Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Dr. Anne Pasek 2024-11-24T23:52:52+00:00 https://www.spreaker.com/episode/dr-anne-pasek--56356297 robertogreco annepasek diymethods trentuniversity collaboration 2022 zines conferences publishing print emmlab https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b019b8d75cde/ DIY Methods 2024 (also info about 2022 and 2023) 2024-11-24T23:43:18+00:00 https://diymethods.net/ robertogreco academia activism art climate climatechange emmlab zines sarahtayner annepasek 2023 conferences form exchange covid-19 coronavirus pandemic travel sustainability lowtech zero-carbonconferences publishing mail mailart correspondence sharing usps emissions flight flights carbonfootprint environment decarbonization biennials virtual inclusivity regional local openaccess carbonneutrality carbonemissions globalwarming airplanes airtravel aviation zoom streaming participation participatory access zoomfatigue 2024 2022 diymethods https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7d90444b514c/ Zine Based Conferenceing: A Guide, an EMM Lab White Paper by Sarah Rayner and Anne Pasek [.pdf] 2024-11-24T23:27:52+00:00 https://emmlab.info/Resources_page/EMMLAB_WhitePaper_ZineBasedConferencing_2023.pdf robertogreco zines sarahtayner annepasek 2023 academia conferences form exchange covid-19 coronavirus pandemic travel sustainability lowtech zero-carbonconferences publishing mail mailart correspondence sharing usps emissions flight flights carbonfootprint environment decarbonization biennials virtual inclusivity regional local openaccess carbonneutrality carbonemissions climatechange globalwarming airplanes airtravel aviation zoom streaming participation participatory access zoomfatigue emmlab diymethods https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:079fdb1e3b06/ Skateboarding Has Its Very Own Academic Conference Now 2024-09-03T21:55:23+00:00 https://www.vice.com/en/article/skateboarding-has-its-very-own-academic-conference-now/ robertogrecotedbarrow academia skateboarding skating 2018 conferences pushinboarders fredmoragne artoaari sammcguire oceanhowell arthistory karlwatson mariedabbadie elissasteamer alexissablone gustaveden iainborden kavavaz kylebeachy jasonjessee daniabulhawa andrewgorham anthonypappalardo https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7f05bb0cee1e/ Decarbonizing my professional travel: a risky idea - YouTube 2024-06-03T00:36:26+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQydDDURArw robertogreco zero-carbonconferences bryanalexander conferences academia highered highereducation sustainability carbonneutrality flights travel carbonemissions climatechange globalwarming environment airplanes airtravel aviation decarbonization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c198dcf3a1b4/ An analysis of ways to decarbonize conference travel after COVID-19 2020-07-15T22:36:34+00:00 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02057-2 robertogreco via:todrobbins zero-carbonconferences emissions flight flights travel academia conferences carbonfootprint environment decarbonization biennials virtual covid-19 coronavirus inclusivity regional local openaccess sustainability carbonneutrality carbonemissions climatechange globalwarming airplanes airtravel aviation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ae730537c620/ Abolition University - studying within/against/beyond the university 2020-06-18T21:11:54+00:00 https://abolition.university/ robertogreco education highered highereducation abolition academia history liberation unschooling deschooling politics economics conferences 2019 fredmoten stefanoharney labor capital decolonization colonization race racism gender accumulation corporatism individualization wages hierarchy indigenous indigeneity governance slavery universities colleges us dukeuniversity duke https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bd1517713edc/ Filtered for hallway tracks and spreadsheet parties (Interconnected) 2020-06-16T02:33:44+00:00 http://interconnected.org/home/2020/06/15/hallway_track robertogrecomattwebb conferences zoom online presentations spreadsheets !!con bangbangcon 2020 tamaskadar discord events howto covid-19 coronavirus internet spreadsheetparties socialmedia conversation conviviality smartphones homes neudgestock virtualconferences zerocarbonconferences https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e2912e498455/ The Secret Grace of Summer Camp for Socially Awkward Storytellers - Mn Artists 2020-01-23T01:34:11+00:00 http://www.mnartists.org/article/secret-grace-summer-camp-socially-awkward-storytellers robertogreco 2013 irabooker campforsociallyawkwardstorytellers aprildobbins alecsoth littlebrownmushroom storytelling camp conferences creativity lcproject openstudioproject walkerartcenter minnesota books publishing selfpublishing visual pop-ups writing photography bradzellar slideshows stories socialmedia tarawray wenxinzhang serendipity spontaneity unschooling deschooling education curriculum summerinwintercamp ephemeral