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9 months

incredible stuff happening over at the Kevin Bacon anniversary post

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being a landlord must kick ass you can just say whatever the fuck and make up numbers

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my one evergreen tweet

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my student evals had the dumbest shit I’ve ever seen in them. “I didnt like how he pulled up a chair and sat down at our level during discussions because it was awkward”, “he fiddled setting up his PowerPoints” stffuuuuuu

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hey dude welcome to my place, i guess you could say it’s a bit of a man cave so help yourself to a limited edition peach twizzler

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my cousin in religious studies sent me this article title

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damn, my Jewish mother was born in a displaced persons camp to parents whose town is no longer on the map because of the nazis and it never occurred to us that Israel is anything other than a racist colonial power, sucks to be you though!

Sara Spector

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I never thought I would say this. As a Jewish American. As a descendant of a holocaust survivor. As a person who loves Israel. But I believe it’s time to stop sending Israel arms and aid until Netanyahu is removed from power.

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“appropriating a montreal subculture” is not a real thing

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damn this sucks shit

aiman

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2 months

ocean vuong, on earth we’re briefly gorgeous

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it’s so soothing finding another chat gpt student essay. the calm that sweeps over me as i drink deep of the smoothly grammatical sentences containing no key term definition or evidence, in a voice unlike any 19 year-old ever, style and detail-less, an analgesic for the brain

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at first the child chef appears incompetent…yet by the end of the video you will say to yourself: “from now on only babies will cook for me”

saeed alshahrani

@04PP

3 months

طفل صيني يقوم بتجهيز وجبته

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she just arbitrarily agreed to $1200??? truly the dumbest job

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[Hamas baby earmarking its much loved copy of Mein Kampf] oooooo chile this shit is fire Me: you can’t be talking like that Hamas baby

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Columbia deans are gonna be like “what is kettling but a thinking of community otherwise, a rupture in the distribution of the sensible,”

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@BrandyLJensen @fanny_omaha oppenheimer re-triggering my porn bender

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one time my US students said their favorite part of reading Orientalism was when Edward Said says he’s Palestinian because up until that point they thought the author was a racist white guy who was explaining how he was about to do Orientalism

Brandon

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Do not make lists of writers and color code them according to your interpretation of their politics, lol. That usually is a prelude to purging and murdering

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YELP ass teaching reviews lmao

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it happened lmaoooo

chlobuchar

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My friend received this email from NYU after they called the police and arrested her lol. You rlly cannot make this up.

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What Happens When a Movement I Acknowledge With Condescension Gets Tainted By Qualities I’ve Imagined? — my latest in The Atlantic 👇👇

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just overheard a couple on a date. the man is trying to explain Derrida’s critique of Saussure in Of Grammatology. woman says, “i translated that book into English in 1976. now I am sponsored by the luxury soap brand Aesop. Every year I hire an intern that hates me. I amGayatri S

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— I was 7 when my first poem was published — short story writer by 13 — phd program at 21 — tenured by 24 — lost virginity 37 — fired from job bc of tweets 38 — began a child labor startup 39 — extracted my first surplus value from a child 39 Do you. on your OWN time ✌️

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god this is annoying!!!!

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don’t ever show me this shit again

Matt Kasson, PhD 🍄🧫

@ImperfectFunGuy

2 months

This is what heavy rain does for rust fungi this time of year! Same gall yesterday versus today!

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[contemporary novel im reading that has normie liberal politics] me: this fuckin sucks!! [Japanese boston terrier instagram caption that says “work hard and have a good attitude so you don’t get fat and poor, lazy-chan!”] me: it’s good that these dogs are motivated

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writing is easier than almost every job

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I’m a first gen PhD in the sense that my parents’ research did not take into account the nonhuman turn and new materialism

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I don’t know how you can live in this world and be ok

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it’s clarifying that the ethically committed cringe millennial rapper is so much more nourishing culturally at this moment than the hedging, hair-splitting ramblings of the paragon of gen X high literary fiction

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when I was his TA, Tim Bewes taught White Teeth to Brown undergrads as an instance of false Bakhtinian polyphony: a narrative structure offering the ruse of a plurality of multiple antagonistic perspectives but actually enabling a kind of flexible, liberal fantasy of assimilation

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it’s actually soooo important to be learning from our students about this important issue that affects us all

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just finished Lolita and it’s so fucked up. the guy gets a job at a community college with no previous institutional affiliation

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“what exact time were you born” sorry i won’t be complicit in biopolitics

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PhD_Genie

@PhD_Genie

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What is the biggest secret in academia?

