oishani
oishani.bsky.social
oishani
@oishani.bsky.social
asst prof @ UT El Paso
race, print culture, pictures
into funny/uncanny things
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if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
February 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Imagine misunderstanding your own religion so bad that you get yelled at by the pope 😵 so embarrassing 🙈
February 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
reading just enough german to get Marx’s “Sie konnën sich nicht vertreten, sie müssen vertreten werden” in Orientalism is spooky chilling & not
recommended
February 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
everyone i meet is in deathly burnout today
February 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
maybe all this is about nature getting back at humanity by bringing back it’s entire arsenal of diseases from the 14th century without the interference of all these pesky health codes
February 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
news has gone wild. random people don’t need to hear clips of air traffic control during the last minutes of the crashing plane get a grip
January 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I said i would not look at news. I did not say anything about exploding missiles of bullshit sent directly from hell
January 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
gonna sign all my emails “until further chaos”
January 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
does anyone have recommendations for someone who refuses to deal with reality? what are some mildly deranged and time consuming hobbies i can take up
January 21, 2025 at 10:37 PM
In my Calcutta house: dad’s 1980s copy of volume 1 of capital, published by Progress Publishers in Moscow (1978 reprint edition). The success of Moscow publishers in Kolkata and the presence of these editions in the city has so many stories to tell. Also, I thought these loose papers were love+
December 12, 2024 at 4:11 AM
been reading syrian journalists and writers on & off since the chemical attacks in 2013 and not gonna lie i feel like crying in anger & relief for every disappearing journalist and dead family member i’ve virtually encountered for 10+ years
December 8, 2024 at 5:42 PM
bought some leuchtturm notebooks but they inmediately became Christmas gifts for other people 😭
December 4, 2024 at 5:10 AM
my parents saw two foxes almost raiding our trash cans in el paso and are very very pleased
December 3, 2024 at 4:13 AM
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Just a reminder that Amazon workers are striking tomorrow through Monday, and that none of the “deals” are good enough to justify crossing the picket line.
November 28, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Auerbach was the librarian at the Stabi who provided Benjamin with some of his conceptual framing for the Trauerspiel project
November 20, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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"The Alchemist", a painting from Mattheus van Helmont from mid seventeenth century, is rich in detail, and full of #earlymodern paper details. Here is a 🧵, dear #skystorians, unfortunately not about the large écorché figure, a distillation apparatus over a fire, but about #paperhistory.

Enjoy.
November 27, 2024 at 1:39 PM
decided not to buy a remarkable because hot take but i think the future of paper is paper. paper is pretty perfect actually
November 25, 2024 at 3:01 AM
this may be obvious but you all should really be jealous of the mezcal margaritas in el paso
November 23, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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Hi. My department is hiring two tenure-track assistant profs in American lit -- one pre-1900 and one post-1900.

WVU is, to say the obvious, a complicated place. What isn't complicated is that our students are amazing and deserve so much more than they've received. More below.
Assistant Professor in American Literature (Pre and Post 1900) - Department of English - HigherEdJobs
Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.
www.higheredjobs.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:06 PM
so tired & yet so behind
November 22, 2024 at 12:09 AM
life sucks but i bought two tiny puffer coats for my baby nieces in india 😭💕
November 21, 2024 at 12:23 AM
doomscrolling… but on project gutenberg ✅
November 17, 2024 at 2:35 AM
I feel like that dead bear
November 15, 2024 at 2:39 AM
a colleague came into my office and we laughed madly for 5 minutes… how’s your day going
November 14, 2024 at 8:04 PM
What is the german word for tired of the stupidity of the worst people who haven’t even done anything yet
November 14, 2024 at 4:34 AM