I’m not really trained to make any sort of insight about film or filmic technique. I believe I can say something, however, about ideas that
Month: December 2012
Office Space (“On the third floor, by the elevator…”)
In addition to teaching a section of Literary Theory and Criticism at URI’s Providence campus this semester, I taught two sections of “Research Writing” at
Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man” (1921) and “A Discovery of Thought” (1950)
The Snow Man One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have
from W.B. Yeats’ “Man and the Echo”
MAN O rocky voice Shall we in that great night rejoice? What do we know but that we face One another in this place? But
On Accidents (Part Two): The Social Ontology of Judith Butler and Pieter Bruegel I
A few weeks ago, I tried using AMC’s Breaking Bad to concretize and critique Catherine Malabou’s Ontology of the Accident. I did so in an
Lee Edelman, Tom Hanks, and “The Child”
The Child, in [our current] historical epoch […] takes its place on the social stage like every adorable Annie gathering her limitless funds of pluck to “stick
Sketching a Present 