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Jacob Tootalian
@jtootalian.bsky.social
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Scholar, teacher, parent. Interested in (early modern) literature, rhetoric, and the history of science. Co-General Editor of the Complete Works of Margaret Cavendish. Co-Director of Digital Cavendish.
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Still from Monty Python and the Holy Grail with dialogue caption "I told you. We're an anarcho-syndacalist commune."
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I couldn't help but get pedantic at the No Kings protest.
Me and my son with our signs. His—a stop sign that says "Stop Trump"—and mine—a quotation from Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649): "A Tyrant is he who, regarding neither Law nor the Common Good, reigns only for himself and his faction."
June 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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I was trying to see if anyone had photoshopped Cavendish into a cyborg (a normal search) and instead got this AI slop hodgepodge of her and Donna Haraway
AI slop search results that say "Margaret Cavendish used the cyborg metaphor in her work to engage with contemporary science"
February 13, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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I'll be giving a talk on Cavendish—covering the Cavendish and figuration in 17th c. scientific prose + Digital Cavendish + the Complete Works project—at 8 AM tomorrow (Pacific) / 17 PM (CET). It's sponsored by the Political Utopia, Gender, and Science in Modernity through Margaret Cavendish project.
February 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM