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The Final Cylon

Having finally caught up to Season 4.0 of Battlestar Galactica just in time for Season 4.5 to start this coming Friday, I am now prepared to engage in idle speculation regarding the identity of the final Cylon. People not yet caught up should stop reading at this point.

National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women

Victims of the Montreal Massacre at l’École Polytechnique on December 6, 1989 Geneviève Bergeron Hélène Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz Maryse Laganière Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier Michèle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte Status of Women Canada Measuring Violence Against Women: Statistical Trends (StatsCan) National Clearinghouse on [...]

Obama’s Victory: Pros and Cons

Pro: no more Tina Fey as Sarah Palin skits. Con: four – and possibly eight – more years of Fred Armisen. This is what is known as a “win-lose” situation in conflict resolution.

Supernatural S04E05

Evidently I have nothing better to write about than television shows; specifically, Supernatural. With the exception of Dean deciding he will give Castiel an affectionate nickname, “Cas” (I still maintain it should be “Cass”), the most recent episode (S04E05) was significantly more entertaining that than the previous. While breaking the boundaries of the fourty-two minute [...]

Supernatual S04E03 and 04

Other than the usual problems caused by time travel – for instance, in seasons one and two, Azazel didn’t seem to know any of the information he learnt from Dean in S04E03 such that Dean would kill him with the Colt and that Dean would be touched by an angel – the previous two episodes [...]

Supernatural S04E02

Contrary to what we hoped, this episode was not about Dean getting his first period. Before moving on, I would like to take a moment and thank Eric Kripke – or whoever it is that makes decisions like this – for taking my concern about how ridiculous J-Pad looks seriously. He was much less purple [...]

Supernatural

I am hesitant to write about television when I should either be writing lectures or writing my dissertation, but I’ll justify this one on the basis of a footnote mentioning Supernatural in my dissertation: While the premise of the fourth season appears to be that Dean is resurrected Jesus-style by a warrior-angel sent by “the [...]

Others more interesting than myself

While it is the case that I haven’t written much of interest lately, it is the case that others have written some interesting things. A brief guide: On the Palin issue: Lori Marso at Jodi Dean’s blog; Steven Shaviro; and Mikhail Emelianov at Perverse Egalitarianism. On race and the American election: John L. Jackson, Jr’s [...]

New Blog: Critical Animal

Some may have noticed comments left by Scu on a number of the usual blogs in recent weeks. I highly recommend reading Scu’s blog, Critical Animal, especially if you are interested in the intersection of social/political theory/philosophy and animal studies (including, of course, Agamben, Arendt, Foucault, Haraway, etc). He (and here I assume based upon [...]

Either/Or

From “Conservatives Just Aren’t Into Academe, Study Finds: Divergent life choices may explain the dearth of right-wing scholars” recently posted to the Chronicle of Higher Education: The Woessners were surprised to learn that while there had been a lot of debate about politics in the classroom, not much empirical research had been done. “There are [...]