Gabriel Hankins
@gabrielh.bsky.social
Modernism, DH, psychoanalysis, horror, literary color. Editor, Cambridge Elements in Digital Literary Studies. Literary and Cultural Studies feed here: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m22fqufavn4t3bpxa6y53jqz/feed/aaajitqeisltw .
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I reviewed Kristin Grogan's brilliant new book _Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work_ for The Space Between
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January 27, 2026 at 2:46 AM
I reviewed Kristin Grogan's brilliant new book _Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work_ for The Space Between
scalar.usc.edu/works/the-sp...
scalar.usc.edu/works/the-sp...
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Check out the CFP for this pair of VIRTUAL mini-conferences on SLOP and NOSTALGIA, held by DLC+. I attended some of the previous mini-conference they put on it and it was great. Highly recommend. Keynote by the great Tess McNulty @dlcplus.org docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
CFP: DLC+ Presents Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture Mini-Conference: "Slop" and "Nostalgia"
We are excited to announce the second installment of our Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture series, mini-conferences devoted to studying the most pressing and emerging concepts actively shap...
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January 26, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Check out the CFP for this pair of VIRTUAL mini-conferences on SLOP and NOSTALGIA, held by DLC+. I attended some of the previous mini-conference they put on it and it was great. Highly recommend. Keynote by the great Tess McNulty @dlcplus.org docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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It is genuinely insane to watch capital decide that allowing this shit to go on is better for them than having to allow the FTC to do mild monopoly investigations and require cancellation buttons on websites.
January 24, 2026 at 5:18 PM
It is genuinely insane to watch capital decide that allowing this shit to go on is better for them than having to allow the FTC to do mild monopoly investigations and require cancellation buttons on websites.
We need far more critique of the radicalizing power of these military games. My own fascist childhood friend got there through Call of Duty too
I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
We need far more critique of the radicalizing power of these military games. My own fascist childhood friend got there through Call of Duty too
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On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.
January 24, 2026 at 4:52 PM
On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.
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The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.
January 24, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
So angry. This has to end now
January 24, 2026 at 6:57 PM
So angry. This has to end now
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I watched a bunch of AI sessions at the WEF so you wouldn’t have to.
But you should read this.
But you should read this.
"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos
Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?
theamericanvandal.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 1:01 PM
I watched a bunch of AI sessions at the WEF so you wouldn’t have to.
But you should read this.
But you should read this.
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Yes 😆 attempted a Jamesian description of dystopia.
January 24, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Yes 😆 attempted a Jamesian description of dystopia.
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The first full English translations of eight letters written to Lord Byron by his boyfriend Nicolas Giraud, with whom Byron had a not-so-secret relationship in Athens in 1810 through 1811.
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/01...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/01...
Love Letters from Lord Byron’s Boyfriend by Arden Hegele
January 23, 2026 – “It is now almost two years that I am at Athens, and I have sent to you many letters, but I have not received any answer of you.”
www.theparisreview.org
January 23, 2026 at 6:13 PM
The first full English translations of eight letters written to Lord Byron by his boyfriend Nicolas Giraud, with whom Byron had a not-so-secret relationship in Athens in 1810 through 1811.
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/01...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/01...
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This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges
The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation’s schools and colle...
apnews.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:45 PM
This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.
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“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
Justice Brett Kavanaugh
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Justice Brett Kavanaugh
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
January 23, 2026 at 12:25 PM
“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”
Justice Brett Kavanaugh
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Justice Brett Kavanaugh
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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This was the major aesthetic upheaval at the start of Trump I, as everyone realized that Dickens’ melodramatic depiction of evil was simple accuracy
I was definitely trained for an age in which evil was subtle, micro, slow, and hidden 😂 Welp
I was definitely trained for an age in which evil was subtle, micro, slow, and hidden 😂 Welp
the president slowly physically decaying and manifesting what appears to be some kind of stigmata on his hand while becoming more insane and evil would be dismissed as a hacky writing device
January 22, 2026 at 7:49 PM
This was the major aesthetic upheaval at the start of Trump I, as everyone realized that Dickens’ melodramatic depiction of evil was simple accuracy
I was definitely trained for an age in which evil was subtle, micro, slow, and hidden 😂 Welp
I was definitely trained for an age in which evil was subtle, micro, slow, and hidden 😂 Welp
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Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
January 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
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You can read Katie Kadue's brilliant, hilarious essay on Christopher Ricks and cliché from Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century in Harper's, now harpers.org/archive/2026...
Textual Chemistry, by Katie Kadue
harpers.org
January 22, 2026 at 6:51 PM
You can read Katie Kadue's brilliant, hilarious essay on Christopher Ricks and cliché from Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century in Harper's, now harpers.org/archive/2026...
Why would there be a peak in discussions of Wollstonecraft around 1887? Victorianists with ideas? (yes accepting this is approximate?)
