Caine Blog

Went to a party on Friday night.  An n+1 party.  Yeah.
n+1 parties, it turns out, are precisely what you’d expect.  The veneer of enlightenment - of serious, critical theory - is mostly manifested through name-dropping and job-dropping and school-dropping (speaking of which, I ran into a couple Carleton people, which was what it was), and [...]

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I belong to a certain educational institution’s parent e-mail list, designed for parents to communicate about school-related stuff with one another.  It is a guilty pleasure, because these parents are often bored and have little to do besides fret over the least significant things and otherwise live vicariously through their children.
BUT: Recently the parents list [...]

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So I’ve arrived in New York City, and am currently living in Queens.  I’ve had and will continue to have a pretty minimal internet connection, so these posts will by necessity be occasional.  Soon, though, I’ll move into a neighborhood with some good wi-fi to steal, and that’s when the blog will just fucking BLOW [...]

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