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Day 55: The Politics of Ecology
As indicated in an earlier post, the debate about global warming is increasingly being reduced to a politikum. Today the first half of the United Nations’ Report on Global Warming was published. It...
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Day 60: Don Imus, Hate Speech and Today’s Racism
After days of watching the airwaves being flooded with various discussions surrounding this topic, I do feel like I should write about something that has been bugging me, namely the dangerously...
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Day 68: Is Political Satire Dead?
Ok, I have to write about something else than Virginia Tech. I just saw this South Park spoof on 300 and in typical South Park fashion it pushes the envelope regarding the troubling politics of the...
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Day 90: The 2007 MLG Institute on Culture and Society (June 20-24, 2007)
Dear all, instead of useless personal ramblings today the following announcement: we just finalized the program for this year’s Marxist Literary Group Institute on Culture and Society. After being held...
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Day 105: Season Finale of Lost et al.
So the third season of Lost is over. We had good fun with John Locke becoming more and more, well, Lockeian (see Two Treatises of Government). That guy knows how to labor the land! (Locke joke?...
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Day 149: Revolution, Humanism, Universalisms–Good or Bad Totalities
Dear all, there has been a very interesting discussion going on between Joanna and myself regarding revolution, humanism, the potential value of universalisms etc. You can find the discussion here: Day...
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Day 279: No Underwear
After a few weeks that were very busy again (and after another weekend spent at a conference–this time here at UIC) I took a close look at my apartment today, something I haven’t done in a long time....
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Day 341: Multiethnic Literature
This semester I am experimenting a bit with alternative teaching and writing formats in my course on Multiethnic Literatures of the U.S. I have created a course blog that will be (at some...
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Day 347: It’s Bakhtin Time!
Yes, it is true: the dialogic imagination is in the house! (Maybe, if we’re all really lucky and keep our fingers crossed, the dialectic may even stop by–that is, as long as the dialogic does not...
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Day 359: Mad Crocs and Other Forms of Advertising–Crikey!
If you’re like me and drink a lot of coffee to stay awake, you may also run into the occasional upset/cramping stomach. In order to fight this, I have been increasingly turning toward energy drinks as...
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