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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 45m

Yes this is common 😂 and a sign of ideological victory

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 1h

12) sometimes you just work to prepare the ground so someone else can plant a seed

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 2h

Yes: institutional ratchets really can work This is in general a pro-institution account 😅 as long as they can also be reformed from time to time Clearly they also have a lot of enemies because they block bad things from happening

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 2h

11) the best you can do is sow a bunch of tiny mustard seeds, like that guy said 😔

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 2h

(A lot of the suffragettes were dismissed as stodgy by the postwar flapper generation!) 9) a vast tide of ignorance and selfishness will well up around that victory and buffet it 10) institutions genuinely help preserve progress, but are imperfect

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 2h

5) every advance becomes a new surface for future backlash— as well as the possibility for future growth 6) sometimes really unexpected leaps forward happen 7) very broad narratives about progress will make it into a tv show if you’re lucky 8) the people who benefit will not credit the fighters

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 2h

Social progress has happened and it might happen again! However 1) if it’s real, everyone instantly takes it for granted 2) the people who fought the longest often get curdled out of resentment 3) the wrong people get celebrated for the achievement 4) most details of the struggle will be forgotten

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 12h

Lucy is a stone-cold Nemesis created in a lab to battle Elinor That subdued “chat” they have while making baskets is basically an epic superhero clash

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 17h

Lucy Steele in Sense and Sensibility is basically a sociopath. And she “wins.” She jilts Edward and marries the Big Money in the Good Family. No hesitation. No remorse. Austen understood that the Elinors and Edwards have to be happy in a world where sometimes sociopaths win. She’s so good.

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 15h

I remember that rally so vividly. At the time I watched from the edges, but it turned out to be a student movement that did have a real impact and helped undermine apartheid. I learned a lot from it!

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 15h

🙌🙌🙌🙌 Fantastic! Thanks Greg!!

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 23h

It's arrived!! I gave this book everything I had and I hope there's something in here for you. It's not officially out until 10/20, but @yalepress.bsky.social seems to be shipping orders now. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

A white woman with dark hair holds a book called Seeing Like a Supply Chain: The Hidden Life of Logistics, by Miriam Posner

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20h

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There’s an exhibit of her works at the Whitney in NYC

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

some art press for a good thing "Public artworks and zine-making workshops are on this year’s line-up, uniting artists and cultural organizations against an increasingly authoritarian administration." #falloffreedom hyperallergic.com/fall-of-free...

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Fall of Freedom Returns With Hundreds of Anti-Authoritarian Art Actions

Public artworks and zine-making workshops are on this year’s line-up, uniting artists and cultural organizations against an increasingly authoritarian administration.

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And feel genuine repentance: can’t fool that painting by simply refraining from seducing ONE country maiden

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes, it’s not clear she really dodged a bullet

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But there are those women back in the castle who long to bite Jonathan

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There’s also a theater history angle: some scholars think Dracula is a thinly disguised Henry Irving— the charismatic actor Stoker managed Others see him as Oscar Wilde, his unsuccessful rival for the hand of Florence Balcombe

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Mina is definitely still a vampire

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There’s definitely something incestuous about the way his “brides” are also his “children” : many kinds of abomination

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

One does wonder about their future baby, supposedly 100% not a vampire 🤔

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It is fortunate indeed that vampires always have to obey a code of weird rules !

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh yes there are a lot of other plausible readings!! The religious one (only Catholicism counts), the scientific one (blood transfusion), the Orientalist one (the scary East), the sexual/queer one (why does he bite but not turn Jonathan), etc!

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He does do the classic capitalist thing of risking his stake (gold) for the hope of expanding his domain (to the rich lands of Britain). So he doesn’t own a factory but is plausibly a financial investor making a canny speculation

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dracula’s most intense desire is to buy property in London: it’s why he needs Jonathan He also needs the transaction to be completely legal, which is weird if you think about it! He is not a typical middle-class worker though: he enters the system at the top bc of his centuries of hoarded gold

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Don’t know who to credit this to, but it cheers me up!

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They do “reproduce” though — when they force you to drink their blood 😓

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

😁 I hadn’t, but I love the “Once Bitten, Twice Shy” subhead

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Paul Fyfe @pfyfe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Goodness. It's really nice when smart people like your book. And astonishing when they teach you new things about it in their review. Thank you @mmvty.bsky.social

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Lit scholars LOVE 😍 the scene when the hunters slash at Dracula and hit his bag of gold instead: so he literally bleeds money

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Here’s a great article about Dracula and “Reverse Colonization” blogs.dickinson.edu/secretlives/...

blogs.dickinson.edu

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026

The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides.

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Thank you for this: the plot holes were making me mental. Plus: that not one scurrilous paparazzi would have been there when Hal was released from prison, had an affair in a small town, and then was mysteriously shot?? — defied belief. I hope we get to see Kyle Chandler in this role again

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not even going to watch the video. I was literally on a committee for such reforms during my PhD at Cornell (why was a PhD student wasting time on this instead of well paid admin?). Admin is not interested and does not care. HR and Title IX are not our friends.

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes: if you’re obviously wrong about the way universities run you should do it for artistic reasons and not out of ignorance Like in Reacher, where “breaking every law if you’re the good guy” is just clearly a genre signal 😅

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I remain amazed that tv and film people don't just put someone like Roxane Gay on retainer to do a quick higher ed consult

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brennan @brennan.computer · 04/10/2026

getting into the good sunlight angle season

dappled sun light leaf shadows on the wall

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hot take: I don't think social media made people dumber. We've been dumb this whole time. It's just that you used to have to have a job that people sent their dumb letters to, to notice. This made "Engaging with fools" an occupational hazard rather than the 24/7 experience it is presently.

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Report from the first 2/3 of last night’s SNL: jittery, manic, some obvious artifice (the Botox) Punk band Turnstile leaping around Sarah Sherman magnetically rigid and mannered as a matchmaker Political points basic and kind of rudderless It’s hard to do comedy in the face of utter decadence

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 03/10/2026

A truly stunning set of children’s books for the book historian or printmaker in your life. We just got a full set for the library @skeuomorphpress.org

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