January 22, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Why would there be a peak in discussions of Wollstonecraft around 1887? Victorianists with ideas? (yes accepting this is approximate?)
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"sorry for crossposting" bitch no you're not
January 22, 2026 at 12:31 PM
"sorry for crossposting" bitch no you're not
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The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! @ingerkuin.bsky.social discusses her new Diogenes book and the controversy over teaching Plato in Texas. Then, a new open access book on Chinese philosophy, archaeological ecosystems, RaceB4Race, new ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more! 🛢️
Pasts Imperfect (1.22.26)
This week, intellectual historian and classicist Inger N.I. Kuin discusses her new book on Diogenes and ruminates on the controversy in Texas surrounding teaching Plato. Then, a new edited, open acces...
pasts-imperfect.ghost.io
January 22, 2026 at 12:18 PM
The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! @ingerkuin.bsky.social discusses her new Diogenes book and the controversy over teaching Plato in Texas. Then, a new open access book on Chinese philosophy, archaeological ecosystems, RaceB4Race, new ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more! 🛢️
Looks excellent as always
I co-edited this bilingual issue of Mémoires du livre /
Studies in Book Culture w/ @julienlf.bsky.social (an excellent collaborator). It's all open access.
Studies in Book Culture w/ @julienlf.bsky.social (an excellent collaborator). It's all open access.
Politiques de la visibilité et de la découvrabilité dans l’édition contemporaine. Volume 16, Number 2, Fall 2025 – Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture
Read this issue of the journal Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture on Érudit. Discipline: Literary Studies, History.
www.erudit.org
January 22, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Looks excellent as always
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I co-edited this bilingual issue of Mémoires du livre /
Studies in Book Culture w/ @julienlf.bsky.social (an excellent collaborator). It's all open access.
Studies in Book Culture w/ @julienlf.bsky.social (an excellent collaborator). It's all open access.
Politiques de la visibilité et de la découvrabilité dans l’édition contemporaine. Volume 16, Number 2, Fall 2025 – Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture
Read this issue of the journal Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture on Érudit. Discipline: Literary Studies, History.
www.erudit.org
January 22, 2026 at 2:17 PM
I co-edited this bilingual issue of Mémoires du livre /
Studies in Book Culture w/ @julienlf.bsky.social (an excellent collaborator). It's all open access.
Studies in Book Culture w/ @julienlf.bsky.social (an excellent collaborator). It's all open access.
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Westphalia—Versailles—Munich—Yalta—Davos
would love to get a thread going of historical analogues to this incredibly strange temporality, i.e. the feeling of a centuries old social structure or set of them just dissolving in front of your eyes, on a minute to minute basis?
January 21, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Westphalia—Versailles—Munich—Yalta—Davos
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Davos
Unreal
Vienna London
Davos
Unreal
Westphalia—Versailles—Munich—Yalta—Davos
would love to get a thread going of historical analogues to this incredibly strange temporality, i.e. the feeling of a centuries old social structure or set of them just dissolving in front of your eyes, on a minute to minute basis?
January 21, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Jerusalem Athens Alexandria
Vienna London
Davos
Unreal
Vienna London
Davos
Unreal
More true here than in Germany, even as we have none of the needed competencies in (Swiss) German, Danish, or Kalaalisut that are actually required
Vielleicht ist die aktuelle Polykrise auch eine Gelegenheit, um nochmal aufzugreifen, wie wichtig Lesen und Fremdsprachenerwerb sind, um globale Zusammenhänge zu wirklich verstehen. Wenig hilft mir gerade mehr, als mich ziemlich mühelos in allen nordeuropäischen Medien informieren zu können.
January 21, 2026 at 4:27 PM
More true here than in Germany, even as we have none of the needed competencies in (Swiss) German, Danish, or Kalaalisut that are actually required
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tiny Denmark may have been overwhelmed by the Wehrmacht in under 6 hours in 1940, but the Danish Resistance heroically saved over 90% of Denmark's Jews, and that is a greater victory than any this monster will ever know
Trump: "No nation is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the US. We're a great power. Much greater than people even understand. I think they found that out 2 weeks ago in Venezuela. We saw this in World War 2 when Denmark fell to Germany after just 6 hours of fighting."
January 21, 2026 at 2:12 PM
tiny Denmark may have been overwhelmed by the Wehrmacht in under 6 hours in 1940, but the Danish Resistance heroically saved over 90% of Denmark's Jews, and that is a greater victory than any this monster will ever know
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February 15th deadline for this great opportunity. I really enjoyed my time in the postdoc jobs.chronicle.com/job/37939892...
Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellowship (Multiple Positions Starting August 1, 2026 - Atlanta, Georgia (US) job with Georgia Institute of Technology-Literature, Media, and Communication | 37939892
Job Summary The Writing and Communication Program (WCP) at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia
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January 21, 2026 at 3:31 PM
February 15th deadline for this great opportunity. I really enjoyed my time in the postdoc jobs.chronicle.com/job/37939892...