Schuyler Laparle
@schuylerlaparle.bsky.social
Lecturer in Communication and Cognition | Researching metaphor and gesture | Caring about prefigurative politics and emancipatory education | Wanting secretly to be a woodworker
Pinned
Outside My Window
Reclaiming the commons one window at a time
outsidemywindow.org
Very excited to announce that a collaborative art project aimed at "reclaiming the commons" is now open for contributions!
These are not good times, and so I needed an outlet for creating, sharing, and fostering hope. This is my modest attempt at that. You're all invited🌻
outsidemywindow.org
These are not good times, and so I needed an outlet for creating, sharing, and fostering hope. This is my modest attempt at that. You're all invited🌻
outsidemywindow.org
How are we still doing the "no first person" thing in academic (humanities/social science) writing? The researcher exists. Their interpretation is a part of the research, and their experience as an individual contributes to that. Own up, be honest.
Grumble positivist delusions grumble grumble
Grumble positivist delusions grumble grumble
February 1, 2026 at 10:57 AM
How are we still doing the "no first person" thing in academic (humanities/social science) writing? The researcher exists. Their interpretation is a part of the research, and their experience as an individual contributes to that. Own up, be honest.
Grumble positivist delusions grumble grumble
Grumble positivist delusions grumble grumble
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Should you use AI for that?
Our new post is about how and when to use AI in arts and culture work (and why the answer is almost always no).
It comes complete with an AI decision tree for cultural workers to help you make hard choices!
sidracollaborative.com/2026/01/29/i...
Our new post is about how and when to use AI in arts and culture work (and why the answer is almost always no).
It comes complete with an AI decision tree for cultural workers to help you make hard choices!
sidracollaborative.com/2026/01/29/i...
January 29, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Should you use AI for that?
Our new post is about how and when to use AI in arts and culture work (and why the answer is almost always no).
It comes complete with an AI decision tree for cultural workers to help you make hard choices!
sidracollaborative.com/2026/01/29/i...
Our new post is about how and when to use AI in arts and culture work (and why the answer is almost always no).
It comes complete with an AI decision tree for cultural workers to help you make hard choices!
sidracollaborative.com/2026/01/29/i...
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Hard to find a more fitting metaphor for the state of the USA than the federal government murdering a VA ICU nurse on the street
January 24, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Hard to find a more fitting metaphor for the state of the USA than the federal government murdering a VA ICU nurse on the street
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This is why organizing that reaches for relationality is central, not secondary - it breaks the capitalist idea of us as atomized, individual consumers and compels us to act in solidarity with others. And, perhaps more than anything, it's a politics more rooted in cultivating belonging than ideology
January 23, 2026 at 10:24 PM
This is why organizing that reaches for relationality is central, not secondary - it breaks the capitalist idea of us as atomized, individual consumers and compels us to act in solidarity with others. And, perhaps more than anything, it's a politics more rooted in cultivating belonging than ideology
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I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.
As academic publishing seems more and more pointless, at least poetry still feels alive and meaningful (perhaps to the detriment of any chance I have left at an academic career. Ah well)
Excited to contribute to this eco-poetry project 🌿🌳🌞
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/the-live-oak...
Excited to contribute to this eco-poetry project 🌿🌳🌞
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/the-live-oak...
The Live Oak's Defiance - The Nature of Our Times
Language does two things too well — it categorizes and organizes. I walk out and say, this is a tree. That is the sky. A rock, a dog, a child. And in adhering this string of symbols to a thi...
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org
January 17, 2026 at 11:44 PM
As academic publishing seems more and more pointless, at least poetry still feels alive and meaningful (perhaps to the detriment of any chance I have left at an academic career. Ah well)
Excited to contribute to this eco-poetry project 🌿🌳🌞
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/the-live-oak...
Excited to contribute to this eco-poetry project 🌿🌳🌞
natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/the-live-oak...
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The government is shooting unarmed civilians in the streets. We’re gonna hear from the NRA any minute now, right?
January 8, 2026 at 7:40 PM
The government is shooting unarmed civilians in the streets. We’re gonna hear from the NRA any minute now, right?
If you're in need of something nice, just something easy and good, a kind of spiritual hug, an existential cup of tea, I recommend Becky Chambers' Monk & Robot. Ideally read with a cat on your lap, in a comfy chair, with a real physical cup of tea within reach.
January 8, 2026 at 7:50 AM
If you're in need of something nice, just something easy and good, a kind of spiritual hug, an existential cup of tea, I recommend Becky Chambers' Monk & Robot. Ideally read with a cat on your lap, in a comfy chair, with a real physical cup of tea within reach.
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New year, new windows!
outsidemywindow.org/everyone-eve...
Today though, Lexy's window reimagining feels especially important.
Undocumented immigrants are our neighbors, friends, lovers, and helpers. The domestic terrorists are the ones shooting us in the head in broad daylight on the street.
outsidemywindow.org/everyone-eve...
Today though, Lexy's window reimagining feels especially important.
