Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
11/18: a fitting farewell
It was my last text-based discussion day in the freshman seminar I teach on utopian literature (we'll be workshopping projects after this). We read two short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin:" Sur" and "Newton's Sleep." The students' thoughts and comments were really good, and it felt like a nice end to this part of the course. And in a way it's a farewell to the texts of this course for me: these seminars rotate among faculty, and I've now done my two-year stint, so I won't be teaching these works again in the foreseeable future. In all: I'm proud of the syllabus I designed, I feel lucky to have found such a good selection of texts to use, and I know that thinking about the texts on my own and with students has changed me as a person.
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