My book REWRITING THE MECHANIC comes out in in a month! Please preorder to read the 18th-century prehistory of the tech bro (aka the way that literary speculations crafted the models of technological power that still shape our horizons of possibility) www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/rew...

Rewriting the Mechanic

Rewriting the Mechanic examines how written descriptions, circulating across genres in eighteenth-century Britain, transformed certain mechanical arts by imagining them as newly innovative, authoritat...

rutgersuniversitypress.org

My book REWRITING THE MECHANIC comes out in in a month! Please preorder to read the 18th-century prehistory of the tech bro (aka the way that literary speculations crafted the models of technological power that still shape our horizons of possibility) www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/rew...

Rewriting the Mechanic

Rewriting the Mechanic examines how written descriptions, circulating across genres in eighteenth-century Britain, transformed certain mechanical arts by imagining them as newly innovative, authoritat...

rutgersuniversitypress.org

"God keep me from ever completing anything."

Holding on to this perfect song amid everything www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFhj...

Phil Lynott One wish demo with Huey Lewis 1985

YouTube video by vantablack

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It’s meeeee 🫣

The Defoe Society@defoesociety.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New Publication Alert West, Emily M. Rewriting the Mechanic: Text, Technology, and the Body in the Eighteenth Century, Bucknell University Press, 2027. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Y’all, @irmavep.bsky.social’s forthcoming book is so fucking good—do not miss this one!!!

The Defoe Society@defoesociety.bsky.social · 7mo ago

New Publication Alert West, Emily M. Rewriting the Mechanic: Text, Technology, and the Body in the Eighteenth Century, Bucknell University Press, 2027. #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Somewhere sometime on some corner of the internet I saw Britney Spears's (masterpiece) Blackout described as "voidier than the darkest black metal." I just finished reading Shelley's The Last Man and that's the description that keeps coming to mind.

A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).

The phlebotomist described my blood as “nice and juicy” today

One of the things I hate most about AI is the way it poisons my relationship with my students. I'm constantly unsure if what I'm reading is their thoughts. I feel at once like a chump for potentially responding earnestly to AI and a cop for questioning if this is really their work.

Me for the past 6 years

Finally I can hold it in my hands!! 💓 @zugenia.bsky.social

I just read the intro to this book while procrastinating on grading and it could not be more extremely my shit...can't wait to read the rest

Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · 10mo ago

In "Atomic Bombshells," Isabelle Held examines the effects of military-industrial science and the emergence of synthetic materials such as nylon, silicone, and foams on the female body. Read the intro for free on our site! buff.ly/Ee58UOa

Hearing Canadian accents on tv makes me so deeply homesick (yes I am watching Heated Rivalry)

Hello everyone I am so depressed about AI. Every time I think about AI and my students and my job and what teaching is now for more than 0.01 seconds I get so sad and upset I feel like I need to crawl in a hole. So that’s fun

I’m thinking of posting again…here’s my beautiful Margie for the timeline

This song just came up on shuffle and evoked a Pavlovian joy response youtu.be/RpC85RO0okA?...

JAWAN: Faraatta | Shah Rukh Khan | Deepika | Atlee | Anirudh |Arijit S, Jonita G, Badshah| Kumaar

YouTube video by T-Series

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My perfect Marge and her perfect daughter

Erin J@fourfootedbeasts.bsky.social · 2y ago

I've been going through old photos and it occurs to me that some of you may not know that Lucy has a mother.

Heard this Finnish contender for Eurovision 2025 today and will now be heartbroken if it isn't selected youtu.be/PFWtYcKb7C8?...

Erika Vikman – ICH KOMME (music video) // UMK25

YouTube video by Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu

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I solved the Saturday crossword without looking anything up and in pretty good time … usually when I do that and go to the comments they’re all “this is a puzzle for BABIES, even a pet dog could solve this puzzle” but this time they’re complaining about how hard it is 💅

Crying for approx. the thousandth time since Lynch's death www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Laura Dern's letter to David Lynch: You wove L.A. into our dreams

The Oscar-winning actor reflects on a lifetime of work with the filmmaker, with whom she collaborated on "Blue Velvet," "Wild at Heart" and "Inland Empire."

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I haven't tweeted (or posted regularly to any social media site) in years but here I am anyway