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the-undergrad-muse · 4 months
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time is heavy, dripping slowy.
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the-undergrad-muse · 3 years
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changed around my desk decor to try and help with my productivity, not sure if it’s worked but at least it looks cute :) now I’m gonna spend the day sitting at my desk hopefully getting some work done
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the-undergrad-muse · 3 years
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office! i feel like a lot of you see this weekly on stream so i tried to get the angles you don't see from the webcam :-)
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the-undergrad-muse · 3 years
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in love with the light on summer evenings
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the-undergrad-muse · 3 years
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[270821] Summer must-haves; iced coffees and loafers
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the-undergrad-muse · 3 years
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On The River Benares, 1883, Weeks, Edwin Lord
Medium: oil,canvas
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the-undergrad-muse · 3 years
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Newspaper by Larry Sultan
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the-undergrad-muse · 3 years
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the-undergrad-muse · 3 years
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hi c! :)
please recommend some articles/essays & books on the environment, fiction or non-fiction.
thanx, no hurries.
hi! here you go (you’ll find more fiction on my tbr than one i’ve actually read)
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the hungry tide by amitav ghosh — set in the sunderbans in the bay of bengal, where a marine biologist comes to study the region and particularly looking for a species of dolphin and encounters the politics and the complexities of the region; explores the relationship between human community and nature, the man-animal/wildlife conflict; also the landscape is really beautifully weaved into the story
the people in the trees by hanya yanagihara — revolves around an immunologist who discovers a lost tribe on a micronesian island with a condition that retards aging; also explores colonialism, imperialism, exploitation unleashed in the name of science, also what happens when very different cultures clash; excellently written; makes you think a lot
essays
the climate club by william nordhaus
himalayan rivers and india's water policy by jayanta bandyopadhyay
the decolonial ecologies issue of the funambulist
los angeles confronts its shady divide by alejandra borunda (also generally the planet possible series)
understanding the gender dimensions of energy poverty by c. pavithra
non-fiction
the omnivore's dilemma by michael pollan — about food processing and how humans extract food from nature; its implications for our lifestyles; and how we might do the whole thing in better ways; also check his in defense of food, which is in many ways a follow-up
the end of the end of the earth by jonathan franzen — essays on the environment, conservation, climate change and their complexities; offers very well-thought out, well-argued, and nuanced takes on a lot of subjects; also about finding meaning when the world is dying
chasing the monsoon by alexander frater — a travelogue where he follows the monsoon throughout the indian subcontinent; it’s a lovely, hopeful, and lighthearted book, which also looks at the landscape and the ecology and people
the great derangement by amitav ghosh — about climate change, how we think about it, and better ways to think about it; it’s mostly about how our  narratives all fail to explain it and tackle it
for non-fiction and essays i'm also going to add a few from my reading list for my course on environmental history. most of them were very academic and jargony, but these are the fun ones. they're also all on libgen.
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and here are some on my list
the hidden life of trees by peter wohlleben
the overstory by richard powers
outpost by dan richards
walden by henry david thoreau
landscape and memory by simon schama
southern reach trilogy by jeff vandermeer
freedom by jonathan franzen
i’ve tried to keep it diverse and include writing on different parts of the environment and nature. i hope you find something you like!
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the-undergrad-muse · 3 years
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just reblogging because uffh @ my friend gifting me this copy / when will i read it remains a question ?!
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been reading Anna Karenina since June, but i decided to postpone it until October bc you know, autumn or whatever
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the-undergrad-muse · 3 years
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2021-08-22
Canon EOS R6 + RF15-35mm f2.8L IS
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the-undergrad-muse · 3 years
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intro to lit theory
Authorship: Barthes, Death of the Author; Foucault, What is an Author?
Formalism: Eichenbaum, The Theory of the “Formal Method”;  Brooks, from The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
Structuralism: Saussure, Course in General Linguistics ; Barthes, from Mythologies
Psychoanalysis: Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams; Lacan, The Mirror Stage & The Significance of the Phallus
Ideology: Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses; Foucault, Truth and Power
Feminism & Queer: Sedgwick, from Between Men; Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa; Wittig, One Is Not Born a Woman; Butler, Gender Trouble
Deconstruction: Derrida, from Of Grammatology;
Postcolonial: Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth; Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak?
Cultural Materialism: Adorno & Horkheimer, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception; Williams, Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory  
these are about 2/3 of the readings for my intro to lit theory course, if you’ve ever wondered what one studies on such courses, the links lead to free pdfs  
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the-undergrad-muse · 3 years
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September vibes
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the-undergrad-muse · 3 years
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“What’s true of both the crisis situation and the daily situation is that at any given moment, you can only ever actually be doing one thing. The problem is that in everyday life we stress ourselves out – spurred on by economic forces, of course – by trying to do more than one thing; wondering if whatever we’re doing is the right thing; and driving ourselves ever harder because we’ve got one eye on all the other things we feel we need to fit in by Friday afternoon. In the end, the only point of any personal productivity system, goal-setting technique or “life planning” exercise is to help you make a slightly better decision about what to do, right now, so you can mentally put everything else to one side for the time being and immerse yourself in that one thing. Which explains the extraordinary efficacy of a method that’s so embarrassingly simple I hesitate to mention it, but which never fails to deliver me from procrastination or grouchiness to clarity: 1. Think of something it would be worthwhile to do right now, without any expectation that you know what might be “best”. (And don’t forget that it could be “take a nap”!) 2. Write it down. 3. Do that thing. 4. Cross it out. 5. Go back to 1., writing the next thing underneath the one you just crossed out. Repeat (forever). And just to spell it out: the point here isn’t “stop multitasking and focus on one thing, and you’re a bad person if you don’t!” Rather, it’s that (with a few technical exceptions) you never actually are multitasking to begin with. Instead, you’re just anxiously switching your attention rapidly between things – because you’re not sure which one’s more urgent, and/or because you think you’ll get them done quicker that way, which is almost never true.”
— Oliver Burkeman, One thing, now
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the-undergrad-muse · 3 years
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The Monkey’s Paw bookstore (Toronto) - not pictured is the book vending machine that pumps out antiquarian reads for $4 a pop
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books on my corner📚
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where/how do you store all of your journals? i see that you have quite a few! p.s. i would love to hear about your different types of journals! xx
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At the moment they're in a very chaotic pile in top of our bookcase! My granddad has kept a diary every year of his life since about 1970 and keeps them all neatly arranged on one shelf in the back bedroom, whenever I see them I think: that’s what I want in future. Just to put them all in one place. I would like to have a dedicated shelf for them all one day but we're low on space and as I'm always using them it seemed easier to keep them in reach.
This is about half, the other half are in a drawer at my parents’ house still: x3 undergraduate notes from lectures (one per year), x1 undergraduate poetry dissertation/portfolio notes, x4 postgraduate degree notebooks, some diaries, scripts and plays and stories I wrote as a child, pictures I drew, and planners from my school years. I keep all these things, I don’t know what for. 
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I see this post about having one book per year from 2017 copied aaaall the time now which is kind of funny. 
The half I have here is notes from meetings and projects to do with my day-job; diary-type stream-of-consciousness writing; notes from what I call ‘pre-phd research’ (academically inclined nonsense basically); I keep commonplace books and sketch books too. I probably have a problem with keeping too many and could do with slimming down but I love the feeling of a fresh notebook so much. : - )
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