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Alice Procter

@aaprocter.bsky.social

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art nuisance, mean little dyke, phd student. I do stuff on memory, haunting, colonialism, whiteness, horror and visual culture. Uncomfortable Art Tours (2017-20), The Whole Picture (2020), Historical Friction (2020-)

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Nov 15

✨museums will never love you back✨

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 8d

Many!

Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 20d

This is my backup plan!! I am paying an insane amount to try and get a copy from a second hand bookshop in Melbourne and I guess we’ll see if it comes? If I have to pay tariffs on this piece of shit I will be fuming

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 20d

So now I’m hoping that there is someone with a shitty racist relative who is willing and able to steal/appropriate a copy for me? I will absolutely pay money because unfortunately this is necessary for my work. Help me??

Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 20d

I cannot find it on any secondhand book sites (which is a good thing!!) or in any libraries outside of Australia (which makes sense!!). I’ve read reviews but I need to see the real thing.

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 20d

I’m reading and watching a lot of vile stuff at the moment, because my PhD project is about settler colonial violence and fear narratives in popular culture, and it seems like I need to read this book from 1997, called “Pauline Hanson-The Truth” (which is a batshit screed attributed to her) BUT

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 21d

fellas is it gay to unwittingly squeeze your co-labourers’ hands, mistaking them for the gentle globules

The Melville Society @melville-society.bsky.social · 21d

This beautiful art was sent to us anonymously and we want to remind you our DMs are always* open.

*Until our co-laborers melt into the sperm.

Edited tweet that now reads:

[Pequod waiting room]
Me: [chanting]
squeeze, squeeze-
co-laborers: squeeze, SQUEEZE
whale [pounding her
clipboard] SQUEEZE, SQUEEZE, SQUEEZE!

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 22d

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 29d

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · 29d

How many other people at the Ethel Cain show are doing phds about cannibalism do we reckon

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Businesslady 🌦️🪶🌄 @courtguerra.bsky.social · Jul 12

my friend @flyingghoti.bsky.social made this & if you’re in the middle of the very specific venn diagram necessary to appreciate it, it’s the funniest thing

a reworking of the Calvin & Hobbes strip in which Calvin is giving a report alleging that bats are bugs (to which his classmates respond with “BATS AREN’T BUGS!!”) only instead it’s “Herman”—as in Melville—talking about whales & alleging they’re fish, & his classmates are correcting him with “WHALES AREN’T FISH!!”

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Jul 21

TCTAP is a flawlessly stupid and delightful film, Peter Weir is one of the greats when it comes to filming sweat.

Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Jul 13

Flo is at work and I have had a weed gummy time to do a double feature of The Last Wave and The Cars That Ate Paris

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Jul 11

L’Enfant Sauvage was a beautiful sad little meditation on isolation and humanity. This is an R-rated Brooke Shields vehicle about cousin incest. I love cinema.

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Jul 11

doing this as a double feature with The Blue Lagoon (1980), what is wrong with me

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Jul 11

I was prompted to watch this by Audrey Wollen’s review of The Forbidden Experiment by Roger Shattuck, about the real wild boy “Victor” and his teachers, in the latest Bookforum

Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Jul 11

accidentally watched the first ten minutes of L’Enfant Sauvage (1970), about the “wild boy of Aveyron”, before I realized the subtitles were turned off, I’m doing feral child immersion research

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Jul 2

Also it made Flo vicariously seasick lol

Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Jul 2

My verdict is that while this is not cannibal in the purest sense but it is HIGHLY erotic, it demonstrates the absurdity of human masculine brutality in the face of the natural world, and most importantly it is about dudes experiencing consequences on a boat

Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · Jul 2

My gift to you

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thank you this is magnificent

Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hello from Cape Cod where I am watching Jaws and my beloved is occasionally glancing at the tv because apparently the mother of someone they once dated is an extra in this

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hello from Cape Cod where I am watching Jaws alone because there is too much peril for my beloved wife

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hello from Cape Cod where I am forcing Flo to watch Jaws, neither of us have seen this before, I love men in boats suffering from hubris

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Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Jul 1

sometimes the cannibalism is actual anthropophagy and sometimes it is a metaphor, but it’s always more than just a way of eating

Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Jul 1

focused on anglosphere settler societies across a broad geography and time, it’s partly a genealogy of settler horror and paranoia, and partly a study of colonial mass culture and the manufacture of consent to colonial violence.

Alice Procter @aaprocter.bsky.social · Jul 1

As of yesterday I am finally! at last! ABD and approved to get to work on my dissertation! it’s a study of fear, disgust, hunger, and desire in the settler symbolic that I’m calling “cannibal erotics”

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