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Brice Ezell
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Writer, critic (@PopMatters), teacher. ATL.
PhD in English, University of Texas.
Modern drama, theatre, and philosophy.
Writing a book on Tom Stoppard.
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Sir Tom Stoppard is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covers the themes of human rights, censorship, and political freedom, often delving into the deeper philosophical bases of society. Stoppard has been a playwright of the National Theatre and is one of the most internationally performed dramatists of his generation. He was knighted for his contribution to theatre by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997. .. more

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · Dec 19
Humanities academic job seekers wondering if the job market is worth your time: it isn't.

Pinning this to the top of my profile in the hopes that this data helps people who are seeing so much hard work go unrewarded. I thought I'd have a rougher time post-market. This data explains why I haven't.
briceezell.bsky.social Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · Jun 26
The results of my 2024-25 academic job market experiment are in, and the numbers should be instructive to anyone considering university employment these days: don't. It's not worth your time, even if you've done all the work to get a PhD, even if it seems like a dream job.

Results breakdown below.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 23h
MY TEAM WON THE SUPER BOWL

AND THE PATRIOTS LOST!!!!

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 1d
But even with the qualification that Chomsky was in his late eighties when he met Epstein, and therefore might not have been at his sharpest, I don't know how you have the analytical mindset Chomsky espoused and not apply a little more scrutiny to someone with Epstein's profile.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 1d
Coming out of a very conservative part of CA, I was steered away from the corporatism masquerading as freedom that Chomsky wrote so eloquently against. I had US libertarian curiosities then (meaning, pro-corporate tyranny "libertarian," a contradiction), and he helped me avoid that course.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 1d
Though this clears some of the darker implications one could take from the Chomsky/Epstein link, this whole affair nonetheless is a serious black mark on a man who made his career off of accurately identifying agents of the kind of power Epstein represented. www.filmsforaction.org/articles/noa...
Noam Chomsky's Wife Responds to Epstein Controversy | Aaron Maté
"Noam’s overly trusting nature, in this specific case, led to severe poor judgment on both our parts... we express our unrestricted solidarity with the victims," Valéria Chomsky writes.
www.filmsforaction.org

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Martyn @martynpedler.com · 2d
A good question for many politicians might be "if you're not a racist, why do racists like you so much?"

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 2d
I am perpetually drawn to the undersung intelligent English pop and rock outfits, it seems

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 2d
The Steven Wilson hive tends to sleep on this music so much. Would eagerly do a nine-part series on the studio LPs on a podcast that, tbf, would be listened to by like 50 people lol

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 2d
My favorite band came out with new (old, heretofore OOP) music last week, and, man, if I could make a mission out of "pilling" people on a band the way @jessehawken.bsky.social has with Prefab Sprout, it'd be no-man. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y88...
No-Man - Angel Gets Caught In The Beauty Trap
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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 2d
Spurs fans just need to accept that we're getting relegated and maybe, just maybe, that kickstarts either a sale or some kind of actual awareness with the ownership. The club are acting like us being a "Big 6" club (whatever that even means) is a metaphysical fact, and it isn't.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 2d
Wish I could be surprised, but we live in a world where the Kissinger Center for Global Affairs is a real place that offers academic jobs

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 2d
Yorgos is seeing the world very clearly.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 3d
Is anyone that surprised by Stafford winning? The media is DESPERATE to make him an HOFer despite him not having the resume, and this was an integral step in him getting there.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 3d
My Spurs penance take is, with the admitted hindsight is 20/20 qualification: we shouldn't have fired Ange. Not to say we'd be competing for Europe with him but I think it's hard to deny we'd be better with him.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 4d
Incredibly SOUTHLAND TALES coded.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 4d
It feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances.

What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 5d
but he says “pray forsooth” so no one confuses it for anything other than Prefab

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 5d
One of the biggest indications of endemic enshittification is how opening any webpage now means trying to scroll and then suddenly being met with four different popups

Reposted by Tom Stoppard

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 5d
Sometimes you just want to ask John Roberts, you destroyed the United States for ****Donald Trump*****

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 6d
I actually think America's problem in terms of moving forward politically is that we have too many people who think this way, rather than diehard MAGA people. The right, no matter how extreme, always treated with "now, let's be balanced here." The left: "Look, just say you want gulags."

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 7d
Mitchum Huehl’s “The Post-Theory Theory Novel” (Contemporary Literature). Most things Martin Harries writes, including his one in Modern Drama on Sarah Kane from a couple years back.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 7d
Frankly, the management needs to start acting like we're in a relegation battle. With our injuries, looking at the schedule ahead: 40 is not a guarantee. If you can't lock up wins against Burnley and West Ham in January, why should you feel confident you'll beat Wolves when the heat is on?

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 7d
By that, I mean that if they'd overpaid for Lookman I wouldn't have even been mad. But everything else I've heard wasn't going to happen for other reasons (Semenyo, Akliouche) or not worth overpaying for.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 7d
Duran did not seem like a pick that would go over with the fanbase. At his value, no chance we get Semenyo, sorry, not even if we'd paid him like City pays their players. Lookman I would have LOVED, but I never heard any concrete linkages between him and us. That's maybe the one I could find.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 7d
Now, I do think that Frank is availing himself poorly, and our squad at health should be better than 14th. So the management is wrong to act like we should view ourselves like Brentford coming into the Prem.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 7d
The drop-off to 17th last year -- yes, even taking into account injuries and Europa -- was a signal that this squad was on the decline. Losing players of Kane and Son's caliber (without level replacements, a tough get) is bound to change a team.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 7d
The Spurs hierarchy think that we are a couple years out of consistent European contention and are building a team to rise to that level. The (more delusional) Spurs fans think that with the right manager and a fit squad we should be in Champions League spots. Both are wrong in ways.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 7d
Monaco said Akliouche wouldn't go without a replacement, and they didn't get one. Not sure how much they'd have rushed him out anyways given that they have Champions League matches this month they'd like to win.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 7d
I can understand why Spurs fans are pissed at this January window, but tbh (and this isn't me running defense for our shit ownership): January seems like a terrible time to do business, and any deal we putatively could've done just straight up wouldn't have worked. Not sure what deal we missed.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 7d
Teaching this NEW YORK STORIES collection as synecdoche for realism/turn of the century has been a delight. Am going to keep this up!

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 7d
this NEW YORK STORIES collection is incredible. “The Other Two” better than most novels