@Ted_Underwood @ClaudeWillan Yeah, good point: the idea that popular culture drowns out genuine art is hard to take seriously when you have all of the internet in front of you. Almost like the better model for aesthetics today is not aesthetics but porn: what you watch is just your kink, between you and you.
@ClaudeWillan Watch opera, or The Bachelorette? Either way you're just gonna stream it. So why should anyone care what you watch? You didn't "go" to the opera, you just changed a little parameter in some vast database so that you got stream A not B. That sameness erodes logic of 'distinction'.
@ClaudeWillan but not due to the 'omnivore hypothesis' (whereby the true mark of distinction is to appreciate all culture from high to low brow), so much as the annihilation of distinction itself in the giant digital soup—where no one media is any more/less reproducible or accessible en masse.
@ClaudeWillan Hm, not sure. By 'resistance' I just meant 'recoiling' or 'repressing', more of an aesthetic than a political response. But I think the cultural subject position defined in opposition to mass culture (itself also a politics?) is obsolete. I guess I'm saying Bourdieu is dead, +
Resistance to popular music (Taylor Swift, etc) is culturally obsolete. It's no longer possible to 'counter' culture as 'bad' or aesthetically impoverished: music is good, TV is good, the internet is funny, and we're all just hooked up to the same cultural 'streams' and 'feeds'.
The truth is all those guys *want* to be cancelled, shit I get it, it's the only way to feel alive anymore
Having a hard time remembering which of my friends lurk-reads my tweets, who's off twitter, etc. Never quite know whether I can reuse in conversation some already-tweeted material ...
'Self care' feels so perverse as a term because it takes what is fundamentally a social relation—care—and introverts it into some over-biologized self relation (skin 'care', etc). Commodifying care into consumption, it's now the bourgeois mind that 'cares' for the bourgeois body.
Went swimming in the Cam yesterday. It was so hot (33C/92F), finally a proper summer day. Felt baptized, refreshed. But couldn't shake the sense that that very moment was the peak of the year -- from here on out it's back down into the jaws of hell, breakouts, and quarantines...
woah
I wrote this tweet thirteen days ago. -MZ, 18 Jul 2020
@V21collective “self care”
Suddenly globalization feels extremely weird. Before 2020, on any given day in most places on the planet, (esp. in hypercenters like NYC, etc), people from all over the world were congregated there, daily jumbling together the entire planet's germs, daily passing them on again...
Remember when Trump threatened to send federal troops into states and we were like, "whew! good thing he's not allowed to do that!"—and then weeks later federal officers were shooting from trenches in an ongoing nightly war in Portland? Anyway, good thing he can't delay election.
@kevin_modestino weird, insular, and wonderful
@npseaver Isn't this partly there in the transition from Wiener's 1948 'Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and Machine' to his 1950 'Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society'?
The lines to break them up on are already there, just covered up: Amazon is both the infrastructure connecting all businesses &amp; consumers, while at the same time competing with those businesses—using its omnipotent money and omniscient data like God 'competing' with Adam &amp; Eve.
This Bezos-Cook-Zuckerberg-Pichai hearing is interesting because Dems &amp; Reps are taking turns beating the CEOs up rather than one party sweet-talking the witness and apologizing for the other, as with the Barr hearing yesterday. Both parties worried Big Tech stifles 'competition'
It's weird how little it feels like there's a presidential election campaign going on
I wonder if part of what made cybernetics attractive to scientists and philosophers in the 50s and 60s was that its concept of the 'feedback loop' provided a more positivist, mechanical version of 'the dialectic' -- a version that rationalized 'negation' into 'negative feedback'.
@__seab Trump wants the spectacle. That's his medium
these g*damn righteous bicyclists... ding ding yourself dude, how about you move I'm chillin
@matthewdlincoln Yeah we may be the 2 worst countries through all of this, despite (or because?) being the world's current and previous superpower. Great article here about that: https://t.co/HHLgsuMDV7
@tomstafford yes! thank you.
The UK is embarrassingly bad at making Covid data available. There appears to be no way to see whether cases are rising in your area. You can see rising cases for the nation or total cases per region. Or you can flip through reputable magazines like The Sun for the raw weekly #'s
RT @doinkpatrol : lol anyways here's what the corner that Do The Right Thing was filmed on looks like now https://t.co/OzQ3NhdksI
@pfessenbecker But, fwiw, I like Br*enig. A clever millennial Catholic socialist woman, she's an interesting voice. I also think she represents a quadrant (socially conservative, economically liberal) which I think we may be repressing because we all secretly want it, a socialist domesticity.
@pfessenbecker I mean, that version you just laid out would be, but there may be other ways to do this. I agree that socialists can't keep pretending to critique 2-party system while playing nice within it. What may make more sense, *because* it doesn't make sense, would be to run Republican.
This is the most politically genius thing I've heard in years https://t.co/5ZtQvyHXMQ
@Lenora_DW I got it just to play Witcher 3 a few months ago 😈 highly recommend
Barr is just making up everything he says about Antifa. Was he always this Trumpy or is this the political stamp of Trump? #BarrHearing
Barr is 100x more aggressive, louder with Rep Hank Johnson (who is black) from GA. Wonder why
@goldstoneandrew @daily_targum @ruaaup Awesome. Power to you and the union! ✊  Also: where have you been?!
Apparently not https://t.co/383gSK3asx
@DannyChez66 It's really not making the point you think it's making.
Is it normal to show video footage to everyone present, footage which is disturbing propaganda, in a House Judiciary Committee meeting? This is sick. #BarrHearing
@maxsuechting https://t.co/XV0TG86WDq
@cejarvis It's pretty thick in the movie and in 80s cartoons. The Autobots are semi-trucks, classic cars, hotrods, doing honest work in a capitalist society, whereas the Decepticons are all fighter jets and tanks, wasting their resources on war obsessions, while not free in their society.
@cejarvis I mean, going back to the Cold War allegory in the first cartoon movie of 1986, the Decepticons were probably mostly Stalinists but there were definitely at least a few Trotskyists in there. Starscream was always trying to betray Megatron, e.g. But the Autobots were Reaganites.
you know the Autobots would've voted for Trump
The media's idolizing of Fauci is downright embarrassing. Sorry but if he wants to be a real civic hero he has to be willing to contradict Trump in public, something which he still only sheepishly does. He's still bending his voice through Trump's, leaving everyone confused.
Masks For All! Can Dems at least pull off *this* M4A? https://t.co/W1dRhsfRN0
@dan_sinykin @Ted_Underwood And I'm not sure that's a bad idea, tbh.  Whether good or ill, tho, I blame the Post-45 crew for the shift :P I guess it makes sense that for scholars of contemporary the bridge to public criticism is shorter, but I also think the last 5+ years of Post45 community made big impact
@dan_sinykin @Ted_Underwood That's my general sense too. I mean, that's a pretty seismic shift for the discipline, whatever its meaning. I wonder if it's a semiconscious survival strategy: if the discipline is going down, we may as well jump ship to an adjacent boat that's anchored in safer 'public' waters.
In addition to everything else, cops are wimps. https://t.co/U5SXih4Rz0
@Ted_Underwood @dan_sinykin It was palpable at Stanford English (outside the Lab and DH circles): this sense of a breakage in the suspension of disbelief needed to sustain academic research. And for that reason it also turned (in hiring decisions especially) to privileging public writing &amp; criticism.
Wuhan had 70k cases in total. The US has 70k cases per day.
@Ted_Underwood sweet jesus what a brutal graph... 😭
@ranjodhd @jeffreymoro Last summer I drove alone from California to North Carolina in my old manual Ford Ranger truck. So fun, so beautiful. Dipped into the Southwest to get some desert before heading up to Colorado, over the great plains to the midwest, from there to DC &amp; the mid-atlantic to the South
We millennials have a *tenth* of the wealth Boomers do, despite being well into our 30s and there being 8 million more of us. https://t.co/FtrH80yCxA
@SamuelRDelany1 worthy of @scarytoilet
Making some progress, only because there's some great starter-kit code out there. But hoo boy has web development changed a ton since the good ol HTML/PHP/MySQL days... in over my head a little https://t.co/YPwvmvvkOk
In my short time living abroad I am shocked at both the degree to which American discourse assumes it's the center of the world, AND how non-American discourse seems tacitly to agree. Dear world, please make fun of us more. Also, please export socialism while you're at it. https://t.co/NLTHmY6jd1
Musk is clearly manic right now. Kanye, Trump too. Crazy how so many of our figureheads are mentally ill, and yet we have no idea what's really going on with them (is it drugs? what's the trigger?), despite so much hanging on what they say and do.
@anniemcclanahan @V21collective Yes! Also libgen: https://t.co/1gr5WOTFgJ
@benlibman Haha, yep, going for that Prison Notebook look
'Team No Haircut' still going strong over here in my 1-bedroom apartment https://t.co/Z0aprsiSFL
I honestly don't understand what the ethical intuition is behind "we don't want to pay more people to stay home than go to work" during a pandemic. We need to make sure the working class stays subordinate, that they don't realize their normal wages are unlivable during a crisis?
I guess just still thinking about the concept of the 'zone' in Theorie Communiste's 2011 theory of 'zonal capitalism' (which was intended as an updating of older 'Third World' Marxist theories of global space). Read about this in Nick Dyer-Witheford's Cyber-Proletariat (2015): https://t.co/DPzverGWWG
'Spatial zones' and their relational logics active today:  - 'Area': Logic of contiguity. People relate by being near. Active in cities &amp; protests.  - 'Network': Logic of connection. Can cross distances. Active today in supply chains and social media.  - 'Home'? - 'Identity'? - ?
might fuck around and try to make a leftist social network. open source, non-commercial and encrypted. aim: help organize protests &amp; events, secretly (among contacts) or publicly (visible to people in your area). make 'komrades', DM, post to your area, etc https://t.co/3HWAnVsm56
RT @freddyfoks1 : Arts and Humanities / Social Science PhD? Want a 4 year postdoc (all research, no teaching requirements) to work on the 'study of slavery and its impact'?   Get in touch if you want to know about @Kings_College  or are wondering what the hell a 'JRF' is https://t.co/x4dVVdQOus
@acaseofblues sounds great! lmk how to sign up?
The new Taylor Swift album is great but it also feels a little Bidenesque, I can't explain it
Love how easily libs are triggered by Red Scare, a podcast by 2 zany, lazy USSR-born women in NY who sometimes have smart critiques to say and sometimes don't. Who cares? Anna is a troll, it's part of the act, and Dasha the pseudo-Catholic conscience. It's a lot of fun, chill out
Just want to say that as a dirtbag Bernie Bro, I absolutely love AOC and I don't understand this petty leftist backlash. She's razor smart, pure of heart, and one of our only comrades inside government. Power to her
More votes for 'question is too dangerous' (6) than 'escaped lab accidentally' (4) has me thinking: Why? What's rly going to happen if we think this question through?  The problem with twitter isn't 'cancelling', it's the fear to think outside norms, as if it had big consequences https://t.co/NaRgVkeONG
@dennismhogan happy birthday!
@SethRudy Good Q... Not really sure, since you're right it is a sensitive matter. I wonder if you had (which we dont) the entire social network of twitter (X retweets Y, etc) you would see these clusters like 'leftist twitter', etc. Then you could find the major players? Still creepy maybe
@dan_sinykin Yeah. Which is another reason it'd be interesting to see more diffuse The_Donald-like conversations going on across twitter...
@dan_sinykin There's reddit (e.g. /r/The_Donald) for tuning into various community discourses, I do that sometimes. But I never really understand reddit, and I'm not sure it has as much of an effect on the total social discourse. But maybe I'm just biased to twitter since I use it more...
Why are there no public access 'channels' to social media networks? How can I 'tune in' to what Republican twitter is saying rn? Catholic twitter? Leftist twitter? etc. Why are we content to confine our access to social media to our personal 'ego networks'?
@SethRudy me!
Given that Wuhan happens to house the Institute for Virology, founded in 2018, which happened to be studying bat coronaviruses (one of only approved to do so), and which State Dept cables happen to show had poor security (https://t.co/dXOy3asI3I), I believe the virus probably...
Had bizarre dream about being asked what the difference between 'being' and 'everything' was, and replying that 'being' was an abstraction while 'everything' a generalization...? dear lord why curse me with heideggerian dreams at a time like this
@alexgrantjones @jimwebber @versae I bet. :-/ That's partly why I wanted to start the poll: to show ourselves anonymously our educational backgrounds. My folks have BA's, and at times I've felt jealous of friends with PhD'd parents &amp; their childhood dinner-table educations. But spectrum so much bigger than BA/PhD!
@jimwebber @versae Yeah, sorry guys :-/ I should have thought through the 4 options better to make them more inclusive. cc @alexgrantjones
RT @sjjphd : Remember when we still could use “the culture wars” to refer to an undefined period centered around 1986 when people were big mad about hip hop, sex, and progress? Stylistically, is that “the great culture war”? Are we now going with Culture Wars I and Culture Wars II?
@LeslieSiskin haha true. I guess round up?
The highest educational degree my parents have received is:
@khetiwe24 Drives me insane! A week ago Boris announced a mask mandate indoors starting July 24 ... and apparently everyone is just waiting until July 24 to wear them -- as if the only point were to follow the rules rather than, uh, stop the virus!
I can't believe we're 5 months into this pandemic and the UK still does not have tests available to everyone (only people with current symptoms of fever, cough, or loss of smell/taste). How can I act safely in terms of going places, meeting new people, etc, if I can't get tested?
@ecourtem @V21collective On my top 5 Hitchcock for sure.
@SethRudy A landslide would be nice. But if I were in voting in CA I would write in Bernie. Trump already lost popular vote by 3 million in 2016, imagine what it'll be in 2020. The problem is the electoral college. There's 0% chance California would give its electoral votes to Trump anyway
@SethRudy I'm not interested atm in what this fact might be used to justify, just with the fact itself: Bernie would have won easy. Even M4A passed easy.  Personally, yes, I'll vote for Biden in NC out of desperate, base, utilitarian need. But I'd encourage deep-blue state voters not to.
Trump is going to lose big in November, which means Bernie would have won easy, and all that neurotic, embarrassing handwringing about 'electability' was for nothing -- less than nothing, delaying and hindering the real revolution.
I believe it's reasonable to expect that I will be vaccinated for Covid-19 by...
@Ted_Underwood @yoavgo lol, wow. I need to try this out!  The question about neutral prompts is interesting because it turns on a larger and related question, I suppose, about the possibility of neutrality in political-journalistic prose, reporting, interviews, etc.
@Ted_Underwood @yoavgo Fair enough. But surely there are 'neutral' primers?
@yoavgo @Ted_Underwood Question of GPT-3's political leanings is interesting. Wouldn't they basically just reflect the most and loudest political signals in training corpus (the internet)? I suppose how one primes a political question will push GPT-3 to tune its politics to that channel, but still...
Childhood education is regressing to its frontier days, with single-room schoolhouses filled with local children of all ages, all taught by a single teacher. Follows on other regressions in reproductive labor: e.g. to preindustrial manufactory as families sewed their own masks. https://t.co/UW01Dm3QgE
MomBloc is killing it in Portland! Despite valid concerns aspects about an army of Karens (Portland is 80% white) I can't help but be overawed by these moms, who are not only tactically using their respected cultural status but also embodying it, if I can say, for the whole city. https://t.co/HwXh3hCYGj
Accidentally stole something from Boots today. Just walked right on out with my toilet paper and hand sanitizer. Realized halfway down the block and I was like... 😎
@matthewharrison all day every day
@jes1003 🤔 :) https://t.co/Oyu8Y7y2HP
Another source: https://t.co/u8ngQDcU8X
Up early and can't sleep, so sipping coffee and watching live footage of the Portland protests. 'Wall of Moms' now at tense standoff with the Feds at the fence outside the courthouse building: https://t.co/NBsSKiUUuf
@SethRudy I mean I don't think Wallace is saving the day or that this changes things or whatever, I just think Wallace has found the most effective technique yet for interviewing Trump
@SethRudy I think Wallace shows pretty effectively how unattached to reality Trump is about the virus. If I were an elderly Fox News viewer in the US watching that rn, I'd be scared. I mean, presumably since Trump is bleeding support in the polls that some of those are shocked Fox watchers
Chris Wallace finds Trump's kryptonite by just calling his bluffs: insisting on the facts ('no, sir') and that he explain himself; making fun of it when it's dumb; confronting him about conflicts (incl. with himself). It's all humiliating and he hates it. https://t.co/CHYHXAAq1g
Did Hegel write explicitly on how the Father - Son - Holy Spirit is obviously the Christian myth of the dialectic? Divine, immaterial Father made flesh as Son; but flesh dies, the negation is negated; and from that the Holy Spirit is born as the sublimation of body-vs-spirit.
This is a reddit thread of bots arguing with each other about capitalism: https://t.co/MWB7hLjAik
RT @simonsarris : GPT-3 imitating human text: We aren't pulling the mask off the machine to reveal a genius wizard, we're pulling the mask off each other to reveal the bar is low.
@Ted_Underwood @rybesh @yoavgo @clured I think GPT-3 is exactly the opposite of ELIZA. I wrote about this in my diss. Weizenbaum 'unmasked' ELIZA, countering its disturbingly emotional reception at MIT, by printing its simple algorithm. No "person" follows if-then instructions! But GPT-3 can't be 'unmasked' like that. https://t.co/qqAfmdWdC7
The new album from The Chicks really is wonderful
@scott_bot @Ted_Underwood @yoavgo @clured I regret saying 'AGI'. My broader point is that connectionist-vs-computationalist debates in AI research are dashed for connectionists a bit when their neural networks can't replicate basic logic. That we then turn to algorithmic/computationalist solutions only proves the point.
@Ted_Underwood @yoavgo @clured But logic is part of language understanding and creation? And is this the language model that was also auto-generating code? People are obviously hoping that ML will lead to 'AGI' in sense that one model to rule them all. Ofc we can build logic+math subsystems, that's not new rt?
"“Cancel culture” gives intellectuals something to debate, to talk and write about at a moment when most are cooped up indoors... The complaints of the culture warriors mirror each other... Worse, this inflation of symbolic significance... comes in the midst of very real crises." https://t.co/U0KHXPeFB1
@SteveMcLaugh 🤞 https://t.co/PWIEcaG19O
@sdanielm No never used it
Is there a way to write a whole bunch of tweets and then just have them come out randomly instead of all at once? sometimes just have a little loggorhea. probably what I'm eating
Someone I dated once told me they thought my belly was sexy and I haven't had the same motivation to exercise ever since
Visual allegory of how since at least 1980s government in US/UK is defined precisely as the negation of government: the only good law is one that cancels another law, only good tax is one that repeals another tax. But this is not actually simple negation: it's made *for* Capital. https://t.co/FBUk9RGA2T
Loved this Pankaj Mishra piece in latest LRB on "Flailing States" of US and UK. Twin genealogy of concepts of State: the Anglo-American lineage (+India) vs. the late bloomers of Germany, Japan, Korea which were always bit socialist. Former now obv bankrupt https://t.co/HHLgsuMDV7
Once had a debate with a friend about whether universities would exist if dinosaurs existed too, and at any moment velociraptor could just wraaaa! pounce on you and all that time in the archive and reading and studying just lost. Anyway 2020 feels like that https://t.co/uRmXOKZVVs
Afternoon drinking &gt; evening drinking, at least you can sober up before sleeping
Ok no one is allowed to change their profile pic from here on out because all of you are pixel-memories to me
@yoavgo Interesting how it can do all that and yet not understand the simplest of logical contradictions at end of the 2nd pic. Isn't this the fatal flaw of these models? They learn a ton but we have hardly any influence on the what, why, and how of that learning? @Ted_Underwood @clured
RT @RuthAhnert : I was delighted to host the inimitable @laurenfklein and @kanarinka for their talk Challenging Power in Data Science last month with @kirstie_j . If you missed it, you can now watch it on the @turinginst youtube channel. https://t.co/e1Zf3rAZtB
RT @alelemb0 : Hey #soctwitter! This is my 1st tweet, and I’d like to dedicate it to a paper I wrote with a cool dude named John. In it, we trace the history of the notion of values and its various sociological mis!/uses, and suggest a return to “interests.” https://t.co/bjfdOMXLrL https://t.co/7356i47YA8
One cool thing about Seinfeld is how much of the story is the characters telling the story of what just happened to them elsewhere
Boris Johnson makes masks mandatory 10 days from now and the Brits are like OK I’ll wait till then
Something like 75% of all carbon pollution is from just 100 corporations.
The problem with the politics of "boycotting Amazon" or even "recycling" is that it's complicit with liberalism's basic assumption that collective action is just the aggregate of individual actions.
RT @daraghjgrant : Congratulations @TejasParasher, whose dissertation “Self-Rule and the State in Indian Political Thought, 1880-1950” won the @APSAtweets Leo Strauss Award for the best dissertation in Political Theory!! @UChicagoSSD @UChicago @UChicagoPoliSci https://t.co/ZCjrTQAFHb
You know this data is already out there. Snowden showed that the NSA was stitching together soical networks from cell phone 'metadata' (calls, texts, frequency of collocation, etc). Facebook, etc, know whom we know. Why can data be securitized or capitalized but not socialized? https://t.co/cQCfz6PbKK
I love deleting emails so much it's almost erotic
@SouthAsianBuoy @ActuallyyJP I'm a big fan of https://t.co/E9z7Ro2nTS which auto-transcribes the note as you record it. Works on desktop/mobile. then you can copy/paste the transcribed note later on
It's frankly perverse that 'contact tracing' can be so difficult now when our lives depend on it, even as the 'tracing' of social networks is literally all that major tech companies do these days.
This Boogaloo stuff is so wacky in its indirection, its multiple degrees of allegorical separation, that it makes me wonder why liberalism has to be so literal by contrast. It's almost as if complaints against cancel culture ought to be complaints against metaphorical starvation.
@frynaomifry @cejarvis I legit couldn't make that
@AntonJaegermm Foucault overtaking Habermas?
RT @jmschaff : the thing about lorrie moore's essay is that she's HAVING FUN, a concept that many of you seem to find perverse
@chrisjudetaylor @gabrielwinant @re_colston I think this was the criticism @evgenymorozov &amp; others made of Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism: that it misunderstood the nature of user-data capture in terms of surplus-value extraction, when data is in fact non-scarce and so the nature of its 'extraction' is fundamentally diff
@SethRudy Sethelred you are hereby Cancelled! for your (admittedly humorous) online behavior, in its dark and acerbic nature exposing the futility of it all, erodes the public morality of the revolution. You are hereby banished to facebook OR must fight five (5) twitter duels to the death.
@cejarvis True.Just throw in a blockchain and a blue check and we’re set for 2020
@SethRudy yeah now we have no one to cancel ...
Blue Check PMC is quiet, only us internet plebs can speak
You gotta admit this was pretty clever. Played to the general plausibility today that a few billionaires would opt for a performative spectacle of redistribution rather than pay taxes https://t.co/zEvQLTSu2d
@DavidAstinWalsh Why not? world only ends once!
@V21collective I think it's really good. Really does see something
@laurenoyler @cejarvis @bdmcclay &amp; Isn't then the irony that their longing for normalcy is in fact the most normal, mundane thing about them? Millennials just want to be boomers again. Trying so hard to detach from their detachment, a process simulated in cutting &amp; fucking, is a normal backward millennial quest.
@CateAgostini I wonder what my brilliant friend and TV critic @kvanaren thinks about all this. Is the pause-ification of movies just as much a thing in TV? Or yeah, is TV meant to let you drone on a little more, for 'glou-glou' viewing? I guess depends on series? I'm still such a TV noob...
Is it just me, or is our difficulty today with watching a Whole Movie not just our shorter attention spans but a kind of greater sensitivity? DJANGO UNCHAINED just took me 2 days to watch; probably paused it 12+ times just to take breathers, to calm down, just scroll for a minute
It's like, put up or shut up. Don't censor yourself and then complain to the whole world that you're being censored. Say what you have to say and then accept the consequences, that's just part of being an adult and a member of society.
The most pathetic thing about the cancel-culture whiners is that none of these people actually *were* cancelled, they're all just *afraid* of being cancelled. Bari walked away from the largest journalist platform in the world, b/c as a centrist it required too much "bravery"? lol
@V21collective Dasha Nekrasova's film WOBBLE PALACE is pretty clever in how extremely it integrates the smartphone POV of life with the narrative/visual one.
This Trump press conference is so incoherent that it's somehow soothing. You could fall asleep to it. It's like a baseball announcer, but for a sport you've never heard of and nothing makes sense except the general rhythm of chatter.
@benlibman @PetryDish1 Totally. Seeking epistemic refuge in autofiction is how you end up with an incestuous novel like "Topeka School", where Lerner pathetically &amp; boyishly narrates not only his own insipid childhood in all its technicality, but also the intellectual-heroic tale of ... his own father.
@benlibman Yes! At same time, our abdication of the affordances of fiction is what seems to connects our tastes in both autofiction &amp; historical fiction: in both, we're getting more than just story &amp; literature, we're getting something useful. We're doing real Work! not just playing around.
Autofiction feels to me like the dying gasp of fictionality. Some of our greatest writers are out here telling us that the work of fiction is impossible today, even undesirable. Better to write about your own life, because how could anyone ever 'make up' or 'speak for' another's?
@sdanielm oof this is what I get for trying to edit the html/css manually too much
Yes, let's all voluntarily become Darth Vaders so we can cram students on board the Death Star https://t.co/uSAqi47PnN
RT @smdadamo : just got out of the zoom meeting equivalent of a pink slip, in which i learned some ugly details about the institutional shock doctrine underway, so it's time to put my soon-to-be former employer, johns hopkins university's carey business school, on blast. a thread:
RT @dennismhogan : This you? https://t.co/qWjz2n265P https://t.co/3wwgmNN5Gs
The charge of "vulgar Marxism" is ahistorical. Vulgar Marxism actually becomes less vulgar over time, as the actual social organization really does increasingly conform to the material imperatives of capital. As Marx said of the concept of 'Labor': it achieves historical truth.
@kevinbaker Love these! Do you know what year this first one is from?
I cast my 'likes' far and wide because guess what affection isn't a currency
A few 'grafs on the first known computer virus: the 'Elk Cloner' of 1982, which was understood in relation to the simultaneous AIDS crisis. Thought I'd try blogging sections of the larger essay I'm writing on computation and Covid-19. Need the motivation. https://t.co/BqE39PCevt
My new fitness watch thing is horrified at how badly I sleep. POOR, VERY POOR, "Much below usual", etc. Sorry man don't know what to tell you
@drjustinpearce @JoelWWood I did it for the 🤑🤑🤑🤑
@damfales 100% fair tbh
@rat_dyke post-Fordist punk
@felicefrancesco @joan0fsnark guess I'll never know https://t.co/ECRgXd71mq
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More controversially, I think what you can see from that vantage point of contradiction is the limits of personification as the basis for political struggle. In fact, no one sits completely outside the system, no one has a pure vantage point of critique. We are all compromised.
As a straightish white cis dude it can be tempting to find some form of oppression you experience so as not to personify the very structures of power you want to undo. But we need to resist that temptation. Don't fight the contradiction, don't try to 'repent'. There's no way out.
@LetUsPhi Sure, philosophy is important, but it's just no longer true that the current generation is seeking out philosophy or humanities degrees. The numbers bear this out. The financial crisis of 2008 halved humanities enrollments in a decade. Gen Z is 'pragmatic' https://t.co/I3DKQFWogf
My prediction: US and UK will have second waves while most countries in Europe and Asia will largely avoid one. Though the first wave already revealed stark national disparities in public health response, it's the second wave that will truly divide nations into the sheep &amp; goats. https://t.co/H4wpRGQxpo
@ncecire Really?? I suspected as much. Uh oh, my niece isn't going to take this well...
@drjameswood Yeah I can see how TERF could emerge from 2nd-vs-3rd wave feminist debates? And that men may just have more generalized transphobia (2 genders! etc). Just wondering if there were a specific form of transphobia based on claims to some kind of essentialized (cis) male experience.
Unfortunately my 3yo niece is still not convinced we need to defund Paw Patrol and that Chase, like all cops, is a bastard. I'll keep on her though
Is there a TERF equivalent for men? (i.e. a cis-male discourse specifically dedicated to excluding trans men as men)? Probably, I'm just not aware of it...
Basta! https://t.co/CGLT43Ynsu
@jeantsetoung oof. now that's love
I like watering my plants from the glass I'm currently drinking from. We're all in this thing together buds
RT @CoreyCav912 : Saw this earlier and needed more people to see this. https://t.co/a3iUF3DTVN
@V21collective Theory of the Novel is kind of Star Warsy somehow
@LetUsPhi This is from April 2008, approximately one hundred years ago.
Palms Trax put up his sexy closing set on soundcloud if anyone wants to boogy in their desk chair for a while: https://t.co/9g4acnYs5v https://t.co/8ZpyO8zxPo
RT @JuliRone : It is necessary to study emigration within the EU We tend to think of inequality between countries but inequality between regions is also extremely important. https://t.co/aSFetpOis5
@ecourtem before seeing this disgusting video I thought @dennismhogan's tweet was hyperbole but now I am 100% convinced and on guard
I log off for 5 hours to sleep and now I have no idea what’s going on. why is everyone talking about cake
@b_cavello I guess I don't feel the need to choose or come up with a word to explain my experiences, which I feel like can speak for themselves well enough. But if words help others, power to them :)
@b_cavello True, I can understand that: thanks for saying this. Personally, I'm sometimes attracted to men, more often to women, 🤷‍♂️ but the term 'bisexual' has felt insincere, and for me (a white cis dude), too problematic a political temptation to claim a subaltern status I don't rly have.
On the other hand, it's true that terms &amp; concepts help make sense of aspects of our experience. And maybe we're just not there yet to a world in which sexuality can remain fluid &amp; undefined. But at least to me that seems closer to Utopia than dividing out our sexual 'identities'
No judgment! Just, to me, if there's one thing that would seem to defy rational categories, it would be sexuality, a deeply pre-rational and phenomenal experience that needs no other descriptor than what it already is moment to moment. Like, just do what you want, be free
@sdanielm Yeah, I read somewhre that uni's are basically slumlords and get a huge part of their income from charging students rent. So I get why it makes sense financially, but it's just so dangerous to public health. And I have zero sympathy for places like Cambridge with huge endowments.
Is it bad that I agree with this? I understand sexuality has a politics to it, and people feel proud of their identity, but isn't sexuality a fluid performance that is stifled and boxed by micro-categories? Hasn't this kind of categorical thinking been well critiqued by the left? https://t.co/4eICx0xBWe
I live in College housing and I am scared, for selfish reasons, about the return of thousands of students to Cambridge from all over the country and world. How is this a good idea, especially if the university has already announced lectures and most supervisions will be online?
@ranjodhd I think my least favorite was Ponyo; don't know if it's the worst though.
@matthiasellis @dennismhogan I read half of it a couple months ago but could use some motivation to finish. Would be down to start a group chat about it or something?
Our ability to cope with all this is depressing me. How can something so monstrously abnormal be so easily normalized? What would it take to derail modern life? If in some catastrophe half the world fell down dead, would we just complain the pubs aren't open a few weeks later?
@Ted_Underwood @SethRudy @HumanitiesData I don't understand what's wrong with pursuing connections with cultural evolution? And about citation: if we're thinking of the same obvious example in our field, I think there are ways to do it responsibly that people, even the mob, would understand were required by the topic.
@Ted_Underwood @SethRudy @HumanitiesData What is an example of a topic you wanted to pursue but felt you couldn't? Also, making sure citations are gender balanced, etc, just seems like good citational practice, not some stricture on academic expression.
@HumanitiesData @Ted_Underwood @SethRudy lol. Perhaps you could enlighten me with an example?
@Ted_Underwood @SethRudy @HumanitiesData I've maybe censored (i.e. simply not post) some personal hot takes out of fear of the mob/being misunderstood/etc. But research? Having a hard time imagining how people are censoring themselves in their humanities articles and books.
@8urghardt @arche3000 @true_mxp @christof77 @AlexanderLasch @_melandresen Had a great discussion about this once with @MichaMahlberg about how it’s a shame DHers and corpus linguists don’t talk to each other more often and share methods and citations.
There's no way American universities are going to be able to reopen in the fall if things keep going as they are, i.e. the worst they've ever been and quickly getting worse.
Mt Rushmore, the Bible photo-op, etc, they make it seem as if he's on a holy nationalist crusade, but they're all just props. The Bible was upside down. It's all more fascist Camp than fascism. The religiosity/nationalism is just the performative excess to the narcissistic show.
Trump's "fascism" isn't really nationalist or territorial; the absolutism is really just the blind egocentricity of capitalist fantasy. It's materially structured narcissism. He simply doesn't understand why he shouldn't just be able to do or buy or spin or say whatever he wants.
I'm I-lookup-emojis-by-keyword years old.
@dmimno But a shark??
I'm no augurer but I'm pretty sure in Homer this would be a 'bad sign'. https://t.co/Bya7ajhJkm
@scott_bot Interface is a little confusing, but you can use VLC as a source and pipe audio/video directly to stream. But I accidentally had microphone as another input so there was echo through first half of movie. Cool it's cross platfom: streamed from Linux desktop with LAN access to net.
Experiment mostly successful last night in using OBS Studio (free software) to stream a pirated movie directly to Twitch, so that a group of us could stream-watch the movie for free and chat in real time. Next time might post the link in case anyone's interested
@clairiew @R_A_Barr As long as we bring a Marxist framework to metaphors like 'exchange' rather than a liberal one—by emphasizing e.g. how a system of exchange emerges from systems of production and value extraction—then maybe it's good to take on the 'metaphors' (= also concepts, practices, etc)?
@Ted_Underwood What do you think the implications for labor will be? OpenAI, GPT, this, are all coming at me too fast to keep up with reasonable hypotheses...
Just saw the new Spike Lee film, Da 5 Bloods. Interesting mix of factual/fictional styles: lengthy expositions (+pics) of unremembered historical facts, which felt like twitter threads; but mixed e.g. with raw, Learian monologues of Delroy Lindo's brilliant, visceral performance.
RT @Ted_Underwood : Just a reminder about the Online Workshop on Computational Humanities Research. Submission deadline Jul 20; promises to be an interesting event. https://t.co/qKZOPVIzQf
@re_colston Even Benjamin Franklin would be proud. 💯
@oleg_sobchuk Because you work in the fascinating, rare discipline of Cultural Evolution, I know that by "minority" you mean "No, not bored" rather than "Who cares"! :)
Q: Are you bored by most work in your academic discipline?
@kevin_modestino It can be a little scary, &amp; maybe not for everyone. But if you're ever in a beautiful outdoor place, and you're with friends you love and trust, ..it's usually quite gentle, a beautiful shared dream and an extended hilarious epiphany... :) but anyway I don't wanna be That Guy lol
@Ted_Underwood For sure. The latter is just like a run-into-the-wild-and-come-back-alive ritual for the former. I guess not necessary, but it helps to concretize and phenomenologize it.
This is maybe vulgarly californian or whatever but deep down I believe this too. It's an essential part of life development, guys... you can kinda tell when someone's mind has never been scrambled &amp; reassembled before. No judgment but I think that's something everyone should try. https://t.co/l9Tjbw1A09
Finance is a parasite sucking value out of the real economy. A giant virtual casino making fake money just by betting on future prices, it's been a succubus feeding &amp; growing on the socially useful economy for centuries. Now it's leaving its host entirely, as Covid invades ours. https://t.co/AGiC4cBIZZ
Either or both of:  Communist solution: Nationalize them, treat them like other digital infrastructure (domain registry, TCP/IP, etc) and protect their data. Make them interoperable, allow any client access.  Autonomist solution: Pay people per post and for the use of their data. https://t.co/1OGamKwyPO
@SethRudy I would read a novel with this first sentence
The rise of podcasts—which are often educational or edifying, and listened to in moments of manual work like cleaning or driving—mirrors the rise of ‘cognitive labor’ in the global north, which demands even of the physical reproduction of life a simultaneous cognitive production.
@Stevie_DG Congrats! My folks are nearby in Durham as of 5 years ago, and when I visit I really like the area. I'm sure you'll love it, and good luck with the move!
Apropos of nothing: the New Yorker cartoon avatars are dumb, grow up guys you're not a cartoon hero.
Nationalize Amazon, which has already effectively become public commercial infrastructure. Amazon found the "cheat code of capitalism" (as @jdporterlive memorably put it): don't make a profit, just become infrastructural to your industry. Well, let's nationalize infrastructure! https://t.co/Neboel8NaQ
@IgorBrigadir @mjsantos_uzh Quote tweets are a cool direction. They might act like 'mutations' in spread, since I feel like QTs are often takes/turns on the original.  Tried another one. Not sure if this calculation of the R value makes sense (@mjsantos_uzh?). Is it basically the average of the outdegrees? https://t.co/I8mmoOZeoC
RT @AlexWermerColan : @quadrismegistus This is why I work on Burroughs and his influence! I recently published a piece, from a digital media arts perspective, that you might like: https://t.co/MZzFdmWsPx. My interest in word vectors for 'virus' comes from the same place. Let's catch up sometime and talk more about it?
https://t.co/eh1muzY09K
You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to think it's a bit of a coincidence that SARS-CoV-2 first broke out in Wuhan, which happens to house Wuhan Institute of Virology, which diplomatic cables happen to show US "officials were worried about safety and management weaknesses".
@Ted_Underwood Yeah in the 90s there was a Deleuzian + cybernetic engagement with these things, when digital network culture was still coming together and its pieces still disjointed: Usenet (which forbid commercial content), early Internet and "hypertext(uality!)", the arrival of the .com, etc
It's a shame that 'virality' is stuck as a biz school concept, since it does point to something distinctive about late digital capitalism -- a global network which encourages &amp; profits from sudden contamination -- but there's not really an adequate leftist or Marxist equivalent.
Brief shout out to @UMinnPress: love their books, which tend to rethink culture and theory so much more thoroughly and creatively.
@IgorBrigadir @mjsantos_uzh Ok, got a mockup. Here's the retweet graph for a tweet of mine. According to this model, the numbers of 'reinfections' from 'infected' tweeters (i.e. those who retweeted the tweet) are: 1, 0, 0; 1; 1; 1, 2; 0. Total of 6, with 8 tweeters. R value = 6/8 = 0.75? https://t.co/GiSiJw8Qzb
@bigschottt ack, it's become bad poetry! :) thanks for letting me know, will try to fix
Though Occupy was nowhere near as important and historically impactful as BLM has been, one thing it had going for it was that it was aesthetically incompatible (at least at the time) with capitalism. Kinda hard for Bank of America to pull off a 'we support the 99%' tweet.
@re_colston @Ted_Underwood Late nights on the porch with no shirt on it's still so warm I miss so so much
We are all so fucked. Covid round 2 is starting in the US, will come next to UK and rest of world. The planet is falling apart, the American empire is in freefall into a vacuum. Transnational capital is insulated, for the rest of us it's every city, state, &amp; nation for ourselves.
@scott_bot @Ted_Underwood But yeah, every time I meet a Floridian I'm like, glad you got out man.
@scott_bot @Ted_Underwood True story, I was once hunted by an alligator in Gainesville. Sitting by a random pond near my apartment with someone drinking a beer, noticed whole time a stick seeming to move toward us... When we got up to leave it turns into a huge alligator, which got spooked and spun around
@Ted_Underwood You still sweat &amp; suffered though. In Gainesville, FL (@scott_bot was there at same time!) over summer I would bring two shirts with me everywhere bc I sweat through first by afternoon. Bay Area summers could get pretty hot, into 90s often on Peninsula and in Oakland (SF v diff).
@Ted_Underwood True, I'm talkin a big talk for a windows-open 65 degree sunny day, lol. Got up to 85 on Thursday, though. Not sure if I still have my from-Florida summer points, but, tbh, summer there sucked, all life sustained by A/C.
Summer is the best and sexiest season. Spring and fall are for wimps, cozy wozy, curly wurly your toesies, lalala. No, you gotta sweat and suffer, it's good for you
After party's at https://t.co/WRhdWbOivn live stream from NYC if anyone wants to tune in
Had a blast at virtual @ClubQuarantaene this weekend. 36 hours of sick techno from DJs from around the world. You log on, pick a color, listen live, VR visual art streams, anonymous color-circles chat. Danced on the zoom channel too with 50 others, ppl really gettin into it..💃🏻🕺🏻
@V21collective Nick Land, Fanged Noumena
@Ted_Underwood @clured True. Epistemic situation is improved by deep dives into the gray box like above. At same time, the structure of that epistemic problem (input -&gt; [box?] -&gt; output) is inseparable from its economic structure: of input and output harvested en masse, the box tended to by specialists
@Ted_Underwood @clured Well, whether ML boxes are black, gray, white, red or blue, aren't they still going to increasingly automate the cognitive gruntwork of the PMC? Fear seems reasonable! Also, I thought we agreed the boxes were gray? :) No sense arguing they don't raise serious interpretation probs
It is a truth universally acknowledged in England, that at all times of the day, one can hear a drunk man warbling.
All of us on twitter are the real godparent of every child of millennials 💚💛💙
sorry but there's gotta be a better term for "media ecology" than "ecology"
RT @drjustinpearce : Very important that this be made part of the study of global north politics. Studying the south we rightly pay attention to personal networks &amp; the state as a vehicle of accumulation. But this is a global phenomenon. https://t.co/EhGL3wInVd
@IgorBrigadir @mjsantos_uzh Cool, thanks so much -- this makes sense now. It's almost as if, to overextend the pun/analogy, one needs to do a little contact tracing!
@mjsantos_uzh So if I post a tweet X, and users A, B, C immediately retweet X; and if later, users D and E retweet X; we need to know if D and E retweeted X because they saw me tweet it, or because they saw A, B, or C retweet it, right? Not sure if twitter API has that info? cc @IgorBrigadir
Is it possible to estimate the "R value" of a tweet?
I wrote about this elsewhere for a piece for the @ReEnlight  group: https://t.co/jrch7oOlp8. Working now on expanding and refining it into a piece on forms of 'virality' (Covid-19, computer viruses, memes) in contemporary capitalism.
Great viz showing how the true danger isn't the virus itself but its 'viral medium': i.e. the entire global network of supply chains and travel routes through which it emerged and spread at the monstrous speeds made possible by our monstrous gloal network. https://t.co/XUT9mh8VVL
@DavidAstinWalsh Watching from the UK, I'm scared that only the US will experience a second wave of this magnitude, and that the rest of the world will watch in horror as a million Americans die and the rest of the world mostly marches on.
The same industrialist tendency toward Toyotism -- whereby workers stand apart from the production process, its 'autonomation' or partial self-regulation reducing them to the machines' manangers -- is inside AI, as programmers turn into managers of autonomated learning algorithms
Interesting how labor's production is increasingly dematerialized -- dislocated from space, dispersed across digital networks, etc -- even as labor's *reproduction* (domestic work, childcare, etc) is *re*-materialized in cottage-like homes, subsistence-focused, sewing masks, etc.
@DanAShore "nearly" being the operative word here
@clured @Ted_Underwood @dan_sinykin Last thought, a brief Treppenwitz: If not 'black box', then, perhaps we ought to call advanced ML/neural nets a 'gray box'. In principle understandable, but in practice barely possible. Also: 'close reading' neurons? The same problems of interpretation recur as we unpack the box.
@PetrosAposto Yep! https://t.co/XZHf082IUS
Even if secondary tho, 'automation' -- seen more broadly as capital's 'machinic drive' (Dyer-Witheford), its rising 'technical composition' of tech/machines/algorithms to humans -- still seems important part of how rural/industr. labor is reterritorialized into informal services?
(https://t.co/RaOvFVm5UH &amp; https://t.co/XZHf07L7wi)
Just read @abenanav's two brilliant articles in NLR on automation and the future of work, which show how it's not automation but global industrial overproduction which has led to underdemand for labor. Also shows how this leads not to rising un- but *under*employment, in services
@Ted_Underwood @dan_sinykin @clured That's true. We do learn something about words &amp; contexts. But we'd be crazy to rest content with sheer distributionalism as our linguistics. Our whole understanding of contextual word mushes is informed by syntactic theory: of noun compounds, phrases, prepositions, clauses, etc.
@Ted_Underwood @dan_sinykin I guess I'm not sure if that last sentence is true. Reminds me of something @clured once said: that as our computation becomes more neural, complex, and self-organizing, by the time an AGI is born, we'll have no idea how it happened: more like biological birth than human design.
@Ted_Underwood @dan_sinykin Isn't it true though that ML models are growing in complexity and difficulty to understand? They're usually optimized for accuracy, and operate according to hidden layers of neurons or some other abstract representation. How many parameters does GPT-3 have again? It's monstrous.
@dan_sinykin @Ted_Underwood The political cost of this approach is that we effectively limit potential forms of computation to reproducing existing patterns. Thus ML "bias": it's not that the programmers are designing racist algorithms, but that the ML algorithms can't help but reproducing racist input data
@dan_sinykin @Ted_Underwood If ML is powerful enough to infer higher-order patterns through the sheer scale of its training data on lower-order input, we effectively automate the cognitive labor of designing and programming explanatory models (like generative syntax in linguistics) of higher-order patterns.
@dan_sinykin @Ted_Underwood Underlying this for me too is a Marxy worry that the sudden conquest of computation by brute-force, black-box machine learning will lead to a new level of abstraction and alienation in our cybercapitalism. Soon, we won't even need domain-specific programmers anymore. All hail ML!
@Ted_Underwood @dan_sinykin Also, if the conclusion is that words are powerful--strong signals of textual specificity--then that's an empowering finding: it confirms the need for disciplines that study the power of words. But we need words + syntax for a full model. Just as both nodes &amp; edges in a network.
@Ted_Underwood Sufficient identification (using machine learning on atomistic, low-level features) is not sufficient explanation (the abstraction, reconstruction and rearrangement of low-level features into a model of how the entire phenomenon under analysis works and functions).
@Ted_Underwood That doesn't mean these word count models are sufficient as a model of literary textuality or history: of either our literary pleasure, or the complex patterns (syntactic, narratological, rhythmic, etc) which make essential parts of our concepts of genres &amp; historical categories.
@Ted_Underwood For sure. And interesting to re-approach Q's of formalism and stylistics via Q's about word counts. We've talked about latter before. In general I think we've seen how word counts are sufficient to reproduce basically all of our generic and literary-historical distinctions. But +
@Ted_Underwood Did we ever really leave that consensus, though? Formalism of one kind or another has maybe always been a part of literary criticism, rhetorical analysis, and hermeneutics. I think in retrospect the supposed anti-formalisms of the 80s-early 2000s prob exaggerated their departure.
