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fwiw I don't personally find a 600 page/week load to be particularly pedagogically useful, but could we try not being the Stupidest Assholes of All Time
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like, you don't have to be an English professor. you can quit your job.
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if we have all this power over structuring "reality" and "time" could we make a REALITY in which it's TIME for me and my friends to have permanent jobs
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Bob Dylan's live piano playing is fucking incredible (I am being sincere)
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We all know what Foucault said about power: only one person has it. You just need to figure out who that is!
Again, four decades of Foucault has somehow made academics dumber about power. Yes the consultants are coming up with the details of campus restructurings. But the consultants work for the Board. Board members make all the important decisions.
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I've officially sent the proposal for my first book to a press. AHHHHHH.
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everyday produces more evidence that the most important function of English professors is to teach people, including other English professors, that fictional characters are not real
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within the context of the neoliberal academy, this so-called "radical pedagogy" is basically libertarianism, shoving students into the wild west and telling them to go make it on their own, best of luck, enjoy your radical freedom.
“Features of the Carceral Syllabus” by Vincent and Dana Lloyd :
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finished my book manuscript, sent it to be printed for a final read-through, and had it immediately pointed out to me that I had misspelled the title
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there really isn't a hell hot enough for Joe Biden. a despicable human from day one and willing to take the whole world with him.
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I run a student-centered classroom (no prep, long awkward silences) with a dynamic approach (making things up as I go along) to multimodal learning (occasionally find relevant Seinfeld clips on YouTube)
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I've been doing my damnedest to stay out of discourse and esp to not be a dunker or a shit starter anymore but... jesus fucking christ dude.
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I started watching Mandolorian just for having something dumb and thoughtless to watch and am horrified to admit I care more about Baby Yoda than any other fictional character in the history of art
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@BrandyLJensen
this cat is about to trick me into entering into indentured servitude with a traveling circus
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looking to teach some books next term for my new class on books. Want to avoid obvious ones (the Bible, etc.). Anyone know of any books, preferably bound ones with pages and covers?
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It's the "and open much of the time" that, to me, captures why he is often imitated but never replicated
"documents strewn all over his garage floor where he parks his Corvette" lmao
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also if you think the cause of the decline of English and literature departments is professor's "rigor" like, have you ever seen a dollar bill? have you ever used money to pay for goods and/or services?
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Cormac McCarthy didn't want to live in a world without Silvio Berlusconi and I think that's beautiful
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It's been a long time coming, but my article on Native Son and statistical governance, "Everybody's Statistical Record: Richard Wright and the Determinations of Late Naturalism," is out in the new issue of Representations.
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I once went on a date with a woman who claimed she had drowned five times
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humanities academic who thinks every image is a picture of some kind of humanities academic vs a normal person who thinks these are pictures of two Olympic shooting competitors
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I don't know if my dumb account saying so has value. I highly doubt it. But I feel compelled to at least state unequivocally that Israel, the US, Biden, Fetterman, and many others are all committing genocide. I do not feel compelled to distinguish between direct and indirect.
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It's July 4, 2024. You're watching Bob Dylan play the song he wrote for Wonder Boys. The gummy's kicking in. Big Elden Ring plans this weekend. You're a 34 years old single dog dad in an election year. Things will never be this good again.
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I think one of the most flawless indicators of being a bad person is having an overly long academic bio
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really enjoyed
@feinsod
's piece on David Berman, from the recent P45 cluster. it's my favorite kind of analysis: something I would never have thought of that seems so obvious and undeniable after reading it.
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if Oppenheimer indirectly leads to cummunism's cancelation I will amend my letterboxd review to 5 stars
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the choice of "Diet Mountain Dew" here is so perverse, almost psychopathic, revealing a complete lack of comedic instincts or even.... humanity.
Vance: I had a Diet Mountain Dew yesterday and one today. I'm sure they will call that racist.
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proud no one made me take this footnote out of my dissertation
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this guy is the Florida Marlins of tweets. almost never makes the playoffs (i.e., tweets a tweet that I see) but every time they do they win the World Series (i.e. it's the worst tweet I've ever seen)
When I was in my PhD program I didn’t go to any parties except one, where a bunch of the other students cornered me, drunk, to ask what I was doing that I was getting some success, as if it wasn’t just from writing instead of going to parties and watching too much tv.
