Alex Bove
@abovepdx.bsky.social
If fingers were xylophones then I could play a tune on your fingers.
(Writer on film and 19th C lit, prof of literature).
(Writer on film and 19th C lit, prof of literature).
Pinned
Alex Bove
@abovepdx.bsky.social
· Jan 20
Manchester University Press - Spectral Dickens
Spectral Dickens - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Spectral Dickens by Alexander Bove
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
Check out my book if you are interested in Victorian lit
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174543/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174543/
Reposted by Alex Bove
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Reposted by Alex Bove
👇👇👇👇
Environmentalists say the 47 admin's plans to increase timber outputs, simplify permitting, & do away with certain environmental review processes are likely to only escalate wildfire risk & contribute more to climate change.
Logging doesn’t prevent wildfires, but Trump is trying it anyway
The Agriculture Department is opening more than 112 million acres of federal forests to logging in a misguided bid to prevent fires and boost timber production.
grist.org
April 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
👇👇👇👇
Reposted by Alex Bove
Apologies for cross-posting, but here’s some advice for people with NEH grants
April 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Reposted by Alex Bove
I 💙 clear thinkers!
2/6/19💪 #AOC showing WHY she is the world LEADER in anti-fascism, predicting elon/krasnov🇺🇸
April 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I 💙 clear thinkers!
Reposted by Alex Bove
When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed.
US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees.
Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary.
#MomSky
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees.
Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary.
#MomSky
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed | John Naughton
US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary
www.theguardian.com
March 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed.
US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees.
Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary.
#MomSky
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees.
Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary.
#MomSky
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reposted by Alex Bove
👇
Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.
March 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
👇
Reposted by Alex Bove
Press freedom groups condemn targeted killing of two journalists in Israeli strikes
Press freedom groups condemn targeted killing of two journalists in Israeli strikes
Israel Defense Forces has confirmed it killed Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour, claiming they were terrorists
Press freedom organisations have condemned the killing of two journalists in Gaza on Monday, who died in separate targeted airstrikes by the Israeli armed forces.
Hossam Shabat, a 23-year-old correspondent for the Al Jazeera Mubasher channel, was killed by an airstrike on his car in the eastern part of Beit Lahiya. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Press freedom groups condemn targeted killing of two journalists in Israeli strikes
Another successful LACK conference. Presenting my paper on Lacan and ecocritism here. What a pleasure to be part of this panel and the conference as a whole!
March 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Another successful LACK conference. Presenting my paper on Lacan and ecocritism here. What a pleasure to be part of this panel and the conference as a whole!
Reposted by Alex Bove
“I shall read a passage of Shakespeare every Sunday at ten o Clock—you read one at the same time and we shall be as near each other as blind bodies can be in the same room.”
— John Keats, in a letter to George and Georgiana Keats, December 1818
— John Keats, in a letter to George and Georgiana Keats, December 1818
March 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“I shall read a passage of Shakespeare every Sunday at ten o Clock—you read one at the same time and we shall be as near each other as blind bodies can be in the same room.”
— John Keats, in a letter to George and Georgiana Keats, December 1818
— John Keats, in a letter to George and Georgiana Keats, December 1818
Reposted by Alex Bove
Elon Musk is performing a coup on the U.S. Government. In the midst of (and smokescreened by) the current "pillaging of Rome" enacted by the rest of the MAGA movement, following their first attempted coup on January 6th.
okay so what legal authority does elon musk have to commandeer the office of personnel management and access reams of sensitive data? www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Elon Musk is performing a coup on the U.S. Government. In the midst of (and smokescreened by) the current "pillaging of Rome" enacted by the rest of the MAGA movement, following their first attempted coup on January 6th.
Reposted by Alex Bove
1/ Meet Phyllis Fong. She's my new shero—a real badass.
Security agents escorted the inspector general (IG) of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office after she refused to comply with her firing by 47's administration.
Security agents escorted the inspector general (IG) of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office after she refused to comply with her firing by 47's administration.
USDA inspector general escorted out of office after defying Trump order
Phyllis Fong had told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House terminated her on Friday
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
1/ Meet Phyllis Fong. She's my new shero—a real badass.
Security agents escorted the inspector general (IG) of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office after she refused to comply with her firing by 47's administration.
Security agents escorted the inspector general (IG) of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office after she refused to comply with her firing by 47's administration.
This
In the new Trump presidency, we have got to remain focused. We can’t panic.
No matter how many executive orders he signs or statements he issues, our goal is the same:
We must fight to create an America based on economic, social & environmental justice.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
No matter how many executive orders he signs or statements he issues, our goal is the same:
We must fight to create an America based on economic, social & environmental justice.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What Trump didn’t say in his inauguration speech | Bernie Sanders
The simple truth is that Trump ignored almost every major issue facing this country’s working families in his first speech
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This
Reposted by Alex Bove
my sadly somewhat timely book has a cover now, which i think is very beautiful 🌿
Action without Hope
A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...
press.uchicago.edu
November 8, 2024 at 6:42 PM
my sadly somewhat timely book has a cover now, which i think is very beautiful 🌿
Reposted by Alex Bove
Check out my book if you are interested in Victorian lit
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174543/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174543/
Manchester University Press - Spectral Dickens
Spectral Dickens - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Spectral Dickens by Alexander Bove
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
January 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Check out my book if you are interested in Victorian lit
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174543/
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174543/