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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 8h

Does anyone know of a psychoanalytical text on Baudelaire?

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 7h

This is me getting on the M instead of the F at 34th (about every 6 months or so)

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 16h

singing 'Fernando' but about 'Clamato'

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 16h

when you have this slide for your undergrad lit class for today (UTOPIA) you know things are about to get wild

sovereignty vs biopolitics (Michael Foucault and Giorgio Agamben), with Homo Sacer, History of Sexuality Vol 1, and a page of the Foucault "Part Five, Right of Death and Power over Life"

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Ben Zimmer @benzimmer.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Mad Men" was so meticulous about its period-appropriate decor, but they used an edition of the Compact Oxford English Dictionary from 1987 in an episode set in 1963. www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroute...

Screenshot from "Mad Men" showing an anachronistic dictionary on Lane Pryce's credenza.

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Guy coming down the stairs behind me after HISTORY OF CONCRETE observed 'it's a Hallmark movie,' and so it is

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Asked my undergrads to do some in class writing about why they choose to write what they did in their first papers and what they wish they'd had time to say and I'm just basking in this stuff, it's so good. Even the weak papers have real thought (and such uncertainty!) behind them.

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

the thing is, since we don't know what Columbus looked like, we can just switch the nameplates -- is that what's they're called -- to someone else. Voila! Now it's a statue of (looks up 15th-century people from Genoa) uh Niccolò Gattilusio, sixth and last Gattilusio lord of Lesbos

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This weekend I watched Andrzej Żuławski's POSSESSION -- aka what if Gena Rowlands played every role in a joint Cassavetes / Cronenberg production -- and did NOT know it was an eschatological horror film going in. Sorry if this is you as well but otherwise please imagine my face about an hour in.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

happy 25th release - aversary to MULHOLLAND DRIVE!! got to talk with the beautiful Colm Toibin about how to understand this odd odd dream of cinema stay tuned: we're doing it again soon for a new episode about a different movie, a preposterous choice

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

it's been a wild couple of days

4 films from letterbox

resident evil
digger
ikarie xb 1
possession

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

f. 17r of National Library of Sweden, Isl. perg. fol. 7 seems to include somebody practicing their alphabet.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Again, none of its true. People are looking at graphs they don't understand and inventing stuff. Note the grifter language, "if confirmed" "its reported" No meta data! These graphs do not show russian propaganda bot disappearance, only normal internet information tool collapse.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Any time you see media on Prop 40 that cites "Stanford economics professors" arguing against the billionaire tax, notice that: A. They mean Hoover Insititute work product. B. They aren't citing UC Berkeley economics professors arguing for it: gabriel-zucman.eu/files/BSZ202...

gabriel-zucman.eu

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I appreciate that PBS opted to depict an older wiser Martina instead of reusing a youthful image, but they could have glammed her up a bit with some feathers or something.

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Gaza5k in prospect park absolutely not a race if you want a PR but man it's a great community event (raising $$ for mental health services for kids in Gaza!)

It's me underneath a blue tent outside in running gear holding a big sign that says DSA RUNNING CLUB

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Dr. Emily Price @emilyprice.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I haven’t shouted out @unwinnable.com in a while, I’ve had my column for almost 5 years now and it’s morphed from “writing about the past” to “indie games” and “whatever emily wants to write about in a given month.” I don’t know where else I’d be trusted to do that.

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

strait's open, oil prices will be down very soon

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lamorak.bsky.social @lamorak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of the great, underrated dramas we find ourselves in is the cold Civil War between Christian sects over what living in the 20th and 21st centuries should look like, which is how you get Christian Nationalist backed ICE agents assaulting mainline and Catholic ministers

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Bc I am old this stuff gets more engagement on FB but I thought I’d repost here

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B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Someone asked r/askhistorians a question on Ancient Greek amphibious warfare, specifically as depicted in Troy. I wrote a quick answer. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

RIP Chris Wickham. Unlike so many historians who emphasise particularities and contingencies, he was the master of constructing grand, coherent, beautifully rendered worlds out of his evidence. This, from his 2021 Past and Present essay, is a masterpiece of historical writing.