@Ted_Underwood As for literary 'pleasure', which is more distant from literary meaning and semantics, it seems undeniably true that artful syntax, structure, and form are a key part of why we enjoy reading literature. A neat, crisp Austen sentence; a precise, but complexly-tissued Jamesian; etc
@Ted_Underwood Don't understand the meaning of whether or not specific brain regions dedicated to syntax as opposed to semantics. But in terms of lit crit: wasn't Fishian critique of stylistics simply that syntax wasn't directly semantic, but only became so under different interpretive models?
RT @SethRudy : 60% said I should only tweet #18thcentury stuff this week, so here we go.  This is the breakdown of entries:cross-references in the Cyclopædia (1728). Tell the story of a man who started off strong, got overwhelmed, didn't care much for i-l, and then just wanted it to be over. https://t.co/lpL2pKnvPB
Anyone ever notice how all the smartest people are Marxists? I mean, could be coincidence, but...
RT @dennismhogan : Copaganda includes any positive cultural depiction of district attorneys
RT @Eugene_V_Dabbs : We stopped *all* 29 ports on the western seaboard. Port stoppage is the #1 capitalist nightmare; trillions evaporate, downstream sales and production halt, the gears just stop. J Edgar Hoover had nightmares about the damage this would do; far more today, with 0 day supply chains
RT @el_tragon_de_LA : He was at his job as security It was his second job  He was paying for school Sheriffs rolled up &amp; pulled out guns.  He ran scared.  They fired immediately.  They murdered him.  He was only 18.  His name is Andrés Guardado  #DefundThePolice #killercops  https://t.co/nInYExrCDO
RT @uhshanti : apparently Ben Shapiro made Lenin trend on Twitter so I’ll just leave this here https://t.co/BrrP3T2wda
Just woke up. Dreamt Elizabeth Bruenig liked one of my tweets. What does this mean
@Ted_Underwood Yeah. The politics of personal salvation is way too personal, hiding the social &amp; political. Renouncing sin, even when we all do it (symbolic ‘healing’ or ‘unity’), is a subjective process, not a material one: like the ‘reflection’ Bezos wrote his workers to take on Juneteenth.
In retrospect, wtf is “Hope” and how did we all fall for that shit?
RT @JordanUhl : Moundsville, WV has a population of around 9,000 people. https://t.co/tNiBadPaB2
@rbuurma @MeganPeiser Not sure this is legal to share, but I think so? Besides, given the hours &amp; hour of painstaking labor which the Lit Lab's RAs did to type up the ~5,000 titles in Raven's (1750-1770) and Raven &amp; Garside's (1770-1830) bibliographies, it should be shared imo. https://t.co/rn2lYSDkUi
OTOH, Covid makes visible existing divisions in the composition of labor: the cognitariat who can work from home, the worker 'essential' to circulation or production, etc. OTOH, the market shows how finance has increasingly made ~all~ labor irrelevant to the production of value.
Calling it now: Trump's gonna win. https://t.co/Iz0pFJO4Hg
RT @simontorracinta : Fans of Berger's WAYS OF SEEING might be interested to know that the beautiful 1979 BBC adaptation of Raymond Williams's The Country and the City by the same director (Mike Dibb) is available for free online https://t.co/wxpRKqWakU https://t.co/WOZY7zMS7p
@fdlaramee Yeah, I'm worried about how long it would take to distribute the vaccine en masse. By April 2021 seems quick to me but here's hoping.  (cc @Ted_Underwood)
What's people's sense now of whether and when a vaccine will arrive?
@Remember_Sarah Olive Garden! We'd go there for most fancy occasions.
"That Rooney synthesizes a redemptive treatment of heterosexuality with a fatalistic one is part of why her books are so popular. Everyone wants it both ways: the cynical satisfaction ... and the possibility that they might personally prove the exception to the rule." https://t.co/lslPaXZS0G
I've gaslit myself into actually enjoying my horrendous, day old, multi-microwaved coffees (with a splash of oat milk). Just as long road trips eased me into enjoying those tall, hot, burnt-for-hours gas station coffees. Different genres, ya know? Can't compare. You gotta respect
Wow. The enthusiasm! https://t.co/Otot9oQfzk
Sometimes the accelerationist demon in me says: screw it, just make everything Work From Home. Leap into the abyss: the decades-long 'deterritorialization' of our social &amp; material relations via global digital networks. Maybe this deterritoriality opens up new radical potentials.
It really is the Boomers' fault. Bucking overall trend from conservativism to liberalism since 1930, Boomers born between 1955 and 1965 became *more* conservative. https://t.co/S3AR9DJlez
I'm in a great microgeneration of millennials who graduated college in 2008 and entered job market just as it crashed. It wiped out our 20s: I ended up hiding in grad school/alt-ac for 11 years. Now in our 30s, just as things were coming together, the economy evaporates yet again
RT @zeithistoriker : https://t.co/8IALVfcpNL
RT @felicefrancesco : I'll be discussing the globalised food system and agriculture in this @_AEPF webinar with Arie Kurniawaty (@Soliper_SP Indonesia), @hashimbr (PKRC), and @ashleshak  (La Via Campesina). Register here: https://t.co/DuEULetsFq https://t.co/1AohPIPiV2
RT @isaiahjhillrd : 1920 vs 2020. https://t.co/afnH0tLIBi
RT @carterforva : Reminder that Kamala Harris is a cop, and Any Klobuchar is also a cop.  And if the VP choice is a cop then the rest of the campaign will be about all the cop things that they did when they were cops. https://t.co/NPz86UQ5nB
@thephdstory 16k 🙃😳🙃
RT @Mowhan : Unfollowed! https://t.co/3BsAFLC18K
Does this suggest that a modern aesthetics of nuance, subtlety, not being 'heavy handed', is limiting our ability to grapple with the giant, brutal, vulgar enormities of contemporary life? https://t.co/4AX3psNN94
RT @DebsEbooks : There is absolutely no remedy for the trust evil except collective ownership.
I've lived in the UK 6 months now and I only half understand British twitter... trying to learn and keep up, but every morning til the early bird Americans wake up I'm a little confused
Maybe we should start charging the lurkers for the show
@profchander Never afraid of being killed. Arrested twice during BLM protests in 2014, but in a mass arrest. Arrested again protesting Trump during primary.. got the "stop resisting!" treatment as they bend your bones, went to jail with torn shirt/broken glasses. But never afraid for my life.
RT @carolynjoy : Tbh, way more fair and on point than what boomers say about millennials https://t.co/pZNfxkVsDN
@LKonstan So steeped rn in theories of cognitive capitalism, 'collective cognitive labor power', etc, that my vulgar-Marxist reading of this trope would frame it as the 'discovery' that our personal cognitive labor-power is just part of a larger invisible network of cognitive labor-powers.
RT @MarxinHell : This offer to liberals -- we will agree to be liberal with *you* on the condition that you agree to be illiberal to the Left, to abandon any pretense of liberalism in the government of malcontents, perverts, commies, and outsiders -- is obviously a threat. 6/7
Flies suck. you open a window because it's hot and before you know it there's a small brigade of them flying in squares around your room for no damn good reason
Assange's cybernetic activism may feel quaint now: too rooted in the early 2010s conjuncture of Occupy, Arab Spring, 'twittter revolutions', etc. But we're just as trapped now as then in a war of informatics. Widespread cell-phone video-recording of police is our only new weapon. https://t.co/iBd46um00u
Refreshing new piece on Assange, from Patrick Cockburn in LRB. Hard to remember now, but Wikileaks did fulfill the highest duty of the press: to obtain informations &amp; "by disclosing them, to make them the common property of the nation" (Robert Lowe, 1852). https://t.co/FZFrxHl6ti
RT @KristenClarkeJD : Rayshard Brooks.  A 27 yr old father of 3 girls and 1 stepson. Was celebrating his daughter’s 8th birthday and was planning to take her skating.  His crime? Allegedly sleeping in his car in a Wendy’s parking lot in Atlanta. Shot 3 times in the back and killed. #RayshardBrooks https://t.co/stKK0h2l2M
RT @rickyeatsbeats : Gil Scott Heron on what he meant when he stated “The revolution will not be televised.” https://t.co/dnDDzloZD4
RT @KristenClarkeJD : This is Robert Fuller, just 24 yrs old. He was found hanging from a tree outside City Hall in Palmdale, California on June 10th.  In recent years, Palmdale has been the site of KKK fliers &amp; noose displays.  Officials must reveal whether he was lynched. #JusticeForRobertFuller https://t.co/RsxekBpKUW
RT @cwellmon : Harvard wants its faculty to pitch their courses like the commodities they are: “Faculty are encouraged to provide trailers of their courses on top of the usual course description...[to] advertise in more vivid ways ..so..online learning will be engaging.” https://t.co/SGizyJ7IEt
RT @liz_franczak : lmao https://t.co/Icpp1mkBDF
RT @jillboard : everything about this country is weird and creepy and ugly and i hate it https://t.co/LqLEMNbH5s
RT @JoshuaPotash : It seems like we're seeing less footage of protests, even though just as many are happening.  So here's a thread of #BlackLivesMatter protests happening today, or even right now.  First, right now in Seattle 👇 https://t.co/JMrBnkUn6P
But happy to pay trillions of dollars to keep the financial markets afloat. https://t.co/BYimDRmAWP
RT @shariaprelaw : imagining Israeli teens in a settlement kicking off their slam poetry event with an acknowledgement they're on stolen land, to raucous snaps
RT @casualafro : so y’all just gonna pass breonna’s law before arresting the cops who became the reason for breonna’s law by breaking breonna’s law https://t.co/jW3JtY2ldE
RT @afroacademic : apparently harvard law had a webinar on remote learning and they suggested that students take out a loan to “rent an office space” to attend lectures
RT @dennismhogan : We are living in the autonomous zone and I am an autonomous crone
RT @sirjamesa12 : Every single letter was designed by Black artists from the Seattle area. 🥰 https://t.co/kLPznxT2jT
RT @MairavZ : The commodification of anti racism within racial capitalism is on brand https://t.co/cboWz69pE4
Love how Andrew Yang has been radicalized. A true comrade now, and a good and guiding voice for this moment. https://t.co/gGSIg3yCZq
Intellectual property is theft. (stole this from @erikfredner)
@V21collective I still don't even really know what this emotion is: 🥴
@selenadaly Nice! thank you!
RT @awinston : Should be a much bigger story https://t.co/nOl6g6ThAA
@mervatim @LBMcGrath @dan_sinykin Wow, that's wonderful, thank you! Don't have my books with me rn either but will check soon
@PeterFifield utilize
Tagging brilliant friends @LBMcGrath, @dan_sinykin, @mervatim
I'd love to adapt my diss/book chapter on personification in poetry to talk more about internet-based practices of personification, like memes--micro visual allegories?--and how they adapt &amp; spread. Also: like this trend of personating corporate 'persons'! https://t.co/Fyqh4zo8iJ
Does anyone know when the fraught student-worker activism takes place in Lila's sausage factory in Book III of Ferrante's Neapolitan novels? Wondering the influence of the operaismo movement in 1956-1967, or if it's more a reference to the 1968-70s student-communist-PCI activism?
RT @V21collective : Gimmicks fill us with a sense of mismatch between the amount of labor encoded in them+their proclaimed value. we register a sense that labor+value are at once intertwined+perhaps should not be. In essence, we begin to doubt the entire system we live by.  https://t.co/9KP50U2yAd
RT @Vanessa_ABee : HAHAHAHA THEYRE TAKING THE KNEELING BACK https://t.co/8AKaKPgQQ1
RT @itskingapollo : If the police did their jobs, everyone woud trust them. Ain’t no song called Fuck The Fire Department.
RT @nataliebrownist : It’s almost refreshing how much characters in 18th and 19th century courtship plots talk about income and inheritance. There’s an acknowledgment that this matters in a way we often try to pretend it doesn’t.
RT @dee_bee_h : we always said it was never about Bernie the individual so seeing him get trashed by his own supporters for his “no” on police defunding is extremely good in a “fuck around and find out” kind of way
RT @solomongeorgio : There’s been way more media coverage of these bullshit statues than Breonna Taylor’s murder
The people have spoken. As a dutiful and honourable member of this infernal parliament, I will henceforth merely whisper every fourth tweet into the quarantined void. https://t.co/poYsciV8ui
@Ted_Underwood Oh dear. Your TL must be pretty much empty right now
RT @profchander : “We write this piece...for those scholars of color whose pieces should have shaped our field but have never been given the chance to be heard.”   Please read and share. ✊🏾❤️  https://t.co/R21pGyQH9R
@Ted_Underwood Yeah this little emoji question does seem to capture bigger questions about how to construct a politics of allyship and solidarity. I'm inclined to agree (I've used the yellow one) though I think we should be self-reflexive about who in practice owns the means of universalization
@Ted_Underwood But if in practice it's most claimed by the dominant, oppressive social group, what's the right thing to do in response? Vacate it and return to specificity in order to unmask the generalization? Or continue it to uphold the possibility for an inclusive unmarked subject position?
@sdanielm 💅
People who have a lot of followers but who still follow even more people anyway are the kindest, most loving among us.
RT @sysimmolator : The new political aesthetic is Gothic Socialist Irrealism https://t.co/pmtn1X0gHj
What are the politics of white people using the yellow, synthetic, abstract hand emoji ✊ over the toned✊🏻? Isn't the claim of whiteness to the universal, unmarked subject-position precisely the means by which it excludes people of color? ...yet somehow the white hand feels wrong
@tomstafford Maybe we ought to nationalize Twitter, since more than any social network it constitutes the official speech acts of the public sphere. Then, maybe set up network-wide democratic processes to decide on any communal protocols. Elected position? Secretary of Digital Communication?
Last page of Nick Dyer-Witheford's fantastic book, CYBER-PROLETARIAT (2015): a reading of the Wizard of Oz as an allegory of the tornadic dislocation within cybernetic capital, w sinister and implike machinic forces faced down by an unlikely human-straw-machine resistance front. https://t.co/ezelB0ouYJ
@tomstafford I guess so. We could argue that reinforcing protocols of truth &amp; fact checking are beneficial right now. At the same time, Twitter's non-democratic, corporate process of deciding that only accelerates the original problem: that 1-2 corporations mediate the digital public square.
I mean, yes, it's good to read things before you share them, but I do feel a little bit anxious that Big Tech might be adopting, unelected, the role of moderator of civic discourse... https://t.co/qkoTYHBBrp
RT @imajoyk : we all know amazon is evil, but did you know that when a book becomes an audible exclusive, libraries cannot buy copies of that audiobook? did you know that capitalism is the enemy of accessibility?
Serious question: why not both? https://t.co/B2HpyY38p4
RT @thecoolliterati : Everyone: “Defund the police!”  Joe Biden: I hear you. I will put more money in de fund for the police
Look at this map of corporate colonialism.   I have some extended family in Arkansas: nearly all of them work for Walmart. There's not much else to do for work there. https://t.co/YLVI9sIlkA
RT @Laura_K_Hughes : This is a real moment. Professor Neil Ferguson:   "The epidemic was doubling every three to four days before lockdown interventions were introduced. So had we introduced lockdown measures a week earlier, we would have then reduced the final death toll by at least a half."
RT @AliceAvizandum : postal workers deserve the respect that cops want https://t.co/Epqmj4LZDi
RT @kenklippenstein : God, make me be less online — but not yet
RT @colonellovely : hell yeah defund paw patrol fuck that dog
Read this &amp; tell me that abolition isn't the only answer to this worthless gang of state-sponsored thugs, who roam around harassing and hunting vulnerable people for sport. What little good they do, like mediating conflict, would be better done by others. https://t.co/Za7RPTQiO3
RT @WalkerBragman : https://t.co/VHQ42bM6Qe
RT @TinkeringHuman : @quadrismegistus https://t.co/ZRlKKEeaox
@Lenora_DW I love Spike Lee, but Boots Riley might be right here: "It's a made up story in which the false parts of it try to make a cop the protagonist in the fight against racist oppression. It's being put while BLM is a discussion, and this is not coincidental." https://t.co/uDRI6GmJjv
RT @Lenora_DW : We only celebrate Columbus Day because we wanted to pretend that we didn't used to be British. We basically exchanged one genocidal origin story for another.
RT @Ted_Underwood : American civic religion keeps getting more and more like actual religion. Kneeling, acknowledging original sin, necessity of spiritual rebirth, taking a day of rest, etc.
RT @lerikscline : The people: Defund the police.  Joe Biden: What if we gave the police more money so they can be trained to shoot you in the leg? https://t.co/Zbsfss0c13
RT @jaboukie : excited to be vaporized for jaywalking by ironman https://t.co/P8hqMy4RYz
RT @andrewmarzoni : Biden placing his op-ed in USA Today is very on brand.
Do I tweet too much? honest question
RT @bijanstephen : ok baby names dot com go off https://t.co/4jkDQHKsDP
Angela Nagle was kinda right in KILL ALL NORMIES: what's distinctive about post-2015 alt-right political media is that its contents bubble from the unknowable deep web, far below the light of meaning &amp; coherence ('Boogaloo' &amp; Hawaiian shirts? pizzagate? 75-year-old ANTIFA spies?) https://t.co/gawruwQ7DH
RT @llchristyll : If this is true, this is first degree murder. https://t.co/5MefxAGvaF
@AntonJaegermm "insufficiently dialectical" (Adorno of Benjamin)
@yoavgo 'Zero sum' is interesting: say more?  If brands only care about profit, they don't care what interests they promote so long as it brings in more money. But politicians are protecting specific interests (usually the ruling class). They care about use value, not just exchange value
I agree with @fmanjoo: what feels special about these protests is that they prove their point in the very act of making it, as phones capture police brutalizing protesters of police brutality nationwide. It's a collective illocutionary act, made bodily but broadcast over internet
Why are brands today woker (even if insincerely) than our politicians, elected officials, and university administrators? Keir Starmer e.g. saying the Bristol statue dethroning was 'completely wrong': why is he, the Labour leader, out-woked by Nike?
Still no prominent tell-all op-eds from cops? No confessions? No public self-reckoning?
RT @icecube : Another Bunker Bitch https://t.co/dmbawlqKPI
RT @OkButStill : every job is stupid. name one cool job
RT @WrittenByHanna : . https://t.co/wqXObZUN3x
RT @obscuree_ : these are the kinds of photos that we’re gonna look back on in 50 years and be like WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK 💔 https://t.co/ctmRdTvzJc
RT @kimpossiblefact : michael tracey is the wario version of matt yglesias
On that model, there's no accumulation. Each month, everyone pays something &amp; gets something back, no matter how small. The amount paid is always the same: 1% your discretionary budget. The amount paid back changes: a % of the total fund which is inverse to % of fund you donated.
Ok, here's my cyber-Proudhon crowdfunding app idea: The People's Fund. You join by paying each month 1% your monthly discretionary budget (post tax, rent, food etc). The raised money is then just redistributed back to donors in reverse order, by a "last shall be first" principle.
RT @mervatim : High Street, Oxford   #RhodesMustFall https://t.co/LiIK7DYS2D
RT @katewillett : I’m glad Bernie endorsed @Booker4KY but I wish he had done it earlier.  The entire establishment is lining up behind Amy McGrath who is running as Democrat who will “work with Trump,” while Charles Booker is running on policies that would help so many people.  Give him your $$.
RT @LBMcGrath : I just got the hospital bill and my perfectly routine, uncomplicated childbirth cost $62,500. 👀
I hope I, too, grow up to be a 75-year-old ANTIFA provocateur entrapping local police in elaborate and dangerous plots to discredit them. Respect.
RT @mkraju : Bernie Sanders breaks from party establishment and backs Charles Booker in #kysen primary; DSCC wants Amy McGrath. And backs Jamaal Bowman in primary against House Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot Engel
RT @andrealongchu : it’s a very clever cooptation strategy to say the police are “broken” or “corrupt.” the police aren’t a broken institution failing their communities, they are a wildly successful institution that does exactly what it’s designed to do! the whole point is to BREAK IT
RT @kenklippenstein : https://t.co/mTRsuAAqVd
RT @jennygzhang : to be clear this is not just a bon app problem (or a r29 problem, or philly inquirer, or NYT, or wapo). this is a problem with all of mainstream media, whose default position since inception has been to align with white bourgeois interests, upheld by a white bourgeois hierarchy
RT @SarahBelleLin : This image is of the injuries sustained by an individual at the Oakland #GeorgeFloyd protests, shared at tonight's Oakland Police Commission meeting. This individual was shot 20 times after reportedly saying "fuck you" to police. #oakmtg https://t.co/KRIRFAsin0
Plans, details, data, pragmatism, bureaucratic skill, were all just watchwords and values specific to this professionalized, educated managerial class. They are the dog whistles of people with 401(k)s.
I wish a single Warren supporter would have the courage to say that they really just wanted to protect their class interests as part of the intermediate stratum between labor &amp; capital. Bernie scared them because he represented the ongoing proletarianization of this middle class.
Our present political fate rests in large part on liberals' failure of imagination &amp; empathy. Bernie seemed "too extreme" a few months ago!? When cops still killed 1,000+ people a year? When scientists said we had 12 years to fix climate? When millions lived w/o health insurance? https://t.co/E70JAxOEBG
RT @wideofthepost : Bernie got *1* vote for the Times endorsement. https://t.co/KuKSW2KDg1
RT @CharlesMBlow : Can we all just admit this: The transformational changes that covid, the economic crisis, police brutality and racial turbulence will force are precisely some of the things Bernie Sanders was talking about but may have sounded too extreme to some just months ago.
RT @SamAdlerBell : Sorry but American liberalism is a sickness https://t.co/7Au1YScnkj
RT @skullmandible : democrats will sell this thin-soup do-nothing bill as the "victory" that the protests "earned," putting the movement in the past tense, scrambling back into a position of "performatively shocked by trump." they do not seek actionable political capital. they actively reject it
RT @AndrewProjDent : They had a black man scrub “Churchill was a racist” off the statue then had 4 white Tory’s stand in front of it to make it look like they’d done it 🤦‍♂️ https://t.co/7yZmcJgIqO
Kamala is a cop. https://t.co/SNyKVg6Za8
RT @communistdoll : reformist really are like what if we made it illegal for cops to kiII people
RT @JackLynch000 : https://t.co/EvwTTDyDNm
gonna change my name to Marx Zuckerberg and move back to the Bay... this is how I win
RT @LukewSavage : Adolph Reed Jr. once remarked that liberals don't really believe in politics anymore, just in "bearing witness to suffering." I think about that a lot.
RT @fecklesswizard : This is the same picture https://t.co/8vKxy1SrP1
RT @dereckapurnell : Say No to the "Justice in Policing Act."  Absolutely not.  We are demanding less money for police. Why are Dems and the Congressional Black Caucus sponsoring legislation that will give police more money? No.
RT @jacobplitman : yea love is cool, but have you tried politics  https://t.co/RJyXLfaBfg https://t.co/cdQGNIs78y
RT @LLW902 : reading comments that defunding the police is "bad marketing" makes me want to hit something. useless concern trolling from people whose notion of labor is managing outlook. trump is going to call you a radical communist no matter how much you water down the activism, you rubes
RT @rachsyme : meanwhile, in england https://t.co/0Zayki4HSO
Wish we could all boo and humiliate Joe off the national stage. https://t.co/gfIrUOZhta
@sdanielm Haha yeah, I guess the entity in question could be... a government.
Is it possible to create an ANTI-profit firm, a DIvestment bank? What if we all crowd-funded a financial entity which didn't try to accumulate wealth, but instead tried to undo the cycle of accumulation that's strangling us? Take things out of private domain. Redistribute wealth.
RT @jasminprix : they tried to quell the black rebellion with cultural appropriation LOL
@rudimentarypen I thought it was "the people united will never be defeated"
RT @HeerJeet : 1. What the hell is happening at the New York Times? I think the larger crisis, going well beyond the argument over the Cotton op ed, is the crack-up of the elite consensus that dominated from 1939 until 1991 (and had a strong afterlife until around 2014).
@_TimBarker Firefighters are the stoners of first responders, cops the aggro coke heads. I once biked across the US w 2 friends, when we couldn't find a place to sleep we'd knock on a fire dept's door, &amp; each time they'd let us in, hang out with us for a bit &amp; then let us tent in their yard.
With you as second worst, yes. https://t.co/scOE49mur6
@InsideATureen @cliffschecter @WalshFreedom Only way to correct police failure is to abolish the police. I don't care what the GOP will tell the scared white conservatives. Can we please stop basing our politics on what we imagine other people's politics to be? Smash the Overton window. Do what's right and ppl will follow.
@cliffschecter @WalshFreedom This is why I prefer "ABOLISH the police."
@ebruenig "Downstairs" = unconscious Downstairs neighbor = your unc. double Cops = unc. aggressions She's evasive, they won't leave your house = ego defenses overwhelmed  Former downstairs neighbor had baby = unc. dbl of motherhood Neighbor killed her = unc libido/aggressions to motherhood
Down with modern rationalized bureaucracy, up with direct collective action https://t.co/E21aMgRD1W
RT @dreamboum : Thankfully in France, firefighters are just beating the shit out of cops instead https://t.co/JT8myWPtMK https://t.co/eBTi9CCVYh
RT @qpheevr : Two relevant points about this passage:  1. The pronoun “she” refers anaphorically to Hermione Granger.  2. At this juncture in the narrative, if you’ll forgive me for putting it so bluntly, Hermione has a penis and testicles.
It's disturbed me how numbers mediate 95% of our experience with the Covid tragedy. It's barely personalized. So few obituaries except giant media stunts. So few reckonings with human fallout to local businesses and communities. Just epidemiology and 'curves' and abstract data.
Our sudden subordination of Covid concerns to urgent mass action against racism and state violence is an encouraging sign that our ethical intuitions haven't been completely overrun by quantified utilitarianism.
RT @JoshuaPotash : Okay this is LA’s #BlackLivesMatter protest today.   https://t.co/QnAOUHL8Np
Feeling hopeful for the first time since Bernie's socialist revolution was pummelled into oblivion by the establishment. Minneapolis abolished the police! A new, stronger Rainbow Coalition has reemerged from the streets. And it is led by the courage &amp; clarity of Black activists.
RT @YourAnonCentral : Has anyone seen any of these twitter blue checkmark millennial thought leaders at the barricades? quick on the performative resistance blog posts and tweets, not so much to the frontlines.
RT @BigMeanInternet : One way to keep stuff going under the pressure of the state's shifting tactics is putting propaganda everywhere, all over the streets
RT @AOC : “A new world is not only possible, she is on her way.”  - Arundhati Roy https://t.co/hDMLE3fxs3
Two weeks of mass action accomplishes what years of liberal reform could only dream of: Minneapolis dismantles its police department.  "Council members stood before 100s of people gathered.. on a grassy hill, and signed a pledge to begin the process."   https://t.co/7dTDc29wkg
Holy shit I just heard the news: https://t.co/deKTsmRWGs  We can do anything when we vote from the streets.
Abolish the police. Nothing less. Replace them with social workers drawn from their communities. Pay them well in public funds. No guns.
RT @ErnestWilkins : Y’all backed the wrong children’s book series it seems because the lady who wrote Animorphs been RTing and posting BLM and Pride links all week
RT @aishaismad : hey oxford--i think it's our time to shine https://t.co/nEy4WrKsjf
RT @MeretriciousPro : Joe Biden literally proposed something he called "The Police Officer's Bill Of Rights" two months after the Rodney King beating.
RT @BlackSocialists : When egoists throw out terms like “check your privilege,” they seem more concerned with placing white Americans in a lose-lose situation instead of highlighting a ceding of power to the ruling class based upon manufactured social structures, and creating a pathway for solidarity.
RT @Hanna_Jameson : THEY THREW THE SLAVER IN THE RIVER https://t.co/qCVkoTpZe0
RT @Hanna_Jameson : My god I was right, these statues of slavers and their genocidal supporters in politics DO look better on their side being rolled into the sea! https://t.co/Jn4wxPtkr7
RT @BlackSocialists : A lot of people are trying hard to compartmentalize issues here, and it doesn’t work that way.  The police and the military and other institutions are mechanisms of the state, and they’re there to protect the interests of the ruling class.  We have no option but to go *big* here. https://t.co/JjGuakgsRs
RT @secrethistorian : spoken word poetry will not save us, i’m so sorry
RT @marisollebron : I make a good professional salary as a university professor. Many big city cops make *significantly* more than I do, especially when you factor in overtime and bonuses. So I’ll say it again for the folks in the back: COPS ARE NOT PART OF THE WORKING CLASS 🗣🗣🗣
HP is regressive liberal ideological fantasy and isn't suitable for anyone's children sorry
@cejarvis Just read somewhere that aggregate US household debt-to-income ratio surpassed 120% in 2005. We're just running on fumes, with debt stepping into to help us pretend, as wages stagnate and financialization bypasses labor altogether, that we can still get by. We need to kill credit
@cejarvis I'm lucky to have a stable job and visa for next ~3.5 years. After that who knows, though. But yeah 'debt' just seems like a Before Times concern at this point. It's all just fake money
ATTACK AND DETHRONE GOD we have the right to destroy our idols https://t.co/m3DQB5EBTd
@cejarvis Interesting. I mean, what's my alternative? To self-garnish my wages from now til then? don't have much to lose tbh... especially now that I'm in the UK and they're legally not allowed to 'check my credit score' or my financial life in the US.
@gabrielwinant Which would mean not just demilitarization but also the de-reterritorialization that came with industrialization (dislocation of agricultural laborers into migrant, shiftless 'informal' wage-workers in cities). Rewind: replace all cops w social workers drawn from their local area
RT @MargaretKCrane : if you were a hot girl for Bernie and you’re not a hot girl for defunding the police than you were not hot in the first place!
RT @rwgilmoregirls : https://t.co/qPZOyk5VtS
Seriously what would happen if I just refuse to pay any of my credit-based debts (student loan and credit card) ever again? like, fuck it, the world only ends once
RT @kevin_modestino : How are there this many absolute morons with blue checks? https://t.co/K1s6QoUBHX
RT @carlquintanilla : Page one in Houston.  #GeorgeFloyd https://t.co/jncgMFvAeL
RT @avwusesherwords : If you want to understand systemic racism, you can consider the Kern County policing of black &amp; brown ppl against the resource extraction of rich, white landowning families. Check out @arax_mark great journalistic work on Kern County water rights: https://t.co/WvJxaDh9mC
Like, grow up dude
Subtweet to Ben Lerner and autofiction: "Always historicize!" doesn't mean writing about your cool intellectual dad dude no one cares
RT @JoshuaHol : The protester, Robert Forbes, died. Bakersfield police say it was an accident.   Bakersfield is a hotbed of white supremacy, the cops are corrupt AF and if you called Central Casting and asked them to send you a white power dude, they’d send someone who looks just like this. https://t.co/7kuYyxAJmX
The ease with which Black Lives Matter has gone global, fitting into local/national contexts of gender-racial-class oppressions, suggests that us Jacobin types should consider that the alleged classlessness of race/idpol may actually enable its global syncretism and solidarities.
RT @jemgilbert : Capitalism &amp; racism are so deeply intertwined that there's no way of permanently reducing racism and its structural effects without permanently weakening the power of capital. Liberals have tried everything, up to and including electing a black president, rather than admit this.
RT @hbachrach : I need a deep dive into how Nice White English Ladies like Rowling get radicalised
How much of white fragility, white fear, even white gun ownership stems or persists psychologically in a white (male) sexual insecurity complex? These gun and automatic rifles are just pathetic metallic phallic extensions. (Sorry if this is crude or wrong in way I don't realize.)
Thinking of becoming a wholesome reply guy, and just write back to people tweeting from the streets "woo!", "you got this!!!", "we're with you!", "I'll bail you out boo", etc
lol ffs GET OVER IT hillary no one cares about your feelings rn https://t.co/ZTmgoXaXcZ
I'm struggling w living out of the US right now. A whole new world is being born, pulsing, throbbing on every street of my country, while I sit here an ocean away, scrolling and lurking. Should I rush back 'home'? I've never missed it more than now when it's burning and bleeding.
RT @WillBlomker : If anyone doubted the #NYPD presence is for intimidation just look at this surfer paddle out protest in Queens this morning. Quick! Before they loot the water!! #BlackLivesMatter + follow #justiceforgeorgenyc on Instagram https://t.co/gX0S6dvraE
RT @LCRWnews : ATTACK AND DETHRONE GOD https://t.co/40ppksyBsb
RT @madiidanae : WE LOVE THIS FUCKING CITY! Detroit is the birthplace of techno and techno is BLACK 🖤 #BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/fJTSmGH1nK
RT @kiangoh : Unbelievable. What does it mean when the most prominent cultural-historical institution, the biggest holder of artifacts stolen from Black and Brown people around the world across centuries, expresses solidarity like this? What does accountability even look like? https://t.co/Z0QymvephB
RT @DawnandKevin1 : @WajahatAli This is brutal   https://t.co/E6hORBxo0u
RT @WajahatAli : I appreciate the NYT listening to its employees, especially people of color, &amp; suggesting the work culture will change. In that spirit, let me tell how many live in fear of the "Bret Stephens Policy." So many have been contacted by editors because Brett has whined or complained.
It's as if the "marketplace of ideas" was long ago industrialized into the "factory of clicks" https://t.co/6xq4lQpth6
neo nihilism https://t.co/CJJDoWt3qu
If that "8 quick fixes to the systemic racism in the police force" thing (with improvements of up to 72%!) doesn't reveal to you the capitalist absurdity of technocratic solutions, I don't know what will.
RT @jaboukie : ive talked this over with many thought leaders.  defund schools and hospitals-noone likes them. use all money wasted enriching and saving lives to increase police training to train every US citizen. now we are all police, there is no police brutality, just brutality. vote
RT @Jawn_Hancock : remember when the cops murdered a UPS driver and then UPS thanked the cops for it?
RT @gavinmuellerphd : heads up, macarena is a psyop https://t.co/uesyksKkfn
Burn down Amazon. https://t.co/WaFkFM8zEz
@kevinbaker Is that what M*A*S*H was, in retrospect?
RT @__seab : I know everybody is doing their thing everywhere right now, but I just want to thank black people in Minneapolis for forcing the whole world into the streets. No matter what happens I will be grateful until the day I die.
RT @jaboukie : liberals: listen to black women ❤️ black women: abolish the police liberals: listen ❤️
RT @nanpansky : we are not doing class vs race vs gender etc anymore we are growing up and dealing with reality !!!!
RT @BigMeanInternet : Good demand. https://t.co/MeV7HGjoGw
RT @moveablejaw : Liberal academics are like, “let’s use the master’s tools to flip the master’s house”
Most absurdly elaborate Meme Allegory twitter has yet produced https://t.co/l9w49uR6JS
RT @BlackSocialists : If they’re talking about fighting racism without talking about fighting Capitalism, they’re bullshitting you.
RT @letsgomathias : You can hear the inmates bangin on the windows, cheering in the protest https://t.co/AhKFJtpmkn
RT @PrettyBadLefty : De Blasio and Cuomo are showing you why Voting Blue No Matter Who is not a serious position you should consider
RT @juliacdupuis : After the zip ties were cut off, I was threatened by an officer who said: "Stop it with the attitude. This is us being nice—I can make this much worse for you." In response to us advocating for our rights, they told us: "You have no rights here."
RT @carterforva : Arrested AT HOME for a curfew violation in NYC. https://t.co/ngxmoPN1Sn
RT @katewillett : Thousands on Atlantic Ave singing Happy Birthday to #BreonnaTaylor on what would have been her 27th birhdsy https://t.co/RFWOtJBKNO
RT @B_Ehrenreich : what I wrote about Linda Tirado:https://t.co/P99vR1OVPR
RT @benwritesthings : RT if you would contribute to a legal fund for L*nds*y Gr*h*m's escorts
RT @yezvarn_qvilaxl : you want to know what happens to good cops? they end up like adrian schoolcraft.  schoolcraft grew up with his father in the force. when he entered the nypd, he legitimately thought they were a force for good. 1/?
RT @athenogenes : Just spent sixteen hours in NYPD custody, nine of them in zipcuffs without water or bathroom access, three of those in the rain, for the crime of being in a kettle at 7:50pm
RT @andrealongchu : every time de blasio says the word “restraint” he is threatening murder
@kevin_modestino I'm not actually sure to be honest. Attaching here one of my favorite tweets from this week. Maybe that's kind of what I mean. What liberalism might call groupthink is actually a beautiful &amp; brave thing, like "being lifted up by strong collective energies" https://t.co/2ve6YF1Zyw
@Ted_Underwood @cwellmon Obv the actual web of vulnerability isn't new, but viscerally feeling it with Covid, to the point that it becomes almost a new global phenomenology: that's new. Maybe part of what feels exciting rn is that from the streets is also emerging a genuinely new experience of solidarity
@Ted_Underwood @cwellmon I felt it first with Covid, though. A planetary catastrophe in which suddenly all of our lives are materially but invisibly connected in a single global web of vulnerability? Like the World War, but moreso? That's new to me
@kevin_modestino Yeah, basically I guess that's it in a nutshell, ha.
@Ted_Underwood @cwellmon I also feel like the best of twitter could be thought in terms of Action, i.e. what one does before one's peers in a way which is allowed to characterize one to the community, potentially forever in social memory. But there's something new to "wartime" mind. Never felt it before.
@Ted_Underwood @cwellmon (Yes! 1sec) Also, given that these protests are in part motivated by 20% unemployment from Covid and government's horrendous, life-destroying response, our wartime response to Covid feels continuous with the wartime collectivity on the streets and its broad multiracial solidarity
@cwellmon @Ted_Underwood I guess so. But feels strange to call our instinctive, "wartime" collectivity around Covid -- quarantine shaming, behavior enforcing, etc -- "politics". That and the thought-realignments happening now are mediated so much by social media, too, in a way not captured by "politics"?
This is a polite subtweet basically agreeing with @Ted_Underwood here (is that still a subtweet? I dunno): https://t.co/JuwLQeM30Z
@cwellmon @sivavaid Cool. Sends me every time that Amazon is Democrats' most trusted institution. What kind of knowledge-trust is that? Trust in the knowledge economy?
There's value to leftist 'groupthink' in times like this -- which shouldn't come as a surprise, after we just group-thought our response to Covid in a vacuum of centralized leadership. The collective-psychological 'battlespace' of The Narrative is important, esp in internet age.
@cwellmon This breaks down by politics too, with (not surprisingly) the police near the top for Repubs. Near the middle for Dems, next to unions and philanthropists (which seems low to me, actually: but this is after Feguson; and obv higher % of Dems are Af Am/POC)  https://t.co/VEuAQQGlua
@cohenss @CoMo_Kristin https://t.co/y1m8hQpph8
lol holy shit I had no idea John Cusack was an all out Marxist and comrade, hell yeah https://t.co/16ermw1Zg8
RT @P00DI3PI3 : requires cops to say “i am about to shoot you” before shooting you, decide what “excessive force” is at their discretion, “deescalate” first (already a policy in nyc), use “all other reasonable means” which assumes they have brains. magical thinking numbers &amp; sleek graphics. nice https://t.co/8AV6WgnkOx
RT @freddyfoks1 : Want to read more about racism and modern British history? Here's the syllabus Chika Tonooka and I put together for our MPhil class 'Race and Empire in Modern British History' at Cambridge last year.   Readings and resources in the link below👇🏻  https://t.co/0Ij1qtorIt https://t.co/5aK8myGB0S
No, for real: Occupy DC. 6,000 troops you say? We got 10 times that. https://t.co/oV1O3W4THn
Galaxy-brain truth-bombs like these are the reason they pay Bari the big bucks! https://t.co/4Fypghbids
RT @JordanUhl : Some people have asked for all four police violence supercuts in one Dropbox link so they can share all 4 elsewhere easier.  Here it is:  https://t.co/6JXx1S0m5c
I think I’ve read all of Twitter, every tweet, nothing left for me now but reruns
@sdanielm lol. life comes at you fast
Ok my brief Covid-era Cuomo dalliance is over. Who does he sound like here? https://t.co/6PCCD5wHpa
@felicefrancesco There's a great piece from @miriamkp in Logic Mag: https://t.co/2aZvVlc208
@Ted_Underwood @profjoshlandy I mean, I'm heartened that folks in power (kinda: Mattis already quit) are resisting this, but a) the situation is ongoing (Esper will prob be out soon and who knows what'll happen) and b) any paper publishing a 'reasoned' argument for martial law is normalizing it to some extent
@Ted_Underwood @profjoshlandy Tom Cotton is a weasel-necked prick I'd love to push down a staircase. I'm scared and pissed at Trump's call for martial law and said so. But why would Mattis/Esper rejecting Trump's call prohibit Cotton's op-ed, in the paper of record, from moving the Overton window on it all?
RT @pixelatedboat : Gotta hear all sides in the NYT https://t.co/UviR8RBY1G
I really miss Oakland. :( https://t.co/YFJgCGanHR
@Ted_Underwood How do you know that? Dangerous bet to make, with lives at stake, and not yours or mine.
RT @runolgarun : can't emphasize this hard enough: voting did not do this, mass protesting did https://t.co/oLTa4Gxfz0
The problem with the Times, as well as Obama and with liberals generally, is that they keep trying to be Habermasian rationalists in a post-rational age. https://t.co/AqpvoWEbmA
RT @smdadamo : riots work https://t.co/n5Ewx9uDpT
RT @johncusack : Obama speech online is  pretty weak and his take on the 60 s - is shall we say - revisionist -  to be kind-
RT @shamxri : How do you make fun of Kendall Jenner and the Pepsi commercial and then go to a protest and ask the police to march with you?
RT @nikhil_palsingh : Racial capitalism is Janus-faced: it's not only "racist capitalism" (often the face of police); it is the capitalism that expresses solicitude for "racial justice" in every branding/philanthropic gesture while fighting tooth and nail to preserve the most brutal market dependency.
Damn, Andrew Yang doing more to advance discourse than the entire Democratic Party rn. https://t.co/wozYxFgNWH
Glad Bernie supports removing "qualified immunity" for cops, but this is shameful. https://t.co/GW2doF7Yen
RT @bathr0bespierre : Still kinda processing what happened yesterday and might write it up but in the meantime— to say what ended up not being obvious—IF YOU SEE THE ORGANIZERS OF AN ACTION TALKING WITH THE POLICE TO COORDINATE, YOU SHOULD NOT LISTEN TO A SINGLE DIRECTIVE THEY GIVE YOU
RT @Muna_Mire : Keep the same energy pls https://t.co/CCY3UiMdoE
RT @JohnPatLeary : As the campaign to separate "good" and "bad" protesters proceeds, &amp; as the fiction of "peaceful protest" takes hold, we do all realize that the reason we're talking about George Floyd and cop violence today is because of the "bad" protesters, right?
Yeah let's definitely kneel with the cops and sing kumbaya https://t.co/1mxB49dMdE
RT @AntonJaegermm : You can't tell me "fictitious capital" isn't real https://t.co/ba1jgXcLR6
@cohenss @CoMo_Kristin gross
And, just as they safely work from home, now the PMC watches the protests from afar, letting the working class fight for them rather than putting their bodies on the line beside them. They contribute to the cause only financially, like PACs, pretending money is political speech.
These class divisions have now become biologized as the PMC works from the safety of their homes, sipping coffee in their socks, while the working class is either unemployed or risking their life everyday keeping society afloat. Shame on us for not prioritizing the working class.
Looking back it rly was the professional-managerial class's refusal to build a coalition with the working class, partly over aesthetic reasons (ppl being "mean" online!), that doomed us to the choice Cornel West described in 2016: "neoliberal disaster or neofascist catastrophe?"
They're literally just playing Grand Theft Auto with black and brown lives. https://t.co/PTKdBgtv3Y
@CoMo_Kristin @cohenss Please don't share photo op propaganda of cops kneeling with protesters. Hours later they'll be beating the shit out of those same protesters. Let's not do the cops' propaganda work for them.
THIS is how electoral politics can bring real progressive change: not by voting for the neoliberal candidates we're presented with, but to *run for office* yourself and contest those candidates' right to represent you in the first place. Bravo! I'm newly inspired in the struggle!
So excited that @NikilSaval, former editor of @nplusonemag &amp; the leftist challenger to the Democratic incumbent for PA State Senate, crushed his primary election last night. I went to grad school with Nikil &amp; he's one of the most brilliant &amp; politically passionate people I know. https://t.co/4vzE2a9NR3
RT @nanpansky : hey wait it’s almost like being lifted up by strong collective energies is what bravery is
@arih1987 "They demand that the billionaires be soaked to pay for socialism (translation: Mom and Dad need to increase my allowance)."  lol this is horrible
@sdanielm @KentingtonClark True, that's too strong, but the core processes of American imperialism haven't changed, nor would they have changed had HRC won the presidency. Obama sent in the National Guard to Occupy and Standing Rock. Police were militarized and abusive during Black Lives Matter in 2014 too
RT @anhiebananhie : I fu¢king hate Trump but this Obama nostalgia is getting on my nerves. The National Guard was also deployed during the Occupy Protests in 2011 &amp; that protesters at Standing Rock were met with contracted mercs, attack dogs, &amp; fire hoses in 2016.
Why won’t the ruling class stand up and save us?! https://t.co/yQoZ8kVeps
@SethRudy At least it would’ve been a political possibility. I already blame voters. I’m not sure I’ll ever forgive Democrats that voted for the apologists of capitalism, who espoused the very policies which are the cause of our many crises. In some ways we have only ourselves to blame.
@SethRudy I don’t know! That’s the point. The normal political process has excluded these possibilities for the foreseeable future. The attempted socialist takeover of the Democratic Party, which would’ve brought about these changes, was crushed by its neoliberal wing &amp; rejected by its PMC
@SethRudy Universal health care, especially during a pandemic which has left 40 mil Americans jobless; a Green New Deal to address unemployment and the ongoing climate crisis; abolition of ICE and the demilitarization and defunding of police forces; withdrawal of troops; outlawing PACs; ..
The central &amp; obvious critique of electoral action is not that voting is ineffective but that the scope of its effectiveness is pre-constrained to exclude the very actions we need to take. We’re faced with an illusion of choice perpetuated by the ruling class &amp; liberal ideology.
Neither of our political parties represents the working class or black &amp; brown Americans. No elected Democratic leader at any level of government has taken real steps to redress this crisis. Both parties represent the ruling class, an essential tool of which is the police state.
RT @BCAppelbaum : Is there a mayor who has offered a tangible plan? A governor? This is primarily a local and state issue. It is elected Democrats who are most immediately standing in the path of necessary change.
RT @adam_tooze : The death of globalisation has been announced many times. But 2020 is looking like a perfect storm. I did a piece for @guardiannews https://t.co/DsjC6IS10S https://t.co/MBggPu5Ca6
RT @gendervamp : PEOPLE AT HOME: if you're not going out on the streets to protest, you're not limited to helping via petitions &amp; donations (although those are important/worthwhile)  any successful protest NEEDS some people to stay home in order to fulfill the following roles:
@jeantsetoung @shirleymush lol @ the beans though. not bad
Unpopular take but I'm not sure allyship is a sufficient model for multiracial, working-class solidarity.
