The Very Best of Acephalous 2005

YES, I'M HUMORING YOU

• My Morning: A Play in One Uncomfortable Act
• Disadventure, Disaddendum, Dismoralized, & Disinsomnia: A Play (thus far) in Four Acts
• A Day in the Life of your Average Academic
• Acephalous' Index: Part I,  Part II
• Fuck Act Theory: Part I, Part II
• An Undergraduate Honors Thesis Gone Terribly, Terribly Wrong (Now with Annotations)
• How to Open an Academic Essay: The Series
• Theory Comics: Freud, Derrida
• Lying at 30,000 ft.
• Course Descripton: Piracy Studies 100
• Anatomy of a Troll
• Guidelines for the Proper Defacement of Other People's Stuff
• jimy666izstoned@gmail.com: An Epistolary Romance
• Well, Who Would Conservatives Have Us Footnote?
• Lord Stanley and the Catapult Gambit
• Keith Herandez Up-Ends a Century of Feminist Progress
• A Lexigraphical Lament About Probationer Prosody
• Save Academic Freedom: Expel Hippies, Communists from UCLA
• "Running Amok, 368"
• Building Communities through Hate
• Graduate Students Love Fun Too
• Dude. Dude?  Dude. Dude. (Annotated)
• Live-Blogging Super Bowl XXXX
• A Thanksgiving Prayer
• The Impossible James
• Bosoms & the Aesthetic Faculty (circa 1885)
• Life in the Kenning Factory
• Woe unto Ye Beetles of South America!

 

NARCISSISM UNLEASHED

• How Acephalous Lost His Head
• Why He's the Last Person you oughta Respect
• How He Was Nearly Flattened Headless
• How He Fared Under the Knife
• Why He Puts the "der" in "Derridean"
• Why He's in Favor of Stumbling
• Why He "Did Theory"
• Why He Doesn't "Do Theory" Anymore
• Why Deaf Men Are Breast Men (& The Novelizaton)
• What the Five Year Rule Is
• Books He Lives With, Dies By
• His Day, In Haiku
• His Life as a John Hughes Film
• His Bookshelves, Described in Excrutiating Detail
• How He Coerces Congeniality
• How He Handles New Data, Old Certainties, & Familiar Places
• How the ANALOGICAL :: THE PERSONAL
• How the Personal is Etymological:

appaumy

bebaste

loppard

placula

hymnicide

neoconocon

 

PEDANTIC, BUT EFFECTIVE

I.

GENERALLY

• The Theory of the Tyrrany of the Regime of Meaning
• Citational Difficulties & What They Say, Suggest, Identify or Aver
• No, You Weren't Thrown a Curve
• A Xenotheological Romance
• History of the Great American Novel
• Live-Blogging the MLA: 

1. The Prelude
2. These Walls are Paper-Thin 
3. Lindsay Waters Count 
4. Contemporary Fiction & The Novel of Ideas 
5. The Random Example Who is that Guy? 
6. Book-Browsing & Bird Shit I Can't Believe I'm Telling You This 
7. Mistaken Assumptions 
8. With Nary a Whisper Blogging & Creature Comforts

II.

THEORETICALLY

• Ersatz Theoretical Ecumenicalism: Argument in the Age of Mechanical Interaction
• Historicisms Old & New
• New Historicism: A Reader's Guide
• My Hatred of Chiasmus and My Chiasmus of Hatred
• Useable vs. Historicial Pasts
• Père Foucault Stomps Fils, Gloats
• Theory & Literary Modernism

III.

POPULARLY

• Festivus and Literary Modernism
• Deadwood and to Whom its Dialogue is Beholden
• House as Bizarro-Quijote
• Teaching Melville in Madrasas
• Good Grief: Peanuts and Postwar Ennui
• Philip Roth, Sinclair Lewis & The Detail Hounds
• The Mirror of Flebotinum
• Rape in Science Fiction
• Comic Book Rape

IV.

DISSERTATIONALLY

• Stick it to the Historians
• Doubling London: History Is Become Narrative
• Grit for Future Gears!
• Super-Adequate Structural Homologies
• Historians, Start Your Engines
• The Consistency Fetish
• The Horatio Alger Hoax

V.

SERIALLY

THE STONING OF ADAM ROBERTS 

Part I

Part II

Part III

THEORY'S EMPIRE

 Deaf Culture

It's the Erudition, Dumb Ass

Fact Checking Fukuyama

LITERARY INTEREST

 Part I

Part II

Part III

 

YELLING FIRE IN CROWDED THEATERS (BECAUSE WHY NOT?)

• KING KONG
• THE GENE WOLFE EXPERIENCE

1. On Terrible Neologisms & Stylistic Inconsistency
2. Rich on Wolfe
3. Stupid, Cretinous Cancer Boy

• PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE MOVIE

1. Psychoanalysis as Idee Fixe
2. How much more Lacan before Someone Resorts to Violence?
3. Take Pill, Lose Memory, Gain Bliss
4. The Iatrogenic Follies
5. The Psychoanalytic Unconscious?  A Terrible Idea
6. The Adaptive Unconscious?  Not a Terrible Idea
7. Psychoanalysis is Dead!  Long Live—Wait, Nevermind
8. The Power of Psychoanalytic Theory

• THE PASSION OF DE LILLO

1. DeLillo, Pillow. Pillow, DeLillo
2. Sermon on the Mound

• GENERAL RELEASE

1. On Being Cowed by an Identitarian Critique
2. Fighting Fire with—The Aisles! They're Both on Fire!
3. Non-Eclectic Eclecticism
4. Spake Heech or Honest Mistake?
5. So Now You Care About Literature
6. Aggressively Masturbatory Fiction
7. Another Maginot Line?

"WRITING" THE DISSERTATION

• The Merry Go Aground
• How to Drink the Dissertation Away
• How to Revise the Dissertation Away

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

• Modernist Autobiography
• Blogging Derails Unpromising Careers Too

 VERY IMPORTANT THING TO KEEP IN MIND: POSTS ON THE VISUAL RHETORIC OF FILMS AND COMICS HAVE THEIR OWN SPECIAL PLACE AND ARE THEREFORE NOT INCLUDED IN THIS LIST. YOU MAY FIND THEM HERE:

Comments

[Rich Puchalsky]

Ah, memories. There's a lot of good stuff in this list, actually.

If I'm ever not quite as busy as I am now, I'm planning on doing a piece on On. Adam Roberts'_On_, that is.

[Dustin]

Great stuff. However, in the "Yes, I'm Humoring You" section, all of the links from the Derrida comic on actually connect to the "woe unto ye beetles" Darwin entry.

[Dustin]

Actually, it looks like a number of the links don't actually go to the correct post. It's not just my computer being screwy, no?

[Scott Eric Kaufmann]

That was peculiar. I copied the HTML from the sidebar, so there was no reason it should've obsessed with particular links ... but no matter, as I've corrected all the links. They now all head in the direction I pointed. Thanks for alerting me to the foolish trust I put in Ctrl-V.