February 2012
2 posts
Chillin' out, maxin', relaxin' all cool.
shitmystudentswrite:
Joan of Arc drove to England and crowned the Fresh Prince.
January 2012
2 posts
“Some of our publishing practices are economically unsustainable, some of our...”
– Planned Obsolescence by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
December 2011
4 posts
November 2011
5 posts
October 2011
3 posts
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
2 posts
March 2011
1 post
October 2010
2 posts
September 2010
2 posts
August 2010
1 post
Old Spice Guy + FEMINIST HULK + Judith Butler
Old Spice Guy: "Hello, FEMINIST HULK. I observe that you are using lady-scented body wash."
Feminist Hulk: "HULK FIND LAVENDER FRAGRANCE RELAXING AFTER DAY OF SMASH."
Old Spice Guy: "Wouldn't you like to smell like me?"
Feminist Hulk: "HULK WOULD RATHER SMASH GENDER BINARY OF PERFORMATIVE SHOWERING."
Old Spice Guy: "Your tiny purple shorts hanging on the towel rack now hold tickets to the Sleater-Kinney reunion concert. And diamonds."
Feminist Hulk: "HULK ENJOY CORIN TUCKER'S REJECTION OF TRADITIONAL GENDER ROLES AND CONSUMERISM. BUT DIAMONDS MAKE HULK WANT TO SMASH HEGEMONY OF POST-COLONIAL OPPRESSION. ALSO, STILL PREFER TO SMELL LIKE FIELD OF FLOWERS."
Old Spice Guy: "You puzzle me, Feminist Hulk. Your wish to use lady-scented body wash, even whilst smelling the intoxicating scent of my Old Spice, is unparalleled in my experience. "
Judith Butler: "Feminist Hulk makes a good critique, Old Spice Man. Your discourse is being circumscribed by a learned sex/gender distinction. Please pass me the loofah."
Old Spice Guy: "Hello, Judith Butler. Allow me to scrub your back. So you and Feminist Hulk are saying that my devotion to Old Spice body wash might be part of a larger regulative discourse to maintain an essential ontological gender?"
Judith Butler: "That's correct, Old Spice Man."
Feminist Hulk: "HULK SMASH EPISTEMOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS, WHILE SMELLING LIKE SPRING GARDEN."
Old Spice Guy: "I understand. Allow me to bake you a cake, Feminist Hulk and Judith Butler, while we discuss intersectionality and the beauty of giant green muscles."
Judith Butler: "Congratulations on making a break with compulsory heterosexuality, Old Spice Man."
Femist Hulk: "HULK IS VERY HAPPY TO SHARE TEARS OF JOY AND ORGANIC WHOLE WHEAT PASTRY FLOUR WITH OLD SPICE MAN AND JUDITH BUTLER."
Old Spice Guy: "I'm on a unicorn."
July 2010
1 post
listening to "Stevens, Sufjan - The Star-Spangled... →
Sufjan’s appropriate for any holiday.
March 2010
3 posts
Moving Out →
As previously mentioned, this blog is moving on. The new address is iantthomas.com and that’s where this blog is moving.
The title of the new blog, Imagine Community, is bound to change quickly….
Packing Up →
In the next few days I’ll be moving this blog to an eponymous site. It won’t be a huge change, especially at first, but I imagine bookmarks, RSS readers, and links will need to be…
Necessary Silence →
The virtue of silence is a topic I keep stumbling on in recent readings. This is primarily written to share these two quotes:
Many’s the man lost much just because he missed a perfect opportunity…
February 2010
8 posts
Ayn Rand, the sociopath →
“But with Rand, there’s something more pathological at work. She’s out to make the world more sociopath-friendly so that people like Ayn and her hero William Hickman can reach their full potential, not held back by the morality of the “weak,” whom Rand despised.”
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“Politicians have a bad habit in midterm elections: They concentrate on older...”
– E.J. Dionne, WaPo OpEd 2/25/10
Need I remind you of The Generation M Manifesto?
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The Trouble With Amazon →
Admittedly, I buy almost all of my books from Amazon.com. Their low prices combined with quick shipping, great review features, and their handy Wish List make book shopping from my desk…
Romancing the Letter →
I recently had a conversation with a friend about the romance of letter writing. He is a Eudora Welty scholar and has spent countless hours poring over archives of her correspondence in…
Today in Literature →
3 February 1947: New York City based author Paul Auster was born in Newark, NJ. Auster, who is good friends with Don DeLillo, has been actively publishing fiction since the late 1980s…
Thesis Progression →
Here’s a snapshot of the first paragraph of my final thesis chapter in my preferred font. My thesis committee may object, but that’s only because it’s illegible.
January 2010
25 posts
How to Use a Semicolon →
Whether you love them or hate them (Vonnegut said: “[Semicolons] are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.”), you can’t deny…
Rethinking Literacy →
Literacy, whatever that may mean, is a priority for educators at every level. Until recently, I interpreted the word ‘literacy’ as it’s meant in the phrase ‘literacy rates,’ meaning the…
Romancing the Letter →
Today in Literature →
25 January 1759: The Bard of Ayrshire, Robert Burns, was born in Alloway, Scotland. In his relatively short life, Burns composed some of the most enduring poems of the English tradition…
On Boredom →
Work is often tedious. There most likely isn’t a job out there that is at least occasionally boring. While I am not at all complaining about my job since I am very fortunate to be employed,…
Dear news sources on twitter,
alextcone:
I originally bought into twitter as a news feed to fill my need for international political happenings. I followed @financialtimes, @berlaymont and some others who met that specific need. But as time passed I learned that twitter is more about interaction than it is about being an RSS feed. It’s a way that not for profits interact with their supporters. How businesses interact with...
Academic Job Market Doldrums →
The humanities professor blogosphere has recently been abuzz with talk of the dismal job market and what can be done by institutions and potential professor alike. (You can read a…
Martin Luther King Jr. →
In Atlanta, GA on January 15th, 1929, the best known black civil rights leader in American history, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was born. Since being pegged to lead the Montgomery, AL bus…
Be Not Afraid →
With my recent research being fairly broad in scope, I get the chance to read articles and research from all sorts of fields. Focusing on graffiti art, I have read quite a bit about…
Google Wave as Personal Wiki →
For a few months now I’ve been trying to incorporate Wave as a regular productivity tool. The potential uses for Wave are astonishing and I’m sure I’ll write about its use as a…
As I Search for the Resolution →
Shortly after the beginning of 2010 I began to reflect on the making of New Year’s resolutions. I have never been one to set firm resolutions at the first of the year, primarily because I…