Union filed a notice today to go on STRIKE on the day of the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony!!!!
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It’s so frustrating trying to explain to people why ChatGPT etc. is bad bc you essentially have to explain to someone with more power than you that they are stupid about something that they think they are smart at.
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oh my god conservatives can make good art and empathy is by no means required to make good art. lmao. im so tired of gryffindor vs. slytherin aesthetic theory
Conservatives are incapable of producing good art because they lack empathy, which means they are incapable of creating anything which communicates to a larger audience. When they try to produce art, they only end up producing clumsy in-group signaling.
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It’s so weird that ppl tweet bc they want “engagement.” Like I was under the impression that this was the void? Am I wrong? I’m gazing into the abyss rn i thought that’s what we were all doing?
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Me, a 36 year old woman, when my friend is describing a guy we used to know: is he in our grade
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this was my favorite part of the whole thing honestly. the rest of it is superfluous imo. this could have been the entire review.
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Theatre studies is so funny if just for the sheer number of completely straight-faced serious conversations I’ve had about the ontology of puppets
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What you wrote is actually easy to understand and please fuck off
The opacity of academic prose arises from the epistemological imperative to operationalize disciplinary jargon, facilitating intra-specialized discourse while obfuscating heterogenous interpretive accessibility and perpetuating a recursive dialectic of erudition and exclusion.
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why do all these people who aren't good at writing want to be writers? i'm pretty good at writing and i hate being a writer
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Ma’am are you sure that’s why they didn’t want to be friends with you
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Fuck word limit I am saint Augustine and must get this off my chest
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@Tyler_A_Harper
this is PIPING HOT. like this is why i will never quit this site. this is what twitter used to be like before the nazis and porn bots took over, it was just weirdos making insane claims and ppl freaking out. thank you tyler for reminding me of the true meaning of christmas
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Do you know that people used to read multiple newspapers a day, every day, bc that’s how news works
i do not believe you read 100 pages per day and have anything worthwhile to say anything about what you are reading
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@beautifulrobot
@ChairMartyr
i swear to god, if i stumbled across this thread as an undergraduate....i would be so fucking sad lol
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thinking about how carrie bradshaw and judith butler's writing share a talmudic formalism in the tendency to ask a series of rhetorical questions in a row
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convincing liberals that in order to improve the world you might have to experience minor and sometimes medium and sometimes substantial sacrifices and hardships......we are not gonna fuckin make it. how can we organize these people? genuinely asking
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This “100 pages a day” deal has me reflecting on my studying for comps experience where I was simultaneously the most insane and also most myself version of myself I’ve ever been
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just once i'd like an artist to take a flinching look at their own inner life. i really do think that is more interesting
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there's actually no acceptable form of action or protest for liberals. they just want you to shut up. the game isn't worth it, do what you need to do
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@kathbarbadoro
it's been my experience that anyone who lists "dark sense of humor" as a primary descriptor for their personality/interests does not actually have a dark sense of humor really. like
@gillianhemme
has a really dark sense of humor IMO but she keeps it chill
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My student evals are so hilarious bc they’re either “she sucks, she’s bad, I hate her, and she’s not hot” or they’re “Eleanor changed my life and has exquisite breasts and large eyes”
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Mom ‘s spaghetti
Dad’s carbonara
Grandma’s penne ala vodka
My cousin Jonathan’s turkey tetrazzini
Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony
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this is exhausting
Current ick: men presumably under 35 reading books on the subway or in public.
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Sometimes you are 23 and you are the prettiest you will ever be in your whole life and at the time you thought you were a hideous troll and you look back on that time and you RUE
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hello! i've accepted a job! i will be the Assistant Professor of Practice--Theater History and Dramaturgy at Southern Illinois University! i will relocate to carbondale for the school year while J &
@TalkinLooseMeat
& bubba stay in Taos! this is very hard but also very exciting!
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Shirtless white man across the street just came out into his yard, removed his American flag, went back inside, brought out an Iranian flag and hung it up in its place. Right on and all that, but where did he get the Iranian flag? Those drones are still in the air.
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Did Brandeis University write this Wikipedia entry
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@itsdeezcontents
i'm not that concerned with that aspect of the discourse, i'm just talking about people QTing
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being like "that's logocentric and ableist" or w/e
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funny academic writers? i know the greats (koestenbaum, my hero tbh) and karen tongson and a few others, but what're some under the radar ones? i'm trying to figure out what my voice is so i want to steal from someone else's
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So andré fucked up and thought the Halloween costume contest at J’s school was today. So J wore his costume and nobody else did. He said “sometimes I felt like a nerd.”
