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Better red than dead. We’ve been watching the film version of Angels in America slowly over the past few weeks after recording it off Logo. It’s so dense, tightly woven, and painfully brilliant, reminding me with every scene that I… more ›
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How academia is turning me into a stingy and petty academic. When resources are already stretched too far, the small benefits afforded students and professors in the humanities become necessary carrots to keep us coming back to the job. These… more ›
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I’ve been reading Ricoeur as a near-end-of-the-semester treat, so I’m not sure if I even have anything to say about words. What I can say is that words speak themselves: I am utterly—in being uttered—superfluous. Words have intention not merely… more ›
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Only two classes down. But for the third class, I already have an incomplete/extension. So, for the most part, I’m done with the semester. Done with coursework altogether. Not counting, of course, the 70 US history final exams I’ll have… more ›
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That’s right: I’m bringing bullets back into fashion. Just in time, since some whack-ass bastards are trying to get an open-carry law passed in Texas. Just what we all need: asshole Texans waving their fucking guns in our faces as… more ›
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Back in the Soviet Union children of the formerly bourgeois often held names from refashioned revolutionary slogans and technological innovations. The most comical example of just such a name is perhaps Dazdrapertrak [Даздрапертрак, a word based on the initial syllables… more ›
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Yes, I am the backwater, poor white trash that created a Facebook event page for World Philosophy Day. UNESCO, the sponsor of the global event, did not create one. Neither Richard Rorty nor Judith Butler created one. Nor Slavoj Žižek.… more ›
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Despite the false headlines in The New York Times Wednesday morning, Obama has not moved America beyond race politics. Very little has changed as far as the electorate goes. Otherwise, the International Herald Tribune would not have had to carry… more ›
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Saturday evening was “opening time down on Fascination Street.” Stephen and I went out to the Halloween street party on Cedar Springs for the first time in several years. Overall, it was a very casual evening. We ate at Buli’s,… more ›