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Welcome and Holiday Task!
[I just sent the following email to all currently-registered students…] I know that the autumn semester is barely over (indeed, some of you may well have exams coming up in the next week or so), but I thought I would … Continue reading
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A two-minute peek into RMST 495/520… Continue reading
Blogs
A central part of this course is the blog posts that you write in response to the readings. You will set up a blog and, every week you will write a post of c. 400-500 words or embed a video … Continue reading
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AI, The Savage Detectives, and Verbosity
My wife, Fiona, is reading The Savage Detectives. In fact, she was given the book, by a friend, some seven or eight years ago, but at the time–perhaps a little intimidated by the novel’s length–she didn’t get much further than … Continue reading Continue reading
Long TV, affect, and mortality
Some thoughts on long TV from another old Harpers article, this time Adam Wilson’s “Good Bad Bad Good: What was the Golden Age of TV?” (vol. 339, no. 2033 [October 2019]:43–53): One reason that TV shows develop cult followings is … Continue reading Continue reading
The Book as Prison: Edoardo Albinati’s The Catholic School
Tim Parks’s review for Harpers (vol. 339, no. 2032 [September 2019]: 84–88) of Edoardo Albinati’s The Catholic School refers frequently to the book’s length. After all, even though it managed to scale “the bestseller lists and [win Italy’s] most prestigious … Continue reading Continue reading
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Welcome to RMST 495/520!
Welcome! This is the website for RMST 495/520, Spring 2026. Please note that we will not be using Canvas. Everything you need to know about this course will be here, on this website. Note also that it is at present … Continue reading
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