Dr. Ishaan
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Dr. Ishaan
@reluctantmicroblog.bsky.social
Literary scholar for my sins
English and Cultural Studies PhD
Animal studies, Marxism, indie rock, cinema
https://ishaanselby.owlstown.net/
https://bandcamp.com/edsays
https://letterboxd.com/edsays/
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Few people realize how important it is to write cryptic words on whiteboards with dried-out markers. It makes students pay attention and increases the kind of mystique necessary for true learning to occur.
February 11, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Looking forward to digging in to your article
February 11, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Been trying to write something about the family dog and imaginaries of heterosexuality for a bit now
February 11, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Loved this book so much
February 11, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Excited to read! I remember in 2020 reading Blair McClendon's piece about The Purge films and the way they're thinking about violence in American public culture
www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/m...
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:57 PM
The dog becomes a life worth preserving and makes you into a kind of cop, a cop mode of seeing to preserve a specific kind of animal life/property
February 11, 2026 at 2:03 PM
You can read me thinking about animals as witnesses and political actors in this book
vernonpress.com/book/1852?sr...
Lost Kingdom: Animal Death in the Anthropocene [Hardback]
The authors in ‘Lost Kingdom’ grapple with both the catastrophe of mass animal extinction, in which the panoply of earthly life is in the accelerating process of disappearing, and with the mass death ...
vernonpress.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:58 PM
I wrote about PAW Patrol and the use of robot dogs in Gaza as examples of police dogs here published in @humanimalia.bsky.social
humanimalia.org/article/view...
Robot Dogs and the Paw Patrol: Police Dogs and Racial Biocapitalism in the Americas and Palestine | Humanimalia
Humanimalia
humanimalia.org
February 11, 2026 at 1:58 PM