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Élika Ortega

@elikaortega.bsky.social

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Assist. Prof. of Spanish Book: Binding Media. Hybrid, Print-Digital Lit from across the Americas (SUP 2025) Dog person. Rose person. Mexican in the US. Posts in Spanglish https://elikaortega.net

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · Mar 4

Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas is officially out today from @stanfordpress.bsky.social! 🎉 If you’re interested in publishing, book history, cultural hybridity, media archaeology, and digital literature, you might like the book! A not so short thread 1/

Binding Media | Stanford University Press

Far from causing the "death of the book," the publishing industry's adoption of digital technologies has generated a multitude of new works that push the boundaries of literature and its presentation....

www.sup.org

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 16h

This was the most fun bit in the production process

Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 16h

Filling out your author's questionnaire?

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 17h

nothing like having to submit a sabbatical proposal to get you out of the short period of research complacence after your first book is out.

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Yuri Herrera @yuriherrera.bsky.social · 18h

El problema no es si premian a tal o cual agente de la CIA, los europeos tienen derecho a premiar a quien se les pegue la gana y a darse palmaditas en la espalda;el problema es que sigamos creyendo que un club de Cñores que sólo han comido albóndigas con cebolla son LA autoridad en todos los campos.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 1d

All the time.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not that rare for people to stop in the street to say hi and pet this guy👇🏽 or scream from their cars “I love your dog!”

But today we unlocked the guy-runs-out-of-his-house-to-say-“your dog is super cute!” level of neighborhood canine stardom.

Basset hound sitting on top of someone’s purse and making sad puppy eyes

Basset hound looking cute af while he demands a bite of my snack.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 1d

Gloriosos aguaceros*

*si una no va en coche, no tiene que llegar a ningún lugar y se puede tomar un café o mezcal mientras pasa.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 1d

Nope

Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 1d

I know nothing about small businesses taxes in Denver, but Raíces account of it is terrible.

Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 1d

Salud Raíces! you were so much more than a small business where communities gathered, found themselves, and friendships got built 🍻🍻

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 1d

Sad to learn about the closing of @raicesbrewing.bsky.social—a place that was central to the junior faculty of color writing group: we wrote in their patio, danced to celebrate new jobs/pubs, etc.
And though I joined much more recently, the Latina’s beer+book club was born there during lockdown.

Gracias from Raices. Salud!

Thank you for being a friend of Raices and helping us bring culture to our communities.

www.raicesbrewing.com

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 2d

Very late to The Pitt––I know––which is a pretty good show and also a huge advertisement for Med Tech.

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Mariel Garcia-Montes @marielgm.bsky.social · 2d

This project is #goals for anyone working on AI, computing, and environment: insightful research on an urgent matter, extremely compelling choice of case studies in the global majority, and beautifulllllll grabado/print illustrations. The women behind it are a dream team. tramas.digital/es/

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Investigación-acción feminista descolonial que revela los impactos socioambientales del mundo digital en América Latina.

tramas.digital

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 3d

Hahaha. Lettuce can be great but is not meant to be a main ingredient.

Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 3d

Salads should have less lettuce.
I want the more substantial vegetables in there because I get bored of lettuce very quickly.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 3d

Unpopular opinion: too much lettuce is used on salads.

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eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 4d

Join me this Saturday, 10/11 2pm EST to discuss my research into museum collections, the rise of US philanthropy, and the relationship between aesthetic form and property 📚

marxedproject.org/event/the-po...

The Politics of Collecting with Eunsong Kim - Marxist Education Project

In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptu...

marxedproject.org

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 4d

Very sorry to hear! She truly was a force of nature.

Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 4d

Fortuitously saw my car keys placed atop a campus sign as I was walking to my car. The set of keys I didn't notice I had lost a few hours earlier and wouldn't have missed until I tried to open my car parked half a mile away.
Panic and relief all at once.

Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 4d

New a-little-too-on-the-nose anxiety dream unlocked:

I’m trying to find the boarding gate for my flight but in order to do so I have to go through several terminals via elevators with an unintelligible interface and I’m literally carrying too much baggage.

Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 5d

Leaves were peeped again.

Colorado blue sky and golden fluttery aspens

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 7d

Same

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 7d

Same

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 7d

I love that! Thank you!
For labeling purposes, would you be interested in the design suggestions I gave the publisher? they're pretty funny 😆

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 8d

So sorry to hear Ryan. Thinking of you and fam.