Jordan Cutler-TietjenX Marks The []: Language, Gabble, and Colonial Power in Aimé Césaire’s A TempestWhat follows is an edited version of a paper I wrote for a literature seminar in college. The essay is mostly a close reading — I cobble…Jun 3, 2021Jun 3, 2021
Jordan Cutler-TietjenUnraveling a Utopia: Science and Control in Bacon’s “The New Atlantis”What follows is an edited version of an undergrad paper I wrote as a first-year in a political philosophy seminar. The assignment was…May 21, 2021May 21, 2021
Jordan Cutler-TietjenThe Corporeal Unreal: Illness and Pain in Borges“What can it matter, then, the name that names me, / given our curse is common and the same?” —Jorge Luis Borges, “Poem of the Gifts”Dec 21, 2020Dec 21, 2020
Jordan Cutler-Tietjen(Dis)Ordered Pairs: Jorge Luis Borges’s Dual System of Chaos and ContrivanceWhat follows is an edited version of a paper I wrote as a first-year in a college seminar. The assignment was essentially a protracted…Dec 21, 2020Dec 21, 2020
Jordan Cutler-TietjenHow to Photograph the Dead in the DarkSymptoms of and Reactions to an Oppressive Visual Economy in “The Autobiography of My Mother” by Jamaica KincaidDec 18, 2020Dec 18, 2020
Jordan Cutler-TietjeninThe Yale HeraldHot PadAfter rotating for two and a half minutes in the microwave, the hot pad perfumes our kitchen and living room.Oct 27, 20191Oct 27, 20191
Jordan Cutler-TietjeninThe Yale HeraldListening to David Bowie on Spotify Radio on the treadmill.I’m running quickly and then I’m brushing by new lungs, the air is full of them.Apr 27, 2018Apr 27, 2018
Jordan Cutler-TietjeninThe Yale HeraldMom showed sandhill cranes to meoutside our hotel in Florida on vacation to see her brotherJan 26, 2018Jan 26, 2018
Jordan Cutler-TietjeninThe Yale HeraldWhere the Banal Meets the ExistentialAs I stepped into the balcony of Sprague Hall to hear memoirist Karl Ove Knausgård open this year’s Windham Campbell Prizes by posing and…Sep 25, 2017Sep 25, 2017
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