Undocumented immigrants are our neighbors, friends, lovers, and helpers. The domestic terrorists are the ones shooting us in the head in broad daylight on the street.
January 8, 2026 at 2:47 AM
New year, new windows!
outsidemywindow.org/everyone-eve...
Today though, Lexy's window reimagining feels especially important.
Undocumented immigrants are our neighbors, friends, lovers, and helpers. The domestic terrorists are the ones shooting us in the head in broad daylight on the street.
outsidemywindow.org/everyone-eve...
Today though, Lexy's window reimagining feels especially important.
Undocumented immigrants are our neighbors, friends, lovers, and helpers. The domestic terrorists are the ones shooting us in the head in broad daylight on the street.
Reposted by Schuyler Laparle
How do classic stories teach us to read certain bodies in limited ways? Drawing on Paulo Freire, this new article examines how narrative traditions keep reinforcing narrow interpretive paths. Read it here: doi.org/10.25189/267...
December 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
How do classic stories teach us to read certain bodies in limited ways? Drawing on Paulo Freire, this new article examines how narrative traditions keep reinforcing narrow interpretive paths. Read it here: doi.org/10.25189/267...
Yesterday we sent physical copies to our wonderful zine contributors - artists, activists, and academics across 3 continents and 7 countries! It feels very special for this little mycelium network, grown from a random idea with a couple of friends into a small conference last year, to reach so far.
December 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Yesterday we sent physical copies to our wonderful zine contributors - artists, activists, and academics across 3 continents and 7 countries! It feels very special for this little mycelium network, grown from a random idea with a couple of friends into a small conference last year, to reach so far.
Feels pretty incredible to have our #ClimateHope zine finally out existing in the world.
Here's to hope, not as a passive state, but as a call to collective action!
🌳🌻✊❤️🌻🌳
Here's to hope, not as a passive state, but as a call to collective action!
🌳🌻✊❤️🌻🌳
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Feels pretty incredible to have our #ClimateHope zine finally out existing in the world.
Here's to hope, not as a passive state, but as a call to collective action!
🌳🌻✊❤️🌻🌳
Here's to hope, not as a passive state, but as a call to collective action!
🌳🌻✊❤️🌻🌳
I was a mature and independent 15 yo. So when I started hanging out with men in their 30s, family and friends thought "weird, but that must be what she wants".
I don't blame my family and friends. I blame people like Megyn Kelly who perpetuate discourses that excuse men groping their way to power.
I don't blame my family and friends. I blame people like Megyn Kelly who perpetuate discourses that excuse men groping their way to power.
November 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I was a mature and independent 15 yo. So when I started hanging out with men in their 30s, family and friends thought "weird, but that must be what she wants".
I don't blame my family and friends. I blame people like Megyn Kelly who perpetuate discourses that excuse men groping their way to power.
I don't blame my family and friends. I blame people like Megyn Kelly who perpetuate discourses that excuse men groping their way to power.
Lesson from my marketing students (I don't teach marketing. They are my students nonetheless): apparently a TikTok influencer asking their viewer to subscribe is now called a "call to action"?
First I was confused. Now I'm thinking it's one of the most cynical phrasal borrowings I've encountered.
First I was confused. Now I'm thinking it's one of the most cynical phrasal borrowings I've encountered.
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Lesson from my marketing students (I don't teach marketing. They are my students nonetheless): apparently a TikTok influencer asking their viewer to subscribe is now called a "call to action"?
First I was confused. Now I'm thinking it's one of the most cynical phrasal borrowings I've encountered.
First I was confused. Now I'm thinking it's one of the most cynical phrasal borrowings I've encountered.
If you earned 2 million dollars PER HOUR, working 40 hours a week, for 85 years, and didn't spend a single penny, you'd still not be as rich as El*n M*sk is right now. Not even close.
And now he's calling his critics "terrorists" for saying that maybe he doesn't need more money.
And now he's calling his critics "terrorists" for saying that maybe he doesn't need more money.
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
If you earned 2 million dollars PER HOUR, working 40 hours a week, for 85 years, and didn't spend a single penny, you'd still not be as rich as El*n M*sk is right now. Not even close.
And now he's calling his critics "terrorists" for saying that maybe he doesn't need more money.
And now he's calling his critics "terrorists" for saying that maybe he doesn't need more money.
The cognitive dissonance between believing that grading is a tool of oppression which should be thrown out with the bath water and absolutely refusing to consider re-grading an assignment because can't you just respect me dammit, I have other things I need to be doing.
November 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The cognitive dissonance between believing that grading is a tool of oppression which should be thrown out with the bath water and absolutely refusing to consider re-grading an assignment because can't you just respect me dammit, I have other things I need to be doing.
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the race to declare that this is not a game changing victory is in full force. the biggest trolls, shit stirrers, naysayers, and oppositionally defiant idiots will be out in force today trying to get you to temper your joy. fuck them. hold on to your hope
November 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
the race to declare that this is not a game changing victory is in full force. the biggest trolls, shit stirrers, naysayers, and oppositionally defiant idiots will be out in force today trying to get you to temper your joy. fuck them. hold on to your hope
Exactly zero of the fifty university students in my class today knew who Kurt Vonnegut was. That's wild right? ... Right?
