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"That shit was too much shit," said a man on the subway, speaking on behalf of all of us in recent history
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Fantasies of Nina Simone," by Jordan Alexander Stein, which examines the space between our collective and individual fantasies about #NinaSimone the performer, civil rights activist, and icon, and her own fantasies about herself. ow.ly/ewz550ToG7U
ALT Cover of Fantasies of Nina Simone by Jordan Alexander Stein. Title is in bright pink lettering. Cover features a photograph of Nina Simone singing into a microphone with a yellow-hued filter over it.
One of my joyful-est college memories, immortalized in an interview on veganism and appetites with Lauren Berlant in GLQ 21.1 (2015):
The cost of “these police officers out here today, that’s thousands of student scholarships. Thousands of students could have been able to go to school, and have books, and have housing … thousands of dollars worth of state funding, paid for by the tax payers”
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Happy birthday to Nina Simone (born on this day in 1933) and “The Manifesto of the Communist Party” (pub. on this day in 1848)!
Discount code HOL23 saves you 30% on this cute little materialist counter-history of the novel I published weeks before the pandemic and that you like everyone therefore missed. Goes great with champagne, #bookhistory, and the disenchantment of modernity.
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Completely appalled by Jürgen Habermas’s statement on the war in Gaza (normativeorders.net/2023/gru…). The belief that supporting whatever the Israeli regime and army do will protect Germany from its past is itself antisemitic. Saying that the mass slaughter of Palestinians and the 1/
In 2004 when I was a grad student, I went to a lecture by Seyla Benhabib. At one point, her keys fell out of her pocket, and they were attached to a round bottle opener like she was a college frat boy. I have thought about this once a month for twenty years.
Going to a grad seminar the next week and being compelled to listen to the professor (a scholar of liberalism) monologue during class time that "we" should bomb Afghanistan "a little"
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I am loving @steinjordan's Avidly Reads Theory; seriously considering incorporating it (or at least portions of it) into my Master's-level Introduction to Critical Theory course this spring...!
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Once again, Herman Melville’s love letters are the talk of the town!
Catch up with @steinjordan’s exploration of the extravagance of Melville's epistolary style from @EnglishLitHist: "Melville's Love Letters"
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Behold, my unsolicited, practice-backed opinion about how we educators could abolish cheating
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Had a terrible time coming up with the author of a chapter I vaguely remembered and wanted to cite. Turns out the author was me
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If you're looking to spend years worrying about details that in the end won't matter to anyone, I *highly* recommend you write a book.