This is what happens when your politics amounts to virtue-signaling your own wokeness and believing your only course of action is to 'reflect' (sure, that's important) rather than build solidarity and act collectively. Silencing yourself helps no one; shout in unison.
Yeah, guys, the thing with the internet is that no one knows or cares when you're silent. You can't stage a sit-in in the digital streets. https://t.co/SBYTuT3OOU
@SimonDeDeo @yarbsalocin @_bonobx_ Are you rly asking how two "civilized" black and brown lawyers could have acted so barbarously? Beside the colonialist discourse here perverted into a pop-psychological class analysis, do you rly not understand how burning a cop car is a rational action at this pt, esp for POC?
RT @acvalens : “The looters are damaging the protests” just isn’t true. Per the NYPD Scanner, the NYPD was so taxed with shutting down ppl breaking into stores that they *could not arrest protesters* for breaking curfew. They had to prioritize CVS and Duane Reade in midtown first
@ClaudeWillan I’m not “calling them out”, whatever that means. They were important, huge, and empowering. I was there. But they were safe, fun-for-the-family parades, not protests. They posed zero tangible threat to police or the state. I’m just calling on folks to step up their direct action.
When the fascist leader of a supposedly free nation orders its military to crush its own protesters nationwide, the only acceptable response is to pour into the streets and fight back.
That was the most fascist shit I've ever seen
Iterative progress! https://t.co/ijvTwwITtp
Biden’s police reform plan. Voting for this guy is sure gonna change things https://t.co/4g8FefNszS
RT @lightfantastic : Every Dem mayor right now is like "we thank you for your peaceful protests, we've heard you, we are doing nothing to fix any of these problems, your curfew is 2 minutes from now and I've given the cops brand new aerodynamic beating sticks"
@SethRudy @Ted_Underwood @hkpmw @JaimieMurdock No one's in charge, we kill the fascists and capitalists, and afterward government will consist of people just hanging out, doin' a little fishing in the morning and some critical theory at night, without anyone ever becoming a fisher or a critic. Simple! :)
@Ted_Underwood @hkpmw @JaimieMurdock There comes a time when solidarity with one's political party violates a deeper solidarity we ought to have with our neighbors, fellow countrymen, and the people of the world -- esp those ppl acutely suffering, like black and brown Americans. The Dem party has failed them &amp; us.
@Ted_Underwood @hkpmw @JaimieMurdock Yes I am so excited to act in solidarity with my political party: I get to vote during a pandemic for the guy who will leave 15 million ppl w/o health insurance, and during a nationwide crisis of police brutalizing black Americans, for the architect of mass black incarceration...
@Ted_Underwood @hkpmw @JaimieMurdock We shouldn't tell people what to do but I do think we should be attempting to overcome our position as individuals and act instead as neighborhoods, cities, and states. That's what the streets offer, imo. That's what the urgency of revolution offers. Everything else kicks the can
@Ted_Underwood @hkpmw @JaimieMurdock We need a variety of responses, but to imagine that folks just responding however they feel (change from inside or outside? be on the streets or donate? whichever!) is somehow, like an invisible hand, going to lead to systemic change, has not panned out and it probably never will
@Ted_Underwood @hkpmw @JaimieMurdock Fair enough. I suppose this is true, and is useful as a position we can all meet at in the end. But for that very reason it inspires no immediate action. If change always 'takes both sides', what do we do right now in the midst of this crisis? Acute pain calls for acute response!
@Ted_Underwood @hkpmw @JaimieMurdock Why is revolution so hard for us Americans to imagine? We think it's eminently possible in still more brutally oppressive nations, and even a necessary step for them toward democracy. But not in our own? Why can't we have our own Tahrir Square? The nation and world are burning...
@Ted_Underwood @hkpmw @JaimieMurdock Well, the thing about revolutions is they happen suddenly and infrequently, while reform is something that needs constant pressure. How is that opposition 'false'? We're either in the streets or we're not-- in which case we wait years to vote and along the way hope things change.
@hkpmw @JaimieMurdock @Ted_Underwood ?? I haven't "made up my mind about you", what does that even mean. I don't understand where these ad-hominem flourishes in your tweets are coming from. I haven't found a list comparing B's and W's exact suggested policies to redress police brutality, if you have one please send.
@JaimieMurdock @hkpmw @Ted_Underwood I think Warren should stick to her principles and continue to advocate ("nag" prob bit sexist) for universal health care during a global pandemic which has left 40 million Americans jobless while trapped inside a health care system in which you must have a job to have healthcare.
@hkpmw @JaimieMurdock @Ted_Underwood The difference between Bernie's and Warren's politics is vastly more than aesthetic. Feels like projection: The strange strategy of Warren supporters was to insist B and W had the same substantive politics so that differences were merely aesthetic. W's flipflops proved otherwise.
@Ted_Underwood @hkpmw @JaimieMurdock Basically you're asking: Reform or Revolution? But how is that a serious question anymore in June 2020? When's the last time 'campaign finance reform' was even heard aloud? We have crises upon crises upon crises. How is 'iterative change' a viable way to save the nation &amp; planet?
@hkpmw @JaimieMurdock @Ted_Underwood https://t.co/y36Ey5VcsA
@hkpmw @JaimieMurdock @Ted_Underwood https://t.co/dMswVw54ep
@hkpmw @JaimieMurdock @Ted_Underwood I'm not identifying Bernie and the protests, that's silly, I'm saying that direct action and electoral socialism are the only viable paths forward for substantive change. As for whether Bernie supports the protests more than Warren, I leave it to you to deccide (close reading!):
@JaimieMurdock @hkpmw @Ted_Underwood I don't want to get into a Warren argument because I'll be here all day. But yeah, I don't think someone that is willing to drop universal health care, the signature position of the progressive movement, *during a pandemic* can be a viable or trustworthy force for change, sorry.
@hkpmw @JaimieMurdock @Ted_Underwood Ofc the repeal of the VRA was a catastrophe. Who's arguing otherwise? I can recommend ppl working toward that end: (1) the people in the streets; and (2) electorally, socialists, like Bernie, whom many academics repudiated in favor of a candidate now sucking up to be Biden's VP.
@hkpmw @JaimieMurdock @Ted_Underwood Sure, but isn't that inseparable from other forms of corruption, like SuperPACs ensuring the candidates which succeed won't endanger the position of the ruling class? Republicans suppress the black vote; Democrats take it for granted. Do either actually represent black interests?
@POrg @cejarvis @Ted_Underwood I understand. I feel the same way. I would humbly suggest however that the best use for that fury is to break some windows and fight the state alongside your neighbors. You're probably doing that already, but imo that (and not tweeting, voting, whatever) is what matters most now.
@hkpmw @Ted_Underwood But the real issue is that Obama has no analysis of the corruption in the electoral process. Bernie's win would have been an electoral revolution. It was brewing. But then in one fell swoop, partly motivated by Obama's own prodding, the corporate-funded establishment thwarted it.
@hkpmw @Ted_Underwood Everything we know about Obama suggests that he really does think violence is illegitimate political speech. He writes that protests are for 'raising awareness' but voting is what really changes things. Someone trapped in an ICE detention center we might break open would disagree
@POrg @cejarvis @Ted_Underwood Well tbf I wasn't really trying to accurately portray yours or anyone's position, but rather a liberal climate of belief in which voting is held up as the (or 'a', whatever) solution to our problems, without reckoning with the rot within the electoral system which got us here.
@POrg @cejarvis @Ted_Underwood Sorry to subtweet that, yeah, but I'm also responding to calls from many people to redirect our raw political energies on the street into the ballot box, as if the only options that await us there aren't neoliberal capitalists and former architects of mass black incarceration.
@Ted_Underwood As if George Floyd wouldn't have been killed under an HRC presidency; as if the police wouldn't have responded in the identical way to the protests that broke out. Voting is important, but the ruling class wants you to believe that it has more political agency than it does.
@Ted_Underwood Exhibit A:  https://t.co/PlezomjZ3v
@JaimieMurdock @POrg I took that statistic from here: https://t.co/14DyYovRNC, which is admittedly from 2017. The Washington Post has a database of police shootings (https://t.co/51ypvIZVyd), but I don't know if it tracks police sentencings.
@Ted_Underwood No, but Obama's "don't boo; vote!" does. That isn't just him, too: it sums up the liberal ideology that voting is the most substantive form of political action we have, while shouting and rioting and burning and breaking are powerless and illegitimate forms of political speech.
@POrg @scott_bot Burn police stations. Break open ICE detention centers. Occupy Capitol buildings around the country and demand that every single police force be demilitarized and defunded.
@Ted_Underwood I see a lot of liberals telling people to vote (4 months from now, 2 years from now, 4 years from now...) as a response to our acute trauma and crises. That's absolutely a faith in our electoral institutions. I also see liberals saying "no stop, 'violence' is counterproductive."
@POrg @scott_bot I'm not objecting to voting but its liberal doxa, exemplified by Obama's finger-wagging response to our problems: 'Don't boo, vote!' The ideal outcome of an election is only as good as its best candidate. 2020's best Presiden. outcome is the architect of mass black incarceration!
@POrg @scott_bot Yes, we need to vote. I vote in my local elections and research the candidates. And yes, obv the Trump admin has made things worse. But as we've seen over the last few days, there isn't a single city, Democrat-run or Republican, which does not have an abusive, militarized police.
What will it take to convince liberals that simply voting for Democrats is not going to save us?
@scott_bot @POrg Voting is obviously important but there comes a time that our faith in it devolves into privileged naivete. Belief in the normal functioning of representative democracy in what is obviously a failed police state is exactly the kind of ideology we need to dismantle and radicalize.
@scott_bot @POrg I hope so too. But de Blasio was considered most progressive mayor of NYC. Look at his response. The Minneapolis mayor, a young Democrat, repeats lines about outside agitators coming straight from his police dept. No local leader has fired any police chief despite days of abuses.
@POrg BLM began in 2014 with a black, Democrat President &amp; AG. Since then only one cop is serving jail time for killing a black man. We should all ofc vote but voting clearly isn't an adequate response to this crisis. Neither Democrats nor Republicans are willing to confront the police
Everyone I know who "protested" in the Womens Marches, those feel-good parades for Resistance Libs, better be out there now when it counts
RT @AmirAminiMD : This is the most accurate depiction of US politics I’ve ever seen. https://t.co/7D3KISvW6W
RT @dee_bee_h : absolutely no one:    lit profs on twitter: ah yes, what a bittersweet irony that I’m teaching Tess of the D’Urbervilles next week, a novel about the vicissitudes of social life that feels a bit TOO on the nose recently if you know what i mean
RT @h7bicore : THREAD OF COPS GETTING BULLIED BY PROTESTORS CUZ ITS THE ONLY GOOD CONTENT RN https://t.co/hvOpr1jVOA
RT @AliVelshi : Today is the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Riots, when white vigilantes killed 300 black Oklahomans &amp; destroyed 35 sq. blocks, incl. “Black Wall Street.” Tulsa mayor @gtbynum joins me 9aET to discuss reopening a likely mass grave &amp; parallels to current unrest. #velshi
RT @WesleyLowery : missing from this statement: the word "police" https://t.co/B4hkNxYLRP
@nbbauch It's also impossible to separate the 'violence' of the protests from the brutal escalation of well-armed, shielded, tanked and vehicled violence the police bring to often peaceful protests. One surefire way to make sure shit gets rowdy is to toss a tear gas grenade into a crowd.
@nbbauch It's complicated. Undercover cops really do infilitrate protests. Antifa &amp; white anarchists really do get triggerhappy on even local biz windows. But ultimately the violence is inseparable from the protest, which must constitute some kind of threat in order to be taken seriously.
RT @BigMeanInternet : Liberals have found their angle and it's that the protests they agree with were legitimate and the violence and destruction they can't countenance is part of a plot by anarchists/Nazis/Russians to discredit the liberal protests.
@arendtiana @JHWeissmann Been a while since I read TGT but I think it was deadly both to adopt (austerity, currency devaluation, subordination of national economy to global market) and to hang on to as the system failed. Scanning my highlights for some notes: https://t.co/BiGm6w79Fs
@JHWeissmann Isn’t a version of this what Karl Polanyi argues in The Great Transformation? Collapse of gold standard in climate of early c20 free market liberalism created internatipnal economic disorder for which fascism provided a deadly but seductive response?
Feels like there's a growing digital class divide between blue checks and the rest of us. It was apparent in the primary, with bluechecks backing Biden, Warren and the liberal faction. Now they're letting out their inner white moderate, criticizing the 'violence' of the protests.
how much more of an annoying, brainless lib can this guy get https://t.co/TEJbKur2Xs
RT @DebsEbooks : Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper.
Reminder that folks protesting rn are not only risking rubber bullets, tear gas, clubs to the ribs, being thrown down, dragged, arrested and incarcerated -- a risk unequally shared -- they're also risking contracting a fatal virus while doing so. If that's not courage, what is?
@ClaudeWillan True. Kinda gross to watch them kiss their feet as they're being arrested, too
Insane. Also crazy to watch it dawn on CNN and the media that the cops play underhanded, refuse to explain why you are being arrested as you are being arrested, and generally do whatever tf they want https://t.co/K3rTKBpkIf
dear literary magazines: make PDFs available! who wants to read 5k words in Google Chrome?
Has anyone read this Age of Surveillance Capitalism tome? Started it, enjoying it, but not sure if I can make it through 800 pages of it. Also concerned it politicizes the exercise of power (censorship! surveillance!) rather than embed it in a broader theory of exploitation...
Love to wake up these mornings in the UK and watch police stations smolder in the US. Deeply moved by the events there and wish I could be there and throw some fucking rocks. All solidarity from across the pond
I hope #minneapolisriots spread nationwide. Fuck the police. Fuck the USA. We need a revolution
Best piece I've read so far on Covid's likely impact on Higher Ed. https://t.co/WDOs1JKavp
RT @AntonJaegermm : Woah, a whole issue on Postone.   https://t.co/9B6SQoOmX2 https://t.co/EBsHk5Js9Y
RT @QueenOfGeele : Unpopular opinion: Violence IS the answer.
@Ted_Underwood Can't tell if this is Ted, Robo-Ted, or a TED Talk...
@winobes "Fika"! The Swedes have it figured out. When I visited Umeå, every day at 3pm someone shouted "coffee time!", and then we all left our desks, poured ourselves coffee, sipped it and enjoyed it and talked to each other. Maybe my favorite piece of global coffee culture.
@warwicksmith Not sure why MI6 never cleared them for use by the British public https://t.co/m5Dk2ASxIl
@CarlPaltr Haha, nice. I had to order a knockoff version here in the UK: I was going crazy making individual delicious cups of coffee with my moka all day during quarantine. Now I can make a giant pot of mediocre coffee to last me the whole day! :)
RT @lenaruthsolow : on looting https://t.co/jh4mkqe2EI
Europeans don't understand. they're in the Old World
Is there any better sound than this guy clearing his throat after finishing up his fine, tall brew? thanks Mr Coffee https://t.co/dQEr9dQzqO
RT @madelesque : Generation 🕳 https://t.co/oJN5v3O6wR
@SethRudy A masterpiece. This will no doubt seal your reputation as *the* poet of the penne
RT @omersarain : The word “police” appears 0 times https://t.co/xLiiDEqs1I
RT @CRASSHlive : Today at 4pm UK time: Distance and Depth, Computers and Close Reading. In this @CamDigHum webinar author @martin_eve discusses his book 'Close Reading with Computers' with Ryan Heuser (@quadrismegistus).  ➞ https://t.co/Xb0dIQAXcY #CRASSHonline https://t.co/3nGRbFMj3o
heavily citing Derrida in 2020 signifies above all that the author is early Boomer/late Gen X.
RT @Dreheem88 : What the media won’t show ya #Minneapolis Streets right now #Salute ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 https://t.co/WGbMgB58TE
RT @LivingwMachines : We are happy to share our latest @arxiv preprint on atypical animacy, in particular the scenario in which typically inanimate objects (--&gt; machines) are represented as living entities in nineteenth-century British books. We hope you enjoy the thread!   https://t.co/aUUgDxGKGf
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RT @PrettyBadLefty : It's such a frustrating but obviously strategically designed mentality that the people who consider themselves to be the most politically informed have logic poisoned themselves into being the dumbest political actors
@mervatim Reading Federici, and I think she'd say it all comes down to how labor-power is reproduced in the home: a problem shared among singles, couples, &amp; parents, though with different manifestations (oft women's domestic labor, or with singles maybe gig-domestic labor in Deliveroo etc)
shameless crushes: Liz Bruenig; Dasha Nekrasova; Krystal Ball. will I delete this tweet?
Brief shoutout to all the lurkers out there. We're here for you in these uncertain times
Like an overzealous immune system, we're decimating whole substrates of the social network to fight this thing,  but we also need those systems we destroy to recover. How are people going to find jobs, date, get surprised by things, if they never encounter anyone they don't know?
Isn't "social distancing" effectively obliterating the "weak ties" (acquantainces, friends of friends), which Granovetter famously showed actually present us with more jobs, dating partners, new info, etc than our "strong ties" (close friends who know same ppl/think same way) do?
Wow we're really just going to forgive "If you don't vote for me you ain't black" ?
Charlamagne Tha God 2020
damn Carly Rae really does think B-Sides means Best-Sides. Was a fan of DEDICATED, compressed brilliance, but after the wild ranges of EMOTION was lil disappointed. These new B-Sides really letting themselves stretch out and theyre better for it. Aesthetic compression is dead imo
For people in UK/Europe, quick poll for something I'm writing? When calling someone within your own country code, do you...
What does "simp" mean and why are so many people talking about it? I'm getting too old for the internet
@LKonstan @adamkotsko @joncgoodwin Same. It's, uh, *meta* work ...!
@LKonstan @adamkotsko @joncgoodwin I do like going back to the everything-is-customizable lifestyle. And it's great for programming. But it's still a time sink, you end up googling how to do so many things. Apps are ok. LibreOffice isn't so bad. And Scrivener 2 works great with the Wine adaptor. So, so far so good
@LKonstan @adamkotsko @joncgoodwin Totally. Had to retire the 2013 Macbook Pro, which needed to blast its fans 24/7 and would randomly die. Got a mini fanless desktop instead. 8 CPUs, 32GB ram. Running ElementaryOS which is very pretty and has better screen management than Mac (side-by-side apps, 2+ desktops, etc) https://t.co/pZGUhBY2U8
@LKonstan @adamkotsko @joncgoodwin I see. I'm asking these ?'s too recently. Just switched back to Linux, first time since 2007. Experience much smoother and prettier now. But surprised 13 years didn't bring more. I guess geeks' free time still can't put out the socially necessary labor time to compete with Mac OS
@LKonstan @adamkotsko @joncgoodwin I think PF has text preview, a console, etc, as sub-panes. But maybe not an inbuilt text editor? I see what you mean though...
@adamkotsko @LKonstan @joncgoodwin "Path Finder" (https://t.co/HctE999UTR) is pretty cool for this reason. It's a 2-pane finder system (throwback to "File Commander") which makes so much more sense for moving files around. And it has nice tab/window support. I use it a lot but occasionally regress back to Finder.
@paul_barrett In general, I do think people care about writers' parents' careers. It's usually on their wikipedia and often reveals a lot. But I agree, the sudden resurrection and weaponization of all this is totally cynical, envious, &amp; prob misogynist. Maybe I shouldn't be amplifying it.
@paul_barrett I don't think it's relevant in any major way. It certainly doesn't invalidate or overturn her writing. But I do think it's fair for us to want to know things about the writers we read, incl. their backgrounds. It provies social context. Perhaps especially to a personal essayist.
In @playbookplus today: "The biggest donors to Joe Biden's super PAC are Anita and Joshua Bekenstine. Joshua is a managing partner at Bain &amp; Co." Good to know Romney &amp; Biden support the same ppl &amp; interests. Biden's basically Republican and libs are like, vote blue no matter who!
@bernardionysius Totally fine and normal? Especially if industry is involved. Honorariums for invited talks are semi-common in US at least. I guess in the Zoom age it might feel a bit weirder but I'd take the money and run.
Confused by the Tolentino discourse today. Yes, it's gross to try to cancel JT for this. But it's entirely possible that her parents really were exploiting vulnerable people for their own gain. Why should we dismiss that just because JT told us her parents told her it's false?
Remember in March when we were all like: hmmm, should thousands of us still fly from around the world to Chicago to hold a four day conference in a single hotel?🤣
@Lenora_DW Totally agree, and that story really sums it up. It's almost as if we're complicit in our own casualization, happy to act as autonomous, productivity-oriented culture workers, but forgetting that our self-autonomization leaves us all alone against material reality of institutions
RT @Lenora_DW : @quadrismegistus After that all we talked about was word count, hours spent writing, etcetera. In the absence of academic labor solidarity, emphasizing productivity becomes a way of deflecting blame away from universities onto individual graduate students. And it follows us into the p&amp;t process.
@John_ReganRHUL lol. alas, what can I say, my hashtag game is poor and my emoji skills still ameteur
You ask an academic, "how are you" and they just tell you about their recent productivity levels.
Academics are the worst at this. We all think we're radical critical leftists or whatever but really we've swallowed more capitalist kool-aid than almost everyone else I know.
Why are folks so into self-"improvement", always optimizing their work habits and productivity and exercise and blah blah blah. Let's extract as much surplus value from our labor as we can! Or we could chill out, just let it flow, &amp; not let Capitalism get so far up in our brains?
RT @SamSeder : Pelosi and Schumer have thoroughly and completely failed to rise to this moment. They have been worse than useless.
@Ben_P_Carver Woah! This is incredible, thanks
@evankindley No, thanks! Will check it out. I'm new to thinking about this topic so it's esp helpful. I've just been thinking about it ever since the Ygl*sias-style liberal critique consolidated against the "conspiracy theory" of Bernie supporters that a Democratic 'establishment' even exists
@V21collective no! Both this and @Jodi7768's book "Aliens in America" look perfect -- thanks, will definitely check them out. The latter will be especially fun to read as someone whose brother is really deep into the online UFO conspiracy world... 🙃
I want to write a defense of conspiracy theories, or at least a critique of their liberal critique. Sure, they've been weaponized by the right. But simply to insist on some shared social order of facts and common sense is to miss the rot in that social order which they diagnose.
Any digital humanities folk want to join a @foldingathome "team", and pool our spare CPUs to fight Covid and help medical research? I've been doing it for a while now, but just created a team: https://t.co/v14tsF1AyP. Join the Computational Front!
RT @dee_bee_h : poetry Twitter will be like “this unraveled me” and the poem is https://t.co/S41QMAoJ6W
Scrivener 4 life. I’ve been working in the same giant but well organized project file since 2016. Love how in a single app I can quickly access alllll my notes and drafts and put 2 word processor windows side by side. Was able to compile my whole diss into a pdf, bypassing Word. https://t.co/bBTpz1jCa8
RT @buttpraxis : Therapist: The Economy isn’t real, it can’t hurt you  The Stock Market: You know what, doc? You’re right!
@SethRudy https://t.co/yJHPfZgQ6M
How, after 25+ years of mass internet culture, do we still not know how to hang out with each other online?
why tf is NO ONE wearing a mask in the UK I was told this was a more intelligent country
I automatically distrust any book whose title or subtitle begins with “How”
RT @AlexYablon : As a class of ‘08 person, my advice to the next cohort graduating into another world historical economic collapse is: work as little as possible, smoke a lot of pot, and wander aimlessly around a large city in the middle of the afternoon.
the new Charli XCX album does kinda slap
@AntonJaegermm besides, isn't the labour-vs-work distinction in that book  there mainly to distinguish *both* from Action, the highest form of the vita activa?
RT @RuthAhnert : Really excited to announce we will be hosting @laurenfklein and @kanarinka for a @turinginst lecture ‘Challenging Power in Data Science’, and virtual reception on 4 June 3pm BST #DataFeminism https://t.co/q68C9ZBtpP
@SethRudy sorry man I’m pretty dumb too so you’re down to 1503
Never would‘ve guessed that *haircuts* would be the hill we’d die on ...
The writing is falling off the wall at this point https://t.co/aGJafZEglU
Reading Federici's Caliban and the Witch (2004) where she refers to the early-2000s recession as a "major economic crisis" 😂😭😭😭
RT @anastasiakeeley : lolll https://t.co/84BrOANXum
"Criticism’s refusal to be action is what enables it to.. recognize and deﬁne other texts as actions or—what comes to the same thing—as forms." My brilliant friend Mark Taylor on "the lower criticism" of Arnold &amp; Spinoza, in the brand new Representations: https://t.co/M1EdSuwqLW
hot take: Fuck Nature. oh nature's healing? It's also a mindless genocidal maniac.
I wonder if that common tweet formula of “I still think about crazy thing X” or “Y happened to me and I still think about it every day” is really a kind of yearning for more permanence to what we think about.
microwaving my leftover coffee like a *boss*
RT @crampell : Here's what wiping out all the net job gains since early 2011 looks like https://t.co/ff9lQZ9IVp https://t.co/aGWZqrNiXQ
jfc. we’re in free fall https://t.co/gSdWrw2tIA
RT @EURONEWSproject : Join us, @giovanni1085, @quadrismegistus, @derekgbridge, @LeoImpett, @vitaligp, (and more!) for the online event "Texts and Topics: Routes to Meaning in the Forest of Early Modern Words".  May 18, 3-5:30pm (CEST)  Register here: https://t.co/E00d7zGekz   #LoveIrishResearch #DH https://t.co/8CPR2rljY9
RT @kristinrawls : It's very weird how there's been no collective mourning for all the dead. No television specials honoring them, almost no mention of them, nothing at all.
RT @snorenat : .....what ....the....fuck https://t.co/6y0ILSIgHR
RT @KateAronoff : Turns out having two parties of capital is not an ideal condition for dealing with several overlapping crises of capitalism
Cool how the majority of people outside during this air-borne pandemic are huffing and puffing with their mouths open down every road, path, and street, in front of you, behind you, everywhere. Already knew runners were sociopaths but good god
RT @R_A_Barr : Calling all #18thcentury  #bookhistory &amp; #dighum people for a properly exciting Special Issue CFP exploring 'where &amp; how the book &amp; the digital meet in our study of the literature, history, &amp; culture of the period; how the two media blend &amp; clash in the accounts that we forge'. https://t.co/cyjBxP92XK
RT @MichaMahlberg : Hot off the press: new @RegisterStudies paper I wrote with @jesse_egbert  "Fiction - one register or two? Speech and narration in novels"  #OA #OpenAccess #digitalhumanities https://t.co/UkjaAS7bwW https://t.co/P600OZJpk2
@JWGrieve @Eng_Lang_UoB I'd love that! Something to look forward to
Over a month now since I’ve touched another human being...
Great example of Content Analysis, my favorite form of “digital humanities” https://t.co/mx7Ow6JTmd
I probably won’t vote in November
Am I the only person who actually just prefers to talk on the phone with someone rather than zooming or facetiming? I like walking around, doing dishes, etc, talking through voice and words. Plus it reminds me of the good old days of all-night corded-phone conversations...
RT @ryanaboyd : I've been voting since 2000 and every election I dutifully, meekly, "pragmatically" pulled the lever for whatever psychos or dullards the Democrats gave me. I was a good boy. Every year, every vote, and the whole way I was told to shut up about leftist shit. Not this time, sorry!
Crazy to me how bad protagonists want to survive in disaster movies. Would you really want to live in some post-apocalyptic hellscape where billions have been killed by zombies or whatever? How much can your humanity deform before your eyes before it makes more sense to give up?
Your mourning briefing:
@IgorBrigadir Ha, a distant but apt metaphor. I suppose viruses are a risk to both, too...
go bake some bread or something
smug-ass couples holding hands outside
Just listened to Anna&amp;Dasha of Red Scare (much better dirtbag-left podcast than Ch*po's neckbearded inversion of the smoothfaced Pod Save America) interview Steve Bannon, evil mastermind of the alt right, who... has a more perceptive, leftist analysis of this moment than Dems do?
RT @georgeciveris : Oh yeah why don’t I just “sew” a mask? Are you fucking insane.
RT @liamcunningham1 : The corpse of neoliberalism is beginning to stink.
Had maybe the bourgiest dream of my life, a wish fulfillment dream about ordering a delicious flat white coffee with oat milk...mmmmmm
RT @5t3ph_54X : WHO recommends M4A https://t.co/fKMP9OLa0E
HRC’s galaxy-brain solution for how to give healthcare to unemployed people with no money: they can buy it! https://t.co/GYQyGeIBWW
@thejoshl The ending of North by Northwest, one of the finest sexual innuendos of all time https://t.co/9qfhtQ8UsK
Just went Outside and everything feels like “The Zone” from the Tarkovsky film, "Stalker": i.e. a lush, overgrown, long-deserted place which is strangely irradiated with an invisible, unknowable danger that seems to derive from some sin, from some unforgivable failure of society.
@AlexWermerColan woah
My new bad habit is watching MSNBC's Morning Joe every afternoon in the UK via an illegal stream.
If you have a mustache in quarantine but no one’s around to see it, was there ever really a mustache?
Alone for days in my apartment and at this point just pacing around in my bath robe all day like motherf'n Socrates
RT @dee_bee_h : i wrote a song about online teaching i hope you enjoy https://t.co/gaNQhl0CFE
They spend more time at these press conferences thanking and complimenting each other other than telling us anything concrete. One by one they tell us how great they are at working together and how great it is to work "at the President's direction," as Pence loves to say.
Not to let it get too popular, but come hang and dance at the new virtual Berlin club, Club Quarantaene: https://t.co/ZejNqzeS8A. Great DJs playing live, and the atmosphere is a healing 90s Netscape aesthetic, a Web 1.0 "cyberspace" which—as a creation of COVID—feels cyberpunk af
RT @zachdcarter : Democrats didn’t have to agree to a huge corporate bailout. They had leverage to take a different approach and they didn’t use it. https://t.co/3swshFuZvL
Funny how, as unprepared we all were for the viral speed and scale of this crisis, we've all been obsessed with those scales for decades have long held up the 'viral' as the purest expression of the social and the most authentic and 'organic' in a hyper-networked global age.
@fuailalainn Woops! It should work now: https://t.co/bFVQn63epR. Thanks for pointing it out!
RT @AntonJaegermm : Let’s hope that COVID doesn’t turn academia into an appendage of policy studies. If anything we need more sublime uselessness in 2021: more treatises on Song Dynasty pottery, more books on Iraqi calligraphy, more articles on property relations in the Angevin age.
RT @Chunkz_EN : When Boris Johnson catches me going for my 5th jog https://t.co/03lf3gkfu8
Society suddenly feels ~both~ more real (a viral medium connecting all to all!) ~and~ less 'physical'. And not just because of the internet etc: the abstract, transpersonal reality of the social relation itself now feels more real than our concrete, individual sense experiences.
RT @DaveId : The coronavirus situation at Kaiser in Oakland is bad and nurses are whistleblowing.  Infected Grand Princess passengers were taken there, and staff weren't trained until after the first patients arrived.  CDC has lowered standards, supplies running short. https://t.co/DIjzF17VvH
Autobots: roll out! https://t.co/mDAPTmtYtk
So, uh, are all the singles round the world, just.. kinda SOL this entire year? asking for a friend
@V21collective "On the afternoon of Tuesday, March 20th, 1889, ..."
@Mordechaile @freddyfoks1 It's a "word vector" contrast (spectrum of associations) from one semantic field to another. The neg/pos fields fields are from a "Harvard General Inquirer" semantics dataset but others are from elsewhere. Still need to add sources at the bottom and describe methods more-- thanks
Distracting myself by geeking out making an online interactive form of this viz, which computes custom word vectors in your browser and plots them. See words move in key spaces, (https://t.co/4bg8SkRbNc) or write your own formula (eg. King + Woman - Man) (https://t.co/Dzlx9pAfMI) https://t.co/wciqkrKNrg
I mean, the generational divide for Bernie/Biden sitting around 45yo, not 65, does make you wonder what really happened to Gen X politically... https://t.co/8ODJ6Bmqd8
@JohnReg04040324 I guess I’m overdue for a proper Bad Take then!
@christapeterso It’s all sight based, everyone just hovers and stares at the cards til they find a match, then only one person (dealer) has to remove the set and add back new cards.
@christapeterso Set! https://t.co/CJQjP71gI0
There’s a non-trivial chance Tr*mp could die from this. https://t.co/y0jFRia4yS
In the age of Coronavirus it’s clear how financialiation produces nothing of real value to society https://t.co/fyaY3Ibtsb
@scottenderle @Ted_Underwood @chan_plan Yeah, this align-as-you-go method seems to produce much clearer results than the post-hoc Procrustes alignment. You also get a single vector space out of it at the end across all word_decades, instead of just pairwise alignments.
@scottenderle @Ted_Underwood @chan_plan Experimenting w/ this. This partic one is many models over time, but each model for decade t+1 has its vector model initialized by one already-trained for decade t (Yoon Kim et al 2014, https://t.co/X5JxsAhxhx). Trying out "Temporal Referencing" next (https://t.co/Sd9BwGTtN2).
@Ted_Underwood "Industry" is also collectivized (not one's industriousness), neutralized and made analytic -- even as work is newly abstract and positive (and postindustrial?). All sorts of words though Williams/Koselleck argue change in C18, but no nice corpus equivalent to COHA on C19-C20...
@AlexWermerColan "Virus" wasn't frequent enough to show up in that data, but "disease" is attached--interestingly may not be best captured by these semantic changes/vectors but by -- scientization? Can check out "virus" and "disease" here too: https://t.co/2uoW1yGC9A and https://t.co/JNC2G6iCsM https://t.co/GNFgADSqlw
@Ted_Underwood @chan_plan Yes (thanks Ted): zero means central/orthogonal to the semantic contrast (as cosine dist w/ vector). Maybe best place to read more is my talk from DH 2017: https://t.co/rgDIVsCxOk Basically, Vec(X-Y) creates a semantic spectrum between X and Y word groups (e.g. +/-abs, +/-moral).
Feels strange to post about work stuff, but in my self-quarantine I'm working on more historical semantics for https://t.co/HyoxbarYiH: trying to characterize the types of semantic change undergone by certain keywords across the 19th and 20th centuries. https://t.co/kTxWUkj13K
RT @muckrakery : 1 trillion is 1,000 billions. The following totals about 1.5 trillion:  SNAP for 700K Americans: $1.1B End homelessness: $20B Insulin for every diabetic: $40B Universal Pre-K: $60B Universal 4-yr-college: $70B Cancel all student debt: $1.4T https://t.co/ssxSleQTra
woah, social distancing makes a huge impact on how many will die in just the next month https://t.co/YnN96NJA67
RT @MarcusGrayDoor : Things Covid has proven:  1. The job you were told couldn't be done remotely can be done remotely  2. Many disabled workers could have been working from home, but corporations just didnt want them to.  3. Internet is a utility, not a luxury  4. Universal healthcare is necessary
Money isn’t real. https://t.co/fRdAIYYko0
RT @Jennika_Baines : "Dear Professor, I realize that the conference you've been organizing for 2 years has just been canceled, your classes are moving online tomorrow, and there is no toilet paper left in your city, but might you be willing to review this 400 pg ms. on 17th c toothbrush upholstery?"
RT @jplmbtmsm : That it's easier to imagine the end of the world than an end to capitalism. https://t.co/ALGdJlvmbj
RT @profwolff : 1) W/ Bernie's millions of votes especially the young, US socialism is stronger than at any time since 1948.  2) W/ mismanagement of the coronavirus, global oil market manipulation, plunging stock markets, looming recession, capitalism is at its weakest since 1930s.   Remarkable.
Expats know what’s up, apparently https://t.co/1gCDvoqPo2
RT @HeerJeet : If you are an American and under 37, your entire adult life has been under the shadow of the Forever Wars, the Great recession, a pandemic, and, it looks like, another recession. This is what is shaping the generational divide on politics.
bUt HoW dO wE gEt iT pAsT tHe sEnAtE i dunno by pitching it as the only appropriate response to an unprecedented global pandemic?
Imagine if Obama hadn’t made those phone calls; Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Bloomberg hadn’t dropped out; the centrist field had remained divided; and Bernie coasted to the nomination—we’d now be heading into a pandemic with both a plan and political will for national health care.
RT @nandorvila : It totally rocks that Obama has spent his post-presidency jet skiing with billionaires, buying a massive multimillion dollar estate, doing Netflix deals, and crushing the left with just a few phone calls.
RT @DrJillStein : Instead of "return to normal" Biden's slogan should be "return to the conditions that led to Trump"
RT @jplmbtmsm : @JakeAnbinder This account forgets that PG&amp;E chose to pay out dividends to shareholders instead of performing necessary maintenance. The left critique of the blackouts was that the incentive for profit was not in line with the incentive of providing safe electricity https://t.co/Ls6OX8h50Y
The left should hold the Democrats electorally hostage by refusing to vote for Biden in the general unless M4A is the official party platform.
If the U.S. left can’t harness the contradictions so perversely, exponentially heightened by COVID19 — of a mutually vulnerable society sustained on a neoliberal, for-profit, individualized health care system — in order to nationalize health care in America then what use is it.
RT @Rouell3 : Iowa results were frustrating but it’s nothing compared to moving on to 2 states  and witnessing young voters crying as they gave up on voting due to 3 hour waiting lines at the polls and it was time to clock in to a job that has them living paycheck to paycheck
RT @nandorvila : Bernie Sanders is an eminently decent and honest man who has dedicated his entire life to fighting for the poor and towards a better world, and for five years he’s been smeared as a sexist, racist threat to democracy by the liberal intelligentsia of this god forsaken country.
@SethRudy Yeah even as also weirdly, as we all hole up in our homes and sink even more into our computers and the internet, our virtual social relations also seem more highlighted and urgent and important, with the way we communicate, coordinate and strategize against the coming unknowns..
Even as we now undergo a new, deep, and sustained 'social distancing', it also seems that the social bonds we have to our friends and local communities are all the more visible and important and powerful and precious.
What we’re experiencing is the calm before an exponentially approaching storm. Like. the notion of a billion, we humans have a hard time understanding exponential time, but within a few weeks it’ll be all around us. https://t.co/MoLpH3kGyE
RT @Relentlessbored : lol fuck https://t.co/NXy3hFllzm
RT @DougHenwood : Trump may be the leading symptom of the grip the death drive has over US society, but Dem primary voters are coming in a close second.
I’m voting third party, fuck the Democrats
so glad the pathetic excuse of a left in this country especially the smug technocrats of the academic left wrung their hands for so long about mean tweets or whatever bullshit, now we’re fucked whether we win or lose great job guys neoliberalism wins again
we are a nation of fucking idiots and deserve Trump and much worse than Trump
fuck everything burn it all down nothing means anything anymore
RT @DrJillStein : MSNBC is FOX for liberals.  Russiagate is Benghazi for liberals.  "Return to normal" is MAGA for Democrats.  #DemExit
RT @kanarinka : Dear Twitter, You are cordially invited to the Virtual Book Launch of DATA FEMINISM tomorrow (Tues) at 6pm ET. Please bring your bad selves and your own beer to https://t.co/sJoj0KJTGW and join @laurenfklein and myself for a short talk and Q&amp;A.  Love amidst corona, @kanarinka https://t.co/UeSLyX3TAb
RT @israhirsi : with all these endorsements, it really shows you who is willing to throw away our futures for their own political opportunism.
RT @jeantsetoung : Neoliberalism measured in hospital beds? https://t.co/oK1CZv8knx
RT @mehdirhasan : I am a long-standing admirer of Elizabeth Warren but her ongoing silence is bonkers and I fear she may one day - when it’s too late - regret it, even if her supporters don’t. I mean - Bloomberg and Dimon? And that doesn’t prompt her to endorse Bernie? Then what will?? https://t.co/g92JFQxQJn
Warren’s silence is deafening.
So glad we nominated the “safe” neoliberal candidate now that the markets are tanking along with Trump’s reelection chances. Biden’s just the person we trust during an economic crisis to look after workers and people living paycheck to paycheck rather than capital and the banks.
RT @Stevie_DG : Oof. “The real feminist outrage isn’t that Warren dropped out but that Biden is still in the race...A feminist choice for president still exists. If Warren’s supporters and surrogates choose Biden over Sanders, they did not want a feminist in power. They just wanted a woman.” https://t.co/L1zSBZiFjY
For the "Keydata Project" I'm organizing at Cambridge—a project riffing on Williams' Keywords, investigating semantic change—I'm working on designing some tools for tracing the changing associations of words across corpora. Here's what I've got so far: https://t.co/DaNrTbSr0h
Sad that it takes a global viral pandemic to remind us of the existence of society and of our shared vulnerability. https://t.co/302KAhYl0C
RT @adamkotsko : The rudeness of the worst Bernie Bro is a drop in the bucket compared to the contempt mainstream Democrats have constantly vented against anyone left of center for a generation.
RT @jamie_agust : YOU MEAN TO TELL ME I HAVE BEEN GROVELING THIS WOMAN TO ENDORSE BERNIE SANDERS TO ENSURE MY FAMILY ISN’T DEPORTED UNDER TRUMP, AND SHE HAS BEEN PRACTICING AN SNL SKIT INSTEAD OF CAMPAIGNING IN MICHIGAN!!! https://t.co/bGXlUwFLap
RT @EoinHiggins_ : Does anyone honestly believe Warren's hesitance to endorse Sanders is based in mean tweets and not in immense donor/establishment pressure and threats? Come on guys
@maxsuechting @a_ron666 Tuesday’s primaries are just 3 days away now... what is taking so long? how is this at all a difficult decision? help us obi warrenobi youre our only hope
RT @mattdpearce : Pretty stark statement from a Kaiser nurse in NorCal who got sick after caring for a coronavirus patient, criticizing CDC for delays in testing. https://t.co/GDlOH7TLzz https://t.co/wleK6CRVeQ
@kgeographer Well, I hope you're right! 😬
I'm trying not to indulge in despair, but my instinct says we're fucked. Unless Warren comes out with a strong endorsement of Bernie—which seems unlikely at this point—it's hard to imagine what could turn this race around. We're headed for Biden, and so to 4 more years of Trump. https://t.co/ngZ7R9iOmn
RT @teddyroland : Almost four years ago, @RichardJeanSo and I started imagining ways that distant reading could honor the reflexivity demanded by critical race theory.  I'm very excited to share our article "Distant Reading and Race" with you. https://t.co/9ebAnvzEm1
RT @PanderShirts : Elizabeth Warren dropped out so who do I switch my vote to???? hmrrmrmrmrmrmmmmm https://t.co/fgjUTgcDRu
Ack! That link broke. Here's the correct one: https://t.co/tEN13mHZqg
Vicky Googasian (@v_goog) and I have been measuring the "anthropomorphism" of objects, animals, and humans in fiction, using models trained on their syntactic and semantic footprints. We're talking about it informally in 20 minutes if anyone wants to join! https://t.co/6BTBiXejUu https://t.co/OcHJr9iSTD
RT @dril : twitter 2050 is an enhanced reality experience where you can step into a virtual sweatshop and lecture the workers about their Table Manners
RT @V21collective : a nation of amateur game theorists
@JohnReg04040324 Not yet! But I feel it slipping away...
Woke up, heartbroken
Since Warren ppl seem to demand Civility from other progressives, let me then ask politely and kindly that they consider voting to elect Warren's *principles* and *policies* instead of her person, which is no longer viable. If you love Warren's plans, then vote for them. #NotMeUs
https://t.co/5Jo1lNSZjr
RT @JaymalGreen : Listen, @JoeBiden doesn’t want to legalize cannabis, no Medicare for all, he won’t tax the rich correctly, only two years free college, keep criminal immigration penalties (Him &amp; Obama deported more than any other admin in history) WHOS EXCITED ABOUT THIS 1980’s CANDIDACY?
zzzzzzz https://t.co/hbPPpbrCm2
RT @dwdavison : Honestly I have never in my life seen the Democratic Party muster up anywhere near the energy or political savvy to fight the Republicans that it's exhibiting right now to snuff out a grassroots progressive movement. Hard to believe it's the same organization.
@pfessenbecker That makes me feel better, and I might ask you what company you recommend. But I'm still a little concerned... is it a good idea right now for a few thousand people from across the world to descend onto a single hotel in Chicago?
RT @LukewSavage : I mean, it’s now quite literally Bernie or bust
And tell me how Warren isn't effectively part of this centrist coordination, taking money from a super PAC after running out money and after promising she never would. What is the point of that except to keep her campaign sputtering on along enough to undercut Bernie's chances?
fuuuuuuuuck Klobuchar dropping too and immediately appearing with Biden at a rally? tell me how the centrists aren't coordinating and tell me how it isn't a catastrophe and a shame that progressives aren't.
Right now I am scheduled to fly from the UK to Chicago in late March for ACLA. But if I were to come down with the coronavirus, I will not have US health insurance and will be unable to go to the hospital without going into serious debt. I'm not sure whether I should go anymore.
Was touched by the Benedicite canticle in matins, which calls on the concrete things of the world to "praise and magnify him"—as if praying for a wounded, dispirited God, who needs support from his own creation. A vulnerable God is emotionally more powerful than an omnipotent one https://t.co/BMJT1pPWSi
RT @gnrosenberg : When I hear liberals who don't disagree with anything Sanders says claim, nevertheless, that he is "too liberal to be elected" they are talking about their internalized shame about their own political failures and, indeed, the overwhelming failure of that generation of leftists.
The centrists are coordinating while the progressives are digging their heels. Warren needs to drop and endorse ASAP. Leftists gotta stick together! https://t.co/3nyygOSLI4
@scott_bot Fair enough, the electoral college is also not democratic, but if current polling numbers hold, Warren will have millions of fewer individual votes than the leading candidate. No matter what, then, it's hard to make a democratic case for a last minute delegate break to Warren.
@machawk1 @priscillamc @DrexelCCI Also: hi @priscillamc! :)
@scott_bot I agree it isn't a good strategy, nor is it a democratic one. Warren isn't projected to win a single state. Whatever one's opinions about superdelegates, for the DNC to somehow bypass the will of every state in the union to nominate her is an unconscionable goal for progressives.
@machawk1 @priscillamc @DrexelCCI Congrats! Quite the trajectory! For me, after graduating UF in '08 I stayed in the California Bay Area for 11 years, grad school off and on; finally finished my PhD in 2019 and am now a postdoc in the UK. After FL and CA I'm now living through the first real winter of my life! :P
fwiw I respect the decision to vote what you believe no matter what. I'm just puzzled why Warreners don't articulate their support in those terms and instead repeat the managerial language of how Warren will "get things done" as president—while knowing she won't be president.