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

for Banned Books Week, I talked for seven mins about book banning to Münster’s Silent Book Club and then we all read our books quietly for an hour in the Stadtbücherei

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is now a pro Digger account

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Imagining a writer who's like Trump on exercise (he doesn't bc he thinks he has a limited number of heart beats or something) who can't use up their precious few words for the day on microblogging sites like this

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I accidentally bought a ticket for Digger for Saturday and today is Friday and yet the young hipster let me in and I felt briefly like it was 1995 again and the hipsters were letting me into the dollar cinema for free because everyone knew everyone

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Seychelles turtle shells by the sea shore

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 09/10/2026

england has openly gay married men, but scotland has even outer he-brides

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Let me also note that much more recently Princeton denied tenure to Sarah Chihaya, who was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography last year for BIBLIOPHOBIA

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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

something cheerful, thank goodness: the Vietnamese edition of Ways of Eating* is here, and we took it out for a sandwich. * the book on world food history and anthropology I co-wrote with my Mom, Merry White.

A copy of the Vietnamese translation of the book "Ways of Eating" sits on a restaurant counter, next to a banh mi sandwich (chicken confit mode) with a carved wooden fish looking over the scene.

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 09/10/2026

The Wicker Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/10/09/t... Part folk record, part pagan fever dream, The Wicker Man’s soundtrack feels like stumbling upon something unearthed rather than recorded. Simultaneously ancient and entirely invented . . .

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

if you want to draw a lesson: - classical scholar wins giant literary prize - international right and their cronies, eg boards of trustees at elite institutions, if they claim to love culture at all, claim to love "classics" - but they don't read it and are hostile to materially supporting it

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

(I feel that a lot of the 'oh ho Princeton denied tenure to Carson and now it's praising her = academia as such' posting is uh: no)

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We’re sick of ICE terrorizing our neighbors. Sick of it. Like the brave people of Minneapolis, we have zero tolerance for federal agents lawlessly unleashing violence on our streets.

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anyway in re Carson (let alone Odyssey madness this summer), Brooklyn College had a great classics department in 2007 when I started and is now down to 2 full-time faculty, to my mind, a catastrophe for a public working class institution. One reason a dept sheds majors is institutional neglect.

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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

anne carson is proof that a phd in the humanities provides you with transferable skills

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Literally just taught Carson's wonderful Antigone translation on Tuesday

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tonight we read the heartrending words of those who lost Israeli loved ones on Oct 7th — and Palestinian loved ones in the three years since. We said kaddish for all of them. We refused to compromise on anyone’s humanity. No amount of shouting stopped us. May their memory be for a blessing.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A real successful 1A day here on campus. Heavy hitters. Big student turnout. Engaged questions. My notes for the academic freedom panel is a sort of Cliff Notes of how I approach this thing. This is it. My whole talk.

Notes app reads: Neoliberalism weaponizes bias to justify austerity. Austerity creates corporate universities. Corporate universities are unhealthy organizations. Unhealthy organizations cannot inculcate or defend academic freedom. Without academic freedom to check administrative power, corporate universities will translate austerity into financialized predation. Predation undermines public trust in higher education. Death spiral accelerates.

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Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

TIL that Hindemith wrote an opera called The Long Christmas Dinner with a libretto by Thornton Wilder.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this isn't all Zohran had pledged, and there are still age restrictions, but he also has three years left in his mayoralty. this is a start, and far more than most.

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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 07/10/2026

Copulate: an exclamation that one makes when a policeman arrives well after the thief has fled.

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Screw Tape Letters @muleskinnerpress.net · 07/10/2026

When my cat is mad dinner is 5 minutes late

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

increasingly I think it's not useful to tell students to prove their points with quotes, as if quotation is self-evident instead, they have to shift to prove the quotes with their points

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

*starts up a chant from the back of the room* TAWADA TAWADA TAWADA

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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 07/10/2026

Omg look at this fucking shit

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