Threads & topics
I just said "best entries" to get you to click the link. what I mean is they're sorted by category.
academia
general bloggy commentary
dream visions
serious matters
emotion theory
weblog sociology
("Dream visions" are what I'd mostly intended to write on this weblog before Islamic & Christian theocrats jointly decided to have armageddon together & as a category would probably overlap fairly well with my favorite entries.)
Weblog sociology
Interest-group despotism.
Moo slinkers.
The dark side of weblogging.
Community again.
On public relations.
Identity.
Identity #2.
Audiences.
Against weblog comments.
On pseudonymity.
On pseudonymity #2
(also
here
)
On weblogs and letterwriting.
On weblogs as meditation.
Weblogs as diaries and discipline.
On links.
Saved by the links?
trolls
Academia
conference in Quebec
student evaluations
plagiarism
The Monty Python problem
academia as mafia life
academia as heroin addiction
faculty meetings
writer's block
grading papers
resigning from academia
(further
here
and
here
)
why profs ain't so bad
(exchange with Dorthea Salo; continued
here
)
students researching online
the tier system of academic hiring
on not doing literary criticism, ever
(and
here
)
the politics of syllabi
Emotion theory
Silvan Tomkins & company
On disgust
Dialogue with Ray
On cats and dogs
Research update: happiness
Sloterdijk mouths
Emotion news: arguing feeling
Against optimism
Against happiness
Against individualism (1) (A.C. Graham)
Against individualism (2) (A.C. Graham)
facial expressions & prediction
Myers-Briggs.
Reviews, japes, quotations and other culture work
Non-reviews
David Chalmers, Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, Ken Wilber
.
Bully, The Exorcist, A.I.
Final Fantasy, Evolution, Pay it Forward
Lord of the Rings
Gangs of New York, Solaris, and Chicago
John Ashcroft
Asshole theory
Authoritarian dads
Baby theory
Warner, Self, Soprano
Robert Hass
Turbulent Velvet
Ernest Becker
Pierre Bourdieu
(see also
here
and
here
)
Buddhism
Tim Burton
the "
center left
" (and
Abu Ghraib
)
Richard Dawkins
Deconstruction
further
here
Deep Throat
(Zoot)
Deleuze and/or Guattari
Philip Dick
(further
here
and
here
)
Morris Dickstein & lit-crit
Diogenes
(also
here
)
Free will,
latex-gore monster movies
, and Wittgenstein
Eric Gans
Erving Goffman
Ernest Hemingway & Gertrude Stein
Judeo-Christianity
(also
here
and
here
and
here
and
here
)
Dmitri Karamazov
(Zoot)
Manuel de Landa
Libertarians
(also
here
)
Linuxheads
(Zoot)
(also
here
and
here
)
James Madison
Norman Mailer
Niceness
(and
here
and
here
and especially
here
)
Nietzsche
(also
here
,
here
)
Camille Paglia
(also footnotes
here
and
here
)
The
pessimistic style
Philanthropy
Physicists
(and
here
and
here
)
The Romantics
Elaine Scarry
Ron Silliman
Peter Sloterdijk
(further
here
) and
here
Brittany Spears
(and
here
by Zoot)
Leo Strauss and his odious disciples
(also
here
and
here
and
here
and
here
and
here
)
Transhumanists (& Geoff Waite)
Frederick Turner
Ludwig Wittgenstein
(see also latex gore)
Serious Matters
Jonathan Burton
Oma E.'s funeral
Abu Ghraib
(also
here
,
here
, and
here
)
On needing more dogs
(and
here
)
Election 2004
(and
here
)
Dream visions
Quebec conference
and
Day of Investigation and Repose
Federalist Paper vision
denial of death
Mirrors
The antipatriotic fence.
Theophany.
(Exegesis
here
,
here
,
here
,
here
.)
The Purple Bus
(Zoot); TV's
reply
.
Doghowling
.
Hemingway and Stein.
Nathan sleeping.
Trick or Treat Trial.
(
conclusion
)
Grading papers.
Barbeque Enlightenment.
Trolls.
Spider woman.
Resistance takes many forms.
Two roads.
Report: Nathan's birthday, 2003.
Criswell's apocalypse.
Tea with Camille Paglia.
Ninja hockey.
Anger meditation.
All this shouting.
Gift economy.
Fortunes.