Warren supporters often describe themselves as pragmatic, seeing through the idealistic promises of Bernie, and yet are idealistically throwing away their vote to someone who has no path to the nomination rather than pragmatically supporting the only viable progressive candidate.
RT @DrJillStein : A few weeks ago Warren said she'd never accept Super PAC money. Now she's got the biggest Super PAC after Trump. This is a stunning reversal from someone who - up until recently - regularly denounced dark money and corruption in politics. After this, how can anyone trust Warren? https://t.co/1KnnWWLgBX
@machawk1 @priscillamc Haha omg yes! Long time no talk! How are things? You’re based in PA now?
If Americans don’t have free health care by the time 60-80% of the world’s population gets coronavirus then tens of thousands more people will die than would otherwise and many more will go into debt. No clearer reason than to vote for the most stalwart candidate on health care.
@AntonJaegermm Congrats!!
Progressives need to stick together when the time comes. And that time may come sooner than expected if the DNC is planning to stage a coup unless Bernie wins an outright majority of delegates. https://t.co/zLx2Ru2azP
Love how establishment Dems think that putting the most energizing politician in decades at the top of the ticket will decimate the party and lose us the House, when that’s exactly what *they* did just 4 years ago when they coronated their uninspiring leader.
(I say this as someone drowning in student loan and other forms of debt ...)
Why are people so worried about “how we will pay for” basic human rights to health care, child care, and education. Who cares? Money isn’t real, debt is just a fiction.
Baby’s first snow in a place baby lives! https://t.co/C75x6WrOae
RT @motorresx : The Warren/Sanders divide between university professors and graduate students is probably about age and wealth, but it also reveals something else, I think: academics are, at their core, technocrats, trained to value technical expertise above social movements and political might.
uggghhhhh what is happening
@SethRudy what can I say, I represent my constituents
I managed to stay awake in the UK til the debate tonight .. at the cost of being drunk
Brilliant new DH piece out on the generic coherence of Adam Smith's work, by @theryanhealey, Ewan Jones, @pgnulty, @mesotronium, @JohnReg04040324, &amp; Pete de Bolla. It's a great example of how exploratory data analysis opens up new modes of close reading:  https://t.co/lh0BSDUNfn
RT @Oni_Fucker : @adamfnaughton @ninaturner They get it https://t.co/G0sY81CltE
@NanetteRissler Yeah, "skin of sorrow" would be "(concrete) of (abstract)"—which is actually an interesting 'micro-allegorical' formula you see all the time (e.g. "flower of fidelity," "city of destruction", etc) which embeds an abstract idea in a concrete thing.
@NanetteRissler Yeah. :-/ I use the same Eng-lang abs/conc words, and measure them in translations of the text. The #'s are stable across diff translations, which is something. But really the handful of world lit is there for incidental reasons: like Balzac vs. Flaubert for history of realism.
Marianne Williamson's endorsement is based on Karl Polanyi's concept of "double movement", by which the capitalist forces "disembedding" the economy from meaningful social relations are fought back by a social counter-force, a popular movement re-embedding the economy in society. https://t.co/orOtaR2FNE
Also, I should add: any feedback would be much appreciated! Hoping to edit this into an article submission over the next few months. I'll also give a much shorter version of the talk at #ACLA2020, at the "Abstraction's Forms" panel organized by @SM_Fallon: https://t.co/U3pR1aULQw
@oleg_sobchuk Yeah, it's based on "scrollama", which is pretty cool and reasonably friendly: https://t.co/PEFEvbbtEB  I had to modify it a bit to simplify it, so that each "step" N just triggers the loading of "slide-N.png". My version is here: https://t.co/b8d5D4y2z8
Just posted the talk I gave last week to King's College, with the text synced to the slides: https://t.co/zLNOaqhu7W  It's a summary of my dissertation work on abstract language in the novel, and explains how that work addresses “immateriality,” the official topic of my postdoc. https://t.co/NVQamhPIPh
@DavidAstinWalsh ... they’re one of the greatest of all time (GOAT)
RT @shaun_vids : way too many liberals have a simple good guy/bad guy understanding of politics, and the creeping realisation that they actually occupy a point on a spectrum with people on both sides of them appears to be causing a lot of stress
@Brett_Fujioka Stats for generational support for Sanders and other demographics for NV here: https://t.co/6FkOuV7krf
All these people who keep promising all this oppo research on Bernie better step step and get on it because once Super Tuesday comes around this primary race is over.
@kevin_modestino Right. The most significant millennial responses were collective: Occupy and Black Lives Matter were mass social movements predicated on an internet-inspired collectivism. If Occupy famously "had no demands," maybe it was waiting for its own ideological theorization in socialism.
@kevin_modestino I think that's exactly right. They've also inherited a political discourse which has (esp. in universities and the internet) already theorized and normalized identity formations like queerness, transness, and POCness, but which didn't actually better their *material* prospects.
One thing I don't fully understand about Bernie's appeal is how, in a way, *post*-millennial it is. Gen Z is his stronger base (+54% to +33% in NV), and seems much more excited about collectivized identity via socialism than the individualized identity politics of millennialism.
Rare (and commendable) moment of self-awareness for the center-left policy wonk class. https://t.co/sJpiS2XZeD
We already have our unity candidate, folks. Looking forward to all Dems rallying behind the new democratic socialist movement. https://t.co/vAmdYuuHo5
RT @gabrielwinant : It’s very gratifying to see the idea from four years ago that working class politics is inherently a white people’s politics just get totally smashed
word https://t.co/B9N7z6tvY2
RT @nikhil_palsingh : Evidently, Bernie Brochachos.
@joshtpm So the only continuity institutions can have over time is the continuity of actual people or groups — not traditions, practices, ideologies, rules, ideas?
Why are libs so afraid of acknowledging the obvious fact that such things as "institutions" exist and are able to perpetuate themselves over time? https://t.co/xQxAaGSZtI
I think we've reached a point where "resistance" to Trump has become so blandly obvious and widely accepted that it fails to *be* a form of resistance any longer—which is why removing Trump is hardly a real commitment to political change and is compatible even with Bloombergism.
Any of my everfaithful anti-“conspiracy” friends care to explain how I could possibly NOT read this conspiratorially? https://t.co/HbJ40y4wBB
@KCWayneP Can you believe they took this down? Again can't find it anywhere. These debates are so consequential for the election and country but they're completely ephemeral media experiences, gone the moment they arrive except through highly selective renditions by pundits?
I do wonder as straightness becomes (rightfully) displaced as the assumed center of sexual experience, and as we get these "heteropessimist" takes wishing one could be more reasonable i.e. queer, if straightness has or will become a kind of camp, an absurd and comic grotesquerie. https://t.co/eDJ4tr9tvG
Great piece today by @aliceblackhurst in @nplusonemag about "the frictions within the French feminist movement: between those who protest... gendered violence... and those who argue that such... biological contours, evict even more marginalized subjects." https://t.co/kerIBuqZ4x
Pete Buttigieg: not since Dr Johnson has someone so thoroughly constructed their ideology out of sheer parallelism and chiasmus.
@KCWayneP sweeet thank you!!
Alas, the perils of being a US news junkie in the UK: slept through my 2AM debate time alarm... probably better for my health but now I have massive FOMO. Anyone know how to watch it now it's over? All I can find are clips...
RT @DrZackaryBerger : As a Warren supporter and a physician, I'd like to ask (together with many other people):  what kind of additional health information do you want to see from Bernie? He released physician letters.  Do you want to see his vitamin D level from 2009? Or what?
@V21collective Mine started with a pun connecting C18 with DH: from “virtue” to the “virtual”!
Says a lot. https://t.co/LQNR9HM9x2
Welcoming the Warren folks to the "conspiracy theory" mindset. The struggle for progressives' representation in media and support from the DNC is very real. https://t.co/LY6rnNTxYd
RT @JamieSeagull : @JRubinBlogger https://t.co/tCuLt26FBn
RT @a_e_lang : CFP now out for a new Debates in DH vol: the Digital Futures of Graduate Study, ed by @GabrielHankins @sjappleford &amp; me! Keen to hear from current/former grad students, alt-ac, non-ac, public humanities etc folks, ppl outside the Anglosphere &amp; global north https://t.co/mqENc9qidL
It’s probably an extension of libs’ flirtation with antifascist fascism since Trump won: with Comey, Mueller, the FBI, CIA, now Bolton! ...
can Dems please stop with the military cosplaying? “listen up maggots! how do you defeat the enemy? shut up and stick together. dont think! dont speak! listen to orders and vote on command.”
RT @fshakir : Spread the word in California https://t.co/0rYzbtQnbj
RT @aliceblackhurst : I interviewed Patti Smith in 2017 for the @Kings_Review and you can read the conversation on their brand new website: https://t.co/VKk1gTqFua
The Heuser clan is feeling the Bern. Solidarity from Cambridge and North Carolina: https://t.co/kCurMoqMkH
What could go wrong? https://t.co/TRvkX3PRJF
omg boo hoo who cares https://t.co/1jMB1L6zOQ
When folks write out talks, do you write in paragraphs? I tend to write in bullet-pointed sentences or groups of sentences, which I find helps me make more eye contact and keep things more oral in style. But I also worry that certain turns of thought are possible only with grafs.
As if “bullying” is the problem with our democracy, economy and society. Grow up. Liberalism’s moralizing individualism, which obscures the material basis of its violence and exploitation, is itself part of the problem. https://t.co/rXMKrtZl7w
RT @DebsEbooks : A mighty class struggle is convulsing society. No living man is, or can be neutral or disinterested. he is on one side or the other — if not for freedom he is for slavery of the working class. They are deadly opposites.
RT @ryangrim : This primary is a test of an interesting question: Can twitter take down Bloomberg, or can cable news take down Bernie?
"I have a plan for that" is the "there's an app for that" of politics: both are a kind of technocratic solutionism.
@JonathaNgrams l33t
The fact that there's widespread belief that Bloomberg can beat Trump, but doubts persist that Bernie can (despite his being the national frontrunner by 10 points), is symptomatic of how under "capitalist realism" we believe that only money, not people, have agency.
@yrochat /me scratches head
@yrochat &lt;(o.o&lt;) (&gt;o.o&gt;) ^(o.o&lt;) (&gt;o.o)^
The true late vs. early millennial divide is whether you use emoticons or emoji in texts.
“The archive” is a fetish object.
@Ted_Underwood @scott_bot Same. More drama please! I actually feel like academic twitter is quiet about the primary: for the most part I have no idea who anyone is supporting or why. Reminds me of that Chapelle skit about how "Chip" is happy to talk about his sex life but considers politics too personal.
I won't vote for Bloomberg if he is the nominee. I'll vote third party in North Carolina. I refuse to participate in this oligarchic sham.
RT @literarylab : Still thinking about last night’s Oscars? Check out recent work from the Lit Lab’s own Charlotte Lindemann on advertisements, gender, and the making of celebrity: STAR TEXTS   https://t.co/lVnScQbfo4
@Ted_Underwood By "take no prisoners" I mean that I hope he *doesn't* unite the wings of the party. Trump didn't unite Republicans at the RNC, he just took the party over. Similarly, I hope democratic socialism takes over the Democratic Party, not compromise with it. This is revolution! :)
@Ted_Underwood I dunno, I think this whole "average American voter" mind-reading that we all keep doing is fooling us more than anything. Word "ideology" or no, people can tell when principles get mushy, like when Warren backed off from M4A. And I hope Bernie takes no prisoners in the DNC.
Maybe Warren couldn't unite the socialist left with the neoliberal center because people accurately perceived that these are contradictory ideologies?
"Defeating Donald Trump" is empty of ideological content. It's neither a meaningful nor an inspiring political commitment. HRC proved the politics of "defeating Trump" doesn't defeat Trump; the only thing that will is actually captivating people with a real political imagination.
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RT @HeerJeet : Stars are aligning for Sanders. https://t.co/dATro3nXCf
Told you guys she was all right. https://t.co/z5O0apVLnL
RT @AriBrostoff : smoking cigarettes during a climate crisis is just homeopathy, right?
@ParkerMolloy @HeerJeet This is extremely disrespectful to someone who doesn't at all deserve it.
RT @RebeccaKKatz : Bernie Sanders is as close to a frontrunner as the Dems have right now.   For our former nominee to be trashing him on a weekly basis is worse than anything she has accused him of doing to her campaign in 2016. https://t.co/YNSmryyjZV
RT @gabrielwinant : (Setting aside what's actually happening (Bernie winning), I'm amazed at people on the left reacting skeptically at the very idea that public opinion might be manufactured through processes that are not obviously fraudulent or malicious)
I guess this is our first post-truth election. We'll never know what happened in Iowa
RT @nikhil_palsingh : Incredibly moving. https://t.co/kHRb2v5ajM
@Ted_Underwood Agree that we need statehood for DC and PR, but not sure how that leads to the nationalization of health care, a Green New Deal, free college, and so on, unless it's a step toward the election of candidates for whom those things are core and nonnegotiable parts of their platform.
@Ted_Underwood Liberals have also mainly restricted their political agency to voting in midterms and the presidential election, so it makes sense to me that the stakes are high right now and that the best shot we have at fundamental change is a candidate with a fundamentally different ideology.
Love that it's up to podcasters, extremely online leftists, and unpaid caucus volunteers to point out the ongoing vote count errors by DNC professionals and party officials.
RT @DrLucaScholz : Out today: If you are interested in the history of borders, freedom of movement, and the relationship between political authority and human mobility pre-1800, have a look at my new book: https://t.co/OFrqf3riAo @OUPHistory @GermanHistSoc @EUI_History https://t.co/islfK3ZLEU
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity! https://t.co/mNBpxHSBt2
@la_barney86 @jdporterlive Even more 'errors', each one taking votes/delegates away from Bernie and/or Warren: https://t.co/Czw5Tov7MA
RT @athenogenes : I'm sorry to say this but all your favorite profs who wrote books about how colonialism inscribes capital on the body of the colonized or whatever the fuck probably donated and are going to vote for Pete, Warren if you're very lucky
@jdporterlive @la_barney86 https://t.co/sWn4oX3dHY
@jdporterlive Whew! So reassuring. Just people being people!
Liberals resist conspiracy theories for the same reason they resist socialism: they’re uncomfortable with the idea that anything but individuals acting separately out of self-interest can drive the social organization.
@jdporterlive It’s not that dark at all, it leaves intact a core liberal faith in people having the best intentions
@jdporterlive So why does it seem so crazy to so many liberals that something darker and more complicated than “woops!” was going on in Iowa?
@jdporterlive As opposed to blind liberal faith in people always having the best of intentions which is quite boring
@SethRudy Conspirators' Corollary: never admit to malice what can be adequately blamed on incompetence.
@ClaudeWillan Sure: it's just to say that the relevant people are absolutely able to fit into a groupchat together.
@ClaudeWillan Not many people needed to pull off a shitty app
@ClaudeWillan https://t.co/jtwjUyu7Yq
https://t.co/Y2ubMsPlCS
I am furious that the media is pushing the narrative that Buttigieg won Iowa, when 30% of results are yet to appear (for no discernible reason!), and when only the delegate results are shown rather than the actual votes. And now we're supposed to move on to the SOTU? Screw this.
@dan_sinykin why tf are outlets like NYT only showing delegates and not the vote counts when they've been "teaching" us for a while about how there are both
@dan_sinykin omg electoral colleges within electoral colleges
can someone please explain how bernie can win both votes but not the delegates??
We reject "conspiracy theories" a priori as if *actual conspiracies never exist.* It's extremely possible that some members of the Democratic establishment funded and put forward an app which they knew would break in order to sow chaos in this process and buy centrists more time.
I'm sorry but how long does it take to hand-count the worksheets submitted from ~1600 precincts? With ~30 staffers, doing ~50 each, maybe .. ~3 hours? #IowaCaucas
RT @Ted_Underwood : Don't usually RT 1-yr postdocs, but when they're in Paris ... maybe that's a good place to spend 12 months applying NLP to French fiction? https://t.co/E3L2NVZgQm
AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH https://t.co/Y5GITkOcPr
Warren et al’s argument that we need to “unite” the party at all costs is, in a way, the same technocratic blunder the Occupy movement made: it places a vision of process before a vision of goals.
As I anxiously wait for Iowa's results today I'm thinking of a brave friend of mine who was terminally ill and spent the last few months of her life organizing for Bernie in 2016, bringing her dog clad with Bernie gear to every event, and held on to hope that somehow he'd win.
RT @peligrietzer : No offense to fellow literary studies people but the gap between Sianne Ngai and everyone else is just insane
Stunning to realize Hillary still takes absolutely zero responsibility for 2016
I mean, where’s the lie? https://t.co/n8jtcdouLA
Most accurate I’ve seen https://t.co/E6WmHCzAO0
@V21collective I would also like to know this. Found a great quote from Alan Greenspan recently, from a speech in 2004, which at least attests to the general transformation of the economy toward intangible assets (of which data is one) https://t.co/hwiKwxthcC
Simply cannot wait for Bernie to trounce the libs in Iowa and New Hampshire. Momentum is building and it's so exciting, this is really happening folks
@warwicksmith @shnelbis1 My guess is that it's the explicit social analysis in the dialogue. Dialogue tends to be more abstract than narration—I'm still working on separating the two registers out. Here's a snippet (concrete= orange, abstract = blue); and a PDF of New Grub Street: https://t.co/dXKIXMxwQ2 https://t.co/FvhvlaOr7I
@BlahGirrl He's there! (for Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy). Near the median around ~1910
@heatherfro I’m not! 😬 Just using the translations on Gutenberg. I will say that the differences (in Abs/Conc index) across translations are pretty minimal, though.
@shnelbis1 Yeah, it's diction, tho not always conscious (can emerge from basic plot functions like coordinating spatial movement, etc). McCarthy's Suttree (1979) was the most concrete novel in corpus. Here's a PDF of it colored orange (concrete) to blue (abstract): https://t.co/iqAR8L8B1v https://t.co/N2OiicroMv
@shnelbis1 Long story! Basically it's the extent to which a given word appears in the same contexts a set of "seed" abstract words appear in, vs. the contexts a set of "seed" concrete words appear in. The seed words I take from a few places: Locke, Harvard Gen Inquirer, WordNet, psych study https://t.co/Y2IZ8rQ0xa
@JWGrieve Yes, though to a limited extent. I run word2vec models decade-by-decade on Chadwyck-Healey, ECCO, and the British Periodicals Online corpora, and then take the median value for each word along the Abstract&lt;&gt;Concrete vector (itself generated with different sets of "seed" words).
@jchrisrobinson A lot of non-English fiction is missing: I mainly added Balzac, Zola, and Flaubert because they're constantly cited in debates about the development of realism and naturalism (eg Lukacs' "Narrate or Describe" etc). I have to work with translations, so there's a risk there too...
@R_A_Barr Definitely!
@magiciansbook Intrigued! DM me? Thanks for reaching out
@adelheidh4 @dennmis It's mainly two corpora fused together, plus some manual additions: https://t.co/xgg6WRtcv5
@oleg_sobchuk No, not just the A-list canon, more like B- or C-list. The two main corpora are Chadwyck-Healey's collections, and @Mark_A_H and Mark McGurl's C20 corpus in Pamphlet 8, with a bunch of manual additions. Here's what I have in those 2 genres ("novella" here used in C17-18 sense). https://t.co/pUmdXAuDtb
A linguistic map of the canon https://t.co/felD3Uw2ML
@ArmenDavoudian https://t.co/rqpqq7eAIO (beta!)
RT @RalphNader : Hillary Clinton, the butcher of Libya and neighbors, backer of the criminal Iraq war-slaughter, and lucrative toady of Wall Street, now blasts Bernie Sanders, who opposed all the above, and campaigned for her in 2016, before she gave America Trump. Disgraceful! -R
RT @saeede_khazaee : Iraq's massive anti_American demonstration against the presence of US militaries after 16 years occupying Iraq https://t.co/4IrhtgzrUz
Saw the new Terrence Malick last night, part of a new trend(?) of Nazi films. It's visually beautiful, but its celebration of heroic individualism at a time when every problem we face—climate collapse, global inequality and exploitation—is systemic feels childish and sentimental.
@volcanic_ashley Not at all! There's only 7 letters until Jan 20, followed by a break till Feb 20, so you have plenty of time to catch up.
Letters 5-6 for #Clarissa2020 remind me of the different narrative registers in Richardson. One is a straightforward recounting of events and dialogue. Another is an *analysis* of events which also recounts them, especially when those events are intentions, feelings, plans, etc. https://t.co/e9jJvGQOh7
RT @pixelatedboat : I think this might’ve been where Bernie lost their endorsement https://t.co/MmhFL5vli1
Listening to techno as an auditory stimulant to keep me working through the afternoon, which is pretty much why I think the Germans love techno. In a "work hard, play hard" culture, techno regulates work by libidinizing it.
@V21collective How is Pamela a hypocrite though? Because she loves Mr B after all?
Sure, HRC, it's Bernie who nobody liked, who's a career politician, mmhmm.
@kvanaren https://t.co/vBIQObXnsv
I guess the @nytimes really is failing
RT @gabrielwinant : While there are huge, important debates about how race and class interlock or co-constitute, it is close to an absolute historical consensus that race emerged out of the class system. Ask when, why, how, with what consequences, sure, but to see race as primordial is illiterate
RT @AriBrostoff : but there's something even darker going on. when ppl say, "i just want whoever will beat Trump," they're throwing up their hands about what they want in favor of statistical projections about what other ppl want--the result being to evacuate *perspective itself* from liberalism.
@la_barney86 Yeah, the two wills scene was painful. But I liked how much Mary liked abusing and teasing poor Fred: somehow that seemed like the purest and most honest form of affection in the book. I didn't quite get Rosamond: her character seemed to get flatter when Lydgate's debts arose...
Catching up on #Clarissa2020, reading it as I've been reading a few novels now: with words colored from orange (most concrete) to blue (most abstract). Striking how thoroughly abstract words narrate social space and actions; concrete words only come in with their violent rupture. https://t.co/zqcwMRnWye
@la_barney86 nah, Mary Garth ftw. Also Mr Brooke, what a pleasant jolly old fellow, I'd politick for him any day
@JOEREGAN791 Ah, classic. 800+ pages of low-affect agony followed by ~30 pages of sudden solutions! A nice ending but its quickness feels like waking up from a creeping-anxiety dream more than it feels like an organic solution. I'm left uncertain whether Eliot really belives in redemption.
Hot damn this was fun and cathartic: https://t.co/4gx4bYsYlN https://t.co/w2KDTlEVcf
Asking "but how will we afford" to make sure the planet doesn't burn up in a ball of toxic fire, or sick people don't die because they're poor, is the best example of "capitalist realism" out there, where it's impossible to imagine a world shaped by anything but money and markets
@JOEREGAN791 🤫 ;) brb
@JOEREGAN791 Eliot is cruel and even misogynistic to Rosamond, I think; Eliot's torturing Lydgate, humiliating his best attempt to get out of debt; poor Dorothea is trapped; where the hell did Mr Brooke disappear to; and everyone is disappointing the only people they love. Still 100 pages tho
Almost done with Middlemarch. There's something sadistic about this novel
Hear hear. For the love of god can we please stop making reverent war movies https://t.co/Lp4vpa28ZT
RT @karpmj : The NYT editorial board apparently lives in an economic universe where the concept of “exploitation” does not exist 🤯 https://t.co/2Oe7Bn4BTy
@XanderManshel Source for Sept-Dec poll: https://t.co/Up9tw3gMiP Source for original, July poll: https://t.co/dhFR0s56bi
@XanderManshel I couldn't find a more recent poll of the same structure (% of X's supporters are __), but here is one from Sept-Dec which asks respondents whether X is a "satisfactory candidate", and then compares whether that overall response rate is better/worse within certain demographics. https://t.co/fFeVH9jIAX
https://t.co/iuF6zKr2YM
“Unite the party”, “unite the country”, blah blah blah, are just another kind of centrist call for “civility” and compromise.
@swarthmoreburke Yeah. The gender politics vocabulary felt updated and contemporary, though, which made the persistence of the C19 bourgeois fantasy of rural class harmony more conspicuous.
@swarthmoreburke And then maybe some critical theory by night!
@swarthmoreburke Ha. Ashamed to say I've never read the novel so I guess I'm just giving a naïve, vulgar-marxist reading here for the hell of it.
LITTLE WOMEN was delightful, bubbly, playful, alive. Florence Pugh stole the show; Saoirse carried it. The class relations in the film were overidealized, tho: the rich fam takes care of the them, the middle class fam, who then takes care of the poor fam? A trickle-down morality.
RT @realDonaldTrump : Wow! Crazy Bernie Sanders is surging in the polls, looking very good against his opponents in the Do Nothing Party. So what does this all mean? Stay tuned!
@erikj0 Darth Fish https://t.co/1TZsJ7JoPm
"Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force." https://t.co/CoAvpAO5KF
The left never adequately resisted the concept of a "terrorist", whose only real meaning is a person one can kill with impunity, someone for whom the law doesn't apply. It's a neo "homo sacer"—someone (in Roman law) exiled with a sacred curse who may be killed by anybody.
RT @stayautonomous : Annonymous flyer going around:  #climateprotest https://t.co/ZaFhMpxiD4
@SethRudy A
@SethRudy https://t.co/gLJbI4YWlX
RT @kevin_modestino : I'm sorry to be annoying, but I don't know how leftists can stick with Warren if foreign policy is at a crisis point. I like her, but she just is not on our side here
RT @lexi4prez : #IvotedforHillaryClinton is trending like hillary didn’t full on brag about how we could “obliterate” Iran if she was president, i —
MR ROBOT and YOU are the same show. Both star lanky loner dudes who have superpowers in cyberspace but who feel powerless “irl”. Both capture the new anxieties of masculinity swirling around now in the digital age, along with reddit/4chan bros, incel culture, the Joker, etc...
Weird how we aren't talking more about Israel, Saudi Arabia, and other geopolitical influences for our attacking Iran. It's as if, like a political cartoon, Trump's idiocy over-personalizes a murkier, more complex dynamics of power. From last May: https://t.co/X7tTF67f3w
Just finished reading The Portrait of a Lady for the first time, and... 😥. All I can say is screw Gilbert Osmond; Ralph Touchett and Henrietta Stackpole would've made a great couple; and that truly free people are like lights to the moths of this world.
Retweeting this because it's true. Sad to see Day deleted it but glad she wrote it in the first place. https://t.co/qgnSJWtmtf
Our residual, unquestioned Utilitarianism is partly to blame for bad takes like "the world is better off without Soleimani" or "Soleimani was a murderer, etc etc, BUT." Assassination is wrong and an act of war, period.
Not going to MLA after all, too tired and cash-strapped, but wondering why we don't livestream panels. Might take a lot of infrastructure, but it'd help both the environment and our wallets, and it might connect the conference- and twitter-worlds of academia in an interesting way
I miss Marianne Williamson
folks this isn't LA Fitness, please stop flexing in public it's gross
Shout out to the lurkers, our creepy invisible spectators
@Confessant I'm not sure. I do think true counter-ness involves transgression to some degre. Or if it doesn't, maybe it should, in order to give real, causal substance to the threat it poses. (e.g. Just as windows ought to be broken at a protest, to make the threat of the populace real).
@B_C_Richardson @DawnRayd hell yeah
The left needs to find a way to re-occupy the *counter*-cultural space as well, rather than cede it to the new camp culture of the alt-right. It's aesthetically boring to insist we're the sane ones. Bernie-ism is the closest thing we have to an edge, which is a little pathetic.
@LKonstan I guess so. Maybe to postindustrial capitalism, which just gobbles up the labor-time it saves through automation to extract more surplus value. But one can imagine a postindustrial "socialism" in which automation makes things cheaper while services become more accessible.
Ironic that in our late-capitalist service-based economy, what gets more expensive are basic human services (health, education, childcare, etc), while what gets cheaper are fetishized tangible commodities like TVs, toys, cars, clothes, etc. https://t.co/HX8ZCUCDTP
Just saw the new Star Wars movie: by far the best in the 2010s trilogy! Smarter than Rian Johnson's half-hearted apologies and incoherent, tear-it-all-down angst; and also not as stupidly reverential as JJ Abrams' first one. I think it lands the Rey and Kylo story really well tbh
merry christmas to all the haters out there https://t.co/QDUtYr8XNI
Just re-watched THE LAST JEDI (2017), and it's clear how Luke Skywalker's whiny disavowal of the Jedi tradition is really just the film's performative disavowal of its own patriarchy. But it's a fake disavowal: it's made to a young woman who just wants to preserve that tradition.
The real reason we should pay for *everyone's* college is that "everyone" is the unit of concern in a democracy.
Reading Moishe Postone again and his argument that it's ultimately bourgeois to critique society *from* the standpoint of Labor, and that instead we need to critique Labor itself (as a nec. capitalist form), seems a good way to imagine an alliance of PMC/working class interests.
RT @WalkerBragman : Pussy Riot endorses Bernie Sanders. https://t.co/gLNSW9J6H6
@kvanaren Was thinking of your dissertation! I wonder if it’s episodes’ effect on plot structure, or the rhythm of consumption, or ...? It does seem as if film is going the way of the novel, replaced by longform TV...
The Irishman was deeply moving, and its long, slow, delicate pacing was perfect for weaving together anecdotes into a subtle, poignant epic. Sincere Q, then: at 3h30min, why do we think it's "too long", when we're happy to binge watch that amount of a TV series in a single day?
Just arrived back in the US from the UK and deeply comforted to hear some good ol vocal fry-y-y-y
@KhushiK48240739 @roopikarisam Absolutely! DM me? or email is rj416@cam.ac.uk
@goatnotlamb please! :)
@lornarichardson @roopikarisam oh cool! DM me?
@MahaffyKelly oh awesome please do!
@christof77 @cldh_trier Aw thanks Christof! Much appreciated :)
I've done this before over Zoom teleconferencing (which allows screen sharing) and it's worked well, so folks welcome from anywhere in the world.
Hi I'm poor and a geek, does anyone know of someone who would be interested in affordable tutoring sessions in Python programming, data science, text mining, natural language processing, social network analysis, etc?
To what extent does twitter discourse affect the fates of political candidates? Conventional wisdom is twitter doesn't reflect the country. But how much are "Kamala is a cop" and the backlash to Warren's M4A waffle responsible for their drop in the polls? Any studies of this?
RT @DavidAstinWalsh : I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the cost of American healthcare is literally unimaginable to most British people. https://t.co/DpWQfxXgwF
I’m so dumb that every time I call an elevator I briefly forget whether I should push Down to bring the elevator down to me or Up because I want to go up.
@Ted_Underwood lol @ "regret". But yeah I think that's right and smart: an international, 2010sy DIY backlash to 00s online/digital culture—which ironically was most mediated by Instagram, whose online-ness made it international (perhaps the first aesthetic to be completely nation-agnostic?).
As we head into new decade, what are folks' sense of the cultural markers of the 2010s vs. the 2000s?  2000s: "subprime aesthetic": Hummers, McMansions, Arrested Development, 9/11 nationalism?  2010s: Instagram, self-care, succulents, Obama complacence, Return of History (Trump)?
Funny how academic twitter is so invested in performing expertise and disciplinary identity (“stares in historian” etc) at the very moment the disciplines are dissolving and expertise is becoming irrelevant.
"Corruption" and "greed" are ultimately feel-good voluntarist reinterpretations of what is actually the exploitation (of both humans and the environment) inherent to capitalism. https://t.co/UaizjlqGpy
@mkirschenbaum Interest in Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation (1948) was revived in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis
@POrg Yeah, what is it, the percentage decrease? Seems more intuitive to just subtract the two %'s
https://t.co/TKbwnOta8c Really loving the slimy, grimy electro put out by the brokntoys label
@kvanaren teehee basically why I tweeted that
@kvanaren Seeing the Royal National Theatre's double-feature adaptation of the Neapolitan novels next weekend 😍
Cool use of digital methods: to help us get beyond Bernie bros' cringeworthy critiques of "the media" to a more objective assessment of the coverage landscape. And? the data really do show that Bernie's share of the media-space is much less than his share of the electoral-space. https://t.co/bRnekcP7wc
@drjameswood By ceaseless action all that is subsists. Constant rotation of the unwearied wheel That Nature rides upon maintains her health, Her beauty, her fertility. She dreads An instant’s pause, and lives but while she moves. Its own revolvency upholds the world. -William Cowper, The Task
Please do not quote tweet this.
@drjameswood I’d be there!
@Ted_Underwood You know, just trying to fit in and de-Californize :) also my head is cold
Baby’s First Strike https://t.co/22qHJLRszA
hello England have you heard of a wonderful thing called a "bagel"
hi I do "digital humanities" and am currently emailing 53 people one-by-one because I cannot for the life of me figure out how to do a "mail merge"
where are the techno remixes twitter is failing me rn https://t.co/MzviiYC4rC
RT @OtherwiseMiami : I wasn't aware until I did some research tonight that Bernie Sanders's higher ed plan would require state university systems to reduce their reliance on adjunct faculty in order to be eligible for the federal funding that would enable them to offer free tuition.
Interesting how "Difficulty" replaces academic notions of value as rooted in knowledge, with capitalist concepts of value as rooted in labor-time. Stanford students routinely spoke this way. It's the "but I could have done that" response to modern art, applied to the disciplines. https://t.co/8JRgzE8yzh
@JohnPatLeary @Ted_Underwood @johannawinant I know what you mean: as a fellow materialist I definitely agree that "the point however is to change it." :) I just moved to the UK, and joined the University &amp; College Union—a *nationwide* union of all academics and staff. We're striking Monday. Why can't we do this in the US!?
@JohnPatLeary @Ted_Underwood Obviously the goal is organizing. But to echo @johannawinant, I routinely meet tenured academics who know "it's bad" but not that it's *collapsed.* There's a persistent sense that if you're good enough, you'll get a job—a meritocratic lie that prohibits cross-rank solidarity.
Klobuchar, the candidate whose only appeal is the cold embrace of Capitalist Realism. https://t.co/2ZCVrASPCd
@JohnPatLeary @Ted_Underwood Lastly, greater transparency leads (hopefully) to greater solidarity—forcing a broader awareness and deeper urgency, which can in turn help foster broader and more effective actions against these trends incl. the casualization of labor and the neoliberalization of the university.
@JohnPatLeary @Ted_Underwood I also think that this example of the "didn't we already know that", common to DH work, is an especially palpable one for how data helps us better *see* and *feel* trends—here, perhaps especially for academics not on the market who aren't personally faced with it year after year.
@JohnPatLeary @Ted_Underwood Not really. We have a general sense that "things are bad," but we only have a vague idea *how* bad, and most importantly for which subfields more than others. That gender/ethnic studies is bucking trend also points to how more critique and decolonization efforts might help us all
@Ted_Underwood Whether we need to collect every job to do that? I'm not sure. It does seem as if job posting practices are fragmenting, the usual timelines are loosening; and through all these changes we still need to see where we're headed and why. But how best to do that, I don't know...
@Ted_Underwood You might be right. I do think the greater timeliness, the extra granularity (subfields, etc), does make crunching these numbers worth it over and above just waiting for the MLA reports on the JIL. Sub-trends like persistence of gender/ethnic studies help us see what's happening.
@jeduardogonz I know @joncgoodwin has worked with the old MLA JIL's (https://t.co/jUKiflO3Gh), based on OCR'd copies made by @ridolfoj. Jon and Jim if you're listening, would love to hear your thoughts about how we might best gather structured data from them (school, job title, job desc, etc).
@jeduardogonz Yep! They're PDFs, and the formatting changes, so it wouldn't be easy to gather the info, but we could crowdsource it. And then, starting around 1999, there's at least transcribed text (not just images), so in principle we could try to automate the process for most of the 2000s.
"Quid pro quo" sounds about as impeachable as "meddling" sounds violent. Come on guys, word choice matters
@HPS_Vanessa Well, both of you are the wiki proof that #NotAllHeroesWearCapes :)
@HPS_Vanessa By the way, can I ask, are you Una74?
@SusanGrunewald1 (Just attaching this disclaimer/note of caution to tweets: the 2019-2020 job season is still ongoing, so the last data-point here isn't wholly comparable to the previous years.) https://t.co/lUf326DOFS
What would it take to put together an accurate, decades-long Jobs Census for the humanities? We would need to aggregate job postings across sources: the Wiki, H-Net, Academicjobsonline, ...others? And we'd need to get archives from MLA, AHA, etc? Thoughts? Is it doable? Worth it?
@HPS_Vanessa Thank you for your service! I mean it: you've brought a ton of transparency to a place where nothing but doubts and darkness and anxiety can grow. Without your work none of this would be possible. Thank you!
@Greeneland (Just attaching this disclaimer/note of caution: the 2019-2020 job season is still ongoing, so the last data-point here isn't wholly comparable to the previous years.) https://t.co/lUf326DOFS
@jeremy_neill (Just attaching this disclaimer/note of caution: 2019's job season is still ongoing, so the last data-point here isn't wholly comparable to the previous years.) https://t.co/lUf326DOFS
@benmschmidt @johannawinant @ARoseCasey (CAUTION: Remember that 2019's job market season isn't over yet, so the last data point here is untrustworthy. Please see this disclaimer: https://t.co/lUf326DOFS)
@priyalalista (Just attaching this disclaimer to tweets mentioning this data: https://t.co/lUf326DOFS)
@AmandaFuriasse (Just attaching this disclaimer to tweets mentioning this data: https://t.co/lUf326DOFS)
@jillianmsnyder Yes, that's correct: the 2019 data can't be read in the same way as the other years, since the 2019-2020 job market season isn't over yet. I'm beginning to wonder whether I've created more misinformation than information, since many people are focusing only on the last data point
@dorothyk98 @benmschmidt Sorry, I wasn't being clear. Euro Hist is slightly rising 2011-2017; though it's falling since, 2019's job market season isn't over yet, so it may be too soon to say whether the 2018 decline will continue.
Caution! for over-interpreting the Academic Jobs Wiki data, esp 2019’s numbers: this year‘s job season isn’t over yet (and the timeline has changed partly due to changes in MLA/AHA). Also: the Wiki’s unsung hero, moderator Una74, is not as active this year. We need a jobs census! https://t.co/iypj0XcjLV
@Ted_Underwood @RebeccaSpang This but unironically 😈
Woke Capitalism 2020 https://t.co/l89VvPuYXs
@JasonLustig @benmschmidt @johannawinant @ARoseCasey I'm not sure! The wiki is pretty well used in most branches of the English Lit field, but I'm hearing reports that it's not used as much as it once was, and then it's no doubt used more or less depending on the field. What we really need is a "census" aggregating across sources.
@Jendeavour It’s pretty global: regularly lists jobs in US, UK, Netherlands, Germany, etc. (Only requirement is job is in English or Comparative Lit.) It’s aggregated by volunteers on the market, so it tends to be as global as they are. Though I still suspect it tilts American...
RT @kvanaren : time to beat this drum once again:   stop calling careers outside academia "alt-ac;" they are not second-class positions and the vast vast majority of grad students will not work in academia https://t.co/j4In8ALxnj
@Stevie_DG @benmschmidt I don't have pre-wiki numbers for History, though @benmschmidt might. For English, we have the numbers put out by MLA a few years ago. The numbers don't line up perfectly, given different sources (wiki vs. JIL), but the post-2013 trend seems similar: https://t.co/lWC69OAytf
(Update to original October thread: see the numbers for month later, Nov 18, here: https://t.co/GXC21RE1PB)
Here's the academic job (wiki) numbers for History, prompted by @benmschmidt. Caveat: I'm not a historian, but it seems the market is fairly stable (unlike English). Also: European Hist is only field semi-rising, while Asian, African, Middle East, &amp; Global Histories are falling. https://t.co/SWZbhran76
@benmschmidt @johannawinant @ARoseCasey * Modified code for History here: https://t.co/s9YnxBQSPE * Job field aliases here (I had to exclude some EngLit pages which snuck in there): https://t.co/hxEXDnr0ba * Resulting data here: https://t.co/ttH71ZM4nd * Tableau Public viz's here: https://t.co/pN95qkKipz
@benmschmidt @johannawinant @ARoseCasey Ran the numbers for History myself since I was nervous that weird idiosyncrasies I ran into for English Lit might crop up here, but I got largely similar results. https://t.co/peNe5eZrZ4
@benmschmidt @johannawinant @ARoseCasey I did think of that but didn't end up doing it -- it seemed too complicated at the time, but it really would give a more accurate comparison. I'll look again at how it could be done...
RT @benmschmidt : @quadrismegistus @johannawinant @ARoseCasey (Duh, I mean from November 2018).  Just re-ran your scripts with history; not the same shape as for English, FWIW. Relative stability since 2013; 2019 numbers floating on a suspciously high count of 'generalist' offers. https://t.co/QtspCZRUS5
@johannawinant @ARoseCasey Unfortunately not: the wiki started in 2007; its formatting standardized ~2011; and it may not have caught on until 2013. FWIW, I'm attaching these and the MLA's data jenkily photoshopped together. Not perfectly comparable, which we would expect, but the post-2013 trend is there. https://t.co/1jCG44HZ3t
@ARoseCasey Thanks :) I agree: there's solidarity in transparency. We're all in this together! ✊
* For a better view of Figure 4, see here: https://t.co/pxI5oi17dL * For code which generated these, see here: https://t.co/2sU8pUIvwG * For the figures from Oct 13th, see here: https://t.co/Rj98E9fq48
Updated academic job numbers for English Lit (with data scraped from Academic Jobs Wiki). Since last posting on Oct 13th, 88 new TT jobs have been added. But that still leaves us at an all-time low, pretty far into the season. https://t.co/4hYPcAHgV9
@kvanaren my other favorite tidbit was (approx.): Q: "You've of course acquired something of a reputation as the 'party prince'..." A: "Yes, see, I don't know how that reputation came about because, well, the truth is I've never *partied* ..."
@kvanaren *while walking together in Central Park, New York*
Which is just to say, I think electability arguments are really just avenues of expression for liberals' inner centrism—not hard-boiled pragmatism but everyday ideology. This is how we rationalized HRC, a neoliberal war hawk, last time. Please! let's lead with our 💜's and ✊'s.
Bernie is the Baby Yoda of politics, *clearly*
Reminds me of Zizek's concept of "virtual belief": our real beliefs are not the ones we actually hold, but the ones we *virtually* hold by imagining the others who hold them. Like, sure, you can believe in "polyamory", but are you going to tell your parents and grandparents that? https://t.co/TSYXtYFaGu
Trump’s hospital visit: My money’s on an amphetamine overdose. There’s reports of him routinely snorting adderall during Apprentice days. He’s probably been abusing it ever since. It would certainly help explain his early morning manic tweeting and overall narcissistic psychosis.
RT @fivefteditrix : ... exist in all industries. Academia is not the base problem. Capitalism is the base problem.  And academic exceptionalism--in positive *or* negative form--is really dangerous to both individual and collective abilities to cope. [3/3]
The only thing scarier than starting all over again someplace new is how easy it turns out to be.
RT @kevinbaker : Turns out it's pretty easy to keep a robot from crossing a picket. https://t.co/4gIWvyGJvC
I also resent all framings of the "middle class" as the protagonist of our political ideals. We need to defend all workers—those who depend on selling their labor—regardless of their income. Let's reject quantitative notions of class for the qualitative model of Labor vs Capital.
So I didn't realize that Warren's plan to fund Medicare For All with "no taxes on the middle class" is so misleading. It levies a "head tax" on employers which is regressive, will indirectly tax workers, and will encourage further casualization of labor: https://t.co/Y9LekPPUt3
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Have a hard time believing the @nytimes Editorial Board would find a coup d'etat justifiable if that other President who fits this description were placed in these blanks. https://t.co/sIoc4Qoqc2
RT @thricedotted : all right folks, i'm about to post a thread that's going to endanger the last reliable source of income i have. spoiler: it's yet another example of a gig economy startup brazenly mistreating its workers. let's go!
@V21collective Can't wait to read this!!
The labor theory of value also helps us understand how grossly inhuman a billion dollars is. If someone earns $100K a year for their labor, then a billion dollars will buy you 10,000 person-years of that labor -- roughly twice the length of recorded human history.
Reading Smith now who honestly is even clearer about the labor theory of value than Marx. The real value of a commodity is the labor you save in not producing it yourself. In purchasing a commodity you therefore purchase or "command" a certain quantity of labor. Money buys labor.
This is from "The Current Crisis and the Anachronism of Value: A Marxian Reading" (https://t.co/mmh9rkkiZe), which I think is a decent summary of his major theses in _Time, Labor, and Social Domination_ (1993).
Moishe Postone helps us get beyond tired oppositions of race/gender vs. class by seeing all such categories as historically constituted and reified in the evolution of Capital. Our critique of personal inequalities require the critique of their production in impersonal domination https://t.co/DHFCxTpX4j
Marx must have had an inordinate fondness for linen...
@artjomshl @Ted_Underwood @_akpiper From lyrics of mutual celebration (in C18/C19, of the nation or public figures, or in C20, of generalized human experiences of love and kissing and dances [the early Beatles?]) -- to lyrics problematizing the relation between the individual and generalized social experience.
@artjomshl @Ted_Underwood @_akpiper Even more relevant though is @Ted_Underwood's work on the changing markers of prestige in poetry: increasingly, words predicting prestige are negative or dark in valence. (Is that right, Ted?) To me this suggests something is changing in the social function of the lyric: ...
@artjomshl @Ted_Underwood Interesting article! I'm not too familiar with LIWC (I know @_akpiper has used it extensively), but I imagine that words it classifies as negative/positive tend to be more 'abstract' (hate, love, angry, sad, happy, etc). I wonder if concrete words also rise in lyrics: no idea...
@pfessenbecker No not at all: I only meant to say that sexual expression may be classed in the eyes of a professional culture, in such a way that partly explains its repression. But you're right that this is all very complicated, especially when workplace harassment is a very real problem.
@pfessenbecker Yeah, I wonder if it's really just professional culture more broadly—as if having a sexuality itself is unprofessional. It's as if the Professional-Managerial Class needs to repress its own sexuality in order to distinguish itself from working-class passions and social relations.
I should probably delete this tweet.
Why does academic culture seem so embarrassed of the mere existence of sexuality—with people being single, flirting, dating, even having (gasp) sex? I've never been in a community more coupled up in such a bourgie way, one which needs immediately to repress its own sexual origins
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New, brilliant funky-af single from Space Dimension Controller on @randsrecords: https://t.co/rUwFPd7ar8
The metaphoric replacement of "The Net" with "The Cloud" seems symptomatic of the centralization of the internet in the hands of a few companies and the increasing obfuscation of its actual network-based architecture.
