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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Today I defend my dissertation! Thank you to everyone on here who helped me get to this point! If you’re in Chicago, come to Jimmy’s at some point after 5pm to celebrate!

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Two important updates: 1) I’ve started The Rehearsal season two 2) I’ve finished my dissertation

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Getting a PhD has prepared me for a job, but the problem is that job is nineteenth-century law clerk.

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

just now learning that my university has announced the end of the university

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This week I used my favorite dissertation productivity tool: telling someone you’re going to meet a deadline they didn’t ask for and that might be impossible

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Rereading Moby-Dick for the first time in a few years, and it is so wild that anyone ever thought Middlemarch was better than this

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The other dumbest part is I know that quakers are basically just like other people but they say “thee” and “thou”

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Forever in awe of the work produced by my colleagues

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Dumbest part of studying the nineteenth century is that I know how to spell “daguerreotype”

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Can’t believe I am expected to sit here and write, the thing I have wanted to spend my life doing

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Charm City Art Spice @rahnealexander.com · 27/12/2024

this is the last week you can make "2024 hours to go" jokes

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Happy Holidays / RIP Jesus and Joe Flaherty

A still from the TV show Freaks and Geeks in which Harold Weir (played by Joe Flaherty) sits at a dinner table and looks stern. The caption reads: "I know a baby who was born in a manger. You know what he’s doing now? He’s dead!"

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Posting an indefensible and niche take shortly before hitting my screentime limit on this app: we’re so back

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Rereading the greatest novel of the twentieth century (Marrow of Tradition)

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

BREAKING: 8 MLA past presidents--incl Judith Butler and Chris Newfield--publicly call on the MLA Executive Council NOT to block a vote on a BDS Resolution. Please read and share their letter today in LitHub. Members deserve to debate and VOTE. lithub.com/8-former-mod...

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Former Modern Language Association Presidents Call for BDS Vote

In late October, the leadership of the Modern Language Association (MLA)—one of the largest and wealthiest US scholarly organizations in the humanities—refused to allow the organization’s Delegate …

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The one-two punch of the Brian Jordan Alvarez piece and the Know Your Enemy courts under Trump 2.0 episode is doing bad things to my mental health

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Moving from aesthetic judgment to interpretation is vital for scholars. But it is not vital for the critic. The move is a move because these activities are not the same kind of thing. The role of criticism is not that it interprets but that it alerts us to what we should be interpreting. V J Adams

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Important reminder this holiday season:

A passage from Jacques Derrida’s Given Time that reads, “But keeping begins by taking. As soon as the other accepts, as soon as he or she takes, there is no more gift. For this destruction to occur, it suffices that the movement of acceptance (of prehension, of reception) last a little, however little that may be, more than an instant, an instant already caught up in the temporalizing synthesis, in the syn or the cum or the being-with-self of time. There is no more gift as soon as the other receives—and even if she refuses the gift that she has perceived or recognized as gift.”

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

“All Things Are Too Small…tries to pass off general moral-aesthetic judgments of taste as precise acts of historically specific evaluation, of diagnosing a sick culture…. We learn nothing from this.” Mitch! Mitch!! Mitch!!!! www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/becc...

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A Business Doing Pleasure With You: On Becca Rothfeld's "All Things Are Too Small" — Cleveland Review of Books

There are nefarious forces at work in the sphere of taste.

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

First interview in just under 30 minutes, wish me luck (my phone is on do not disturb and I will not see it)

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

More Christmas ideas if someone has $1600 to burn

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This holiday season, the first one in which Detroiters is easily available on Netflix, you all have a duty to show it to all your families

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I am about to finish Giovanni’s Room for the first time and honestly I feel like my entire life has been a waste before reading this book

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Yea, I’m “into whales”

A screenshot of text messages that read:

Texter 1: screenshot that reads “from Serial: ‘The Good Whale’”
Today’s daily about the actor whale who played Free Willy
Texter 2 (me): Omg
Texter 1: Whales, right! You’re into whales!
Texter 2: Lmao
All whales all the time

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I made a starter pack, please enjoy go.bsky.app/K9YykGT

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

What should I have on in the background while I bake two (2) pies and a batch of cookies today? Music, movies, tv shows…podcasts?

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

While biking across Hyde Park this morning I had two separate cars blow through intersections that I was already biking through, both times nearly hitting me, and now I’m back on my soapbox about how car ownership is antisocial behavior Anyway, I’m back, @damfales.bsky.social

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

People may be interested to learn that the Moby Dick anime is streaming in the US on prime video!

The prime video page for “Moby Dick: Great Whale in Space”

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

Continuing to watch all the Schrader movies on Criterion (Light Sleeper tonight)

A tweet with some text superimposed to read:
“Guy who has only seen Pickpocket directing his second movie: Getting a lot of ‘Pickpocket’ vibes from this…”

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 20/04/2024

Woke up still mad about how garbage Civil War is

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Just biked past a car blasting “Paul Revere” by the Beastie Boys in the year of our lord 2024

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

G o l d e n C h i c k e n

Three chicken breasts with a dark yellow skin sitting on a bed of asparagus in a Dijon mustard and shallot sauce

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

having the same accelerated heart rate while reading the real estate investment section of the new Melinda Cooper book as I had when I first read the student debt section of her first book

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

It must be so great to be a nineteenth-century orphan, knowing that someday you’re going to inherit a vast estate

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 09/04/2024

In any given social context, no matter how professional, I am at most three minutes away from trying to get people I have just met to listen to me do a rendition of “The Aristocrats”

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

Happy Confidence Man day to all who celebrate, especially this guy:

Creepy cover of a mass market edition of Melville’s novel The Confidence Man. It features a demonic man in a suit holding various other faces.

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Everyone needs to pause talking about advances & Amazon & new ventures in publishing & start talking about distribution. I am happy to help explain what distribution is, what it means, & why it’s maybe the most important publishing issue

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Hearing that there’s a new essay in The Cut

Screen shot that says:

I ain’t reading all that
I’m happy for u tho
Or sorry that happened

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adam @damfales.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

Parents are cleaning out a storage unit and I just got sent this (from like high school ?)

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