Associate professor of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham; I have a book about corpses and the limits of representation
New York City
Joined January 2012
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never not thinking of eric adams 2011 pea on how to check your kid’s room for contraband
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All you need to know about Fred Jameson is that despite being one of the greatest American thinkers of all time, he responded to every single one of his student’s weekly reflections every week, for 60+ students, in detail with thoughtful commentary. Kindest most generous soul
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A really compelling observation in Heffington's "Without Children" is that the nuclear family is not only a bad way to raise children, but its historical novelty makes its rise as a normative standard a solid factor in the now two-century-old falling birthrate.
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!!! Foucault's acute -- and ironical -- engagement with information theory, "Message or Noise?," is finally translated into English, with given a fine-grained & discerning introduction, by @internet_chris Both texts open access here. parrhesiajournal.org///
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I don’t think there’s a conspiracy or anything but the fact that Dobbs was so quickly followed by a pronatalist intellectual trend—including on the putative left!—that explicitly casts childless women as decadent, narcissistic, and contemptible is … conspicuous.
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Gotta love the new genre tweet of from
millennial women that’s like “I can’t relate to all these divorce books because unlike you losers *my* husband is a perfect kindly angel who does all the housework.” As if patriarchy is merely a skill issue 🤪
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I said earlier the strongest element in media isn't bias, but narrative. That's what I've learned from 25 years in this industry. Let me give you a non-political example. Do you remember how journalists handled a "major" story in 2001? No, I'm not talking about 9/11. 1/
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If billionaires paid their fair share of taxes we wouldn’t have to rely on these “gifts” bestowed on a few and instead could offer universal college. Just saying.
NEW YORK (AP) — Free tuition for majority of medical students at Johns Hopkins after $1 billion gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
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Lorraine Daston on the rise of modern computing from hierarchical, factory-like settings: "It was the division of labor, not the machines, that made the algorithms mechanical." (RULES)
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As media, we consistently proclaim that we are just reporting the news when in fact we are driving it. What we cover, how we cover it, determines often what Americans thinks is important and *how* they perceive these issues yet we keep pretending it is not so. If Americans don’t recognize the crisis our democracy is facing, that’s not their fault, it is ours.
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One of the most enduring arguments from Dialectic of Enlightenment is that every absurd fascist projection about its racial enemy is in fact a priori justification, fantasy, and confession of its own aspirations.
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There is no water to put out the fires. Rafah is the size of Heathrow airport. The mythic beheaded babies are now real - undeniable - but they simply can't and don't exist for the settler colonial imagination. Who has not learned now what western civilization is made of? genocide
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ASL interpretation is a job, so paying someone to do it is key. There are lots of tools online for finding local agencies and certified interpreters for hire, which also ensures the quality of the interpretation.
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Got copies of my book in the mail today!
Pretty intense to hold the weight of this book, literally and metaphorically.
Thanks to all the activists in the movement who spoke to me and to @NYUpress for making this project a reality.
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Just imagine: there are whole areas of specialized knowledge, and what might look opaque to non-specialists can still effectively communicate ideas to people with a passing familiarity. Anti-intellectualism is a failure of imagination, if not intelligence. (Or else bad faith.)
The Ivy League student, who bravely demanded humanitarian aid from her oppressors at Columbia University, is writing a dissertation about “the fantasies of limitless energy in the Romantic imagination…a prehistory of metabolic rift, Marx’s term for the disruption of energy circuits caused by industrialization under capitalism…to propose an alternative to historicist ideological critiques of the Romantic imagination.” Got it?
Higher education in four words:
Garbage in, garbage out.
