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Ian C Boyd

Ian C Boyd

@IanCBoyd

PhD Candidate in French at the University of Cambridge. Working on the imagination of the subterranean in the eighteenth century.

Cambridge, England Katılım Ekim 2020
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Nate Wolff
Nate Wolff@proffwolff·
DATING TIP: there is no possible way to ride a sled down a snowy hill with your mistress in a way that will not hit a tree leaving you trapped in a grim invalid polycule with her and your wife in an isolated mill town around the turn of the twentieth century. Avoid at all costs.
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jean charles leonard@jc_leonard·
intellectual history is awesome because some weirdo will spend decades in the archive trying to convince the rest of the world that their crank guy is the key to understanding everything. which is very stupid because actually *my* crank guy is the key to understanding everything
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teen vampire, aged 40
teen vampire, aged 40@witchesflight·
archiveofourown.org/works/73396436 this is the only good thing ive ever read in my life. “Isaac choitner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s ‘the lottery’”
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Ian C Boyd@IanCBoyd·
@katherineveritt Diderot writes something like this to his mistress. The great atheist imagining (hoping!) his atoms will mix with his lovers when they’re dead and buried…
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Katherine Everitt 💥
Katherine Everitt 💥@katherineveritt·
What if you and I are just two entangled particles?
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Eric Adler
Eric Adler@ProfEricAdler·
U of Chicago is going to merge humanities departments and downscale its language offerings in part because...the institution spent too much money on construction projects. Its endowment: over $10 billion. Are there any leaders in higher ed who *want* to save the humanities?
The Chicago Maroon@ChicagoMaroon

The Division of the Arts & Humanities is considering consolidating its 15 departments into eight, reducing language instruction, and establishing minimum class and program sizes, citing new federal policies and shifts in the “underlying financial models” for higher education.

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Ian C Boyd@IanCBoyd·
@mcmansionhell Slop was invented between 1750-1850 (the Sattelzeit) during which the language became the language of modernity
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Mr. Chau
Mr. Chau@Srirachachau·
Most people think the theremin is just for aliens, maybe ghosts. Only Brian Wilson had the true vision that it could also be for summertime sweetheart jams
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adam
adam@resurrecti0ns·
so many people (not just students) have this idea that a university is somehow trying to exploit or trick or punish you when it assigns you work. they're trying to help you! they can't teach you anything if you refuse to do any work!
Zito@_Zeets

The kids are cooked

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joe coward
joe coward@josephcoward·
@IanCBoyd hi ian, that'd be great! keep an eye on my feed for info later this year :)
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joe coward
joe coward@josephcoward·
just to make sure i really do have a nervous breakdown this year: going to start a lit mag, online first, print/subscription later. if u write fiction or essays or poems and are interested hmu x
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SIMONE 🩷
SIMONE 🩷@parasocialyte·
had a straight dude come to my house and he was SO impressed by the simplest things. my family's catacombs and wine cellars, the cask of amontillado, the chains i used to restrain him, the bricks i used to seal him up in my catacombs,
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COSMIC 🖖🏾 SLOP
COSMIC 🖖🏾 SLOP@afrocosmist·
no one talks about embarking on a treacherous journey to the center of the earth anymore
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Ian C Boyd@IanCBoyd·
My research is, in many ways, only possible thanks to the Internet Archive. Whenever my institution’s library didn’t have something readily accessible, it was always somehow on the Internet Archive. This is devastating
Publishers Weekly@PublishersWkly

BREAKING: The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the long-running, closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books. Full story to follow.

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Ian C Boyd@IanCBoyd·
Christine de Pizan: MENTIONED Big day for Pizanheads
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Ian C Boyd@IanCBoyd·
Paris catacombs in the opening ceremony!!
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Evan
Evan@evan7257·
Thank you Air France travel guide for teaching me about the mythical Houston cow-boy, which is now a very real and very true cryptid
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