Author: PGR

  • Semester

    Semester is the Swedish word for holiday, which is cause for a little cognitive dissonance for a newly-arrived anglophone academic: what I think of as “the new semester” is just starting, but for locals, “semester” is just ending, and the new academic “cycle” is beginning. I recall reading something not too long ago in which…

  • 25AUG20 / accessions

    Yaaaaaaasssssssss

  • dog days, redux

  • 21AUG20 / accessions

    Getting in a last few batches of Verso titles direct from the publisher, before the customs implications of You Know What kick in and result in an import tax on stuff sent from the UK to Sweden. (Easy enough to get Verso titles here—AdLibris fills the Amaz*n-shaped gap for book provision over here, without doing…

  • hauntological metasystemics

    I’m cited* in this piece by Kelly Pendergrast at Real Life, but that’s not the (only) reason I’m clipping from it; I’m citing from it because it’s really good, and because it takes ideas from my heretofore most completely ignored journal paper and takes them exactly in the direction I hoped people would take them.…