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2025: Still Alive

It’s been a while but someone complained that the site hadn’t been updated, so. Here I am. Working on a new book on the end of aesthetic history, hopefully finishing it up this summer. Upcoming talks at the College of … Continue reading

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Teaching, Spring 2017

Teaching two classes this semester, a graduate class on Derrida (syllabus) and the usual undergraduate class on video game culture (syllabus), this time with 400 students, a new record. I had planned to make a bunch of changes to the … Continue reading

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Recidivism in weight loss

Nice article from NY Mag on the psychological and physiological adjustments that come with having lost large amounts of weight. Cultural fantasies of weight loss present a tidy, attractive proposition – lose weight, gain self-acceptance – without addressing the whole … Continue reading

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