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

everyone i meet is in deathly burnout today

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

gonna sign all my emails “until further chaos”

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.

so tired & yet so behind

life sucks but i bought two tiny puffer coats for my baby nieces in india 😭💕

doomscrolling… but on project gutenberg ✅

I feel like that dead bear

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

should i buy a remarkable pro? i’m coveting it pls help

oh god this is my whole life

We're hiring! Please share with your networks. 🗃️

about to teach … y’all i feel so grateful to be able to hang out with young smart people who are cool & kind. it is a balm

how are people maintaining sanity? if at all

Wistful train ride to NYC... thinking about how disinformation is not just fake content in the wild of a free market of ideas. No, it's farm-produced and piped through platforms that have been refining sentiment analysis, network analysis and targeted messaging to bamboozle a hell lot of our kin.

Mad at the US elections for not letting me properly enjoy the ridiculousness of william dalrymple blaming indian historians for the decline of indian history

i have 300 new followers & nothing to offer them except hot takes about mangoes

deleted my first tweet? fleet? whatever anyway i am attached to this site now

forget echo chambers and safe spaces, we need gloom gardens productivity parlors & depression dungeons

[from an account with 0 followers that is clearly an alt I made 10 minutes ago] yeah, there needs to be more content that feels younger and funner, like maybe some more jokes about Frank Norris’s McTeague (1899)?

what is a starter pack. i like them i’ll join them but pls how do they work

Grad students attending the @moderniststudies.bsky.social conference, I will be giving away the display copies at the @cornellupress.bsky.social table to starting on Saturday afternoon at 4:00 PM. Been coveting the brand new MODERNISM’S INHUMAN WORLDS by Rasheed Tazudeen? Now’s your chance!

Visiting Bye-Fellowship for Scholars from the Global South: applications now sought from scholars with posts in the Global South, this year 2025-26 in arts and humanities only, for a one-year research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. www.cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...

a totally cool thing at msa chicago was several books only about proust. 10000/10

in one of those moods where people having a great fun time is annoying me but then people being very upset and crying is also annoying me

pls sugar coat i implore u. there needs to be an end to all this radical honesty

in order to better understand white people i have now resolved to read Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. already on chapter 2 It’s going great

bit rich of me to be presenting a paper titled “whiteness as caricature” tomorrow

my department is hiring an Assistant Curator of the Harvard Theatre collection. this person will sit across the hall from me so it is important that we get somebody good. 📜 I am available for frank informational interviews! sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

A friend just misread Walter Pater as Walter Patel AND I AM NOW OBSESSED upcoming fictional biography of walter patel, son of zanzibari cloth merchant and british aesthete whose obsession with apollo hides secret references to the Mahabharata

why are there more people here and still no dms

A Missouri lawmaker tried to amend a proposed abortion ban to ensure a pregnant child under 12 could get abortions leading to this telling exchange with a current candidate for governor