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Yearbook Weirdness –
May 18, 2020 |
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Yearbook Weirdness –
May 14, 2020 |
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It's been said that "An actual size pencil is a commonplace of daily life which we look at without reaction, but a giant pencil makes us think of pencils in a new and original light" ( American Stationer, 1922). From St. Patrick's 1962 yearbook.
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Yearbook Weirdness –
June 11, 2019 |
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This haunted photograph appears in the Cape Cod Community College yearbook of 1968. Why are strange glows so ghostly? Such lights are perhaps manifestations of what Ross Chambers calls "flauntology." Chambers notes that when a metaphysical subject matter is inexplicable, to demonstrate or manifest that inexplicibility requires abstaining from any attempt to explain it away, with the aim to make hauntedness haunting and not to lay the ghosts; "to demonstrate or display without explanation is ... to flaunt .... [I]t is the flaunting of hauntedness that makes hauntedness haunting. If it is true that there is no ontology without a hauntology, it seems to be also the case that there can be no hauntology without a flauntology, since flaunting names the apodictic gesture, the act of relay, that, in causing hauntedness to be seen, makes it haunting. Flaunting is, par excellence, the gesture of visibility" whereby the lacking object can be figurally presented as an interpretive, recognizable object that haunts (Untimely Interventions).
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Yearbook Weirdness –
June 9, 2019 |
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A frightening number of yearbooks describe college as if alien beings are desperately learning to pass as human. It's an oddly common theme, and it's disconcerting. This caption reads, "I am amorphous. I am nerve ends, ganglia, squeezed, compressed. I must stiffen, yet stay flexible. I want to be steel, I am afraid of becoming stone." Yeah, sure. Whatever you say, Marvin the Martian. Of course, these aliens grew up and now rule the world -- Representative Jim Himes actually said this on national television: "the lizard brain that I have says I hope bad things happen" (we're not making this up; Google it!)
From Chowan's 1965 yearbook.
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