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How I spent my summer vacation

08.13.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

The rock at Morro Bay at sunset

I’m ready for summer.

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Aging and agelessness

08.06.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

MIlan Kundera cover superimposed with text from novel

I have long been haunted by a passage from Milan Kundera’s Immortality.

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What I’m reading (and teaching): McIntyre’s Post-Truth

07.30.2018 by Greg Kemble // 1 Comment

Fingers crossed

I’m more nervous than usual about the upcoming semester.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // books, lee mcintyre, post-truth, postmodernism, teaching, what I'm reading

“The Paranoid Style,” part 3:
Both sides now

07.23.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

The Kink's CD Cover Paranoia the Destroyer

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // different worlds, donald trump, paranoid style, richard hofstadter, sarah silverman, say anything

What I’m reading: Amber Benson’s Death’s Daughter

07.16.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

I haven’t finished reading Montaigne’s Essays yet, but it’s summer, and sometimes a guy just needs a break from 16th-century France.

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Permission to fail

07.09.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Dirty running shoes

As with all adages, “give yourself permission to fail” depends a bit on context.

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Lessons in civility

07.02.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

They said, “Be civil.” So I looked to our nation’s moral leader for guidance.

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Categories // Prattle Tags // say anything, video essay

“The Paranoid Style,” part 2:
Broflakes and snowfakes

06.25.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Closeup of portion of snowflake on black background

Variations on a theme…

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Categories // Prattle Tags // anita sarkeesian, michelle wolf, OED, paranoid style, richard hofstadter, sarah huckabee, say anything

What I’m reading: Montaigne’s Essays

06.22.2018 by Greg Kemble // Leave a Comment

Cover of third volume of Essais

Who’d have thought a sixteenth-century Frenchman could seem so contemporary?

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Wakanda: The black utopia
[Video essay]

06.18.2018 by Greg Kemble // 1 Comment

My first video essay: a look at Black Panther’s Wakanda through the lens of the utopian tradition.

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