iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Great talk here at UIUC by Jesse Oak Taylor of UWashington, linking the exposed elevations in Wuthering Heights to depictions of mountain topography in the Himalayas So much good work in Victorian studies lately on planetary/imperial ecology!

Jesse Oak Taylor’s talk “Life in the Death Zone” at Climate Change & Literary History symposium at U of Illinois

Recent books about 19c ecology and literature

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It’s important to state it plainly, regardless of what you think about the long-term utility of LLMs, what they are currently being used to build are primarily for-profit propaganda machines which will be used to replace educators, technocrats, social workers, & journalists.

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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Necessary reading from @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social : "The question is not, what do we suffer ...if petromodernity persists? The question is, what do we gain from shutting the pipeline down, from releasing ourselves from oil’s sticky grip?" thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/bad-attach...

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What if our biggest obstacle to shutting down Line 5 isn’t the pipeline, but the story we’ve been telling ourselves about modern life?

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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Congratulations to Jamie and her wonderful book!!

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John Levi Barnard @jlb.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Just in time for the holidays, yet another reason to get this brilliant book by my amazing friend and colleague @jamieljones.bsky.social!

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

don’t comply in advance also applies to the enclosure of all hitherto existing cultural production and expulsion of labor

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The Humanities must firmly reject AI taking over our classrooms, our pedagogy. It’s the only way.

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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Richard Primack and Abe Miller-Rushing in the current issue of The Dial explaining how Thoreau’s Kalendar has offered a key dataset for their work as climate scientists: muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

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Project MUSE - Thoreau's Contributions to Climate Change Science

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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Jamie Jones, in the inaugural issue of The Dial, discusses containerization, Thoreau’s Cape Cod, and her own habits of ship-watching at the Strait of Gibraltar. muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

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Project MUSE - Long Looking, Without Seeing: Thoreau's Cape Cod and Global Capitalism at Sea

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The Dial @thedial2024.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Happy birthday to @jlb.bsky.social whose essay in the current issue of The Dial takes Thoreau’s writings on the railroad as a chance to draw out the meanings of infrastructures of speed and mobility during a time of climate crisis. muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

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Project MUSE - Thoreau and the Future We Choose

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 20/11/2024

One of the points Newfield makes in this talk is that the American people are deeply dissatisfied with how their lives are organized under capitalism, and the solutions offered by corporate media are actually not satisfying them. What they need is the type of knowledge that humanists provide.

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Emerson Society @emersonsociety.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Introducing The Dial, a new open access journal. thedialjournal.org Many thanks to our roster of contributors to Issue 1: @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, Jamie L. Jones, Kristen Treen, John Levi Barnard, Russ Castronovo, Elise Lemire, Richard B. Primack, Maria Madison, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing.

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The Dial – A Journal of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society

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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

In this brilliant essay, @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social reminds us that on matters of energy, infrastructure, and climate, we're still living in the long 19th century. No one writes about energy like Jeff!!

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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Emerson and Fuller's Transcendentalist journal, THE DIAL, has relaunched, thanks to the labor and love of @chrishanlon.bsky.social. I'm so honored to have an essay in the inaugural issue, where I write about climate change, Thoreau and global shipping. thedialjournal.org

A view--obstructed by a fence--of the huge Tanger Med container port on the Strait of Gibraltar.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Super excited about the 21st c. resuscitation of The Dial-- and to be in such brilliant company. Check it out!

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John Levi Barnard @jlb.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Huge thank you to @chrishanlon.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to this amazing inaugural issue of @thedial2024.bsky.social, along with my dear friends and co-operators @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social and @jamieljones.bsky.social.

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