I did a thing today (and yesterday too, but yesterday’s thing can wait until next week to show up here) as part of the long-awaited, much-missed “Crossroads in Cultural Studies” conference that was supposed to happen in person in Lisbon in 2020 but . . . well, you know what …
In a better world, this conference would be taking place in person, and I would probably already be somewhere in England, trying in vain to avoid the more mawkish moments of memorializing and mourning over QEII, resetting my body clock (also probably in vain) by six hours, and soaking up …