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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They’re pandering to the Downton Abbey Americans (derogatory) just like Netflix is pandering to the ”I put on the tv for background noise” brigade. The background noise people are the bulk of viewers but the rabid, loyal fans are the base of a successful entertainment endeavor and Netflix is like

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Reasonsimbroke Larry David

ALT: Reasonsimbroke Larry David

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

at a certain point I don't know how to interpret this kind of bad-faith higher ed think piece other than as a death-driven attempt to tank the whole enterprise and then scab for it www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“What emerges is a longform rejoinder to the idea that the working class is any less sensitive or articulate than the educated, and a correction to the conceit that something called ‘unskilled labor’ exists.” New at PB: @ryanboyd.bsky.social on the Works Progress Administration archives.

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Long-Distance Talkers: The Great Depression Speaks - Public Books

During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

would anyone from a non elite college like to write about this for Contingent because you know we would publish it

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nemesis movie for what it has done to people my age and their expectations of literature classrooms

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The Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Looks like a Wednesday.

Neil Dudgeon as John Barnaby and Nick Hendrix as Jamie Winter in MIDSOMER MURDERS

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Chronovisor the paperwork movie that humanists have been aching for! Researching the ineffable in an empty library while wearing crisp monochrome pieces I haven't laundered myself – yes please!

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Books are not drugs" I say to my student who is staring fixedly at my copy of All That Is Solid Melts Into Air on the table between us. "But they kind of are though," he replies.

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Avoiding my homework (Tristam Shandy book club) but my h.w. isn't avoiding me (Sterne ref cropping up in my Montaigne biography)

Montaigne's cross-Channel heirs, the one who deserves the last word is an Anglo-Irishman: Laurence Sterne, eighteenth-century author of Iristram Sbandy. His great novel , if it can be so classified, IS an exaggerated Montaignesque ramble, contaınıng several explicit nods to Its French predecessor, and filled with games, paradoxes, , and aigressions D

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Have once more foiled the thunderstorms predicted for today by carrying umbrellas around all day

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The group chat as a kind of "neighbourhood" – so good! Speaking of which: submit your proposals for our Neighbourhood Modernisms cluster on @mmodernity.bsky.social Print+. Details on the listserve! 🌱

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Is The Wiki still out there and are they keeping tabs on which jobs are the scab jobs, which jobs are the fake jobs, which jobs are the right-wing dark money jobs, etc?

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Apropos: At the doctor's this morning, my usually calm doc suddenly squealed aloud because she got a text that someone bit her kid at camp. "There's blood" she said and showed me a photo of the back of her child's neck. "Human spit is the worst for cuts. Better to get dog spit on you."

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Satoshi Kon Fellow > Satoshi Nakamoto Fellow

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Doing even the most blah things (committee work!) with Janet is so fun and inspiring 🌱

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C. Bukowski @thishurt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Television used to MEAN something in this country. 🧐

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Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It’s here! From the team that brought you Clarissa 2025, join us to read a rollicking delight of a novel. Whether you’re rereading or reading for the first time, there are lots of ways to join. We’ll have weekly Substack posts and bimonthly hybrid meetings.

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Essential reading. Many things to say, one of which is that @theatlantic.com and @chronicle.com might consider doing some very basic fact-checking in future before gleefully and self-servingly packaging unsubstantiated, bad, and in fact harmful takes by TAH as searing truth-telling.

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Hello eco critics! So Jamaica Kincaid in her garden phase is... kind of a trip, right? The kind that's full of frustration and missed connections and delays...?

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

My whole childless life I’ve been told when you become a parent your heart opens up to a new special magical kind of love, apparently a love so strong it will let children die of entirely preventable illnesses.

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's 'English major graduated recently' season at our neighbourhood free library 🌻

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It (nearly) lives! Forthcoming from OUP in November or December! My first reaction, for once, was glee — though the terror of writing a book is that it’s never finished. Eek! Woohoo! Wild to have proofs in hand!!!!

Title page of forthcoming book by me, titled Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Cosmologies of the Human: Worlds Unmanned. From Oxford UP.

Table of contents for forthcoming book.

Introduction: Poetry, Person, Planet — with subsections on William Wordsworth; Sylvia Wynter and lyricization; climate, affectability, impress; and criticism, canonicity, and counterbumanism.

First chapter on Wordsworth, Charles Lyell, and c19 manscapes — with subsections on Wordsworth’s and Lyell’s lyric theologies, the pathetic fallacy (Ruskin) and Wynter on desperate realization, and apostrophizing Toussaint Louverture.