So about a year ago my website was hacked. It's fine now, but I just noticed that it no longer shows up in Google results. Does anyone know how to redeem my website in the eyes of our informatic overlords?
Confused: ok boomer making 30-somethings old again when I thought the financial crisis made us perennially young https://t.co/GY6gP6LsxT
There’s so much whataboutism and zero-sum ethical thinking on twitter. But (a) two wrongs don’t make a right, as my mother used to say, and (b) isn’t such a quantitative approach to value just capitalist pseudo-logic? Justice can’t be ranked or sorted or made to add up to zero.
@JonathaNgrams Absolutely! But there's def a case to be made that the *nature* of labor has been transformed in post-Fordist societies. People have written about cognitive capitalism (Boutang), immaterial labor (Lazzarato), digital labor (Fuchs), etc, which I think gets lost in "industrialism."
There's interesting talk about AI, big data, and machine learning as a new "Industrial Revolution." But the mechanical, manufacturing imaginary of "industrialism" seems in some ways to obscure the radical changes to value and the labor process posed by such a digital revolution.
This reminds me of the time I picked up a hitchhiker in Nevada who told me about the time he fought a 200 pound man and knocked him out cold; then, how he KO'd a 300 pound man, too; later, a 400 pound man. Finally, as I'm chuckling nervously he said "Yeah, so I'm high on meth rn" https://t.co/M4PkEkZyrX
I need to go back to Williams' Country and the City to think about this more, but I wonder if the left today is too preoccupied with an ultimately urban class imaginary—working class vs. PMC, e.g.—forgetting that the *spaces* of class may be more determinative than its functions.
Country vs. City seems in the end far more meaningful than North vs. South, Coasts vs. Heartland. Having just driven across the U.S., I was thinking about this: you see Trump bumper stickers, even Confederate flags, as soon as you leave the city—any city, not just in the South.
Maybe the most striking finding from this experiment trying to find suburbia's borders is how absent they are. Sub/urbia is a 'smooth space', politically speaking: there are no clusters, but a simple correlation between density and liberalism. https://t.co/UUjp4SFgkT
had no idea Bourdieu was so handsome https://t.co/XP0mBDWWYS
Katie Hill should not have resigned
I cannot believe *two* people ran for the Democratic nomination ran in 2016. seriously like what happened
@SethRudy both. also my tweet has nothing to do with me myself personally in my personal life, nothing whatsoever
can't help but feel bad for people who have been happily dating since high school
@gabrielwinant To clarify, I did not at all think Gabe's n+1 article was lacking in rigor—I thought it was well-sourced, nuanced and useful—but then, I haven't done "all the reading."
I found nonsite's anonymous gang-up on @gabrielwinant's great n+1 piece on the PMC not only cowardly and distasteful but also generally useless, except for these two moments, which I'm just gonna leave here. https://t.co/QNpwxSTlxD
@gworthey @hathitrust @iSchoolUI Congratulations Glen!!
RT @AprilDRyan : We love you! Rest in peace and power! https://t.co/wGQOEuK8OU
The overwhelming centrism of academia never ceases to surprise me
Crazy that after 16 years of new electro/pop, The Knife's DEEP CUTS (2003) is still as fresh and edgy and sexy as ever https://t.co/ID8VRJ3d15
@MeganPeiser That's true. It was just strikingly the exact same shade of purple, but I take your point
@AOC @IlhanMN @RashidaTlaib No, "The Bern" isn't just a bunch of bros. The new socialist movement in this country is a multigenerational, multiracial, all-gendered revolution of workers against the ruling capitalist class.
I'm sorry but we need socialism, not "accountable capitalism." We need revolution, not reform. We need structural, qualitative change, not an apologist for capitalism tinkering with the knobs and numbers. @AOC, @IlhanMN, and @RashidaTlaib understand that. It's #Bernie2020 for me. https://t.co/vTvok5NThq
Have to say guys, after last night’s performance and endorsements from the Squad, I might be feeling some heart Bern https://t.co/080GF0J8Wc
Why is Tulsi Gabbard a Republican on the stage
Glad Warren is explaining why we need a wealth tax and demanding why others don't support it
why are Warren and Klobuchar wearing the exact same clothes
"accountable capitalism" wtf lol
Why is polarization still considered a serious and avoidable danger, we're as polarized as we can be let's just do what's right
staying up drunk in the UK after a very long wine and dine to watch this debate what is wrong with me
RT @rcmidura : shamelessly copying @quadrismegistus and posting some web scraping results from the History Academic Jobs wiki #twitterstorians https://t.co/olytmV8FPW
We need more transparency in the humanities job market! @rcmidura has the numbers for History, and they’re not good. https://t.co/JftUZ8N3iv
Saw the Joker last night and was surprised to like it. Phoenix's performance is absolutely mesmerizing. It's Taxi Driver for the Trump era: translated into our dominant fictional language (superheros), and refracted by new forms of gaslighting, alienation, and downward mobility.
@hralperta @JobMarketSuppo1 Great idea, will do! The whole motivation here of course is to create more transparency about the market, so an accessible and durable place to put all this information would be really helpful.
Lastly, I had to aggregate/standardize some of the subfield names, some of which changed name on the wiki midway through this period. These name changes are reflected here: https://t.co/BWAz8nUN90
Disclaimers: Who knows to what extent these trends reflect changes in wiki usage, or changes in the number of jobs. I suspect that rises in 2011-2014 reflects rise in usage of wiki and standardization of formats, but I could be wrong. The data could also be refined more manually.
* Here's a PDF of the 4th figure for better reading: https://t.co/bPV3TQ0wOW * Data generated: https://t.co/tLKNeeWBTT (feel free to edit!) * Code used to generate: https://t.co/2sU8pUIvwG (feel free to copy, edit and re-run)
Working on scraping the Academic Jobs Wiki to see if it can yield more accurate recent job numbers. Here's what I've got so far. Note that all subfields are declining in jobs besides Ethnic Studies. https://t.co/j7O04yMBGl
@Ted_Underwood Hm, not sure I understand. Aren't we already pretty obsessed with history? "Always historicize," etc? I agree it's an important part of what we do, but I'm not sure it's the sexiest thing we do, or what would most appeal to undergraduates.
RT @gabrielwinant : The PMC, who is it, what is it, why is it, when was it, and more, from me: https://t.co/w9EweXn6A4
@joncgoodwin We really should be documenting all this. I wonder if scraping The Wiki (even its edit history) would yield better data than the JIL (where ads expire? and which is no longer exhaustive).
RT @GarbageApe : I shouldn't be surprised by this but Bernie Sanders is loathed by more mainstream Democrats than George W. Bush.
@FeinsteinKen Hm... https://t.co/ngJVdVZiPG  Regardless, this tendency toward port consolidation is bigger than the headphone jack, and seems to have an aesthetic dimension...
Love that I need to buy an ugly dongle adapter to use corded headphones on my ipad. That 1/8th inch port was really getting in the way!  ...Apple's descent into "minimalism" is just its aestheticization of the deeper tendency within Capital toward homogeneity and commensurability
I am sick to my soul at the thought of how now, right now, Kurdish soldiers and civilians are dying... because we betrayed them and left them to die.
RT @andrealongchu : this is excellent https://t.co/Y5KzdQFWvj
Socialist arguments for seizing the means of production are more persuasive when broken down by industry:  - Nationalize utility companies b/c they are public infrastructure.  - Nationalize health insurance b/c the profit motive works against the imperatives of a healthy society.
Rather than fix its crumbling infrastructure, which started wildfires last year, PG&amp;E, the utility company with a monopoly on the Bay Area, is forcing 2.5 million people to go without power for up to 5 days.  No better example that all utility companies should be nationalized.
RT @UnrealCitoyenne : It’s baaaaaaack! Issue 3 of my romcom-versus-horror newsletter, Shrieks &amp; Howls, is now available. What do Midsommar &amp; (500) Days of Summer have in common? More than you might think:  https://t.co/aOXhgZ6W4F https://t.co/stk4kenie6
RT @Ted_Underwood : The NovelTM project assembled a collection of English-language fiction in HathiTrust after 1700; this report links to the data, describes its limitations, and asks how conclusions about literary history change when we select samples with different biases. https://t.co/GXFfUgW6w3 https://t.co/YzDDpWjh99
@readingoptional @cwellmon Same: as soon as it's time to discuss Markovits' "Meritocracy Trap", Menand pivots, bristling at the thought of being part of a ruling class, and doubles down on the dean-speak. Like this here: https://t.co/bqx5OXOcNm
RT @ewarren : Let's talk a bit about my plan to #BreakUpBigTech and why it's got Mark Zuckerberg so worked up.
RT @magsrdoherty : What’s behind the associative logic of so much creative nonfiction? I mean the kind of essay the jumps from the personal to the historical to film to music to science etc.
RT @samswey : 20 years after starting college, black student loan borrower still owe 95% of the debt while white students have paid 94% of their debt off. The racial wealth gap is exacerbated by the student loan debt crisis. https://t.co/NVscrBfhjR https://t.co/H6savXJ0YH
@V21collective As the discipline sinks, nostalgia for aesthetic judgment is just more violins. In my opinion the only viable direction to take is exactly the opposite: Abandon aesthetics *even more*, and become the profession which studies Language In The Wild for cultural history and critique.
@V21collective Maybe I'm cynical, but I just don't believe this (would be the outcome), and I even have a hard time believing people believe it. Discourses of aesthetic greatness, human flourishing, liberal arts, etc etc, already proliferate in the discipline. Literally no one cares but us.
The debate about whether literary critics can call things Good or not is so facile and so obviously a displacement of our real anxieties as a profession
national parks hippies   🤝   dads
@christof77 @Stanford Driving to North Carolina, where my folks are, and from there flying to the UK to join King’s College, Cambridge, as a Junior Research Fellow. Very excited!
@Stanford Then, after donating all of my belongings but what could fit in my small Ford Ranger truck, I woke up this morning to discover that my locked truck bed was broken into and everything but some books and shoes was stolen. I now own no clothes but those in a carry-on I left inside.
As I drive away from California today, after 11 years in the Bay, she's giving me the finger. After my goodbye party I wiped out on one of those damn gig-economy scooters: needed 8 stitches, which will cost me $650 because @Stanford kicked me off health insurance the day I filed.
@spampinato_erin @akasiaisakasia Woah, no I hadn’t! Just found it and looks incredible! (This panel description is 🔥). I may have to send in an abstract... :)
Figure 1 of my diss, "Abstraction: A Literary History." Filing this Friday https://t.co/ZWV53AaFGn
I keep re-learning over and over that "bad writing"–like quick, hurried writing which just bobs up and down on a writer's actual thoughts–is often good writing, and "good writing"–careful, precise, elaborated–is often bad, too detached from the emotional meaning of what it says.
Contemplating running for office with the compelling slogan: "Ryan: The Wrong Choice For America"
I just realized that sitting in coffee shops -- working, talking, being bored -- getting up frequently to use the bathroom -- asking the equally bored authority figure for small things (um excuse me whats the wifi password?) -- is basically an after-school program for millennials
when my bluetooth headphones are dying they interrupt the music to say, dramatically, -- "battery low" -- about every 30 seconds. it's mostly annoying but sometimes it seems to blend in with the songs and be kinda cool, even -- "battery low" -- poignant.
@StephanRisi Woah! this is awesome
Listening to an academic “audiobook” (a book I’m forcing a poor robot to read to me) while I clean and realized we should record ourselves reading articles/books/cool things and pass them around. I really like being able to move and think at the same time and I know others do too
RT @jplmbtmsm : Good day to advertise my class! #marxism #shakespeare https://t.co/8OstTFuZ15
The "you and So and so are celebrating N years of friendship" message from Facebook is so aggressive. It suddenly &amp; algorithmically forces two people to confront the fact that they've been ignoring each other... and then when they continue to do so they just feel worse about it.
The moment the default scroll direction on laptops and computers shifted from the respectful and appropriate direction (up is up, down is down) to the new, smartphone-like "natural" direction (up is down, down is up) ... is the moment the computers won the war against our brains.
RT @Ted_Underwood : @quadrismegistus Close reading works fine! But then, I'm also wary of the notion that this is a clarifying moment. Are there people who didn't understand the equation "ethnic nationalism + detention camps" who will now be like "oh, I get it"? Maybe. Idk. https://t.co/RU5dQbWspg
Just forced myself to read parts of the El Paso shooter's manifesto and I'm shocked at how indistinguishable it is from normal Trumpian, Republican discourse. Someone should do a DH experiment showing that these manifestos are embedded squarely in the language of mainstream right
Beto always talks like he's doing a slam poet rendition of the Gettysburg address.
RT @allisongeroi : My debt forgiveness plan is simple: I have hidden five golden tickets in chocolate bars around the world. The lucky children that find the bars can use the tickets to pay tuition fees if they pass a series of simple tests during a visit to my candy factory
Doesn't it seem as if the internet is actually bringing us *backward* within Marx's history of the modes of production? It's a neo-feudalism: we're all tenants now, of (cyber-)landowners, our (digital) labor tithed and collected in exchange for the means of (digital) subsistence.
RT @thompson_laure : Are you interested in computational approaches for visual and material culture? Then come to the Analysis of Visual Corpora with Deep Learning Panel tomorrow wherein @nolauren, @pleonard, and I will give deep learning a humanistic framing through three case studies. #ACH2019 #SC5
@CarlyASilver Haha, this is great! "Influencers used fashion to make bold political statements, for example, by purchasing a “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité” crop top with a portion of the proceeds going to charity."  ...but also, uh oh: is my mind becoming a stream McSweeney-like content...? :)
What's the history of the "thirst trap"? The idea must be decades-old and utterly mundane in advertising, but it seems to have been reinvented by digital laborers in the new gig economy. ... I mean, isn't it funny how capitalism is now busy reinventing the wheels of capitalism?
RT @LBMcGrath : Very excited to be talking with the fine folks at Penguin Random House's Young Readers division today! I'm giving a talk called, "Data and Diversity: The Gentrification of Children's Literature."(Or, what 450,000 GoodReads reviews can tell us about children's/MG/YA).
RT @suzatweet : This. is. awesome. They cover over 50 languages!   pip install stanfordnlp ✔ https://t.co/TLZepHH0sg
@hkpmw @dan_sinykin You're right, I prob shouldn't be indulging my (half-ironic) love of MW in the face of truly awful things about her. fwiw I've donated to Warren, my #1 candidate. I guess I just like the idea of a spiritually-oriented politics, one built on confronting and healing national trauma
@dan_sinykin @hkpmw I figure the VP is a symbolic role, &amp; MW loves symbols! :) Also I kind of agree with her that a truly radical politics must also be spiritual, psychic, &amp; cultural, not just policy-oriented. The soul of America is at stake. I think MW (and tbh Trump) get that in a way others don't
@hkpmw I ask myself this question every day nevertheless, I bought a Williamson 2020 t-shirt
@KTMacDonnell Yeah, good question, I think that's I'm wondering about. It's already a privilege to work in a tech or other job which could conceivably be done remotely. Would making these privileged cognitive laborers nomadic better or worsen problems like gentrification? Honestly don't know.
I need to get out of Silicon Valley before I lose my mind completely
What would happen if we legislated that all jobs which *could* be done remotely, had to be allowed to be done remotely? What if millions of people could suddenly live anywhere*? Would it create a new mobile elite? Would it redistribute wealth as people left expensive cities? ...?
RT @Stevie_DG : Here is me, arguing that we need to need to move beyond birthright for a variety of reasons. https://t.co/Imo5V1xzRz
RT @RichardJeanSo : This is an extraordinary piece by @dan_sinykin at @PublicBooks that uses data science methods to tell the story of how capitalism/conglomeration transformed contemporary literature. Really cool use of machine learning to tell an otherwise invisible story: https://t.co/fDSf7aNmnk
@clured @IgorBrigadir @Ted_Underwood @opensyllabus Cool! Similarly central placement of a bunch of canonical theory texts. I also love how they often seem to orbit the empty spaces between disciplines, as Foucault does here. "Interdisciplinarity"--if not in method so much as uptake/use--visualized? https://t.co/btX4JklxKf
@Ted_Underwood @clured @opensyllabus I love how critical theory is in the center of the graph, too: Communist Manifesto, Distinction, Culture Industry, (further up) Imagined Communities, etc etc. If I'm interpreting this right: Theory really did install itself as central to the academy?
RT @clured : Second release of @opensyllabus out today! An experiment - we built a zoomable + searchable viz of the text assignment graph for the top ~160k works. Embedded with node2vec, projected to 2d with UMAP, then served out via Elasticsearch geo queries. https://t.co/uepz5vlL6N https://t.co/PijF1OwpV7
Current ratio of the number of figures I made for my diss (each one lovingly, painstakingly, neurotically), to the number of figures which actually made it in, is ~18:1.
argh does anyone have a free livestream link to the USA-Netherlands game rn? r/soccerstreams was banned and now I'm lost in a sea of pseudo google results
The hipster/Instagram/"self care" aesthetic of the new bourgeois would seem to be a late, internet-based stage of capitalism in which the aesthetics of the commodity has completely triumphed over its utility.
@rachael_scar Congratulations!!!
I wonder if the divisions in the contemporary left can be boiled down to the question of whether discrimination or exploitation ought to be our dominant critical framework.
RT @jonahvwhale : really interesting stuff in that politico data viz thing i just tweeted out. here's race and education; warren's coalition is overwhelmingly white and college-educated; bernie's is the multi-racial working class https://t.co/jYDkpHulT9
@kgeographer Fun! I don't know Berlin too too well -- have mostly hung around Friedrichshain and the Schlesisches Tor area, which has a bunch of cool restaurants and stuff -- but my friend recommends the leftist cafe, K-Fetisch, in Neukölln.
Is the "computational" actually a real theoretical paradigm in the humanities, or is it simply a set of tools, processes, methods? In this respect the "quantitative" to me feels both more threatening and more theoretical of a paradigm.
@SethRudy Remember me (your favorite troll) when you're famous
imagining a New Yorker cartoon that reads: "But Doctor, it's not so much a 'bipolar' as a 'dialectical' disorder"
RT @CD_Clawson : Inspired by the work of @CCP_org, I spent a couple of lunch hours putting together a list of #QueerDH projects at: https://t.co/NjrfjZdIjL
@SethRudy We're all just debating our favorite spots to hang out at in Hell.  Also: I was completely wrong, Twitter's both more Millennial and more Boomer than Gen X https://t.co/5V0rJwUj6T
@SethRudy *shrug emoji* I say this as an old millennial who never properly learned how to emoji, who doesn't use instagram (millennial central?) and is addicted to twitter. Facebook has Boomer vibes for sure. Snapchat feels very Gen Z
Funny how twitter has such Gen X vibes
@coylemily @smdadamo *mild panic emoji*
@coylemily @smdadamo same here! we got this!
@LBMcGrath 💛 I happen to know for a fact that @quadrismegistus is a @LBMcGrath is a stan account. :)
@Ted_Underwood @LKonstan @alexisgallagher I just still don't understand why the global stakes of films has to imply the *total* absence of sexuality. Another trend which may be related is the new emphasis on martial virtue: disturbing valorizations of noble suicide in Star Wars, dying for noble cause in Blade Runner, etc
@Ted_Underwood @LKonstan @alexisgallagher I guess then the comic book/superhero narrative form was a perfect match for the increasingly global distribution model of blockbuster films: not only safe for kids, but the fate of the world (all audiences) is at stake, which is threatened and saved by powerful feats of CGI.
@Ted_Underwood @alexisgallagher Yeah. And maybe is this why the big screen is more desexualized than streaming TV, whose more fluid and networked distribution model awards niche and kink and selective audiences. Still: why isn't there at least sexual *tension* in these films? Something else is going on too imo.
RT @Ted_Underwood : Latest (beautiful but knife-twisty) quit lit piece makes me think that literary studies really needs brutal honesty from a wider range of perspectives. We seem to be teaching people to rhapsodize about the emperor’s new clothes right up till the moment they leave.
It’s as if analytic philosophy is predicated on the total exclusion of anything resembling a dialectical thought.
The Freudian regression to presexuality in these movies is symptomatic of the broader regression of sensibility they represent, a turn from human stories of human sexuality to superhuman pornographies of power.
Truly striking how thoroughly desexualized action movies are today. Where's the sex in Marvel movies? In the new Star Wars movies? Not a peep of sexual tension anywhere. Even when it is there (Hulk and Scarlet Johansson? Rei and Finn?) it's sublimated into romance or friendship.
Addison and Steele were the first podcasters.
RT @LBMcGrath : Here we are at Day 3! I’m reviewing @KatherineBode’s excellent A WORLD OF FICTION, reminiscing about a heated DH debate of yesteryear, and imagining more DH monographs like this one.   https://t.co/kkm1eikkaI
@profwernimont I was wondering that too. Didn't think it would synchronize with 2008, but in fact it may have? Source: https://t.co/s1htRTd0L5 https://t.co/PZkozHszGJ
RT @LBMcGrath : Join us in thinking about Cultural Analytics Now @AtPost45! https://t.co/sIENU36Xe4
Since when did astrology get so mainstream? Everyone I know now is an astrology wonk. (Including me: no judgment.) I looked at Google Trends, which seems to suggest that astrology word searches (especially "horoscope") rose in step with the 2008 recession? https://t.co/ofJRoUQr9J
RT @Tim_mahoneyy : remember when "dinosaurs" had that marxist cop show? https://t.co/rMV5gllCRZ
RT @smdadamo : wow seasonal allergies exist because urban environments planted exclusively male, often cloned, plants for the last 70 yrs since they're "litter-free", trading the biome's female seed pods &amp;c for excess allergenic pollen. patriarchy is literally ecological https://t.co/xPs4mFTwn9
RT @benmschmidt : Here's a bunch of interactive visualizations you can instantly re-run on any of the 15 million books in the @hathitrust, in an editable @observable notebook. https://t.co/YlYxvxMlEW. Change the URL to see any other book in the collection. https://t.co/r7ZKoL89Dp
@Ted_Underwood True, but didn't we also put more faith in those consequences than we knew all along it really deserved? (thus why a Mueller prayer candle is funny?) Mueller fetish was at least in part a disavowal of the harder work of taking responsibility for Trump and fighting back ourselves.
@Ted_Underwood The Mueller probe certainly did good work. But it was obviously also overdetermined, a projection of quasi-religious levels of blind liberal faith. (For his bday I got my brother a prayer candle of St Robert Mueller!) It's def time to move on and make something new politically.
@jdporterlive It would absolutely hurt. Impeaching Trump just for symbolic effect feeds right into the witch hunt narrative, which was already strengthened by the finding of no conclusion. A far sadder irony than Comey's help in electing Trump is the Mueller report's help in his re-election.
@jdporterlive How is that a real strategy when it is guaranteed to fail?
I was as much a Russiagate addict as the next heartbroken liberal, but at this point I think clinging to the Mueller report is only going to hurt us. The obvious psychoanalytic reading is that all along this was about our own denial and inability to make a real political strategy
RT @adriandaub : DEAR FRIENDS, PLEASE SIGN THIS OPEN LETTER AND HELP DEFEND @stanfordpress !!!   Please circulate widely!  https://t.co/YVW0ZPzUu0 https://t.co/0SoBQlgBvn
Look I like Warren and of course I like her policies, but a wonky policy-forward campaign risks slipping into a familiar ideology of liberal technocracy, whereas what we really need is full-scale ideological revolution.
RT @eianklam : Here's a letter I just sent to @stanford's provost about the proposal to cut $1.5m in funding to @stanfordpress.   (cc @palumboliu @gewang) https://t.co/GT6y3TsV5F
@ClaudeWillan @friede The VEP data @BenjaminPauley posted looks much more substantial, but just in case it's useful, I wanted to upload the metadata, XML files, and plain text files I've used/made. Readme file for it all here: https://t.co/nvnJKieC0m. Genre tags adapted from @Ted_Underwood and Sellars
The trolley problem is a capitalist fantasy of human exchangeability and the only ethical answer is to disengage.
RT @AdyBarkan : I had some things to say that don't fit in 240 characters, so I decided to try a new genre of writing.  In bookstores and your mailbox September 10. Available for pre-order now at https://t.co/5JkFXoDWjO https://t.co/XyoCE8UyYP
@Shxperienced aye, though the translation is poignant: 'Livin that all loss all loss all loss all loss all loss life' ...
💔. The loss of history is ironically one of the most painfully historical moments we can experience... https://t.co/XkFRHK6qAa
RT @dbamman : Happy to release LitBank, 200K words from 100 different literary texts annotated for the entities they contain -- both named ("Tom Saywer", "London") and common ("the boy", "the village") https://t.co/IOXwbMpDLY
Simply *describing* your data so thickly and with enough examples that new critical meanings emerge from the pressure is an underrated methodology in computational DH.
RT @LBMcGrath : Couldn't be more thrilled to be a part of this lineup and in conversation with such brilliant, badass women. Join us @cesta_stanford for Women in DH, May 29-31! Pls RT. https://t.co/Zl0clwrllH
RT @ClaudeWillan : Hey historical materialists, why [and when] did the scariest thing to shout when things were really fucked up change from "IT'S ALIVE!!" to "it's aware!"
Say "Duo two-factor login" one more time...
@SethRudy Love this! I used to think of Trump as a Richard III-type, created through rhetorical excess rather than precision. But the (Walpolean) Gothic may be an even better context—esp given Walpole's hostility to realism, which seems to have ill prepared us for Trump's "flat" excesses.
@triproftri We do need a hashtag! #BayDH? #DigiByTheBay? #HumanitiesTech? #TechWithoutTheSalaries? :)
RT @triproftri : If you’re in the SF Bay Area, reserve April 12, 12-3pm for  @paseoprotosjsu : student presentation of civic innovation prototypes &amp; artist/author/scholars panel discussions https://t.co/TmaXiVaq3C @SJSU_HA #deephumanities #paseoprotosjsu @scuethics @cesta_stanford @ @quinnanya https://t.co/Flo8l1HsKg
RT @KatherineBode : My book A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History is now available OA: https://t.co/bLDLHCz5UZ. Thanks @UofMPress
@jeddobson There's definitely a risk. Exploratory DH work requires a careful accounting of which method and which epistemology is active at any given moment. This carefulness is itself a kind of rigor, which I think was part of Lauren's point: that "rigor" in DH is much more than statistics
I'll add that I think Da misunderstands this tension because, as @Mark_A_H points out, she goes after only hypothesis testing work, ignoring the (much larger!) body of DH work doing Exploratory Data Analysis that stages a contrapuntal movement between modes and objects of reading
I like Lauren's response here pushing back on Da's bizarre insistence that we not apply computational methods beyond their intended (scientific/corporate) use. Because for me, the productive tension between method/object, original intention/critical use, is the whole point of DH! https://t.co/p0p6rI6f2v
RT @DH_Western : This #python library looks great for any #distantreading fans out there. What is everyone's experience with automatic scansion? https://t.co/dsZ83FEr7o Via @quadrismegistus
Anyone know when exactly the #MLA2020 proposals are due? By 11:59pm EST tomorrow April 1st?
@SethRudy (dammmmmn!) I um, well, um... *sweating*
@SethRudy so I hear your cat is dumb
you know there's also a One Body Problem because it's just so exhausting sometimes to go through academia and not have a dedicated person in this world to help you through the muck and the mire and the stress and the confusion and the uncertainty and the meaninglessness of it all
I mean didn't the internet itself kind of transition from "knowable communities" (usenet, IRC, web forums, blogs) to a new "city life," where we depend on selling our labor (tweets, posts, 'online behavior') to those few who own the means of production (social media companies)?
@hkpmw ‘Florida man climbs on playground equipment to tell children where babies come from’
RT @hralperta : What we paid for was not high tech equipment. What we paid for was labor &amp; community. Labor that humanists often take for free. Labor that was largely done by grad students.    I am **extremely proud** that I helped pay for people's educations (including my own).
RT @IgorBrigadir : @quadrismegistus That's why i called my dog 7n{Y&lt;_2EL5e&lt;6cN and got my Ma's name changed to eBkXQTfuBqp'cTcar&amp;g* by deed poll, a small price to pay for security.
Just realized I can never tell anyone about my favorite animal, my mother's maiden name, or the make and model of my first car ever again.
Is it okay if I .... didn't love Hamilton?
@POrg “although it is only a criticism on another fellow”! 🔥
RT @jdporterlive : A little surprised to find that Monday is the most successful day of the week in pop song titles. Maybe commiseration outsells celebration? https://t.co/VdANyEYFjq
@mkirschenbaum I use it at my own institution in order to avoid installing all this trigger-happy security software required to access the usual wifi.
@sam_l_rush @FrontierPoetry @The_Millions I had merely a grin until "world's most stressful workplace" and then I guffawed
kinda cool how 2/3 the planet is addicted to caffeine. we’re all in this together folks
@SethRudy How did I not know your cat is "three times great," i.e. one time less great than I?
Reading @Ted_Underwood's brilliant new book, which I would call elegantly sublime--distilling an entire decade of work at the forefront of distant reading into short, playful, luminous chapters which give us a whole new vision of modern literary history. It's field-defining work. https://t.co/7t40rUthc2
RT @LBMcGrath : What's the difference between "voice" and "style"? According to 100k+ GoodReads reviews, the diff looks something like this. https://t.co/WjZWyCLydu
“After Marx in Manchester or Detroit, Marx in California.” By “‘Marx in California’ we are simply trying to explain the internal revolution that historic capitalism is enacting right before our eyes,” running a “small defrag program for Marxism’s mental hard drive.” -Y.M. Boutang
Incredible talk! Hoyt develops new word2vec methods to aggregate distinctive words into distinctive semantic clusters—a move which allows him to better interpret the clusters which (problematically) distinguish racial groups in Japanese fiction, like the cluster around “voice.” https://t.co/lBQpX9lIi1
@annashechtman woohoo!
Just sent in a CFP for #MLA2020: "The Turn to Abstraction." Pitch me pls!  "Is criticism, long concerned with particularity, now turning toward abstraction? How related are contemp. developments toward DH, transdisciplinary notions of form, and large-scale critical frameworks..." https://t.co/JkIzCXmyks
RT @abasu_ : It lives! They even made an exception and let us put in a color graph. What started as "let me poke around and get back to you in a couple of hours" has evolved into an interesting conversation about what "oddity" might look like in literary language. https://t.co/zVFYKkNdqH
questions &gt; hypotheses
I don't even particularly like The Grateful Dead, but I have somehow discovered that listening to their long, rambling live shows full of waiting, tuning, and technical difficulties is strangely great for writing.
As an undergrad English major, I quit my part-time job as a web developer for the university because I thought it was too cognitively disorienting to be always switching back and forth from programming and writing/reading. https://t.co/slBTyUe77M
I’m looking so fancy profesh flying in my dark blue suit, but really my cheap ass refuses to pay United $60 for a carryon so I’m just wearing what I’m wearing to the wedding tomorrow
out here supporting the #OaklandTeachersStrike ! https://t.co/HoToV7uWsg
@matthewharrison "now theeeeere's the polo shirt man I know!"
'sfar as I can tell, facebook profile photos exist so you can rewind people back to their more basic selves
RT @teddyroland : Following up on this convo. A few preliminary findings: https://t.co/oGHnLBPQkN
you can always tell who's new to my local coffee shop by whether the poor wights are looking for a power outlet. good luck out there champs. *pats his extension cord*
RT @a1ne : @quadrismegistus In grad school I took a class about Margaret Atwood and biopolitics. We couldn’t find the answer to a question we all had in one of her books, so I tweeted and asked her. She responded (with a riddle...typical) and I used it as a source within the subsequent paper on said book.
I'm curious: has anyone cited (or even mentioned) Twitter conversations, memes, events, etc, in their academic writing?
forgot my headphones and the people next to me in this hipster coffee shop are whispering about their Reiki training and the connection between chakras and quantum physics and I already miss California
@teddyroland @Ted_Underwood @hoytlong @RichardJeanSo Sweet! Also: to make that kind of data easier to find, I just uploaded all the models' output (predicted classes, probabilities of prediction, and feature importances) to github: https://t.co/MGKVakifLV
@matthewharrison @ETreharne @jdporterlive Ideally! In this case, the script annotating the rhyme scheme and meter is probably making mistakes. There's also limited training data, and sonnets have quite a few rhyme scheme variations. Would be interesting to test just on the hyper-traditional Shakespean/Petrarchan sonnets.
@teddyroland @Ted_Underwood Still, for me, it at least reinforces the idea that operationalizing aspects of literary form (rhyme, meter, etc) can in fact produce more informative features than word frequencies. Models of formal features can also reveal formal rather than 'linguistic' outliers and edge-cases
@teddyroland @Ted_Underwood I should say I don't really think this dis/proves anything, per se. I would have guessed that word frequencies do poorly to classify sonnets written 1600-2000 in comparison to poetic features. I suspect wordfreqs work better for longer texts, and for fuzzier categories like genre
I should note that this is a micro-experiment inspired by a fascinating twitter discussion (https://t.co/3TCfIWzqMm), begun by @teddyroland, about the strengths and limitations of word frequencies as the sole input features to computational models of texts.
@erinroseglass @jdporterlive It's a Python script that @jdporterlive, I, and others at Stanford have been developing for years. More information on its github (https://t.co/HYNyOWgTXM), but basically estimates a poem's line length and stanzaic form, metrical form, and rhyme scheme.
@teddyroland So I couldn't help myself and I ran an experiment about this: https://t.co/hXplg6aDaG  Turns out poetic features better predict sonnets. The code is on the github and is highly replicable if anyone wants to throw other featuresets or classifiers at the data  (attn @Ted_Underwood)
What's a sonnet to a machine by any other name? Which textual features best predict whether 14 lines of verse is a sonnet? Word frequencies, or poetic forms (rhyme, meter, line length)? Answer: Poetic forms. Notes and code: https://t.co/jWyrOTP8gd (collab work with @jdporterlive) https://t.co/phxtmK9NIU
@peligrietzer @ClaudeWillan No one knows, as far as I know. Such dramatic suspense! https://t.co/i5K1SNBuDe
@peligrietzer @ClaudeWillan Hey! Nice to meet you. Thanks for the introduction Claude-- now I'm curious, walking back through memories of tymes past... Well: to reenchantment! 🍻
@Ted_Underwood @teddyroland I could also see that being a description. Hoo boy! description, explanation, identification, interpretation... I need to brush up on my philosophy of (social?) science! It's always been funny to me how DH stumbles onto all these difficult phil-of-science questions in new ways.
@Ted_Underwood @teddyroland Or your work showing that the vertical axis of literary prestige recapitulates the horizontal axis of literary change: IMO that does a lot of work to explain prestige as deeply related to the overcoming of pastness and passé-ness. If not proven, that explanation becomes available
@Ted_Underwood @teddyroland But explanation is still the holy grail of knowledge, at least for me. It may be impossible in toto, but something like Jim English's work noting that since the 70s prestige novels have increasingly been set historically does do some work to 'explain' prestige at a given moment.
@Ted_Underwood @teddyroland That seems right, which is why unigram modeling works best (IMO) with genre and other fuzzy categories, and worst with poetic forms like the sonnet. And often we do only want to identify something, not "explain" it, so that we can trace its history, esp of fuzzy things like genre
@Ted_Underwood @teddyroland But the sonnet example itself is not a hill I want to die on. The broader point is that identification (which unigrams and classification do so well), although useful and important, is not *explanation*, for which we need to go deeper and model the relevant processes and forms.
@Ted_Underwood @teddyroland How adequate our beliefs are to reality is precisely the question! e.g. Generative metricists know what "iambic pentameter" is. But they've worked since the 70s to model and understand its grammar: which phonological patterns (stress, weight, syllabic structure) are permissible?
@teddyroland No knock on unigrams or classification: these have impressive and important applications, and probably do get us 80% of the way toward where we want to go. But for me that missing 20% is not just missing accuracy, but missing ways of knowing and modeling literary form.
@teddyroland e.g. We might be able to classify sonnets according to their unigram/word frequencies, but how much would that tell us about what really makes a sonnet a sonnet: that it has 14 lines, normally iambic pentameter, and follows a specific rhyme pattern?
@teddyroland This makes sense to me: texts are made of words, so the phenomena that interest us about texts are probably tied enough to word patterns that we can estimate those phenomena based just on the words. At the same time, that estimation can work only indirectly, almost accidentally.
RT @Michael_A_Gavin : Rachel Mann, a brilliant PhD candidate in our dept, and I just published a piece in RES that compares representations of the body in 17C fiction and anatomy. Cool to finally see it out! https://t.co/E8jjhV8DbB
@brisvegas1 @scott_bot Fascinating! Thanks for sharing, I had never heard of this. I'd love to compare these contemporary but robust vectors against the ones I've generated from historical but messy data.
@benmschmidt I've also got a jupyter notebook here (https://t.co/yhodYKQg3z), a long &amp; messy log of notes and code that got me here. Still newish to logistic regression, so if you do take a look and spot anything, let me know. The relevant functions are "classify" &amp; "classify_from_crosstabs".
@benmschmidt It's predicting whether a noun is an object or a human, given how often it instantiates the 2000 most frequent SyntacticRelation_Words, like "dobj_taste" (meaning, noun X was object of "taste"). I use a leave-one-out cross-val to check model and then infer probs for unknown words https://t.co/EWcRptFkzw
@brisvegas1 @scott_bot Not yet! though I'm happy to answer Qs. It's for my dissertation, which I'm rushing to complete at the moment, though I do hope to find a time to write up a blog post about this sooner or later!
@Ted_Underwood No you're right, that's really interesting. I suspect that abstractions that are 'inhuman' in the C18 (like "joy," "care" "praise") got that way because they were often objects—one can "taste" joy (n=15 in 1700-25), "sing" praise, etc. Maybe that kind of objecthood winnows away?
@Fykomfei Yeah, it's a very tricky question. A word can function more or less abstractly in different contexts and periods (Raymond Williams is really good at showing this for words like "culture," etc). I've tried to come at this question computationally elsewhere: https://t.co/TiIioYINaW
h/t to methods developed by @Ted_Underwood, @dbamman, and Sabrina Lee in their article "The Transformation of Gender in English-Language Fiction" (https://t.co/USfmvyostj), which I've tried to adapt and rebuild for a human-vs-nonhuman context
For my chapter on personification, I'm exploring ways machine learning can help us trace the 'human likeness' of non-human nouns across history. Given only which verbs a noun like 'nation' is a subject or object of, how human-like does the noun appear to the model? https://t.co/AeTRhMOrjB
I like Pelosi, but the gap between her political centrality to the party, and AOC's spiritual centrality to it, is definitely going to become an issue at some point... https://t.co/PuLojFMh46
To all my friends who allow read receipts on their iMessages: I salute your honesty and courage.
@noahrwarren say more
RT @helaeve : after (so) many error messages and (so) many edits, i've published my first ever article, co-written w/ @_akpiper; it's about gender bias in 1,300 contemporary novels https://t.co/cRWFjTATH1
@pgilbert142001 @Ted_Underwood Me too! I used to go up to the MS-DOS computer we had in the house and type into it, "Hello! how are you?" to which it would always respond, COMMAND NOT RECOGNIZED.
@B_C_Richardson so what I'm hearing from what you're saying is that the inhuman quantities of tubs of peanut butter I ate while we were roommates left an impression on you
hear me out: girl scout thin mint cookies, with JIF peanut butter
When we talk about what Netflix "knows" about us, how it "recommends" things to us, are we personifying the company or the algorithm? Corporate personhood has a long history, but that it blurs into the personhood of AI feels v distinctive of whatever stage of capitalism we're in.
@Shxperienced Rebecca you light up everyone you interact with. I had such a blast hanging out together at DH in Montreal! I'm so proud to know you and to be on your team
though the orientation video we just saw, "Ideals Made Real," was both incredibly cheesy and deeply moving
jury duty is like waiting for an airplane you hope never comes
RT @a_e_lang : I’ve been feeling the need for an accessible, lit-friendly explanation of word embeddings, &amp; finally got around to writing one: https://t.co/VAXVt0gaOT (with requisite shout-outs to @quadrismegistus, @Michael_A_Gavin, Lee et al’s work in @CulturalAnalyt &amp; @benmschmidt)
A new fundamental question for the humanities: what does it mean that, at the same time that we're disappearing in our own departments, we're being cloned elsewhere: in corporate labs and data science departments as part of an effort to create ever more complex artificial humans? https://t.co/cbrjQr0wbm
Naomi Osaka is unstoppable and mesmerizing to watch play https://t.co/albZD04uh9
RT @LBMcGrath : For @LAReviewofBooks, I wrote about racial discrimination in publishing and “the most important data you’ve never heard of”: comp titles. https://t.co/Kh0BmPBgl3
RT @mellymeldubs : When I learned poet Mary Oliver died last Thursday, I started archiving tweets that mentioned her name. Within the last few days, there have been over 100,000 tweets mourning Mary Oliver in 38 different languages:  https://t.co/drPkoiyojg
@nickgreergkcin Yeah, probably better to find it streaming somewhere. There's a good English dub, too. e.g. https://t.co/niq9rZHbaS
@nickgreergkcin Do you know "Reign: The Conqueror"? Also animated by Peter Chung. Story of Alexander the Great, told through a rotating psychedelic prism as an erotic cyberpunk fantasy: Aristotle has a face tattoo, Darius has an army of flying machines, &amp; the Pythagoreans shoot triangle bullets https://t.co/ZmZktrENIt
RT @Ted_Underwood : I wrote a book. It's both about new approaches to literary history and about a few specific discoveries. Even if you hate the thesis, you'll need a copy to cite in your exposé; plus, it's cheap and has a lovely cover! Out in March; pre-order at Chicago https://t.co/LSizL8ugqR. https://t.co/EnYNFtahgw
RT @hoytlong : @RichardJeanSo and I have a new co-authored piece out exploring the intersection of race, religion, and US novel. We examine the categorical variable as site of racist thinking and as a means to deform such thinking via analysis of large-scale patterns. https://t.co/7Gll1azUJD
I always love a good "where is the bathroom light switch?" European challenge. My hotel room has stumped me so far but I'm sure it's around here somewhere.
@V21collective but there are so many more of them out there in the wild! https://t.co/sqJyN1dOAM
RT @eianklam : Bummed about the gutting of @EastBayExpress's editorial staff. The thimble-sized $ pool for Bay Area journalism is constantly dismaying, and something better is so clearly possible. https://t.co/awNAAX11fH
@ETreharne doch! (my favorite German word): 2017. From "The Incorporeal: Ontology, Ethics, and the Limits of Materialism" (Columbia UP). Though I take your point(?): "new materialism" isn't exactly new anymore...
“With the rise of so-called new materialism, it is perhaps necessary to simultaneously call into being a new idealism, no longer Platonic, Cartesian, or Hegelian in its structure, that refuses to separate materiality from ... ideality, resisting any reduction”   -Elizabeth Grosz
@j0_0n CENTURY WARS https://t.co/FLuMoCt7J8
tired: an historical period  wired: an historical process
@UnrealCitoyenne one of my favorite fade-outs of all time!
btw if you haven't seen The Favourite yet ... .what are you doing go see it. it's so good
I appreciate this defense of "criticism"—especially in its artistic ambitions, which I think we should acknowledge more often and cultivate—but I don't understand why it needs to come at the expense of theory. Theory is absolutely an art and a humanities. https://t.co/LGeTgY0IZl
Always fun when, during job application season, your professional website is hacked into a giant advertisement for Viagra. (should be fixed now but hoo boy...)
oh, the panels we’ve missed along the way
.@RichardJeanSo uses word embedding models to uncover an implicit language of whiteness in post-war Random House novels which emphasizes intellectual forms of identity (critic, sociologist, writer) -- a discourse Richard calls, following Mark McGurl, a narcissistic "autopoesis"
.@jdporterlive mines the Alexander Street Press corpus of 20th century drama to reveal a massive representational disparity: in raw numbers, white playwrights include half as many black characters as black playwrights, despite appearing more than ten times as often in the corpus.
.@laurenfklein uses topic models and tfidf to find the topics distinctive of particular women editors of abolitionist newspapers, in order to zero in on their specific influences and concerns and make visible their editorial work which was often not officially recognized
Just arrived at what is sure to be a fascinating DH panel:  "Digital and Computational Approaches to Race, Gender, and Literature," with @laurenfklein, @RichardJeanSo, @jdporterlive, and @jmjafrx. In Hyatt Regency - Columbian. Come on down! https://t.co/1Q64akAj7Y #ml19 #s068
hi tweeps, I'm at MLA and I'm not exactly sure why. If anyone wants to grab a coffee/meal/drink, DM me? would love to hang, and also meet IRL some of you I only know from this hellscape called twitter dot com
RT @MModernity : Find out about the history of universities through "Secret Societies!" Read  @Mowhan's new post on The Discipline blog, edited by @LAHeffernan. https://t.co/hyhvELnXgA
RT @rbuurma : REALLY wish I wasn't going to miss this brilliant #MLA19 panel tomorrow with @RichardJeanSo, @laurenfklein (speaking about her work w the @CCP_org corpus), @jdporterlive,  and @jmjafrx. Please someone tweet about it? https://t.co/ZRlARUNaQY
@wickettred well, at the very least, don't wait places by sitting on top of your carry-on and reading a giant edition of Capital
it’s sooo easy to guess who’s an MLAer in the airport
@V21collective Follow-up poll: Do you hope that you appear on someone else's ranked list of academic nemeses?
@SethRudy under my bed wrapped in blackout curtains
@DanAShore probably
materiality is a black box
If you ever want to devastate an academic (incl. me), ask them what *else* they do with their life.
i've never actually used a tote bag in my life
@Ted_Underwood @jtootalian @Michael_A_Gavin @S_moores Jonathan Kramnick and Anahid Nersessian argue DH misconstrues (literary) form in their Critical Inquiry piece (part of a broader critique of interdisciplinarity): https://t.co/eWYA6IZFfD
@Ted_Underwood For the same reason, though, maybe a great theme for 2018 and Twitter. I feel like both have brought back morality, moral claims, communities of moral sentiment, and all the rest of it, in a big new way that's yet to be really thought through.
@zugenia I'm dying @ "I refill globes better than Jesus Claus, yet still my twins are dad-free."
RT @HeerJeet : Nobody ever told us dystopia was going to be so stupid.
@scottjshapiro Me: “here’s my first draft of a cover letter” Advisor: *reads for a few seconds, takes out a pen, makes two swift marks, hands it back to me*  Me: *sees the giant X covering the entire page* Advisor: “come back tomorrow”
@oleg_sobchuk Wow, congratulations Oleg!!! Flipping through this now and it looks incredible!!
