emily doucet

@emilygdoucet.bsky.social

📝 Writer, editor and researcher interested in photography and the cultural life of technology — past, present, and future. 📸 Author of 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘳: 𝘈 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘴 (Duke, 2026). 🗄️ https://linktr.ee/emilydoucet

This is very true! Word on the street is that people are assigning my @dukepress.bsky.social book Inventing Nadar this fall and I can hardly believe it (my book! in a graduate seminar! in an undergraduate lecture course!) Very excited to zoom into a few class rooms over the coming weeks and months.

Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3w ago

PSA: you know what scholars love? Talking about their books! You know what you can do? Invite them to your class to do so. It’s great! You absolutely do not have to use AI or tell students to use AI to understand their books. You can get the actual real life person to help with that! For free!

I talked to @sadiecouture.bsky.social about my @dukepress.bsky.social book for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! We talk media history, firsts (of course!), and patents, among other things.

Sadie Couture@sadiecouture.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I'm on a roll! So many great new books. This time, I talked to @emilygdoucet.bsky.social about her new book "Inventing Nadar" out from @dukepress.bsky.social. It was such an interesting conversation about the history of photography, historiography, and the media production of photographic 'firsts.'

Celebrating the first summer since 2020 that I am not finishing a PhD, moving internationally, moving between provinces, starting a new job (x3), or finishing writing a book, by reading Moby Dick for the first time.

I've just published my first videographic essay!! while my written work focuses on questions of infrastructural mediation, this video essay encourages us to look closely at the fish on screen, asking how they distract, enchant, and otherwise entertain 🐟 intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Aquarium Reveries: Early Cinema’s Fish Tank Films

This video essay encourages us to look closely at early cinema’s aquariums. First, seeing the fish and aquatic effects as a “distraction” in the age of the cinema of attractions (Georges Méliès), then...

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Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries. Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.

Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News

Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...

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