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sorry but if i was there it wouldn’t have went down like it did…

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“Don’t blame the student” no trust me i do. this is the dumbest shit ever

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I will dunk on the undergrad

katie

@focusfronting

3 months

I’m not dunking on an undergrad. You can’t make me. “Student at fancy institution writes exposé of secret wokeness” is the most over-saturated genre of the 2020s and you just gotta close your eyes and refuse to engage

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every damn day poetry surpasses new heights of cringe

Noah Hurowitz

@NoahHurowitz

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This style of writing, twee activities written in the second-person imperative, is known in the biz as Manic Pixie Guidance Counselor

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the officer’s firearm became ineluctably entangled in a contingent process of becoming and its various unforeseen potentialities were realized (ἐνέργεια)

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“we’re gonna take it easy tonight” me 15 mango white claws later:

Sally Hates Capitalism…but loves 🇵🇸

@hatescapitalism

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☭ ❤️✊ 🇵🇸

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this is exactly what all of academic twitter used to be like I’m not even kidding

Bryan Behar

@bryanbehar

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Maybe this is an oversimplification, but Ryan Gosling being nominated, but not Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig, perfectly explains to me why we aren’t in the 8th year of Hillary Clinton’s presidency.

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the premise that having friends is good “early career advice” is so fucking funny man academics are not ok

Dr. Emily Friedman

@friede

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One of the best pieces of advice I was ever given at the start of my career was to have friends on the outside — people who love you & will try to understand because they care, but in the end are primarily invested in YOU, separate from anything you may or may not accomplish.

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my mom is a therapist

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I actually think it’s fine if academics only write for each other and if you’ve ever glanced at a STEM journal you’d know this is already the de facto case and it only becomes a talking point because of a notion of the humanities as fundamentally unrigorous

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I still laugh thinking about the premise of “hi I’m Edward Said and I’m about so do Orientalism at you”

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going back in time to prevent the Brontë sisters from drinking their graveyard runoff water thus saving their lives and facilitating the writing of 2 Wuthering 2 Heights: Heathcliff Unbound

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this is how all my students write

brad

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incredible sentence

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one time in grad school i was out for dinner and my phone started blowing up because a guy in my program was begging me to text him saying i put porn on his laptop as a joke because his gf had found his porn and I was like, “damn…so I’m the go-to porn goofster of the cohort”

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as a UCLA, Princeton, and Barnard grad who was going to give a keynote at Columbia today and just turned down a fellowship from UT Austin, I am frankly disgusted by very specific individuals at each of these illustrious institutions

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students can blow vape smoke directly in your face if their accessibility accommodations say they smoke more different than anyone

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@lodgepolepines lmao dog what is happening

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one of the most timeless and universal goofs (or gags, if you will) is pointing out a weird guy to your friend and saying “that’s you”

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two things can be true: 1) My teen son Bohdan cannot read 2) He lunges at me in a darkened basement

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imagine learning literature from this guy

Aaron Gwyn

@AmericanGwyn

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Reasonable people may differ with me, but I'd argue the greatest writers of fiction & poetry have been apolitical--provided we define "political" as meaning "partisan." I don't think Joyce, Beckett, Faulkner, O'Connor, McCarthy, Stevens, Melville, et al had any use for politics.

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but doctor, i AM Camille Paglia

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another day teaching literature at the humanities university. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the books. buddy they won’t even let me fuck the books

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2024 is gonna be all about deprioritizing health and relationships and recentering earnings and cash flow

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awwww is it raining in New York City?? should we just snuggle up??? should we invite Frank O Hara??

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at Brown we learned you can only say “rest in power” about Gilles Deleuze

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yeah I’m familiar with the Aeneid. Ah neid a friggin ice cold beer!!! 🍺💯

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have these “lonely men” considered taking a graduate seminar in Comp Lit at Brown called “On Friendship: Aristotle to Derrida” from 2001?

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you all need to get a fucking grip

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title sounded nice. just need a light read, better not be any heavy shit

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you rarely hear men say “come m’lady come come m’lady, you my butterfly, sugar baby” anymore

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every two months from a Uchicago prof on here

lauren

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i'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion

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How Should Pro-Palestinian Protestors Atone For the Weird Dream I Had About Them Last Night?

