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Reading John Berger’s To the Wedding and this line hit me like a ten ton truck, from a disillusioned communist:
“You’ll never have, she says, all of you, the future for which we sacrificed everything!”

Resonance | University of California Press

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!

The best thing about the Vindaloo character is he has fire powers because vindaloo is spicy because they only ever ate the fake vindaloo here which is over chillified so that they don't have to worry about how it tastes unlike the real vindaloo

LaCroix cans are fucking disgusting and won't exist under Neo-Trotskyism

Photograph of a programmable sign spanning Interstate Highway 65 which reads “Respect the Zone so we all get home.”

Dawg, Google Maps is routing us through Roadside Picnic

My colleagues look at me with blank expressions whenever I say, "The Chronicle of Higher Education is not a trade magazine for colleges & universities. It is a trade magazine for Higher Education managers." Even when they include faculty voices its always edited from the perspective of the managers

With all due respect, wearing my own culture studies hat I'd say this is overly nostalgic and ignores how much silly, dumbass culture of the past has just been left in the dust because it wasn't worth remembering to anyone who wasn't a specialist

There's an Eve Sedgwick essay where she talks about how right wingers want to get rid of teaching queer lit in favour of Plato and Shakespeare and she's like...ever read a sonnet lately or The Symposium

one bit of history i love is the letters indian soldiers sent home from france during world war 1, they're really moving (and some are pretty funny, i hope Jai Singh made it to Paris)

Doom’s doctoral thesis on Max Weber’s “disenchantment of the world" (die Entzauberung der Welt) persuasively argued that superheroes could not exist, and ever since writing it, Doom has been attempting to defend his thesis

it's insane how much applying to things we make artists do. that's basically the last thing you'd expect them to be good at

You know if you hate books written by men so much you should try reading some books written by women! Cause you know, there are actually loads and they could do with your support and then I won’t have to suffer thought your tedious tiktok video that’s on my Instagram for some reason

yeah this guy basically does this genre of video for every imaginable ethnicity x location combo. just garden variety monetized white supremacy on youtube

What do people actually think Nelson Mandela and Gandhi were demanding, vis-a-vis the South African and British governments, respectively?

Because it wasn't demilitarized quasi-autonomous economic enterprise zones under foreign security supervision.

who is the toronto organizer or politician running on a platform to abolish traffic turns without explicit turning lights? I’ve watched so many cars put pedestrians in danger it’s ridiculous that these metal murder machines are allowed this close to humans

I once chatted with a UK academic who’d taught in the US, one of whose students complained in an evaluation that “the professor does not care about our opinions” — a point he happily conceded. One way of looking at the last decade is that that complaint is now sanctified, if it comes from the right

The cover for my next novel, CHIMERA, is here.

Skin dancers, cannibals, kinslayers, monsters. The Vargers are many things, but family always comes first.

Cover illustration by Xuanwei Su
Cover design by Esther S. Kim

Pre-order it here: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Yellow letters spelling out 'praxis' and white letters spelling out 'city' on black storefront marquee

Went to Praxis City and no one there knew you

Yellow letters spelling out 'praxis' and white letters spelling out 'city' on black storefront marquee

Went to Praxis City and no one there knew you

Today’s BASS PRO module on writing good hooks because without a hook your story will never land you an A!

saw someone posting that the avengers academy "universe" ended at the end of our book that is not true they live in the 616 universe that was us ending all marvel comics sorry

Sometimes you can’t think of anything good to write, and that’s a perfectly normal thing a lot of writers struggle with. It just means you committed a great sin and displeased The Lord. It means He has punished you by cutting you off from The Source

The Wikipedia page for Catholicism, which I am sure most performative adult conservative converts have read

Eric Adams go on Dua Lipa's podcast

📣 permanent post in Geography at Durham - lots of exciting research going on there. More details in the 🧵⬇️