February 2010
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Also: more than half of this is a footnote.
allthingsbeingequal-deactivated asked: FMK: Condoleeza Rice, Ann Coulter, Harriet Miers.
i take requests →
maybe if you ask me questions, i won’t smoke anything.
maybe.
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on quitting.
Having been inspired by a friend’s efforts to do the same, I’ve decided to try to quit smoking. I quit cold turkey on New Year’s 2005 and went three months without a puff, but then I got into grad school, and I was offered a cigarette during my stressful-ass campus visit. I obliged, and I’ve been smoking since. I was doing about a pack a day during my first year of...
“The interests of the state have always conflicted with the interests of people...”
– Statement: The University of California is Racist
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Abstract deadline: 3/5/10 General CFP- (General Call for Papers) States of Crisis: (dis)junctions 2010 April 9th and 10th For (dis)junctions 2010, we are seeking papers that explore the construction, definitions of, and reactions to “crisis” in all its various permutations. The titular concept, drawn from Giorgio Agamben’s pivotal work, State of Exception, functions as a starting...
Oh wow. Sometimes I glance over the senior thesis I wrote as an undergraduate and think that, even though my writing was a lot more awkward back then, and I didn’t know how to put together an academically acceptable sentence worth a damn, my thinking was actually a lot less muddled, less riddled with the compulsory prohibitions of academic disciplining.
Plus, since I was writing about the...
Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision... →
Executive Summary (click here to read the full statement)
The time has come to reframe the narrow terms of the marriage debate in the United States. Conservatives are seeking to enshrine discrimination in the U.S. Constitution through the Federal Marriage Amendment. But their opposition to same-sex marriage is only one part of a broader pro-marriage, “family values” agenda that includes...
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Yesterday was my first day using leechblock
No tumblr/facebook/google reader for eight hours was good for me, except that i used the first couple or so of that eight hours writing a semi-lengthy blog post about the politics of feminist recognition to post to tumblr, which when I finished, I attempted to post. Except I had leechblock on which meant that it didn’t post. And when I attempted to hit the back button to retrieve said...
Georgia’s Response to Death Row Suicides: Restrict... →
Three convicted killers on Georgia’s death row died recently in the span of three months–but none of them was executed. In October of 2009, Kim McMichen died of pneumonia. In November, Timothy Pruitt died from what was reported to be a botched suicide attempt. And on New Year’s Day 2010, Leeland Mark Braley was found hanged in his cell.
Living for years or decades in solitary confinement under...
rejection letter from nyu.
aw dammit.
450 applicants for five postdocs. intense.
“A group best known for essentially inventing a particularly dated form of...”
– Tom Breihan on Portishead’s Third
“Colleagues: When I was on the medical faculty at Georgetown in the 1980s the...”
– from Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog.
Obviously the discussion’s more complicated than this, but I think it’s funny how these philosophy folks—who apparently think that the discipline of philosophy is the only place that philosophy happens—are still willing to allow shitty...
LeechBlock :: Add-ons for Firefox →
LeechBlock is a simple productivity tool designed to block those time-wasting sites that can suck the life out of your working day. (You know: the ones that rhyme with ‘Blue Cube’, ‘Pie Face’, ‘Space Hook’, ‘Hash Pot’, ‘Sticky Media’, and the like.) All you need to do is specify which sites to block and when to block them. You can...
So, I finally heard Jay Electronica’s...
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Goodness, I just re-read my last post, and I am beginning to fear—for good reason—that I am categorically incapable of writing a single paragraph without the use of a double dash.
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thinking about tumblr
• I have some frustrations about tumblr which are less about it as a medium, or as a network, than they are about the kind of engagement/discussion that the medium enables/encourages. I didn’t start blogging until pretty recently, but what drew me to it wasn’t so much the opportunity to collect, amass, or to share. I was more interested—especially as someone who is pretty...
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tragedy rears its teetotalitarian head.
the local trader joe’s no longer stocks jameson.
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“Tremble, hetero swine, when we appear before you without our masks.”
– Michael Swift, “Gay Revolutionary”
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my problem
with Adam Smith’s famous metaphor of the Invisible Hand isn’t just that it’s now obviously a God-concept that projects the agency and desires of the wealthy and/or the powerful onto the economy as a whole. Nor that it then calls the fact that the economy keeps the rich richer and the poor either jobless or working for the rich a magical outcome of the latter’s...