Author: alexis

Carleton College – Feb 13th, 2024 – access copy Did you know that Fifty Shades of Grey started its life as an erotic fan fiction of the Twilight novels? E.L. James changed the names for the publication of her series, but Anastasia is Bella, Christian is Edward, etc. Fan fiction is when readers (“fans”) write…

18 January, 2024 – access copy Race is a social relationship, a creation, a collective fabrication. But it is real. It kills some people and enriches others; it pretends that these deaths and that horded wealth are just the way the world is and therefore how it will always be. This is a lie. Even…

Fermenting freeform feelings – access copy Panel on Ami Harbin’s Fearing Together Eastern APA, January 18, 2024 Feelings have turned out to be a perhaps unexpected terrain of struggle over the first years of the ongoing Covid pandemic. And among those feelings, fear has emerged as a kind of “hinge feeling,” a feeling upon which…

ifk – Kunstuniversität Vienna 19 Oct 2023 (this was the access copy for the conference – if you were there and would like me to send it to you, please email me)

RADIUS CCA – Closeness of Toxicity event 14 Oct 2023 This was the access copy for this talk – if you were there and would like a copy, please email me!

Kunstuniversität Linz, 12 Oct 2023 – this was the access copy for this talk – if you were there and need it, please email me! Abstract: Anarchists have long argued that there is a vital connection between means and ends, that how we do things matters to what we can accomplish in collective movements for…

Institute of World Literature, Bratislava – 11 Oct 2023 (access copy was here if you were at the talk and need a copy, you are welcome to email me) Abstract: It is a standard existentialist trope that humans come into the world without a pre-given purpose for our existence. On this view, there is nothing…

I have been experimenting with an approach to grading and feedback that I haven’t seen many other teachers doing, and a couple of people have asked for me to write it down. In the below I’m going to explain the “menu of options” approach I’m now using, and also say a bit about using pass/no…

(this was an access copy for a conversation about this work, Thursday, May 12, 1 – 2pm EST) On the stage of this show, but also in our lives, we enact different roles; our expressive intent does not control the interpretive uptake we might receive. Thus talking about something like whiteness invites us to dwell…

Hamburg, 21 April 2022 (this was the access copy for the live version of this talk) Jesuit priest, pacifist, and anti-nuclear activist Danial Berrigan once gave a famously short convocation speech at a New York high school. He came on stage and said only: “Know where you stand and stand there.” I’m interested in both…