James Graham (@jmzgraham.bsky.social) catches his breath in West Oakland.

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(remembered with affection, for the record, nothing but love for the hatchback beyond the general car thing)

“I wish I had a brand new car / so far, I got this hatchback / and everywhere I go, yo, I gets laughed at.” — Skee-Lo (1995)

If anyone out there feels bad about being a slow writer ... I did this research in summer 2013, presented it at a conference in 2016, finished the chapter in 2018, submitted it to Critical Inquiry a year later, and then ... sat on my revisions for three years. They were so very patient.

We read this in my essays class and the students were so moved by it!

I re-read the “Research” chapter from time to time, just one of the great statements of the modernist knowledge project. Also love the gramophone shenanigans