I really miss UChicago.
By way of Jasmine Davila, found Lauren Berlant's blog, ...supervalent thought. No one talks this way in my office. I miss doing this kind of thinking and talking.
In her rationale for the blog on the "About" page, she writes, "I want to know why people stay attached to lives that don’t work." Damn, I really want to examine that question, too. Lauren's writing telescopes back-and-forth, like so much queer theory does, from the scope of the personal to the political. Obviously, the two are tied together intimately (har har), but the link is foregrounded in so much of the writing in the field.
Anyway, I've been indulging myself in these entries during spare moments at work this afternoon. No time to actually participate in the conversations that follow, but maybe one day I will.
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you hyde park braniacs know how to make a guy feel really, really dumb. i spent several years in chicago. a good friend was a grad student at u of c. and in the company of fellow students, he talked just like that.