Category: academia

• If Wishes Were Fishes

  Jun 12

  He stares at the framed graduate degrees hanging on the office wall. He wishes they offered more assurance, more meaning. To him they document the unfailing stubbornness he tapped into… more ›

• Gobbledygoo

  Jun 8

  “…Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.” – S. Plath Last night he found himself in an impromptu Plath-a-thon, reciting “Daddy” at a pub that served the worst version of a… more ›

• Day Two

  Nov 29

  Of the days on which I may have received an email or a phone call informing me that someone somewhere (see previous map) wants to interview me based upon my… more ›

• Prostrate Before Saint Genet

  Sep 19

  I spent the day focused on work and research, and yet this day has felt like debauched decadence: I began this morning reading a chapter in the Irigaray text, and then… more ›

• I’ll Tumble for You

  Aug 12

  I’ve been microblogging on Tumblr for the past few months as l’immoraliste. Usually my posts are nothing more than links for calls for papers, to conferences, and to other professional… more ›

• Itinerary

  May 23

  Here is the itinerary for my upcoming and far-too-short trip to Europe. Please let me know if our paths will cross at some point. Wed 25 May Arrive FRA (Frankfurt… more ›

• Into the Past, Part I

  Jan 1

  I spent a few hours the other day cleaning out my study, throwing out, shredding, and recycling various papers I’ve collected over the past several years in anticipation of a… more ›

• In vino veritas

  Nov 18

  In a year of Thursdays, today remains the greatest Thursday of all. Today is not only World Philosophy Day but also the day on which the Beaujolais nouveau is released. I… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday: Spring Writing Projects

  Apr 16

  The online academic journal borderlands out of Australia will publish my review essay of Lisa Guenther’s The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of Reproduction next month. I’ll… more ›

• Bullet-Point Friday: Reading

  Mar 12

  Nietzsche writes in Ecce Homo that it is something like a sickness to sit down at the beginning of the day to read instead of taking a brisk walk first.… more ›