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Eleanor Courtemanche

@ecourtem.bsky.social

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Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · Jan 30

For @publicbooks.bsky.social, I reviewed Elizabeth Anker's fascinating & extremely ambitious "On Paradox," which critiques almost the whole theoretical connection between politics and aesthetics (and then rebuilds a little). Books should take big swings! www.publicbooks.org/beyond-the-d...

Beyond the Doom Loop of High Theory

If paradox can be toxic, what’s the antidote?

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 9h

as a child I was led to believe I'd hear a lot more about Rice-a-Roni after moving to the San Francisco area

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 9h

😂

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13h

I was reading Swinburne this year. dudes just finding a place to crash and spinning out poems so hot Edith Sitwell has to censor them. gravy train

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13h

I understand that they gave somebody 150 million to be the new boss of CBS. I just want to say, if these people are ever looking to do more novel things with their money, for 150 million dollars I will write an album every day for a year. I'll do it, too. try me

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 10h

It’s basically this emoji 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 13h

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

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12h

It’s unfortunate that the general aging population doesn’t get as much interaction with curious, hardworking young people as college professors do. They really will give you hope about the future on a daily basis 🤔

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 10h

Cosmic irony? I now think almost everything is cosmic irony sad lol

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 15h

Making copies

A set of prints made from wood type and linoleum. The linocut is an early-modern style woodcut rendition of a protester in a frog costume facing off against two ICE officers in riot gear. The text reads

STAND UP
TO
FASCISM!

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 16h

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 16h

"A rave of a movie that acts as its own hallucinogen, best experienced on a huge screen with a state-of-the art sound system. If they’d played it again right after I saw it for the first time, I would have gladly stayed in my seat." My **** review of TRON: Ares. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tron...

TRON: Ares movie review & film summary (2025) | Roger Ebert

“TRON: Ares” is spectacularly designed, swiftly paced, thoughtfully written, and directed within an inch of its neon-hued life.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 16h

"The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo."

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 17h

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 16h

A haha!!

Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 16h

We saw the first episode of the Galician comedy Old Dog New Tricks on Netflix last night and it was funny & sweet

Plot summary from Wikipedia

The plot follows gruff rural veterinarian Antón from the fictional Galician village of Topomorto, who loses his clients and is begrudgingly forced to join an animal boutique managed by his niece Uxía. (1] (2]

Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 17h

“We will rebuild” — 😅 somehow gut-bustingly hilarious

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AndreaaaHHhHHHHhHHhhh!! Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 1d

delighted to report that MARGHOULRITAVILLE is open for the season

Andrea's yard Halloween display is up and running: a load of actual human-sized skeletons in lawn chairs and a hammock, enjoying the "Marghoulritaville" bar with light-up drinks and a fun palm tree

A close-up of the Marghoulritaville bartender, a Grim Reaper-style skeleton with a scythe

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 1d

See this is what we say at Victorian studies conferences all the time.

Give us absolute power: I swear we’ll only do good things with it

Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the desk accessory that goes with your medieval breeches

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 1d

My first two Wordle guesses, every day

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ceej @ceej.online · 1d

I voted for Zarmok the Irrational because I thought his unique approach to governance could bring a refreshing dose of rationality to "politics at usual." But his recent performance has been anything but

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 1d

I knew the book history types would enjoy this 😁

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

idly speculating how many troops you'd actually need to forcibly subdue a place the size of Illinois. like 400,000? at least?

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 1d

louisville.edu/writingcente...

Hayley Salo — University of Louisville Writing Center

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 1d

I actually heard a talk about this by Hayley Salo one year ago!

Purdue Event 2024 conference

3:00-5:00, Print Bay Letterpress Workshops 1 and 2 (STEAM Lab, HCRS)
5:00-6:30, Session 9: Colonial Events (HCRN 1143)
105ph MCLaughin, "Christina Rosti, War Poet: Imperial Gothic in in the Round Tower at /hans, una 8, Shatapani Bhattacharya, "The Ghostly Trains of Colonial Bengal"
Austain eate Me. Treasary Homo in Australa: Roading Fod Practices in Rosa Pradis An
Hayley Salo, Tense Thread: The Culture and Labour of Embroidery in Nintenth Contury Missionary
6.00.6.20 Coesion 10. Tranchietorienl Fvonte (HCPN 1145)|

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