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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 6h

I've long thought some enterprising art historian or intellectual historian or anyone really could design downloadable -- and printable! -- scavenger hunts for many museums for different ages and interests.

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 9h

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

i am feeling, i am seeing, i am hearing, i am getting the vibes, that students this sem are better than they've been in years because learning offers a rare haven from authoritarianism, a place to convene, commune, think together, refuel for the fight

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 2d

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 2d

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 2d

I almost didn’t post this photo because I look so tired

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 2d

I think it partly had to do with not being able to program the keycards but still

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 2d

It was not great! And I had flown all night.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 2d

you're going to want to read Glavey reading Berlant reading Ashbery

Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 3d

Get in losers, we’re about to ride the SNaiLRuG.

Photo of Close reading for the twenty-first century beside Victor, a you alligator

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 2d

. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social multiple people told me they bought copies!

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 2d

I took a red eye to Boston for MSA and then the hotel computers were down and they couldn’t check anyone in and so I waited in the lobby for another 7 hours BUT the book fair was set up during that time

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 2d

so great

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 2d

I told my MSA workshop today about snail rug

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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 3d

it’s delightful to be receiving this book when i’m wrestling with another essay about close reading because opening to virtually any page of this book and reading some or all of is a guaranteed win, clarifying and inspiring!

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 3d

Get in losers, we’re about to ride the SNaiLRuG.

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 3d

Mod Squad! Come here me in some detail about Sedgwick and the etymology of various words at 1:00 tomorrow at MSA @moderniststudies.bsky.social

Powerpoint slide from a presentation entitled The Well Wrecked Urn: Syllables and Sex in the Long 1993. There is a picture of a book with the title and a peach emoji on it

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 4d

oh wait no I can't bring the big box of copies to Boston! I will be running a workshop though!

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 4d

Emma's almost wordle

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 4d

dming...

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 5d

We're hiring. It's a real needle-in-a-haystack search for an experienced teacher who can help reimagine our flagship (i.e., huge) intro course for a new era. 3/3 load. Convenient to Hollywood and Holbox.

usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC

usccareers.usc.edu

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · Aug 11

I wrote about Damion Searls’s new translation of The Third Reich of Dreams for @parapraxismag.bsky.social

I 1st learned about this book in an announcement for a poetry workshop. It’s a strange & surprising testament to the creativity of ordinary people.

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/cli...

Cling to that Strangeness — Parapraxis

On The Third Reich of Dreams Sarah Dowling

www.parapraxismagazine.com

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 5d

amazing!!!

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Alexander Starre @astarre.bsky.social · 5d

Close Reading for the winter term in Germany @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

Copy of close Reading for the 21st century by sinykin / winant on a table at U Bochum

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 5d

Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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Rose Casey @rosecasey.bsky.social · 7d

BlueSky: If you've started reading my new book, AESTHETIC IMPROPRIETY: PROPERTY LAW AND POSTCOLONIAL STYLE, and are enjoying it, please consider sending me a sentence or two explaining why.

It's for a thing I'm applying for (and a small monetary award for future research funds). Thanks!

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 6d

recent paragraph factory productions by excellent people

Holding copies of two kickass books in front of more books.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 5d

exactly ❤️

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