Élika Ortega
@elikaortega.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. of Spanish
Book: Binding Media. Hybrid, Print-Digital Lit from across the Americas (SUP 2025)
Dog person. Rose person.
Mexican in the US. Posts in Spanglish
https://elikaortega.net
Book: Binding Media. Hybrid, Print-Digital Lit from across the Americas (SUP 2025)
Dog person. Rose person.
Mexican in the US. Posts in Spanglish
https://elikaortega.net
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Élika Ortega
@elikaortega.bsky.social
· Mar 4
Binding Media | Stanford University Press
Far from causing the "death of the book," the publishing industry's adoption of digital technologies has generated a multitude of new works that push the boundaries of literature and its presentation....
www.sup.org
Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across the Americas is officially out today from @stanfordpress.bsky.social! 🎉 If you’re interested in publishing, book history, cultural hybridity, media archaeology, and digital literature, you might like the book! A not so short thread 1/
What are people watching these days?
It’s finally Friday and I already finished The Diplomat, Task, and GBBO. I also already watched Frankenstein.
TY
It’s finally Friday and I already finished The Diplomat, Task, and GBBO. I also already watched Frankenstein.
TY
November 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
What are people watching these days?
It’s finally Friday and I already finished The Diplomat, Task, and GBBO. I also already watched Frankenstein.
TY
It’s finally Friday and I already finished The Diplomat, Task, and GBBO. I also already watched Frankenstein.
TY
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I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me...
We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet.
1/n
We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet.
1/n
Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
www.theatlantic.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me...
We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet.
1/n
We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet.
1/n
@hollym.bsky.social Hi! I'm striking out looking for your email online. Would you mind emailing me at elika[dot]ortega[at]colorado[dot]edu?
November 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
@hollym.bsky.social Hi! I'm striking out looking for your email online. Would you mind emailing me at elika[dot]ortega[at]colorado[dot]edu?
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Thanks also to @elikaortega.bsky.social for helping us display the cover of her book "Binding Media: Hybrid print-digital literature from across the Americas"! Élika gave a fantastic talk for @scholarslab.bsky.social in '22 on literary & material experimentations via hybrid print-digital books.
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Thanks also to @elikaortega.bsky.social for helping us display the cover of her book "Binding Media: Hybrid print-digital literature from across the Americas"! Élika gave a fantastic talk for @scholarslab.bsky.social in '22 on literary & material experimentations via hybrid print-digital books.
If the semester were a hike, I'd be at the point where I can already see the parking lot at the bottom of the trail and it seems totally attainable, but I also know it's kinda far away, am too hot/cold, my backpack feels way too heavy, and my feet hurt.
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
If the semester were a hike, I'd be at the point where I can already see the parking lot at the bottom of the trail and it seems totally attainable, but I also know it's kinda far away, am too hot/cold, my backpack feels way too heavy, and my feet hurt.
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So happy this chapter with one of my very favourite co-authors is in the world 💖 (with an OA version forthcoming… any day now!)
A good mail day! I loved collaborating with @alyssaarbuckle.bsky.social on this chapter. We even snuck a few photos in there. So many great contributors—thank you to editors Constance Crompton, @lauraestill.bsky.social, Richard J. Lane, & @raysiemens.bsky.social for making it possible!
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
So happy this chapter with one of my very favourite co-authors is in the world 💖 (with an OA version forthcoming… any day now!)
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Mail art is also part of my Spring class and I was thinking would anyone be interested in making an inter institutional mail art network?
Lat Am focus and Spanish language would be the best fit, but certainly not required.
Lat Am focus and Spanish language would be the best fit, but certainly not required.
Tiny but sustaining news: my upper division class––in which we'll be making cartoneras, paper planes a la zapatista, twines, bluesky bots, etc.––for next semester is already full and with even has a wait list! 🎉✨
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Mail art is also part of my Spring class and I was thinking would anyone be interested in making an inter institutional mail art network?
Lat Am focus and Spanish language would be the best fit, but certainly not required.
Lat Am focus and Spanish language would be the best fit, but certainly not required.
I have *SO MANY* muted words to keep my feed navigable and STILL there's so much doom.
November 12, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I have *SO MANY* muted words to keep my feed navigable and STILL there's so much doom.
Mail art is also part of my Spring class and I was thinking would anyone be interested in making an inter institutional mail art network?
Lat Am focus and Spanish language would be the best fit, but certainly not required.
Lat Am focus and Spanish language would be the best fit, but certainly not required.
Tiny but sustaining news: my upper division class––in which we'll be making cartoneras, paper planes a la zapatista, twines, bluesky bots, etc.––for next semester is already full and with even has a wait list! 🎉✨
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Mail art is also part of my Spring class and I was thinking would anyone be interested in making an inter institutional mail art network?
Lat Am focus and Spanish language would be the best fit, but certainly not required.
Lat Am focus and Spanish language would be the best fit, but certainly not required.
Also very good vibes with a bunch of folks showing up at the park to see the lights.
November 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Also very good vibes with a bunch of folks showing up at the park to see the lights.
Northern lights visible in NW Denver! 😍😍
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Northern lights visible in NW Denver! 😍😍
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I could not be more excited that the brilliant @plach.bsky.social is visiting Arizona and @asulincolncenter.bsky.social this week to talk about the stories we need, the voices we need, the histories we need in these (urgent) times.
The lecture will be hybrid! Join us in-person or ✨online✨!
The lecture will be hybrid! Join us in-person or ✨online✨!
