ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Some of the directions we're particularly interested in: alternative cultural&media histories of distraction distraction&new forms of experience queering distraction political economies of distraction digital capitalism&distraction distraction and/as labor the futures of distraction +++ 030
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Friends, 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-...intermedialites.comCALL FOR PAPERS – NO. 51 “DISTRACTING / DISTRAIRE” – intermédialités 11412
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“Canadian Germanist babes, wake up: Carney brought up the Wahlverwandtschaften at the EU Parliament” 040
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This 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. 010
Reposted by ilinca iurascuRyan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 27/08/2026Ok 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 1033792
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This 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 052
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 21/08/2026This will be a film, yes? The sequel to Östlund’s The Square (only better) vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/08/19/v...vancouver.citynews.caVPD breaks into gallery to 'rescue' sculptureWhen the director of Vancouver's Access Gallery received a phone call from police late Friday night, she was alarmed -- at first. 011
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I 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. 010
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 27/07/2026If you stare long enough at Bucharest’s 19th c ruined mansions, you might actually watch them fall apart in real time. 040
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Had to do a bit of Berlin Schönhauser Corner (1957) reconstruction work - including a (bad) homage to that amazing 360 title sequence 130
Reposted by ilinca iurascuErvin Malakaj @ervinmalakaj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Coming 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...zfl-berlin.orgTransatlantic Print Entrepreneurs: Mobility, Publishing Cultures, and Partial Archives in the Mid- and Late-Nineteenth Century - ZfL Berlin 1123
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Going through old pics, found this post-covid MLA panel classic 130
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 10/06/2026oh, this is brilliant: fake tech ads! (please make more?) goofstump.spacegoofstump.spacegoofstumpDemocratizing AI versatility for the human generation. 000
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Pick one: narrated by David Attenborough? or Werner Herzog? 010
Reposted by ilinca iurascuRebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Imagining 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!! 112647
Reposted by ilinca iurascueileen 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...fnl.mit.eduLament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter 551526684
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Purity Ring concert yesterday in Vancouver- a reminder to re/watch Search Party if you haven’t done so already! 000
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Switching to final exams next year; at least I won’t have to read endless variations of the same bot-ified idea. 140
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 24/04/2026my favorite kind of end-of-term grading: grading while sick 🤒 010
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 08/04/2026the absurdity of teaching Perfect Days right now, wondering if shadows get darker when they overlap. actually, the absurdity of teaching anything right now 050
Reposted by ilinca iurascuAnna 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. 2143107
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Why are the cinematic takes on humanities academia so absurdly bad? Name one that’s decent please. 470
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 17/03/2026do potato-picking farm trips for the glory of the socialist fatherland count or is that too niche? 142
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Pufuleți! The battle cry of all Romanians worldwide. 061
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Oh but let’s spend more time thinking critically about AI 001
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 24/01/2026fungus aesthetics: hair ice creations, courtesy of Exidiopsis effusa this morning 010
Reposted by ilinca iurascuProf. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 21/01/2026My 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...docs.google.comWhy 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... 1528291
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 08/01/2026kids, I beg you *please* stop reading those g00gle AI "overviews" 040
Reposted by ilinca iurascuDavid 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... 0137
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 14/12/2025please watch it in a theatre if you can. I promise it’s worth it 130
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Not 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. 120
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 06/12/2025That’s really kind! But seriously, learned a lot while translating that book. Also: recommend rewatching Gosford Park after reading it. 020
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Today! 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... 072
ilinca iurascu @ilinca.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Woke up to that upenn hack email thing. Isn’t it ironic. 010
Reposted by ilinca iurascuEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Lots 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.commail.cyberneticforests.comCybernetic ForestsSifting Through the Techno-Cultural Debris. 061