bibliophile, minimalist, literary historian of subcultures. "Professor McKnight is very caring and knowledgeable. However she picked more eccentric pieces of literature and film to discuss." 2026~Long Take: Kurosawa Akira as World Cinéphile (Minnesota)
Anne McKnight
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Books were hung by ropes from a tree at JD Vance’s residence to promote Usha Vance’s summer reading initiative
OK, I can't actually finish this, now that they have wrangled in Alan Sokal...2026, from the Heterodox Academy. I got yer drift. "(See Sokal 2026 for an extensive discussion of the abuses of this gambit.)" The language is just so weird and stilted, and yet, POV of something powerful this way coming.
enough hate reading for 1 day but these private higher-ed writers could learn a thing or 2 from my public school students about connecting with audiences and close reading for a polycultural world. It's hard to believe these people imagine their addressee is a living breathing person on this planet.
I am unable to find the cite for this strange rhetorical move as all the cites between Bridges & Kahlenberg are missing from this document: "The ancient practice of augury provided an intricate battery of norms for extracting information about the future from the activity of birds (Burkert 1985)."
a bit polemically pretentious by way of not being universal, les écrivains en question m'ont encore perdue par avoir employé un style typographique italique dans le but de souligner un mot clé argument dont le force intellectual manque: "Our focus is rather the quality of scholarship [en italique]".
they lost me anew at the precious note for footnotes (e.g. §2) that does not connect to anything, does not use superscripts, and forces you to scroll up and down by hand, like the shuttle run, up and down, up and down...there are actual ways to web-based design reading strategies for "us" in 2026.
oh wait, "§" is an actual typographical mark. My bad. It is used in legal documents to indicate "section." Live and learn. It was hard to find on Google, actually. Maybe I don't spend enough time in my Humanities job reading legal prose to assume it is part of common script. Hmm maybe a good thing.
Truly asinine report. Just, barf. But it's good to have all the purgery in one place, senior scholars making shit up to justify streamlining budgets and student futures to fit their thin ideal of "universal" values, purging anyone who doesn't revere their criteria. Truly a disturbing monoculture.
school's out & I finally have time to be properly aghast at the cuts facing the next year. they lost me, redux, with the rhetorical framing that doles out trust from the top up: "Well before it comes to that, it will make sense for the administration to say, 'You are beginning to lose our trust.'”
they lost me at the false consensus rhetorical community of "We presume that our readers..."
