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jsadow

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Associate Professor of 18th-Century #Literature at SUNY Oneonta. #c18 #18thc #18thcentury #fedi22 #EighteenthCentury #c18studies

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wmbr, to random
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Sorry for the late notice, but network work at MIT means our stream is down this morning. Should be up shortly.

jsadow,
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@wmbr Will have to listen to Becca's BOC tomorrow, instead.

jsadow,
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@wmbr Aw, that is sad but thanks for trying!

jsadow, to random
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This was my lawn yesterday.

jsadow,
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@LVTroost In a good or bad way?

jsadow, to random
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For anyone on Bluesky following me at @jonathansadow.bsky.social where I never post, I think you can follow me at @jsadow.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy to follow me on Mastodon where I post on rare occasion.

mazdam, to random
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experimenting with the Bridgy Fed, but don't know how to follow this account: @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy

jsadow,
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@mazdam @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy It would be helpful if you could log into your account on the other side and follow accounts there.

jsadow,
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@mazdam @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy Or follow accounts on Bluesky from Mastodon, which I think you can't do?

carrideen, to random
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For a long time, I've said that the thing I love about the gothic novel, in its eighteenth-century form, is that it appealed to young women particularly because it suggests that their fears are not stupid or insignificant; there really is a conspiracy against you, and you must act, now. (The conspiracy is patriarchy! They're not wrong!)

Teaching The Turn of the Screw today, it's like the perfect meta-gothic. The real danger is how we act on our certainty of danger!

Cf. Bodies Bodies Bodies.

jsadow,
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@carrideen Do you tell your students about Shoshana Felman?

jsadow,
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@carrideen On the meta-Turn of the Screw, "Turning the Screw of Interpretation" is the pinnacle.

shandyist, to random
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Re-reading Memoirs of Emma Courtney, which I hadn’t read since grad school. I had forgotten how infuriating it is.

jsadow,
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@shandyist I am embarrassed to say I have never read it.

jsadow,
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@shandyist Ha, I think it is really the other way around. Why is it infuriating?

shandyist, to random
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#venting
I am so tired of my male colleagues saying they can't do something because they're too busy ... and they expect me to do the thing. I'm just as busy, buddy.

jsadow,
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@shandyist Blah I am sorry. That is also a complaint in my department (and generally, of course). Trying not to fall into the trap of asking women to do things just because I know they will be more reliable.

zionak, to random
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I truly believed that ASECS would be the last hurdle of this semester but my spouse and I now both have covid because one of their coworkers came to work symptomatic believing that it was just allergies 😑 I am TIRED, y’all

jsadow,
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@zionak Blah, sorry.

farah, to random
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Getting this tattooed on my arm https://mastodon.world/@GeekSusie/112265693199027123

jsadow,
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@farah Don't do it!

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/morrissey-nigel-farage-prime-minister-for-britain/

https://www.indy100.com/celebrities/morrissey-covid-convid-lockdowns-slavery-b1879252

carrideen, to random
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The past two years of in-person ASECS meetings were pretty stressful for me. Being around a lot of people, esp c18 scholars, used to be a great joy, so I was sad to feel so drained and frantic in Baltimore and St. Louis. #ASECS2024 in Toronto felt like a new kind of joyfulness and warmth, more even than before. I got to talk to several grad students and ECSs for whom it felt productive and encouraging, rather than intimidating and even vicious, which it so often used to be.

jsadow,
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@shandyist @carrideen Wait, someone refused to give a paper because the other panelists were friendly?

jsadow,
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@carrideen @shandyist That is a bizarre one even from someone who is more traditional or formal.

jsadow,
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@shandyist @carrideen I mean, not being given time to present would be a legitimate complaint but I am guessing that is not really what happened.

jsadow, to asecs
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Too much ASECS to report on, but a highlight for me was that Jen Camden and JoEllen DeLucia snuck in an entire theory of the gothic (short version: self-conscious play, not "derivative") in their paper at my Editing Out-of-Circulation Novels roundtable.

#ASECS2024 #ASECS #ASECS24 @asecs

ecfjournal, to ASECS
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Thinking about submitting a manuscript to ECF for consideration?
Please see the ECF guidelines, updated March 2024:
https://ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/guidelines/
Question? ecf@mcmaster.ca
Submit: https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/ecf
#18thCentury @ASECS #C18th #18thC

jsadow,
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@ecfjournal @ASECS

Hi, ECF. Unfortunatedly, @ASECS is dead because chirp.social shut down (it is still "there" on our server but you won't see this post here or be able to look at old posts). I created a replacement at @asecs so that would be the one to tag (not many people are following it yet but I think that might change with the conference).

bitterkarella, to random
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1
Stephen King: so ursula we're all been thinking it over
King: and i think we finally figured out a solution for omelas
Ursula Le Guin: why are you doing this
King: no no we've really got it this time
Le Guin: that's not the point of the story
King:
King: c'mon aren't you even curious?

jsadow,
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@bitterkarella That is one of the best yet.

jsadow, (edited ) to ASECS
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Oh, before @ASECS vanishes in the next few days: If anyone cares, you can find archived posts at this archive.org link. I don't think @asecs will produce a web archive, which is kind of too bad. That is assuming there are enough ASECS people still on Mastodon for people to post about it...are there? There are 76 followers of the current ASECS group, but I don't know how many actually log in to Mastodon,

https://web.archive.org/web/20240223183951/https://chirp.social/

jsadow, (edited ) to ASECS
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@ASECS I just received an email that chirp.social, which hosts the ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) group, is shutting down. I am creating a replacement group at @asecs . If you follow @asecs, it should provide the same functionality: When you tag the group, everyone in the group should see the post

@asecs #ASECS #ASECS2024 #ASECS24 #C18 #C18th #18thC #18thCentury #EighteenthCentury #C18studies #18thCenturyStudies

stshank, (edited ) to random
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What's my next computer going to be? Please advise.

jsadow,
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@stshank I would just get one without the touch bar even if it is a maxed-out MacBook Air.

jsadow,
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@stshank Irritatingly, the one my workplace gave me this year has a touch bar-it must be a refurbished model. I hate it!

gorskon, to random
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So I was going through some old Usenet postings that I had saved from back in the day when I was very active in combatting Holocaust denial. I came across one exchange that looks very much as though it were written today. The year? 1999.

jsadow,
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@gorskon The difference is that that was a marginal, disavowed set of beliefs in 1999.

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