it's really funny to me that Anne Lawrence lists Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil in the "Further Reading" section about autogynephilia

One of my fav things about fred’s papers were the decontextualized greimas squares

She’s serving

It will take us a while to relearn how to think about photos the way we do words or drawn images -- an expression of opinion rather a document of reality, except, ideally, when credentialed and moderated by some form of intellectual review. but in many ways they were always that

feels bad to do goofy intellectual self indulgence at the end of the world but ya gotta do it while it lasts

Sometimes I am annoyed by the resurgence of interpretive methods which seem to me very vulgar and simple—making bad old homologies between the aesthetic and the economic, etc. but then sometimes there are movies made which are quite simply bribes, alibis to funnel money to the wealthy and powerful

As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”

While in California, Ian Watt asks Theodor Adorno how his day went

“[T]he problem was not so much that feminist analysis was challenged and hence destabilized by internal critique but rather that it remained the same for too long, so that it stopped being exciting and came to feel boring and repetitive instead”

STEP 1 Work hard to achieve my goals. STEP 0 Figure out what to do to achieve my goals. STEP -1 Figure out what my goals should be. STEP -2 Establish sound methodology to interpret and resolve deontic questions. STEP -8 How is it that some things are, while others fail to be?

Dissertation terminable and interminable

From Günther Anders’s Kafka book

Horkheimer to PL Landsberg, 12/23/1939: “You must be rather optimistic to believe you see a light at the end of the tunnel. No matter how hard I strain these eyes of mine, however, I cannot … I grant you only this: that it is a tunnel, and so humanity can find its way out.”

We should make TV programs like this again

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Uprising in the Trump concentration camp in Dilley, TX

From the same link: “ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but [police chief] O’Hara refused, sources said. O’Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.”

these are public executions. 6 men against 1 they do not fear for their lives or even their safety. continuing to shoot him after he is lying immobile bleeding on the ground really drives home that this is just pure anger and hatred.

Nearly half a dozen agents wrestling one individual to the ground and then one of them just starts shooting in the dog pile, steps back and unloads on the guy on the street.

Keep encountering straight women who think Steve was the best SATC boyfriend which truly boggles the mind. Stephan the effeminate pastry chef is literally right there

in the late 60s Fredric Jameson was at most 2 degrees removed from Candy Darling

Dear, the men are here to compare the literatures

God, I was so happy when I was 18. I wasn't at the time, but in retrospect I was.

The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors

They should put them all there. Round em up

She’s so weird 😭

Freudians will be like "your child may feel that their poo is a precious treasure that comes from their own body.” Seems a bit funny and out there, but then you discover that this is actually perfectly apt as a description of the experience of dissertation writing

Obviously the present calls out for it, but what are the naturalist novels of the present? Who is writing the Vandover and the Brute of the polymarket era?

Thinking often about this particular point these days

happy first day of school to semester colleagues please enjoy this jameson syllabus from January 1996

according to tsui hark the villain of dragon inn (1967) was an overzealous dolly grip who died his own hair yellow and became a legend

This’s not Gaza… this’s Lebanon. Israel just carried out ~30 airstrike on residential areas in Lebanon, violating Security Council resolution SCR1701, ceasefire agreement, and international law with absolutely no consequences This’s another war crime and the ICC remains silent

I need yall to fully understand what these people want.

In American culture today, the strongest forms of class and ideological struggle and consciousness are not marked in traditional proletarian ways… it is rather in the whole domain of feminism that ideological dynamics and class struggle are more dramatically to be found represented - Fred Jameson

I’ve been told I’m the mercedes-benz of girlfriends (german, super fussy, breaks down all the time)

Cracking open polski krok po kroku in search of cheaper rent

"...the novel is 'historical' not because it depicts the influence of past events on the present in a chain of empirical causation, but rather by virtue of the novel's openness to the manifold unforeseen circumstances with which its notion of history is synonymous." Out now in NOV 58.2.

Once you understand that you're dealing with murderous liars, you stop entertaining what they say as possibly credible and legitimate. The fight against them is about stopping them from terrorizing and killing by any means, not winning debates about your reality versus theirs.

Asked my ex for some japanese film recommendations and honestly he came through

Watched Ursa Minor Blue tonight, a little animated short by Shigeru Tamura. So wholesome and charming!

Assuming my real life’s purpose as a glorified bed

“The look of a child is always fascinating. It seems to be saying: is that what fate has in store for me, too?”