Eleanor Courtemanche
@ecourtem.bsky.social
Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore
Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf
Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf
Pinned
Beyond the Doom Loop of High Theory
If paradox can be toxic, what’s the antidote?
www.publicbooks.org
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...
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Trumpers have a howling void of angry insecurity where a soul should be. Unchecked power tastes like ashes in their mouth because they thought when they got it everyone would be forced to like and admire them even though they’re irredeemable assholes. But people still treat them like assholes.
Trump crony has embarrassing meltdown after more Kennedy Center performers quit www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Trump crony has embarrassing meltdown after more Kennedy Center performers quit
The Trump administration is lashing out at performers who have chosen to cancel performances at the Kennedy Center following Donald Trump’s recent decision to deface the cultural institution with ...
www.dailykos.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Trumpers have a howling void of angry insecurity where a soul should be. Unchecked power tastes like ashes in their mouth because they thought when they got it everyone would be forced to like and admire them even though they’re irredeemable assholes. But people still treat them like assholes.
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At the Peabody Museum at Yale: one reason the Trump administration wants to eliminate exhibitions like this on race is because they show that scientific racism is not new but a step backwards to a discredited past.
December 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
At the Peabody Museum at Yale: one reason the Trump administration wants to eliminate exhibitions like this on race is because they show that scientific racism is not new but a step backwards to a discredited past.
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36. The secret to successfully working at home is to always, always wear pants. You will be tempted otherwise, but for your mental health, wear clean pants. Slacks or denim, any kind except for sweatpants. Those are for when you’re off the clock. johndevore.substack.com/p/advice-for...
Advice For Men: 51 Things I've Learned
"I am 51 years old, which is an unremarkable age"
johndevore.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
36. The secret to successfully working at home is to always, always wear pants. You will be tempted otherwise, but for your mental health, wear clean pants. Slacks or denim, any kind except for sweatpants. Those are for when you’re off the clock. johndevore.substack.com/p/advice-for...
My New Year’s resolutions are basically to Resist Decay:
1) keep trying to be kind
2) keep trying to be smart
3) outlive The Bastard
1) keep trying to be kind
2) keep trying to be smart
3) outlive The Bastard
December 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
My New Year’s resolutions are basically to Resist Decay:
1) keep trying to be kind
2) keep trying to be smart
3) outlive The Bastard
1) keep trying to be kind
2) keep trying to be smart
3) outlive The Bastard
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there were only 24 years between these two events and yet the second one happened 32 years ago
December 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
there were only 24 years between these two events and yet the second one happened 32 years ago
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Only Wet Hot American Summer (2001) got academia right
December 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Only Wet Hot American Summer (2001) got academia right
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I'm doing it. I'm printing course packs.
Canvas used to be helpful but that time has passed.
Last semester I gravitated some of my course materials off Canvas. This coming semester I will pull off even more.
Last semester I gravitated some of my course materials off Canvas. This coming semester I will pull off even more.
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I'm doing it. I'm printing course packs.
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i don't celebrate new years on jan 1 just on whatever day the territorial seed co catalog arrives. happy 2026
December 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
i don't celebrate new years on jan 1 just on whatever day the territorial seed co catalog arrives. happy 2026
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I'm 30 pages from the end of MCTEAGUE and I've never been so stressed in my fucking life
December 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I'm 30 pages from the end of MCTEAGUE and I've never been so stressed in my fucking life
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The world may be going to hell but I had one soup today, and then had another, different, soup later on so take that The Devil
December 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The world may be going to hell but I had one soup today, and then had another, different, soup later on so take that The Devil
Powered through this focused little tome by @rauchway.bsky.social yesterday. This too is our history!
December 29, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Powered through this focused little tome by @rauchway.bsky.social yesterday. This too is our history!
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2025 Year in Review!
-falcon hearing worse than ever
-center losing 50 to 100% of holding capacity
-blood-dimmed tide containment failure
-the Worst with record high passionate intensity
-falcon hearing worse than ever
-center losing 50 to 100% of holding capacity
-blood-dimmed tide containment failure
-the Worst with record high passionate intensity
December 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
2025 Year in Review!
-falcon hearing worse than ever
-center losing 50 to 100% of holding capacity
-blood-dimmed tide containment failure
-the Worst with record high passionate intensity
-falcon hearing worse than ever
-center losing 50 to 100% of holding capacity
-blood-dimmed tide containment failure
-the Worst with record high passionate intensity
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New College is a DeSantis pet project, a Potemkin Campus that must be made real at any cost. While the NY Times notes it is the most expensive in the state, it does not tell readers what an extraordinary outlier it is. Freedom isn’t free, and a right-wing campus makeover is very expensive it seems.
December 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
New College is a DeSantis pet project, a Potemkin Campus that must be made real at any cost. While the NY Times notes it is the most expensive in the state, it does not tell readers what an extraordinary outlier it is. Freedom isn’t free, and a right-wing campus makeover is very expensive it seems.
So nobody is on the air at WSQK. It stopped transmitting and nobody noticed
December 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
So nobody is on the air at WSQK. It stopped transmitting and nobody noticed
I definitely remember 2022 and 2023 as being “years that were not total dumpster fires.” The Barbenheimer years 😅
So only 2/3 totally shitty
So only 2/3 totally shitty
Surely 2026 is the year the 20s stop being shitty
December 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I definitely remember 2022 and 2023 as being “years that were not total dumpster fires.” The Barbenheimer years 😅
So only 2/3 totally shitty
So only 2/3 totally shitty
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I don’t want 2025 end-of-year round-ups. Let it go. Let it flee into the dark woods, never to be seen again
December 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I don’t want 2025 end-of-year round-ups. Let it go. Let it flee into the dark woods, never to be seen again
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Trump administration: gonna be a Christian nation from now on
Christians: yay!
TA: so you have to be Christian the way WE say it's ok
Christians: oh shit
Christians: yay!
TA: so you have to be Christian the way WE say it's ok
Christians: oh shit
December 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Trump administration: gonna be a Christian nation from now on
Christians: yay!
TA: so you have to be Christian the way WE say it's ok
Christians: oh shit
Christians: yay!
TA: so you have to be Christian the way WE say it's ok
Christians: oh shit
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The economy is a paranormal entity that our greatest dimensional scholars (macroeconomists) understand only superficially. They have induced a variety of changes in it by manipulating arcane forces like "money supply" with some success. But it remains protean and unpredictable.
December 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The economy is a paranormal entity that our greatest dimensional scholars (macroeconomists) understand only superficially. They have induced a variety of changes in it by manipulating arcane forces like "money supply" with some success. But it remains protean and unpredictable.
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“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome
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watching people disembark from the plane you're about to board not wholly unlike sitting on a warm toilet seat, in that intellectually you know you weren't the first there but it still somehow feels wrong to be reminded of it
December 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM
watching people disembark from the plane you're about to board not wholly unlike sitting on a warm toilet seat, in that intellectually you know you weren't the first there but it still somehow feels wrong to be reminded of it
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It is Going to Happen in 2026
December 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
It is Going to Happen in 2026
Yorkshire puddings puff up nicely in the oven 😊
December 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Yorkshire puddings puff up nicely in the oven 😊
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Good fruit tray
December 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Good fruit tray