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Friday Links!
* I’ve pointed out before that even as academic institutions are more and more distrusted, professors oddly retain a good deal of public respect. We have it because we’re free: free to say the...
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All the Weekend Links (100%)
* Jaimee has one of her phobia poems up at Drunken Boat’s “funny” issue: “Derrida Eats a Dorito.” * CFPs: ICFA 36: The Scientific Imagination. Joss Whedon’s Comics. Assemble! The Making and Re-Making...
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Wednesday Links! Seriously a Lot!
* Like C.P. Snow’s two cultures of the humanities and the sciences, a new bimodal view of higher education is becoming increasingly important at the start of the twenty-first century: one that sees the...
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Thursday Links
* Call for Applications: The Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. * American SF and the Other. Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975. This tendency has been remarkably strong in American SF. The only social...
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These Are Monday Links; There Are Many Like Them, But These Are Mine
* If you’ve been following Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, there’s a new chapter out. * A One-Item List For Tenure-Track Faculty: Do the job you were hired to do. * The next wave of...
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A Few for Friday
* All Your Nightmares Are Real: Massive Mayfly Emergence in Wisconsin. * So, I would like to suggest the following as a starting point: we should highlight the accomplishments of “high-profile” faculty...
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Happening Now: Thursday Links!
* CFP: Resistance and Dissent in America. * Another piece on Octavia Butler’s Unexpected Stories at LARoB: Noah Berlatsky on Octavia Butler’s “Unexpected Stories” and Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the...
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Wednesday Links!
* I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired...
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Tuesday Links!
* One last bit of self-promotion for my Octavia Butler series at LARoB, reviewing the forthcoming eBook Unexpected Stories and the never-to-be-a-book Parable of the Trickster. * Meanwhile, my new best...
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Nothing Good Will Happen Any More
breaking news kids your parents and grandparents are monsters gleefully destroying your future for slight increases in quarterly profits— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 12, 2014 The collapse of...
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Day-Old Weekend Reading, Still Perfectly Good
* Deadline getting very close: CFP: Foundation, special issue on Science Fiction and Videogames (30 Apr 2014). * CFP on Iain M. Banks. CFP for the Journal of Ghosthumanities. * “It Continues Not To...
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Today Is Tuesday!
* Gasp. * Worker’s Comp Lessons From an Injured Adjunct. * Progressive nonprofits that don’t pay their interns. * At the beginning of April, one of the most important labor unions in U.S. higher...
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Almost Too Many Thursday Links, Really, If You Ask Me
* Extrapolation is seeking essays for a special issue on Indigenous Futurism, edited by Grace L. Dillon, Michael Levy and John Rieder. * Designing for The Grand Budapest Hotel. * No state worse than...
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gerrycanavan.com Is Pleased to Offer This Sunday Reading Experience
* The schedule for the final third of my Cultural Preservation course. This has been one of the best teaching experiences I’ve ever had; I’m hoping things go as well next spring when I do it all again....
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Cloudy with a Chance of Apocalypse Links
* CFPs for MLA 2015 from the discussion group for science fiction, fantasy, horror, and utopian literature: Science Fiction, Fantasy and the Concept of Culture (guaranteed session) and From Siberia to...
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Sunday MLA Hangover Links
* Horrors and horrors: Missouri prosecutors say they are unable to bring rape charges in the brutal Maryville case, though one of the boys involved will be charged for abandoning the 14-year-old to die...
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MLA’s Eve
* Timeline of the future: 1,000 years time to one hundred quintillion years. * Link of the year: Teju Cole Wrote a Short Story on Twitter by Retweeting Others. * How Grad Students Built the MLA...
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Supersized Post-Computer-Crash Weekend Feel-Good Happy Links
Sorry I’ve been MIA. John Siracusa’s OS Mavericks review didn’t tell me the update would completely nuke my computer for three days. Fairly big omission, JS. * Only by the grace of God did I not wind...
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Six More for Monday Night
* Breaking Bad, That Phone Call, and Bad Fans. But what was truly fascinating about that phone call was that if it was trolling the Bad Fan, it was also trolling me: the sort of feminist-minded sucker...
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