Ryan Carroll

Congrats!

Thanks so much!

I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.

Iconic exercise in the heresy of the paraphrase

Thanks so much!!! Zany is the goal!!!

Thanks so much to @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social for caring so deeply about this piece and to @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social, of course, for everything!!

I wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about the psycho-political agons of 90s sitcom neighbors like Kimmy Gibbler, Steve Urkel, and co.—why they showed up, why they were thrown out, and why they kept coming back. Give it a read!

thenewinquiry.com/new-neighbor...

Thanks so much to @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social for caring so deeply about this piece and to @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social, of course, for everything!!

Broadly IMO novels and films aren’t the main mediums for Developing Thought rn, soapbox-style arguments are—social media posts, essays, reels, etc. most ppl writing novels or making film are getting their political thought from those, which is why didactic art often has hammy literalistic speeches

I think this is true in one way but it also seems right-wing art is also deeply didactic (ranging from heavyhanded jokes about SJWs in Tim Allen sitcoms to “Classical Man” Twitter accts saying that Objectively Good Art is Moral and Edifies the Soul)

this is my specialty!!

- Guillory, The Memo and Modernity
- Maurice Lee, Overwhelmed
- Nunberg, Farewell to the Information Age
- Richard Menke, Telegraphic Realism
- Lisa Gitelman, Raw Data" is an Oxymoron
- Peters and Cmiel, 'Promiscuous Knowledge'
- Eric Hayot's intro to 'Information: a Reader'

This Man is My Dad

kind of gobsmacked by the volume of “so clever, so true, so sad” comments about a….free association of major news topics?

Congratulations!!

I still have the abstract art-doodles you made when I gave the protozoic version of this essay at NAVSA 2022!!

An adult jellyfish becomes a fertilized egg???

My article “The Form of Information and Informational Form in The Woman in White” was published in Studies in the Novel (@studiesinthenovel.bsky.social)—give it a read!!

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Victorian Studies: Who Cares? The 2025 conference of the Victorians Institute

"Victorian Studies: Who Cares?" Come to the Victorians Institute 2025 conference at Furman University in Greenville, SC this Sept 14-15. CFP deadline now May 31. Please submit and share! vi2025.wordpress.com

And finally, the worst of them all, the Duke Blue Devil, who is inexplicably not the Chalk World character implied by the logo but rather a discount version of The Tick

UCSD’s Triton, the objective coolest

Vanderbilt’s Commodore, an actual supervillain

The Mt. St. Mary’s Mountaineer: Queer Eye for Larry the Cable Guy

Texas Tech’s Definitely Not Copyright Infringing Raider Red

Hopping across the Mediterranean, we have Troy University’s T-Roy the Trojan, who looks like a melted Lego figure version of a classical warrior

Norfolk St. Spartan

The SECOND Peloponnesian mascot this year is Norfolk State’s Mr. Spartan, who beats out Sparty in eyebrows, Mediterranean aspect, and general menace

Michigan State Spartan

Michigan State’s Sparty the Spartan, whose eyebrows remain amazing

Purdue Pete the Boilermaker, Robbie Rotten’s blue-collar great-grandfather

McNeese Cowboy

McNeese’s Cowboy, AKA Old West Mr. Bean

Robert Morris RoMo

Robert Morris’ RoMo, who appears to be a pirate risen from the dead by dark magic

The St. Mary’s Gael

another year, another analysis of the humanoid NCAA championship mascots. first up is an old favorite, the St. Mary’s Gael, a living 19th century caricature of a Scotsman