Robert McDonald
@lacanmunist
Associate professor of rhetoric at the University of Kansas, author of Works like a Charm: Incentive Rhetoric and the Economization of Everyday Life
Why did my hotel slippers just give away the ending of the Titanomachy 😫😫😫
One year ago today, I went in for surgery to donate my liver to a stranger. At the time, I knew there were multiple recipients who would be helped by my donation, but only afterward did I discover I started a 7-pair living donation chain, the first of its kind in the US.
Visiting Napoli, the city that has my heart, and celebrating with the club that shares a birthday with me. Tonight, the ultras party, tomorrow the club's official festa. Forza! 🩵
Still, absolutely cannot believe that the most globally consequential World Cup match that involved non-reciprocal mutuality was Match 69
Had the time of my life, one of the most incredible football matches I've ever had the privilege to witness. Commisserations to Iran, mais, allez les Fennecs! Rock Chalk Algeria!
--changed password 3 days early --clicked to notify myself when my password would expire next --notification sent straight to my e-mail --received an auto-reply out-of-office note --...from (and to) myself
Putting my sabbatical to good use: Becoming a student all over again
Me, trying to figure out why the film isn't called Project Male Hairy:
In August of last year, I donated my liver, and today I will meet my recipient. At 3:30pm central the University Health Transplant Center is broadcasting the donor reveal event. I'm so excited to meet this person and to advocate for living donations. Tune in!
along with signing the card for recognition, this is one of the proudest votes i'll ever cast. first union contract, first of many
look. i'm an open-minded person. but how am i supposed to explain this to my kids? are we, as a society, ready to accept athletes who are "from New Jersey"?
our "Searching the Psyche through Cinema" talk on Get Out was amazing, by the way--great crowd, great questions and it wasn't even derailed by the fact I unconsciously dressed like Bradley Whitford's character from the movie
Telling the story of Kurt Gerron in my popular culture class today. A German actor, who acted alongside Marlene Dietrich, who fled Nazi Germany for Amsterdam. He was sent to Theresienstadt, forced to act in propaganda films about the ghetto's "humane" conditions, and gassed at Auschwitz in 1944.
Kansas City locals! I'm giving a talk tomorrow, February 15, 2pm, at the KC Public Library Plaza Branch on Get Out, through the GKCPI "Searching the Psyche through Cinema" series. I'll be talking about Frantz Fanon, "letter-perfect" racism, and the logic of fantasy. Get Out of the house and come by.