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people only read the intro and assumed it’s just a critique of reparative reading but it’s the most polemical book in American studies in over a decade and no one has substantially engaged it yet

Christopher Satoor

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Post a book that isn't discussed nearly enough.

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re: the mean comments from professors thing, I do always lose it thinking about this one time a guy I was TAing with wrote “WHY DOES YOUR PAPER SMELL LIKE THIS” in huge red letters on a McGill undergrad’s essay because it smelled so weird

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had dinner with friends who at one point said “this is the third time tonight you’ve referred to the Dutch as having ‘no interiority’”

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well my English 392 reading list is finally ready to go! hope it’s not too much reading and students can afford them all 😅

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“The Uncanny” is so funny. Freud doesn’t mention himself for half the essay and then suddenly is like, “one time I got lost in Italy and found myself surrounded by prostitutes and every time I tried to get away I kept coming back to the same street with the prostitutes, anyway,

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Signs that you may have written a “carceral syllabus” without knowing it 1) you reference someone called The Warden who “won’t be happy” if assignments are late 2) you dress up as The Warden and talk with an evil southern drawl 3) there are readings assigned

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I am leaving #AcademicTwitter . This is not a place I want to be anymore. My anecdotes about scurrying in my department’s vents - which once regularly received >1,000 likes per post- have no engagement. Once I saw this, I changed my content strategy to sentient waterslides 1/37

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@brianjoralvarez has ruined the groupchat

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Before doing a PhD ask yourself: Do you love this shit? Are you high right now? Do you ever get nervous? Are you single? Are you gettin money?

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perhaps a naive query but what if as a polyamorous landlord I DoorDash a “no spice white boy” butter chicken chai tea and naan bread while reading Catcher in the Rye but im imagining Holden’s sister growing up to become Sydney Sweeney and i get so furious I raise all the rents

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my point is just that a lot of people think this way and as Brandon notes it’s extremely not good

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none of the personal emails Louise Gluck sent me paint me in a particularly positive light so I will not be sharing them

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between Oce*n Vuong, my ex-wife Merve, my butler from hell, and general chumpfuckery this has been a cromulent fuckcrustable of a day. Davey needy drinky

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in October it was disgusting to see some Jewish mutuals rehearse Zionist talking points when they knew what the fallout in Gaza and Palestine would be, but it’s hard to describe how all of that feels now. i think those people are evil. I hate them. I will never forget this

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whenever a post begins with “the problem with the left today is” I know I’m gonna get a helpful, measured, and systematic assessment and not a terrifying glimpse into the deranged inner workings of one person’s deteriorating psyche

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instead of adderall why don’t you guys just mobilize the cognitive capacity of what Catherine Malabou calls “plasticity,” which makes visible an affirmative biopolitics within the sphere of the biological itself?

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yeah i fuckin know

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it’s so funny that the reaction against the specter of the “lit bro” who proselytizes about Pynchon, DeLillo, and DFW has been to insist that actually BookTok YA writers are literally better

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I get 10 awful minutes of CNN every day with my dumb Roku app and just heard Jake Tapper interview an Israeli guy who said Arabic was a “hateful language” and tapper just nodded thoughtfully

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I often get DMs from Marxists confiding to me that matter does in fact shimmer and thrum with unforeseen agential potential but they don't publicly express these views because the persecutory basis of the discourse on the left is so immense that to do so would be too risky

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don’t accompany me to Build-a-Bear unless you want to see all your woke liberal orthodoxies challenged…

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many young men have confided to me in private that they’re scared to feel their souls swoon as they hear the snow falling faintly across the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead, because of wokeness

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it was me i showed the worst line of poetry imaginable and everyone agreed

Emily Van Duyne

@EmilyVanDuyne

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I'm sorry, but when did the "We hate Ocean Vuong" discourse begin?

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I don’t have plans this weekend. but not in a loser way. in a nonchalant and surprisingly badass way

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I am once again asking an emo band to use this photo I took of New Jersey as an album cover

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my IWD statement — please tag yourselves

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me and my buddies keep asking when will there be a grimes movie

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novels actually convey more meaning because they contain more words

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when I was trained as an Americanist the coolest thing you could possibly say was shit like “actually this Flannery O Connor short story is all about the rise of air conditioning in the South” and now you gotta stay stuff like “Wise Blood allegorizes its own mode of production”

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do any other fellas have a list like this or am i insane?

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unlike disgusting Harvard, the Brown University books bound in human skin are surprisingly leftist, and shall be kept exactly as is

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