I have a new article about what I'm arguing is a new approach to representing problems of geological scale in literature. the piece itself is kind of a speculative argument about the speculative fiction & nonfiction of Vollmann, Millett, Abdelhadi & O'Brien, and Romo & Foster
Huge thanks to @mtisempty.bsky.social & Ryan, who I'm not sure is on bluesky?? for their generous editorial work, and I'm really excited about everything they've got in the pipeline
It was fun to write about these generally new, understudied, and genre-busting books. It was also fun to try and wrap my head around the similarities in formal conceits among these vastly different books: fiction & nonfiction, personal & impersonal, revolutionary & more passive
I have a new article about what I'm arguing is a new approach to representing problems of geological scale in literature. the piece itself is kind of a speculative argument about the speculative fiction & nonfiction of Vollmann, Millett, Abdelhadi & O'Brien, and Romo & Foster
Miscellany has published its first article! The wonderful @stevenwatts.bsky.social on Speculative Analepsis and climate catastrophe.
If you like it, consider buying our print issue, which comes out in March!
www.miscellanyjournal.com/alreadyinthe...
lol look at this parenthetical dawg we are so cooked
v exciting to hear that you're working on this. reading the article right now
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driving through a town of 25k marvelling at things like a "deli"
have put 30 hours into octopath traveler 1 and realizing I wish I'd put 30 hours into doing my homework instead
this is interesting and opens up questions about what adaptation does with this settler fantasy of western expansion written by someone who grew up as a settler in the west bank
lol this is so dark
that's messed up, man
buddy, you don't even reply to my texts
one important thing this website doesn't have still is friends who interact with my posts
does anyone have, like, a worksheet they use to walk students through close reading for the first time?
this is true because college sophomores at Occupy rallies had adequate grasps on US imperialism and it took a symptom like Trump for some people to feel comfortable with the diagnosis
some of you are playing this game for real smdh
Total sum of publications over the last 4 semesters
partial sum of service over the last 4 semesters
total sum of classes taught over the last 4 semesters 🙃
I started a "Recent British Literature" survey with a Zadie Smith and an Isabel Waidner story & it worked beautifully
any shouts for the best short story of the decade by a US author (loosely defined) to begin a "Recent American Literature" survey course with so students can see what we are working towards?
first draft for thinking, second draft for highlighting all the abstractions you've included as hand waving over the thinking
no writing until I reach my daily 1400 elo on pokemon showdown, and unfortunately I suck shit at pokemon showdown
got to stop by the Milkweed compound on this weekend's ill-advised trip to Minneapolis & I really thought having a big space where you created, promoted, & discussed literature while providing community services was what being a lit prof would be like smdh
looking forward to either A. going to ASAP this year and being distraught I ever moved out of Madison or B. getting rejected from ASAP this year and seeing everyone's tweets and photos from Madison
one cool thing about Vollmann's Carbon Ideologies is they were written to be as blackpilled as possible and yet the 2010s numbers he cites are almost quaint compared to today's numbers
writing about one of the most compelling US novels of the decade & just discovered it is already out of print 😔
