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Robert McDonald

@lacanmunist.bsky.social

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Associate professor of rhetoric at the University of Kansas, author of Works like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life https://sunypress.edu/Books/W/Works-like-a-Charm

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 4h

ha, one of my "scaring the hoes" opinions is that sports replay reviews actually do open up glimmers of ontology, they're the closest most of us 'normies' get to Being (crucially not beyond, but because of mediation). which is why it's so bothersome, and alluring at the same time

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 6h

1. non-relational; our ownmost
2. certain
3. indefinite
4. not to be outstripped

yup, Heidegger's characterization of death matches up with playoff baseball pretty well

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 6h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 6h

1. non-relational; our ownmost
2. certain
3. indefinite
4. not to be outstripped

yup, Heidegger's characterization of death matches up with playoff baseball pretty well

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 8h

it's magnificent, probably my favorite Larson book. I think Tom Hanks is making a film version of it. there's a great fictional spy series based in Berlin in the same time period, the Zoo Station series, if you're interested

Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 12h

One Friday Beers Post After Another

Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 13h

I've had a few small beers,

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 15h

i swear these bad boys are deeper than some fjords

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 15h

oh man, i realize, i have one on the other side, i should dual-wield with a quesadilla

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 15h

you know i keep that mf thang on me (foil-wrapped Mexican delights)

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 17h

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

UT Austin wants to eliminate its Black studies, Latino Studies, and gender studies departments. Tell them you won't stand for it.
UT President, Jim Davis, president@utexas.edu
UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, provost@utexas.edu
College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu
#EducationalLiberty #SaveUT

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 15h

talk about a "ghost goal"

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 18h

final go at Adorno’s sketch of a historical-philosophical materialist reinterpretation of Oedipus: “Perhaps the one who sleeps with his mother is doomed to be cursed by society because he takes for himself what belongs not to the individual but to the succession of generations…”

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 16h

thrilled to announce that my Fjällräven vest has a big enough interior pocket to contain an entire takeout burrito, so i can be hands-free on my walk home

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 3d

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, you're going to keep on dancing at the Pink Pony Club? I'm going to keep on 👏 registering 👏 to 👏 vote 👏

Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 7d

As Gary Lineker so aptly put it: Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the pricing model generally reflects the existing and developing market practice in our co-hosts for major entertainment and sporting events

FIFA defends WC ticket prices after fan criticism

FIFA has defended its pricing strategy for next year's World Cup after an England fan group criticised the "astonishing" price of tickets.

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Robert McDonald @lacanmunist.bsky.social · 7d

I saw a live performance last year in a black-box theatre and it was difficult to breathe, especially during the cross-examination of the castrated prisoner