i am fully enjoying the emily wilson christopher nolan brawl. everyone should be yelling about 3000 year old poems actually
oishani
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race, print culture, pictures into funny/uncanny things
If i tell students that not a single word produced by me in a class (not an email, not a prompt, or even a title slide) will be AI-generated, do you think it could encourage them to … do stuff themselves?
if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
Imagine misunderstanding your own religion so bad that you get yelled at by the pope 😵 so embarrassing 🙈
reading just enough german to get Marx’s “Sie konnën sich nicht vertreten, sie müssen vertreten werden” in Orientalism is spooky chilling & not recommended
maybe all this is about nature getting back at humanity by bringing back it’s entire arsenal of diseases from the 14th century without the interference of all these pesky health codes
news has gone wild. random people don’t need to hear clips of air traffic control during the last minutes of the crashing plane get a grip
I said i would not look at news. I did not say anything about exploding missiles of bullshit sent directly from hell
does anyone have recommendations for someone who refuses to deal with reality? what are some mildly deranged and time consuming hobbies i can take up
In my Calcutta house: dad’s 1980s copy of volume 1 of capital, published by Progress Publishers in Moscow (1978 reprint edition). The success of Moscow publishers in Kolkata and the presence of these editions in the city has so many stories to tell. Also, I thought these loose papers were love+
been reading syrian journalists and writers on & off since the chemical attacks in 2013 and not gonna lie i feel like crying in anger & relief for every disappearing journalist and dead family member i’ve virtually encountered for 10+ years
bought some leuchtturm notebooks but they inmediately became Christmas gifts for other people 😭
my parents saw two foxes almost raiding our trash cans in el paso and are very very pleased
Just a reminder that Amazon workers are striking tomorrow through Monday, and that none of the “deals” are good enough to justify crossing the picket line.
Auerbach was the librarian at the Stabi who provided Benjamin with some of his conceptual framing for the Trauerspiel project
"The Alchemist", a painting from Mattheus van Helmont from mid seventeenth century, is rich in detail, and full of #earlymodern paper details. Here is a 🧵, dear #skystorians, unfortunately not about the large écorché figure, a distillation apparatus over a fire, but about #paperhistory. Enjoy.
decided not to buy a remarkable because hot take but i think the future of paper is paper. paper is pretty perfect actually
this may be obvious but you all should really be jealous of the mezcal margaritas in el paso
Hi. My department is hiring two tenure-track assistant profs in American lit -- one pre-1900 and one post-1900. WVU is, to say the obvious, a complicated place. What isn't complicated is that our students are amazing and deserve so much more than they've received. More below.
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life sucks but i bought two tiny puffer coats for my baby nieces in india 😭💕
a colleague came into my office and we laughed madly for 5 minutes… how’s your day going
What is the german word for tired of the stupidity of the worst people who haven’t even done anything yet
if i really get to 1k followers from 300 in 3 days for no good reason 👀
I want to launch a collective called “we are burn out” but guess what i am too burned out to launch it