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Day 09-01-22

Male fantasies

Rush Limbaugh provides a vital comms link to the diving bell USGOP currently plumbing many of the same socio-psychic depths that Klaus Theweleit explored in his brilliant book Male Fantasies (Vol. 1). Spake the blimp: “We are being told that we have to hope he succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles [...]

Speaking of clowns

This “Digital Humanities Manifesto” will age very badly: Digital humanities is not a unified field but an array of convergent practices that explore a universe in which print is no longer the exclusive or the normative medium in which knowledge is produced and/or disseminated. Print never was the exclusive or the normative medium in which [...]

Bring on the clowns [updated]

Felix Salmon: John Thain, “the super CEO who worked wonders at both Goldman Sachs and the NYSE—the man whose name was on the shortlist for every financial CEO job in America—is now a national laughingstock.” Could it be that the high-and-mighty poseurs who’ve been lording it over everyone else for the last several years might [...]