Left of Liberal
My blogs
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | community college teacher |
| Location | Washington, United States |
| Introduction | Remember the heady fun of learning Deconstructive theory? I learned it in college, in the 1990s, and I delighted, then, in fathoming my locus as the "site of transgression" in various binarisms. The site of transgression used to be the locus of the good guys: Experimental writers and Marxists and queers and misfits of all stripes. But "degeneracy" doesn't feel quite so benign now that the "construct" of morality has brought us into a collapse of civil rights. I guess it could be argued that Bush is the "site of transgression" between morality and immorality, the thread to pull to deconstruct the construct. But, sadly, no one is pulling. |
| Interests | pedagogy, writing, reading, politics, critical theory, my friends, my kid, my cats, political hip-hop, Dennis Kucinich, Perpetual pastimes:, debating whether to grow out my hair, trying to find the liberal media, quitting smoking, thinking about my mother, guilt, fear, shame |
| Favorite movies | Bob Roberts, Midnight Cowboy, Hoop Dreams, Goodbye Lenin, Aimee and Jaguar, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Close-up (Abbas Kiarostami), My Life as a Dog. |
| Favorite music | political old-school hip-hop, Stephen Sondheim, Spearhead, Belle & Sebastian, Death Cab for Cutie, Portishead, Interpol, Stew, The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers, Stereolab, Magnetic Fields, Devandra Banhart |
| Favorite books | Michael Cunningham, Deborah Eisenberg, Cris Mazza, Stacey Levine, Alice Munro, EL Doctorow, Toni Morrison (prior to Jazz), Homi Bhabha, Michael Eric Dyson, Paulo Freire, Edward Said, Slavoj Zizek, Thomas McGrath, Wole Soyinka, Samuel Beckett, Aphra Behn, Joan Didion, Paul Monette, The Nation, The UK Guardian |
Foxes are clever and tigers are cunning. So, what's your cat's safety school?
My cats are unrepentant truants.