good morning from Phoenix

For a project in progress I’ve had to return to some older writing and this line really hits years later “Apocalypse is a failure of the imagination, a giving up on the future instead of a commitment to the difficult work of composing a better present.”

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE OVER ZOOM TO MEET MORE OF THE TEAM UNFORTUNATELY, YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL ON THIS OCCASION, BUT WE HOPE YOU'LL APPLY FOR FUTURE POSITIONS WITH THE VAMPIRE

me after a long day of writing

I left my former institution in 2018, and yet the department of English there still has me listed, looking dapper in a flannel shirt from maybe ten years before that (c. 2008)

we are going to need a bigger boat contingentmagazine.org/2025/10/22/a...

the agitprop continues www.youtube.com/watch?v=92zw...

A Halloween post. 🎃 Thirty years ago I composed the preface to a collaborative project exploring what might be enabled were the monster taken seriously. Might the monster offer an invitation to understanding better the cultures it sanctions, perturbs, roams?

It's Halloween! 🎃 Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."

It's Halloween! 🎃 Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."

It’s Halloween! Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock’s The Monster Theory Reader from @uminnpress.bsky.social is a book I find myself returning to repeatedly 🎃😈🧌

stone is slow water

Seeking something older than me my brother gifted me a Roman coin for my birthday

Seeking something older than me my brother gifted me a Roman coin for my birthday

seasonal (postcard from a #monsters conference) 🧌 contingentmagazine.org/2025/10/22/a...

Document Forgery xkcd.com/3160/

canyon

Owen’s Lake, a dry lake with toxic dust. From my flight from San Jose to Phoenix this morning. The lake has an interesting history involving water for LA and dust mitigation via lawsuit. It’s also a stopping place for migratory birds and has color zones due to salt loving microorganisms.

Cleo is always cute but after a haircut she is ESPECIALLY cute

If you're in Phoenix/Tempe today, come out to the Rift for the first Desert Grit Reading Series, with me, @shipraagarwal.bsky.social, @jonathanin2k.bsky.social, @sabrinahicks.bsky.social, @haydenmcasey13.bsky.social, and @stephanieaustin.bsky.social!

One thing I have tried that's seemed successful is treating novels more like we're in the nineteenth century getting installments over time. When you think about it, reading a Dickens novel in a week rather than over a year is like binging a full Netflix series.

a sweet and a happy / shana tova

obsessed w the medieval origin of harbinger, it's an amazing word: traveled from Old Saxon through medieval French, conveys in origins harbor, a place of safety. A medieval harbinger was one who provides lodging, as well as one who travels ahead in search of safe dwelling, a herald and guarantor.

the name of a neighborhood near me and every time I run or bike by it I curse myself for the missed opportunity of living there

obsessed w the medieval origin of harbinger, it's an amazing word: traveled from Old Saxon through medieval French, conveys in origins harbor, a place of safety. A medieval harbinger was one who provides lodging, as well as one who travels ahead in search of safe dwelling, a herald and guarantor.

year 5 of #ASUHumanities Week ahead: many of the events are streamed humanities.asu.edu/week

updated my business cards 🦈

In honor of National Dog Day, may we suggest one of these authentic and delightful medieval dog names for your next pet? Tell us which is your favorite in the comments 👇

Everything Douglas Adams says.

Important corrective to how we often talk about higher education and college students in America. Some facts and figures (see NYT article at end for further elucidation): 43 percent of (19 million) undergrads attend community college 75 percent of community college students enrolled part time 1/

Back in 2018 I left the blog I founded and I miss the chance to write in public it used to offer. I have been trying to write more, we'll see what (if anything) this project becomes: futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/old-school

Back in 2018 I left the blog I founded and I miss the chance to write in public it used to offer. I have been trying to write more, we'll see what (if anything) this project becomes: futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/old-school

it doesn't have to be this way also: universities save very little money by reducing relatively low cost programs like most humanities disciplines think of how many students you could fund for how many years if you forwent one piece of lab equipment futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/the-myth-o...

life on Dune

incoming haboob

life on Dune

monsoon storms last night were something else — this was the prelude

now is the time to build the strongest futures for the humanities, not diminish possibilities, to create through collaboration across our disciplines, not retreat into historically fragile configurations that isolate us from the good work of our peers futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/now-is-the...

“The humanities are strong across ASU’s campuses,” says @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social, Foundation Professor of English & dean of humanities at The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. A new website highlights #ASUHumanities' career-focused academics & community impact. Learn more: ow.ly/zfm250WIZux

now is the time to build the strongest futures for the humanities, not diminish possibilities, to create through collaboration across our disciplines, not retreat into historically fragile configurations that isolate us from the good work of our peers futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/now-is-the...

Amplifying for the morning crowd. Humanities funding opportunities are increasingly scarce these days, so please share and sign up for the Q&A session on 8 September (2:00–2:45 p.m. ET).

truly believe our best way forward as humanists is collaboration around our patent strengths -- even if that means inventing new ways for students to study with us www.youtube.com/watch?v=69J2...

TL;DR De-transactionalize assessment. Stop making it about something they “turn in” and you “give back.” Start making it about shared experience.

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country. I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.

Ricardo was a shining light — an excellent, valued collaborator from my GW days. I learnt of his passing via a friend’s text yesterday: what a loss to community.

I’m honored to have Dean Cohen engaging with and adding much needed administrative backing to the myths I tried to bust in last week’s Pasts Imperfect.

We need to offer counter-narratives to the reductions to humanities that many institutions are undertaking, and equip our colleagues across institutions with evidence that the myths being deployed to reduce our fields are not based in fact. futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/the-myth-o...

The humanities produce excellent citizens, productive workers, creative neighbors, caring humans, and curious and engaged minds. Don’t undersell humanities studies. They contribute so much

fwiw, Virginia Tech isn't an impoverished school either and yet here they are, the dean of the college, cutting a signature interdisciplinary PhD program without giving a reason other than "bad vibes"