I was working on something a little more substantial but it’s not done yet, so here’s something from the deep archives.
After we said goodbye to Huxley I was thinking about the time Sonia Weiser absolutely fried him to a crisp:
And it reminded me of this list of dissertation topics for dogs that I wrote back when I was better at academic-speak. So just to mix it up, instead of an essay here’s a short list of jokes that are only funny if you’ve got grad school brain diseases. Bon appetit.
The New Peripatetics: Walkies Historicized in Philosophical Context
A Longitudinal Comparative Study of Other Dogs’ Butts
Spay/Stray: Class, Gender, and the Neutering Paradigm
The Fire Hydrant as Text: Ureics and Hermeneutics
Lassie Was a Boy: Gender Performativity in Canine Hollywood
Who (Didn’t) Let the Dogs Out? Leash Laws, Crating, and the Will to Power
The Squeaky Toy as Ludic Interface
(G)room and Board: Problematizing the Home/Vet Dichotomy
To Say Nothing of the Dog: Canonicity and the Erased Canine Presence
They’re Never Coming Back: Codependence, Car Noises, and the Phenomenology of Temporal Experience
Give a Dog a Bone: The Influence of American Folkways on Dietary Microtrends
“Who’s A Good Boy”: Identity and Value in the Domestic Hegemony
Squirrel, Away: A Multi-Level Analysis of Active vs. Reactive Barking Techniques
Dogs and Cats, Living Together: Millennialism and the Interspecies Family
“Blah Blah Blah Rover”: Situation Semantics in Cross-Species Discourse