m on October 29th, 2010

During coursework, I took a class co-offered both at my uni and at UIC. As a co-offered course, it was also co-taught, and one of the profs, Walter Benn Michaels, at one point, as is his wont, issued a seeming non sequitur of a command: “raise your hands if either of your parents is a [...]

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m on October 28th, 2010

I don’t have much to add about the above video, which probably every Humanities graduate student (or close family member thereof) has already seen, forwarded, groaned or giggled over, and so on. Over at Zunguzungu, we see how the situation is coded in a few ways at once, most notably as a conflict between realism [...]

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m on February 20th, 2010

This is, I imagine, the much shorter version of a post I have had simmering in my head for a few weeks now–or, well, actually, many of the issues dovetail with another post that’s been around since new years. But somehow I haven’t sat down to figure out my point rigorously yet, and so I [...]

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