chicago! tonight!

this one stinks sorry to deborah

🙏

someone in chicago is selling a stained glass panel of michael holding blanket over the balcony

I know it's complicated but part of me will never forgive the generations of academics above me who chose personal gain over shared governance

imagine being half as beautiful

still cannot get over their use of "literacy"

These same boards are the same ones pushing “AI literacy” into every corner of our institutions, so the convergence-effect Ted describes in this thread—increasingly powerful boards filled w/ rich ppl whose anti-intellectual, airport-book obsessions drive research & teaching—is also the story of “AI”

The Main Characters of Postwar American Fiction Three protagonists who changed how postwar U.S. thought of itself.

I loved this, and Sianne's choice of O'Hara especially. A student of mine recently found a letter in the archives here where O'Hara admits to honing the Americanness of his voice via translation
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

More higher ed discourse like this please

do we think bactine is called that bc anagram of (medicine) cabinet

the lilac is blooming, the windows are open, a big interview is behind me, there is stove top popcorn and on supermarket sweep, a mother-daughter team wears the same blue eyeshadow

for about a year now I've been wanting an institutional history of academic programs—would 100% read if you wrote it!

oh god

FYI @erinspampinato.bsky.social’s gorgeous conclusion for the Barbara Johnson book evokes the gutting, seething sense of abusive waste that is the emotional weather of austerity academia. Solidarity to all enduring this & please god, if do you have job security, find out how you can put it to use

I know it's complicated but part of me will never forgive the generations of academics above me who chose personal gain over shared governance

There is something perverse & darkly significant in the fact that a widely published scholar whose *forthcoming book* traces a prehistory of the ideologies now disfiguring academia will likely have to leave the profession b/c there are no stable jobs for him. Infinitely sad, at so many levels.

muttering “bertha heiges girl you’ve done it again” to no one

otaheita oranges, painted by bertha heiges, 1905

otaheita oranges, painted by bertha heiges, 1905

wait till he hears THIS

yes!

fascinating also to consider against the NYT lena dunham interview from yesterday

“all I ever wanted was to be your spine” surely a contender

crazy light in my kitchen this morning

def not

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telling him about the helen dewitt saga

lol god

all the more for you

there’s a burnside statue in pvd lol