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Money shot: Eliot Spitzer and the religio-economic politics of sexual silence
This has nothing to do with good governance. This is about fucking and money. *** “New York Gov. Spitzer linked to prostitution ring”: If anything is clear from the reaction to Eliot Spitzer’s copping… more →
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Money shot: Eliot Spitzer and the religio-economic politics of sexual silence
wyattgwyon wrote 1 year ago: This has nothing to do with good governance. This is about fucking and money. *** “New York Gov. Spi … more →
Yellanjello's sense of possibility; or, Barack Obama is an analogical lexicon doubler
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wyattgwyon wrote 1 year ago: Think Obama is raising “false hopes”? You’re just lazy intellectually. *** My rece … more →
Emergent digital ecologies and Pynchon's male homosexual
wyattgwyon wrote 1 year ago: Ms. Oedipa Maas, protagonist of Thomas Pynchon’s 1965 novella The Crying of Lot 49, in the process o … more →
Briefly on Smith College's recent blackface bugaboo
wyattgwyon wrote 2 years ago: Re: recent events at Smith College, where a female freshman and a friend attended a costume party in … more →
Disjointed thoughts on contemporary feminism, evolutionary biology, and Elizabeth I
wyattgwyon wrote 2 years ago: This was written in response to a friend who pointed me toward “Is There Anything Good About M … more →
Queering Up Quentin: "The Sound and the Fury" and Muñoz’s queer world remaking
wyattgwyon wrote 2 years ago: José Esteban Muñoz’s Disidentifications is a noble but wrongheaded project. Its nobility lies in its … more →
Fiery and vivid: V.S. Naipaul, Nikolai Gogol, and the illumination of darkness
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wyattgwyon wrote 2 years ago: ON V.S. NAIPAUL’S NOBEL PRIZE So V.S. Naipaul finally gets the prize. It’s said he’s willing, throug … more →
Diagnosis—indigestion: Joyce, Gaddis, gender, and narratives of fraud
wyattgwyon wrote 2 years ago: “Even Camilla had enjoyed masquerades, of the safe sort where the mask may be dropped at that critic … more →
Tribute to “The Dead”: Derek Walcott’s latent feminism
wyattgwyon wrote 2 years ago: Derek Walcott’s epic poem Omeros appropriates images and narratives of classical epics, especially t … more →
Visions of misogyny in Andrew Marvell’s “The Garden”
wyattgwyon wrote 2 years ago: The speaker of Andrew Marvell’s 1681 poem “The Garden” concludes that nature is altogether preferabl … more →
Frolics of our own: human communion and solidarity in "Paradise Lost"
wyattgwyon wrote 2 years ago: In book VIII of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Adam attempts to cultivate a relationship with the divi … more →
Filling the empty circle: women and power in "Hamlet"
wyattgwyon wrote 2 years ago: Feminist critic Elaine Showalter calls the story of Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet “the story of O— … more →
Toward an ethic of rigorous provisionalism
wyattgwyon wrote 2 years ago: The poem which mistakes noble utterance for perception, conviction for impassioned intelligence, has … more →
