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Hans Bertens’ The Idea of the Postmodern: A History
“Ray, when someone asks you if you’re a god, you say, ‘yes!'”–Winston Zeddemore in Ghostbusters “Jason, when someone asks you if you know pomo, you say, ‘yes!'”-Not Hans Bertens Well, nothing really...
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More PhD Exam Reading List Progress
Despite having two classes to teach right now and daily life concerns, like getting my Toyota Corolla’s oil changed today, I made a noticeable impact on my PhD exam reading list. I followed up some...
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Refreshing Reinstall and Another PKD Novel
I hadn’t done a full OS reinstall on my MacBook since I originally got it, so I decided last night to remedy the situation with a clean nuke-and-pave of MacOS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard. As you can see...
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Five PKD Novels in One Week
I need to keep this pace up–five Philip K. Dick novels read and notes completed in one week. I didn’t reverse the image above since I just finished A Scanner Darkly.Posted in Personal Tagged: exams,...
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Reading and Legos As the Snow Falls On
We’ve been experiencing a lot of lake effect snow up here in NE Ohio, so I’ve had no good excuse to avoid reading by going outside. In the past week, I’ve knocked out Michel de Certeau’s The Practice...
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PhD Exam Reading List Progress Thus Far
I’ve been working my ass off preparing for my PhD exams, but the numbers are saying that I haven’t done as much reading as I had thought. After finishing Alan Wilde’s Horizons of Assent a few moments...
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Bodies That Matter, What Matters Ubuntu
On today’s docket, I am reading Judith Butler’s Bodies That Matter, which I’ve read the introduction to before, but not the entire volume. As an experiment, I am going to read it standing up, not to...
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Winter Snows, Doubt, and Donna Haraway
Above, Yufang is standing next to our open garage door in the backyard with 12-14″ of snow filling our rather long driveway. She and I spent about an hour last night clearing off a path that I could...
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My Georgia Tech ENGL 1102 Class Description and Reading List for Spring 2012,...
Martin Widmer’s “Tomb [V’]” (2007).[UPDATE: I volunteered to teach three sections of ENGL1101 instead of three sections of ENGL1102 when the school made the request. This gives me an opportunity to...
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Recovered Writing, PhD in English, Methods in the Study of Literature,...
This is the forty-seventh post in a series that I call, “Recovered Writing.” I am going through my personal archive of undergraduate and graduate school writing, recovering those essays I consider...
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