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Henry Carges
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Phd candidate at Rutgers, studying gender, grief, and the failures of collective understanding in early modern english literature. Also very interested in genre.
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"cause / that's where my friends are, / you bastards"

a steeling moment from Diane di Prima's "Revolutionary Letters"
A picture of a poem titled "Revolutionary Letter #53 San Francisco Note," which reads: I think I'll stay on this earthquake fault near this still-active volcano in this armed fortress facing a dying ocean & covered w/ dirt while the streets burn up & the rocks fly & pepper gas lays us out cause that's where my friends are, you bastards, not that you know what that means Ain't gonna cop to it, ain't gonna be scared no more, we all know the same songs, mushrooms, butterflies we all have the same babies, dig it the woods are big.
August 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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The MLA's cowardly response to a member-driven BDS proposal (lithub.com/the-modern-l...), while they proclaim part of their mission to be supporting "justice throughout the humanities ecosystem," prompts a reminder from Pierre Bourdieu that scholarly work does not beget justice in and of itself:
A picture of a passage from Bourdieu's "Pascalian Meditations": “The vanity of attributing immense effects to philosophy, and to the utterances of intellectuals, seems to me to be the example par excellence of what Schopenhauer called ‘pedantic comedy’, by which he meant the ridicule one incurs when performing an action that is not included in one’s concept, like a stage horse that defecates on stage. Now, if there is one thing our ‘modern’ or ‘postmodern’ philosophers have in common, beyond the conflicts that divide them, it is this excessive confidence in the powers of language. It is the typical illusion of the *lector*, who can regard academic commentary as a political act or the critique of texts as a feat of resistance, and experience revolutions in the order of words as radical revolutions in the order of things.”
December 12, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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17th c. folks: do you have any familiarity with this book or the people it involves (Sarah Gilly and Henry Woolnough)? I've been fascinated by the elegies in it, but have only been able to find some scant references to Sarah Gilly's father.
19th c. Title page of "tears dropt from aching eyes upon the grave of mrs sarah gilly" 17th c. title page of "the picture of that rare gentlewoman Sarah Gilly"
November 23, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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I've been loudly praising "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" to everyone I've talked to recently. A truly electric and powerful doc you must see; the final sequence had me in tears. A reminder that the evils of this nation are profound and indelible, but you must, must, must leave a record of dissent
The movie poster for "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat"
November 20, 2024 at 3:30 AM