For the past fifteen years, I’ve ended the year with a reread of Jacques Derrida’s Aporias. In 2010, I had borrowed the book from the University of Queensland’s Social Sciences and Humanities library which I haunted like the bookish postgraduate ghoul that I was, particularly the philosophy and Gothic aisle. It was a relatively thin … Continue reading In Contemplation of the Unknowable on New Year’s Eve
Dear Readers, I’m redacting the reason why this blog post exists because I don’t want it to be on my website for posterity. However, I will retain some thoughts I have as an educator who has taught in two countries, across three institutions and for over twenty years and as a person who has been … Continue reading What Even is Pedagogical Value in the Blogosphere? Who Decides?
This is a post I’ve been meaning to write since my first Wiscon experience (online) a few months ago. Wiscon has always been one of my dream cons and I’d given up on ever attending it but they made it online this year, which was really an opportunity I could not miss even though I … Continue reading Lyceum Notes: Between the Numinous and the Real
Hi, Sorry I haven’t been updating my online social spaces. I just felt a need to protect my energy particularly in very trying times. I’m also trying to keep the momentum going on all writing projects (both academic and creative) while also performing what is known as “radical self-care” in reorganising the way I live … Continue reading Protecting My Energy
We’re not quite at the third week mark yet for Watermyth, but I need to re-evaluate the way in which I want to organize these blog posts . Also, I don’t want the posts with purchasing information to disappear while I give you a blow-by-blow of my intense emotional rollercoaster starting from December till these … Continue reading Mosaics, Fractals, and Twisty Storytelling