everyone is going to be assigned Deleuze and Guattari readings until we figure out what is going on

IF YOU HAVE MANY DESIRES YOUR LIFE WILL BE INTERESTING

Hans Poelzig’s Sulphuric Acid Factory in Luboń, Poland (1911-1912) #germanexpressionism

Last night, the #SLSA2025 Gala Dinner and prize ceremony took place at the stunning St George’s Hall. Congratulations to all the 2025 prizewinners! 🏆

- Joanne Conaghan
- Yvette Russell
- Francesca Meloni
- Lynette J Chua
- Nicola Barker
- Mark Walters
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@slsauk.bsky.social

THE RAINCOAT When the doctor suggested surgery and a brace for all my youngest years, my parents scrambled to take me to massage therapy, deep tissue work, osteopathy, and soon my crooked spine unspooled a bit, I could breathe again, and move more in a body unclouded by pain. My mom would tell me to sing songs to her the whole forty-five-minute drive to Middle Two Rock Road and forty-five minutes back from physical therapy. Shed say that even my voice sounded unfettered by my spine afterward. So I sang and sang, because I thought she liked it. I never asked her what she gave up to drive me, or how her day was before this chore. Today, at her age, I was driving myself home from yet another spine appointment, singing along to some maudlin but solid song on the radio, and I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I've been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marvel that I never got wet. Ada Limón

I love how tender this is.

By Ada Limón.

i'm trying v hard to stick to a framework of "everything i do should come from a place of compassion" but, obvious point, that is really hard on a day-to-day basis

things are moving especially fast lately, so i've tried to return to slow reading and patient community work and it has helped a lot

Außeruniversitäre Forschung in den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften: Arbeitgeber:innen jenseits des WissZeitVG von Iuditha Balint © Roland Gorecki Spätestens zu Beginn der #IchBinHanna-Bewegung wurde einer größeren Öffentlichkeit deutlich, wie prekär es angesichts des Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetzes um di…

Oh, das ist so schön zu hören! Danke! Inzwischen gibt es die Liste hier und kann gerne geteilt werden.

if reading wikipedia history entries qualifies for writing political newsletters, i'll happily take over

Knowledge is never knowing the answer. It’s knowing the territory.

IT'S BETTER TO BE A GOOD PERSON THAN A FAMOUS PERSON

This is a cropped, close-up image of the planet Venus, taken by the Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument. The image shows a crescent Venus against the black backdrop of space, with the edge of the planetary limb clearly defined. The crescent is illuminated by sunlight, transitioning from a bright, almost white glow at the top right edge to a subtle, golden yellow that dominates the majority of the illuminated area, before fading into the darkness of the planet's night side at the bottom left. The distinct variations in brightness and texture across the crescent suggest cloud formations or atmospheric layers. A bright, flaring light source is visible at the top right corner, likely the Sun, which contributes to the illumination of the crescent. The overall composition emphasizes the stark contrast between the luminous crescent and the surrounding darkness, highlighting the curvature and celestial context of Venus.

This is the clearest photo ever taken of Venus.
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NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER SOMETHING FOR SLUGGO? YES- - - I WANT THE NICEST VALENTINE IN THE STORE NOTHING'S TOO GOOD FOR HIM— I WANT A MOST BEAUTIFUL CARD ( NANCY SEES SLUGGO OUTSIDE THE SHOP, WITH ANOTHER GIRL) SIGN IN WINDOW- CARDS I'LL TAKE THIS ONE MESSAGE ON CARD- TO A BIG DUMB APE

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
February 14,1946

– »Es ist zum Umkommen,« klagte ein dritter, und allgemein, und jeder beklagte sich.

Graphical analysis by Killinger & Doppler (1950) using a dependency-type tree. This kind of analysis is widespread before Chomsky and Tesniere became household names in linguistics

In 1950 Robert Killinger (1925-2006) and Alfred Doppler (born 1921) write a book about grammar for a wider audience. It wasn't a smash hit, but it shows again that drawing syntactic trees was widespread and well-known long before Chomsky and Tesnière stepped on the scene. #linguistics

Humboldt war immer für unbezahlte Arbeit! #IchBinHanna #unbezahlt

It's sad to see some German professors still have problems with admitting the simple fact that non-taxed scholarships are very precarious.

No one plans to be "unsuccessful", no one plans to become seriously ill or unemployed for a long time, but there is life and it can be very unpredictable.

Excerpt from Arthur Danto, Transfiguration of the Commonplace: “Similarly, someone may not see the third ap- pendage as an extra leg in the Degas, there being again no room for three-legged women in one's conceptual scheme; and one has almost to see it as an arm unless brought up short by the suggestion that perhaps Degas is reinventing the female body in a way which our familiarity with Picasso enables us to understand, and rearranging parts to suit some inner feeling about the bodies of women, toward whom it is known that Degas had complicated misogynist feelings. In any case, we seem to be on the subject of detached or reattached limbs, and here we are, noticing those limbs in the Breugel. The third leg in Degas, the extra arm in the Rondanini: these are un- usual and call for explanation once they are pointed out. It would be weird to point out the two legs in Botticelli's Venus, since there is nothing to pay attention to there beyond whatever interest the legs as such may have; but there being two legs is of no interest whatever. A detached arm in the painting of a battle would again call for no special explanation: it serves as an indicator that it is a battlescene; you expect limbs in battlescenes as you expect trees in landscapes or bottles in a still life. The legs in Breugel's landscape need call for no special expla- nation, not if, as the title of the picture indicates, it is a landscape.”

I’m reminded of Danto’s use the legs in Breugel’s Icarus and apparent extra limbs in Michelangelo and Degas to argue preliminary interpretation gives a work its grounding structure, from which all other interpretative questions arise.

Can't help of thinking about Wittgenstein, the picture theory and self-reference...