Opening(s): An Education
When Salvador Dalí was asked about Fred Halstead’s fisting classic L.A. Plays Itself showing at MoMA, he is said to […]
Category: miseducation
Bloomsday: My Conversion
Happy Bloomsday! It’s a greeting I thought I’d never say. But here we are: June 16. I’m wearing a fucking […]
Bloomsday: My Conversion
Happy Bloomsday! It’s a greeting I thought I’d never say. But here we are: June 16. I’m wearing a fucking […]
NEH Evaluations, or Academics are Cunts
I applied for an NEH Fellowship for my Blanchot book. Today I received my evaluations. I want everyone to know […]
Rocks in Your Head
Timothy Morton is an English scholar at Rice University. He is also a “speculative realist.” That’s fancy theoretical talk for […]
Perimeter of Poverty
I rarely feel or experience white privilege as such. As someone who grew up in poverty in rural Texas, I […]
Exorbitant Stupidity
If you follow this line long enough, you get to deconstruction where a theorist would be looking for internal contractions […]
Antimanifesto for a Simulated World
Jean Baudrillard’s 1981 Simulacra and Simulation, translated by Sheila Faria Glaser in 1994, contains a four-page essay entitled “Hypermarket and […]
Taking Time
What is meant as a valiant stand against the decline of reading is actually a symptom of it, and then […]
Texas: A Story of Two Boys
IA certain Texas university announced today that it would free 100 employees from the shackles of employment by the end […]
