Alexander R. Phillips
@arphillips.bsky.social
Assistant professor of English at Ashoka University, read: rogue Germanist in India. Author: "Ecology and German Realism." Literature, ecocriticism, environmental humanities, C19. I cycle, I make beer, I think about books for money.
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Before Environmentalism: Nature and Industry in German Literature
Alexander Philips explores how authors such as Raabe and Stifter grappled with the environmental changes that industrialization bought about.
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Please read my book, "Ecology and German Realism," out now with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social. But if you're in a hurry, you can also read this.
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We're diving into this novel in today's lecture, am stoked!
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
We're diving into this novel in today's lecture, am stoked!
Anyone who isn't Middlemarch-pilled knows the answer. 🐳
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Anyone who isn't Middlemarch-pilled knows the answer. 🐳
A little bird tells me the math majors are making Stifter references. My work is done. 🫡
This week: indoctrinating 97 first-year undergrads into the Adalbert Stifter fan club. 😈💃
November 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A little bird tells me the math majors are making Stifter references. My work is done. 🫡
Teaching German adjective endings be like...
Decline all this, and see what now thou art
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Teaching German adjective endings be like...
Shameful. The $30 million going to "AI and robotics" for farmers seems like a clue in the overall shakedown.
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
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An agreement to restore Cornell’s federal research funding | University Statements | Cornell University
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November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Shameful. The $30 million going to "AI and robotics" for farmers seems like a clue in the overall shakedown.
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...
The wood veneer panel on minivans was as puzzling to me at age 6 as it is now.
Someone posted this pic to show how 80s and 90s decor was brown and wooden.
My partner got that GE alarm clock as a kid about 40 years ago, and we still use it every night. That bitch was built to last.
My partner got that GE alarm clock as a kid about 40 years ago, and we still use it every night. That bitch was built to last.
November 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
The wood veneer panel on minivans was as puzzling to me at age 6 as it is now.
Will spread far and wide.
November 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Will spread far and wide.
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
Oktoberfest is long over, but I finally bottled my Märzen. Travel messed with this year's #homebrewing calendar.
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Oktoberfest is long over, but I finally bottled my Märzen. Travel messed with this year's #homebrewing calendar.
What are the chances I could get Guillermo del Toro to come to the faculty meeting tomorrow?
“FUCK AI” is turning into a movement.
After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”
After his Frankenstein Q&A at the Chinese Theater, Guillermo del Toro asked the audience to scream “FUCK AI.”
November 2, 2025 at 9:42 AM
What are the chances I could get Guillermo del Toro to come to the faculty meeting tomorrow?
Gonna regret going for that carbon frame, I see.
November 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Gonna regret going for that carbon frame, I see.
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Now available in English for the first time, Rex Levang, reflects on the challenges of translating Theodor Fontane’s, Count Petöfy, and why the novel remained neglected for so long. buff.ly/uVMQzkr
October 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Now available in English for the first time, Rex Levang, reflects on the challenges of translating Theodor Fontane’s, Count Petöfy, and why the novel remained neglected for so long. buff.ly/uVMQzkr
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What's especially fun about yesterday discovering my shoutout in Life After Cars, is that this evening I'm delivering a talk to @wesmars.bsky.social's class at CU Denver on my exploits in tactical urbanism, for I believe the 7th year in a row.
I had to add a slide for the first time in a few years
I had to add a slide for the first time in a few years
October 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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Four great novels about architecture so you don’t have to read The Fountainhead
October 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Four great novels about architecture so you don’t have to read The Fountainhead
This week: indoctrinating 97 first-year undergrads into the Adalbert Stifter fan club. 😈💃
October 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This week: indoctrinating 97 first-year undergrads into the Adalbert Stifter fan club. 😈💃
As a kid my mother used to tell me you couldn't see stars in the city. I looked up, doubtful, because there's a star and there's a star. Then at 10 I went camping for the first time. Seeing the Milky Way for the first time is one of my most charmed childhood memories.
One of my favorite things to do is to bring a city person to the country and wait till after sunset to show them what dark really looks like.
October 21, 2025 at 2:42 AM
As a kid my mother used to tell me you couldn't see stars in the city. I looked up, doubtful, because there's a star and there's a star. Then at 10 I went camping for the first time. Seeing the Milky Way for the first time is one of my most charmed childhood memories.
First day of my large lecture class was me explaining that the poem they were looking at was more than the sum of its technics.
I don't think students should be asked to rhetorically analyze poetry in a class before they get practice experiencing poetry without imagining it as a rhetorical structure.
Like, cooking is so much better if you begin by first developing a relationship to the pleasure of food.
Like, cooking is so much better if you begin by first developing a relationship to the pleasure of food.
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
First day of my large lecture class was me explaining that the poem they were looking at was more than the sum of its technics.
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How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
You know what platform never crashes?
October 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS?
You know what platform never crashes?
You know what platform never crashes?
October 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Car culture, militarism, and a beautiful landscape scrubbed away by sprawl: the featured image encapsulates all the things I dislike about San Diego. Next time someone asks me why I'm so disaffected by where I grew up, I'm showing them this.
October 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Car culture, militarism, and a beautiful landscape scrubbed away by sprawl: the featured image encapsulates all the things I dislike about San Diego. Next time someone asks me why I'm so disaffected by where I grew up, I'm showing them this.
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
October 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
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du sagst ein Märchen aus uralten Zeiten geht dir nicht aus dem Sinn ich sag geh doch mal joggen
September 4, 2023 at 7:12 PM
du sagst ein Märchen aus uralten Zeiten geht dir nicht aus dem Sinn ich sag geh doch mal joggen