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This is wild. I was an English Lit major at a small liberal arts school, and even the two post-colonial profs assigned actual English lit. I guess I was lucky that the Restoration drama track meant reading Dryden, Behn, Wycherley, and (unfortunately) Congreve, rather than Derrida
I found this photo from my sophomore year dorm room at Columbia.
Take a look at the authors we read in my English classes: Fanon, Derrida, Said, Foucault, Hegel, Baudrillard, Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Freud, Barthes, Zizek, Heidegger, Lacan, Benjamin. Then you have your the
Many of the critics of higher education are crackpots, but that doesn't mean that the problems in academia aren't real. This story by @danengber is brutal:
theatlantic.com/books/2026/08/…
I actually stopped our mail carrier (a young white dude with a ponytail, tie-dye t-shirt, and a dad hat) after he drove past my box when the flag was up. When I explained what the flag means, he rolled his eyes and said basically the same thing as below.
Went to my @USPS office about my outgoing letters not getting picked up. The clerk got my letter-carrier on the phone, and she said she doesn’t bother to pick up unless she’s got mail to deliver. At first, I thought there might be some possibility of fixing this problem. But no.