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nathankhensley.bsky.social
Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (2025) • Forms of Empire: The Poetics of Victorian Sovereignty (2016) • Fresno, Silver Spring • https://www.nathankhensley.net/
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if you’re among the very lucky few of us who still have access to research funds, those monies can typically be used to pay AAUP membership dues, which I think of as an indirect wealth transfer from rich universities to our colleagues at all the other ones which means you should do it asap

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No time like now to join the AAUP! Just this decision alone makes your dues worth every penny.

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always a key moment in the revolutionary sequence / coup

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the kids did it — and showed more courage at that moment than anybody who’s running their school

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If you see something like this you have a moral human obligation to tear it off the fucking wall, and I am being absolutely serious

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'"I think there is no question that the target is the university mission as we’ve known it, and that very few people are speaking up,' Scott said. 'And in fact, I would say that institutional neutrality is being used as a kind of protective stance for those administrators who are not speaking up.'"

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coming back to the house

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A couple of us put this together at Georgetown for next week. Anybody in DC very welcome to come through

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Quietly, my university took down its webpage on diversity (diversity.arizona.edu) and edited its land acknowledgement to remove the clause, "Committed to diversity and inclusion, the University strives..." We need Universities to stand up for their values, not comply in advance 😡

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There are also now more than 170 people detained in the new concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay

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Gift link. I could barely read it, deleted an earlier post abt it. This truly must be stopped

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A student journalist investigating the gender breakdown of various majors at Georgetown just asked abt English and I sent her this quote from @kukukadoo.bsky.social's laceratingly smart & funny review essay:

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brb leveraging AI in my lit review

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CALL FOR PAPERS: The Oxford Faculties of English & History are delighted to host the 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for #Victorian Studies on 23–25 July. Papers on any aspect of long-nineteenth-century studies are welcome (submit by 17 March). #BAVS #Victorianstudies #19thC

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no more head of food safety at the FDA! rebooting the gilded age but in our version the oligarchs don't even buy libraries or museums

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This is also my sense of things. If we did not inhabit a vast piedmont of cul de sacs, we would all be marching together already

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"The bibliometric infrastructure of citations has become an inescapable organising feature of academic life." Good short post on the commodification of knowledge under our almost-fully corporatized scholarly model & what inevitably results from that flattening. Hint, it isn't better knowledge

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oh wow the future has arrived, move over Pauline Kael

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I did a piece about the political economy of climate breakdown for @londonreview.bsky.social, pivoting off the essential new book by Andreas Malm and @wimcarton.bsky.social. Please give it a read!

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I agree with Min that the task now, or one of them, is to think energy capitalism and sociopolitical transformation together. On the first half of that equation, I found this very helpful

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this guy is so stupid & it's embarrassing that @theatlantic.com gives him a platform. Here his shit prose gives agency to an abstraction, then lists all "it" did: introduced/forced/called for/replaced. But "as it's known" admitted already that we're in the world of folk legend & memes. Clown stuff.

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“Generative AI can assist our journalists in uncovering the truth and helping more people understand the world. Machine learning already helps us report stories we couldn’t otherwise, and generative AI has the potential to bolster our journalistic capabilities even more…” editorial guidelines say.

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I couldn’t pick a favorite part. Just read this.

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this letter in the LRB on Karl Polanyi is a useful quick explainer of the present moment—helpful framing for talking to relatives etc @londonreview.bsky.social

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“Integrate AI into your pedagogy,” they told us

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Roses are red🌹 Violets are blue 💙 It’s about one month until NAVSA abstracts are due 💌

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In c 2005 I heard him say to somebody's face that in 99% of academic arguments abt Africa, the oppressive forces are always political (neoliberalism, IMF, etc), but the "resistance" is somehow aesthetic. He turned a Q abt food & music toward piracy in the gulf of Aden. I think about that a lot. RIP

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hmmm i wondered what might happen if children took over the computer systems of the federal government

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