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Cory Doctorow’s “the enshittocene” is excellent

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So happy to host a luncheon at the @uthumanitiesctr.bsky.social‬ with Beauford Delaney Estate Executor Derek Spratley, honoring the exceptional Monique Y. Wells of Les Amis de Beauford Delaney, a pivotal resource in Beauford Delaney studies! And so many other Delaney supporters!

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Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field? Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities! We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here: environmentalhumanities.org Contact us if you have any questions.

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Yes. Super smart.

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"And one would have us believe that television is going to release us from the burden of Auschwitz by raising collective consciousness, when television perpetuates it in other ways, no longer under the auspices of a place of annihilation, but of a medium of dissuasion." - Seduction

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CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY now has a website at @princetonupress.bsky.social, complete with very generous blurbs from David James, @rbuurma.bsky.social & @laheffernan.bsky.social , and Andrew DuBois. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

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"The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in Non-Fiction written by women. The 2025 longlist varies in subject matter, style and genre, and the 16 books make for an incisive and original reading list." womensprize.com/prizes/women...

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“We need to renew our habits of assembly and recognize that we are part of a common project and that project has been given to us by our ancestors along with the responsibility to pass that project on to our children." -- Fred Moten #BlackHistoryMonth www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFTk...

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“What Eve accomplishes is making these otherwise difficult, technical, and confusing concepts accessible for humanists. For any student or scholar looking to begin their studies into digital textuality, I recommend Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History” www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

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Yes birds

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We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

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Fantastic talk by @dan__sinnamon.bsky yesterday at the Denbo Center!

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Stoked to host Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky tomorrow at UT Knoxville at the Denbo Center! Join us online at https://tennessee.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XLmMy9N9Rt6uuat2RcUaBA#/registration

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Save 30% on #NewBook "Speculative Light," edited by @amyjelias.bsky.social , which illuminates how we can read James Baldwin through Beauford Delaney’s paintings and see Delaney’s paintings through Baldwin’s writing. #BlackStudies #LiteraryStudies #Art https://buff.ly/3CIzMOR

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Shawn Anthony Christian, Magdalena J. Zaborowska, and D. Quentin Miller —three contributors to the new book _Speculative Light: The Arts of Beauford Delaney & James Baldwin_ — at MLA: Speculative Light is here! Available for purchase now! https://www.dukeupress.edu/speculative-light

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Los Angeles friends, a trustworthy friend of mine passed along this list of resources for sharing — here’s hoping it gets you help you need. mutualaidla.org

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www.michellechihara.com/post/january...

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Yes

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I hope everyone in CA is ok. My love and prayers to all at UCLA and in LA.

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Please donate here to Los Angeles K-12 educators who have lost their homes to the fires givebutter.com/KaJNtk

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This is a tremendous lede by @zoeschlanger.bsky.social

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URGENT: Here’s a list of campaigns to support Black families displaced by the LA fires. Bit.ly/rebuildAD h/t: @ykreborn.bsky.social

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I’ll have a new post tomorrow, but Chris Newfield kindly asked to cross-post “What The MLA Is…” at Remaking The University, where you can find the most extensive coverage of this episode, curated by a former MLA president who really wants the organization to be an advocate for humanities workers.

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Here are my remarks for @ach.bsky.social’s #mla25 "Book History & the Digital Humanities" roundtable—"Making Media Manifest" tries to link DH making, the communications circuit & origins of BH, the current "book labs" movement, & critical infrastructure studies—& channel some 2011-era-twitter vibes

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At #MLA ! ⁦‪@dukepress.bsky.social booth!! Fantastic collection of 20 essays, 32 color plates. Get yours now!!

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Available February 4! A gorgeous book with 42 color plates and amazing essays. Preorder at https://dukeupress.edu/speculative-light#AdditionalInformation

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The Project Narrative podcast featuring Lemony Snicket's "A Lump of Coal" is now at the Project Narrative podcast site. Jim Phelan and I had a great deal of fun doing it as a seasonal gift proving that narrative theorists can complicate anything, including the holidays. https://tiny.utk.edu/D5cBR

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Daily reminder that the underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.

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A Boston colleague (not on Bluesky) asked me to post this ad for a 2-year postdoc at Tufts on the Mellon Foundation-funded project University Ecologies and the Question of the Commons. Please forward widely! humanities.tufts.edu/postdoctoral...

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The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize now for the "unputdownable" novel f RT on unpublished women. The winner will receive a £1,500 prize, and all shortlisted authors get a one-on-one consultation with a literary agent. Please share. www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/fictionprize

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