writer and teacher who cares a lot about the future of the humanities as well as access to education
dean of humanities & professor of English @ ASU, but this is my personal account, opinions are mine
https://www.jeffreyjeromecohen.com ..
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writer and teacher who cares a lot about the future of the humanities as well as access to education
dean of humanities & professor of English @ ASU, but this is my personal account, opinions are mine
https://www.jeffreyjeromecohen.com
“Apocalypse is a failure of the imagination, a giving up on the future instead of a commitment to the difficult work of composing a better present.”
Reposted by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Thirty years ago I composed the preface to a collaborative project exploring what might be enabled were the monster taken seriously. Might the monster offer an invitation to understanding better the cultures it sanctions, perturbs, roams?
Naturally I am working on the preface to Monster Theory 3.0, under contract with @uminnpress.bsky.social and offering more than twenty new essays in monster studies as well as a rethinking of "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)."
Exergue: “XXI” — Mediolanum Mint (Milan), circa AD 262–268
it’s not rare but it’s special
Reposted by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Jesús García
![Comic. [diploma from East State University for Doctor of Philosophy in Document Forgery] [caption] If you put one of these up in your office, and no one notices, you’ve earned it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreif2hl6u2eqv7rmq27tenpy5s5d7egkhwzvfw4ohpskh67ibuw52ym@jpeg)
