adam
@damfales.bsky.social
back and worse than ever
grad student but trying not to post about it
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grad student but trying not to post about it
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Today I defend my dissertation! Thank you to everyone on here who helped me get to this point!
If you’re in Chicago, come to Jimmy’s at some point after 5pm to celebrate!
If you’re in Chicago, come to Jimmy’s at some point after 5pm to celebrate!
May 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Today I defend my dissertation! Thank you to everyone on here who helped me get to this point!
If you’re in Chicago, come to Jimmy’s at some point after 5pm to celebrate!
If you’re in Chicago, come to Jimmy’s at some point after 5pm to celebrate!
Two important updates:
1) I’ve started The Rehearsal season two
2) I’ve finished my dissertation
1) I’ve started The Rehearsal season two
2) I’ve finished my dissertation
May 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Two important updates:
1) I’ve started The Rehearsal season two
2) I’ve finished my dissertation
1) I’ve started The Rehearsal season two
2) I’ve finished my dissertation
Getting a PhD has prepared me for a job, but the problem is that job is nineteenth-century law clerk.
April 1, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Getting a PhD has prepared me for a job, but the problem is that job is nineteenth-century law clerk.
just now learning that my university has announced the end of the university
March 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
just now learning that my university has announced the end of the university
This week I used my favorite dissertation productivity tool: telling someone you’re going to meet a deadline they didn’t ask for and that might be impossible
February 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This week I used my favorite dissertation productivity tool: telling someone you’re going to meet a deadline they didn’t ask for and that might be impossible
Rereading Moby-Dick for the first time in a few years, and it is so wild that anyone ever thought Middlemarch was better than this
February 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Rereading Moby-Dick for the first time in a few years, and it is so wild that anyone ever thought Middlemarch was better than this
The other dumbest part is I know that quakers are basically just like other people but they say “thee” and “thou”
Dumbest part of studying the nineteenth century is that I know how to spell “daguerreotype”
January 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The other dumbest part is I know that quakers are basically just like other people but they say “thee” and “thou”
Forever in awe of the work produced by my colleagues
Really, really, really wanna zigazig ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!
January 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Forever in awe of the work produced by my colleagues
Dumbest part of studying the nineteenth century is that I know how to spell “daguerreotype”
January 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Dumbest part of studying the nineteenth century is that I know how to spell “daguerreotype”
Can’t believe I am expected to sit here and write, the thing I have wanted to spend my life doing
January 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Can’t believe I am expected to sit here and write, the thing I have wanted to spend my life doing
👀
🚨 NEW CLUSTER 🚨
AFTER THE LEFTOVERS
This cluster, editors @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social explain, doesn't "resolve the problem of remainders but responds to the impossibility of wholeness by inquiring into how that impossibility is produced.”
post45.org/2024/12/afte...
AFTER THE LEFTOVERS
This cluster, editors @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social explain, doesn't "resolve the problem of remainders but responds to the impossibility of wholeness by inquiring into how that impossibility is produced.”
post45.org/2024/12/afte...
After The Leftovers - Post45
There are two different kinds of leftovers, two different problems they represent. The first problem is long division, which teaches us to let the leftovers be. The leftovers of division are excess qu...
post45.org
January 2, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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this is the last week you can make "2024 hours to go" jokes
December 27, 2024 at 1:45 AM
this is the last week you can make "2024 hours to go" jokes
Happy Holidays / RIP Jesus and Joe Flaherty
December 25, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Happy Holidays / RIP Jesus and Joe Flaherty
Posting an indefensible and niche take shortly before hitting my screentime limit on this app: we’re so back
December 18, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Posting an indefensible and niche take shortly before hitting my screentime limit on this app: we’re so back
Rereading the greatest novel of the twentieth century (Marrow of Tradition)
December 18, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Rereading the greatest novel of the twentieth century (Marrow of Tradition)
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BREAKING: 8 MLA past presidents--incl Judith Butler and Chris Newfield--publicly call on the MLA Executive Council NOT to block a vote on a BDS Resolution. Please read and share their letter today in LitHub. Members deserve to debate and VOTE. lithub.com/8-former-mod...
Former Modern Language Association Presidents Call for BDS Vote
In late October, the leadership of the Modern Language Association (MLA)—one of the largest and wealthiest US scholarly organizations in the humanities—refused to allow the organization’s Delegate …
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December 18, 2024 at 3:06 PM
BREAKING: 8 MLA past presidents--incl Judith Butler and Chris Newfield--publicly call on the MLA Executive Council NOT to block a vote on a BDS Resolution. Please read and share their letter today in LitHub. Members deserve to debate and VOTE. lithub.com/8-former-mod...
The one-two punch of the Brian Jordan Alvarez piece and the Know Your Enemy courts under Trump 2.0 episode is doing bad things to my mental health
December 17, 2024 at 6:10 PM
The one-two punch of the Brian Jordan Alvarez piece and the Know Your Enemy courts under Trump 2.0 episode is doing bad things to my mental health
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Moving from aesthetic judgment to interpretation is vital for scholars. But it is not vital for the critic. The move is a move because these activities are not the same kind of thing. The role of criticism is not that it interprets but that it alerts us to what we should be interpreting.
V J Adams
V J Adams
December 17, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Moving from aesthetic judgment to interpretation is vital for scholars. But it is not vital for the critic. The move is a move because these activities are not the same kind of thing. The role of criticism is not that it interprets but that it alerts us to what we should be interpreting.
V J Adams
V J Adams
Important reminder this holiday season:
December 16, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Important reminder this holiday season:
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December 16, 2024 at 5:54 PM
Finally a good Amazon suggestion a.co/d/cFCpGeQ
“All Things Are Too Small…tries to pass off general moral-aesthetic judgments of taste as precise acts of historically specific evaluation, of diagnosing a sick culture…. We learn nothing from this.”
Mitch! Mitch!! Mitch!!!!
www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/becc...
Mitch! Mitch!! Mitch!!!!
www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/becc...
A Business Doing Pleasure With You: On Becca Rothfeld's "All Things Are Too Small" — Cleveland Review of Books
There are nefarious forces at work in the sphere of taste.
www.clereviewofbooks.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:44 PM
“All Things Are Too Small…tries to pass off general moral-aesthetic judgments of taste as precise acts of historically specific evaluation, of diagnosing a sick culture…. We learn nothing from this.”
Mitch! Mitch!! Mitch!!!!
www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/becc...
Mitch! Mitch!! Mitch!!!!
www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/becc...
First interview in just under 30 minutes, wish me luck (my phone is on do not disturb and I will not see it)
December 6, 2024 at 3:34 PM
First interview in just under 30 minutes, wish me luck (my phone is on do not disturb and I will not see it)
More Christmas ideas if someone has $1600 to burn
December 4, 2024 at 4:38 AM
More Christmas ideas if someone has $1600 to burn
2024 Moby-Dick Gift Guide
; or, merchandising, merchandising!
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December 2, 2024 at 11:56 PM
This holiday season, the first one in which Detroiters is easily available on Netflix, you all have a duty to show it to all your families
November 27, 2024 at 9:24 PM
This holiday season, the first one in which Detroiters is easily available on Netflix, you all have a duty to show it to all your families