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  • Teaching Pop Culture, and then Mad Men

    I’m writing this during this 3-hour block for my students to help them with their upcoming final exam. I’m using the time the institution gives me to write myself out of the institution! Sounds more powerful than it is. In truth, I scheduled this extra time myself to help my students. People in academia are…

  • Cookie Dough

    I knew exactly what I was getting into with academia, yet having that understanding of what lay ahead does nothing. It provides no comfort. I can’t play the game, I feel disgusted with myself when I even try. Also, I want to preface by saying there wasn’t some kind of moment or crash-out that motivated…

  • Can the Sub-Literate Speak?

    Can the sub-literate speak? The answer to Spivak’s question is a resounding no. They can’t write either.

  • Cyberpunk and Neuralink

    The following contains numerous examples of good praxis. It’ll shock you how good it is.

  • Fake Plastic Trees

    term is good term has gone good, doing great how about you?

  • Probiotic-Blitzkrieg

    When you will have made bacteria a biome without humans, then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions and restored him to his true freedom.

  • New Year New Me

    I love the phrase “New Year New Me,” it has this undercurrent of understanding that this year will not actually feature a “new me,” the same me will make its reappearance, with a new veneer of hope that life’s trend is going upwards.

  • Deo Ooz

    Halfway through a trip to Seoul

  • Life Became a Spectator Sport

    It is truly fantastic that no matter where you are, there’s a good chance you’ll be recorded or photographed. You have no control, no say over this at all. The man, six stories up on the wrong side of the balcony, looks down to see a sea of phones. Suicide becomes a vaudeville act.

  • The Spectaclist

    The Spectaclist loves the news. They love popular culture. They love to consume, to watch, to stay up to date. They live in the now, present in contemporary understandings. Which could never be a futile feedback loop of hopeless misery.