To be fair, there is clearly a contingent of students who get stoned before my Media Studies classes. They think I don’t know. But I know. I just don’t think it’s doing me any disservice.
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I want to know what the video was….? We Didn’t Start the Fire?
aug 30, 2025, 5:56 pm • 1 0 • view
This is what everybody keeps guessing, but I have never taught it (nor seen it before today). I don't know the answer. I've taught several music videos over the years.
aug 30, 2025, 5:58 pm • 3 0 • view
Side note: have you ever taught Connecticut Yankee? What’s your approach to the text? It’s so much longer and weirder than I remember from reading it in grad school 🤔
aug 30, 2025, 1:30 pm • 20 0 • view
I teach it regularly in my gen-ed satire class, in a section of the syllabus called “Satire as Apocalypse.” It’s a big book, so a hard sell — trebly so in these post-pandemic days — but I’ve always been happy I did it.
aug 30, 2025, 11:46 pm • 9 0 • view
Now that I’m into the rhythm of the book a bit more, I’m feeling more inclined to send the students on the full journey
aug 31, 2025, 12:00 am • 5 0 • view
aug 31, 2025, 12:05 am • 3 0 • view
Have never taught whole novel. Have taught excerpts in a Twain seminar. It is long & weird, the former of which students don’t like, the latter of which they do. I focused on the SciFi opening & the apocalyptic end, but that meant I lost a lot of the social development satire in the middle.
aug 30, 2025, 1:39 pm • 20 0 • view
That’s what I’m wrestling with right now. They’re scheduled to read the whole but I’m considering shifting to just the beginning and end, but also feel the end hits so much harder if you’ve taken the whole journey 😩
aug 30, 2025, 1:41 pm • 14 0 • view
💯 the gradual dehumanization which parallels technological progress is the power of the novel. And also the reason to teach it now!
aug 30, 2025, 1:45 pm • 30 1 • view
My thought too! And they just read Time Machine, a book that quietly revels in the access to mechanical omniscience, so I love the idea of the two books staging the conversation concerning industrial “progress”
aug 30, 2025, 1:47 pm • 25 0 • view
I would take that course. Sounds so interesting.
aug 30, 2025, 9:26 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s a great pairing.
aug 30, 2025, 1:50 pm • 3 0 • view
🙏🙏🙏
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