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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

OMG, i didn't realize that @ryancordell.org had a commonplace book assignment, but it makes total sense that he would have.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"Work and life become inseparable. Capital follows you when you dream. Time ceases to be linear, becomes chaotic, broken down into punctiform divisions. As production and distribution are restructured, so are nervous systems." —Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

c.f. saree makdisi's work on imperialism and bourgeoisie revolutions...

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

McCoy and Pulaski, such Luddites...

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

stuff like this is precisely why Derrida talks about "that dangerous supplement." i'm firmly in the camp that transportation tech kills the original (if there ever was one) and creates clones each time someone uses it to beam to a planet. So, this would work, but only if you accept the above.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Does anyone in my corner of BlueSky keep a commonplace book? I'm thinking of adding it to my syllabus for the Fall as a way to get back to handwriting/manuscript culture. But I'd like to offer students some particularly good examples. Thanks!

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Yup. Contrary to their claims, the Third Way class is actually a lot more afraid of the left winning than the left losing. The last thing they want is a successful left that governs well.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

20. What are things you look for in a book? Depends on the book: 1. sci-fi: good worldbuilding and weird ideas. 2. horror: overcoming my psych defense mechanisms. 3. philosophy: weird and wild creation of concepts. ;)

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

19. Most disliked popular books? 1. Any conservative book (Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh) 2. Twilight/50 Shades 3. Ready Player One 4. Lord of the Flies 5. How to Read Like a Professor (b/c it's simplistic BS).

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

18. Do You Like Historical Books? What time period? 19thC 1. The Beetle, Richard Marsh 2. Middlemarch, George Eliot 3. Lady Audley's Secret, Mary Elizabeth Braddon 4. Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens 5. Zofloya, Charlotte Dacre

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

17. top 5 children's books? 1. One Monster After Another, Mercer Mayer 2. Songs of Innocence, William Blake 3. Brother's Book/Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sandak 4. Oh the Places You'll Go, Dr. Seuss 5. Elephant and Piggy, Mo Willams

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

16. how many books have you read this year? I have no idea, but I probably finished around 30.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

recommend and review a book. I have a ton of reviews on my goodreads site. But I'll recommend a few: 1. Kim Stanley Robinson, Ministry for the Future 2. NK Jemisin, The Fifth Season Trilogy 3. Ray Nayler, The Mountain in the Sea 4. RF Kuang, Babel 5. Nnedi Okorafor, Death of the Author

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

do you ever dogear or mark in your books? I'm really hard on my books. I write in them, sometimes break their spine, dogear, etc.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings? Homer, The Odyssey Dante, The Inferno Shakespeare, Hamlet and Macbeth F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Leo Tolstoy, "How Much Land Does a Man Need?"

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

11. what non-fiction books do you like, if any? Top 5? 1. How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan 2. When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chodron 3. Rebuilt, Michael Chorost 4. Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, Sydney Padua 5. A Thousand Plateaus, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

10. do you have a guilty fav? not really. i went through years and years of being teased because i brought comics to my school as a kid. but i don't really believe in guilty pleasures. you read what you read.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

9. When do you tend to read the most? In the evenings after dinner. It's been harder to keep that schedule w/ kids, but I try.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

8. what is the first book you remember reading yourself? I'm gonna go with comics for this one: I remember reading Superman #400, Superman: From the 30's to the 70's. Probably the first big book I read was The Stand.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

What books have you read in the last month? *Theory and Practice by Michelle de Krester *The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson *Dreadstar Omnibus vol. 1 by Jim Starlin *Transformers vol. 5: Generation One by Kirkman and Mora *Freud & Beyond by Stephen A. Mitchell

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

What sections of a bookstore do you browse? *comics/graphic novels *science fiction/fantasy *Buddhist Books *Horror *Literature

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Favorite Genre: Science Fiction, close second is Horror. I regularly teach both 19th and 20thC science fiction.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Top 5 books of all time? 1. Poetry/Art of William Blake (counting as one). 2. Morisson, Quitely, All-Star Superman 3. Octavia Butler, Kindred 4. bell hooks, Will to Change: Men and Love 5. Gilles Deleuze, Spinoza: Practical Philosophy

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I drive past this intersection multiple times per week.

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Elisa 🌶️🥔 @spicytater.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This video was shot by a good friend of mine. She’s standing in her front yard. #Spokane #SpokaneFire The VA in Spokane is being evacuated.

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Denise Noy @denise-noy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Please help move this message #spokane #spokanefires Thank You Coeur d’Alene Tribe Heroes! 💕

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Schumway's original piece is a good foundation for discussing the mutations of what was the academic star system.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Ok Computer, Kid A, and Amnesiac from Radiohead

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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It is so difficult to believe what the world does not believe, so easy to believe what the world keeps repeating.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Yup, it seems like an intensified version of the policing/surveillance that's already part of our culture. Weaponized misinformation, then the hyperbolic over-surveillance of everything w/ the result being less trust and more reliance on already overtaxed nervous systems.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Not a hot take for me. If you're not doing something new and interesting, what's the point?

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Yes, I was Today Years Old when I realized that Japancakes has a drone-pop album remake of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Y'all, I've been watching Star City, and it's probably better than For All Mankind. Or maybe I just take the espionage and color palette more seriously than the American shine of the first few seasons of FAM...I will say it's super-weird that all of the Russians have British accents, but whatever.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

techniques of the self supporting objectivity: lab notebook w/ real time entries, discipline of grid-guilded drawing, artif division of self into act experimenter & pass. observer, introspective sorting of sensations into objective & subjective by sensory physiologists, training of vol attention.

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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

1 in 3 adults under 35 lives with their parents. Most of them are employed. The problem isn't work ethic. It's housing costs. That’s why I fought so hard for the new housing affordability law. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/r...

nytimes.com

A Third of Young Adults Still Live With Their Parents

The share of those under age 35 and waking up in their childhood bedroom has returned to pandemic levels.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Five living writers that you've read five books by each: -NK Jemisin -Kim Stanley Robinson -JM Coetzee -Nnedi Okorfor -Otessa Moshfegh

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Happy anti-fascism day.

American troops in a landing craft during the Normandy Invasion, June 6, 1944.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

alas, i feel this. it's difficult to be generous when you feel under threat. twitter pre-2017 is unlikely to come again.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Excited for this one! Go Miriam!

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I think the biggest divide among Democrats right now are people who think we can reset the country to the pre Trump era and those who understand that Trumpism killed that version of American democracy permanently.

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Roger Whitson @rogerwhitson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I have the same problem. I really want to get back to it, though.

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