ephemeralinstitutions ephemerality hansseeger delaneyallen horatiobaltz jeffbarnett-winsby julianbleecker elainebleakney bradfarwell adamforrester colinmatthes buckymiller dianarangel jimreed caitlinwarner classideas photobooks ncmideas carriethompson galenfletcher ethanjones jasonpollan projectideas stpaul self-publishing adventure fun unconferences experientialeducation design conferenceideas camps learning collaboration experientiallearning summercamp https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d0db8cdc819b/ The Little Brown Mushroom Camp for Socially Awkward Storytellers - April Dobbins 2020-01-23T00:55:16+00:00 https://cargocollective.com/aprildobbins/The-Little-Brown-Mushroom-Camp-for-Socially-Awkward-Storytellers robertogreco campforsociallyawkwardstorytellers 2013 aprildobbins alecsoth littlebrownmushroom storytelling camp conferences creativity lcproject openstudioproject walkerartcenter minnesota books publishing selfpublishing visual pop-ups writing photography bradzellar slideshows stories socialmedia tarawray wenxinzhang serendipity spontaneity unschooling deschooling education curriculum summerinwintercamp ephemeral ephemeralinstitutions ephemerality hansseeger delaneyallen horatiobaltz jeffbarnett-winsby julianbleecker elainebleakney bradfarwell adamforrester colinmatthes buckymiller dianarangel jimreed caitlinwarner classideas photobooks ncmideas carriethompson galenfletcher ethanjones jasonpollan projectideas stpaul self-publishing adventure fun unconferences experientialeducation design conferenceideas camps learning collaboration experientiallearning summercamp https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d073f04d0ddf/ Popsicle #27: LBM Camp for Socially Awkward Storytellers « Little Brown Mushroom 2020-01-23T00:54:53+00:00 http://www.littlebrownmushroom.com/popsicle-27-lbm-camp-for-socially-awkward-storytellers/ robertogrecoI began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another… The writer… can put whatever he wants in there. What’s important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit… The black box is meant to change us. A ‘like’ is not a change. Nor is a thousand ‘likes.’ I believe virtual social networks have great creative potential, but it is almost impossible to quantify. Sometimes you just need to climb into the black box with other people. I’m so grateful to everyone who climbed into that box with me last week. Along with thanking the Soap Factory and their amazing audience, I want to individually thank the camp participants: Wenxin Zhang, Tara Wray, Caitlin Warner, Jim Reed, Diana Rangel, Bucky Miller, Colin Matthes, Adam Forrester, Brad Farwell, April Dobbins, Elaine Bleakney, Julian Bleecker, Jeff Barnett-Winsby, Horatio Baltz, Delaney Allen. The visiting artists: Brian Beatty, David Sollie, Vince Leo. Our interns: Yara Van der Velden, Kayla Huett, Phil Bologna. And the LBM team: Brad Zellar, Carrie Thompson, Hans Seeger, Jason Polan, Ethan Jones, Galen Fletcher. I truly feel changed. Alec”]]> campforsociallyawkwardstorytellers 2013 alecsoth littlebrownmushroom storytelling camp conferences creativity lcproject openstudioproject walkerartcenter minnesota books publishing selfpublishing visual pop-ups writing photography bradzellar slideshows stories socialmedia tarawray wenxinzhang serendipity spontaneity unschooling deschooling education curriculum summerinwintercamp ephemeral ephemeralinstitutions ephemerality hansseeger delaneyallen horatiobaltz jeffbarnett-winsby julianbleecker elainebleakney aprildobbins bradfarwell adamforrester colinmatthes buckymiller dianarangel jimreed caitlinwarner classideas photobooks ncmideas carriethompson galenfletcher ethanjones jasonpollan projectideas stpaul self-publishing adventure fun unconferences experientialeducation design conferenceideas camps learning collaboration experientiallearning summercamp https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:19b8daeb92e0/ Photographer Alec Soth mounts storyteller's summer camp awkwardly | MPR News 2020-01-23T00:54:23+00:00 https://www.mprnews.org/story/2013/07/11/photographer-alec-soth-mounts-storytellers-summer-camp-awkwardly robertogreco campforsociallyawkwardstorytellers 2013 alecsoth littlebrownmushroom storytelling camp conferences creativity lcproject openstudioproject walkerartcenter minnesota books publishing selfpublishing visual pop-ups writing photography bradzellar slideshows stories socialmedia tarawray wenxinzhang serendipity spontaneity unschooling deschooling education curriculum summerinwintercamp ephemeral ephemeralinstitutions ephemerality hansseeger delaneyallen horatiobaltz jeffbarnett-winsby julianbleecker elainebleakney aprildobbins bradfarwell adamforrester colinmatthes buckymiller dianarangel jimreed caitlinwarner classideas photobooks ncmideas carriethompson galenfletcher ethanjones jasonpollan projectideas stpaul self-publishing adventure fun unconferences experientialeducation design conferenceideas camps learning collaboration experientiallearning summercamp https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:11e5a8c7d47f/ Artists from around the world gather in St. Paul for Little Brown Mushroom’s Summer Camp for Socially Awkward Storytellers – Knight Foundation 2020-01-23T00:35:14+00:00 https://knightfoundation.org/articles/artists-from-around-the-world-gather-in-st-paul-for-little-brown-mushrooms-summer-camp-for-socially-awkward-storytellers/ robertogrecoVisual storytelling tends to be a lonely business. As such, it attracts more than its share of wallflowers. Here at LBM (home to more than a couple introverts), we thought it would be worthwhile to bring creative loners together to see what we can learn from each other. We’re envisioning a gathering that is more summer camp than classroom. After various daytime outings, we’ll sit around the digital projector and tell each other stories. From there we’ll discuss the ways in which visual stories can be translated into book form. In a recent email, Soth said the group will spend four days this week in various workshops. On the fifth and final evening, Saturday, July 13, the participants will offer brief, Pecha Kucha-style presentations of their work, at a public event emceed by comedian and writer Brian Beatty at the Soap Factory in Minneapolis. A party will follow, with a cash bar, socializing and dancing to tunes spun by DJ Vu-Vu Zella (aka Brad Zellar). Participating “campers” include: the LBM team, plus Hans Seeger, Delaney Allen, Horatio Baltz, Jeff Barnett-Winsby, Julian Bleecker, Elaine Bleakney, April Dobbins, Brad Farwell, Adam Forrester, Colin Matthes, Bucky Miller, Diana Rangel, Jim Reed, Caitlin Warner, Tara Wray and Wenxin Zhang. Photo courtesy of Little Brown Mushroom. Pro tip: The “summer camp” t-shirts pictured on the LBM team above will be available to buy at the event on Saturday, July 13. As far as I know, the RV is not for sale. I’m telling you – this can’t help but be interesting. Little Brown Mushroom has been publishing such surprising, compelling stuff in recent years. Of particular note is the “LBM Dispatch,” occasional road trip photo and text collaborations by Soth and writer Brad Zellar – tabloid-sized newsprint pieces produced in the style of a small-town newspaper. Thus far, LBM has published five installments: “Ohio,” “Upstate,” “Michigan,” “Three Valleys” and, most recently, “Colorado.” (The pair recently wrote a fabulous piece on the project for Vice magazine, if you’re interested in reading more.) Little Brown Mushroom’s Summer Camp for Socially Awkward Storytellers runs from July 9 through 13. The camp culminates with an event, The Socially Awkward Storytellers’ Slideshow and Dance, on Saturday, July 13 at 7 p.m. at the Soap Factory, 514 Second Street SE, Minneapolis. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.littlebrownmushroom.com."]]> alecsoth littlebrownmushroom 2013 camp conferences storytelling writing photography bradzellar slideshows stories socialmedia tarawray wenxinzhang serendipity spontaneity unschooling deschooling education curriculum summerinwintercamp campforsociallyawkwardstorytellers ephemeral lcproject pop-ups ephemeralinstitutions ephemerality hansseeger delaneyallen horatiobaltz jeffbarnett-winsby julianbleecker elainebleakney aprildobbins bradfarwell adamforrester colinmatthes buckymiller dianarangel jimreed caitlinwarner creativity openstudioproject walkerartcenter minnesota books publishing selfpublishing visual classideas photobooks ncmideas carriethompson galenfletcher ethanjones jasonpollan projectideas stpaul self-publishing adventure fun unconferences experientialeducation design conferenceideas camps learning collaboration experientiallearning summercamp https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:86d301080c8c/ Matthew Paskins on Twitter: "When I tell colleagues I don’t fly, quite a lot of them, especially senior ones, respond—“oh, I should fly less.” I respect this response, but /1" / Twitter 2019-08-18T22:29:56+00:00 https://twitter.com/MatthewPaskins/status/1163198119623954434 robertogreco flight flying academia highered highereducation opportunity matthewpaskins aviation status security inequality inequity elitism networking conferences borders visas travel injustice socialjustice climatechange sustainability flightshame flyingshame flygskam carbonemissions emissions airlines climate airplanes carbonfootprint zero-carbonconferences carbonneutrality globalwarming environment flights airtravel decarbonization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ebe1fea14f0a/ Eve Tuck on Twitter: "I was just asked by a colleague how I facilitate Q & A sessions—I guess the word is out that I am very deliberate about how an academic Q & A should go after a talk or panel. I think of this as an Indigenous feminist approach to fa 2019-06-21T23:38:12+00:00 https://twitter.com/tuckeve/status/1141501422611128320 robertogreco conferences howto q&a academia facilitation evetuck https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:090ee8e5bce6/ The Spark: National Geographic: Asha De Vos - YouTube 2019-04-27T04:43:20+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAr84zbt80w