Public Intellectuals?

What’s Dark about Dark Academia

Close Reading Ana Quiring - March 31, 2021 0

One of my favorite posts on Tumblr, now a halfway defunct social blogging platform, restages with gorgeous brevity and absurdity one of the most...

Poems on the University

Public Intellectuals? Susan Harlan - April 21, 2016 13

1. Poem on the Xerox Machine The Xerox machine is not printing currently, But feel free to try it Later on today. We wanted you to know That we are...

David Brooks Writes a Yelp Review of the New Thai Restaurant

Hate! Jordan Alexander Stein - July 17, 2015 7

The new Thai restaurant, Pad Basil, is a great and searing contribution to the dining options on Tenth Avenue. It is a mind-altering account...

How Email Ruined My Life

Hate! Catherine Zimmer - June 23, 2015 3

(For Tom) I got my first email account the fall I started graduate school, in 1995. Even then I had an inkling of the pressures...

Historians Who Look Too Much

Books You Should Read Tim Cassedy - September 9, 2014 2

One of my guiding assumptions has been that if I am going to get my ass kicked while acting in my capacity as a professor...

Editing as Carework: The Gendered Labor of Public Intellectuals

Public Intellectuals? Sarah Blackwood - June 6, 2014 0

Editing Avidly is one of the primary ways I manifest the role of “public intellectual” (ugh). I think editing is a relatively undertheorized intellectual...

Public Intellectuals?

What’s Dark about Dark Academia

Poems on the University

David Brooks Writes a Yelp Review of the New Thai Restaurant

How Email Ruined My Life

Historians Who Look Too Much

Editing as Carework: The Gendered Labor of Public Intellectuals

Pleasure-y Guilts!

Pleasure-y Guilts: Taxidermy

Pleasure-y Guilts: Paula Abdul