Karl Steel
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Karl Steel
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Brooklyn College / Grad Center Medievalist. Posthumanism. How to Make a Human (Ohio State UP 2011); How Not to Make a Human (Minnesota UP 2019). Currently working on The Irrational Animal.

website is medievalkarl.com
Set the table? Where they etherized that guy?
December 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
hard part for me was the 2 undergrads who separately gave me blinking disappointment when I said I didn't like it

OTOH I learned about / gotta watch
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franken...
Frankenstein Created Woman - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
look i could make a very dynamic movie about an 8-foot guy hiding in a cabin learning to read Milton (in French) by spying on a lady learning french from destitute but decent aristocrats
December 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Oooo, ok. A good book or better yet key article on q of bronze age "collapse"?
December 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
*I'm sure musicologists, but you get the point I trust
December 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
MY LIFE and MY LIFE IN THE 90S companion
December 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Have to go back ! By the time we'd done the Vaginal Davis, we were arted out...
December 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I dunno was this my first time reading him? Doubtful. Is this like the NLR's whole deal? Tremendously learned and tremendously narrow at the same time.

Blaming neoliberalism for everything feels very, uh, you're decades too late on that one.
December 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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lmao, it's absolutely gonna happen. it's not gonna happen today, it's not gonna happen tomorrow, but it's definitely gonna happen.
December 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Dude
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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the successful homeschooled kids I knew are people with educated, loving, financially comfortable parents who are able to spend lots of time mentoring their offspring - but guess what's true about most successful private and public school kids.
December 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
♥️
December 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
he's "they fuck you up your mom and dad" personified!
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
You'll definitely want to see the first comment to my post then !
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM