It has happened to me.

I have become that person who is excited to teach close reading, Foucault, cultural studies and critical theory to journalism students.
Thinking about Monday's lecture on literal parasites, metaphorical parasites, and the film PARASITE (which is done and ready to go Monday already!), I'm stoke to share about the ways close reading can make for lively writing—especially in these times.
With so much interviewing happening over the phone & reporting on the sick or dying—and with so many experiences of life journos used to cover in person now being mediated—the ability to READ (social) media is so important.
Finding details, knowing how to read them, figuring out how to use them as prisms & how to triangulate them with theory/history/other reporting is so critical for thinking & writing in semi-lockdown.
Even gonna riff on @BenHCarrington's explanations of Stuart Hall (cultural studies) and Marx (false consciousness).

Have a good weekend, before we fall down the rabbit hole next week Image

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A side note to the Berkeley law dinner fiasco: Professors shouldn't have work events with students in their homes!!!
This is a problem which extends beyond this situation. "Chemerinsky, who is Jewish, says that the incident is the latest in antisemitic attacks on him and that free speech does not extend to his home." OK, then don't have work events in your house! latimes.com/california/sto…
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Cecilia didn't do stigma.
She didn't do shame, and she wouldn't want other people to feel stigma or shame or to experience barriers to getting help. And when we don't talk about HIV/AIDS, suicide or drug addiction, we increase the barriers to people getting help.
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