Books Read 2020

  1. Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature Before Heterosexuality by R. Bach

  2. The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

  3. Transformers: Unicron by Frank Barber

  4. Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Intervention Since World War II by William Blum

  5. The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, and the Debate Over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola

  6. The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz

  7. Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

  8. Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan Africanism by Stokely Carmichael

  9. Relentless Pursuit: My Fight For The Victims of Jeffrey Epstein by Bradley J. Edwards

  10. NITRO: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW by Guy Evans

  11. Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

  12. A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey

  13. Dune by Frank Herbert

  14. Transformers: The Manga Volume One by Masumi Kaneda

  15. Transformers: The Manga Volume Two by Masumi Kaneda

  16. Prejudential: Black America and The Presidents by Margaret Kimberly

  17. Football Against The Enemy by Simon Kuper

  18. The State and The Revolution by Vladimir Lenin

  19. Stream Of Life by Clarice Lispector

  20. Superman: Red Son by Mark Miller

  21. I Fight For A Living: Boxing and the Battle for Black Manhood 1880-1915 by Louis Moore

  22. James Baldwin: Living In Fire by Bill V. Mullen

  23. Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over The World by Jathan Sadowski

  24. Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In by Bernie Sanders

  25. A History Of Medieval Islam by John Joseph Saunders

  26. Hate Inc: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another by Matt Taibbi

  27. The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

Books Read 2017

  1. The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism by Trevor Aaronson
  2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown, Simon Armitage (Translator)
  3. Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 1 by John Barber
  4. Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 2 by John Barber
  5. Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 3 by John Barber
  6. Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Volume 4 by John Barber
  7. Transformers: Robots In Disguise Volume 5 by John Barber
  8. Transformers: Robots in Disguise Volume 6 by John Barber
  9. Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman by Harold Bloom
  10. The Black Elfstone (The Fall of Shannara, #1) by Terry Brooks
  11. Enter Naomi: SST, L.A. and All That... by Joe Carducci
  12. The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino
  13. The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin
  14. 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
  15. Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto by Jessa Crispin
  16. Captain Marvel (Marvel NOW!) #1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick
  17. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
  18. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
  19. Star Trek: Harlan Ellison's The City on the Edge of Forever: The Original Teleplay by Harlan Ellison
  20. The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition by Friedrich Engels
  21. Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings by Manny Farber
  22. Essays, Speeches & Public Letters by William Faulkner
  23. The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life by Tim Ferriss
  24. When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World by Leon Festinger
  25. Clinton in Haiti: The 1994 US Invasion of Haiti by Philippe Girard
  26. Burning Britain: The History of UK Punk 1980-1984 by Ian Glasper
  27. The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  28. A Philosophy of Tragedy by Christopher Hamilton
  29. Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation by Blake J. Harris
  30. A People's History of the French Revolution by Eric Hazan
  31. Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?) by J. Hoberman
  32. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Michael K. Honey
  33. Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies by bell hooks
  34. An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen
  35. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
  36. Perpetual Peace and Other Essays by Immanuel Kant
  37. The Future is Queer: A Science Fiction Anthology by Richard Labonté
  38. Engaging the Past: Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge by Alison Landsberg
  39. The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories by Nella Larsen
  40. Wellsprings by Mario Vargas Llosa
  41. Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer
  42. My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor by Keith Morris
  43. Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore by Albert Mudrian
  44. A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey by Kevin Murphy
  45. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right by Angela Nagle
  46. Employee of the Month and Other Big Deals by Mary Jo Pehl
  47. Visual Storytellling: An Illustrated Reader by Todd James Pierce
  48. Why Be Something That You're Not: Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985 by Tony Rettman
  49. Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
  50. Green Gone Wrong: How Our Economy Is Undermining the Environmental Revolution by Heather Rogers
  51. Get In The Van: On The Road With Black Flag (Second Edition) by Henry Rollins
  52. American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath by Carl Rollyson
  53. Lazarus, Vol. 1: Family by Greg Rucka
  54. Der Mond: The Art of Neon Genesis Evangelion by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
  55. Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat by J. Sakai
  56. A New Companion to Digital Humanities by Susan Schreibman
  57. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet
  58. Change Agent by Daniel Suarez
  59. Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain
  60. Saga, Vol. 1 (Saga, #1) by Brian K. Vaughan
  61. Saga, Vol. 2 (Saga, #2) by Brian K. Vaughan
  62. A Brief History of Portable Literature by Enrique Vila-Matas
  63. Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas
  64. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 1: No Normal by G. Willow Wilson
  65. Ms. Marvel, Vol. 2: Generation Why by G. Willow Wilson
  66. The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople by Susan Wise Bauer
  67. How Fiction Works by James Wood
  68. No Slam Dancing, No Stage Diving, No Spikes: An Oral History of the Legendary City Gardens by Amy Yates Wuelfing
  69. What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States by Dave Zirin

THATCamp Philadelphia 2016: Intersectional Feminism & The Digital Humanities

Here are my notes from this session. I was really tired by this part of the day, so I mostly sat back and listened to others lead the discussion.

  • Discussion of Wikipediathons and the work of people like Adeline Koh.
  • Wikipedia editing is a good way for students to see how inefficient representation of women and people of color is online.
  • Wikipedia not allowing primary sources can frustrate students.
  • Discussion of archiving early queer websites and a code of conduct for archiving.
  • I also brought up fanzine archiving issues and the ethics surrounding them.

ThatCamp Digital Pedagogy: Tension Between Digital Humanities and Feminist Pedagogy

  • Does DH assume a universal participant?

  • Why is English the default language of DH? Reminds me of session back at ELO2007.

  • Are there identifiable feminist communities in DH?

  • What is it like to code if you are African American, queer, transgendered, etc.

  • DH becomes a much bigger deal when NEH funding produces DATA in business cultures of higher education.

  • Reference to "Why Is DH So White?"

  • Role of Afro Futurism as an influence on DH.

No, Seriously, Just Bulldoze The Fucking Planet Already

Do you know who the real menace to America is?  Osama?  Janet Jackson's Nipple?  Reality TV?  Cobra?  The Decepticons?  No fucking way man!  The real menace, and pinch yourself to make sure you aren't dreaming this one up, is Sponge Bob Squarepants.  Yes, Sponge Bob Squarepants.  Apparently, Mr. Squarepants is turning our children into homosexuals. 

Pinch yourself again. 

I mean really, with all the problems in the world right now this is what people focus on?  Global warming?  Who Cares!  Hey remember when we were going to find Osama "dead or alive"?  But hey who cares, stick another magnet on your car and hide your children from the satanic menace that is Mr. Squarepants. 

Thankfully, others have a problem with this.  And Mr. Squarepants seems to have found a place of worship too!  Good for him! 

They may scream loudly that gay-bashing actions like the proposed constitutional amendments are not homophobic but they are. Such hatred emerges easily from the same intolerance, bigotry and racism that still infect the roots of the Grand Old Party.Yet they look the other way and practice a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy when one of their own is gay. Back in the early 1980s, Terry Dolan’s National Conservative Political Action Committee was the toast of the right-wing while Dolan’s homosexuality dominated Washington’s whispers and people snickered at the anti-gay stances of the organization. When Dolan died of AIDS, many Republicans publicly professed shock and privately sighed with relief that he was gone.