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Woolf Doctor | Turns squiggles into angle brackets | modernism, digital humanities, bad puns | he/him | would prefer not to

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · Aug 27

*ahem* now for a professional one.

I am excited to announce the publication of The Digital 'Anon', a new digital edition of Virginia Woolf's final, unpublished essay drafts which makes this remarkable corpus available as an OA resource.

It is available here: www.digital-anon.com.

The Digital Anon

www.digital-anon.com

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 9h

You can tell it’s AI because the real Trump has never once laughed.

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 9h

Imagine Robo-F1. All those engineers freed from the yoke of making the fastest vroom vroom motor and able to turn their talents to confecting the deadliest machine of them all

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 16h

Was he just a normal man? Just an innocent man?

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 16h

We are an excellent bunch and may even forgive your earlier transgressions

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 16h

I know forum-dwellers…

a man in a suit and tie is talking about writers who use subtext and they 're all cowards

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is talking about writers who use subtext and they 're all cowards

media.tenor.com

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 19h

Especially if you’re Bri’ish

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 20h

Who has odds on his acceptance speech being one hour-long sentence about quantum field theory and Frank Zappa?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20h

Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai wins

Nobel prize in literature 2025 live: László Krasznahorkai wins

Follow along as the next winner of the world’s most prestigious literature prize is announced in Stockholm

www.theguardian.com

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 21h

What have the bats done to be stpped?

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 21h

Even in The Big City the basics are dicey. Travel is always a nightmare, more so when sloshed, and good luck finding something you can eat that might un-slosh you.

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 22h

No point deregulating pub hours without ensuring there's a functioning non-pub nighttime economy

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 22h

Become one of the world's leading Extremely Online Woolfians™️

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 23h

Kate moaning on r/Academics late at night about how her PI makes her do all the work on their paper but insists on being lead author

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

Tbh I don’t think he needs the inducement.

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

Then perish.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Dr Marie Allitt @marieallitt.bsky.social · 1d

Of course the bigots and fascists don’t want you to study English.

The enemy of fascism is:
Close reading
Clear communication
Questioning the meaning of what you read
Accurate spelling & grammar
Thinking for yourself
Creativity
Understanding the mechanics of argument
Imagination
Enjoyment
Joy

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

Well, we can’t expect SKS to learn a classification system that isn’t racist and homophobic, can we? Easier just to nuke everything than to learn LOC

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

(Libraries that don’t use Dewey Decimal System get the full H-bomb treatment)

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

Not to be outdone, Sir Keir Starmer announces that he will go harder and faster in delivering patriotic renewal by detonating tactical nukes underneath every university library library’s 800 shelfmark section.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

UK Tory Party Conference: Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch declares war on English degrees.
#literature #language #English #HigherEd #University

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 2d

Arthur Miller played Pokémon Ruby but didn’t care much for Hoenn as a region. 7.8/10, too much water

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 2d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 2d

Guessing it’s for Joe Wicks and CvT. they get tetchy if they go for too long without diet-shaming anyone

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 2d

And that’s really saying something given AHRC has pretty much gone lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ good luck byeee

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 2d

Not entirely unlike the “Singapore-on-Thames” imaginary which I suspect has at its root less any actual engagement with Singaporean policy, more a penchant for corporal punishment

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 2d

🤞🤞🤞

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 2d

It's the start of the new academic year, lessons to plan, cover letters to write and t-one week for the biggest funding application of my entire life.

All things told, the perfect time for my copy of MS Word to decide it no longer wishes to identify as a word processor.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 3d

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