Join us tomorrow and Thursday for an exciting event series with @plach.bsky.social !
Tomorrow -- The Stories We Still Need: Podcasting for Urgent Times asuevents.asu.edu/event/storie...
Thursday -- Humanities Podcasting 101 asuevents.asu.edu/event/humani...
Tomorrow -- The Stories We Still Need: Podcasting for Urgent Times asuevents.asu.edu/event/storie...
Thursday -- Humanities Podcasting 101 asuevents.asu.edu/event/humani...
The Stories We Still Need: Podcasting for Urgent Times | ASU Events
How do we tell stories in times of crisis? And how do we tell those stories in conversation with our communities, in ways that are sustaining and generative? In this talk, Lach proposes a methodology ...
asuevents.asu.edu
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I could not be more excited that the brilliant @plach.bsky.social is visiting Arizona and @asulincolncenter.bsky.social this week to talk about the stories we need, the voices we need, the histories we need in these (urgent) times.
The lecture will be hybrid! Join us in-person or ✨online✨!
The lecture will be hybrid! Join us in-person or ✨online✨!
Last reading of the contemporary LatAm lit survey done! We read Alarcón's Ciudad de Payasos and students seemed excited to rethink the transnational parameters of "LatAm lit" when the story was first published in English in the U.S., but then first published as graphic novel in Spanish.
November 11, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Last reading of the contemporary LatAm lit survey done! We read Alarcón's Ciudad de Payasos and students seemed excited to rethink the transnational parameters of "LatAm lit" when the story was first published in English in the U.S., but then first published as graphic novel in Spanish.
Me looking at slides from a meeting I missed: dang, I can't really make sense of the info without the narrative and explanation of the main points.
Students looking at slides from classes they missed: got it, I'm all caught up.
Students looking at slides from classes they missed: got it, I'm all caught up.
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Me looking at slides from a meeting I missed: dang, I can't really make sense of the info without the narrative and explanation of the main points.
Students looking at slides from classes they missed: got it, I'm all caught up.
Students looking at slides from classes they missed: got it, I'm all caught up.
sunset in Denver tonight
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
sunset in Denver tonight
Tiny but sustaining news: my upper division class––in which we'll be making cartoneras, paper planes a la zapatista, twines, bluesky bots, etc.––for next semester is already full and with even has a wait list! 🎉✨
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Tiny but sustaining news: my upper division class––in which we'll be making cartoneras, paper planes a la zapatista, twines, bluesky bots, etc.––for next semester is already full and with even has a wait list! 🎉✨
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Estoy buscando investigadores/académicos en America Latina que esté en las humanidades (y particularmente literatura y teoría) trabajando sobre temas de la globalización, política, imperio, el medio ambiente, literatura contemporánea, etc. para conectar por aquí.
Repost por favor! Y conectemos!
Repost por favor! Y conectemos!
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Estoy buscando investigadores/académicos en America Latina que esté en las humanidades (y particularmente literatura y teoría) trabajando sobre temas de la globalización, política, imperio, el medio ambiente, literatura contemporánea, etc. para conectar por aquí.
Repost por favor! Y conectemos!
Repost por favor! Y conectemos!
*Wild* afternoon ahead.
November 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
*Wild* afternoon ahead.
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Listen, I'm not gonna use AI to help me write this thing. I'm gonna struggle, procrastinate, self-hate, agonize, and suffer -- just as god intended!
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Listen, I'm not gonna use AI to help me write this thing. I'm gonna struggle, procrastinate, self-hate, agonize, and suffer -- just as god intended!
Book history—>diplomacy
Claudia Sheinbaum confirmó que México aceptará el traslado temporal del Códice Azcatitlán desde la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia, mientras que el Códice Boturini será exhibido en París.
Anunció que el próximo año se renovará el tratado comercial con Europa. www.animalpolitico.com/politica/she...
Anunció que el próximo año se renovará el tratado comercial con Europa. www.animalpolitico.com/politica/she...
Sheinbaum y Macron fortalecen relación bilateral: México y Francia reactivan Consejo Estratégico y acuerdan intercambio de códices
www.animalpolitico.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Book history—>diplomacy
What @alexsaum.bsky.social said 👇👇👇 but with the cool poster the organizers made
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
What @alexsaum.bsky.social said 👇👇👇 but with the cool poster the organizers made
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Arts and cultural experiences had more attendance than Rockies, Broncos, Nuggets, Avalanche and Rapids games combined.
Getting Down to Business: Arts Contributed More Than $3 Billion to Colorado's Economy in 2024
Arts and cultural experiences had more attendance than Rockies, Broncos, Nuggets, Avalanche and Rapids games combined.
www.westword.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Arts and cultural experiences had more attendance than Rockies, Broncos, Nuggets, Avalanche and Rapids games combined.
Since many are posting about president Sheinbaum, please remember that, in addition to being president, she has a PhD.
Please do not call her Ms. or Mrs. Sheinbaum.
Please do not call her Ms. or Mrs. Sheinbaum.
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Since many are posting about president Sheinbaum, please remember that, in addition to being president, she has a PhD.
Please do not call her Ms. or Mrs. Sheinbaum.
Please do not call her Ms. or Mrs. Sheinbaum.
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I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I am SO happy to be able to share the wonderful cover for DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE: THE ALTERNATIVE PRESS coming in March from Wayne State UP. The cover has it all—postcards, letterpress, a bison. Beautifully designed, as it happens, by Lindsey Cleworth, who grew up in my/our hometown.