Ragini M
@raginimohite.bsky.social
Assistant Professor. Author of Modern Writers, Transnational Literatures: Rabindranath Tagore and W. B. Yeats (Clemson UP, 2021). Modernism, poetry, South Asian literature, world literature, and all that. #WIASN #GEMWA
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@zrucker5.bsky.social thanks for the follow. Its good to meet you
November 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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@pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social hi, thanks for the follow back!! Nice to connect
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
@pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social hi, thanks for the follow back!! Nice to connect
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I'm thrilled to be launching Marion Quirici's brilliant "Fitness For Freedom: Disability, Degeneration & Modern Irish Writing" at this month's ISAANZ conference. A compelling intervention that will be invaluable to work on disability in Irish and modernist studies. Insist your library orders a copy!
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I'm thrilled to be launching Marion Quirici's brilliant "Fitness For Freedom: Disability, Degeneration & Modern Irish Writing" at this month's ISAANZ conference. A compelling intervention that will be invaluable to work on disability in Irish and modernist studies. Insist your library orders a copy!
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October 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Poetry in English possesses two separate but intertwined beats. First of all, the stresses. And secondly, underneath those stresses, the syllables. The subtle latter are often drowned out by the strident former. But if you listen hard enough, the syllabics are there, underpinning everything.
October 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Poetry in English possesses two separate but intertwined beats. First of all, the stresses. And secondly, underneath those stresses, the syllables. The subtle latter are often drowned out by the strident former. But if you listen hard enough, the syllabics are there, underpinning everything.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
@madverse.bsky.social hi, thanks for the follow. Good to meet you.
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R.I.P. Tony Harrison (1937-2025): from my mum's generation.
It gave me a shiver to reread V just now, especially the lines in which Harrison imagines his own grave. And another shiver when I remembered his not-quite-sonnet "On Not Being Milton" from 1978: that second octet!
It gave me a shiver to reread V just now, especially the lines in which Harrison imagines his own grave. And another shiver when I remembered his not-quite-sonnet "On Not Being Milton" from 1978: that second octet!
September 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
R.I.P. Tony Harrison (1937-2025): from my mum's generation.
It gave me a shiver to reread V just now, especially the lines in which Harrison imagines his own grave. And another shiver when I remembered his not-quite-sonnet "On Not Being Milton" from 1978: that second octet!
It gave me a shiver to reread V just now, especially the lines in which Harrison imagines his own grave. And another shiver when I remembered his not-quite-sonnet "On Not Being Milton" from 1978: that second octet!
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At minimum, there should be a tax on AI use and a tax on the land they use for data centers and they should provide their own energy.
September 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
At minimum, there should be a tax on AI use and a tax on the land they use for data centers and they should provide their own energy.
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I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes
I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.
September 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes
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“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
September 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
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September 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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@emmashort.bsky.social hiya, thanks for the follow. Good to meet you
September 8, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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@ryantopper.bsky.social Hello hello! Long time. How have you been??
August 15, 2025 at 5:12 AM
@ryantopper.bsky.social Hello hello! Long time. How have you been??
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Every British person on the internet is complaining about you
July 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Every British person on the internet is complaining about you
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Almost every “successful” AI use case involves knocking the first rungs out of a career ladder, but those are the very positions our students desperately need to become acculturated into the professional spaces that will eventually require experienced professionals to replace the current cohort.
July 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Almost every “successful” AI use case involves knocking the first rungs out of a career ladder, but those are the very positions our students desperately need to become acculturated into the professional spaces that will eventually require experienced professionals to replace the current cohort.
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It’s almost like we brought gen-AI on ourselves by getting so fascinated with the word “rubric.”
July 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
It’s almost like we brought gen-AI on ourselves by getting so fascinated with the word “rubric.”
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Fuck your AI review
July 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Fuck your AI review
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I need academics in STEM or comp sci etc to understand that their colleagues in the humanities might not see AI with the rose colored lenses they themselves seem to; and to stop framing those who refuse to use it like this. And a little critical thinking about AI is good
If you are writing any kind of software and not using AI, you are working with one hand tied behind your back.
I see AI as an essential programming tool.
AI is a tool. Tools in themselves are neither good nor bad. The question is whether we are using those tools for good or for evil.
I see AI as an essential programming tool.
AI is a tool. Tools in themselves are neither good nor bad. The question is whether we are using those tools for good or for evil.
June 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I need academics in STEM or comp sci etc to understand that their colleagues in the humanities might not see AI with the rose colored lenses they themselves seem to; and to stop framing those who refuse to use it like this. And a little critical thinking about AI is good
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if you wanna eat the rich you don't go after professors and artists or even doctors or lawyers. the actual rich people we need to eat /don't work/
June 30, 2025 at 12:13 AM
if you wanna eat the rich you don't go after professors and artists or even doctors or lawyers. the actual rich people we need to eat /don't work/
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"digital asbestos" is fantastic framing.
I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture.
I think AI is going to eventually tank in the longterm, but...
the only real way to combat this is single-interest communities. Forums, user comms, etc, with a barrier to entry. They become trustable knowledgebases. It's really the only way forward is to return to what worked best the first time
the only real way to combat this is single-interest communities. Forums, user comms, etc, with a barrier to entry. They become trustable knowledgebases. It's really the only way forward is to return to what worked best the first time
June 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
"digital asbestos" is fantastic framing.
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Fellow academics who teach South Asian literature in your courses, which are your preferred editions for Tagore's poems on your reading lists for students? #Tagore #SouthAsianStudies #southasianliterature @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Fellow academics who teach South Asian literature in your courses, which are your preferred editions for Tagore's poems on your reading lists for students? #Tagore #SouthAsianStudies #southasianliterature @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
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continue to think that humanities discourse would be massively improved if we all admitted to ourselves that our most effective political activity can be separate from our jobs and might not have much to do with our areas of expertise
I find humanities debates re how to be Radical very quaint. Imo the reason us sitting around and arguing about metaphysics isn't actually leading to substantial increases in power or wellbeing for the working class has nothing to do with the particular way we sit around and argue about metaphysics.
June 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
continue to think that humanities discourse would be massively improved if we all admitted to ourselves that our most effective political activity can be separate from our jobs and might not have much to do with our areas of expertise
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there’s a reason bluesky is a retirement home for millennial posters - we grew up before algorithms and were not used to having content shoved in our faces unasked for
we chose to click on those terrible threads ourselves
we chose to click on those terrible threads ourselves
This is, in all seriousness, the biggest Millennial/Gen Z dividing line: whether your first social network pre- or post-dates facebook.
and honestly i’m still very much a forum poster at heart
June 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
there’s a reason bluesky is a retirement home for millennial posters - we grew up before algorithms and were not used to having content shoved in our faces unasked for
we chose to click on those terrible threads ourselves
we chose to click on those terrible threads ourselves
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Yes! Same here. Connect! Repost each others' books and articles! Post pics of each others' books! The network is you!
June 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Yes! Same here. Connect! Repost each others' books and articles! Post pics of each others' books! The network is you!
Fellow academics who teach South Asian literature in your courses, which are your preferred editions for Tagore's poems on your reading lists for students? #Tagore #SouthAsianStudies #southasianliterature @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Fellow academics who teach South Asian literature in your courses, which are your preferred editions for Tagore's poems on your reading lists for students? #Tagore #SouthAsianStudies #southasianliterature @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social