Antonija Primorac
@antonijap.bsky.social
A professor on sabbatical. Victorian literature & culture on screen and in translation, neo-Victorianism, postfeminism, the real and fake Sherlock Holmes, World Literature and periodical press. I also dabble in DH. 🌱 🧶 🧵 🗃🪡🎬.
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AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.
A few important points here
- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false
- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
- Generative AI supercharged data centre growth: lobbyist and substacker lines pretending like this is just streaming are false
- Even when you consider much of the projected growth is speculative, the *likely* projects are still MASSIVE
media.licdn.com/dms/document...
December 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Boats leaving the port of Le Havre, France, ca. 1855
Gustave Le Gray
Gustave Le Gray
December 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Boats leaving the port of Le Havre, France, ca. 1855
Gustave Le Gray
Gustave Le Gray
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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What happens when @bavs-uk.bsky.social and @qaqv.bsky.social join forces?
This: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/
You've got almost 3 months to submit your idea and then 2 more to complete your paper! Details in the CFP ⤴️
This: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/
You've got almost 3 months to submit your idea and then 2 more to complete your paper! Details in the CFP ⤴️
December 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
What happens when @bavs-uk.bsky.social and @qaqv.bsky.social join forces?
This: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/
You've got almost 3 months to submit your idea and then 2 more to complete your paper! Details in the CFP ⤴️
This: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/
You've got almost 3 months to submit your idea and then 2 more to complete your paper! Details in the CFP ⤴️
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My general feeling is that if something is called a “Revolution”, but there is no mention of the people and/or cultures destroyed in the process, it’s either not a revolution or it’s violences are being intentionally obscured
December 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My general feeling is that if something is called a “Revolution”, but there is no mention of the people and/or cultures destroyed in the process, it’s either not a revolution or it’s violences are being intentionally obscured
A morning surprise, or, new developments in the port of Rijeka.
November 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A morning surprise, or, new developments in the port of Rijeka.
November 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I still stand by these, even as universities around the world, including my own, brainlessly capitulate to AI.
As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I still stand by these, even as universities around the world, including my own, brainlessly capitulate to AI.
Beach bodies online: a quick lesson
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Beach bodies online: a quick lesson
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Died (alas!) on this day in 1494, Melozzo da Forlì. Painted beautiful works, many of them since lost or damaged. Alas again! Here, angel of the Annunciation, 1466, with some extreme drapery.
November 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Died (alas!) on this day in 1494, Melozzo da Forlì. Painted beautiful works, many of them since lost or damaged. Alas again! Here, angel of the Annunciation, 1466, with some extreme drapery.
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The deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...
Peterson Fellowship Guidelines – RSVP
Each year, the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) intends to grant one Linda H. Peterson Fellowship (henceforth, “the Peterson Fellowship”) in the amount of $20,000 to a single research...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
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If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 PM
If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
Neighbourhood watch
October 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Neighbourhood watch
Quiet afternoon.
October 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Quiet afternoon.
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Gulp
Just FYI to fellow rapidly aging academics attempting to hold onto cultural references our students understand. College seniors this year were born after all three Lord of the Rings movies.
September 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Gulp
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✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.
RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP
The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…
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September 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.
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Naoise Dolan: I've protested Israel's actions every way I can. Now, I'm joining the flotilla sailing for Gaza
Author Naoise Dolan explains why she’s joining a flotilla mission to Gaza – and why it’s long past time for Western leaders to take action.
www.thejournal.ie/readme/gaza-...
Author Naoise Dolan explains why she’s joining a flotilla mission to Gaza – and why it’s long past time for Western leaders to take action.
www.thejournal.ie/readme/gaza-...
Naoise Dolan: I've protested Israel's actions every way I can. Now, I'm joining the flotilla sailing for Gaza
Author Naoise Dolan explains why she’s joining a flotilla mission to Gaza – and why it’s long past time for Western leaders to take action.
www.thejournal.ie
August 31, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Naoise Dolan: I've protested Israel's actions every way I can. Now, I'm joining the flotilla sailing for Gaza
Author Naoise Dolan explains why she’s joining a flotilla mission to Gaza – and why it’s long past time for Western leaders to take action.
www.thejournal.ie/readme/gaza-...
Author Naoise Dolan explains why she’s joining a flotilla mission to Gaza – and why it’s long past time for Western leaders to take action.
www.thejournal.ie/readme/gaza-...
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Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum.
IG tatterbluelibrary
IG tatterbluelibrary
August 31, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Beautiful 1860s Victorian butterfly, which was used to store small packets of sewing needles on the underside of the wings. This was a collaboration between a London-based drapers company and a sewing needle manufacturer. On exhibit at Tatter Blue, a Brooklyn textile museum.
IG tatterbluelibrary
IG tatterbluelibrary
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August 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Will spend the rest of my life considering how we were rushed into "going paperless" for the good of the environment only for the next generation of digital tools to become far worse for the environment.
August 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Will spend the rest of my life considering how we were rushed into "going paperless" for the good of the environment only for the next generation of digital tools to become far worse for the environment.
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📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
rs4vp.org/awards/curra...
rs4vp.org/awards/curra...
The Curran Fellowships – RSVP
The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...
rs4vp.org
August 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
rs4vp.org/awards/curra...
rs4vp.org/awards/curra...
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I did it the other way
August 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I did it the other way