culture has regressed tragically, right off a cliff, like road runner.

is it better to not respond to being gaslit?

art can doesn't mean art always does.

top 5 fall hath arrived albums:

5. Charlie Haden and Keith Jarret, Jasmine
4. Bob Dylan and the Band, Before the Flood
3. Norah Jones, Come away with me
2. Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
1. Tom Waits, Closing Time

"'My people,' Kafka said 'provided that I have one'" (Sofia Samatar, Opacities, 19)

a generation for whom the coming of age never ended.

declaring one's love of protesting centrists while writing for artforum... eyeroll.

gotta appreciate good writing... some people just do it better.

if there is a hell...

does anyone know what day The Studio Museum will reopen? I can't set a syllabus calendar to Fall 2025.

gotta say, life without #academictwitter sucks.

Seven months into a stale hell.

is there a reason why I'm looking at exhibition histories of the late 1930s?

Good writing makes bad writing all the more unbearable

Reading the news is like listening to a tantrum 24/7.

worse than pravda is the nyt. just absolute ruthlessly evil spirited propaganda.

make note of those who describe this profound victory as an upset.

if academictwitter is out there, I have a question, on that note: who writes about losing oneself in another/an other? or, more legibly, about the critique of the liberal humanist subject?

ok, I have to say something good: I started writing the day after I finished grading and it felt like the floodgates have opened... I had been brewing, wanting to get to this article for so long. Let's see how long it takes to wrap up but for now, just overwhelm and excitement and keeping at it.

do students understand that writing two times the number of pages that is asked for in a final is, like, not good?

lately I haven't been reading my horoscope and it's a disaster. Things get stuck in the muck and frustrate me to the point of coming to a screeching halt and then by mid-month I check the horoscope and it's like, don't pitch anything till the new moon on the 25th, it'll get stuck in the muck.

Stanchions are the nuveau-fascist architecture.

Is every psychotic breakdown poetry?

Why are almost all art institutions part asshole?

hmmm, or such a hegemonic monoculture should breed a serious counterculture, non?

where is the counterculture?

It's almost 7pm and not dark yet outside... that would have been cause to celebrate any other time.

not a livable world, this.

I am being grated by my orientalness these days.

when I publish things without an editor there is inevitably the sentence that repeats a word more than once without noticing.