@RuedasOmar https://t.co/8WptCo99jW
@noahrwarren https://t.co/DTOEgZJW90
what stage of capitalism is this? https://t.co/O6G4CN9WHf
@V21collective True story: years ago I did a mail merge to send something out for the Lab to hundreds of professors, and to this day they all show up in phone as "contacts", all starting with "P" for "Prof"! Still haven't figured out how to undo that much less work up the courage to try again..
can't wait til I'm a prof so I can email multiple professors at the same time rather than copying/pasting my message to each individually in digital obeisance
RT @andrea_crafty : The limits to #culturalcapital @uicgeo https://t.co/qme5Pdqml7
I mean, what if we all tried to stop fetishizing tenure and and other hierarchies of prestige which needlessly narrow the space of positions within the academy and constrain how we all work together and relate to our own and collective labor?
love being an adult and needing a doodle poll to schedule hanging out with my friends weeks in advance
RT @jellevanlottum : Heavy traffic! This map shows routes of #Dutch, #English and #Swedish East India companies, based on the amazing #CLIWOC dataset (thanks @stvno!). The data is based on naval logbook records; here I only show data pre-1800. #twttterstorians #AsianTwitter #maritimehistory #VOC https://t.co/vXhHInE7Jg
Sometimes I wish we had a secular discourse of Sin: a way of condemning wrong action without falling into a fairytale psychology where evil people do evil things out of their evil nature. Evil passes through us all.
I wonder whether commodity fetishism needs updating for the digital age?... Is it really the materiality of digital commodities that obscures the social relations between ppl? The materiality of digital things seems equally obscured, hidden by a secondary illusion of the virtual.
the skype interface is like a jar of melted jolly ranchers
@Electrostani @brandontlocke The results of that project were also published (with varying emphases and content) as a book chapter in Literary Mapping in the Digital Age (https://t.co/B4QuaFcZLJ); as a Literary Lab pamphlet (https://t.co/JLrnJo1zhA); and as an NLR article (https://t.co/yrLeGZKTW1).
wearing the exact same jacket every day is my teddy bear
anyone know of digital humanities work on animal studies?
@V21collective Also: thank *you*, V21 Collective! Very grateful for all the fun and fascinating conversations you've started and facilitated, both on twitter and in the wider world. Thanks!
RT @hoytlong : An exciting opportunity for scholars seeking to bridge the gap between DH and studies of the African American novel. @ProjectHBW and Chicago Text Lab are working to digitize 1250 novels and support new digital projects. Here's a preview of what's to come: https://t.co/fCixTspJwT https://t.co/w8bvh7pjAJ
@dan_sinykin Congratulations! An immense achievement
@matthewharrison Right? Who knows! it's a totally new, reinvented wheel!
What's wrong with reinventing the wheel? I mean imagine how exciting that would be
If you're going to San Fran cis co Be sure to wear A mask around your face https://t.co/35uWuLNU1g
@scott_bot Also interested in just a distant description of how bad ratio tweets seem to work. And how they are positioned in existing social network structures of mediation, especially its polarized and fractured communities of circulation.
@scott_bot This is so interesting! Yeah, what *are* the predictors of bad ratio tweets? What's the best model for it, given a user's history, their network position, and the tweet's content, its words, semantics, syntax, emojis, images, and other things?
Someone needs to do a DH study of the language correlating with high ratio tweets.  Also: it's interesting how social media is itself already 'DH' in the sense that the 'ratio' quantifies or operationalizes, as a DH study might do, the bad-take-yness of a tweet. https://t.co/0Vv9JwQpFQ
@V21collective @Ted_Underwood A diagram of diachrony hypostatizes history into a shape, a form, which is neither past nor present, but outside the diachrony it reveals. (maybe?) This is why my favorite approaches to presentism, including V21's, explore this capacity of space to transmute time.
@V21collective ^ why I'm interested in the quasi-spatial approaches to history in @Ted_Underwood's work and other hyper-distant readings. A 4-century trend-line seems to exceed both historicism's obsession with contextualization and specificity and presentism's emphasis on now-ness and presence
@V21collective Maybe so, &amp; I'm probably being unfair to presentism, especially V21-style, strategic presentism. I just wonder whether the binary of present/past can be overcome more completely: I'm intrigued by how the transhistorical doesn't need "the present" as a tool or origin for analysis.
@RColesworthy @MichaelaWriting @Ted_Underwood Both models are v refreshing and I think we need more work like them! My tweet was really just a late-night brainflash about how the whole historicism-vs-presentism debate feels so dialectically blocked, and how the transhistorical may be just the key we need to get over it.
@RColesworthy Yep! I'm a big fan of @MichaelaWriting's work on the transhistorical as a relational framework among historical contexts. As a DHer I'm also interested in the transhistoricity of the trend-line, of time-become-space, which @Ted_Underwood's new DISTANT HORIZONS theorizes so well.
historicism vs. presentism badly needs some kind of sublation into an actual account of the transhistorical
"Scholars used to work on only a handful of texts, but now, **lightning flashes** with computation, we have analyzed hundreds of thousands of novels, **thunder** with billions of words and trillions of data-points! ha, haha, bwahaha, BWAHAHAHAHA"  -the Manic Moment of the DH talk
@scottenderle No.
RT @rcmidura : dynamic network of cities as linked by postal routes over 150 years of printed itineraries #digitalhistory https://t.co/Q9PoBYCcNJ
RT @LBMcGrath : It's publication day for Measuring Modernist Novelty! @devinhhi, Arend Hintze and I are SO pleased to have this essay out in @CulturalAnalyt. https://t.co/lMZGTvPtS3
RT @HumansOfLate : https://t.co/VSVJ3AxIIl
@rcmidura The Phases of the Hairball
RT @infinite_scream : AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Just sent in a paper proposal to #ACH2019 and you should, too! It's the inaugural conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities, which only happens once kids, so you should definitely submit—because otherwise the FOMO will be bad, very bad. https://t.co/ThUUxKEpOr
Literary Language Processing (LLP)
mixed results, mixed feelings, mixed with heartbreak... Florida, my home state, almost elected Gillum, was this close to finally being on the right side of history... but instead it moved even further from it, giving Nelson's seat to Scott. how? how can this still happen?
For last minute California voters (like me!): Here is my voter's guide to the tougher choices on the California ballot -- i.e. those where you can't just pick the Democrat. Also for Alameda County and the City of Oakland.  VOTE! It makes you feel good.  https://t.co/tY6PWOAJbB
RT @ryancordell : American sh*t for Democracy Day: + Bald eagle costume contest + Calling every f@cking feather macaroni  + Fireworks dodgeball + Constitutional crisis drills + Synchronized butter carving + John Philip Sousaraoke  + gd apple pie + kicking wannabe tin-pot dictators TF out of office https://t.co/L0DRQxZacY
it's crazy that we celebrate Columbus Colonialism Day but not Democracy Day... how fun would it be if we all took tomorrow off, to lie around, vote, and I dunno do some American sh*t and bbq or something
Which nouns are most likely to be the subjects of sentences? And how has that likelihood changed over time—in poetry, a genre where grammatical subjecthood is manipulated by forms of personification? Historically, autumn's agency falls; commerce's waxes and wanes; &amp; child's rises https://t.co/iX4WFItpok
AI has gone "beyond the pleasure principle," as Freud would say https://t.co/jOAJBzsuPn
RT @VillageOakland : A huge fire just devastated the encampment at East 12&amp; 23rd, which had its fire hydrant’s water cut off by City of Oakland two weeks ago.   Folks on the ground are reporting victims’ asks: https://t.co/pFFWamEp8J
RT @GabrielHankins : Very Vague Job at Carleton, apparently on no job list: "seeks to hire a Full, Associate or advanced Assistant Professor in Humanities and Technology whose work focuses on the humanistic dimensions and implications of new and emerging technologies" https://t.co/3SWddFUpP4
@MichaelaWriting Oh wow cool! Would love to talk more.
Would an easy way to reconcile historicism and presentism just be to historicize a theme backwards, from the present to the past? has anyone tried this? a "Memento Pedagogy"?
data realism: a social relation between us all, united in our mutual subordination to the reality of the digital, to the permanence of our digital traces permanently bringing us advertisements for shoes.
@Ted_Underwood Hm.....  Tell us more about this Yak.
@laurenfklein @benmschmidt @lincolnmullen I'm teaching "Literary Text Mining" in the spring with Python... first time (gulp), but I'm in the same boat: concerned I should be teaching R, since it *does* seem pedagogically simpler somehow, but also uncomfortable because I tend to never use R unless I absolutely have to...
@benmschmidt Wow, thanks for all of this Ben! So, use case Q: if I wanted to "map" sections of novels against your your broader SRP/map of Hathi Trust, I would download the Zenodo binary, as well as generate my own binary, and combine the matrices (which I can do since both are stable)?
@hkpmw A+ tweet
There's a way in which it now seems to me that humanity's greatest mistake was secularization... a gradual desecration of all that is sacred until, now, this.
@dan_sinykin ya I mean it's a f*n masterpiece of an album and their most original definitely but it's also a cold strange half-alien meal ... vs The Bends whose shredded angst is perfect, just perfect, just soooo warm and delicious
@Carrillo_Lupe yes! another underappreciated one I think
@dan_sinykin ok fine u can @ me if u want
The Bends is the best radiohead album don't @ me
Considering switching from Python 2 to 3. For those who made the switch, is 3 stable yet?  :P
RT @jdporterlive : This was a really fun post to write (on the popularity and prestige of New York magazine's 21st century canon). It wound up covering a lot more Harry Potter than I expected, but it's tough to argue with every child in the world! https://t.co/7bYM48TOjP
RT @CulturalAnalyt : New article by @pfyfe and Qian Ge on using image analytics to study 19C newspapers! https://t.co/wfI4lzSadH https://t.co/8Kwj91qgdE
RT @DrLucaScholz : This is a pretty nice visualization: https://t.co/GX4qSijaoO
@clured 14/10, would type
@ClaudeWillan @LXt0r omg congratulations!!!
Carl Sagan is the Bernie Sanders of scientists. https://t.co/pvQwofuxtq
RT @unsojo : Happy to promote #deeplearning for #history. Our new paper identifies historical moments of linguistic disruption using sequence based neural nets. https://t.co/YLDZi1dx64 #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory
I suspect that part of the attraction of Genre as a concept is that under cover of extension (these things people *called* novels) it smuggles in intension (novel-ness, its abstraction or form).
@rcmidura would love to hear more about this! have been working with ESTC
@ClaudeWillan @scott_bot right?? love this and I hope you write those essays, would love to read!
@scott_bot longitudinal studies show consistent levels of high redundancy, low entropy
@scott_bot Totally! (he said, as data streaming from the corporate cloud was beamed via bluetooth directly into his ears) Plus, how often am I in front of this damn laptop? What % of my experience does it make up? ...
is "phenomenology of data" a thing yet? like tfw when you start to really *feel* your data... you're inside it, you found its being-there.
get you someone who says your name the way Carl Sagan says "100 billion" https://t.co/tXFl8L846P
@UnrealCitoyenne Double jinx!
But also look how the left trusts Amazon now more than Colleges, Google not far behind. As if we lived in a corporate theocracy, our most sacred institutions a search engine and a online shopping website.
No srsly look where "Colleges &amp; Universities" is here in this ranking of the most trusted institutions among conservatives: near the bottom. Just above Congress, unions, political parties, Facebook, and the press. https://t.co/VEuAQQoK5A
what is it about Walgreens that dooms you to wander about the aisles looking for soap
@rachie_claire gemini here with moon in scorpio so I feel you on this
@UnrealCitoyenne how’s that caffeine treatin ya? :)
@V21collective hm, even my first costume idea, "Sexy Anxious ABD on the Market"?
ok, costume idea: "Sexy Carl Sagan"?
RT @jeddobson : The University of Illinois Press has released the cover image, description, and two really wonderful blurbs for my second book, Critical Digital Humanities: The Search for a Methodology! #cdh #dh #digitalhumanities https://t.co/DgWgvam3NI https://t.co/sRaw1Fk1oF
ME: oh no, i just changed my shoes to boots and now my belt doesn't match! MY BELT (*wah-wah-wah* reversing like a transformer): no worries I got u
I've said this before but I really do think the visual turn of social media has brought back allegory in a big new way. https://t.co/pzip2dZyvj
Funny how mood plays into editing. Right now I'm in a great mood and all my sentences from yesterday seem great, wonderful, hey not bad! But we'll see about that. Later, when I'm just the right amount of cranky, I'll find the objective truth!...
RT @CaseyMillsDavis : https://t.co/eD0E022mc0
Check out this incredible interactive DH visualization of Jay Z's sampling practices across his career. https://t.co/qgTLS15sbs
RT @BlakeDontCrack : People love the aesthetic of revolution but hate the politics of revolutuon.
@MJPhillips @V21collective the Bible! ye heathens...
Staggeringly beautiful visualization of recent philosophy's citation network, though with depressing results. Someone needs to do this for literary studies! https://t.co/cXnd1pLnNe
There are some albums I listen to over and over again on airplanes and in airports that whenever I hear them later on they bring me back to that state of mind, of exhaustion, of bad coffee, cramped legs and a boredom stretched out so far that it becomes a kind of quiet grace.
@JonathaNgrams ah i see, that's your Canadian Code Name. like "Wolverine"
@kvanaren rawr I'm Dragon Lion
@RichardJeanSo cool, but kinda annoying how these kinds of programs (and their write-ups) usually fail to mention digital humanities, which has of course been imagining and developing bilingualism in the academy for decades...
lol remember "geocities"? its urban imagining of cyberspace now feels so quant, and innocent. like Portland
@SethRudy well g*shd*rnit of course. and I don't go too crazy on the caffeine either: I'm ***HALF CAF***
Newish barista at my regular coffee shop saw me and said, "half-caf americano?" "how'd you know," I said. "oh I remember you, you're the Half Caf Guy." so that's it folx, that's how I became the supervillain bada** known as "Half Caf"
twitter is a global melodrama
@cejarvis oh fun! this way I can also do the Ode Zone
Has anyone argued for a *Very* Long Eighteenth Century yet? Maybe 1603-1901, to start with the Jacobean and end with Victorian. It would emphasize C18's position as a hinge period between early and late modernity, and be a hat-tip to new distant histories digital and pedagogical.
RT @dan_sinykin : This line-up is *exceptional*  (I might be biased) https://t.co/RZ9DebUZQU
@V21collective nah, Baskerville for life
RT @benmschmidt : I have a new article in CA on dimensionality reduction for digital libraries. https://t.co/VUWtQjllHy. Let me walk through one figure, Eames power-of-10 style, that shows a machine clustering of all 14 million books in the collection--including most of the books you've read. https://t.co/O5hngcDHsT
RT @sassygravy : With the climate change news that just came out, I wanted to remind everyone of this fact https://t.co/DG3JiLps9q
RT @Stevie_DG : Here's where to channel some anger https://t.co/rDe9ju4yCw
Just donated. https://t.co/rKN5QkIWem
@kgeographer https://t.co/1xzPrfliLI
keep it classy, Society of Fellows that charges its 1000s of applicants $25 each
puns and commodities are related somehow
@gregory_palermo ahhh I see. I tend to overuse hyphens so wanted to check. thanks!
quick grammar Q: "literary-critical argument" or "literary critical argument" ?
RT @StonehillDigLab : JOB: come work with us! Seeking applications for a specialist in digital pedagogy and scholarship. https://t.co/s3jdxgWrmW
@kvanaren @cejarvis @matthewharrison *crickets*
@cejarvis woah weird
guys there are these wet things falling from the sky. ???
RT @DHBerkeley : Join us for Laura McGrath's lecture,"Corporate Style: The Effect of Comp Titles on Contemporary Literature," this Thu, Oct. 4th at 5:30pm in the Townsend Center! @LBMcGrath https://t.co/uVLfrR5Bhv
@cejarvis @kvanaren @matthewharrison https://t.co/48XF1JxZ0W
@cejarvis @matthewharrison to be fair you could do that ~250 years ago https://t.co/Xos0cIuhjZ
@cejarvis @matthewharrison woah i'm not sure i've ever noticed that. but ya'll i can't change now i've been spelling it this way my whole life
@cejarvis @matthewharrison wow didn't think *this* would be my most unpopular tweet ever, but i trust you guys
@Lenora_DW ABD Killjoy is my new halloween costume
ya'll get that halloween is at the *end* of the month right
RT @mellymeldubs : Why is James Baldwin a #BlackLivesMatter muse?  In my new AQ essay, I analyze Baldwin’s presence in a massive archive of Ferguson &amp; Black Lives Matter tweets from 2014-2015 (big thanks to @dfreelon, @cmcilwain, &amp; @meredithdclark for sharing this data set)  https://t.co/5AVVGPJFqD https://t.co/XXAV31QLSh
@LKonstan Short stories are long by social media standards. "Cat Person" is ~7,450 words. If that's average, and if the avg. reading speed is ~250words/min, then short stories take ~30 minutes to read. Maybe all written forms seem slow today? Thus the new visual turn to gifs, emojis, etc..
RT @hkpmw : A late take, but: I’ve seen some confusion about how Republicans on the Judiciary Committee could acknowledge that CBF seemed credible, &amp; even seem to feel sorry for her, while sharing BK’s outrage that the process was happening at all. (1/25)
Addison and Steele are the Obama and Biden of the eighteenth century.
Sure, memes are annoying, but it is kinda interesting how they provide a visual syntax, a set of relations—a form—in which any new content, any new semantics, can be placed, thereby generating new visual thoughts—neo-allegories—that eventually turn inward on themselves like this. https://t.co/8lQYLMv2rY
RT @literarylab : Pamphlet 17, "Popularity/Prestige", by @jdporterlive, is out: https://t.co/aYBstTaBr6
o hey America it's California, just woke up, what'd I miss? https://t.co/ceOw25M1o9
this sick little weasel thinks he can yell at senator f*ng feinstein?
That was the most pathetic and disgusting thing I have ever seen or heard.
RT @guycecil : Courage. https://t.co/SrdqWOnqxu
@V21collective For Aristotle, arguably the first philosopher to theorize abstraction—which only became necessary as part of his empiricist rejection of Plato's Forms—to abstract is to take the form of an object into the soul as separate from its matter. Abstraction has always been about form.
wtf is this airplane deconstruction bs
woo boy great opening Assley
@abasu_ yes thank god the corpora are all still here! lol, ya, man, what have we become when my data getting stolen is scarier than my apartment getting robbed.
@pgilbert142001 Yep! Thanks for asking (and @matthewharrison too). Just need to lock my windows all the time I suppose. Everyone else in building ok and safe. So, ok as it could be it seems! ... .. . ...Unless it was the FBI..... ... .
@matthewharrison Totally. I feel like they were even kinda polite, like they didn't even leave that much of a mess to be honest. I was out with my fancy computer, and they didn't take my fancy bike through a window, so. If I didn't know any better I'd almost be offended, but I clearly don't, so
Was robbed today. Just came home to my window wide open, drawers on my bed, stuff on the floor. But joke's on them because I own literally nothing of value. Ha!
@AmusingGrace21 Happy birthday Siena!
RT @VoteChoice : HAPPENING NOW: @AdyBarkan bring arrested as he courageously puts his body on the line. ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #BelieveSurvivors #CancelKavanagh https://t.co/QKCRsUlXCi
Ah, the perfect mix of constitutional crisis, Supreme Court crisis, and academic job applications.
@KatiSchardl @RobGMacfarlane I love this tree! I thought of it when I saw the original post's tree: they look similar!
great job NYT
@Ted_Underwood @DanAShore He def ended up with a Romantic definition! ("poetry is feeling confessing itself to itself" etc.) More broadly: I think it's good that we often make intensional, and not only extensional claims about literature: with "the lyric" as a concept or form, and not only a body of texts
@DanAShore I think it's tricky: "novel" could be a statement about all or most novels (generalization), or it could be a statement about novel-ness (abstraction). When Mill writes that "poetry" is overheard, does he mean that all/most poems are overheard, or is poem-ness language overheard?
@Ted_Underwood I really like this idea of the negative space of corpora, and I bet a DH attuned to that could go new places. For the Lukacs Q: for me, I'm not sure that Lukacs' "the novel", which indexes the loss of meaning's immanence in life, can be arrived at through any real generalizations
@KatherineBode Yeah, this is already complicated even before data gets thrown in! I wonder if a better place to go to to think about these questions is not DH but formalism, which today also seems to be trying to recuperate the *abstractness* of form: Levine's "abstract organizing principle" &amp;c
@DanAShore To say things about "the novel" might be to generalize about what most novels are like. But "the novel" might also be an abstraction like "the lyric," which seems less a generalization about most lyric poems than an attempt to articulate a lyric-*ness* as a form or quality.
RT @LKonstan : Working on a prospectus for a hypothetical scholarly project on the publishing industry, I have come to an important conclusion: When they merged, they really should have called themselves Random Penguin House. https://t.co/Y1AkIZZ0yf
Not a knock on DH or data, statistics, etc, which really do help us generalize about cultural history. But something feels unexamined in the transition from critical to quantitative language: a kind of slippage where abstractions (eg the novel) are assumed to be generalizations.
Common DH assumption I'm no longer sure of: when critics talk about "the novel," they really mean *novels*—thus we need data, statistics, etc. But "the novel" is obvi a complex term. It'd be silly e.g. to dis/prove Lukacs' "novel"—for him the loss of immanent meaning!—via novels.
@SethRudy Cowper?
@DanAShore @AaronRHanlon @Ted_Underwood @cwellmon It *is* the status quo in our research, except our research tends to shy away from longue duree arguments. But more importantly, in our teaching, we tend to center periodization over theme: esp. in "coverage" requirements, both in the curriculum and (relatedly) in the faculty.
@AaronRHanlon @Ted_Underwood @cwellmon @DanAShore Yes, exactly, this is what I'd like to see: a re-centering of big themes and ideas that have contemporary relevance and appeal, but presented and analyzed in their dialectical (historical, material, social, political, literary, etc) unfolding.
@cwellmon @Ted_Underwood @DanAShore @AaronRHanlon That said—now I'm a hypocrite, but—it strikes me that current disciplinary boundaries can only beg the question of what the future of the humanities could be. eg Kramnick's &amp; Nersessian's CritInq argument against interdisciplinary notions of "form" only begs the question of form.
@cwellmon @Ted_Underwood @DanAShore @AaronRHanlon Sure, but, how central to today's sociology is Weber's? Sincere question. My unfair caricature of social science is that its ambition to be a 'science' has brought with it bits of positivism, which make English's garden varieties of historical materialism harder to grow there...?
@Ted_Underwood @DanAShore @AaronRHanlon You know social science way better than I do, but, can you really get the same dialectical edge in sociology or anthropology? Maybe what I like about English is that (in our research at least) we get both history *and* theme: we "historicize" a theme, and see it in its unfolding.
@DanAShore @Ted_Underwood @AaronRHanlon My original reason would be gone, too—I majored in English to assemble a sense of how literature and culture got to where I stood—but reasons for doing things can (and maybe should) change. Tbh, I *keep* doing the humanities because I can't get its dialectical edge anywhere else.
RT @Devo3000 : A bunch of us had public a conversation about the problem of periodization on FB last week, which I gathered into a Google Doc here. Really fascinating discussion of administrative, cultural, political, and economic pressures on the English curriculum. https://t.co/19i1oNFqoA
RT @Ted_Underwood : Everyone in data-rich lit. history should read @KatherineBode's World of Fiction. Beyond the well-known definition of "a scholarly edition of a literary system" there are e.g. chapters using topic modeling in a new way and exploring limits of network viz. https://t.co/yFpVYdofeL
@minhyoungsong Agreed! I look up to Thomas Pavel here, who is a maestro of the plot summary, especially in his talks. Check out his delightful Heliodorus summary e.g.: https://t.co/CsNvZ7shdJ
RT @ASECS_DH : "Questioning the Canon: DH and the 18th Century Classroom" is still seeking participants for #ASECS19. This roundtable is designed to broadly think about questions of how to use #DH in the #c18 classroom, and how those practices question, reinforce, or subvert ideas of canonicity https://t.co/nIKIO3wCcr
So, I've lost the thread. Ford (who btw is a goddamn hero) wants the FBI to investigate her allegations before the hearing. Who's in charge of making that happen? The Justice Department? The Judiciary Committee? the FBI? Do we have any reason to hope the FBI will investigate?
lol. I miss DK https://t.co/SfEAVpWdo8
RT @AdyBarkan : Yes! @JeffFlake there is still time for you to #BeAHero. https://t.co/MgGCzoDOB5
@benmschmidt @Ted_Underwood @BtwnHouseHome @gregory_palermo @_John_Handel Cool data! Could you please explain the numbers? Bit confused.
“Bless me, Sir, the child's in a fit. My mistress bid me run as fast as I could to know [what to christen him.] ‘Trismegistus,’ said my father—But stay—thou art a leaky vessel, Susannah; canst thou carry Trismegistus in thy head, the length of the gallery without scattering?” https://t.co/c8GaUDXFBy
@feinsod @Ted_Underwood I'm teaching this spring "Literary Text Mining," which satisfies the "Applied Quantitative Reasoning" requirement, but not the "Formal Reasoning" (logic/math) req. The course will def be more programming than stats, but it's also def "applied," focusing on real literary questions
@abasu_ Wow I bet! Yeah, I wonder what it is. There's maybe a kind of charming vulnerability to concentration, to struggling quietly and mentally in public.
It's strangely intimate to watch people work.
RT @JimEnglishPenn : look at the great stuff forthcoming in @CulturalAnalyt --required reading for cultural sociologists as well as literary DHers https://t.co/vjmeTT5emw
@Stevie_DG @Devo3000 @minhyoungsong @Ted_Underwood @V21collective Another kind of performance to emulate perhaps is an actor reading a script? I personally don't mind read talks, but a talk has only as much life as you breathe into it, by putting the right emotion and tension and emphasis and pauses into the script.
Also, have to say, lately my feeling about the whole accusation that DH is complicit in the neoliberal university is: fine. If DH can help keep the humanities alive by demonstrating how it can train students to participate in the labor market, then, so be it. https://t.co/RyZXzKaiPW
I think the broader question here is how to sell Literature in today's labor market: e.g. Literature not as aesthetic richness, but as a complex form of language that presents more intricate challenges to CS, natural language processing, etc, than yesterday's Wall Street Journal. https://t.co/OHrY9GW5Mw
@abasu_ Yeah, good point. A truly balanced hybrid major would have to accommodate students coming from either end of the disciplinary divide, with very different backgrounds/proficiencies. I feel like this could be managed?—tracks? emphases? 2 versions of CS101?—but challenging for sure.
@khetiwe24 @markhneedham @Mark_A_H @literarylab @neo4j Yeah, it was kind of experimental. We had a node in the graph DB for authors, texts, and words. An edge from a word to a text indicated its frequency in that text. It was cool and worked, but too slowly for queries from a web interface. Though, maybe that was my fault? Dunno.
RT @kudeki : I DJed in front of a camera and now it's on YouTube https://t.co/yWeMsikSWx
@friede @MaeveKane Thanks both (and @heatherfro) for letting me know the real situation on the ground. I was hoping that the commodity of the butt-in-seat would make these hybrid majors a way to help humanities float. But it looks like things are designed against precisely this kind of possibility!
@friede @MaeveKane Wow. This all sounds like academic gerrymandering!
@friede Hm, here's where I realize that as a grad student I actually don't really know anything about the politics of majors, budgets, course availability, etc. Would love to hear more, though: how would it slash our budgets? I believe you, just don't follow.
@benmschmidt @KatherineBode Unionization. Cross-rank solidarity.  @goldstoneandrew wrote eloquently about this: https://t.co/gYVW3EsaK8  Also?: faculty covering each other's courses when on leave, instead of adjuncts = more need for profs. something I learned from @Devo3000's thread: https://t.co/AhUp7fIDm7
@benmschmidt @KatherineBode Maybe so. But I guess it's all related, too: if we could boost enrollments, we could save some jobs; if we could work collectively against adjunctification, we could save some jobs; etc. But you're right that limiting the number of PhDs helps contain the fallout on people's lives
@Ted_Underwood That sounds right. Stanford introduced a "CS+X" (CS + anything!) major a few years, to much fanfare. English got only one applicant. Why swap out useful CS courses? So we do need to theorize the relation to X: one *needs* an X, say, otherwise you have no real-world skillset, etc.
@benmschmidt @KatherineBode That's probably a needed adaptation. But I think the humanities crisis is broader than the jobs crisis, though maybe the latter is the most pressing part. I think we all prob want to preserve a world in which the humanities thrive, and so protect enrollments and programs also.
@Dorialexander You're right, "problem domain" is a weak descriptor for what I think the humanities does, does well, and could do more of if we had access to more students. Attention to detail, complexity, sources, origins, biases, etc—all part of the daily practice and ethics of the humanities.
Maybe that sounds like a cheap deal for the humanities, to be plundered for content, but it also puts the humanities in a position they love to be in: a position of critique, of nuance, of dialectical resistance to the easy scientism at the other end of the major—and university.
Pedagogy proposal: why not collaborate more with programs in statistics, computer science, etc, to create hybrid majors where science gets half the classes as a method, and humanities gets the other half as a problem domain: a space of questions, challenges, histories, cultures?
@KatherineBode you're probably right. I'd like to see us find a way to estimate how much change we need to make. The equivalent to climate modeling, measuring CO2 levels, etc. And if we need radical change, then let's think about it carefully and then do it.
@hkpmw Not a single one of God’s children should have to face my kitchen sink right now. It’s been, ah, Impossible for a while.
@KatherineBode Totally agree. And to keep having fun with the analogy: Just as we still drive cars that run on gasoline, we still live and breathe and rely on our disciplinary formations. We don't have to get rid of them: but we could at least make them hybrid or electric. adaptation helps.
@KatherineBode I agree it's hard to see the problem when we're all in different spots inside it.  About disciplinary formations being a blip in time: couldn't we say the same of the human being, though? Our species is a blip, sure, but, let's try not to be? Let's adapt, yes, but also reproduce?
The humanities crisis is the climate change of the academy: somehow we just can't seem to look it in the eye, take it seriously, and then work together to fix it.
RT @dchiasso : Sontag in @Newyorker after 9/11. The fearsome courage and clarity of this statement still amaze me. https://t.co/cbPMBl6Hwh
RT @achdotorg : The CFP for the ACH 2019 conference in Pittsburgh is open! Please consider responding with a proposal for this inaugural conference. Deadline: 11/10/2018. See https://t.co/alHHUyij3F
@hkpmw https://t.co/u8VfdzKi6e
RT @benmschmidt : I'll be on @kerathink this afternoon talking about jobs for college majors, STEM-mania, and the humanities crises: anyone have particularly insightful articles or statistics I should brush up on beforehand?
RT @LastQuake : Map of the testimonies received so far following the #earthquake M2.8 in San Francisco Bay Area, Calif. 42 min ago https://t.co/ugidhdlgjy
woah-- any Bay buds feel a baby earthquake just now?
tfw a perfectly happy, normal, smiling child turns around, sees you, then slowly stops smiling as they stare open-mouthed into your soul in quiet bemused horror
RT @AaronRHanlon : If you’re on the job market in English, and you have questions, feel free to get in touch with me. Doesn’t matter if we know each other or not. I’m no authority but have served on many SCs and am willing to help demystify what I can.
@Ted_Underwood @cejarvis @hkpmw i dunno guys “lodestar” and word obsessions are also not not a thing right?
could Trump have been elected pre-internet trolling? his election, continued popularity, and the whole cultural logic of "owning the libs," seem straight off the web.
Yo! what was I saying! DH research just got tweeted by Wikileaks this is getting even weirder guys https://t.co/HSQbyvubnO https://t.co/iIFq9AFlZM
@abasu_ beautiful! and perfect for what we're talking about
@abasu_ thinking or saying that is not—at least for me, and I suspect for others—a belief statement. it's a relaxing of the ego, a letting be, a psychological, affective event. it's also rhetorical, a mode of constructing an "I" in relation to a "Thou" that acknowledges limits to the "I"
@abasu_ really interesting about stoicism, Buddhism, Aurelius! what's funny, is this thought was brought on by wondering how to deal psychologically with the deeply intimate uncertainty of my future, being on the market. for me, the easiest, healthiest-feeling way? "It's up to God now."
@hkpmw cool! I wonder if evangelism here has a distinct stake in epistemology: it converts people with claims of knowing a transcendent truth. but I feel like in, say, catholicism it's more simply about the affective and psychological rhythms of mass every sunday, prayers every day, etc
it feels like it'd be more interestingly understood as a praxis -- a set of affective and social practices -- than as an epistemology.
in retrospect, not clear to me why christianity is so obsessed with epistemology: belief, faith, truth, etc.
@pgilbert142001 Consensus seems to be that there's not enough fingerprints for it to work, though. You have to know whose fingerprints to look for, which is one problem; another is that the op ed may have been co-written (by a speech writer, etc); another is that there may not be enough text :-/
@pgilbert142001 DH twitter is scrambling to figure out who the anonymous NYT op ed writer is, using authorship attribution algorithms that find an author's stylistic "fingerprint," and then look for those fingerprints in an anonymously-authored text. So: DH, unlikeliest of heroes, to the rescue!
@teddyroland hot damn!
We're all trapped inside the contradictions within the "Machiavellian Moment" (Pocock) of a capitalist republicanism.
The #lodestar crystallizes an ideological conflict deeper than left vs. right: it raises the question of whether a nation founded on civic republicanism can survive the late capitalist, amoral individualism of our culture, of which Trump is the perfect and inevitable embodiment.
Close reading of the #lodestar: - Lodestar is something that transcends you to which you submit for guidance. - In text, said to "restore *honor* to our public life": a sentiment of civic virtue. - Lodestar laments loss of civic virtue, to which the citizen of a republic submits.
still can't get over the fact that the Russian spy novel melodrama in the sky just swooped into our homely little world of text mining and authorship attribution
RT @LBMcGrath : Back in seasonal catalogs, and it appears that titles are becoming increasingly Game of Thrones-y. i.e., "Article + Noun + Conjunction + Bird/Mythical Creature." (ugh)
RT @davidmackau : "lodestar" (h/t @danbl00m) https://t.co/SqKFlBTR0f
RT @pj1217 : This is a wonderful job that comes with awesome colleagues (Peter Logan!) in a GREAT, affordable city, with extraordinary resources to support DH research. Come join us!  Please RT: TT Asst Prof in Lit (Open Field) Specializing in DH. https://t.co/WQXAPPJyTM https://t.co/YNGBKWBMf2
RT @ryancordell : Thread  I've been thinking about @benmschmidt's "The Humanities Are in Crisis" (https://t.co/W9SUhXV4Ob) in light of my daughter starting her senior year &amp; the "cultural studies/postmodernism destroyed the humanities" argument.  tl;dr we aren't talking enough about high school
@SethRudy @rachael_scar "own the plebs" is way solid. will be a great class session title for your new course on trolling.  also: what about Socrates? dude was just trolling right in the middle of Athens
RT @canariumbooks : Here’s an 1200-year-old poem about how fucked up academia is by Han Shan (translated by Red Pine) https://t.co/fRVrqfhiFT
@SethRudy totally. Defoe was a Master Troll (https://t.co/N8Y3XPSZmK).
someone needs to teach or write a history of trolling
ah, sunday, the day the ruling stroller class is out to enjoy itself
@noahrwarren woah
it's neurotic and unproductive I'm sure, but I feel like I spend a good half of all my writing time playing with the rhythm of sentences: you change a word, you read the sentence: now the rhythm's off: let's remove that comma: read it again: better now? &amp;c &amp;c
Recently I'm liking the language of a song, poem, novel, film, etc, being "perfect." Not "best" or even "good," which are ultimately comparative, quantitative, money-like notions of value. But "perfect": that which has perfectly achieved its own inner but incomparable form. https://t.co/HcaOjqHp7I
@gregory_palermo https://t.co/wdaTz5c6o9
@cejarvis https://t.co/qF9YYjSRfq
looking back, who could have predicted that "gifs," 1-5 second clips of video, collected and summoned like pokemon across the vast virtual seas, would become a new language and a new currency.
@Michael_A_Gavin Thanks Michael!
RT @morganbenjamin : The keywords issue of VLC has arrived! So much good stuff here. https://t.co/hieiWPbuFs
@erikj0 haha I bet! I also like @jimccasey1's metaphor, which somehow feels more accurate, of minor league baseball: https://t.co/wMGkIcgSRW
RT @Intransitive : @HASTAC Job opp!  Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in English (Quantitative Methods) at Emory University.  Details and application avail. at https://t.co/y02pI0i6Me
@versae https://t.co/eHleuKnDLj, but not open til 10 September
@MJSteilen it's nearly all the jobs; and it seems both more efficient and equitable to let candidates have more time to prepare their applications, especially e.g. over the summer rather than waiting until fall term starts.
@SethRudy personally I was hoping for a series of promoted tweets with clever gifs
guys this is silly. in what other industry does a list of all the jobs available for the entire next year appear on a single day in september?
RT @hoosteen : riverbeds in central europe are becoming so dry that rocks from the 1600s have begun to be exposed carved with messages of mourning in times of water crisis.  one from 1610 says "when you see me, weep"  https://t.co/ESleZCZ8Nn  we're gonna die in a swedish death metal album cover
@jplmbtmsm nah man dark jedi all the way
Around 2000 I was part of an online community for the PC game, Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight. Besides hacking at each other with lightsabers over dialup, we all talked in the forums—which for me, raised religious &amp; conservative, was my first real exposure to more progressive ideas. https://t.co/XEs6oAKgJY
@Ted_Underwood @V21collective @goldstoneandrew Personally, I agree DH is connected by umbilical cord to formalism -- but isn't the whole rest of the field, too?
@Ted_Underwood @V21collective +1 for @goldstoneandrew's piece "The Doxa of Reading" (PMLA 132.3 (2017)), where he polemically calls out distant reading for its reliance on "textualization", a kind of half-baked formalism that is a necessary consequence of its reliance on "the text corpus as analytic object"
@SethRudy wow that got dark pretty quick
always a sweet and interesting moment when you hang out with someone one-on-one for the first time instead of in a group, and as your energy modulates to meet theirs a quieter, more open space emerges, where you discover they’re actually a totally different person
RT @LBMcGrath : Proudly presenting a network view of the literary marketplace since the formation of the Big Five (2013): sprawling, dense, confusing. https://t.co/xPOl2YVIJ9
RT @elotroalex : For the evening crew: Today we launched Volume 2 of Torn Apart/Separados: Follow the Money. Truly a labor of love for our torn apart neighbors. https://t.co/MLEifozPfS #TornApart #Separados
@Climatologist49 @HockeyTarheel as opposed to Florida, where September is just Second August
@LKonstan ya, it's this arrangement of ambiguities that I find interesting. like, isn't science ultimately a theory of matter? but then, does its abstract or theoretical aim deny it its claim to "materialism"? maybe not for a Marx, but maybe for a contemporary discourse of "materiality"?
@V21collective Wow, thank you! 4 perfect references gathered and tweeted in literally 8 minutes: that's gotta be some kind of record in Althusser skillz.
@V21collective say more? :)
is science materialist?
look kid, when I was a young lad we had *real* memes, like this here, the noble slogan of the early internet. https://t.co/uQeNX3rdol
Definitely check out Jonathan @Kramnickomicon's Chronicle article, first in a series, on the murkier changes in the hiring process that have been taking place in the humanities since the crisis of ’08. https://t.co/wwDdRev3NL
RT @dbamman : I was inspired by this thread and @kateschaffer to check the data; in the 100 most recent NYT BTB interviews, women mention men and women equally in response to "what on your bookshelf?"; men mention other men 4 times as often https://t.co/90X1miRJ3D @pronounced_ing @legroff https://t.co/pQpJpcZdoi
@bookofriot @LKonstan The fear/fantasy of a grad student is precisely that other people believe in (act on) the fantasy: that hiring committees will see a good letter from the star prof in your dept and specialty as a real boost to your app, and a lukewarm/bad/absent letter as a real, maybe fatal flaw
@bookofriot @LKonstan I had a similar thought (about this great piece): that the "fantasy" of star power is not an individual's fantasy but a collective one, and so can't simply be exposed as unreal: in fact it *is* real precisely because we all act as if it were real (even if a little less so today).
@noahrwarren berkeley? sounds like berkeley.
@jdporterlive As I understand it: nope!
one thing I respect, and miss, about prayer, is how it performs a mode of self-relation: not of self to self, but of self to God: of me as an individual to the whole totality of being, in which I humbly play a part.
@V21collective @sarahdallison oh wow thanks! this looks great. and I'd love anything you want to send, thanks for offering! (feel free to DM me or email me @ heuser at stanford dot edu). this is all super helpful for filling out my realism playlist.
@erikj0 Thanks Erik! Another big oversight on my part: @stkareem's awesome book is really helpful for me here.
@sarahdallison @V21collective Agh, how could I forget! Thanks so much!
@Sct__987 Wow, thanks so much! I know the Jameson, forgot to mention it earlier, but the others are totally new to me!
@jeddobson Awesome, thanks!
Anyone know of C21 criticism on realism, tout court? Having a hard time passing beyond the classics: Lukács, Auerbach, René Wellek ("Concept of Realism in Literary Scholarship" imo still the best piece on R), George Levine, Marshall Brown, Michael McKeon. (also: too many dudes!)
RT @Ted_Underwood : If you're looking for a book that makes quant/stylistic analysis really illuminate specific lit periods and authors, can I plug Reductive Reading, by @sarahdallison? https://t.co/ItF5pR63yk *Virtuoso* arguments about Eliot and Dickens.
RT @Elijah_Meeks : So... everyone is talking about being rejected and pushing through it and eventually achieving their dreams. There's another option: You can just quit. Everything doesn't have to be some story of hard work being rewarded with eventual acknowledgment from those that spurned you.
RT @haltingproblem : Wow, the new @AphexTwin video has thirty years of time-based art in it: neon, ASCII, rotating textured cubes, Legible-City-y streets, Gantz-Graf-y 3D objects, Minecraft-y landscapes, 3D scans... not sure if impressed or nostalgic for Chris Cunningham. https://t.co/rNwPK3E3Lm
"ya, but dude -- *takes a puff* -- language can only 'represent' other language, man." ^ what 80s/90s criticism sometimes feels like to me
RT @benmschmidt : I've never seen this data before: college majors by parental income. Nothing shocking, but I am surprised by how much richer engineering students are than CS. And check out all those ministers' kids! https://t.co/t9l0b9Y1kq
@scottenderle @V21collective Yeah, I'm focusing on abstraction rather than generality. For "abstract words" I'm trying to stay close to Locke's "mixed modes" (justice, virtue, etc), i.e. words without any basis in substance; unlike his "complex ideas of substance", which can be more or less general/specific.
@scottenderle @V21collective ya what makes a word "abstract" is tricky, and definitely subject to historical change. which, DH-methods-wise, gets me into a pickle -- one I'm not sure I've solved, just thrown a bunch of differently-interpreted half-solutions at in an appeal to the "robustness" of the finding.
@anguishreid @V21collective just grabbed it. and holy moly this is the coolest PDF I've ever opened
@V21collective Oh wow that'd be awesome, thanks so much!
@V21collective @anguishreid Ich auch! (und danke schön!!)
@anguishreid @V21collective wow, yes actually, good call! I only made it halfway thru "Intellectual and Manual Labor" before it got too trippy for me, but ya, I'm stealing from him and others (Adorno, Toscano, Ngai) the general framework of "real abstraction", abstractions made real through social praxis.
@bbenzon @V21collective Yes &amp; b/c the usual story about the rise of the novel is that the novel distances itself from the generalities and idealizations of romance (knights and princesses of virtue, fidelity, courage, etc) by developing a new concrete particularity in character, narration, &amp; description
@V21collective hypothesis is that abstract realism is a realism of the totality: abs. nouns (sense, taste, pride, etc) reify judgments, affects, and states into nouns whose impersonality lays claim to a reality independent of individuals, but through which individuals form a social totality.
@V21collective working through a counterintuitive DH finding that C18 novels often have more abstract words and fewer concrete ones than C17 romances. so, trying to pry apart realism from "concrete particularity" and think about how abstraction &amp; abs language creates its own kind of realism.
I'm writing about "abstract realism," but the room is crowded &amp; loud: I've found 121 other forms of "[adjective] + realism": 51 about literature (from "formal R." to "Kmart R.," "hysterical R." to "ecological R."); 31 in philosophy; 15 about art; 12 in political theory; &amp; 12 misc
RT @cesta_stanford : Excited to explore this new tool designed by @ssrcdigital and @chnm for digital novices that provides self-guided intro to digital scholarship. Modules cover a wide range of topics, from finding &amp; organizing digital sources to techniques in spatial &amp; textual analysis. https://t.co/PVqAwIc0vw
@Ted_Underwood Cold War humanities were def a counterweight to science, but also a counterweight to technocracy and utilitarianism. It seems to me more the latter counterweight that's being overwhelmed, so that a 'scientific' humanities (= us now? a humanities open to DH?) would still decline.
@Ted_Underwood Though related, is there a slippage here between Science and Useful (esp. Monetizable) Knowledge? I'll bet if English departments taught students explicitly how to be Content Producers, enrollments would go up. It's prob less scientism than financial impact that's most relevant?
@Ted_Underwood Origins of the anti-scientific sentiment aside (in humanism + its critique), it feels to me a bit of a scapegoat for the humanities' decline. Aren't humanities simply trying to argue that other things besides Science are culturally important, too? (history? literature? critique?)
@MuhSabry Hi there! The code used for these graphs is all online, with decent documentation: https://t.co/sEK23Ijcqf. Linguistically, it's basically a direct implementation of Kristin Hanson &amp; Paul Kiparsky's "Parametric Theory of Poetic Meter" (Language, 1996) [https://t.co/QextOm4MgB].
RT @SirPatStew : It is an unexpected but delightful surprise to find myself excited and invigorated to be returning to Jean-Luc Picard and to explore new dimensions within him. Read my full statement in the photo. #StarTrek @cbsallaccess Photo: @shervinfoto https://t.co/8Ynuj3RBNm
RT @alixbeeston : My new article on @TheRock is up now on @LAReviewofBooks: "The biggest action star of our time is a hero without edge. He rarely fires a gun; he’s always a good dad; his way to the top is the high road. A polished Rock, smooth as a pebble." https://t.co/QSFUWcLsgL
RT @rachael_scar : Dying from ALS, Ady Barkan will save U.S. democracy if it's the last thing he does | Will Bunch https://t.co/PoXKd1Dn2j via @phillydotcom
Raise a glass for Ursa, the "Falcon" RV, who has moved on to a new owner, home, and life. She and I had many magical memories together since we started hanging out five years ago, in 2013. I'll never forget her. May her carburetor soul live eternal, may she make memories again. https://t.co/DnMkfrKta0
RT @lindsaycthomas : Been hanging out with these folks for the past 5 weeks at our #we1sproject summer research camp at UCSB (I'm the tall floating head in the middle). It's been a whirlwind. Check out https://t.co/2YnmhSVNBl  for more on our camp + tons of materials by project researchers. https://t.co/dUtPYrVhF7
@LKonstan Yes but you see we can only properly understand this if we understand the novel as a dialectical evolution along two analogous paths, along Questions of Truth and Questions of Virtue, each of which will take hundreds of pages to explain. We begin with the Greek Enlightenment...
i give up one more time on understanding Michael McKeon's Origins of the English Novel
@Ted_Underwood @DanAShore This is not a critique of BoW models: they are really good at what they do, e.g. classification. For me, the value of "NLP" broadly conceived is how it challenges the researcher to build a model of literary textuality. Even that building process is a form of knowledge creation.
