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emily doucet

@emilygdoucet.bsky.social
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📝 Writer, editor and researcher interested in photography and the cultural life of technology — past, present, and future. 📸 Author of 𝘐𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘕𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘳: 𝘈 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘤 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘴 (Duke, 2026). 🗄️ linktr.ee/emilydoucet

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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is very true! Word on the street is that people are assigning my @dukepress.bsky.social book Inventing Nadar this fall and I can hardly believe it (my book! in a graduate seminar! in an undergraduate lecture course!) Very excited to zoom into a few class rooms over the coming weeks and months.
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
After a summer break, book events are happening again! Join us for the launch of my @dukepress.bsky.social book Inventing Nadar at Concordia University's Milieux Institute (room EV 11.705) on Thursday, September 10th from 5-7pm.
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Book Launch with Hilary Bergen & Emily Doucet – Milieux
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I talked to @sadiecouture.bsky.social about my @dukepress.bsky.social book for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! We talk media history, firsts (of course!), and patents, among other things.
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Celebrating the first summer since 2020 that I am not finishing a PhD, moving internationally, moving between provinces, starting a new job (x3), or finishing writing a book, by reading Moby Dick for the first time.
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Headed to Seattle (for the first time!) this week to speak about Inventing Nadar at the School of Art + Art History + Design at the University of Washington — June 4th @ 3 pm. Room details on the poster. @dukepress.bsky.social
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James Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Fantastic book launch for @emilygdoucet.bsky.social’s extraordinary Inventing Nader.: A History of Photographic Firsts.
Dr. Emily Doucet presents her book Inventing Nadar at University of Toronto. The room was packed with great photo historians including Jordan Bear and Christian Joschke.
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I’ll be back in Toronto for a book talk on May 28th at 5 pm in the Department of Art History (Sid Smith 6029). If you’re in town, I’d love to see you there! @dukepress.bsky.social
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Can’t wait to read this!
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
👻📸 An excerpt from Inventing Nadar is up on Literary Hub today! @dukepress.bsky.social
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney jokingly says he ‘can outlast’ a mercury-affected Grassy woman calling for justice on decades of toxic dumping. Hear more on APTN News Brief:
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APTN News Brief: "I can outlast her": PM Carney criticized for joke towards mercury-affected Grassy Narrows woman
Our lead story: as members of Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong—First Nations hit hard by an industry-polluted river system—stage a rally at a political announcement, PM Mark Carney jokingly says...
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
In such good company here! I'm particularly excited for Leigh Radford's When Home is a Photograph (which I just ordered and is out very soon!)
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Our authors are out and about in April! Check out events with @emilygdoucet.bsky.social, @reluctantheologian.bsky.social, and @proteinthebook.bsky.social this month. buff.ly/NBTg5sJ
Covers of Co-Motion, Freeing Black Girls, When Home Is a Photograph, Protein, The Politics of Care Work, Bangkok after Dark, P FKN R, Inventing Nadar, Curating Deviance, My Father the Messiah, Betes Noires, Riding into History, Emergent Genders, Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign, and Floating Power, arranged in a 5x5x5 grid.
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
📣 First book event for Inventing Nadar (out soon from @dukepress.bsky.social) is happening on April 7th @ 3 pm at the Jarislowky Institute at Concordia University here in Montréal. I'll be in conversation with Zoë Tousignant, curator of photography at the McCord Museum. More info here:
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Emily Doucet - Inventing Nadar | Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art - Concordia University
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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I've just published my first videographic essay!! while my written work focuses on questions of infrastructural mediation, this video essay encourages us to look closely at the fish on screen, asking how they distract, enchant, and otherwise entertain 🐟 intransition.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
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Aquarium Reveries: Early Cinema’s Fish Tank Films
This video essay encourages us to look closely at early cinema’s aquariums. First, seeing the fish and aquatic effects as a “distraction” in the age of the cinema of attractions (Georges Méliès), then...
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E z r a @bruit.eurosky.social · 09/03/2026
The LAC staff I've had the chance to work with are gems of patience and generosity and this is simply the wrong way to treat your already strained core memory institution
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
It’s almost like being a historical subject given the Big Data distant reading treatment sucks. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...
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When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
👀 The intro of Inventing Nadar is now up online for free!
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
A few notes on (ballooning) stationary: buttondown.com/emilydoucet/...
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
A (non-academic) friend asked me "why did you write a book" over dinner last week, I made an attempt (conceptually-speaking) at an answer in my newsletter this week:
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new year, new book, old questions
Dear reader, Writing a book is a strange thing. A smart friend asked me over dinner recently: why did you write a book? I’m not sure I know the answer but if...
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I have the same questions about the one that goes: (artists) thought (painting) was (dead) (after) the (invention) of (photography). Working on something on this very idea right now...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 15/12/2025
Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries. Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
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Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Book poem/index
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This is a very special little book 💗
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Honoured to be in very good company here!
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
PSA: Your paragraphs are longer than you think. — Signed, someone who has been poring over their final page proofs.
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
My book has a cover! Inventing Nadar will be out in April 2026 from @dukepress.bsky.social.
Book cover with aerial photograph showing an oblique aerial view of the city of Paris, picturing the avanue du Bois du Boulogne and the Arc de Triomphe. The surface of the photograph is annotated in red and black ink. The book title and author appear in white serif font: Inventing Nadar: A History of Photographic Firsts, by Emily Doucet .
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emily doucet @emilygdoucet.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
A sign I need to start working on my Kodak infrastructure book again?
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Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again
Kodak appears to be taking back control over the distribution of its film.
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