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literature prof at U of Arizona. books: HUMAN PROGRAMMING (on metaphors for ideology), CHARACTER NETWORKS (on social networks in recent US fiction and history, out October 2026). he, suh-LISK-er, views mine, sporadically present here.
3 years, 9 months post-Covid, all my bio-markers—brain waves, eye movements, inflammation bloodwork, HRV—are finally back within normal ranges.🎉 Still working past needing a daily power nap, but then again naps kind of rule.
Wow, this sounds amazing (bleakness included), congrats, looking forward to it!
y'all !!!!
I love that the blurbs are basically like, "listen, she is never not telling you about some bleak shit" 😍❤️🔥 (thank you @aarthivadde.bsky.social and @markmcgurl.bsky.social)
So grateful for this thoughtful, generous review: "Those of us who care about what books can do should consider what these contributors have to tell us."
(Responded to wrong post, sorry!)
First I’ve heard of Freytag but congrats on article! Looking forward to checking it out!
amazing! ☠️☠️📜☠️☠️
…er, Soi disant Proust club, Faute de mieux Proust club, ceci n’est pas Proust club,
I’d be all for getting the band back together in summer but humbly submit that chats about longer segments might suffice.
I have a Proust-enabler colleague who was pep talking me thru Guermantes nadir, and there’s a *very* long party right after where we stopped, but after that it got pretty can’t-put-down.
Jealous!! Sounds amazing!
The Captive is super short, and weird, then The Fugitive has at least 1 head-spinning plot twist (trying to minimize spoilers) I was profoundly unprepared for.
Truly awful, there is emphatically nobody at all to root for .
Delightfully, thru Fugitive, he has very direct answers to every question we have asked as a group : place names, Jewishness/queerness, the nature of the leitmotif, in-world status of Swann in Love, etc etc etc
Same here! Honestly, Guermantes was such a slog, and the conversation about Mat’s chapter and S&G opening such a highlight, and then speeding up has felt like the right way. I’m hoping for an MLA bar Time Fully Regained reunion one day,
HR email waxing poetic,
“Build your ‘done list’ before your wins fade” 💀
Yes, that was fantastic, as is that whole plot line—Charlus really takes center stage, love that for him!
@karlsteel.bsky.social @glavey.bsky.social @profneilh.bsky.social Hey Proust hive, dying to know if any of y’all have forged ahead… It’s gotten progressively less book-group-able as it repeats motifs and gives on-the-nose answers to all our questions, but just finished the Fugitive & it was 👀👀👀?!
Aw yeah, Get it!! (You did!!)
Taking your point for sure, I did get this one too, assumed scammer from weirdness.
Now that I've 1) as an exhausted VAP, passed out while doing last-minute reading for class, arriving late and unprepared, and, 2), today, had a chalkboard's sharp edge *rip my pants during class*
I shudder to think how any future teaching nightmares might need to raise the stakes.
I’ve done it twice in a contemporary lit and digital media course (e-flux version), and it recently blew an PhD student’s mind (the NOVEL version). (That course had an AI unit too I’ve been meaning to digest and post about, which drones fed into discussions about, too.)
Taught your Drone Aesthetics essay last semester, it still absolutely rips, even if I now have to explain to students that “aesthetics” does not actually mean “an appealing vibe.”
Oh, and they’re on here @marchxness.bsky.social , looking good y’all!
Ooh, I’ve put in a lot of time with an untold number of this year’s songs, always love this ongoing collective writing project…
PSA This is a fantastic resource, I enjoyed teaching a few selections from the New Negro Anthology last semester with it, students really connected with the less-often-taught Georgia Douglas Johnson poems.
Ooh, congrats! I don’t know the franchise but still eager to see what you have to say about it!
The business pubs are continually rediscovering this year after year. Let em!
Just discovered the ft. ODB remix of Mariah's "Fantasy," a true marvel. Mariah's isolated ad libs are a 10/10 pop song, ODB skimps on fully enunciating the "house" in "in da house" love this for both of them.
A pal pointed me to Tom Breihan's # 1's column, it's great: stereogum.com/2181534/the-...
I agree! Though I interpreted this as a "salt bae" gesture, adding just the right touch of nuance.
