Ben Wurgaft
@benwurgaft.bsky.social
writer, historian, appetite!
there is a humanistic equivalent to innumeracy besides "illiteracy."
https://benwurgaft.org/
there is a humanistic equivalent to innumeracy besides "illiteracy."
https://benwurgaft.org/
Mime-sis, am I right?
November 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Mime-sis, am I right?
a chart of the science studies fields could use, as axes, whether the scholar likes to make their subjects squirm, whether the scholar wants to be a cyborg or a goddess.
November 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
a chart of the science studies fields could use, as axes, whether the scholar likes to make their subjects squirm, whether the scholar wants to be a cyborg or a goddess.
Came here To say this
November 15, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Came here To say this
I’m so sorry, and sending every wish for a speedy and full recovery for him.
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I’m so sorry, and sending every wish for a speedy and full recovery for him.
without wanting to be a bad (good) influence, you can definitely get on their preorder list. I don't have one myself, although one of my Bridgestones is an RB-1, from when Petersen was designing for them.
November 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
without wanting to be a bad (good) influence, you can definitely get on their preorder list. I don't have one myself, although one of my Bridgestones is an RB-1, from when Petersen was designing for them.
I think of it as a disagreeable necessity: benwurgaft.org
Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft
benwurgaft.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I think of it as a disagreeable necessity: benwurgaft.org
No, but I maintain a separate area of my website to list significant interviews with me about my work.
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
No, but I maintain a separate area of my website to list significant interviews with me about my work.
a lot of people build their impression of entire professions from exceptional cases - the superstars, or the person who quit to raise their kids in a blue state, or had health problems. Many people aren't very careful judges.
November 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
a lot of people build their impression of entire professions from exceptional cases - the superstars, or the person who quit to raise their kids in a blue state, or had health problems. Many people aren't very careful judges.
the irony is that as an independent scholar I am effectively even more committed to the model of exceptionalism that I also mistrust and dislike!
November 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
the irony is that as an independent scholar I am effectively even more committed to the model of exceptionalism that I also mistrust and dislike!
Working in concert! Something people socialized to think of themselves as brilliant exceptions are _exceptionally_ good at doing!
November 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Working in concert! Something people socialized to think of themselves as brilliant exceptions are _exceptionally_ good at doing!
Odyssey Cruises would like a word!
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Odyssey Cruises would like a word!
This opens the door for the Heideggerian move I tend to make myself - claiming that we clear away the overgrowth to reveal the roots of the problems at hand, the real questions. This can get lazy too.
November 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This opens the door for the Heideggerian move I tend to make myself - claiming that we clear away the overgrowth to reveal the roots of the problems at hand, the real questions. This can get lazy too.
Yeah, I'm not especially critical of new historicism myself - it has good and bad versions - but I do think that "progress" is a value that people invoke inconsistently and in order to declare themselves part of a victory over critical trends they dislike.
November 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Yeah, I'm not especially critical of new historicism myself - it has good and bad versions - but I do think that "progress" is a value that people invoke inconsistently and in order to declare themselves part of a victory over critical trends they dislike.
it was the black wool beanie and round glasses that stood out; he was wearing some kind of long sleeved black top and black trousers, too. Rivendell beatnik.
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
it was the black wool beanie and round glasses that stood out; he was wearing some kind of long sleeved black top and black trousers, too. Rivendell beatnik.
When it comes to literature, we can talk about the ways poems and novels and plays change along trend-lines that are progressive, literally, but not "progress" in the Wissenschaftliche sense.
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
When it comes to literature, we can talk about the ways poems and novels and plays change along trend-lines that are progressive, literally, but not "progress" in the Wissenschaftliche sense.
some people are getting paid to write and their potential opponents are busy trying to make life work.
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
some people are getting paid to write and their potential opponents are busy trying to make life work.
well that doesn't satisfy my soul
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
well that doesn't satisfy my soul
Those Who Walk Away From Omelettas
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Those Who Walk Away From Omelettas