robertogrecoashadevos empowerment vulnerabilty srilanka oceans sustainability whales bluewhales science decolonization water swimming srg visibility marinebiology marineconservation conservation indianocean research impact training local access accessibility mentoring mentorships canon assessment judgement mentorship diversification funding conferences gatekeeping publishing extraction context https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b67905b601c8/ Raising Free People | Raising Aware People #LRC2018 - YouTube 2019-01-14T22:11:23+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3z6z0dyX0U robertogreco unschooling education socialjustice self-directed self-directedlearning akilahrichards teresagrahambrett liberation justice zakiyyaismail deschooling learning politics southafrica us difference scaffolding parenting poc howwelearn decolonization 2018 race racism inclusivity conferences lrc2018 bias inclusion community privilege kaameelchicktay elitism schools schooling indigeneity class classism humanism language english africa colonization agilelearningcenters agilelearning lcproject openstudioproject children bayoakomolafe https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8a8648a4478e/ Scott Richmond on Twitter: "Are any academic organizations thinking about or planning for the replacement for "1,000+ people all fly to the same city" model for a conference? If we do this fighting climate change thing right, flying will get massively mor 2018-11-19T00:34:52+00:00 https://twitter.com/bazintastic/status/1050225871963996161 robertogreco displacement displacements #displace18 conferences sustainability academia highered highereducation scottrichmond jesestommel distributed decentralization climatechange events susanpotter 2018 v21collective education zero-carbonconferences carbonneutrality carbonemissions travel globalwarming environment flights airplanes airtravel aviation decarbonization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c654c78573e9/ Reflections on #displace18 — Cultural Anthropology 2018-11-19T00:28:00+00:00 https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1595-reflections-on-displace18 robertogreco anandpandian 2018 events conferences eventplanning academica sustainability climatechange distributed decentralization displacements #displace18 highered highereducation academia education zero-carbonconferences carbonneutrality carbonemissions travel globalwarming environment flights airplanes airtravel aviation decarbonization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e51e4404e226/ cameron tonkinwise on Twitter: "How long is the list of things you have learned from attending a conference (that you could not have learned by reading a blogpost/article [versus: would not have learned because TL;DR/‘pivot to video’]?" 2018-11-19T00:27:34+00:00 https://twitter.com/camerontw/status/1058863743017213952 robertogreco conferences videoessays jarrettfuller sustainability academia climatechange highered highereducation globalwarming emissions displacements writing howwewrite teaching teachingwriting education learning howwelearn camerontonkinwise events #displace18 zero-carbonconferences carbonneutrality carbonemissions travel environment flights airplanes airtravel aviation decarbonization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:ebbd0c8b9b36/ Dr Fish Philosopher🐟 on Twitter: "1. #AmAnth2018 is taking place in the midst of one of the deadliest fires in California history. If breathing in the smoke of burning trees, homes, cities doesn't convince us that we need radically different ways to en 2018-11-19T00:11:15+00:00 https://twitter.com/ZoeSTodd/status/1063889272514609152 robertogreco zoetodd conferences sustainability climatechange 2018 labor accessibility environment anticapitalism capitalism davidharvey lysalcayna-stevens ‏ anandpandian displacements displacement events regional distributed decentralization economics academia highered culturalanthropology anthropology emissions audience virtual digital annalowenhaupttsing nehavora michaeloman-reagan kristinwilson nausheenanwar #displace18 highereducation education annatsing zero-carbonconferences carbonneutrality carbonemissions travel globalwarming flights airplanes airtravel aviation decarbonization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d760c6890849/ Displacements – The 2018 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology 2018-10-11T05:21:53+00:00 https://displacements.jhu.edu/ robertogreco conferences sustainability distributed culturalanthropology displacement displacements environment virtual climatechange globalwarming waste academia highered highereducation education #displace18 zero-carbonconferences carbonneutrality carbonemissions travel flights airplanes airtravel aviation decarbonization https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:631abcac92b7/ An Upsurge of Questioning and Critique: toward a Community of Critical Pedagogy 2018-04-29T21:20:49+00:00 