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John Attridge

@johnattridge.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of English at UNSW | Modernism, novels, specialisation, media, bildungsroman &c | Chair Australasian Modernist Studies Network

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 17m

Many scholars have connected this text with other things. But the connection I am going to make in this paper will shock you

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 23h

Instead of competing for limited resources, other humanities disciplines should accept that they are all essentially branches of literary criticism

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 2d

Literary prizes are a cheap distraction from the true purpose of reading great books, which is making people who haven't read them feel bad about themselves

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 7d

I can't keep silent any longer. Godot should NOT have kept them waiting like that

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 7d

Sorry I'm late. I unconsciously don't want to be here

John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 8d

Writers are too precious about not repeating the same word in successive sentences. It is actually fine to employ identical terms in consecutive grammatical units

John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 12d

By having AI summarise the plots of Shakespeare's tragedies I can experience catharsis in a matter of minutes

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 13d

Little did you know I have been playing 3 dimensional chess this whole time. That's why I have been making such bad decisions. I was distracted by this stupid game I'm playing

John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 16d

Good evening. It may surprise you to know that I am speaking "prose" right now. (Audience murmurs) in fact, you already know how to speak prose yourself! (Audience gasps) over the next hour, we will unlock the secrets of this mysterious medium together (audience applauds)

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 19d

Academics are constantly overexplaining things. They excessively explicate every item of information

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 21d

"Write what you know" uhhhh that's actually incredibly insensitive towards people who have had no life experiences

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 23d

The essays in this collection have been carefully selected to provide a cohesive overview of the topic

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 26d

(sitting down at a restaurant with the biggest copy of Infinite Jest you have ever seen) what wine pairs best with an epic postmodern masterpiece?

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 29d

Readers have long been frustrated by Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken". Thanks to AI, it is now possible to explore BOTH of the paths described by the speaker

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · Sep 8

I would just like to push back slightly on your hypothesis that our recent date did not "go well"

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · Sep 8

Humanities academics tend to think that the best way of critiquing something is to provide a genealogy of it. To combat this phenomenon, we must understand its roots

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Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social · Sep 7

So Austin-tatious.

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · Sep 7

Reading performatively (reading aloud in such a way that my utterances bring about the states of affairs they refer to)

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · Sep 6

For sale: innovative methodology. Never used

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · Sep 6

How it feels to write "my translation"

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · Sep 5

Nice try but that part of my argument is actually too obscure to understand. It's literally impossible for you to have detected the flaws you mention

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · Sep 4

Gen z students are losing the ability to exercise aesthetic judgment through the free play of the imagination and the understanding. They increasingly ask their parents which concept a work of art should be subsumed under

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is how I write my tweets btw

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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · Sep 1

(Guy who has spent every waking minute of his 20s coding) AI art is just as good actually

John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · Sep 1

Dude it's just a tool. Humans have always invented tools that don't work and make them stupider. Stop standing in the way of progress

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