![]() * CTRL-F “rape” CTRL-F “slave” CTRL-F “Hemings” ![]() * This woman’s name appears on the Declaration of Independence. Toward a Marxist Interpretation of the US Constitution. I wonder what the point of making this up was the best I could come up with was that it was for research about how news spreads on the left and on the right. * The “mass graves” story I linked yesterday was fake. * The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Announces its 12th annual Jamie Bishop Memorial Award for a critical essay on the fantastic originally written in a language other than English. * A call for applications: Foundation is looking for a book review editor. * Space is the Place: A Crash Course in the Sounds of Afrofuturism. * Prerequisites: “You will need to have seen Star Wars (episode four: A New Hope) and read The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien.” The syllabi of Junot Díaz. * Mills College Lays Off Five Tenured Professors. But mostly I regret the good work that could have been done by all of us in a better, more just system. ![]() Nor is it encouraging to witness the parade of more active forms of denial: bad-faith solutions, illusory comforts, and intellectualized excuses for selfishness. But even in a good job with outstanding colleagues and students all around, something eats away at the ordinary routines of my academic life: all the day-to-day work of simply doing the job (teaching the students, carrying on the research, going to the meetings, the meetings, the meetings) takes on more than a tinge of denial, something for the few of us who have good academic jobs to do while we wait for the last curtain to fall on professional scholarship. ![]() It is, to be sure, worse in worse jobs: when I was a part-time adjunct, I found the isolation particularly depressing, and I liked my “individualized” health insurance plan even less. If you care about the work scholars do, the atmosphere is demoralizing. The harm can be counted, too, in the numberless person-hours every academic I know has spent tailoring job application materials, drafting custom syllabuses, and performing all the other rituals of applicant abjection. The destruction is not limited to those friends and grad-school colleagues whose “job hunt” turned up nothing-or turned up academic jobs which make the same demands as the tenure track without the same job security. * I have spent the entirety of my academic career so far watching the intensified hollowing-out of my profession. In the photos below, he’s checking out the woman in red while proposing to his own girlfriend.Today I finally put to bed the upcoming special issue of on the Mad Max franchise. If we look at the stock photography from an in-universe standpoint, however, this guy is just a ridiculous jerk. Because we’re looking at stock photos, that means the photographer took several versions of the same narrative - girlfriend catches boyfriend blatantly checking out another woman - in order to give companies options when they select a photo for their article or pamphlet or PowerPoint presentation on infidelity. When the meme blew up, people were quick to point out that “disloyal boyfriend” is actually one photo in a series of similar photos. He’s “man looking at other woman” or, as Shutterstock puts it, he’s “disloyal man walking with his girlfriend and looking amazed at another seductive girl.” No matter what you call him, this guy’s goateed, whistling face has been all over the internet this week, and he doesn’t just represent a jerk anymore he’s all of us. Some call him “distracted boyfriend,” and others just describe the stock photo he’s in as carefully as they can.
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