https://www.seanmichaelmorris.com/an-upsurge-of-questioning-and-critique-toward-a-community-of-critical-pedagogy/ robertogrecoPraxis cannot be the viewed as the project of any single individual. Rather, it is “the cluster of relations of an ideology, a technique, and a movement of productive forces, each involving the others and receiving support from them, each, in its time, playing a directive role that is never exclusive, and all, together, producing a qualified phase of social development.” (99) In other words, change requires movement across many lives, the weaving together of multiple and unexpected intelligences, and a radical inclusivity that is bound to make uncomfortable those who issue the call, that disrupts the disruptors, that leaves humbled leadership. It’s not that a community formed around inclusion must aim to unsettle and unseat, but rather that the myriad diversity that answers the call will necessarily yield the unexpected. A multitude will never be of a single mind; but it is a multitude, by Merleau-Ponty’s accounting, which is the only means toward change. Similarly, Jesse Stommel has written about critical digital pedagogy, that praxis:
must remain open to diverse, international voices, and thus requires invention to reimagine the ways that communication and collaboration happen across cultural and political boundaries; will not, cannot, be defined by a single voice but must gather together a cacophony of voices.
Cultivating these many voices to realize a praxis is an ongoing project. I wrote recently to a friend affected by the recent UCU strike in England:
There are times when a critical pedagogy refuses to be merely theoretical. It is a tradition that comes out of a concern for labor, for the agency of those doing labor, and the perspicacity inherent behind that agency. The imagination is not an impractical facility at all, not a dreamer’s tool only, but a precision instrument that delivers a certainty that things can be otherwise; and in the face of circumstances that are unfair, the imagination gives us insight into what is just.
Similarly, though, the imagination asks us to consider justice an evolutionary project, if not an asymptote we will never quite reach, a process more than a destination. “The role of the imagination,” Greene tells us, “is not to resolve, not to point the way, not to improve. It is to awaken, to disclose the ordinary unseen, unheard, and unexpected.” Each new dialogue around justice leads to new insights, new confrontations, new inventions, and each new dialogue necessarily also uncovers old hurts, systemic injustices, and offenses nested within un-inspected assumptions and behaviors. It is with this in mind that I find myself so often blinking into a teacher’s or administrator’s assertions about grading, or plagiarism, or taking attendance, or just “making sure they do it.” There are undetected injustices riding under our teaching policies, the teaching we received, and the teaching we deliver. There are likewise injustices riding under so many attempts to gather in our circles of prestige. To enact a just agency, we must step outside those circles into unexpected places. “An upsurge of questioning and critique must first occur,” Greene insists, “experiences of shock are necessary if the limits or the horizons are to be breached” (101)." … "It’s my belief that the Lab must be a place where a cacophony of voices can be heard, where an upsurge of questioning and critique is the mode of the day. And to make this happen, no door is left unopened. If praxis “signifies a thinking about and an action on reality” (98), then Digital Pedagogy Lab seeks to be praxis, and to make change through the movement of productive forces, new insights, new confrontations, new inventions. All gathered together in matching tee-shirts."]]> seanmichaelmorris criticalpedagogy lcproject openstudioproject pedagogy inclusivity 2018 digitalpedagogylab mauricemerleau-ponty maxinegreene jessestommel praxis inclusion justice vision administration hierarchy injustice professionalism power openness open teaching learning howweteach howwelearn privilege change respectabilitypolitics respectability conferences labs ideology diversity highered highereducation academia education https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:71491e824a96/ Festival of Maintenance - Google Docs 2018-02-13T01:32:55+00:00 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oaPfmKrCZRum7sdPOYLNeGH_v0PuKVmna6aiyDBDVpI/edit robertogreco conferences maintenance care caring themaintainers maintainers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:65899f4d1056/ General Vagaries. • winchysteria: ossacordis: crockpotcauldron: ... 