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it's crazy how every online leftist is a huge dumbass except for the ones that are in group chats with me
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I can only hope future historians and critics recognize that mewithoutYou is one of the most important musical groups of the 21st century
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it does and anyone who uses it to mean the latter is a POS lmao
Not to play oppression Olympics but I honestly thought “first gen” meant first in your family to graduate college, not first to earn a PhD. Color me shocked to learn this today lol
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The I hate IPAs of literature takes; we get it.
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coming soon to a SLAC near you: Contemporary Literature, featuring guest appearances by
@brouillettese
, DB Hobbs,
@JimEnglishPenn
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@V21collective
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absolutely crazy that you can just have a small furry man that lives in your house and makes little beds for himself and pretends to kill inanimate objects for fun
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teaching and literary criticism will get you every time (making you feel like you're meant to do them)
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rode the fastest century of my life so I took myself out to dinner
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you won't convince me this isn't some kind of mk/ULTRA experiment to piss me off
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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based on the single sample size of my dad, who tends to go with the country, Shapiro will corner the market on making Republicans respect the ticket more without getting them to actually vote for it
Josh Shapiro might not be popular in your group chat of 23 year old leftists but the general public likes him a lot
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if I made $94,761.86 a year I cannot tell you how little you would see me getting in fights on the internet
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happy 4th birthday, Zurich. I love you so much and am so thankful for every moment I get to share with you.
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@still_oppressed
They're wilfully misreading, or rather they just literally don't consider Palestinian people to be people, so they cannot understand the connection.
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one of the funniest unforced errors of all time
Proud to be back with so many leaders from across our region supporting
@KamalaHarris
for President and
@JoshShapiroPA
for VP! We are One CITY, One REGION, and ONE Commonwealth United!
@PADems
@PhillyDems
@Joanna4PA
@PADemsChair
@IBEW98
@RepHarris
@PALaborers
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me vs. everyone trying to convince me there has been a post-Tom Cruise movie star
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in no particular order
Make a 20-track comp of your all-time fav tracks, each artist can only feature once. Not the 'best' songs, the ones that bring instant joy the second you hear the first note, the ones that give other people the best insight into what stirs your soul. Share when ready.
#20tracks
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I don't think there is a solution to the humanities enrollment crisis short of free college for all, and I wonder if a solution short of that would even be ethical, frankly.
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visiting home for a belated family celebration of finishing the PhD. my only request was for my parents to stock something other than light beer. I listed several beers I like including High Life. I was woken at 8 AM by my father calling to ask if Miller Lite would be OK.
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intense flashbacks in which you realize the reason you study books for a living is b/c no one in your family ever listens when you're talking so you'd just give up and start reading! at the family function
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happy self-actualization day to all the fall guys who can finally put on their flannel and zip-up hoodies today
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The most gullable I've ever been is when someone joked to me that Michelle Obama was behind Pokemon Go as part of her youth fitness deal, and I thought they were serious and told literally 100s of Philadelphians.
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I've got a review in the new issue of NOVEL, of Lindsay Thomas's Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11:
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one of the only things I'm proud of is making friends bc I was terrible at it and had to teach myself, and a bunch of them came to celebrate bday shit w
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and me and I'm so thankful.
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Sorry but if your focus rn is on policing pro-Palestine protests, esp by depicting Michael Solomonov as a humble shopkeeper and not one of the most famous and influential people in the city, you're a fuckhead.
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I've now read all three volumes of Capital plus the Grundrisse, and yet my bookshelf looks like this. What gives?
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I know academia is in a bad place but if you had told me 9 years ago as I'm reading Twilight of the Middle Class that Andrew Hoberek would be rooting for the Sixers to sign a free agent on my behalf I'd have been like what kind of dreamworld is this
Fingers crossed for
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the speed with which Penn took away my library access was p wild. it's incredible to me that Penn doesn't extend even a year or two of access to PhDs, many of whom won't have jobs but might still be trying to complete research in hopes of one day getting one.
Universities: Farewell alumni, know that your connection with our institution will endure for life
Also universities: Your internet access and email account will be disabled in 45 minutes
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It snuck up on me that today is Zurich's gotcha day. four years together. my life will never be the same for the time we have together. I'm so thankful for every day of it. you can always sleep on my pants if you want to. I love you.
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it's cool how normal people can be fired instantly for any reason and rich people can be committing crimes in public and giving unhinged speeches and everyone's like "we're trying to fire him but it's illegal"
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