Lost Semester Linkblogging!

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Lost Semester Linkblogging!

For a variety of reasons, this was an extremely busy semester, and I simply wasn’t able to keep up with my open tabs (I had several hundred open at one point!). An irrecoverable browser crash killed any possibility of ever doing even an omnibus record of what I’ve been reading and thinking about — but I do have a tiny number of highlights from the semester that I will link here just to close the book on it. I’m hopeful, if not exactly optimistic, that I can get back to a more regular update schedule in the spring…

Apologies!

The podcast will also be coming back too for the end of the Achebe season! Stay tuned.

New issues of Science Fiction Film and Television, Extrapolation, and SFRA Review. SFRA 2022 in Oslo!No Need for Cuts: Marquette University’s Own Audits Confirm the Results of AAUP’s Independent Analysis. Austerity Is Not a Jesuit Value. The Triumph of the Money Managers. The Failure of Financialized Higher Ed. The Ivy League’s Legitimacy Crisis. Uncovering $265M in Rutgers athletics debt. RCM budgeting, a failure hiding in plain sight.The Secret Lives of Adjunct Professors.

the personal and professional incentive structures that reward university presidents are linked to basically everything *but* the actual performance of the university they administer https://t.co/WBJbFwctZr
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) October 13, 2021

So you want to go to graduate school in the humanities?The Mysterious Case of the Nonsense Papers.Marquette students create map showcasing Indigenous history of Milwaukee landmarks.White Utopia: How a Segregated Milwaukee Created the Arrogance of Suburbia.The Political Theology of Watchmen.Diagnosing Billy Pilgrim: On Tom Roston’s ‘The Writer’s Crusade.’Kim Stanley Robinson: The Best-Case Scenario You Can Still Believe In. “You Need to Use Hope like a Club to Beat Your Opponent.” Kim Stanley Robinson on Climate Change and Fiction. Kim Stanley Robinson on Science Fiction and Reclaiming Science for the Left. Possible Worlds. How We Put Out the Fire.The Second Coming of Octavia E. Butler The United States is now averaging a billion-dollar disaster every 20 days.Earth is getting a black box to record events that lead to the downfall of civilization.Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings: Return of the King needed one more ending: The case for the Scouring of the Shire.Why Are We Stuck Here: “Squid Game,” Trauma, and Repetition.2021 Pinnacle Awards: The Cyborg Jillian Weise, Tallahassee.Notes toward a theory of the Dad Thriller.If you’ve been looking for the right moment to get into Gloomhaven, the digital version is great and on sale right now.Muppet corner: 1 2 3 4 5 And they’re baaaaaack.

[the Ring of Power is destroyed in the fires of Mt. Doom, causing the armies of Mordor to scatter on the wind and the dread tower of Barad-dûr to collapse, with Sauron himself turning to dust, the final fate of all wicked things]

ARAGORN (Chris Pratt): well, THAT happened https://t.co/zJ5IztKflu
— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) November 11, 2021