@janmpdx

Comp Lit Prof – Author of Labors of Imagination (Fordham, 2006), Watching War (Stanford, 2012), and Crises of the Sentence (U of Chicago, 2019)

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Joined June 2012
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A German word for becoming so enamored of one prospective chess move that you stop seriously considering alternatives? Kandidatenzugverliebtheit?
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July 15th Walter Benjamin: Let's pretend today isn't our birthday. Jacques Derrida: To pretend, I actually do the thing—thus I pretend to pretend.
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Suited up in my team jersey.
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The biggest deterrent to becoming a philosopher is the Ancient Athens: death penalty Medieval France: death penalty Today: unjust tax code
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He thought that he had learned patience, but he had only lost impatience. –Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion
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Don’t you know that "No" is the wildest word we consign to Language? –Emily Dickinson
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Furcht vor der Nacht, Furcht vor der Nicht-Nacht -Franz Kafka, 18 Okt. 1917
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Nice to see that someone was up bright and early to poster campus. #WalterBenjamin
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Top Philosophy Halloween Costumes 1) Sexy brain in a vat 2) Sexy Schrödinger's cat 3) Sexy Occam's razor 4) Sexy body without organs 5) Sexy the thing-in-itself
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The history of philosophy is not a history of ideas; it is a history of problems. –Fredric Jameson
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The empty bookstore shelf sublime.
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Marx’s Capital, the film version, by Wes Anderson.
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Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited. –Samuel Beckett
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Representing for the team.
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Well what did you think was in the box?
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My ontology: Greek My semiotics: French My decision to celebrate Hegel's birthday with an Owl of Minerva latte: decidedly American
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Twitter 2008: The meme is the message Twitter 2012: The message is the meme Twitter 2016: There is no message Twitter 2020: There is no meme Twitter 2024: There is no Twitter
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We are bored when we don't know what we are waiting for. That we do know, or think we know, is nearly always the expression of our superficiality or inattention. Boredom is the threshold to great deeds. –Walter Benjamin
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