A thread of some of Edward Gorey's decorated envelopes in the collection of the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social. Art—Nature, 1948

The deep deep yearning I have for course packs and mix tapes (same thing, different format)

“Paula Rabinowitz … argues the format’s genius was its physical intimacy and portability … ‘I consider [the mass market paperback] one of the significant technological interventions, of the 20th century.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

"We are always haunted by the myth of our potential." Damn, Adam Phillips, don't hold back!

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

me: (living in a bog) Emily Dickinson: How public - like a Frog -

had the honor of hosting archivist Dorothy Berry for Douglass Day celebrations. Her book THE HOUSE ARCHIVES BUILT is a beautiful meditation on the fitful relation between Black people and archival institutions. Please buy two copies -- one for yourself and one for a friend! www.weherepress.org

The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3 blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2...

A child of 1982, my phone is overfull with Jens, Sarahs/Saras, Jamies/Jaimes, and Lindseys/Lindsays.

I guess I have to say this too: staff worked ourselves ill to do our best for students and we didn't make the decisions that led to their dissatisfaction *but we know that we'll bear the fallout from it.* We are already losing jobs, departments, campuses, fields of expertise to government decisions.

In the off-chance you're in the upstate region... check out some of the fantastic events my colleague Wendy Roberts & I organized for Douglass Day! Free and open to the public!

I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

(1/3) It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of Teresa de Lauretis (1938–2026), an internationally renowned feminist and film theorist whose work reshaped the fields of cinema studies, feminist theory, and queer thought.

The analog classroom is ironically the most innovative environment you can create in 2026. Cut out the noise and you create a superior learning situation. But it is a battle to maintain, especially when admin pushes “no cost” or “low cost” online books like they do at my comprehensive public uni

Parents to kids, 1980s: Don't open the door because kidnappers & murderers may be pretending to be cops 2020s: Don't open the door because the kidnappers & murderers are cops

the people who need to hear it won't hear it but i will say it anyway: this has been fascism, and it is fascism.

well in other news, happy biannual 'google how to activate your course' day/week/month to those who celebrate

gonna start a 20th c food studies journal called Modernism/McDernity

Emily Doucet, Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts - @dukepress.bsky.social, April 2026 www.dukeupress.edu/inventing-na...

An author asked for guidance on how to write a response to reader reports. My answer was pretty quick and dirty for practical reasons, but here's what I said. It ends with a link to much more thorough, helpful advice: Responses can take the form of a letter to the editor/press . . . 1/?

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

there were only 24 years between these two events and yet the second one happened 32 years ago

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

People may not realize that this is the birth place of Ethnic Studies and the first Black Studies program. SFSU is a school of historic significance.

Rick Steves is a real one!

Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.

Gen Alpha is so brave. The courage it takes to perform "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at the holiday concert to an audience of Gen X/Millennial parents!

UAlbany, one of those, NY state universities, has been hovering around 4 percent tenure track Black faculty since ever. I am THE Black tenure track political scientists. These folks are just little liars.

It's true!

(blasting Tame Impala in my Honda CRV while drinking a cortado) Me: I'm not bourgoie millennial cliche I'm not a bourgie millennial cliche I'm not a bourgie millennial cliche I'm not a bourgie millennial cliche I'm not a bourgie millennial cliche I'm n

NEW special issue of Critical Quarterly, 'Paper and Poetry: Interventions in Theory and Practice', brilliantly edited by @georginaemw.bsky.social and Orietta da Rodd. This is an outstanding collection that we are proud to publish in CQ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678705...

Did not foresee the fashion industry adopting the word "edit" as a catchword for sartorial curation. Can't wait to see what it does with 'proofread.'

CRUCIAL! by Stephanie Foote "I...lived through the devastation of a solid public university by a professional grifter who imagines himself as a visionary, and who takes every opportunity to express his vision. That person was Gordon Gee, and the university he destroyed was West Virginia University"

‘Effective Altruism did not originate in the clean room of a thought experiment but in the matrix of compromise we call a social world … from conversations among elites and has necessarily been molded by the pressures on them and the opportunities afforded them.’ By @benwurgaft.bsky.social

Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

the day began with dick in a box and ended with zohran in office!!!!! not used to this good feeling! gonna bottle it up

Today my kid became a tween. He said, "Please don't put strawberries in the oatmeal again, Mom. They don't fit the vibe."

Miriam speaks truth (as always). A few years ago it really hit hard how foreign my students feel to me (and I them). One response is to be a jackass who blames the difference on them. Another option is humility. We should all strive for the latter.

I have an essay contrasting theory camps and communist ones in the latest issue PMLA, which reflects on the 1983 Illinois Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture conference. I sketch a material history of the perilous assumption that professional actions necessarily constitute political activity.

Who robbed the Louvre right answers only

Happy anniversary of the Sudden Departure to all who celebrate. For an @atpost45.bsky.social cluster edited by @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social, I wrote about the trauma of living to tell (and retell) the tale. post45.org/2025/01/bein...

bring back a thousand little geocities

Of all the individual actions we're told to do that don't actually do anything to solve the climate crisis (relative to the damage done by corporations and private jets), stomping on a lantern fly that has no business being in harlem really does feel like doing something.

Was extolling the 90s-era magic (and safety) of the Tin Can phone to @rezekjoe.bsky.social & husband (IRL!!!) yesterday, so figure today I might as well proselytize on a broader scale! tincan.kids?srsltid=AfmB...

1. Bravo 2. Bravo 3. F***ing Bravo

CHOTINER: Many say Middlemarch is the greatest 19th-century novel. GEORGE ELIOT: I sought only to shine a light on unhistoric acts, people destined for unvisited tombs. CHOTINER: These Chotiner memes—Star Wars, the poem about plums, Moby-Dick. Are you jealous? GEORGE ELIOT: That f***ing whale.

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Every single Isaac Chotiner interview