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Just quit one of my jobs! Amazing feeling. May each and every one of you have the opportunity to quit a job of your choosing
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It’s so difficult watching so many aggressively mediocre people succeed. Other than the financial insecurity, it’s the thing I think about the most, not even out of jealousy (tho there is that too, inevitably) but out of a desire to study
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locking my account for the next couple days bc I'm on my way to Boston for a big girl potential job opportunity and I only want 1300 of my closest friends to know about it
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told my parents we got our bid approved for the house in rogers park, and my mom was like "oh, you should try to get tenure at loyola!" 💀
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How the hell am I just learning that A.O. Scott’s mom is Joan W. Scott???
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Me and I’m unashamed
there is a not-insignificant subset of scholars who are "rawdogging" citations — no reference manager, no giant ever-expanding .bib file, just writing in citations manually by hand (bonus points if you do the bibliography this way too)
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re-reading my dissertation as i work on my stupid book and honestly? i was cooking
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Men cannot process it when women writers have a playful tone. They lose their goddamn minds. This thread is insane.
Authors' unwillingness to show reverence for more accomplished writers' work is one of the most annoying features of this age of literary criticism.
(Yes, I'm talking about the DFW essay in LRB).
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sorry but i do need to echo others: how the fuck has everybody read this book already
This book has an incredible commitment to really thinking & synthesizing & making causal claims.Its critiques could be called ruthless but it's so pedagogical & generous; it takes the work of interp seriously enough to care which concepts clarify & which obfuscate and to say why!
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what is it like to be this fucking stupid
Putting aside whether this decision is right, I just want to note that an educated student who says she is against genocide and violence has a literal hammer and sickle in her bio.
This seems incompatible, no? The Soviet Union is responsible for the genocide of millions…
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sry but i always get angry when the sinéads of the world die. all this sudden. i'm tired of really brave crazy people who told the truth being treated like garbage during their lifetime only to be fawned over when they're dead in the ground. integrity is so rare and she had it
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I simply cannot continue to read this take anymore.
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i think what's most odious about this is the implication that the reason he got tenure, is a visiting scholar at harvard, and got a 6-figure advance is because of his brain at all, dumb or not.
Last year I got tenure, this year I'll be a visiting scholar at Harvard, and I got a 6-figure advance to publish a book next year. In honor of these accomplishments, here's a list of embarrassing confessions revealing how dumb my brain is in many ways:
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it's called creativity and without it we would all die from despair
at a certain point you have to realize a lot of non-technical "intelligence" is actually just schizophrenic pattern matching for phenomena that aren't actually there
chomsky, freud, foucault etc
it's cute and quaint but fundamentally useless and frequently misguiding
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interview next week for a NTT job at a place i dont want to live and certainly do not want to raise a child, wish me luck
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I’m really really upset about this JSTOR AI thing
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aka........a job
Academia is just saying "everything will be easier after X deadline" but then realizing you have another deadline after that one has passed. Rinse and repeat until you die.
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*joker voice* I am going to become the president of Columbia University
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the person who lived in my house and smashed up my kitchen and called the police in the middle of the night bc they needed a glass of water and i didn't answer my phone has all of their things out of my house now. i am free. my family is free.
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No he’s just not funny
This is insanely petty and inappropriate.
Don’t be this kind of professor. Treat your students with respect.
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I had no idea how many of you were central and south Asian foreign policy experts. You never mentioned this when I saw you at Cole’s open mic
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after shopping it around since 2016(?), my article on Richard Pryor at a gay rights fundraiser at the Hollywood bowl in 1977 has finally been accepted for publication in a journal. This is MY Oscar nomination
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thinking about the time i met the toro y moi guy at a party and i was like "hi! your music name kinda sounds like a feminist theorist, toril moi!" and he was like "ok"
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I went viral on academic twitter yesterday and it sucked, AMA
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I started working on this in 2015. 9 years later, it's out!
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I don’t think “who’s smarter” factors in. The Shining the book asks the question “ what if a place was so fucked up it fucks you up” which is a gothic novel thing. Kubrick isn’t a gothic novelist.
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Do you ever meet someone and you’re just like….this person is not funny or smart enough to get away with being this much of a bitch. But everyone else is acting like they are. It makes me feel insane
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We must love one another AND perish AND publish
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Vampire Weekend is one of those bands where I love listening to their music and know it pretty well and just really enjoy it and I read people who hate it describe it and I’m like “you are absolutely right.” I love this music and everything the haters say is still true
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Sometimes I have younger friends and they say things and I want to gently tell them that No Child Left Behind wasn’t their fault but they need to learn critical thinking from somewhere if we are going to continue to be friends
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Pending some kind of insane job offer for moi, we are moving back to Chicago as a family!
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@BrandyLJensen
I love this about old academics too. Bios will be like: “Dr. Jared McBourgeosie graduated from Harvard in 1965. He then taught there until he retired at Full Professor in 1990.” Imagine a life in which you just...work at the same place your entire life. Insane
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It’s so funny when someone is like “you should be careful about how you post on here, it could ruin your career” bc I’m always like 1) ok are you…threatening me and then 2) even if you are….what “career” lol. None of this matters!
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fuck it, i'm going to start applying for Dean jobs
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