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So PT Anderson's out-tomorrow ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is "loosely based" on Thomas Pynchon's VINELAND - a book of which I am, let's say, inordinately fond. Curious about its delirious comedy, stoner fabulism, & far-sighted antifasicm? I got you:
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See also, for extended play on those themes (& brought to you by @PhilipLeventhal and @ColumbiaUP): cup.columbia.edu/book/vinela…
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The @nytimesbooks just gave a shoutout to Pynchon's *Vineland* (tinyurl.com/3x5veexx) & w/ PT Anderson's movie based on the novel coming out this Fall, has there ever been a better time to read VINELAND REREAD, by Peter Coviello? tinyurl.com/5n7wm5j3 @columbiaup @pcoviell
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The encounter between the archive of Mormonism and the conceptual edifice of queer theory, if it seems in some respects improbable, can feel from other angles nearer to inevitable. @pcoviell (@UICENGL)'s disciplinary essay in Mormon Studies Review Vol. 12: scholarlypublishingcollectiv…
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as students are being thrown into vans and deported for school paper op eds I can’t help but think about the years many of the most well compensated and secure intellectuals in the US had the courage to sign so many letters about the dangerous climate of left wing censoriousness
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I was at Nasser Hospital in #Gaza when it was bombed today. One of my patients, a 17-year-old boy, was killed. He would have gone home tomorrow. If I had been changing his dressings, as I planned to this evening, I probably would have been killed too. Attacking hospitals is a war crime, and it needs to stop.
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Protect @FerozeSidhwa; protect Gazan healthcare workers; protect Palestinians. Attacking hospitals is a war crime!!
I was at Nasser Hospital in #Gaza when it was bombed today. One of my patients, a 17-year-old boy, was killed. He would have gone home tomorrow. If I had been changing his dressings, as I planned to this evening, I probably would have been killed too. Attacking hospitals is a war crime, and it needs to stop.
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Compare and contrast.
Israeli Maj. Gen. (res.) Nimrod Sheffer: "The first stage was implemented, and Israel violated the second stage. We violated."
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The @nytimes: "Israel’s strikes followed weeks of fruitless negotiations to agree an extension to its truce with Hamas."
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"Every last thing we do here rests upon the conviction that our job is to bring the highest-caliber literary education imaginable...to a student body selected with as little regard for the distinctions of status, wealth, background, color, and need" bit.ly/3Fnt0PF
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This extreme escalation is an egregious violation of first amendment rights. Now is the moment for everyone to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.
ALT This weekend, DHS targeted and seized Mahmoud Khalil as punishment for his political speech, and indicated that they are revoking his green card. They have since handed him over to ICE where he is being detained — his location unknown — and held for deportation without due process. This is what fascist governments do, and it will not stop here. This extreme escalation is the test case; the Trump/Musk administration is trying to see how far they can go without public outrage and legal checks on their power. Now is the moment to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.
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"It’s startling, the velocity with which a decades-long crisis in the humanities has, with the flourish of a few quick Executive Orders, become a crisis of the university, full stop." nplusonemag.com/online-only/…
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So for all the biliousness (re current overclass of billionaire jackals) this is actually an extended love-letter to my colleagues, UIC, and the whole world of public higher ed
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no one weighs the sublime against the brutal like @pcoviell
“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: @pcoviell on austerity in the English department.
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A ferocious love letter to public universities, unions, students, & resistance 🔥🔥 by @pcoviell
“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: @pcoviell on austerity in the English department.
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