sophia > Recent Status Updates

update on whitmarshe’s stylistic choices: the word heterosexual was also used in quotations but the phrase “hooking up” was used completely straight-faced, no quotation marks necessary. like… what is the range of ur vocabulary…

i was surprised that this seemingly innocuous textbook opens with what is essentially a positionality statement (?!) that aligns it firmly with reception theory and postmodernism. then was again surprised that the word homosexuality is placed in quotations…. brother i know this was published in 04 but gay people are real. what

nobody understands the tophet like i understand the tophet (delusional)

“According to this logic, human sacrifice could serve as an index of cultural backwardness, rendering pre-Columbian Mesoamerica as static and set apart from contemporary Europe. … The ‘shock of the ancient’ also extends to the astonished responses that Indigenous cultures elicited from Europeans.”

sooo fascinating!!! ig it’s true that maps were still fiction!

“Appealing to ancient and early modern ways of imagining how landmasses and waters shape the world, the Spanish case appears utterly convincing in this text; consequently, any territorial losses to the Ottomans are ‘offset’ by gains made across the Spanish Indies. Control of the Mediterranean pales in comparison with control of the oceans…”

was pliny right abt christian cannibalism 😍 let’s discuss

“Impietas in De gratis consists of improper ritual consumption: Indigenous Brazilians confused human flesh with food, while Calvinists mistook the Communion wafer for mere bread.”

gnnnnn

HALLELUJAH!!!

Ref 279: How has the liberationist anti-imperialism tried to break this shackling unity? By a new integrative or contrapuntal orientation in history that sees Western and non-Western experiences as belonging together because they are connected by imperialism; by an imaginative, even utopian vision which reconceives emancipatory theory and performance; by a particular sort of nomadic, migratory, anti-narrative energy.

it’s true i came to university to ignore my assigned readings and instead make my way sluggishly through one of nine million books in the catalogue 😍

早安

not very much walking today, i blame pliny

the amnt of research required for this boggles the mind

morning soup. but 40 to 50 dollars???

good night to all and to all a good night. i’m at the devilish moment in time where all my currently-reading books (already a red flag) are at unhappy numbers like 22% or 36%

radio towers & this kid can really write

kansas crime thriller and ethel cain in early afternoon september sun, by god it’s horrific but it’s artfully done

i loveeeee obinze’s mom 😍😍😍😍

new walking book

thank u 7am airport pan de bono 😍

“In Britain Classics is still working through its putative relationship with the class hierarchy. In the Caribbean colonial context, with its pernicious race hierarchy, to beat metropolitan students was to defy implicit arguments about the inferiority of your people.”

en la calle 8

“The counter-intuitive idea of ‘arriving in a tradition,’ or ‘arriving backwards’ entails a subtle reordering of the ethnographic movement where journeys to different lands are regressive journeys back in time. Instead, past traditions—including by not limited to classical mythology—are seen as unfinished and carry over into the future.”

antwerp…

theo decker i know what you are

boris is back. theo leave ur wife expeditiously 😍 but also don’t. check into rehab 😍😍

that picture of the lincoln memorial from Crisis is something else

walked to the wellness center on MY stressful and busy sunday night to read in PEACE AND QUIET and an accapella group starts practicing with a FULL DRUMSET. i hate this school and i have to put the books down today or i will start hitting somebody

this is my walking book rn which means i occasionally get distracted. can anyone tell me why he decided to kick the pill habit

notwithstanding kramer’s extremely 80s brand of cultanth language and therefore my immediate suspicion AND my many questions about wolkstein’s authorial intent i have to be honest. this is awesome

He Said What 😀