@Ted_Underwood @DanAShore Personally I do think CA should branch out more from BoW. Not to toot my/its horn but this is something I think the Lit Lab has always tried to do: from semantic fields, to syntactic forms of sentences, to thematic structure of paragraphs, to metrical structure in poetry, etc.
RT @dan_sinykin : For those curious about digital humanities, I wrote about computational modeling and cultural analytics (@CulturalAnalyt) for @washingtonpost @PostEverything — using work by @Ted_Underwood @dbamman and Sabrina Lee on gender in fiction as an exemplary case. https://t.co/Bxz2avfgFr
RT @jplmbtmsm : "In the past we could speak of the university in capitalist society, hemmed in by all sorts of constraints but still a self-governing knowledge workshop, designed to enhance the public good. [. . .]"
U.S. income inequality vs. Europe's in one chart https://t.co/dmRYgP9C4x
couples are weird
RT @MichaelBerube1 : Yep, I recant too. For 15 years, starting in the late 90s, I tried to tell people there was no enrollment crisis, because there wasn't. Then in 2013 @benmschmidt and @NateSilver538 backed me up. Ha! I was right! And no sooner did I become right than I became totally wrong. https://t.co/xowN611W5v
RT @cwellmon : Ben Schmidt recants his "chill, it's not that bad" analysis of humanities from 2013. It is that bad. "Last five years have been brutal; it's no longer reasonable to speculate that we are fluctuating around a long term average." https://t.co/cpwIfFaAMV
RT @lepas : pardon my French, but, Holy Shit. https://t.co/fg7vhSMaQd https://t.co/wdbnDNmxXe
@SethRudy seth you are your own and also the best genre of twitter
@Ted_Underwood This is now my favorite literary history.
in C18, does 'the novel' as a category entail 'realism'? it seems to in Watt, and seems implied by C18 critics (Reeve, Johnson, etc), for the same reason: distinguishing the novel's realism from the idealism of romance. if so, when does the novel no longer entail realism?
@LKonstan /misses it too
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RT @LBMcGrath : Re-upping this position announcement and my offer to chat with potential candidates! I ❤️ #msudh and I think you will too. https://t.co/Jy8dIN7c8o
RT @berkeleyantifa : Stay safe. Let us know if you have any info on this person. https://t.co/dD9nCS1Umd
it's almost as if activism works https://t.co/ZMuLhYLG3O
@Ted_Underwood @scott_bot Totally! Makes sense. And I think, currently, CA (*humanities* CA) is enriched by its variety of epistemological/disciplinary commitments. I just hope that, no matter what, it somehow keeps alive its connection with humanities/literature departments. For both its sake and theirs.
Go see #SorryToBotherYou! It's mind-blowingly good. Like Get Out, it seems part of the New Black Gothic (https://t.co/XwtstXYdU0); but as a surrealist, allegorical satire, it also seems to reveal a related trend, a kind of new allegory, also seen in Get Out and This Is America.
Also, it should be noted that this kind of conceptual/critical work has long been practiced by scholars of race, gender, queer theory, disability studies, and other subfields (so it seems to me). I feel like I need to catch up and rethink my traditionally historicist training.
This might be a bit unfair. But I guess I'm just recapitulating V21's call for more abstraction/conceptualism, more presentism, more zooming out from historical minutiae to broader patterns. I can imagine classes on concepts like Values, Fake News, Social Networks, Populism, &amp;c..
@Ted_Underwood @scott_bot I hope you're right, but I'm not so sure: CA is a small (sub)field. There are only so many people, resources, journals (1?); there's no professional society, no yearly conference. It's a fragile quasi-institution that, like @scott_bot says, could legitimately take different paths
@cejarvis It def can be! But it's an acquired taste (it was for me at least), and one difficult for undergrads to acquire. (I think!) I also wonder if this difficulty is part of its value-logic: a mode of distinction, it might turn away students who aren't invested in that kind of capital.
I partly blame (new) historicism: if it rescued the field from some bad tendencies within postmodern theory, it also scrubbed classes of theory's conceptual sex appeal, shutting the windows to the outdoors and bringing in a boring Protestant work ethic of "the archive."
Still thinking about how English classes might appeal more to C21 students. I love this idea of a pedagogy analogous to SF, a genre which transgresses barriers of space (geography) and time (history) in order to stage a thought experiment. Why not teach classes that do the same? https://t.co/BuJu82RgxW
@scott_bot To me, it would be a tragic end to cultural analytics if it abandoned the humanities -- its concerns, its methods, its institutions, &amp; at their darkest hour -- to disappear instead into the big city of social sciences, where CA would probably end up being just a quirky wallflower
RT @CulturalAnalyt : New piece out @CulturalAnalyt by @LizEvansX and @mattwilkens on "Nation, Ethnicity, and the Geography of British Fiction, 1880-1940": https://t.co/MtUNrk38Ug https://t.co/s0LWbnzpeo
RT @SethRudy : It isn’t not that double negatives aren’t not hard. They’re not not. It’s that negative nots that aren’t not negative aren’t not easy. Which they are. So don’t not be too hard on a guy whose brain is not not like a pumpkin that hasn’t been not left to rot on the porch.
RT @KristenClarkeJD : On July 17, 2014, Eric Garner is choked to death by NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo.  4 yrs later -- Pantaleo has not been held accountable, DOJ never announced results of its federal investigation and the bystander who filmed Garner's dying words, "I Can't Breathe" has been jailed. https://t.co/TcQcrlscfk
Besides, having grown up with Scooby Doo, all I hear with "meddling" is some creepy greedy guy who was really the ghost say, "And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids!" https://t.co/3jbAXnS6Ab https://t.co/mZkRJJnscI
@Brett_Fujioka Maybe even moreso? AFAIK, the dual major program attracted very few students. That said, digital humanities (classes, Lab, etc) are a draw. They seem to appeal not only to Stanford's tech sensibility, but also as a means to do English outside the stale air of literary history.
Also, 2 things we associate with English studies seem increasingly illegible to students. (1) The value of studying history. What history? Kids are motivated by the present. (2) The value of cultural capital. What's that? It's so C20. High/low hardly applies to the internet age.
Granted, my program is pretty conservative in its classes and requirements. But I think the idea that students are dropping English for reasons of economic anxiety is probably self-serving. This is also our own failure of imagination, about what English studies is and can be.
Is there a survey out there asking why students are choosing not to major in English? A student told me recently that they're just not excited about studying the Western canon... and, like, what do you say to that? It's totally understandable, especially in the Trump era.
RT @HolyroodLiam : The most iconic image of the World Cup - France's Kylian Mbappé high fiving a member of Pussy Riot after she broke onto the pitch to protest political oppression in Russia https://t.co/cMJM0C1eCc
RT @KarimNK96 : Horrific moment Israeli warplanes strike a building next to a public park in the heart of Gaza city.  #GreatReturnMarch  #StopArmingIsrael https://t.co/B93SW5t2of
this game is bonkers
croatia are on 🔥#FRACRO
RT @farai : It is now officially World Cup-o-clock, everywhere in the globe...
ready for this! go 🇭🇷!
RT @maggieNYT : Wow https://t.co/OiayeH18si
RT @jacobinmag : The socialist project isn't to rebel against the values of liberty, equality, and fraternity, but to show how capitalism is incapable of fulfilling them. #BastilleDay https://t.co/Vu2iRk9AzA
@bbenzon @Ted_Underwood @DanAShore Quant. crit. seems primed for dialectics by so often contradicting hermeneutic knowledge. It can help us "think against thought" (Jameson) &amp; find the way in which the *contradiction* e.g. between smooth and delimited, rather than one or the other, is the true historical process.
@bbenzon @Ted_Underwood @DanAShore The color analogy may be one solution. But I hope what I'm saying is not a plea for compromise. It's really coming from a new annoying habit of mine (I got from reading a lot of Jameson lately) to try to think more dialectically, and so to seek out contradiction, not compromise.+
@bbenzon @Ted_Underwood @DanAShore e.g. How can we maintain the contradiction between continuous historical change and historical periods, without trying to resolve it by rejecting the latter for the former? Seems to me that finding a way in which both are true would be the more significant form of new knowledge.
@bbenzon @Ted_Underwood @DanAShore Good point, and discussion. Lately, for me, DH's claim to disconfirm other knowledge doth perhaps protest too much. Is there a way of thinking about the rel. b/w DH &amp; "H" that maintains the contradiction between them, in order to sublate it into the way in which both are true?
RT @sordidjoy : What kind of trauma renders a parent unrecognizable?   Who is going to hold the US accountable for this abuse? https://t.co/YAgd5IlrK0
Two character-spaces in Austen's Sense and Sensibility, visualized. Which words are more likely to appear within the character-space of Elinor ("sense"), and which in the character-space of Marianne ("sensibility")? An experiment using @dbamman's BookNLP (https://t.co/zM0RbrHGY6) https://t.co/zaLWNpcLdP
mood: "Stellar Awakening" by CN, from @CPURECORDS https://t.co/x7D7rKgsts
@Michael_A_Gavin @Ted_Underwood I loved this article! 100% shows how historicizing quant. methods is as important and revealing as historicizing hermeneutic practices. And b/c not every article can do such a deep dive, I hope such method-historicisms become more common so that others can cite &amp; build with them.
RT @tokugifs : Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya (1988) Episode 19 https://t.co/eZKH5FrWhS
@cejarvis what a game though!
@cejarvis Yum!!!
GOOOOOOOOOAAALLLLL!!!!!
🤔🚿 is critical epistemology biased toward distinctiveness? what things share seems as worth knowing as what distinguishes them.
aaaggghhh come on Croatia !
RT @Sierra_OffLine : "Families Confused by Computers" is my favorite genre of early 80s stock photography https://t.co/2olTQpCWRI
@dee_bee_h not to mention: why are they printed in sans serif typeface??
@cejarvis yes! though also, perversely, ...titillating?
reading Austen rn and wondering what her elegantly damning character description of me would look like.
RT @atroyn : Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union:  - waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality  - promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out
RT @Ted_Underwood : What's something that seems obvious to the general public, but your profession seems to misunderstand?
RT @ASECSOffice : ASECS 2019 - 50th Annual Meeting Denver, CO - CFP Now Available:  https://t.co/m98pIk3JRl
RT @tokugifs : Ultraman Max (2005) Episode 36 https://t.co/PQdxGzw0fc
@scott_bot cool! excited for the conference. is there a CFP out for it, btw?
one curse of living in silicon valley is that your daydreams have app ideas
“The truth is the whole.”
omg cuteness update! https://t.co/3ef3QRH9WU
what im doing rn. not gonna lie this is my favorite kind of protesting https://t.co/hkzF5Qu7sx
RT @feinsod : Has any other Dem pol said this as clearly?  “I can’t name a single issue w/roots in race that doesn’t have economic implications, [nor] a single economic issue that doesn’t have racial implications. The idea that we have to separate them out and choose one is a con.” @Ocasio2018
@clured Cool! So this is a means of showing the relative rarity of trendlines for "a" that are distinct from the normative one (type "0")? Nice and succinct, love it. Curious: how did you cluster the trendlines? K-means on correlation distances?
@kvanaren um def fantastic
wow this world cup is strange... like climate change for sports
RT @jacobinmag : It’s morning in America. https://t.co/SOSUOtcZMo
@Ted_Underwood Talk of 'levels' seems part of modern scientific discourse, relating e.g. physics, chem, bio along a scale. But 'levels' often invoked to point out when they 'mirror' each other—for Foucault, actually a pre/early modern discourse of similitude, of "as above, so below" thinking.
@Ted_Underwood Its over-confidence in discreteness is definitely one way the framework feels heavy-handed. But another: how it assumes a quantitative relationship between "levels", arranging them at intervals along a scale. Not intuitive to me why this 1-D relationality is necessary or desired.
the language of "levels" feels increasingly strange to me: e.g. 'on the sentence level', 'word level', 'mirrored on the level of form', etc. ...what is a "level"? I feel like the word compels us to take on premise some kind of food pyramid model of form and interpretation.
RT @elotroalex : Story out from WIRED on our project #TornApart #Separados. Reiterating here for our community that this is a story about an amazing team @sepoy @muziejus @roopikarisam @sferna109 @merisamartinez  @fronteriza956 @LMRodriguez AND about our immigrants https://t.co/Zyzi7BkcoF
partly, i think, because there's no specific purpose behind the question. it's as if it were a social form of beauty, of purposiveness without purpose.
there's something touching to me about small talk, about the kind of low-affect intimacy that's formed from asking, when someone mentions their grandmother, where she lives.
RT @TheDailyShow : PROPAGAND-OFF! Fox News vs. North Korean State TV https://t.co/B9CfxgN0XC
At the end of the novel, a playwright talks about her fear of "summing up": "Why go to the trouble to write a great long play about jealousy when 'jealousy' just about summed it up?" It's an ironic question, because this is what Outline does: it sums humans up; it outlines them.
This is probably just a projection but it feels to me that Cusk's "Outline" is also (in part) an "abstract realist" text. It subordinates showing to telling, the concrete to the abstract. Its stories are not so much mimetic expositions as distillations of experiences into ideas.
In my diss rn I’m writing about “abstract realism” in C18 fiction (esp Haywood, Fielding, Austen). It's a realism not of mimesis, not a realistic presentation, but a presentation *of* the real: for them the reality of moral and psychological abstractions, of "virtue," "sense," &amp;c
Just finished Rachel Cusk's "Outline," and loved it. A few stray thoughts... (thread)
Here’s a great directory for the nationwide actions going on Saturday June 30th, if it helps you find (or start!) one near you. Time to stand up and march all together against this fascist shit https://t.co/kr2LUWwWd9
RT @PortlandDSA : Even more people here tonight at #OccupyICEPDX and the camp just keeps growing. And growing. And growing. It now expands to all sides of the building and isn't showing any signs of slowing down ✊ #fuckICE https://t.co/xhhGONGgyt
Good work comrades, this action was a great success! It’s now ended, but actions coming up are:  - Thurs 6/21, 6pm at El Cerrito Plaza - Saturday 6/23, 10am at Embarcadero Plaza - BIG ONE on Saturday 6/30, 11am at Civic Center  Spread the word and see you there!
bay area comrades! come join us in front of the ICE HQ in SF  at 630 Sansome St to protest kids being ripped screaming from their parents’ arms and put into cages as part of a new official federal policy because wtf this is our country now https://t.co/24lOXXEN6i
RT @jplmbtmsm : Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.  -- San Francisco's Robert Frost https://t.co/LYq7zmMgs3
RT @DavidBegnaud : These images were just released by border patrol @CBP showing the McAllen, Texas detention facility that we were allowed to tour today.  For now, we can only rely on what they give us. They will not allow us inside to film on our own. Why? “Privacy”; they don’t want faces shown https://t.co/laZAyEHwij
one year antiversary with nicotine. these last two weeks were hard -- in Italy and Germany where folks smoke like it's the 1950s -- but today i fly back to Cali where it's the 2050s and if you smoke people come up to you, concerned, and offer you an avocado and a free yoga lesson
RT @SeanMcElwee : A government agency is running prison camps that democratically elected politicians are denied access to. https://t.co/fiH6CplhfD
RT @kvanaren : and this one, of black faces hidden in the background of white tableaux, cutting to beyoncé staring straight into the camera https://t.co/z1A38dJTLH
That said, I don't study art and ultimately I have no idea what I'm talking about, so: whee! these are just irresponsible church/museum musings.  This panorama was taken in Padua's Scrovegni Chapel, which is covered head to toe with a breathtaking fresco cycle by Giotto (~1305).
A week among C14-C17 paintings in Padua/Venice reminds me what we lost as art turned away from the sacred. Unlike abstract art with its reflexivity, sacred art is not *about* art at all; rather, it's so thoroughly *through* art, so transparent, that we see a cultural "totality." https://t.co/0MZqubh4fn
mein Freund und ich! im Garten des Haus, in dem er geboren ist, in Trier, Deutschland. https://t.co/owxy5HPyLv
@benmschmidt @Ted_Underwood How are you embedding the texts? I’ve played with doc2vec (for paragraphs) but the results seemed bogus to me. Or is the vector space here the word frequency matrix?
RT @benmschmidt : Post using word embeddings to trace out contiguous paths between any arbitrary words, with occasionally delightful results. https://t.co/NzlHIvl86C. General idea from @matthewdlincoln. https://t.co/yNlm3c71mg
@susanleavy @christof77 @TrierUni @CDHTrier Not yet! Let me work that this week and get back to you. Thanks for asking!
RT @dennismhogan : There’s probably no amount of critical theory that could have prepared me for this https://t.co/tX6uVnVSjJ
RT @LBMcGrath : Cool job: Literature, Cog Sci, and DH, and an opportunity to join amazing DH community at MSU. Happy to answer q’s about the DHLC (in a completely unofficial and unaffiliated capacity). https://t.co/5tuAdpSIxU
RT @Ted_Underwood : "Why Literary Time Is Measured in Minutes" is a low-tech, medium-scale piece that might work as a gentle introduction to distant reading for students. In ELH: https://t.co/HrTUrmvRM5 Open access: https://t.co/mqGUnwDjfO https://t.co/tdJVNNYvV7
@bruceholsinger not sure if this matches what you mean, but i used to use the OLPC XO for outdoor/non-backlit writing and loved it. tiny and takes some patience, but it’s indestructible and beautifully simple. https://t.co/dRQZO4jb2V
RT @dr_heil : DH-as-service is an unsatisfactory framework; library-as-service is equally unsatisfactory. The combination is unsustainable. #dhsi2017
RT @MobyDickatSea : the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much of him
@benmschmidt @ipeds_nces These plausible takeaways? - The "crisis of the humanities" is less a slow death from capitalism than a quick one from the 2008 financial crisis. English maybe an exception, but post-2009 fall much  accelerated. - Something happens in 2012/13, after which trend accelerates. What?
RT @benmschmidt : 2017 marks the year that history finally fell behind its old rival, kinesiology and exercise science, in the number of majors. https://t.co/XDFagCmDJf
@dmimno i give this reply five stars
RT @hkpmw : Really cool opportunity! https://t.co/mtXkxwgoH8
why has europe not yet invented the water fountain
RT @jellevanlottum : The Dutch East India Company (#VOC) made use of a highly international workforce. This map, which shows the places of origin (unweighted) of VOC personnel in the long 18th century is part of my @CLARIAH_NL research pilot, based @HuygensING. More (and better!) maps will follow. https://t.co/qaCiKGSr9E
good God... https://t.co/gLlF1vtSMg
"A film like Wall-E exemplifies what Robert Pfaller has called 'interpassivity': the film performs our anti-capitalism for us, allowing us to continue to consume with impunity." -Mark Fisher, _Capitalist Realism_ (2009) https://t.co/tQsxFm4kWj
reading Jameson again and to my mind he's the best writer among literary critics. I envy his ability always to balance the abstract with the concrete, to pivot lightly between an idea and its image. As in this passage: "into which, like the bull into its querencia, we withdraw.." https://t.co/4hKo8vSAOb
RT @petersuber : Jürgen Habermas (@J_Habermas) to @borjahermoso1 in @el_pais (May 2018): "It annoys me that [the internet] is the first media revolution in the history of mankind to first and foremost serve economic as opposed to cultural ends." https://t.co/CCGFBO1fwM
Is Trump's lawyer... Thomas Hobbes?  “Every particular man is author of all the sovereign doth; and consequently he that complaineth of injury from his sovereign complaineth of that whereof he himself is author ... to do injury to oneself is impossible." -Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) https://t.co/vgyx8IYYqK
RT @Ted_Underwood : Eye-opening story about the effect of conglomeration on fiction publishing, by @dan_sinykin at #sns18. Here we see gender segregation in reviewing. https://t.co/PTwx5PqlvD
RT @zacharyfruit : literally everyone from california is cool
Strikes me that Ted is working more than anyone else to theorize the new *digital* longue durée, the meaning of a trans-century historicism-- which, as he suggests above, is dialectical, a history so historical that it in fact becomes a means of re-discovering the contemporary.
Hilarious, and poignant. My favorite part: the longue durée of distant reading mediates between historicism and evaluative criticism, because "we can’t get historical distance from" long, slow trends in reception; "they sprawl into the present and can’t be relegated to the past." https://t.co/KpbOv338Y0
RT @MadBastardsAll : the universe where the Cavs won Game 1 in Oakland came whooshing by so close that I could see it, and now I’m supposed to be okay with this garbage one
what a mix of the sublime and comic, tragedy and satire: LeBron slowly and consistently creating miracles from nothing to get the Cavs back up to a tie-- and then, with 4 seconds to go his teammate JR Smith gets the rebound, and... dribbles out the clock, not knowing the score!?
RT @maanllano : 2 postdoc positions at Utrecht University (3 years): text mining and collective action in the Republic of Letters. Come and join our team! #DigitalHumanities #twitterhistorians  https://t.co/oyLsj8qCAe
RT @_FloridaMan : He was teaching the kids about how he’s not to be fucked with. https://t.co/XPrMh5FiMf
Gotta say, the experience of hiding in hide-and-go-seek is v different in the smartphone era - North Carolina Thoughts (visiting family) #2
@XandaSchofield Great, thanks, yum! :)
i don't get what's so bad about "cherry-picking"... aren't cherries yummy?
RT @CulturalAnalyt : New piece out @CulturalAnalyt by @hoytlong et al on "Self Repetition and East Asian Literary Modernity, 1900-1930." https://t.co/L1bDKQblf3 https://t.co/AeQi687gHT
RT @symmetry_hater : For anyone who's ever said "but what has Black Lives Matter really ACCOMPLISHED?" (from https://t.co/aW0cG0ey8u by @SeanMcElwee) https://t.co/w5jynwIyoq
At church on Sunday, was touched by the fact that in no other institution do you show up and sing songs out of a book for an hour, sitting in long straight rows next to strangers. - North Carolina Thoughts (visiting family), #1
@SethRudy meh
"Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; ... But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul." https://t.co/h8zllfoZw0
'distant reading' is the enemy of 'dissertation done'
Do I repeat my shirt? Very well then I repeat my shirt, (I wear large, I contain ten shirts.)
RT @adhaardesai : DH people, technologically-inclined humanists, PhDs and ABDs alike: check out this extremely cool job working with extremely cool students and extremely cool colleagues and also me https://t.co/wPD7jOCKqb
@Ted_Underwood i’m trying so hard to have this experience but i just can’t hear yanny
RT @_amroali : A list of the Palestinians murdered by Israel in the past 24 hours. Because names matter. #Gaza https://t.co/rL7pZRrZUe
RT @DarwinBondGraha : Earthquake 3.8 magnitude in Oakland hills. https://t.co/SVKsoOoSMp
Who doesn't love a survey whose only question is "Did you feel it?" https://t.co/3O3MQ1d3pd
@cejarvis @matthewharrison woo boy that was scary
reading Eliza Haywood's C18 amatory fiction rn and have to say it's, um, really sexy
@abasu_ wow, thanks for this moving and subtle essay. love what someone said to you about the right to one’s shame
me: a butterfly: can I block memes?
Just finished @dennistenen's new NLH piece on "Fictional Space," and enjoyed both its ingenious method (quantifying the "clutter" of objects in fiction), and its refreshing methodological reflections on explanation vs. prediction, and the model-lessness of models without theory. https://t.co/2Y49Fzhoj7
RT @mxmcadam : I am thrilled, proud, delighted, happy...to see these beautiful, wonderful @JHUPress books in print.  Congratulations to @DanAShore @rachael_scar! https://t.co/jPsKl7pfYU
Check out this NYT article featuring Nina Varsava, a friend and colleague and Stanford PhD + Yale JD. She posted her DH study of Gorsuch's style to SSRN, and within a few days the NYT contacted her about it! It's that hot. Link below, &amp; Nina's website is https://t.co/DVjVsq47vo. https://t.co/a7DKF4quYY
The Stanford @LiteraryLab is *incredibly* lucky to have @LBMcGrath join the team as the Lab's Associate Director and postdoc. On behalf of folks here I can say that we're all very excited! https://t.co/6TxeGiyIqv
RT @mattwilkens : Major new piece by @maritjmac et al on poetry and sound studies in @CulturalAnalyt https://t.co/UKr2PH9dwT. See also smart commentary from @blackstudies https://t.co/2zAbxfDImf
@SethRudy interesting: give us the Young passage?
RT @mhackling : https://t.co/d4XZZcNbaH
RT @RichardJeanSo : Job alert: hey first I had no idea that MIT just created a Digital Humanities Lab, and that's cool. And now they are hiring two DH postdocs: https://t.co/dmMb2QNe7Y There's a bit of helping other people do stuff but it looks like there's time for research too.
@kunkel_n Thanks Nico! (For the record, Nico sent me the article-- still looking for the corpus!)
Anyone heard of or have access to the "Century of Prose Corpus" by Louis T. Milic, made in the early '90s? Half a million words in non-fiction prose from 1680-1980 (https://t.co/hPoRcJxNJ5). I can't find it by googling... is it a lost gem from the Humanities Computing era?
RT @jplmbtmsm : @Shell Stoked for the future with #Shell https://t.co/7SXs7MLhpS
accidentally stumbled back onto my favorite record from the king of harmonic techno, Richard D. James, and d-d-d-damn it's gorgeous https://t.co/JwxKp2TwLU
@DanAShore Haha, cool! I knew about the "clausulae" or Cicero's sentence endings, but didn't know about their parodies in the early modern period.
@fijimf Haha, not dumb. The crosses are authors I've marked as particularly famous or "canonical." I was trying to get their names to display more often, but couldn't figure out how to do it in Tableau.
@katyilonka The github (https://t.co/LiawCO00fA) lays out in much more detail the linguistics behind this. As for measuring when prose sounds good: who knows! :) In fact, traditionally it was thought that prose should *avoid* meter *in order* to sound good, so this data could read both ways.
@DanAShore because it's already known that verse tends to avoid metrical violations with special carefulness at the end of the line; and people like Saintsbury have argued that sentence endings in prose carry particular rhythmic effects. So ultimately I'd like to return to that approach.
@DanAShore Yes: it's just any random 5-word sequence in the text, verse or prose. In an earlier, more controlled version of this experiment on just a handful of texts, we took all 5-word slices beginning at the end of the sentence and moving backwards (throwing out remainder) +
@thelifeofwords Will do! Thanks for your comments-- these are exactly the kinds of questions we're trying to work through!
@thelifeofwords To be "metrical" is just to consistently alternate one's rhythm. If prose resists that kind of well-behaved alternation -- and it does -- its degree of resistance should exist on a continuum with that of various forms of verse and other kinds of language.
@thelifeofwords I agree it seems nonsensical to parse prose as if it were metrical, but we're hoping to test the limits of that intuition. +
@thelifeofwords "Rhythm" is a slippery and polysemous concept. But the "multilayered" concept of rhythm I was referring to above (which Prosodic does NOT yet capture) sees syllable stress, word stress, phrasal stress, emphatic stress, etc as all layers of stress adding up to an overall rhythm.
@thelifeofwords As I recall, Attridge's schema is still metrical in the sense that it's made up of alternating positions, beats and offbeats. Depending on the metrical constraints, Prosodic can capture Attridge's looser model of metrics (with empty weak beats, etc). +
@DanielGalef The parser doesn't assume a particular meter, but tries every possible sequence (or "meter") of alternating weak and strong syllables. So, not just wswswsws (for iambic), but also  wwswswws, etc. The only caveat is that the "w" and "s" must alternate at least every two syllables.
@thelifeofwords but ya, Prosodic is looking for meter, or for the *alternating-ness* of rhythm, rather than rhythm itself. So the meter it finds as the best fit for a phrase would be a bad representation of its actual rhythm, which, I agree, is much more nuanced and multi-layered and complex.
@thelifeofwords hm.. all Prosodic is doing is tokenizing and syllabifying the text, annotating phonological info like stress, etc; and then testing every possible metrical template (i.e those alternating b/w weak &amp; strong positions, each w/ 1-2 syllables) to find which best fits the phonology. +
@jamesscottbrown @Ted_Underwood Agh! You're right. Woops: I have this mixed up with his volume of (scientific) poetry, The Botanic Garden. No wonder it shows up as so unlike poetry. :)
@Ted_Underwood You're right! I was pleasantly surprised by that as well. Your tweet (and work on predictive modeling) inspired me to try to classify texts as poetry vs. fiction vs. non-fiction, based solely on these metrical features. Here's a graph showing the probability of being poetry. https://t.co/jEIqxKhL4K
@nmhouston A "line" is a random 5-word sequence, for both prose and verse. We're purposely ignoring verse lineation in order to ask whether, if you put a metrical stethoscope to texts in random places, you can hear the difference between verse and prose.
@joey_kuhn Not yet, but working on it! It'd be so great to see twentieth-century free verse and modernist fiction together.
@BEBischof @ahandvanish Nothing official so far! -- we're working on a paper for the moment. The best source now is the github page for the metrical parser we built: https://t.co/MwEgeXiQvn
What happens when you tell a computer to scan lines of poetry for their meter, except you sneak in lines of prose, too? You end up quantifying "anti-metricality," a text's resistance to scansion. This resistance, and the metrical distance between verse and prose, has a history. https://t.co/9z01VKovZT
RT @danpfeiffer : This story by @adamdavidson is so brilliantly ahead of the curve on the severity of Trump’s legal and political problems  https://t.co/7eriHPlRz4
RT @rachael_scar : Excited to have my first Open Access publication in Paul Goring, Siv Gøril Brandtzæg, and Christine Watson's wonderful volume Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century. You can openly access it here! https://t.co/9eOFTqE5mY
@DanAShore I think it's the second one of these: graffiti with some kind of hippie plant substitute just isn't the same graffiti, you know?
"VEGAN GRAFFITI SUCKS" is my new favorite Oakland coffee shop bathroom message
RT @jtonra : Announcing a fully-funded PhD scholarship in Digital Arts and Humanities @nuigalway. Deadline for applications 18 May 2018. Further details at https://t.co/WLCNokDCmt #digitalhumanities #phdchat https://t.co/7hS2bBsOp1
strikes me that Sergio Leone's "Man with No Name" trilogy is narratively unique in that it progresses mainly by iterating the *number of its protagonists*: Fistful of Dollars (1: Eastwood); Few Dollars More (2: Eastwood, van Cleef); Good Bad Ugly (3: Eastwood, van Cleef, Wallach)
RT @kgeographer : Say, Vanderbilt University is looking for a Librarian for Geospatial Data and Systems!  Pls RT if your tweeps include some who might be interested  https://t.co/zmxjARlkW0
RT @mervatim : It's hard to find a woman in the academy who hasn't endured bad treatment of some kind: sexual harassment, discrimination, plagiarism, and, of course, all the subtle remarks about how one smiles, dresses, "nurtures" students, etc. This is required reading. https://t.co/phcx3PwRgv
RT @ASECS_DH : HelloWorld! Follow me for updates about exciting things happening at the intersection of digital humanities and eighteenth-century studies. #dh #digitalhumanities #c18 #asecs18
RT @CarterRubin : What would a satellite image of California shown in 1851? Geographer Mark Clark helps us imagine. Cameo from defunct Tulare Lake, once the largest west of the Mississippi. https://t.co/xXhH02BosP https://t.co/3AJp5QNVh4
RT @ReignOfApril : White students are afraid of being gunned down in school.  Black students are afraid of being gunned down in school.... and their backyards... and their cars... and at parks... and in the middle of the street... and on their way home...  I know because I'm the parent of two.
RT @theshapeofform : @tylercurtain  https://t.co/kVfftHlh6K
RT @nhannahjones : An absolutely devastating new study about race and black males. Sons of wealthy black parents no better off than sons of working class whites ones. And, the worst places for poor white kids better than best places for poor black ones. https://t.co/cAMGGltfny
RT @annaedge4 : There are 7,000 pairs of shoes outside the Capitol today. Each pair represents a child killed by guns since Sandy Hook @Avaaz https://t.co/ByEEiO3uOZ
RT @gimenadelr : Call for Papers Congreso de la @aahdArg Humanidades Digitales. La Cultura de los Datos. Rosario, 7-9nov 2018: https://t.co/bUsaNsQviV @taiarrano @piscitelli @Pelagiosproject @quadrismegistus @n_quiroga @quinnanya @schallierw @rosasebastia @JFSmith434 @AMTAMMARO @unsworth
RT @hoytlong : UChicago is hiring a Lecturer in Digital Studies to lead our new MA program. Starts fall, 2018. Please share! https://t.co/3d1GL7vM6C
RT @hralperta : Hey Digital Humanities friends: Input needed.  We're preparing the white paper for our finished @NEH_ODH project. According to the NEH, this short document should be written for YOU: the DH public.  So: what would you like to know about a two-year, grant-funded DH project?
@ETreharne talk about text technology! :) looks awesome!
just cannot get enough of this haunting, gorgeous techno by Microlith, a 24-year-old genius from Malta who tragically passed away a year ago in a bike accident. def check out his album "Dance With Me," and everything from its stellar label, @CPURECORDS. https://t.co/7CuasaI9em
@kgeographer @TimHitchcock definitely: he's most known for his book _Metahistory_, which argues that history-telling is a narrative act, a making of a verbal structure with a genre and plot, not a recounting of facts or a discovery of "how it actually was." I would check out the intro to that book
Check out this post by @jdporterlive, on a long-running computational poetics project in the Lit Lab. It's the story behind my favorite DH metric ever: "Hood Distance" = a poem's metricality, as measured by its metrical distance from Thomas Hood's perfectly bad, ametrical verse. https://t.co/h1IwOMJskk
I had the honor of taking Hayden White's last class taught at Stanford, in 2009. It was on Psychoanalysis and Literature, and was maybe the most entertaining and dazzling class I've ever taken: to me Prof. White had this wonderful &amp; inspiring quality of fusing knowledge with joy. https://t.co/xIKnqHP8VC
RT @kennethfield : Fair bit of data wrangling but finally...a 1 dot = 1 vote dasymetric dot density 2016 Presidential election map from @ArcGISPro. 65,844,61 blue dots. 62,979,636 red dots. Count 'em! (note: this is just a rough screengrab, will webify &amp; make pretty) https://t.co/lb6899M1gh
RT @ryanfb : @hralperta @Ted_Underwood @quadrismegistus @heatherfro @ryancordell @LauraMandell One (imperfect) method/survey, where I also tried to summarize what the other ground-truth-less methods are doing: https://t.co/zWHEPFGeS3
@JonathaNgrams @Ted_Underwood followed by Tapper's concerned frown and earnest reply: yeah man, if I were you I would
This is by far the most entertaining 14 minutes of cable news I have ever watched! https://t.co/QtONhVv5xh
@hralperta That's a good idea: we clearly need the help!  In case it's useful for them or anyone, here's a link to a list of ~675K "recognizable" English words that I use to test accuracy against: https://t.co/KJI7ti6wor  It comes from opensource spell checking list: https://t.co/9qPROFX3dR
@hralperta ..which, unfortunately just perpetuates the good-enough-for-government-work attitude of (some) DH, which keeps us from understanding what is really going on. :-/ I know some people working on this problem, but I won't shout them out by name in case they prefer not to be, just yet
@hralperta I should! I started up a thread about this last summer (https://t.co/ptKxCz4mo7) and ran a few tests, but then got "side"-tracked by my diss. Personally I just count how many words in a text are recognizable vs. how many it has, and I tend to throw out texts with &lt;90% "accuracy."
@ryanfb @hralperta @Ted_Underwood @heatherfro @ryancordell @LauraMandell Wow! Really useful, thanks for this!
@Ted_Underwood @hralperta @heatherfro @ryancordell @LauraMandell Unfortunately, I don't really know of any good and well-documented standards of OCR evaluation-- if anyone would, it's @LauraMandell, whose Early Modern OCR Project (https://t.co/XQ3OzUzEuO) has developed tools and practices for responding to these issues in early modern texts.
@matthewharrison @DanAShore me: "pikachu, defend our honor, attack!"
ouch: rejected from #DH2018. congrats to those accepted!
@maxsuechting Select (A) to Reply: Here We Are Learning How to Think. Select (B) to Reply: Here We Are Learning How to Do. Select (C) to Quit.
My uni wants to know which of the 8 "ways of thinking or doing" are fulfilled by my summer course: "Applied Quantitative Reasoning (AQR)"? "Creative Expression (CE)"? "Ethical Reasoning (ER)"? etc. Education as RPG: feel like I'm being asked what kind of XP taking my class yields
RT @j0_0n : Just added full text capability to https://t.co/BWEmoF2Gqd. Now you can do things like make instant corpora of all the Austen and Eliot novels, and do comparative stylometry. Late Austen is most similar to late Eliot, and vice-versa. Example code: https://t.co/Sh3Qu3AThp https://t.co/lSdtcCBPiu
Really excited to visit the @YaleDHLab next week, and hang out with the incredible folks there! (I'll be presenting some new DH + 18C work I'm doing, on "computational keywords": using word vectors to track and compare the semantic histories of words across 1750-1850.) til soon! https://t.co/DEnpd982jn
@erikj0 oh I definitely remember the Howard Dean Scream (which, of course, to think now how that could disqualify him...)
well fellow millennials, we had a good run, not exactly sure what we accomplished, but hey https://t.co/SLAAIZKovy
RT @szimr : One week until #dhd2018 Besides talking, I'll perform some music, including this droll track called "What is DH?", right before the DHd Fight Club (Wednesday night) begins. See you there! https://t.co/mtSHSnlOmF
RT @morganw_44 : I cannot stop hearing the sound of the gun as he walked down my hallway. I cannot unsee my classmates who were shot get carried out by police. I cannot unsee the bodies on the floor. Please keep in mind the horror of what we’ve gone through today. #prayfordouglas
Stoneman Douglas HS is just a few miles away from where I grew up... my prayers to everyone there. https://t.co/uetgbuCWlm
RT @Ted_Underwood : The introduction by @susanirenebrown and @mandellc explores a tension between computational methods and social identities that has been central to recent debate about distant reading: https://t.co/DPnUrYL6SU
RT @_akpiper : Pleased to announce the #Identity Issue in #CA edited by @mandellc and @susanirenebrown: https://t.co/a0hG8of4RH https://t.co/1qVeBKMrvS
RT @commentmag : TODAY: @cwellmon – "The Modest University"  https://t.co/F9OiseBWlP
RT @Ted_Underwood : NYT running with a new Shakespeare source, but for my money this is the piece to read today on theater history. (New from @Mark_A_H) https://t.co/NdiXP36Gtg
writing tick #435: "X , then, Y" e.g. "In a sense, then, ..."; "Arguably, then, ..."; "In part, then, ..."; "Contrary, then, ..."; "What, then, ..."; "In effect, then, ..."; ... I think it's the rhythmic pause + softer "thus" that I like that I like... but ugh!
RT @chrisalensula : "Facebook has created a centrally designed internet. It’s a lamer, shittier looking internet. It’s just not as cool as an internet that is a big, chaotic space filled with tons of independently operating websites" https://t.co/FIfiix9iWC
in case you need more beautiful melodic techno in your life https://t.co/7nJGsUW3FU
@Ted_Underwood @Michael_A_Gavin @benmschmidt I agree that this is what Ben was doing when he correlated sweet--&gt;salty with vegetable--&gt;meat. In my DH2017 talk (not on blog yet), I likened these 1D contrast vectors to the antitheses of 18C prose, and correlated a bunch of them I pulled from 18C texts: https://t.co/rgDIVsU8FS
@Ted_Underwood @Michael_A_Gavin @benmschmidt (Greetings earthlings from the future / east coast!) This is v cool indeed. I really like the use of vector subtraction to capture independently meaningful conceptual continuua: it's a really interesting index of the extent to which those concepts structure a particular discourse
RT @seangweidman : Had a chance to read @Ted_Underwood et al.’s forthcoming CA article on gender in fiction—fascinating findings! @jamescosullivan and I drew a few related (also fascinating!) conclusions in our forthcoming DSH piece on gender markers and literary period: https://t.co/ApPx2IrMLO
RT @simongerman600 : This #dataviz overview table is used by the @FT team around @martinstabe to decide which visualization to use. It's a handy starting point. Highly recommend looking at this. High-res version (if you want to print this) can be found here: https://t.co/JioXOveFnO https://t.co/l8lyrNFEIO
RT @benmschmidt : Month-to-month interpolation of @j_p_schroeder's excellent population estimates database gives a smooth, if occasionally, wrong image of the expansion of settlement. Interactive version at https://t.co/fQdYBwYZze https://t.co/dFKhspv8Zg
RT @Ted_Underwood : By 1960, women had lost half the space they occupied in 19c fiction, even though gender roles had become more flexible. I explore the paradox with @dbamman and Sabrina Lee, in a forthcoming piece in CA. Preprint: https://t.co/dsZRTBvqGK https://t.co/C2wb8MR7Nz
ya i'm retweeting Jake Tapper rn https://t.co/c9zx0AddjH
F*** YEAH!!! and I don't even like football! #superbowl
@kgeographer @Ted_Underwood nah, who needs backups? ... just kidding, YES i will, because, get this, the last time i had backed up my dissertation to the cloud was 6 months ago... !
@mwidner @Ted_Underwood i know! gives me nightmarish flashbacks to my gentoo days of 2005
@Ted_Underwood it only took me 2 install attempts, &gt;100 reboot attempts, &amp; 6 hours of googling errors and trying things! turns out the cause was OpenAFS software packaged by Stanford (which can mount remote directories). ultimately found the error fix on a Stanford page: https://t.co/YscOSB3cVD
@Ted_Underwood fixed it, thank god. if anyone gets caught in a loop of kernel panics, it might be because of a kernel extension (in my case, OpenAFS). check the last .panic file in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports, and then use that to identify the bad .kext file in /System/Library/Extensions
DO NOT TRY UPGRADING TO OSX HIGH SIERRA I MAY HAVE JUST BRICKED MY MACHINE
Just watched the fabulous noir film, "They Live By Night" (1948). Supposedly the first couple-on-the-run movie, it makes me think that it's really that genre, not the detective film, that's the allegory for narrative: we and a story go on a joy-ride together, knowing it will end. https://t.co/gtCCdX302y
RT @picdescbot : a truck is parked in front of a car https://t.co/cZBK7wzHre
@nmhouston woah, is #vampconf a thing, and if not, why not
@sylvangoldberg my solution: coffee in the morning, followed by an all-day, uninterrupted chain-drinking of green tea
@KareemHussam1 @MuhSabry Abstractness just means how similar a word is to a bunch of "abstract" words (like "injustice", "beauty") as compared to how similar it is to a bunch of "concrete" words (like "cows", "arm"). That similarity is calculated by the "word2vec" algorithm (see https://t.co/lvvk57RA9n).
@jackrusher I haven't published this exact thing, but it's of a piece with the posts, code, and data I have up at https://t.co/IR9gyK5py2 (this graph and the stuff there are all based on word2vec models of 18C literature).
@ottocrat I'd say they're both around the 0 line, as neither particularly virtuous nor vicious (i.e. the vector of moral value is orthogonal to them).
@Ds_Pol_As It's built on word2vec models -- https://t.co/BOHJD5BzDS -- of periodicals from 1700-1900. The x-axis is a vector pointing from a bunch of "vices" in the vector space to a bunch of "virtues." Then you can see where any other word is along that vector of moral value-- even "cows"!
@ramin__ It's built on word2vec models of periodical literature published 1700-1900. The x-axis is a vector pointing from a bunch of "vices" in the vector space (longer story how I got those) to a bunch of "virtues." Same goes for the y-axis, pointing from some concrete to abstract words.
As abstract words get more concrete (moving down on y-axis), the range of their moral value (along x-axis) narrows. https://t.co/kLRGoKSkUs
@jon_fitzgerald Interesting (and intuitive) to see that news articles are less emotionally volatile (lower variation) than the op-eds. I feel like we'd need more data to see if there's an historical trend. Also, is this just pieces on/mentioning Trump? If not, that'd maybe help focus the data.
RT @RichardJeanSo : Hey, Boston academic friends interested in American culture/lit, race, and/or computational methods/big data (for or against), I'm doing this talk "Race and Distant Reading" on Tue at 5pm at Harvard. I would be most pleased and stoked to see some of you! https://t.co/b5tCVhN78G
RT @Ted_Underwood : New article at CA on discourses of race around Othello, by @BlaineGreteman, among others. https://t.co/nsisTAMn5a
@fubits Cool, thanks! I just made a github gist of the code I used to calculate semantic change: https://t.co/h6VLdri7HB. It's a gensim word2vec implementation of @williamleif et al's "local neighborhood measure" of semantic change that they propose here: https://t.co/Z68abZaCxr).
@epyllia @benmschmidt @williamleif I haven't blogged yet about measuring semantic change, but I'd like to soon. Hard to write about all this in tweets, obviously, but hopefully that made some amount of sense! :)
@epyllia @benmschmidt @williamleif In that paper they propose doing that by first getting all the neighbors of a given word in *both* models; then measuring how far that word is to all those neighbors in the first model, and then the second; and then comparing those distances, to see how much has changed.
@epyllia @benmschmidt To measure semantic shift, I use a method proposed by @williamleif et al (https://t.co/Z68abZaCxr) they call the "local neighborhood measure." The idea is to measure how much the "neighborhood" of a given word (i.e. its closest associations) has changed between two models.
@epyllia @benmschmidt So what that leaves is a new "vector" pointing (ideally) from "concreteness" to "abstractness," along which any other word can be oriented to measure its relative abstractness. (I talk more about that process here https://t.co/PsezdlTMfU).
@epyllia @benmschmidt To measure abstraction, word vectors let me *subtract* the associations of a bunch of concrete words from the assoc. of a bunch of abstract words (both hand-made lists). That then cancels out the assoc they share (noun-ness, etc) and leaves only their differences (=abstractness).
@epyllia (For more on that: I try to explain more about how word vectors work in https://t.co/GfUeoLQuAq, and why they're interesting in https://t.co/0daDpLeHoi. And @benmschmidt has a more thorough and interactive introduction to them over at https://t.co/cE2TYjcrdl.)
