about damn time

"Bound by no legal guidelines except those fabricated for the occasion, these officials garner sovereign power unto themselves ... The dehumanization effected by 'indefinite detention' makes use of an ethnic frame for conceiving who will be human, and who will not." - Butler, Precarious Life (xv-vi)

if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck

wow we’re really riding this ‘writing on bullets’ thing now aren’t we

"Consider a simple analogy. Imagine ..." No, actually, I don't think I will.

that’s praxis ?

Ah yes, the nebulous and amorphous notion of ‘rigor.’

i'm petty enough to find joy in this

I live in an apartment complex and I SWEAR they spend 40 minutes leaf-blowing right outside of my bedroom window.

day #??? of me trying to use my apartment key for my office door

scrap your gender reveal and hold an autism announcement

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

This is easy: Henry VIII was the original Arkansas booster and this is a renewal of the Anglican-Catholic split. If Notre Dame wins, nobody in Arkansas can get divorce for a year.

I mean, this is a pretty clear violation of the first amendment, no?

“One way of posing the question of who ‘we’ are in these times of war is by asking whose lives are considered valuable, whose lives are mourned, and whose lives are considered ungrievable.”

oh

My students have a Shakespeare exam next week so it would good timing.

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alright i’m checking out of arkansas football for the year absolutely unbearable to watch it happen week after week

oh arkansas my sweet razorbacks you wound me so

So desperate to be victimized it's actually absurd.

huh weird

That's literally the reason why there's an "oversupply" of PhDs: grad student instructors cost the institution less than full-time faculty members. If universities hired an adequate number of professors to teach the courses that the students are there to take, there would be no "oversupply" of PhDs.

THEY’VE CAUGHT US it’s true students go to school to learn and faculty to teach 😔

Police responding to a unconfirmed reports of an active gunman on UNCW’s campus what a nauseating time to be alive

I may be wrong, but his job doesn’t concern television ratings, right?

deleted my academia[.]edu account; not that i have much, but if you ever want a copy of my published work please let me know and i’ll happily send a copy

Carlson, much like Vance, is a completely empty vessel who contorts to fit wherever he senses power is, so this should mostly be taken as a savvy assessment of how toxic this shit is

This looks like a still from one of The Conjuring movies

oof

This is rough and I wouldn’t suggest asking any early career or late stage graduate students in medieval studies about their prospects. It isn’t pretty.

like a phoenix from the ashes of fyre, limewire rises triumphantly

This is going to be so useful!

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well well well

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gonna make my students start a necromancy journal in addition to a reading journal for class

Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!" (via @Variety)

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Can’t help but think of Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World; make a world when others won’t make it for you.

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

He was in college for one semester in UTAH. It was mom and dad, not a professor.

what an insult to every single child killed before and ON THE SAME DAY due to gun violence

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This is actually dumbfounding.

what in the actual fuck does this even mean

not having caught the person yet is absolutely INSANE