Thrilled to have this short story out today in
@MaudlinHouse
! If you’ve ever had a friend get just a little bit too into crystals, this one’s for you 🔮
““Sally Rooney syndrome” where you believe you’re some angel fallen out of God’s favor” meanwhile Rooney is a Marxist writing literary fiction that examines the lonely narcissism of neoliberal society
People will give you academic job market advice and then also act like permanently living in separate states or even countries from your partner forever is completely normal
Don’t care about Anna Marie Tendler or celebrity memoirs whatsoever, I just cannot stand the way people collapse Rooney’s writing down to serve their interests (and internalized misogyny)
@4rogs_
Oh no I fully agree she’s not saying that Sally Rooney The Artist has the “Sally Rooney syndrome” she lays out - I just also disagree with that characterization of her work. I think Rooney’s characters are made to reckon with their own narcissism and the harm they inflict
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:
@pourfairelevide
when writers don't read it's like....you know there are other ways to get attention other than through your writing, like you don't need to be doing this
@Vanessid
@devonwebbnz
Representation isn’t endorsement, Lana utilizes Americana in order to interrogate the myth of the American dream. Literally every time she utilizes Americana, it’s paired with a sense of alienation and despair. Her art IS political, it’s just not didactic
@4rogs_
I think Rooney’s characters are often self-loathing and hyper-preoccupied with the harm they could inflict on others, like in conversations with friends or beautiful world. Like I don’t think any of them thinks they’re uniquely good - more like they believe they’re uniquely bad
@pourfairelevide
I’ve heard people before be like “I don’t read because I don’t want that to influence my writing voice” and it’s like do you really think you possess a singular genius?? That also somehow exists in a vacuum? lol
I need everyone to know that this is NOT the Lacanian stance re: anti-racism! Lacanian theory is devoutly anti-racist because it’s about locating a universality in lack and forging solidarity through that understanding - read Fanon, not twitter threads
The people you target to scapegoat, to sacrifice, blame for every social wrong you perceive & bitterness you feel, become your truth & rule your mind. You become less yourself, & more their own distorted reflection. Superegoic “anti-racism” is a distorted reflection of racism
@romyewing
The way people dismiss her is mind-boggling!! Like as if writing on relationships isn’t a serious literary matter, as if desire isn’t the most human thing of all!
My brilliant friend
@kelly_erin_
wrote a great essay on Bright Eyes’ LIFTED (2002) and the eternal present of the Bush Era for Five Good Hours this week. Link in bio, and please let me know if you’re interested in writing!
"If you’ve ever had a pea coat-wearing liberal arts student talk at you about the genius that is David Foster Wallace then you’d call Infinite Jest bro-lit too."
These TikTokers are coming after the Bros on BookTok.
More:
@John_Attridge
I accept late escapes after the first 24 hours, but the grade will drop by half a letter for every subsequent day spent still in the labyrinth
The academic job market is starting up again, so here’s some advice for everyone applying! When you get to a campus to interview, find the biggest academic you can and punch them to assert dominance! That way, all the other academics will fear and respect you!!🧵 (1/?)
With respect to the structure of desire, midwest emo is the Lacanian music genre par excellence for its innate grasp of phallic jouissance. In this essay, I will
I’m a young woman and I tell students they can call me kelly because I believe it’s important that students view their instructors as humans rather than just as their functions in an educational institution - like it’s a pedagogical choice, not an attempt to be “cool”
I want to air a relatively minor personal gripe: middle-aged professor dudes who want to be ‘cool’ and ‘approachable’ and let their undergrads call them by their first name actually make it harder for those of us who aren’t automatically assumed to belong in the academy
I'm thrilled to share that my article on Lacanian psychoanalysis and the environmental humanities in Frank Norris's The Octopus is now available: "The Octopus and the Other: Capitalocene Contradictions in the Symbolic Order," Journal of Ecohumanism
the lit world really overcorrected for the problem of shallow mary sue type characters because now every single new novel is like what if a woman was bad
@fahad_s_ali
It’s confusing also because the U.S. is incredibly homophobic in so many places? Like.. there is an internal war being waged against the trans community?
@SamuelRGalloway
I don’t care at all about the debate at hand - but it’s pretty weird and tone deaf to imply someone can’t have opinions on a purportedly leftist theorist if they’re not employed academics lol
Writing a short story in the style of Lincoln in the Bardo called Biden in the Bardo but when Biden talks to his son’s ghost he’s always just really confused and saying “what??”
Ended class on The Crying of Lot 49 by showing students how the Radiohead store is named after the W.A.S.T.E. System - does this make me a parody of an English instructor??
just remembered the time my favorite professor told a guy in our grad theory seminar he couldn’t write his final paper on an anime because she doesn’t care about animation - iconic, heroic, brave, etc.
Strangers always assume I’m writing a children’s book when I tell them I write and it’s like sorry for having a kind heart and warm smile but that’s not really my thing
All the reading load discourse is reminding me of the time I had to drive home suddenly for a funeral one weekend from out of state and had to spend the full drive listening to Foucault’s discipline & punish on 2x speed
-seminar XI
-beyond the pleasure principle
-black skin, white masks
-In praise of love
-theses on the philosophy of history
-capitalism and desire
-cruel optimism
-the mushroom at the end of the world
-capitalism in the web of life
-the society of the spectacle
- Minima Moralia
- The Arcades Project
- In the Break
- Anti-Oedipus
- The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
- The Work of the Dead
- Cruel Optimism
- Necropolitics
- The Production of Space
- Theory of the Gimmick
Crafting the learning objectives for my intro lit course syllabus like by the end of week 6, you will have developed the eyes to see cathedrals everywhere