Or I could just do this this fall via zoom and discord…

If I was still teaching I would really want to do a seminar on 90s theory: Butler, Massunmi, Bhabha, Sedgwick, the big red CRT reader, maybe some newis-ly translated Deleuze and Derrida...

Tomorrow in my class on "Musicology, Aesthetics, and Cultural Theory" I am teaching work related to @robinjames.bsky.social – given that the students will come to her lecture next week.

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I bit the bullet and started making TikToks to promote my two forthcoming books. Follow for the lols, and maybe learn something about book publicity along the way

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An opportune time to remind yall media and journalism scholars that there isn’t much scholarship out there on The Onion and I would love a pitch for a monograph or edited collection on the subject…

This is manifestly about destroying public higher education and not about content. Plato’s Symposium does have a ‘gender ideology’ and it’s “Boys, let’s kick the women out so we can have SERIOUS conversation”

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“occultism & escoterism…serves the same role in Dark Enlightenment thought as affect serves in Downing’s book: it is the undisciplined other that evokes the sublime against which reason can demonstrate its disciplining or “tempering” force…“reason” is the status and affect of disciplined mastery.”

Just a philosopher, but I’m pretty sure the point of running and holding marathons is not sheer speed (we have cars and trains for that), but the test of human things like persistence, endurance, training, etc…the human meaning of it all.

The work of writing is revising, barf whatever is in you out the point is it gets iteratively better

Cheers to 48 from another 78 baby, hope you have a great birthday week!

I think I was there! Metro?

I mean the real reason continental philosophy only really survived in Catholic schools was bc of McCarthyism and nobody could accuse Catholics of being communist atheists

NOW, starting with some “What Is Ahe For?” From CLT DRP

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(If I ever get to retire I want to open a used book & record store with like a nice little coffee counter in downtown Windsor CT)

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TODAY

With the big exception of ND, if you are taking a philosophy class at a Catholic school in the US it’s gonna be continental philosophy

I had the misfortune of being a sophomore at Miami U the year Will Smith dropped “Welcome to Miami.” The woman on the room next to mine played it on repeat all year.

Interesting how many of the answers to this are derogatory.

TBH the most *influential* 90s songs are prob Mariah's Fantasy & NIN's Closer

As someone with a PhD in philosophy from a Catholic university in Chicago, duh the Pope has read Baudrillard

I wrote up my thoughts on Lisa Downing's book AGAINST AFFECT

www.its-her-factory.com/2026/04/agai...

Fixmer/McCarthy walked so NIN/oize could run

Madonna - I Feel So Free (Official Visualizer) YouTube video by Madonna

New Madonna track is an interpolation of her "Future Lovers" (itself a riff on "I Feel Love"), updated to align w contemp ballroom sounds

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx83...

when I taught existentialism I used to give students a passage from Being & Nothingness and have them edit/rewrite it for clarity. usually went over really well lol.

I wrote up my thoughts on Lisa Downing's book AGAINST AFFECT

www.its-her-factory.com/2026/04/agai...

Tomorrow!

others have commented on the inclusion of crowd noise on the NIN/oize album version as uncanny, but I think it actually does a lot of heavy lifting shifting the old, deeply anti-social ME ME ME nature of the old lyrics into something very not that, highlighting collaboration & shared references

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As someone who has always wondered why people would play thousands of dollars to have the same bag as everyone else who wanted to waste their money that way, I appreciate this (the brand parodying also feels v 90s)

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I am curious whether this stuff will get taken up by European DJs this summer...