PhD. political theorist, feminist, cultural critic, and a 2023-24 Guggenheim Fellow working on a book about performativity (the good kind). New article on Singin in the Rain ☔️ and Sorry to Bother You 🐴 out now in Cultural Critique
From the other site - sorry! My still emergent thinking on Black feminist theorists of grammar and gender in connection with ordinary language philosophy from JLAustin to now…
An interesting pun presents itself in Montreal-franglais (see below).
The headline in this Montreal newspaper is: COUPABLE, which =
culpable/guilty AND coup-able as in coup-capable.
I am tomorrow giving a new version of my Hippolytus at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. It seems I am in good company! And happily Angela Davis is scheduled for earlier in the day :)
For the ages: “This is what happens when faculty are not in the room. This is what happens when expensive lawyers who don’t know our institution or share our values are brought in”
My 2 cents: this is what happens when leadership, wh/ requires vision, is outsourced to crisis managers who are blind.
Both coming with me when I go to Europe next month for 4 weeks of talks and travel…(but since I will surely still be writing said talks…these are for the plane ride home..) @lisadiedrich.bsky.social and @annenortonnow.bsky.social
Both look awesome!!
University of Cologne has rescinded their plan for Nancy Fraser to visit there. Because she signed a petition in favor of Palestinian human rights. Here is President of the New School, Donna Shalala, doing the New School
proud: 🔥
Posting cuz it rings so right & because it mocks a symptom of gaslighting, where target becomes unsure of what they’re ‘allowed’ to say because their relationship to reality is attenuated. In my reading of Gaslight, I see the changing gaslights as Paula’s last shred of reality: hence she tracks them
I just spent a lovely day and evening with the USC Classics Dept, sharing my newest version of a new reading of the Hippolytus. I lucked out! — engaged students, lovely faculty, and gorgeous weather.
Someone sent me excerpts of my book Shell Shocked, a series of 3-5 page essays, I document TFG-related events (2017-2021), offering readings that might point to more emancipatory democratic possibilities. Most are funny because that’s the best way to cut someone down to size. Sample: 2 slides
Slide 2: the punch line. It’s all in there, in the rest of the book: the insults, outrages, rapes. Turns out that for some people right now Shell Shocked is a helpful record of the 4 unbearable years when he was a poor man’s Al Capone. That was before he aspired to be a poor man’s victor orban.
Four years ago today, we left our sabbatical flat in London after 2 weeks (having booked 6 months) and raced back to US because TFG made a speech in which he said they’d be closing the airports on Saturday the 14th. That we were flying on Friday the 13th was not lost on us.
My article on Performativity has just been posted at Political Concepts. It is a set piece for my new book “Wordplay” which I hope to finish this summer. And this is the illustration that accompanies the essay: you’ll have to read the essay to find out why :)
Chadwick Stokes (of the group Dispatch in the 90’s), in concert in Vermont, blessing the spirit of the mountain as the snow groomers work behind him. Amazing concert.
