No matter how much I read Stein, I never seem to get used to her style of writing. Every time I wade into the depths of her books, I feel unsteady and uncertain. There may be no right way to read A Geographical History of America, or any other Stein novel, but I constantly feel […]

In Judith Butler’s Against Ethical Violence, there is a lot of discussion about the “self” in relation to the “other.” According to Butler, the “I” stands as a part of, and because of, social conditions…which implicate it in “a set of moral norms” which “have a social character that exceeds a purely personal and idiosyncratic […]

So far, I’ve enjoyed this semester’s Bathhouse speakers/readers much more than any of the Bathhouse events I’ve ever been to. (But I’ve only been to three so that’s not really saying much.) Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to stay for Douglas Kearney’s presentation yesterday because I had class, but I stayed until the end of Tisa […]