October 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Exactly zero of the fifty university students in my class today knew who Kurt Vonnegut was. That's wild right? ... Right?
It seems that I've been ghosted by the unicorn. 🦄👻
🥀
🥀
I had a first round interview with a unicorn-level exceptional job today...
Please pray to all your goddesses and gods for me 🙏
Please pray to all your goddesses and gods for me 🙏
I just want a job that I believe would still exist in a world that isn't defined by inequality, consumerism, and ecocide. Is that really so much to ask?
Why does such a thing seem like a unicorn-level exception and not the default?
#BullshitJobs
Why does such a thing seem like a unicorn-level exception and not the default?
#BullshitJobs
October 28, 2025 at 6:18 AM
It seems that I've been ghosted by the unicorn. 🦄👻
🥀
🥀
I take movies too seriously, is the first thing to know. Despite this, I don't remember anyone's name, that's the second. Then another 5:
- Le Bête (2023)
- Three Colors: Red (1994)
- Mirror (1975)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- House (1977)
- Le Bête (2023)
- Three Colors: Red (1994)
- Mirror (1975)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- House (1977)
5 movies to get to know me
- La Haine
- Magnolia
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Amores Perros
- Babel
- La Haine
- Magnolia
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- Amores Perros
- Babel
5 movies to get to know me:
- Princess Mononoke
- The Lord of the Rings
- RRR
- La Haine
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Princess Mononoke
- The Lord of the Rings
- RRR
- La Haine
- Everything Everywhere All At Once
October 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I take movies too seriously, is the first thing to know. Despite this, I don't remember anyone's name, that's the second. Then another 5:
- Le Bête (2023)
- Three Colors: Red (1994)
- Mirror (1975)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- House (1977)
- Le Bête (2023)
- Three Colors: Red (1994)
- Mirror (1975)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- House (1977)
I take an abolitionist stance toward LLMs. And I do not use the word lightly.
In academic circles, there is often an a priori rejection of "absolutist" arguments as illegitimate, "unscientific" or "counterproductive".
Sometimes abolition *is* the correct stance. That shouldn't be controversial.
In academic circles, there is often an a priori rejection of "absolutist" arguments as illegitimate, "unscientific" or "counterproductive".
Sometimes abolition *is* the correct stance. That shouldn't be controversial.
October 22, 2025 at 12:07 PM
I take an abolitionist stance toward LLMs. And I do not use the word lightly.
In academic circles, there is often an a priori rejection of "absolutist" arguments as illegitimate, "unscientific" or "counterproductive".
Sometimes abolition *is* the correct stance. That shouldn't be controversial.
In academic circles, there is often an a priori rejection of "absolutist" arguments as illegitimate, "unscientific" or "counterproductive".
Sometimes abolition *is* the correct stance. That shouldn't be controversial.
Can someone please call linguists to the stand for this kind of thing? Language changes. "Burger" now means a roundish savory patty eaten between buns. It's called semantic widening. It literally happens all the time.
‘Veggie burgers’ could be off EU menu as MEPs back renaming plant-based foods
Proponents say move would strengthen position of farmers in supply chain but critics dismiss it as ‘hotdog populism’
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Can someone please call linguists to the stand for this kind of thing? Language changes. "Burger" now means a roundish savory patty eaten between buns. It's called semantic widening. It literally happens all the time.
Saying "not that!" is not enough. You also have to say, "so what about this instead?"
That is prefiguration: moving past the condemnation and critique of current systems to imagine an alternative and *act as if* it is a reality.
Sell enough tickets to your show, and it becomes our reality.
That is prefiguration: moving past the condemnation and critique of current systems to imagine an alternative and *act as if* it is a reality.
Sell enough tickets to your show, and it becomes our reality.
Blue states should come together to declare an emergency. Here’s how | Thomas Geoghegan
States opposed to Trump can create a compact – a new prototype for American government – even if it’s perceived as political theater
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Saying "not that!" is not enough. You also have to say, "so what about this instead?"
That is prefiguration: moving past the condemnation and critique of current systems to imagine an alternative and *act as if* it is a reality.
Sell enough tickets to your show, and it becomes our reality.
That is prefiguration: moving past the condemnation and critique of current systems to imagine an alternative and *act as if* it is a reality.
Sell enough tickets to your show, and it becomes our reality.
I had a first round interview with a unicorn-level exceptional job today...
Please pray to all your goddesses and gods for me 🙏
Please pray to all your goddesses and gods for me 🙏
I just want a job that I believe would still exist in a world that isn't defined by inequality, consumerism, and ecocide. Is that really so much to ask?
Why does such a thing seem like a unicorn-level exception and not the default?
#BullshitJobs
Why does such a thing seem like a unicorn-level exception and not the default?
#BullshitJobs
October 3, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I had a first round interview with a unicorn-level exceptional job today...
Please pray to all your goddesses and gods for me 🙏
Please pray to all your goddesses and gods for me 🙏