doing something different with language
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Steph: This is an excerpt from Permanent Record by Edward Snowden, beginning on page 175.
… Read more...It was only later, long after I’d
Collecting Effervescence | Communicating a Future is the first in a series of one act plays.
A blend of art, academics and activism, the debut bilingual performance (American Sign Language and spoken English) weaves a story of future community by linking current events at the global scale with interpersonal actions. Together with a companion chapbook, this living ethnography establishes a … Read more...
A typo. Decided it could function as an (sortof, not quite) anagram.
Hang on. I’m gonna ask ChatGPT.
Bext is a portmanteau of next and best. (Not an anagram.) This is the bext christmas that I can remember. It’s perfect for my present circumstances, and is meaningful like some of my other favorite christmasses.
Steph is seeking a passionate, detail-oriented Research Assistant to support an activism-oriented academic researcher with research and administrative tasks. Details can be found in the flyer below!
I started collecting the transcript links for the first season of the O’Parables podcast in one place for those who need or want to read them.
If you’re unfamiliar with Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (1993), it’s a fictional account of surviving societal breakdown which has uncanny relevance to today. The story spans a journey of three … Read more...
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An excerpt from The Overstory by Richard Powers, pp. 318-322, read by Steph.
… Read more...“A lot of evidence suggests that group loyalty interferes with reason.”
Maidenhair and Watchman trade smirks, like he’s just told them that science has
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An excerpt from The Overstory by Richard Powers, pp. 232-238, read by Steph.
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… Read more...Four years at Fortuna College come down to one afternoon: Adam in his spot in the front row, Daniels Auditorium. Professor Rubin Rabinowski at
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A reading from The Overstory by Richard Powers. 2018, p. 124.
… Read more...It’s a miracle,” she tells her students, photosynthesis: a feat of chemical engineering underpinning creation’s entire cathedral. All the razzmatazz of life on Earth is a