The Carleton Philosophy Department has announced next term’s senior comps presentations, and let me tell you—it’s exciting. Here’s a full listing of the paper titles, just to get some hype going: “Baby See, Baby Do: Nonstandard Communication and Horizontal Infantian Cybertechnics in Carceral Redditian Spaces” “Monkey See, Monkey Do: Queering…
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The New Analog by Damon Krukowski read this. it was cool. a love letter to analog music… pretty rudimentary stuff but definitely worth reading if you a have at least an admiration for the LP or cassette (or, gasp, CD). also written by the Galaxie 500 frontman so that’s cool.…
Daniel Groll, Associate Professor of Philosophy One of my very favorite books is “There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom” by Louis Sachar. Sachar is more famous for “Sideways Stories from Wayside School” (which I also adore) and “Holes,” but “There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom” has stayed with…
Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a fun and romantic crossword to get you in the lovin’ mood for the Big Day. Love, The Bald Spot Eds Across 1. Le epic Communism >___< 3. French poststructuralist thinker known for his writings on biopolitics, prisons and sexuality 4. Heir of Brentano’s phenomenological method,…
Georges: Tweed jacket with those arm patches—you know the guy. He’s always sitting on those chairs at the front of Fourth Libe where we put the Carletonians that nobody takes. I think he’s a sophomore. But rumor is he runs a catfishing empire at Carleton and St. Olaf, so, basically,…
Across: 2. Holland’s favorite material 4. Holland’s favorite type of tree 6. Name of Holland’s second dog 9. Holland’s best NYT Daily Mini Crossword time from the past two weeks 12. Holland’s favorite neighborhood of northeastern Brookline, Massachusetts 13. Holland’s favorite Grimes song 14. Holland’s first name 15. Holland’s BTS…
An underappreciated factor in the historicity of COVID, I believe, is smell. It seems that the collective retrospective has remained fixated on the Event of lost events: what did not get done and which, contradictorily, is not a result of the failures of late capitalism. (By the way, the pun…
I think we can all agree: Carleton sports teams have built a strong reputation for themselves this academic year. So good news! Along with not having to worry about ever getting a bad rap, Carleton football players—by all accounts the most marginalized group at the College—can now gather in large…
Like most things at Carleton, my decision to take a medical leave of absence—and its aftermath—was fraught with difficulty. It’s not so much that the decision itself was tough to make; in fact, the relevant college administration was delightfully helpful in working with me to figure out the logistics of…