Cassidy Holahan
@cassidyh.bsky.social
assistant professor of English @ UNLV in c18 literature, book history, digital humanities, media studies, the novel | she/her
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You see the printed black square from a page in Robert Fludd's "Utriusque cosmi maioris" (1617) that represented the nothingness that was prior to the universe. The square is framed by four sentences in Latin: "Et sic in infinitum" (And so on to infinity). #earlymodern #skystorians
April 21, 2024 at 4:06 PM
You see the printed black square from a page in Robert Fludd's "Utriusque cosmi maioris" (1617) that represented the nothingness that was prior to the universe. The square is framed by four sentences in Latin: "Et sic in infinitum" (And so on to infinity). #earlymodern #skystorians
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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I’m trained as a digital humanist which is arguably why I’m deeply invested in the analog.
Folks are really surprised that I am in creative technologies because I work in the analog sphere a lot. However, I am intensely interested in how we can use creative tech...just you know, not for evil. I love all the weird little tech we can put in analog spaces. Also knitting needles are tech.
October 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I’m trained as a digital humanist which is arguably why I’m deeply invested in the analog.
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Good morning!
[Gaetano Giulio Zumbo, A Soul in Hell, 1670-1700, Wax, 11.5 cm x 10 cm (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)]
[Gaetano Giulio Zumbo, A Soul in Hell, 1670-1700, Wax, 11.5 cm x 10 cm (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)]
October 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Good morning!
[Gaetano Giulio Zumbo, A Soul in Hell, 1670-1700, Wax, 11.5 cm x 10 cm (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)]
[Gaetano Giulio Zumbo, A Soul in Hell, 1670-1700, Wax, 11.5 cm x 10 cm (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)]
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So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al
The making of critical data center studies - Dustin Edwards, Zane Griffin Talley Cooper, Mél Hogan, 2025
In this article, the authors demonstrate how the data center has become a key site, object, and metaphor for interdisciplinary scholarship of the internet. Whil...
journals.sagepub.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
So much think-piecing and op-ed'ing about data centers. I wish folks knew that some scholars have been studying these things — as real estate, as geopolitical battlegrounds, as ecological disasters — for a decade+. Mél Hogan, Alix Johnson, Ingrid Burrington, Jen Holt, Patrick Brodie, et al
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When I say “technology” I mean the codex
it annoys me so much that nowadays when people say "technology" they mean "another website" rather than, say, the interface between steel wheel and steel rail
the tech industry (can we rename it please?) has turned everyone's brain into soup
the tech industry (can we rename it please?) has turned everyone's brain into soup
August 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
When I say “technology” I mean the codex
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bastille!
no prisons, no kings.
yes public goods, yes pro-social state.
no prisons, no kings.
yes public goods, yes pro-social state.
July 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
bastille!
no prisons, no kings.
yes public goods, yes pro-social state.
no prisons, no kings.
yes public goods, yes pro-social state.
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Friends, please share!
Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project
Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...
Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project
Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...
July 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Friends, please share!
Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project
Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...
Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project
Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...
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The academic’s mid-summer crisis is a mid-life crisis in miniature:
You realize summer is half gone, & not only that: you see that the longest & least burdened days came early, & they are well past. You compare all you thought you’d do against the days remaining & grieve for what never will be
You realize summer is half gone, & not only that: you see that the longest & least burdened days came early, & they are well past. You compare all you thought you’d do against the days remaining & grieve for what never will be
July 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The academic’s mid-summer crisis is a mid-life crisis in miniature:
You realize summer is half gone, & not only that: you see that the longest & least burdened days came early, & they are well past. You compare all you thought you’d do against the days remaining & grieve for what never will be
You realize summer is half gone, & not only that: you see that the longest & least burdened days came early, & they are well past. You compare all you thought you’d do against the days remaining & grieve for what never will be
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Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for:
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
May 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Here is the grad speech that NYU is now withholding the student's diploma for:
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
"As I search my heart today in addressing you all…the only thing that is appropriate to say in this time and to a group this large is a recognition of the atrocities currently happening in Palestine."
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Chilling final paragraph and editor’s note.
May 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Chilling final paragraph and editor’s note.
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"I asked ChatGPT, and--" ...the ghost of Ada Lovelace appeared and punched you in the face, I hope.
May 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"I asked ChatGPT, and--" ...the ghost of Ada Lovelace appeared and punched you in the face, I hope.
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Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
www.politico.com
May 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.
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#BookHistory friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form! forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...
SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography
Submit citations for the SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography! We are accepting citations for many different types of resources having to do with LGBTQIA+ book history. There are no restrictions o...
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May 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
#BookHistory friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form! forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...
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They girlboss yassified Gilded Age space tourism.
It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism.
This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!
It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism.
This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!
