Roman Numeral J

Earlier this year (about a month or so before squirrel* {BS}), I started again to read works by one of my top two "favorite" ^ wri...

I logged 2400 miles of American roads, 14 hours of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit , 3 full Brewers game broadcasts (all the enemy radi...

I'm standing in the hall as my students complete what will very likely be my last UW-M evaluation and it occurs to me that this phase of...

Yesterday afternoon UW-M's Center for 21st Century Studies hosted a Pre-Occupy Symposium , examining various potential roots of #OWS*. ...

In his latest collection of short stories, Stephen King puts forth an argument for his own brand of "non-literary" fiction.   Ful...

Hello faithful readers! I am arrived in Miami, living in a condo near Florida International University where I am spending the next 6 wee...

Even on picking up this 10-disc, 2-book boxed set of the music of Haiti recorded in 1936-7 by folklorist Alan Lomax you are impressed by it...

Note: Loyal RNJ readers will, i'm sure, quickly note that i already posted these ideas earlier, but i think i see them a bit more clea...

After watching Obama's 'not-a-state-of-the-union-speech', i stuck around for Bobby Jindal's "Republican Response" ...

Note: all page references refer to MAPH reader Fall 2005. In “Ideology and the State” Louis Althusser uses the terms “interpellation” and “h...

*Note: The following is taken (and only slightly adapted) from a seminar paper of mine for Fall 2008. It examines the idea of 'super-m...

**what follows is an extensive definition of the word game , written by me for my 'Theories of Media' class (taught by Professor Tom...

As part of my “academic review” at the end of last semester, Andrew Kincaid suggested to me that I write up a series of “position papers” th...

Yesterday started like this: ...and ended like this: it's good to be home... We got home from Orlando late Monday evening. Today wasn...

taking a brief break away from my paper writing (in preparation for my imminent ICFA presentation) i'll share with you my latest "c...

David Halperin came to speak at UW-M on Friday about Gay Male Culture and it's struggle with finding authenticity in "real" he...

I explored several of the various links in the “Chance, Reason and Dreams” section with varying degrees of frustration. I started with (bef...

I have a friend, Ron, in the Program who has enjoyed, at times, playing this 'character' during the course of his life here at Milwa...

So, it's saturday morning and i'm at work. That's right, despite my return to grad school, i've become a soul-less, corpora...

Tomorrow begin my classes. Strictly speaking classes started today, but evidently Tuesday will be my Mahler day, my day off. The first day...