Alice Wickenden
@awickenden.bsky.social
Postdoc at Cambridge working between book history & early modern lit. Current project 'provenance: early modern books in/against time' Volunteer for Abortion Support Network Book: Hans Sloane’s Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge (CUP)
Does anyone have any reading recommendations for creative-critical practice in book history (both terms broadly conceived, as they can only be)? Very accepting of the 're-'s (remaking etc) but also interested in other approaches.
sure my sister’s sending beautiful photos of the blue Cornish sea but I just found a really good deal on an electric toothbrush. So
Fly is back. Not to worry. She’s on the lookout. (Not pictured: fly, directly behind her)
Alice Wickenden@awickenden.bsky.social · 4d agocat’s been trying to catch a fly for about three hours. She caught it once and let it go and now wants to be praised. EARN YOUR KEEP
This August, pick up "Captive Ecologies" by @femmenoire.bsky.social, which makes a case for the ecological significance of slavery’s afterlife, along with many other great new titles. buff.ly/4hqz3v7
20% off gig catharsis: one poem about loving in the climate crisis and another about loving a band whose singer has been accused of sexual assault, both framed around the question ‘how do you reconcile the truth of that / with the truth of this’ www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Alice Wickenden - Gig Catharsis | Broken Sleep Books
Gig Catharsis is a raw and thought-provoking pamphlet that captures the complexities of navigating modern life amidst climate change, social unrest, and personal turmoil. Alice Wickenden's poignant po...
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Broken Sleep Books@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 5d agoFLASH SALE: 20% off until Sunday night. If there's a book you've been circling, or you fancy taking a punt on something new, now's a good time. Every order goes straight back into publishing writers the bigger presses overlook. That's the whole point of us. www.brokensleepbooks.com/books
20% off gig catharsis: one poem about loving in the climate crisis and another about loving a band whose singer has been accused of sexual assault, both framed around the question ‘how do you reconcile the truth of that / with the truth of this’ www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Alice Wickenden - Gig Catharsis | Broken Sleep Books
Gig Catharsis is a raw and thought-provoking pamphlet that captures the complexities of navigating modern life amidst climate change, social unrest, and personal turmoil. Alice Wickenden's poignant po...
brokensleepbooks.com
Broken Sleep Books@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 5d agoFLASH SALE: 20% off until Sunday night. If there's a book you've been circling, or you fancy taking a punt on something new, now's a good time. Every order goes straight back into publishing writers the bigger presses overlook. That's the whole point of us. www.brokensleepbooks.com/books
Not only that but *the entire Humanities offering at Hertfordshire has gone and is being taught out*
Cordelia Beattie@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 3d agoI see some people are reading this post as being about Exeter but it’s referring to the University of Hertfordshire. And that’s Owen’s point. Less coverage about the axe falling there but it’s equally sad.
it's so frustrating not being able to distinguish between 'I'm searching for the wrong thing and need to go back and rethink' and 'I'm searching for the right thing but google is just utterly useless now'.
cat’s been trying to catch a fly for about three hours. She caught it once and let it go and now wants to be praised. EARN YOUR KEEP
hello hivemind. I’ve a wild plan to stage an apprentice riot from the 1590s, as part of a public practice-as-research event. unfortunately the original location, Tower Hill, is a no go. can anyone suggest venues with outdoor spaces (preferably London) that might be open to this sort of thing?
it’s a great day! my friend has adopted two kittens! they’re called Carrot and Beetroot!
So happy to finally share the news that my book, “A History of Uncertainty: Science between the Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe,” will be out in Spring 2027 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. I still can't believe it's now beyond my hands and on its way to meeting its readers.
This was a pleasure to read and write about!
Alice Wickenden@awickenden.bsky.social · last wk.Grateful for this review in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies!: ‘This book is a call to action, a reminder that current archival practice has just as much of an ‘active effect in guiding how we respond to and categorise objects’ as Sloane himself once did’ doi.org/10.1111/1754...
Another very generous review for Hans Sloane’s Library Collections, in Renaissance Studies. Thanks @mazinggrace.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1111/rest...
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“There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible”
Grateful for this review in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies!: ‘This book is a call to action, a reminder that current archival practice has just as much of an ‘active effect in guiding how we respond to and categorise objects’ as Sloane himself once did’ doi.org/10.1111/1754...
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In Canada, checking out local independent “Tim Horton’s”
IYKYK, nineteenth-century style. Congrats, @shsalter.bsky.social on EDITORIAL MASCULINITY AND THE SEX WORK OF PRINT! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Editorial Masculinity and the Sex Work of Print
Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - Editorial Masculinity and the Sex Work of Print
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NYRB should do their own version of the Criterion Closet for their book publishing arm imo
Also here’s a photo from Hanif Abdurraqib’s reading at the New York Poetry Festival yesterday where you can see me, absolutely entranced
What do you all use for your notes? I've been using Evernote since 2014 but it's almost doubling in price so. Is Obsidian the best alternative? bonus points for something I could move my Evernote files to without too much agony.
Watched Oppenheimer last night. Excited to be on trend and participate in the discourse
Interested to read this, on the relationship between the music industry & the climate crisis www.versobooks.com/products/333...
Recomposed
We are witnessing a climate-oriented transformation of what music is and how it comes to be. Recomposed shows how musicians around the world are using the cultural power of music to link climate aware...
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all-timer of a cover, of course, but people sleep on "cappuccino vs. cowboys," which absolutely was an indicator that people in the 90s were being extremely normal about gender and identity
shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · 3w agoon this day in 1995, scientists discovered bisexuality. happy 31st birthday to all my fellow bs
Taiwan Travelogue — just as good as the hype suggests, highly recommend. (then I read a Brandon Sanderson novel for six hours straight)
Alice Wickenden@awickenden.bsky.social · 3w ago‘I’ll definitely read this monograph on the plane. but maybe I should also download a fun little fantasy novel… just in case I finish it’ — someone who is lying to themself
