James Gifford
@giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
Professor & Press Director ¶ solo dad ¶ sing opera ¶ cut my own hair ¶ he/him ¶ own my views (views my own) ¶ typos pletniful And since I have more room here […]
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“Hi, I’m Clippy. Looks like you’re reading about how to avoid damaging your own brain. Would you like me to order you a self-trepanning kit off Amazon? A companion volume is available of AI-generated guides to local edible mushrooms.”
October 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“Hi, I’m Clippy. Looks like you’re reading about how to avoid damaging your own brain. Would you like me to order you a self-trepanning kit off Amazon? A companion volume is available of AI-generated guides to local edible mushrooms.”
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Today is the closing day for submissions to our CFP on Slavery and Abolition in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy for a workshop at Emory University May 13-15, 2026! See above and please consider joining us; we expect to have sufficient funding for lodging and travel support for participants who […]
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c18.masto.host
October 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Today is the closing day for submissions to our CFP on Slavery and Abolition in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy for a workshop at Emory University May 13-15, 2026! See above and please consider joining us; we expect to have sufficient funding for lodging and travel support for participants who […]
@carrideen This! So much this, Carrie… Though I also think there’s something broader and worse. Twitter did all those things *by* mirroring the coteries of academia. Hot Takes of Higher Ed produced the follower counts, and elitist hierarchies of status were the batteries in the megaphone […]
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mas.to
October 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
@carrideen This! So much this, Carrie… Though I also think there’s something broader and worse. Twitter did all those things *by* mirroring the coteries of academia. Hot Takes of Higher Ed produced the follower counts, and elitist hierarchies of status were the batteries in the megaphone […]
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I made the blogger's mistake of thinking those relationships were real. I did buy everyone's books, if I liked them online. I came to their Zoom book release parties, and attended their talks on panels. I even read their books, and shared them with students! But I think it was because my […]
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c18.masto.host
October 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I made the blogger's mistake of thinking those relationships were real. I did buy everyone's books, if I liked them online. I came to their Zoom book release parties, and attended their talks on panels. I even read their books, and shared them with students! But I think it was because my […]
@Virginicus I published Dennis’s (excellent) book. 😁 I was focused more on issues of allusion in prose but reflecting tye approaches typical of modernist poetry. It’s part of a larger project mainly in late modernism and allusion broadly, but I’m fascinated by tye work right now on the […]
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mas.to
September 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
@Virginicus I published Dennis’s (excellent) book. 😁 I was focused more on issues of allusion in prose but reflecting tye approaches typical of modernist poetry. It’s part of a larger project mainly in late modernism and allusion broadly, but I’m fascinated by tye work right now on the […]