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Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.
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Jfc
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You are living in a tv episode
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I’ll check it out! Always interested in seeing more time travel 😅
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Not an accident that the book is dedicated to her dad, a radical theorist of political justice
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An all-time solid gold banger
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At last, Freebo
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Cursed to wander forever in the confusing elevator system of the Cathedral!
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🙏🙏🙏
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Season 5, episode 12. Insanely good.
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You break the pencil lead three times in a row and your entire species of sharpener is dead to me.
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At this point it’s clearly an intentional act of cruelty
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Top 5 X-Files scene 😂😂😂
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👀👀
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#Allegory
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🔥🔥🔥
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Can’t wait to read it!
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Hell yeah! 📌
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Double Conrad because his "South American" novel about a pretend country because he never traveled to South America is about exhausted silver rather than rubber!
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100%, and so so many of the industrialist attempts to enclose production (Fordlandia) turned into catastrophic failures
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Great points! Seems maybe a nice parallel to other significant resources like silver, tobacco and opium that had huge effects but less visible presence in overtly “technological” transitions
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💯
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It doesn’t seem to get late industrial pickup like electricity either though 🤔
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Doesn’t feel like there’s been a silence at all. Almost half of my conversations with Humanities scholars are about the future impacts/effects of AI. Seems more like a Cassandra situation 😅
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(the first person being Adam)
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✊🤓
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“In conclusion, I disappear over the horizon”