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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Friends, send us your proposals, abstracts, thoughts, in English or French - and please help us spread the word about this journal issue on distraction we're putting together. The CFP is attached: intermedialites.com/en/call-for-...

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CALL FOR PAPERS – NO. 51 “DISTRACTING / DISTRAIRE” – intermédialités

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Canadian Germanist babes, wake up: Carney brought up the Wahlverwandtschaften at the EU Parliament”

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This strikes me as the least interesting quote from that essay. What’s truly surprising though is that final paragraph. As part of the crowd AC describes, all I can say is the aftermath of LUX felt deeply communal.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 27/08/2026

Ok I can share—today MSLIS student Nadja Robot donated a teletype machine to @skeuomorphpress.org’s Undead Media Lab But this is not just any teletype—it’s the one Michael S. Hart used to digitize the Declaration of Independence & Alice in Wonderland—the 1st texts in what became Project Gutenberg

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This caption needs the Radio Yerevan treatment: Is it true that this is Kafka w/a stranger in Venice in 1913? “Yes, it is true, only it’s not 1913 but 1914, and it’s not Venice but Denmark, and that’s not a stranger but Ernst Weiss.” The article is from 2024, but you should still fix that, goethe.de

Photo and caption for https://www.goethe.de/prj/zei/en/art/25229228.html

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I just went through months of outlook spam and found a dead-letters-office-worth of failed and misdirected messages. In addition to real spam, sent to long-departed colleagues, former instructors, people dearly missed. Spammy nostalgia is real.

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If you stare long enough at Bucharest’s 19th c ruined mansions, you might actually watch them fall apart in real time.

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Had to do a bit of Berlin Schönhauser Corner (1957) reconstruction work - including a (bad) homage to that amazing 360 title sequence

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Ervin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Coming up in the next two days at the @zfl-berlin.bsky.social: workshop titled “Transatlantic Print Entrepreneurs: Mobility, Publishing Cultures, and Partial Archives in the Mid- and Late-Nineteenth Century” organized by Sean Franzel and @spoerhase.bsky.social. 🌈🌈🌈 www.zfl-berlin.org/event/transa...

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Transatlantic Print Entrepreneurs: Mobility, Publishing Cultures, and Partial Archives in the Mid- and Late-Nineteenth Century - ZfL Berlin

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Going through old pics, found this post-covid MLA panel classic

MLA panel title: “Avoiding the Plague from Boccaccio to Today”

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Pick one: narrated by David Attenborough? or Werner Herzog?

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Imagining how surprised someone will be, 40-50 years hence, to learn of the New School’s origins…. For that matter, to discover that for decades, Indiana University taught more languages than any other school in the country. And bragged about it!!

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

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Lament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Purity Ring concert yesterday in Vancouver- a reminder to re/watch Search Party if you haven’t done so already!

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

heron posing for Vancouver postcard

heron resting on rocky beach against blue sky

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Switching to final exams next year; at least I won’t have to read endless variations of the same bot-ified idea.

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

my favorite kind of end-of-term grading: grading while sick 🤒

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

the absurdity of teaching Perfect Days right now, wondering if shadows get darker when they overlap. actually, the absurdity of teaching anything right now

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

(202) 224-3121 is the capitol switchboard for connecting to any senate or house office; even if you've never called; even though the lot of them are useless. no abominable war crimes, no war, no.

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Why are the cinematic takes on humanities academia so absurdly bad? Name one that’s decent please.

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

do potato-picking farm trips for the glory of the socialist fatherland count or is that too niche?

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Pufuleți! The battle cry of all Romanians worldwide.

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Dürrenmatt’s Visit but the shoes are Florsheim

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Oh but let’s spend more time thinking critically about AI

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 21/02/2026

This is going to be a banger. Preorder @ceciliarikap.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/products/325...

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

fungus aesthetics: hair ice creations, courtesy of Exidiopsis effusa this morning

Hair ice formations on rotten wood branches

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI”

Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” This is a (very) incomplete list of journalistic and scholarly sources that provide information about limitations and documented drawbacks of variou...

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

kids, I beg you *please* stop reading those g00gle AI "overviews"

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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

“The Secret Agent Network,” a series programmed by Kleber Mendonça Filho, is on from January 7 through 13 @filmlinc.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

A new retro-ish poster for THE SECRET AGENT from Bangers & Mash Designs.

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Not sure how to put this but I almost miss the ‘hey, couldn’t come to class, what did I miss’ student emails. At least you felt interpellated. The AI generated apologies with 3 paragraphs of nauseating prose feel like staring into the void.

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

a very Vancouver sort of evening

a flock of Canada geese on a grass field near Jericho Beach

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Today! Register&join us for a talk by @loriemerson.net on alternative and forgotten networks and the futures they might hold. cenes.ubc.ca/events/event...

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Woke up to that upenn hack email thing. Isn’t it ironic.

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Haven’t these numbers suffered enough?

Three jack-o'-lanterns displayed on a porch, the middle one carved out to read ‘67’

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Lots of people read my newsletter every week when I link to it from here, but don't subscribe. I would be delighted if you would subscribe: the numbers keep me motivated. It's free, but you can pitch in some change if you want. Money, after all, is also motivating. Thanks! mail.cyberneticforests.com

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Cybernetic Forests

Sifting Through the Techno-Cultural Debris.

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

i love playing the AI-overview-quote-guessing game. Enjoying the assertiveness here "this phrase is almost certainly a quote or a strong opinion about xyz" Nope.

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Torn between going as “experience designer” or “judgment coach” this Halloween 🤔

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Stumbled on this acct on insta: what is this casserole of pseudo-linguistic Romanianist nonsense? I can assure you that “Balkan and Dacian” 🤪 do not in fact “come alive in harmony” when I speak.

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Striking that Lindt bunny/ Dieter Roth Karnickel pose

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

#litcrit pals, a really interesting question about the history of discipline from a graduate student here, a question that has me totally stumped: "which journal in literary criticism was the first to implement modern peer review?" (I think he might mean blind review) Thank you for your suggestions!

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

“one and three benches” Not quite a Joseph Kosuth, but look at the mossy patches underneath this bench, pretending to be a second shadow.

Wooden bench against green grassy patch and concrete sidewalk

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Tell me what you're teaching this/next week.

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ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

A couple of years ago, I found toddler Benjamin's hussar outfit in an 1890s toy catalogue (16.50 marks, pricey!) Still best online find ever...

portrait of Walter Benjamin as a child in hussar uniform

toy catalogue page with picture and description of child's hussar uniform

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