@karlsteel
Brooklyn College / Grad Center Medievalist. Posthumanism. How to Make a Human (Ohio State UP 2011); How Not to Make a Human (Minnesota UP 2019). Currently working on The Irrational Animal. website is medievalkarl.com
Very proud to host Peter Beinart at Stony Brook later this month. This has been a dream of mine for a while, and I'm thrilled about it.
Mar 30 5:30pm at our Humanities Institute, w/Bruce Robbins. "Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning."
calendar.stonybrook.edu/site/humanit...
Noem Country for Middle-Aged Fascists is this anything
An inverted ziggurat building painted white in Santiago that looks just like the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
A view of spiraling interior ramps show an array of small shops selling fashion, cell phone repair and more.
A shop window features a mannequin in a pleather bra and garters. Above her, a neon sign in yellow reads "Sex Shop."
I'm in Santiago and I made it to South America's Guggenheim. (It was on the life list.) Really, it's a spiral mall, or caracol, an architectural type typical of Chile that came about in the '70s. In this one, you can get your cell phone fixed, get your nails done and buy dildos.
Some very interesting work here on the biodiversity impact of land abandonment during the Black Death. I'd love to see something similar on the Highland Clearances ... it would usefully inform re-wilding chat.
Gonzaga-ass name
I just realized why you call him Strategy Cheese
“A new language is what responds to reality where a moral, epistemological jolt has occurred.”
— Ingeborg Bachmann
(from the first Frankfurt lecture)
I was bitten by a shark in the Straits of Hormuz.
I had a post college job where I found myself one afternoon chasing partially unfrozen irradiated lymantria dispar under the florescent lights of an Olympia office building. My weapon? Tweezers.
PNW!
Norwegian peasant and then US Midwest unsuccessful farmer | some kinda WPA French horn player / letterpress printer
My general reaction to the last 96 hours of nonsense: My latest⬇️
YEAH
it is no longer a typo
x "is a valid guess, but it’s unlikely to be a solution based on what I’ve learned from playing Wordle."
someone should make a Worlde for literate people.
Trying to stay in academia has been so demoralizing even without [waves hands]. And yet every time I log onto this website I'm met by a diverse community of scholars working in a broad range of fields, all of whom believe in and fiercely advocate for a better academy. What could be more hopeful?
best part was my saying to the undergrads "I don't think any of you are going to know this movie" and one of them
a) did
b) loves John Woo
c) I'm pretty sure she grew up on Woo
d) knew the title in its direct translation from Chinese and we argued for a bit about which movie we were talking about
Taught Marie de France's Laüstic today -- murdered nightingale put in reliquary -- and talked about this scene, 3:55 in (BVM blown up, then prelude to Messiah comes in) to talk about just using religious imagery for extra emotional umph.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h0H...
Alt text is important for accessibility but what we don’t talk about as much is that it’s also a great opportunity for joke density
Ideal reviewer too!!! Wonderful
It was ! But it was only ersatz Proust club
But I did get to indulge in some CLOSE READING IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY fun when JW visited the grad center a couple fridays ago, so what with that and Brian being in the volume, I felt like Proust in a sense was coming to me
I have FULLY DROPPED THE BALL. S & G sits on my shelf about 40 pages read while this semester is kicking my bottom ouch. If we aimed to recoalesce -- I talked to Brian about this but I suspect we are both equally slammed -- I could definitely restart (and I should read it this summer anyway!)
wheeeee
blow up the weapons; import more weapons; blow up the weapons; import some more weapons; etc etc etc
New York City did this in 2020 sadly
Ebert famously hated this movie when it was released. My piece isn't really about criticizing Ebert, but I do address his position and use it as a way to challenge how we write about acting and collaboration in movies made by male geniuses.
have this group chat called "lunch" with some female friends which we created in 2024 to organise a lunch then instead we started chatting every single day and often organised drinks and dinner but this month it's happening.....this month we're having lunch, it's down as "lunch lunch" in my diary
The comparisons between Israel and apartheid S. Africa usually focus on the segregationist regimes that they respectively imposed onto their disenfranchised subjects but another pertinent one is that client states can, in some ways, actually become secessionist in a sense from their imperial sphere.
The presumption that your enemy (in this case, Trumpworld) is secretly clever is often misleading, a symptom of your own ability to narrativize and possess object permanence, both of which your enemy often lacks.