For my Literary Theory group (a reading group of colleagues from my department), I read Derrida’s essay, “Economimesis” over the past week in preparation for a visiting speaker’s talk Friday afternoon — very challenging and…
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So it turns out that when you spend a night helping a new baby be born and then spends several hour a day for the next few days helping that little one’s parents get some…
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I think this might be the first Hallowe’en ever that I have neither dressed up nor carved a pumpkin (above is last year’s) nor bought candy to hand out to cute little costumed-up people (rarely…
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I’ve been dismayed recently to see the fervour with which some journalists and politicians feel they need to attack what they construct as academic elitism. Stephen Harper, our re-elected prime minister of a still-minority (thank…
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My friend Tanis recommended Jane Gallop’s Anecdotal Theory to me this summer, and I’m so glad she did. I haven’t read Gallop for years. I first discovered her in a grad course on The Politics…
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