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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 12h

It’s all Riker’s holodeck simulation.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ohmigosh it’s happening it’s finally happening

Dear Dr Phillips,
I hope you're well.
My name is Claudia Winkleman, and I'm a host and broadcaster with BBC Radio.
I recently came across your forthcoming book, Virginia Woolf and Futurity, and was immediately intrigued by its central question: how Virginia Woolf imagined the future, and how those ideas continue to speak to the present.
I was particularly interested in the way your work brings Woolf's writing, ideas, and creative process into conversation with questions about time, possibility, and what it means to imagine a tuture that has not yet arrived. I think there could be a fascinating and very accessible conversation for radio around how Woolf understood the future
- and why her thinking about it still feels so relevant.
I'd love to invite you to join me for a BBC Radio conversation about the book and your research.
If this is something you might be interested in, I'd be very pleased to discuss the details with you.
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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nobody could have predicted this. It’s not as if Britain has a history of damaging its own economy in order to chase the satisfaction of a clutch of racists.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The town of Pullman, WA, is named after the industrialist who built those fancy railway carriages, but it no longer has a functioning railway line. This seems like such an own goal.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If we’re doing job interviews disc horse, my favourite reason for not being offered a (content writing) job was that, and I quote, I was too good at writing.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everyone knows that you assert dominance over your interviewer by bringing beans, a grinder and a Japanese siphon brewer.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Woolfgang, I’ve just made a startling realisation: I’ve been photographing Woolf’s books for two weeks. They’re arranged by LoC order, which is alphabetical. I’ve been going from start to finish, hoping to finish literature which is P. I have been trying to get to Q this whole damn time.

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horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me checking the news every morning

A horrified possum in an American mailbox

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘Take the A-train’ is the optimal jazz standard because it is both catchy and informative.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Look, if you’re going to destroy humanity, get on with it. I’ve got places to be

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hwæt! We Capūlets in gærdagum þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða Montagūen ellen fremedon

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They really are speedrunning the Starmer administration.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’ve been on a US uni campus for a week now and, at the risk of Doing a Food Discourse, this nation is in dire need of some complex carbs.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It ys tyme for Tulip skeptics to face some difficulte trouthes. Tulips are the waye of the future. Yf you do not invest yn Tulips you are way behinde. Yf you do not teache your children about Tulips thei will not be able to compete on the jobbe market. Onlye Luddites dislyke Tulips.

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

great art articulates eternal truths

script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
[They do not log off]

CURTAIN

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You are not prepared for Herbert Spencer’s hairdo.

A photogravure of Herbert Spencer, a youngish man sat in a chair wearing what would now be considered black tie. He has a combover, a poof of hair around his temples, and a chinstrap beard.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Back in Pullman, and this is home for a month. The journey might have been harrowing, but they’re letting me play with the Phase One this time, and the setup is like nothing I’ve ever used before. The camera is 150mp and it’s only available for institutional GLAM purchasers. Wild stuff

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

the Norman Yoke is a myth founded on a misreading of the recipe for Norman Yolk, an egg-based dessert a little bit like a posset

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Not beating the “it only counts if there’s a Ladybird book about it” mindset allegations

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It’s a really good thing that he has an exceptionally proactive opposite number in DCMS who can help him… *holds finger to earpiece* oh it seems some new information is coming to light

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The fun thing about insomnia (European edit) is that you’re up to watch the Britsky dirge give way to the Hieronymous Bosch triptych that is USPol Bluesky

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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Configurations of Creepiness 🕷️ 16 contributions 🍄 Creep Studies Come creep with us. 🪲🕺🪲💃🪲 Access it here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/3... 🪲 Configurations of Creepiness 📖 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1080/0969... #CreepStudies #ConfigurationsOfCreepiness #QueerEcology #Ecocriticism

tandfonline.com

Angelaki

Volume 31, Issue 3-4 of Angelaki

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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Across sixteen contributions, Configurations of Creepiness opens up transhistorical, intermedial, and interdisciplinary approaches to the creepy, asking what creepiness knows, what it insists we learn, and what we stand to lose when we refuse to listen.

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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Rather than treating “the creepy” as simply a mood, genre, or aesthetic, Configurations of Creepiness explores creepiness as a critical method for thinking about bodies, environments, technologies, archives, ecology, and power.

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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

👀 “Configuring the Creepy” This week a double special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities creeps from the shadows after years of collaborative, vulnerable, and insistent work, and we’re ready to release it into the wilds. @woolfianjosh.bsky.social @mostlyvoids.bsky.social

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Laura Ludtke @ladyelectric.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It is publication day for Configurations of Creepiness. More to come over the next few days, but for now, enjoy this sneak peek at our Foreword. Read the full issue here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cang20/3...

Screenshot of front page of publication entitled Congogurarions of the Creepy, illustrated with cover image of entwined branches and insects hiding in plain sight.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

he's retired to spend more time pottering about in his garden

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm just a boy standing in front of a WorldCat asking why he has to do a CAPTCHA for every single search

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

- helps with viva prep - doesn’t run a madrasa designed to incubate a generation of Christian nationalist entryists

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Aw man, now I have to talk myself into a state of psychosis like some sort of rube

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There's been lots of News today but the real big story is that _Virginia Woolf and Futurity_ is in press and will be in all good bookstores (and some disreputable ones) very soooooooon!

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Diva down (sorry, am trying to delet)

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

👻 ⛓️ Scrooge, I am the ghost of reasoned critiques of Malthusianism yet to come ⛓️ 👻

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Today's #ModWrite is filled with the most mortifying task of all* *sending strangers the emails necessary to get a cool new project underway

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

tough on lungs; tough on the causes of lungs

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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

No. Stop that. 😬

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m one of the few Woolf scholars…

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

rain rain rain! rain rain rain! rain rain rain! that's it, that's the tweet

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

For sale baby Florsheims; never worn?

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Good Friday Agreement, never heard of her

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Do they love science fiction or do they just love the aura of the science-fictional? I see plenty of engagement with an aesthetic that can broadly speaking be called sci-fi, but not with the texts they claim to cleave to.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Make a band bigger Mumford and Large Adult Sons

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One must imagine Syphisus doing laundry.

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