Roger Whitson
@rogerwhitson.bsky.social
lit and media prof @WSU — science fiction, buddhism, william blake, science & tech studies, polyamory.
OMG, i didn't realize that @ryancordell.org had a commonplace book assignment, but it makes total sense that he would have.
nanaslugdiva@nanaslugdiva.blacksky.app · 2mo agojosephadelman.com/2014/09/04/c... jamesmlang.substack.com/p/commonplac... www.jstor.org/stable/jj.62... thereadingmother.net/posts/2016/0... emilyrudow.com/blog/a-simpl... academictech.uchicago.edu/2024/06/24/u... s25bbb.ryancordell.org/pages/assign...
"Work and life become inseparable. Capital follows you when you dream. Time ceases to be linear, becomes chaotic, broken down into punctiform divisions. As production and distribution are restructured, so are nervous systems." —Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism
c.f. saree makdisi's work on imperialism and bourgeoisie revolutions...
profchander@profchander.bsky.social · 2mo agoi haven’t but others have!
McCoy and Pulaski, such Luddites...
Dr SpookyGoth@ghostingdani.bsky.social · 2mo agoThey do have problems with it though:
stuff like this is precisely why Derrida talks about "that dangerous supplement." i'm firmly in the camp that transportation tech kills the original (if there ever was one) and creates clones each time someone uses it to beam to a planet. So, this would work, but only if you accept the above.
Nvidie@dervine7.bsky.social · 2mo agothinking again about how based on what we know about how transporters work in Star Trek you should be able to just store backups of transporter signals so if anyone gets grievously injured or sick you just send them through the transporter to restore the backup
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The System From Nowhere
When Accountability Goes Rogue 💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation. "The system from nowhere" i...
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Does anyone in my corner of BlueSky keep a commonplace book? I'm thinking of adding it to my syllabus for the Fall as a way to get back to handwriting/manuscript culture. But I'd like to offer students some particularly good examples. Thanks!
Yup. Contrary to their claims, the Third Way class is actually a lot more afraid of the left winning than the left losing. The last thing they want is a successful left that governs well.
Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo NYT reports that Third Way will spend $15-million to discredit democratic socialism ahead of the presidential elections. “Their fear: Dr. El-Sayed was paving a path for a progressive to seize the party’s presidential nomination in 2028 — and then go on to lose the general election.” Except...
20. What are things you look for in a book? Depends on the book: 1. sci-fi: good worldbuilding and weird ideas. 2. horror: overcoming my psych defense mechanisms. 3. philosophy: weird and wild creation of concepts. ;)
19. Most disliked popular books? 1. Any conservative book (Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh) 2. Twilight/50 Shades 3. Ready Player One 4. Lord of the Flies 5. How to Read Like a Professor (b/c it's simplistic BS).
18. Do You Like Historical Books? What time period? 19thC 1. The Beetle, Richard Marsh 2. Middlemarch, George Eliot 3. Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon 4. Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens 5. Zofloya, Charlotte Dacre
17. top 5 children's books? 1. One Monster After Another, Mercer Mayer 2. Songs of Innocence, William Blake 3. Brother's Book/Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sandak 4. Oh the Places You'll Go, Dr. Seuss 5. Elephant and Piggy, Mo Willams
16. how many books have you read this year? I have no idea, but I probably finished around 30.
recommend and review a book. I have a ton of reviews on my goodreads site. But I'll recommend a few: 1. Kim Stanley Robinson, Ministry for the Future 2. NK Jemisin, The Fifth Season Trilogy 3. Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea 4. RF Kuang, Babel 5. Nnedi Okorafor, Death of the Author
do you ever dogear or mark in your books? I'm really hard on my books. I write in them, sometimes break their spine, dogear, etc.
Did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings? Homer, The Odyssey Dante, The Inferno Shakespeare, Hamlet and Macbeth F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Leo Tolstoy, "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"
11. what non-fiction books do you like, if any? Top 5? 1. How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan 2. When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron 3. Rebuilt, Michael Chorost 4. Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, Sydney Padua 5. A Thousand Plateaus, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
10. do you have a guilty fav? not really. i went through years and years of being teased because i brought comics to my school as a kid. but i don't really believe in guilty pleasures. you read what you read.
9. When do you tend to read the most? In the evenings after dinner. It's been harder to keep that schedule w/ kids, but I try.
8. what is the first book you remember reading yourself? I'm gonna go with comics for this one: I remember reading Superman #400, Superman: From the 30's to the 70's. Probably the first big book I read was The Stand.
What books have you read in the last month? *Theory and Practice by Michelle de Krester *The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson *Dreadstar Omnibus vol. 1 by Jim Starlin *Transformers vol. 5: Generation One by Kirkman and Mora *Freud & Beyond by Stephen A. Mitchell
What sections of a bookstore do you browse? *comics/graphic novels *science fiction/fantasy *Buddhist Books *Horror *Literature
Favorite Genre: Science Fiction, close second is Horror. I regularly teach both 19th and 20thC science fiction.
Top 5 books of all time? 1. Poetry/Art of William Blake (counting as one). 2. Morisson, Quitely, All-Star Superman 3. Octavia Butler, Kindred 4. bell hooks, Will to Change: Men and Love 5. Gilles Deleuze, Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
This video was shot by a good friend of mine. She’s standing in her front yard. #Spokane #SpokaneFire The VA in Spokane is being evacuated.
Please help move this message #spokane #spokanefires Thank You Coeur d’Alene Tribe Heroes! 💕
Dani Vaughn Bea@danivaughnbea.bsky.social · 2mo agoCdA Tribe has offered space to those displaced by the fires
Schumway's original piece is a good foundation for discussing the mutations of what was the academic star system.
Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 2mo agoFrom this piece (2012): dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/untitle...