Second chapter on Tennyson’s In Memoriam, the possibilities and limits of posthumanism, and ambivalent reading — with subsections on extinction and apostrophe.

Third chapter on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the problem of reference, and infrastructures of reading — with subsections on Swedenborgianism, sphericity, plantation inheritances, and the slippages of rhyme.

Fourth chapter on Phillis Wheatley, extractivism, extractionist reading, and salvage criticism—with subsections on solar intergumanism, allusion, reticence, and refusal.

Coda on contemporary representations of climate collapse, Wynter on transumption, and the afterlives of c19 aesthetic imaginaries.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"Mary" works in the flower fields after she finishes her day in the strawberry fields in order to afford her families rent & food. "I cut and bunch 100s of sunflowers and snapdragons. Flowers are very expensive at the store, but we just earn min wage. It isn't fair. " #WeFeedYou

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Really annoyed about the concept of clock time, calendars; might become a Bergsonian

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Me and a busful of old ladies tut-tutting at the angry lost tourist who couldn't understand directions and told our bus driver to get their head out of their ass

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Sandrine Berges @sandrineankara.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Moral of the story : think twice before you cite translators who are serious about their work. Just because they're women doesn't mean they'll be grateful for whatever attention!

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Dr. Laura Hartmann-Villalta @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

friends, I'm looking for a statistic on how many academic jobs there were in 2025-2026. where can I find this info? any recent year would be GRAND (hard to prove a negative, I know, but point me in a direction???) also looking to compare with a year in the 90s...just not sure where to find stats??

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The extraordinary Dr Sarah Hoiland @sarahoiland.bsky.social at the culminating celebration of the summer program she dreamed up and made possible - the HOPE program funded by NSF, where student parents do college classes upstairs while their kiddos take summer classes in the same building #CUNYProud

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Terry Gilliam's Don Quixote! Oh wait..

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Watched Nolan's Odyssey to finally resolve the burning question, was Matt Damon nekkid when he killed all the suitors and the answer is disappointingly, ahistorically, nope

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

More from Wollstonecraft's Scandinavian letters & their reports on the dawning of a modern extractivist economy ... outside Oslo the "view was almost spoilt by the depredations committed on the rocks to make alum." Alum? For dyeing? paper sizing? Environmental historians, what do you think? THANKS!

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Think everything is going downhill all the time? Notwithstanding the general enshittification of the interwebs, they brought paper maps back on the subway and that is unarguably a good thing

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This thunderstorm is really vibing to Alice Coltrane rn

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

utterly patient response to professional misconduct Appiah DOGEd disciplines and fields about which he knows nothing, incinerating his reputation in the process "He just hasn’t done the reading."

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Climate humanities meets critical university studies! Please read Cari's fantastic letter about campus gardens and parking lots and how an English prof might be useful at Facilities and Grounds meetings if allowed in

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Today I - did an anon peer review, posted a call for papers, submitted a reimbursement request, which at CUNY deserves a special category of patience all its own, responded to emails, read some modernist stuff, worked on my Fall sem syllabus. This is off-contract "summer holiday" 🌻

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Disability Works turns 2 today, somehow! Help celebrate by 1) Asking your library to buy a copy 2) Purchasing your own copy directly from NYU Press for 30% off with discount code NYUP30 3) Rate it on Amazon/Goodreads As always, I'm happy to do virtual class visits! nyupress.org/978147982487...

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Disability Works

Winner, 2025 Midwest Modern Language Association Book AwardWinner, 2025 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book AwardFinalist, 2025 Barnard Hewitt Aw...

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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Ray came home from work during the half time in upper Manhattan and said the entire bus + subway ride back was like a fifa ad. People watching on their phones, the tinny sound of roars from no one using headphones. People in Arg gear, and he himself unwittingly in a light blue and white shirt

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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/07/2026

The Onion looks back on 250 years of American exceptionalism. Watch now on youtube.com/theonion

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So I'm starting a podcast about friendship and aesthetic experience called "Some Marvelous Experience." I've posted a brief teaser that explains a little bit about the main idea and will drop the first episode soon. Please subscribe and help me spread the word! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Some Marvelous Experience

Arts Podcast · Updated Biweekly · A podcast about friendship and art hosted by Brian Glavey. For each episode I'll talk to a pair of friends about a work of art or aesthetic experience that they share...

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