2018-02-11T03:38:56+00:00 http://laurajdt.tumblr.com/post/168646338790/winchysteria-ossacordis-crockpotcauldron robertogreco> [image "The Milton scholars screamed and argued about how the serpent was supposed to move before it crawled on its belly. Dr. Matthews, enraged that Dr. Goldstein could believe the serpent bounced around on the coiled end of its tail, flipped over the conference table. "Satan is not a fucking pogo stick!" he howled."] >> I heard a story once about two microbiologists at a conference who took it out into the parking lot to have a literal fistfight over taxonomy. >> have i told this story yet? idk but it’s good. The Orangutan Story: my american lit professor went to this poe conference. like to be clear this is a man who has a doctorate in being a book nerd. he reads moby dick to his four-year-old son. and poe is one of the cornerstones of american literature, right, so this should be right up his alley? wrong. apparently poe scholars are like, advanced. there is a branch of edgar allen poe scholarship that specifically looks for coded messages based on the number of words per line and letters per word poe uses. my professor, who has a phd in american literature, realizes he is totally out of his depth. but he already committed his day to this so he thinks fuck it! and goes to a panel on racism in poe’s works, because that’s relevant to his interests. background info: edgar allen poe was a broke white alcoholic from virginia who wrote horror in the first half of the 19th century. rule 1 of Horror Academia is that horror reflects the cultural anxieties of its time (see: my other professor’s sermon abt how zombie stories are popular when people are scared of immigrants, or that purge movie that was literally abt the election). since poe’s shit is a product of 1800s white southern culture, you can safely assume it’s at least a little about race. but the racial subtext is very open to interpretation, and scholars believe all kinds of different things about what poe says about race (if he says anything), and the poe stans get extremely tense about it. so my professor sits down to watch this panel and within like five minutes a bunch of crusty academics get super heated about poe’s theoretical racism. because it’s academia, though, this is limited to poorly concealed passive aggression and forceful tones of inside voice. one professor is like “this isn’t even about race!” and another professor is like “this proves he’s a racist!” people are interrupting each other. tensions are rising. a panelist starts saying that poe is like writing a critique of how racist society was, and the racist stuff is there to prove that racism is stupid, and that on a metaphorical level the racist philosophy always loses— then my professor, perhaps in a bid to prove that he too is a smart literature person, loudly calls: “BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ORANGUTAN?” some more background: in poe’s well-known short story “the murder in the rue morgue,” two single ladies—a lovely old woman and her lovely daughter who takes care of her, aka super vulnerable and respectable people—are violently killed. the murderer turns out to be not a person, but an orangutan brought back by a sailor who went to like burma or something. and it’s pretty goddamn racially coded, like they reeeeally focus on all this stuff about coarse hairs and big hands and superhuman strength and chattering that sounds like people talking but isn’t actually. if that’s intentional, then he’s literally written an analogy about how black people are a threat to vulnerable white women, which is classic white supremacist shit. BUT if he really only meant for it to be an orangutan, then it’s a whole other metaphor about how colonialism pillages other countries and brings their wealth back to europe and that’s REALLY gonna bite them in the ass one day. klansman or komrade? it all hangs on this. so the place goes dead fucking silent as every giant ass poe stan in the room is immediately thrust into a series of war flashbacks: the orangutan argument, violently carried out over seminar tables, in literary journals, at graduate student house parties, the spittle flying, the wine and coffee spilled, the friendships torn—the red faces and bulging veins—curses thrown and teaching posts abandoned—panels just like this one fallen into chaos—distant sirens, skies falling, the dog-eared norton critical editions slicing through the air like sabres—the textual support! o, the quotes! they gaze at this madman in numb disbelief, but he could not have known. nay, he was a literary theorist, a 17th-century man, only a visitor to their haunted land. he had never heard the whistle of the mortars overhead. he had never felt the cold earth under his cheek as he prayed for god’s deliverance. and yet he would have broken their fragile peace and brought them all back into the trenches. much later, when my professor told this story to a poe nerd friend, the guy said the orangutan thing was a one of the biggest landmines in their field. he said it was a reliable discussion ruiner that had started so many shouting matches that some conferences had an actual ban on bringing it up. so my professor sits there for a second, still totally clueless. then out of the dead silence, the panel moderator stands up in his tweed jacket and yells, with the raw panic of a once-broken man: WE! DO NOT! TALK ABOUT! 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