How Katy Perry and Blue Origin's all-female crew are preparing for space
Katy Perry and an all-female crew will launch on the New Shepard rocket on April 14.
abcnews.go.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM
They girlboss yassified Gilded Age space tourism.
It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism.
This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!
It's not a "crew." These people are not astronauts, they are passengers. This is not feminism. This is not anywhere in the neighborhood of feminism.
This is the glossy capitalist influencer ripoff known as "empowerment" and it's just gross!
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Today, approx. 135 of the 185 total NEH staffers woke up to the news that their positions were being RIFed. Then, almost all current grantees received emails cancelling their grants. I posted this on Fb, mostly for non-academics, but here's a bit about the impact of the 3 grants the NEH gave me: 1/
April 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Today, approx. 135 of the 185 total NEH staffers woke up to the news that their positions were being RIFed. Then, almost all current grantees received emails cancelling their grants. I posted this on Fb, mostly for non-academics, but here's a bit about the impact of the 3 grants the NEH gave me: 1/
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columbia, brown, georgetown, cornell and now tufts — they’re taking our students, our colleagues, our kin
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp
International student at Tufts University reportedly taken into federal custody – Boston 25 News
Tufts said they were told the student’s visa had been terminated.
www.boston25news.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
columbia, brown, georgetown, cornell and now tufts — they’re taking our students, our colleagues, our kin
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp
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“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
www.nplusonemag.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.
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I heard the NEA is only considering proposals related to 1776 & the USA’s 250th birthday & I was feeling intensely patriotic, so I’m printing these really big posters inspired *directly* by the Founding Fathers
The cut was carved from the masthead of a 19th century newspaper
The cut was carved from the masthead of a 19th century newspaper
February 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I heard the NEA is only considering proposals related to 1776 & the USA’s 250th birthday & I was feeling intensely patriotic, so I’m printing these really big posters inspired *directly* by the Founding Fathers
The cut was carved from the masthead of a 19th century newspaper
The cut was carved from the masthead of a 19th century newspaper
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[any 18th-centry novelist tries to tell a joke]
THE ALEHOUSE; or the SURPRIZING HISTORY of A TAVERN
containing the CHARACTER of A Rabbi, A Prieſt, & A Miniſter
WITH An Account of how, having left their Lantern at a Table found themſelves loſt in a Wood & were at laſt Deliver’d by a HIGHWAYMAN.
THE ALEHOUSE; or the SURPRIZING HISTORY of A TAVERN
containing the CHARACTER of A Rabbi, A Prieſt, & A Miniſter
WITH An Account of how, having left their Lantern at a Table found themſelves loſt in a Wood & were at laſt Deliver’d by a HIGHWAYMAN.
[George Eliot tries to tell a joke]
One night, walking into a bar, a beautiful woman—but why always a beautiful woman? Was her point of view the only possible one with regard to this joke? I pity the poor barkeep subjected to such endless torrents of beautiful women, priests, rabbis, parrots, dogs,
One night, walking into a bar, a beautiful woman—but why always a beautiful woman? Was her point of view the only possible one with regard to this joke? I pity the poor barkeep subjected to such endless torrents of beautiful women, priests, rabbis, parrots, dogs,
[Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke]
A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b
A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b
February 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
[any 18th-centry novelist tries to tell a joke]
THE ALEHOUSE; or the SURPRIZING HISTORY of A TAVERN
containing the CHARACTER of A Rabbi, A Prieſt, & A Miniſter
WITH An Account of how, having left their Lantern at a Table found themſelves loſt in a Wood & were at laſt Deliver’d by a HIGHWAYMAN.
THE ALEHOUSE; or the SURPRIZING HISTORY of A TAVERN
containing the CHARACTER of A Rabbi, A Prieſt, & A Miniſter
WITH An Account of how, having left their Lantern at a Table found themſelves loſt in a Wood & were at laſt Deliver’d by a HIGHWAYMAN.
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if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
February 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
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Folded & assembled proof sheets for @skeuomorphpress.org’s forthcoming letterpress edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology"—an LIS practicum student created the woodcut illustrations of tech mentioned in the text, which we carved on the laser—I set type for the book & fold-out poster
January 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Folded & assembled proof sheets for @skeuomorphpress.org’s forthcoming letterpress edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology"—an LIS practicum student created the woodcut illustrations of tech mentioned in the text, which we carved on the laser—I set type for the book & fold-out poster
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This year’s Haggerty Prize will award a peer-reviewed article published between 1/1/22 and 12/31/24. $500 cash prize! Please submit your work or nominate others. Deadline is 1/1/25. And please repost to spread the word. Info at link. #c18 #ASECS #LGBTQ
George E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scholarship – ASECS
asecs.org
December 6, 2024 at 2:01 PM