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Michelle C.
- Apr 14
- 1 min
The Land
He has a lot of insight into how nostalgia is its own trap — about what it means to love a city that doesn't know how to handle its own...
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Michelle C.
- Feb 16
- 1 min
Twenty Five Years Later
It has taken me 25 years, in a way, to write this essay. The past few weeks—scratch that—the past few years have been triggering for many...
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Michelle C.
- Feb 16
- 9 min
In Memoriam -- Charles Chihara July 19 1932-Feb 16 2020
(posted in 2020) My brilliant, dashing, loving father, Charles Chihara, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of California,...
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Michelle C.
- Feb 7
- 1 min
Are we all porn workers now?
A conversation about gig work, all work, listening to workers, and porn, with The American Vandal and Dr. Heather Berg
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Michelle C.
- Jan 21
- 2 min
Radical Flexibility
In Distinktion, Journal of Social Theory, in November I finally published "Radical Flexibility: driving for Lyft and the future of work...
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Michelle C.
- Sep 16, 2021
- 1 min
The Chair, American Vandal and the future of the humanities
https://marktwainstudies.com/theshush/ My friend and colleague Matt Seybold invited me and Kyla Wazana Tompkins onto his truly excellent...
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Michelle C.
- Jul 1, 2021
- 1 min
Strategic Audio
At The Los Angeles Review of Books, I was part of a team of editors working on cluster of essays about developments in streaming media....
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Michelle C.
- Jul 1, 2021
- 1 min
#vanlife road trip
We rented a van and went on an epic road trip to the Grand Canyon, Moab desert, Arches National Park, the four corners area, Colorado...
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Michelle C.
- May 28, 2021
- 1 min
Trust Me: A visit from Bob Woodward
I was part of a fantastic seminar at last March's ACLA, entitled "Consensus in Fragments: Literature, Normativity, and Social Trust after...
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Michelle C.
- May 27, 2021
- 1 min
New Directions in Print Culture
I'm excited to be part of a collection coming out soon from Bloomsbury, called New Directions in Print Culture Studies: Archives,...
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Michelle C.
- May 20, 2021
- 1 min
Beyond The Routledge
"What might the field look like if it were to topple, or at least more thoroughly scrutinize, the reception of the realist novel as the...
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Michelle C.
- Feb 12, 2021
- 1 min
American Vandal podcast
Robinhood, r/WallStreetBets, Who's Yellen Now, and the Game-Stopification of Finance In February, I was on Matt Seybold's excellent...
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Michelle C.
- Jan 30, 2020
- 1 min
Podcast from Sydney
The brilliant Melinda Cooper introduced me last December when I was in Sydney, and this podcast is a talk that I gave based on my ALH...
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