Umm…YES!

One of the more toxic traits of the modern neoliberal university is the tendency for disciplines to dunk on other disciplines. In other words, the anti-intellectualism is coming from inside the house.

Das @nnwiss.bsky.social muss es wirklich geben, denn es hat nun einen Bluesky account. (Und bald kommt die Website, dann ist es in Stein gemeißelt). Profs, die uns unterstützen wollen, bitte Mail an kontakt@netzwerk-nachhaltige-wissenschaft.de. Geht los!

I wrote about the horror of beauty -- for this week's TLS column. www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/ter...

Unearthly good looks, from Beowulf to YouTube

Knowing my downmarket tastes in procrastination material, the YouTube algorithm has begun offering me videos about celebrity plastic surgery. The genre is

Came home from this year’s PGF conference on affective spaces to find The Affect Theory Reader in my mailbox. The level of excitement is simply too high!!!

Können populärwissenschaftliche Texte Gesellschaft helfen, in Krisen handlungsfähig zu bleiben? Oder sind sie selbst krisenanfällig? Wir diskutieren am 27. 10. mit @adriandaub.bsky.socialwisskomm.academy/events/popul...

That’s the dream course!

That’s great to know! I was hoping to select something that will offer opportunities for this.

If you were to choose one novel to teach undergrads prose analysis & close reading, which work of American lit would be your choice?

I think it was the jet lag. It still is…