@epyllia I can try! First, they both involve "word vectors", which is a powerful way of encoding the associations between words. Basically it works by churning through a corpus, and then putting words that appear close to each in texts, close to each other in a ~300-dimensional space.
RT @PaulKintzele : Old stone, hold my soul. When I am not in this place  face the sunrise for me. Grow warm slowly. When I am not alive any more face the sunrise for me. Grow warm slowly.  --Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018)
Computational Keywords, or Modern Abstractions: Using computational semantics to find which abstract nouns changed the most in meaning during the transition into modernity. (= DH work I'm doing now in my dissertation on abstraction in 18th-century literature.) https://t.co/q5ZSytQvDq
RT @zackbloom : We live in a post-parody society where it's impossible to invent anything more ridiculous than reality https://t.co/HPGekRKENz
yup https://t.co/49pj6IaDyD
Highly recommend the album "Distractions," by Ikonika (aka Sara Chen), released last year on the Hyperdub label. It's strange, dark, beautiful, angry, funny, new, and all over the map. Here's the first track: https://t.co/Id6ZtB2wqf
RT @RichardJeanSo : People of DH and seeking academic employment: this is a really great postdoc, and you'd get to work with some great scholars. https://t.co/dEYlQoLWEi
God bless the academic blogs of the 2000s &amp; early 2010s. Of huge help to me now are some brilliant Marxist blogs active then... but pretty much all of them are deserted now, in the era of social media. The public sphere of the last decade's internet is gone, it's been privatized.
Love this bit of dialectical romanticism from Marx's introduction to the Grundrisse: "A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish. But does he not find joy in the child’s naïvité, and must he himself not strive to  reproduce its truth at a higher stage?"
RT @dan_sinykin : As @JDVance1 ponders a Senate run, check out this takedown by me, @jdconnor, and @Florence_dore in @LAReviewofBooks: "Vance’s political message: no economy...can be blamed for such quotidian fecklessness.... It’s time to put down the Big Mac and grab hold of those bootstraps."
RT @dancohen : A detailed analysis, with story graphs, of every Choose Your Own Adventure book: https://t.co/Sx3q1mYvjG https://t.co/tjCSIKFwb9
RT @samplereality : Started a skeleton listing of DH-ish sessions at #MLA18. I'm crowdsourcing it. Please add to it! https://t.co/bIIG1bQs6d
RT @_akpiper : Posting an #openletter today to the #MLA18 about #data. I was served with a take-down notice of #MLA data published in #PMLA: https://t.co/vCMdRVqyhx https://t.co/vUXSTm6TKi
RT @xfoml : a gallery of 737 branching plot graphs, by @jeremydouglass and a team of students: https://t.co/0oBjgFSNsd https://t.co/AcOF06VC35
RT @alanyliu : This is an amazing project by my @UCSB_English colleague @jeremydouglass and his students on plot structures of interactive narratives. Be sure to see the gallery of plot graphs: https://t.co/0y9CWoQMmB https://t.co/xvpdmbQUq0
@benmschmidt @historying Hm, interesting stat about the stdev of words along a gender vector versus random vectors. Ben, do you know if this (or anything else) might be a way of detecting which are, in fact, the strongest or most determining vectors in the model?
RT @kvanaren : here are some things I wrote this year that I'm proud of:
RT @RichardJeanSo : Hey really cool postdoc for computational humanists to study how humanities is talked about in media/news discourse. UCSB, 2 positions, get to work with with @alanyliu and other great people. https://t.co/5cVUm9sIf0
RT @catvalente : Jared Kushner always looks like the ghost of a young Victorian boy who died in that house and only appears in photographs and then seven days later you die. https://t.co/GHwb4Fe6tb
@_akpiper ya, i have a similar relationship to grep. i mainly use it if I want to quickly look at instances of a particular word in a collection of texts. but it's ridiculously, impossibly fast, which kinda scares me: it'll finish piping out thousands of examples before i've read even one.
@_akpiper grep is indeed scary! sublime even: these old unix programs feel to me like ancient artifacts from computation's classical antiquity. for this problem though, I think that the -w flag on grep will force it to find full words: grep -w word textfile
RT @alanyliu : Announcing search for 2 Postdoctoral Scholars for the Mellon Foundation funded WhatEvery1Says Project at UCSB #WE1Sproject). Info about the positions and how to apply at: https://t.co/K23s3gIePy
sometimes, when i'm about to sleep, i start some long-running process in the terminal just so that when i wake up it will have never slept
@kgeographer @4Hum @benmschmidt thanks Karl, that's a good point. I'm sure you know of more examples than I do, but one that comes to mind is @scholarslab's @neatline (https://t.co/2JdPhkaRjb), an amazing storytelling toolset (and one for which I believe our friend and colleague @clured is largely responsible!)
Wow, definitely check this out. @benmschmidt basically just created a new form of rhetoric for DH, one that leads you by the hand through both a story of research and a sea of data—simultaneously. https://t.co/oF8ToHLoNU
@jaheppler @broomgrass i know, we should have! tho i admit my fandom only got more serious this summer. next time we're both in same town? :)
@jaheppler @broomgrass ya I love Altman's McCabe, such a beautiful mood-piece of a western. haven't seen Little Big Man but will check it out!
@broomgrass do you want it to be TV or is film ok too? favorite films: John Ford's Stagecoach, The Searchers, Man who shot Liberty Valance; Fred Zinnemann's High Noon; Howard Hawks' Red River; Sergio Leone's Man with No Name trilogy; Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch; and Eastwood's Unforgiven.
so, as a Westerns fan, i really wanted to like the Netflix miniseries "Godless," but it turned out to be a mere skeleton of tropes it didn't even seem to understand, and it undid its supposed feminism at every turn. sad!
First Comey, then the Needle. Never say we lefties can't forgive https://t.co/A4132StxPI
there's something inherently mawkish about flashbacks
@SethRudy A Canadian poltergeist of bubblegum pop
@mervatim well, ya know, some things you just have to learn for yourself, loudly and hundreds of times
ladies and gentlemen, after a years-long investigation i can confirm that Carly Rae Jepsen's "Emotion" is one of the most perfect pop music albums of all time
RT @RichardJeanSo : People looking for academic jobs! Good digital humanities postdoc at McGill, sponsored by CLIR! Cool mix of research and info-sci/library work, contributing to a major new digital ecosystem at McGill. Please apply! https://t.co/gOafwrTrm6
RT @kvanaren : Good morning! I put on a clean shirt, drew on some eyebrows, and talked to a camera about how frustrated I got about Matt Lauer  https://t.co/y62P9pntJk
RT @LBMcGrath : Re-listening to my interviews from chapter 2 (editors!) and fixing my transcription and OMG. 45 is going to be influencing our fiction for such a long time, in ways we don't even see on a page.
RT @j0_0n : Computationally identifying semantically similar Project Gutenberg books using SpaCy document vectorization and cosine similarity. It does a great job at finding novelistic series! Also seems to differentiate between fiction/nonfiction. Writeup here: https://t.co/sjlf4ilbpS https://t.co/VSn0cxLzTF
RT @benwikler : This is @AdyBarkan, one of the best people and best activists I know. He has ALS, an eighteen-month-old son, and he’s about to get arrested protesting at Darryl Issa’s office in DC.
oh man, just rediscovered a long-lost love of mine: B12's album, "Electro-Soma", a masterpiece of early 90s electronic music: https://t.co/WJNn5tt2cc (link to whole album but starting at second track)
@kvanaren we the people would like your top 10 list, and we thank you in advance
bipartisan list of my favorite voices in the Senate (like, literally, by how they sound): Sheldon Whitehouse, Ron Wyden, Harry Reid (honrable mention), Chuck Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Sherrod Brown, Susan Collins, Bob Corker, Patty Murray, Dick Durbin.
@CSPANBen @LBMcGrath oh my god C-SPAN WATCHES BACK hi c-span i love you thanks for being you
@dan_sinykin ya brah we're the two coolest people i know
hm, should i go out tonight or stay home and just c-span and freak out
daaaaaaaaaaaaaaammn https://t.co/E4AMha5EGz
2017, MOMENTS AGO: https://t.co/FWEOEHvrOO
hey guys, try playing c-span over your favorite electronic music, trust me it'll sound sooo 2017
@SethRudy Unless the current rate of climate collapse continues unabated.
@goldstoneandrew And DH poses a threat of casualization ("retraining," etc) that it defiitely needs to manage (by defending nec of TT). In terms of arguments for lit research, though: Can DH help reframe lit research as in fact more broadly the study of "written culture"? The "great unread", etc?
@goldstoneandrew thanks AG, these are good points, maybe even esp the last, since more broadly I'm really just wondering how DH can help fight the revolution (i.e. as you write, help organize a cross-rank coalition of academics against casualization of labor)
(adding one more russian doll retweet here to ask, re: the paragraph below): how can the DH community help provide and support arguments for the necessity of literary research in the academy that are more effective than the usual ones about literariness and cultural capital? https://t.co/zcvNOKJR8u
@christof77 ya, and then since it's published online forever, you kind of want it to be a self-contained and interesting document, which then makes it basically equivalent to the final paper, except with less nuance. (at least that's how i feel)
3 minutes and 35 seconds to spare baby #DH2018
man I always struggle with the balance between word count and completeness (and anticipating reviewer's critiques) in these submissions :P #DH2018 ... three hours left!
@gworthey Great, thanks for this clarification, Glen-- very helpful.
incidentally my tweet just triggered bad memories of Senator Tom Cotton's voice endlessly repeating "masking" and "unmasking" in a whiny-angry tone
hey #DH2018 people: I believe the review process is double-blind this year, but that authors are not required to mask their identity. What do you think about pros/cons, ethics, etc of masking? I kind of want to refer to previous work I've done to contextualize the submission...
@SethRudy *some kind of "woah" gif*
working with 18C poetry more often recently, and i've been immensely helped by the incredible digital archive, https://t.co/DkpeORTgny by @C18AH -- thank you! for 18C folks, definitely check it out if you haven't yet.
@pmlogan *jots down note*
@kvanaren Hm, I don't struggle with any of those problems, issues, or tics that, of course, understandably structure so much writing—I struggle with my own, which I'm totally sure you know.
what are some of your writer's tics? i tend to both challenge and embrace the both-and-ness of things, writing sentences that both split off into multiple clauses and, within those clauses, split off again, so that each independent idea is, annoyingly, both one, and two, things.
RT @dan_sinykin : Hi. I wrote about Manson. And white nationalism. Appalachia. Apocalypse. Y'know, like it's 2017, or something. For @LAReviewofBooks https://t.co/piHkCkkIIu
so #LadyBird is absolutely gorgeous, just go see it
as a rule, the deepest thoughts arise after one sock is on, but before two.
walking into the garish fluorescent brightness of a walgreens and blinking your eyes in pain is a whole genre of late capitalist experience
@jplmbtmsm Woooooooah, numbers as letters! Thanks, "WikiHow to Do a Cool Calculator Trick"!
@SethRudy Seth when will you let us in on the secret of what exactly you are doing on ECCO to find all these gems that you so graciously share with us?
RT @goldstoneandrew : as for the MLA JIL, this 2012 provocation from @JimEnglishPenn still has teeth https://t.co/IYBxxLEItr https://t.co/EbXGJXVQRY
RT @Kligda : @quadrismegistus Similar story in History: https://t.co/vsXY4Zm4cJ Also depressing here is the contrast in # of PhDs
there's something touching for me about numbers written in letters—three, six, seventy-two, eighty-nine— ... brief moments of harmony between two orders of meaning normally thought oppositional.
6 months nicotine-free today
There's less than half the number of jobs this year, as compared to ten years ago. There's two-thirds the number of jobs this year, as compared to 2011. My generation will be a lost generation of academics. https://t.co/cnyxcbx3TA https://t.co/p6jzhpv5HL
RT @kvanaren : I got to go on @onthemedia and talk about separating the art from the artist and the fact that Tolstoy was a jerk. https://t.co/j0AdC3w6tT
Just finished presenting -- by skype! -- to U Penn's "Wordlab" DH group, which has awesome people in it like @scottenderle and @beth_seltzer. Super fun and rewarding experience, with great discussion, questions, and advice. Thanks guys!
RT @mattwilkens : New article on textual geography of Scotland in CA by @Michael_A_Gavin &amp; Eric Gidal. Cool results, useful methods. https://t.co/T7YeVj7vfj
So, I'm ... I'm appalled. I can only imagine how difficult it is to speak out about experiences like this. I'm listening. I hope we're all thinking hard about what we can do to reshape academic culture into a truly safe and equal environment.
@bbenzon yeah, I was thinking how a DH project is waiting in the wings here, asking whether the change of medium from 140 to 280 led to a change in the average forms and contents of tweets
#unpopularopinion: I think 280 characters might actually be a good change, if only for reducing the number of "threads" and for limiting the amt of txt-speak.
Read this. It's devastating. It's horrifying. It's a masterpiece of an essay. It's about a PhD advisor raping his student, the author. It's about the Stanford English department, my department. It's about how academia normalizes sexual violence.  https://t.co/ParYISuq3g
Left coast is the best coast https://t.co/52K1BmGwCj
@PoliticiansTV Not really. I just took every sentence from the first 5,000 words of every text in the ECCO-TCP corpus (https://t.co/jsIph4VFFp). [Limited to first 5K words to counteract the fact that some texts are vastly longer than others.] Here's a snapshot of some facts about the corpus. https://t.co/7AvSUGnVOM
Visualizing the components of personification: which abstract nouns are more likely to be given syntactic agency in 18C literature? https://t.co/6Q6FUkjx4u
RT @Comey : Here’s my new handle. Glad to be part of the Twitterverse. Grateful to Reinhold for the cover these last few years.
@KatherineBode cool! i know that @madsrt has edited a DH-inflected book, “Danish Literature as World Literature” https://t.co/B9MkaNjmcK
RT @PhFi_ : Some #PhDlife feels this morning, and some great #MondayMotivation ahead of a day full of #AcWri. #dontstopmovin #SClub https://t.co/35MngrPQjv
RT @Ted_Underwood : 4 open-rank positions at the School of Information Sciences—including cultural heritage informatics. Deadline Nov 5. https://t.co/CBqKdhY6VW
@hralperta @Ted_Underwood @Elijah_Meeks Puritanism is *back* ya'll -- and this time, it's *digital*
RT @poptimality : are you fucking kidding https://t.co/ErRo1bmtAQ
think: the state of causality today: Trump having 280 characters could affect the entire world.
RT @literarylab : Pamphlet 16, "Totentanz. Operationalizing Aby Warburg’s Pathosformeln" by @LeoImpett and Franco Moretti is out: https://t.co/DU4DqfJ2vs
RT @Ted_Underwood : The Stanford Literary Lab's (Gothic) Narrative. My review of a new book from @nplusonemag, in @publicbooks. https://t.co/RJHMszeCA8
reading an abandoned brilliant scholarly website from Web 1.0 is touching.. like visiting a small town's graveyard still with flowers inside
An elegant and strong riposte to Brennan's "DH Bust" Chronicle article, by @SarahEBond, @hoytlong, &amp; @Ted_Underwood: https://t.co/ejtoQEMdQW
RT @Ted_Underwood : A project manager job, in Champaign, coordinating Training in Digital Methods for Humanists. https://t.co/TcAOrgSyZJ
RT @BarackObama : Starting today, you can sign up for 2018 health coverage. Head on over to https://t.co/ob1Ynoesod and find a plan that meets your needs. https://t.co/6vYt83w74T
now i'm wondering whether i should still engage his work, or whether i should change the way i do, and if so, how...
just found out that a major critical interlocutor in my diss has been accused of sexual harassment multiple times and has recently resigned
Damn, @washingtonpost's sources are so good their stories read like omniscient third-person narration https://t.co/XfMXjZhHU1 https://t.co/112SsGILkz
Fascinating economic analysis of the infrastructural devolution of the Internet into the "Trinet" (GOOG + FB + AMZN). https://t.co/OK8yL6E22O
RT @StevePasquale : MAGA.   Men. Are. Getting. Arrested.
RT @DocTaughtMe : All black ppl asked is for the cops not to kill us &amp; if they did, that they be held accountable. That's it. And America descended into chaos
RT @LBMcGrath : In light of PPT failure yesterday at #ASAP9, I've posted the 2nd half of my talk, "Agented Fiction," with visuals. https://t.co/ydF3UtwwBq
Tweets not necessarily endorsements, etc etc, so, Just gonna leave this here... https://t.co/rcJZa0U259
RT @APPRecovery : Follow us as we promote US Latina/o Digital Humanities with the hashtag #usLdh
Grad student working w/ geographic or spatial concepts? The Experimental Geography Studio &amp; @nbbauch would love to work with you this spring https://t.co/95vvbCHh9N
@Ted_Underwood Hm, intriguing, esp. for code sharing—but ya, also yet another way The Cloud is trapping us in its ever-strengthening gravitational field.
Comey look like he’s about to drop the hottest singer-songwriter album this year: “Lordy, I Hope There Are Tapes” https://t.co/Jmq9FnH4kT
@dan_sinykin also there’s a great Terry Gross episode on the article with the author, Jane Mayer
Male researchers singled out and bullied Dr. Cuddy, a woman. Coincidence? I don't think so. https://t.co/xHQzYr02fm
My hot take, forthcoming in the Chronicle: "The Astronomy Bust: After decades of expensive tests, all the field can do is confirm Einstein." https://t.co/OwFiDxhW8j
RT @LBMcGrath : Detail: a network of agents, (implied authors), and prizes since 2000. Preview for Thursday's talk. https://t.co/Kv91eSsWd4
RT @christof77 : Our paper on #Delta for #Authorship is finally freely available at #DSH: https://t.co/ASI4rjLgvg (with @schtepf, @fotisja et al.)
"Replicant began as an imaginary soundtrack to Blade Runner 2049– weirder, noisier, darker, and more futuristic than the music in the film." https://t.co/N5y2j5Jufp
@anguishreid 🤠
RT @laurenduca : John Kelly lamenting days when women were held sacred while launching an attack on an outspoken congresswoman really sums the whole thing up
has anyone written about the New Sincerity and superhero-ization? the flat earnestness of the movie totally contradicts original noir irony
a flat grandiosity/epic-ness. today's "superhero-ization" of movies is in it, taking away from the subtler noir-esque affect of the original
but its differences from original can't help but index what feels like a cultural flattening since the 80s: pointlessly flatter characters +
so, I liked the new "Blade Runner" okay. it's a beautiful film, immersive both visually and aurally and captures some of original's tone. +
RT @MikeBeauvais : Rob Ryan looks like Gandalf went undercover to bust a cocaine smuggling ring in Miami in 1986. https://t.co/8nMI4w2Gm5
RT @Michael_A_Gavin : New DH job posting: Come manage our DH Center! #altac Please RT! https://t.co/QvpbPDOU8a
o hell yes, new TOKiMONSTA album is out: https://t.co/nRjd7rDZWu
RT @deray : thoughts. (📷@dariothephotog) https://t.co/N3VmfpKOxk
@Ted_Underwood If value in the humanities is in fact measured by its development of new modes of thought and critique, then the value of DH is even clearer
@Ted_Underwood These "show me the new facts" critiques are silly to me b/c they unselfconsciously adopt the naïve empiricism they are trying to critique
RT @NiamhNic : I hadn't thought about this much before, but, damn... https://t.co/iHZ4g6AwMk
just heard yesterday of the "Pomodoro Technique" (work 25min, rest 5). i've been trying it today and it's really helping me focus and write.
RT @OldWestNow : How all good research begins 🤠 https://t.co/T7FePl4POp
RT @kylegriffin1 : “We're ripping out all of the vegetables in Michelle Obama's garden and planting McNuggets." https://t.co/A4JzrjWqD4
@sylvangoldberg this is my "spare time" however so far my research has mainly consisted of watching a ton of westerns and buying a cowboy hat
@sylvangoldberg where is this from? sylvan i am writing a very important magnum opus on the western we should talk
RT @nathankhensley : Hurricane named after a Shakespeare suicide heading toward England nbd https://t.co/IGPFE5Q8Lw
@kvanaren better than mine which is young jamba juice
RT @sawdustbear : tbh I don't really want women to remain silent on Twitter for a day, I want all men to say nothing and only amplify women's voices.
RT @Tippi_Hedren : https://t.co/cgyYTZtpaN
@mesotronium ya, i had already run @Ted_Underwood's script—which helped a lot! what worries me is more: how does OCR disparity *b/w* txts affect results?
although the crowd booing Trump's "we need more republican senators" just now makes it more interesting.
what a strange genre this is: a performance of an interview on the stage of a rally. ..no idea why i'm halfwatching this Trump/Hannity thing
writing is at least one hundred times harder than coding
RT @cstahmer : Similarity network of woodblock images from @EBBA_Ballads archive.  #digitalhumanities #machinelearning #datamining #arthistory #TensorFlow https://t.co/SEJM8Wcge6
RT @yashar : Breaking: @RonanFarrow's bombshell Harvey Weinstein report is out and includes allegations of rape. https://t.co/8W4s5CrLy7
RT @MikeNiccoABC7 : If not evacuating in the North Bay, stay inside.  Worst air quality I've seen in 11 years.  #napafire  #santarosa https://t.co/H6fPfxd7R2
RT @GrimKim : It’s that time of year again. #IndigenousPeoplesDay https://t.co/CaIm92ZUyw
just woke up from strong smell of fire, thought house was burning. turns out it's the #AtlasFire in Napa 40 mi north. godspeed to all there
RT @MrEwanMorrison : The extraordinary and now abandoned Gulliver's Travels Theme Park, near Mount Fuji, Japan. Opened in 1997 but closed only four years later. https://t.co/wjikDsOifQ
RT @RichardJeanSo : Really really good DH postdoc at Northwestern and you get to work with one of my favorite people in the academy @feinsod https://t.co/DxTtLhCMoE
RT @feinsod : Spread the word! We have an open field search for a postdoc in digital humanities at Northwestern's @kaplanhum. https://t.co/dXAwShMQ1A
RT @ianbremmer : Quite an installation. https://t.co/SPUKnBf4it
As a way to say goodbye to Summer, I made it a mix of our favorite songs: https://t.co/bn1204w1CN
@dan_sinykin great taste profile! :P ya i wonder about synthesis. are some artists niches in the network of tastes? =trap you in a particular similarity?
@dan_sinykin ya the $ Q is interesting. it's like google, $, and search results. the illegibility of algorithms confuses social/formal, prod/rec divides
@dan_sinykin ya i bet it's more the latter. the "customers who bought x also bought y" model. so.. more social than formal.. but a diff kind of 'social'?
@dan_sinykin in fact, the whole production/reception dichotomy feels so pre-digital. where does this human-algorithm interface fit into that model?
@dan_sinykin blunt sociological relation of "means of production" (mainstream/indie) is, ya, fractured into a bunch of illegible smaller associations
@dan_sinykin is that because it's formally different from my usual listening habits? or because people who listen to what I listen to don't listen to it?
@dan_sinykin imo yours is more nuanced. btw context: why does my DiscoverWeekly never have more mainstream stuff like this new awesome Demi Lovato album?
algorithmic culture (e.g. spotify) recasts formerly sociological relations (mainstream/indie) into formalist ones (algorithmic similarity) ?
RT @kvanaren : turns out sexual harassment is less a conservative v liberal thing and more just a powerful man thing  https://t.co/OXMwy5gtd6
@Ted_Underwood Cool, I think that will have a big impact. DH canon now is mainly G,M,T and Macroan. partly because they're accessible book-length arguments
@Ted_Underwood I agree, though I think a lot of those internal debates are bound to be too arcane for folks. I think what we need are more DH monographs.
@Ted_Underwood "distant" reading did that work for a while, but implied an antagonism that the field is trying to get past. thus new theoretical confusion?
@Ted_Underwood ya, though I think most people don't even want to do it, so much as find a way to make its place within the discipline legible theoretically
@dan_sinykin hm, maybe. I actually think people are trying to befriend DH &amp; find a place for it in the disciplinary geography, but aren't quite sure how.
@dan_sinykin ya, def overdetermined. but I also feel like the discipline is getting over those critiques even as an unplaceable anxiety about it remains.
@dan_sinykin it's clearly an anxiety of influence about Moretti &amp; DH. but it also feels like that anxiety is a symptom of a broader one.. but about what?
@LBMcGrath https://t.co/VL5Og9c10R
@dan_sinykin i'm thinking of recent PMLA special issue on Distant Reading (https://t.co/ffiV8YgD68) and this new piece in NLH (https://t.co/LGbx4jHhTB)
what is the latest spate of articles about DH working through? seems an attempt to move beyond critique, but to what? it still feels anxious
RT @ryanbeckwith : CNN just now: “We have confirmed that the Secretary of State did refer to the president as a moron this summer."
RT @KatherineBode : Copy edits for my book A World of Fiction done - preprints of intro, ch 1 &amp; 2 here for anyone interested https://t.co/GELBUVfiP0
RT @nowviskie : I think crying to Tom Petty songs in the car really means mourning a kind of American optimism we may never find again.
RT @pussyrrriot : https://t.co/ssz98zhdvg
RT @jcpolls : Stark maps ... 50-state view of 2016 vote in gun vs. non-gun households via @SurveyMonkey https://t.co/0NB0L3fYj1
RT @pleonard : Spent a weekend training a Generative Adversarial Network on 25k 19th century portraits; results seem good. These people have never existed: https://t.co/JkDFaZv6li
RT @elotroalex : CFP: DH2018 | Mexico City. The work of many, of years and years. Un puente enorme. ¡Nos vemos allá! https://t.co/xPgQ5tVEtf
RT @OwenJones84 : Catalan firefighters defending voters from the Spanish police. Absolutely astonishing. https://t.co/Gyb1qjN38J
"exploitative working conditions will not be addressed by shaking one’s head over people’s stubborn failure to quit their bad jobs." https://t.co/uceBuwyXZ8
@abasu_ cool! Also probably seeing the explosion of political pamphleteering in the 1640s with start of Civil War and breakdown of censorship?
@cwellmon I, for one, welcome our new divine robot overlords.
@Ted_Underwood @nmhouston @scott_bot @goldstoneandrew @star_captain1 Ya I bet. +, I think I remember reading somewhere (W. St Clair? J. Raven?) that 18C print runs were small, so multiple eds nec for pop books
@nmhouston @Ted_Underwood @scott_bot @goldstoneandrew @star_captain1 Hm, true, but I read all the time "X went through N editions in M years" as an index of popularity. A kind of reception within production?
@Ted_Underwood @scott_bot @goldstoneandrew @star_captain1 (Especially since imprint networks can be drawn from the near-exhaustive, text-less bibliography ESTC.) Reception here could be # reprints.
@Ted_Underwood @scott_bot @goldstoneandrew @star_captain1 Reception would definitely add piece of puzzle &amp; these are great ideas. Would prefer to stay away from text-work though: doctor's orders :)
@matthewdlincoln @goldstoneandrew woah, fascinating, thanks! never heard of this. look super useful-- I'm curious what kinds of publisher "roles" it could identify.
@goldstoneandrew then cluster them by those "objective" characteristics? thinking here of your graph of Bourdieu's MCA of market (btw where can I find that?)
@goldstoneandrew would another approach be to infer attributes about publishers from network: size of op, did they print mainly un/copyrighted stuff, etc, +
@goldstoneandrew cool idea! looks like it works by aggregating distinct kinds of ties; I'll need to keep thinking how that'd work here in a net of imprints
This is appalling, re: the economic conditions of adjuncts. Especially given the rise of tuition over last decades. What can we do? https://t.co/xI6OZeyOsh
RT @SethRudy : This bit from Rollins' Ancient-History of the Egyptians (1738) gets off to a fine start, but it takes an unexpected turn. #18thcentury https://t.co/5CtA4i2mY2
@goldstoneandrew I've also been *disaggregating* the net: dividing humans into quasi-Latourian actants, so that M[ary] Cooper the publisher != the bookseller https://t.co/Zu5OuvaEti
@goldstoneandrew also playing w/ "blockmodeling" the communities (https://t.co/xp7UPPWEc1), ie making each a node, w/ edges from orig net. But it's confusing https://t.co/vnvEUhKo7O
@goldstoneandrew The colors show net-community, which aggregate actors (though not by much). But does that approach a "position"? I seek the Bourdieu wisdom.
@Michael_A_Gavin CoreNLP ignores titles in its NER name-tagging, so right now Mr. X not in there since he has no first name. :-/
@Michael_A_Gavin i'm also ignoring names without first name or initial. do you have a sense of how often name ambiguity (of initial + surname) is a problem?
@Michael_A_Gavin @goldstoneandrew this I think can get congers? b/c each name in imprints like "printed for A. Wilde, J. Rivington, W. Johnston..." is target of "printed:for"
@Michael_A_Gavin @goldstoneandrew no, as for ambiguity I'm not doing anything yet. (eek! just started on this). I'm even abbreviating all "M[anything] Cooper" to "M. Cooper".
@Michael_A_Gavin @goldstoneandrew so I ran each imprint through https://t.co/10HSqJo0Qy, and then took all NER Persons that are the target of a "printed/pub'd/sold"+ "by/for"
@GrandjeanMartin Woops, ya it's actually text&lt;&gt;publisher&lt;&gt;author, so author gives pivot. Also, in these versions I'm including printers and booksellers, too.
Inspired by @Michael_A_Gavin's "hist. text nets" (https://t.co/mhf28caYea) &amp; @goldstoneandrew's "doxa of reading" (https://t.co/Akaff9i3Bw)
London's print market doubled between the 1740s &amp; 1790s, with publishers further dividing space of positions. Data: text&lt;&gt;publisher in ECCO. https://t.co/sjU2zz3eXO
@abasu_ it is perhaps not for us to say, but 'tis sure that at the Day of Judgment the Lord God will classify the algorithms as sheep, or as goats.
algorithmic blasphemy! https://t.co/gJKkM1iJm3
RT @goldstoneandrew : protip: restore mental equilibrium when you see these pious nostrums by replacing the word “literature” with “cake” https://t.co/m9vNG9PECc
RT @SenatorCollins : Senator Collins opposes Graham-Cassidy health care bills https://t.co/nW6MFUvYVg https://t.co/0DSxDJNMPp
RT @existentialcoms : Existential Ad Agency - https://t.co/Wo9CWwFS65 https://t.co/aPrcpEhYiV
RT @OmarKelly : Dolphins safety Michael Thomas started breaking up when talking about Trump calling him "a son of a b!tch." https://t.co/Z4wroPcvzW
RT @astrokatey : This article has made me super angry. Do you want to know what it is like trying to be a woman in a scientific space? Let me tell you. 1/ https://t.co/Dhdsk9m4JY
Watch this. so beautiful and powerful and Oakland https://t.co/mTT8lN3xTO
RT @uninterrupted : "It’s not about dividing. We as American people need to come together even stronger.” — @KingJames responds to @realDonaldTrump’s comments. https://t.co/UHpzXpb42K
RT @KingJames : U bum @StephenCurry30 already said he ain't going! So therefore ain't no invite. Going to White House was a great honor until you showed up!
seems like it took off in the mid-2000s? https://t.co/TlM4j0OocG
is it just me or did "the ways in which" go out of fashion recently?
🤠 https://t.co/kGafe50dCi
@Ted_Underwood @hoytlong my only fear is that DH banishes hermeneutics, the "reading" of patterns into meaning. IMO it's an endangered but an important epistemology
@Ted_Underwood @hoytlong I like an ecumenical approach here: for some questions with good metadata, supervision is perfect; for other Qs, unsup patternseeking better
@Ted_Underwood @hoytlong Conversely tho?, the un-usefulness of supv modeling is it forces you to start from a small handful of categories (genre, gender, author, ..)
@Ted_Underwood i feel like youre doing an interesting critique of single 'herm. circle' &amp; arguing for range of 'hermeneutic paths' in DH depending on model
@Ted_Underwood but that's really interesting, and i think you're right, that certain kinds of patterns elicit different kinds of interpretive desires/acts
@Ted_Underwood true. still, i'd be curious what lit forms are driving differentiation (eg in your un/reviewed poetry article, neg affect words? so int'g!)
@Ted_Underwood at least, maybe? :) I rly appreciate your work theorizing un- vs. supervised models, and I'm always afraid I'm not understanding it right
@Ted_Underwood but we still need to engage in hermeneutics to interp that pattern as the product or "shadow" of an underlying social or literary form
@Ted_Underwood ie in FM's terms, if "patterns are the shadows of forms over data," then supv models can find patterns between interp'd objects (eg genre)..
@Ted_Underwood but interpreting the formal, literary, and social meaning of such facts still seems to me like a crucial hermeneutic exercise
@Ted_Underwood I know supervised models start w/ human interps of what novels count as Gothic, etc, and can then tell us quantitative things about them..
@Ted_Underwood Cool post! To me Fish was just a skeptic of all hermeneutics. My Q: isn't hermeneutic act still necessary at end of supervised modeling too?
"Quantitative hermeneutics is the art of understanding conventions—forms, genres, styles, practices—better than their society ever did." https://t.co/7tFUqSKwGm
RT @ZachWahls : This is just an incredibly staggering comparison. https://t.co/ym778GQE7s
being sick has lots of subtly touching things abt it, like how people tell you to drink lots of water even though of course you already know
@scott_bot @Ted_Underwood dear god someone make this movie
RT @Ted_Underwood : New post, genuinely trying to help critics of quantitative approaches to literature flesh out their bibliographies. https://t.co/GZ5ucwQr1D
@Ted_Underwood yeah, beating up telegram operators and smashing the machines was a thing, apparently
westerns... half of 'em turn on dangers of transporting gold. if cell phones would kill Seinfeld, imagine what VISA would do to the western.
@goldstoneandrew @RichardJeanSo i.e. to me essays liberate DR from being everything: it isn't lit sociology, and it isn't explanatory modeling. it's reading. and that's ok.
@goldstoneandrew @RichardJeanSo then, tho meant as critiques?, these contrasts show how intuition &amp; inference applied to data is a coherent &amp; viable crit method called "DR"
@goldstoneandrew If @RichardJeanSo contrasts DR's "intuition" with model-making, &amp; @goldstoneandrew its readerly "inferences" with sociological explanation..
i.e. I think @goldstoneandrew's point can be even stronger: Distant Reading isn't reading, just a heterodox one; it's now another orthodoxy.
Main impression: to me essays make clear how Distant Reading is now as coherent and accepted a methodology as New Historicism or BookHistory
Just finished reading the excellent PMLA cluster of essays on Distant Reading. Some thoughts: (also, I don't wanna subtweet, so sry for @'s)
RT @Ted_Underwood : Eleven articles discussing Moretti's book _Distant Reading_ in the latest PMLA: https://t.co/biHQBKJqO0 Too many authors to name in a tweet!
RT @paul1kirby : A remarkable sociology of the last 70 years in one chart. Each line tells a big story.  HT @petrmisan https://t.co/r4tjTb665e
@dmimno @briancroxall A+ for brilliance
@ryancordell Open Syllabus Project (https://t.co/Y2A9I1WZSW) might help. @clured is part of the team there and would know better its usefulness for DH.
RT @picdescbot : a circuit board https://t.co/ZwmaBtSawq
RT @washingtonpost : In message of defiance to Trump, lawmakers vote to make California a sanctuary state https://t.co/PaDn7pGq5I
@goldstoneandrew @Ted_Underwood Glad you're resurrecting this work, Ted. Returning to it seems 1 way DH can bring those saved and damned by literariness back together again
@Ted_Underwood Still innovative! Feels as if it were responding to @goldstoneandrew's call for DH to quantify more social structures, less textual features
RT @meakoopa : I made an infographic of the 2017 millennial economic experience https://t.co/cIQDnQF9LP
RT @Ted_Underwood : Researchers who link lit. studies to other disciplines may be interested in @heathklove's contribution to CI debate: https://t.co/4QN1JSW5JP
RT @heatherfro : Does anyone have a good 20th C example of literary mapping (gis work) that they like to teach? this slide deck got v 19c quickly
@Michael_A_Gavin interesting! can't wait to read!
@Michael_A_Gavin This is my favorite response yet. I sense deep wisdom in your words, sir.
@dasmiq @Ted_Underwood @broomgrass So true about semantics/discourse. Particularly when your model of semantics is the "distributional hypothesis", i.e. meaning = associations
@broomgrass @Ted_Underwood Overall model does still seem legit to me. That sermons fall and novels rise seems fundamental to period's discursive and semantic histories
@broomgrass @Ted_Underwood I like that, an overall model + genre models. More intuitive to think of semantic changes within a genre than how each genre affected them.
@Ted_Underwood i want to! but lordy is the "try everything" imperative of DH getting time-consuming... in other words my dissertation-superego is upset. :P
RT @SICKOFWOLVES : IN EXCHANGE FOR YOUR FACIAL RECOGNITION DATA FINGER PRINTS AND VOICE RECORDINGS WE WILL GIVE YOU THIS ANIMATED POOP
e.g. should I try to even out the amount of fiction per decade of the 18C, or is it absurd to try to "even out" the rise of the novel?
DH Q: When measuring semantic change across an 18C corpus, would you genre-balance the corpus, or is generic change part of semantic change?
@DanAShore Because healthcare is an existential need, necessary for our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
A fine example of the "willpower porn" genre of intellectualism. https://t.co/Aga5OYwU7a
thunder! in California! making this the ~10th time I've heard thunder in my 9 years here
RT @goldstoneandrew : RU faculty and dissertating grads! Apply for @CCARutgers fellowships for the 2018–19 seminar! Due 11/17. https://t.co/tw4CwXTruG https://t.co/Una6ruLAxv
@clured @heatherfro Someone Who Isn't Me once found a cool Russian website illegally hosting academic monographs but he forgot the URL *cough* libgen.io *cough*
just saw incredible talk by @rcmidura on how changes in postal system in 17C greatly influenced Grand Tour travel patterns #digitalgrandtour
@DanAShore wait, so did my messenger pigeon arrive at your office after all? :P
@DanAShore no.. i'm a #millennial. but srsly, i could write a fan email, but by tweeting we all benefit. academic twitter is our only real public forum
I wish more academics were on twitter. (looking at you, non-DHers). I want to tweet @ them to all about how great their books are.
RT @UMD_AADHum : #AADHUM invites scholars in Black studies and Digital Humanities to apply to our new Scholars program https://t.co/VzKm00eHTp
RT @Electrostani : DH friends: Lehigh is hosting a digital humanities/social justice themed conference in April 2018. Spread the word! https://t.co/2EGqVFiY2c
o man, reading literary criticism back in the heyday of deconstruction is a doozy. the piety, the earnestness, the mania of it all!
@dan_sinykin damn, this is the best answer ever -- it only looks like guitars died, really, they're rockin out even better in radical trans fem heaven
RT @AlexSteffen : When we say the West is burning, this is what we mean:  Scores of huge fires ripping through tinder-dry forests, blanketing the US in smoke. https://t.co/ovhshHFlH0
RT @BarackObama : To target hopeful young strivers who grew up here is wrong, because they’ve done nothing wrong. My statement: https://t.co/TCxZdld7L4
@cwellmon Nicholas Gaskill has similar recent argument in NLH on New Critics' close reading as reaction to expanding scientific methods of abstraction
RT @guardian : Trump to end 'Dreamers' program with six-month delay – reports https://t.co/LpiwmcDOfP
RT @KamalaHarris : There is nothing crueler than deporting kids who grew up in America back to a country they don’t even know. #DefendDACA
RT @scott_bot : @scottenderle @matthewdlincoln Oh do please go on 🙃 https://t.co/Bi6OHybv5B
RT @nxthompson : The most intense, critical essay on Facebook that I've ever read. https://t.co/7RXmcujr6I https://t.co/pGJglyUgW0
RT @jacobinmag : HAVE YOU PEOPLE LEARNED NOTHING? https://t.co/RzG8K1sV7r
...which means that these days i'm about as cool as Paul Ryan. great, just great. https://t.co/mtvqZkVM9x
evidence i'm getting older, #346: just had to look up what it means to 'dab' https://t.co/nSMnSRa3hm
RT @dan_sinykin : Some thoughts on the always topical failures of whiteness. My piece on Baldwin from the Summer issue of @DissentMag is now un-paywalled https://t.co/0VmYJTz1pX
RT @guardian : 'Let's stand for the mountains!': the Native American rockers fighting to be heard https://t.co/1nizQVL7Xm
RT @AuburnSeminary : Wow! Line of residents in Durham, NC attempting to turn themselves in for 'crime' of removing Confederate Monuments   (photo Katina Parker) https://t.co/DjdNS8S6rc
RT @goldstoneandrew : Announcing two postdocs @CCARutgers for 2018–19: join @mlmcgill and me for our yearlong seminar on classification! https://t.co/tw4CwXTruG
both reflect this very American fantasy of individualism defended by masculinity in a way that betrays a guilt over its waning possibility
been watching Westerns lately, and heroes like Eastwood, Wayne make me think how Westerns are kinda the comic book movies of the mid-century
"I don’t see any difference in her or a soldier who died in war. She, in a sense, died for her country." https://t.co/uQfmASIcG5
RT @mattmfm : Compare this horrific photo by @zdroberts today of white supremacists beating black kid in Charlottesville to Freedom Riders attack in 1961. https://t.co/dbJbAxoTtM
In awe of the incredible courage of the counterprotesters, who literally risked their lives today to oppose white supremacism in our streets
@amandalicastro I feel the same. :) Thank you, and congratulations to you too!!
love WE1S panel on data ecology &amp; public humanities @alanyliu @sekleinman @jeremydouglass @JsMindvirus @lindsaycthomas @ashleymchamp #DH2017
@LBMcGrath i agree. to me, w2v is a space of multidimens. semantic relations b/w words; LDA is a dim-reduction of that space into "topics" or clusters.
@Shxperienced aw, thanks! and yep! looking forward to chatting!
RT @miriamkp : If anyone at #dh2017 has data my students can work with, I'd love it if you'd share! Esp good if in a form more novice people can work with!
o hello, only other person who has never watched Game Of Thrones, how's your sunday evening?
RT @LAReviewofBooks : Today, YA lit for trans readers exists. But as a little weirdo kid, there was only Animorphs. via @veryeager: https://t.co/M0poHrPRCg https://t.co/SQyI5eco9D
@cejarvis @Ted_Underwood ...a Count!
@cejarvis @Ted_Underwood so, what do you call a neoliberal DHer?
@Ted_Underwood like, what did we used to use twitter for again, B.T. Before Trump?
@Ted_Underwood i dunno, i confess twitter feels kinda boring to me now
no, there is one man who knows. his name, is @scott_bot. https://t.co/EJ4c1CoEPH
RT @ChrisMegerian : Meanwhile, in California, transit agents are tweeting poems about smoking weed (via @tomangell) https://t.co/iugl8U85st
RT @abasu_ : #Spenser and #EK's sections show distinctive orthographic habits in the Shepheardes Calendar! https://t.co/IKZQVzfZrI
RT @jessesingal : Laughing out lout at my friend's description of Stephen Miller https://t.co/oBErGW6C89
like, i mean: https://t.co/8KVsE3mSbX https://t.co/AN0QrvJqqF https://t.co/9tcR8D7RQ0
also there's this affect in a lot of 90s pop.. it's like a loud, optimistic melancholy, like a confident dramatic fade between shots in film
see???? https://t.co/DQBo8pui6C
like, Cher's radio-assaulting "Believe" in 1998 is a straight-up trance song https://t.co/xIM1Y8XYfv
on a strange, unintended nostalgia-journey through 90s pop, and surprised to remember how EDM-y it is-- guitars had it coming for a while
RT @proseb4bros : I talked about the overrepresentation of black people in reaction gifs for @TeenVogue https://t.co/3WD7kHBwkS https://t.co/tWOeIxQJ3Y
RT @SeanMcElwee : modern conservatism has no organizing principle beyond imagined white victimhood https://t.co/106Wmjqvv0
@Ted_Underwood @clured @literarylab ya-- what's so interesting to me about these trends is just how bizarrely formulaic or systematic (many) plots must be! lunch at 10%!?
RT @dmimno : Coolest thing I've seen this year: 18c novels more like storytelling, 19c/20c more like movies. https://t.co/9AFL0Dgf7H
@Ted_Underwood @POrg not to mention change/gradient over word types (given word length, presence of certain characters, etc)
@kvanaren lol me too, don't get me wrong, i'm the eating popcorn gif guy right now
@kvanaren like, is there something newly perverse about how the whole world goes to twitter to comment on new Trump plot twists in real time?
@kvanaren i'm also starting to feel like we're reaching a stage where it's neither TV imitating reality nor reality imitating TV but something else
Firing of Scaramucci-- after 10 days!-- what a plot twist! --&gt; This piece by @kvanaren feels more and more relevant: https://t.co/2D6gUIEaWJ
@sylvangoldberg whither should they go?
RT @douglasduhaime : A short guide to identifying similar images in large data collections with #tensorflow https://t.co/sYwBTTbnhu
RT @TheOnion : Only Adult Left In Trump Administration Named ‘Mad Dog’ https://t.co/2fsVevWHat https://t.co/rDMIJL1Uej
RT @KevinQ : I've seriously watched this more then 10 times alone and laughed as loud as my body allowed. A true work of genius: https://t.co/IpjTKgT4W2
hey DH folks: how much do you think I need to explain what word vectors are in my DH2017 talk? how familiar is the method at this point?
@mesotronium @AGoldmund ok, I think I tightened it up alright, because I really don't feel bad for Reince
@miriamkp @Ted_Underwood @heatherfro @matthewdlincoln pythons, neurons, and Bayes, oh my!
RT @SethAbramson : This is the most extensive, exhaustive breakdown of 10 seconds of C-SPAN footage in the history of our brave nation. https://t.co/d4H3KWiz71
@KyleBartReid where all texts must be typed by pushing digits one to three times in succession
RT @frankthorp : McCain leaving the Capitol asked why he voted NO: "I thought it was the right thing to do."
RT @SamuelAshworth : OH MY GOD MCCONNELL IS WEEPING  GOD YES GIVE ME YOUR TEARS THE SWEET SWEET SALT OF YOUR KENTUCKY TEARS
damn-- @SenSchumer is really, really good.
ok so i take it all back for now, McCain reached peak maverick badass tonight
RT @chrislhayes : Is McConnell crying?
look ye at McConnell's scowl and bask in schadenfreude https://t.co/S9N7jHkSbA
RT @igorbobic : MCCAIN VOTES NO
Raymond Williams: "From C17.. labour.. lost its.. association with pain" &amp; became  "a general social activity.. a term in political economy" https://t.co/oKiMbr4vXl
"Mr President, will the senator yield for a question about the bill-- Sasse: Will the senator yield for a question? Enzi: I will not." x100
C-Span drama rn: Sen. Enzi giving an hourlong, oh-golly snore of a speech until midnight vote, as Dems interrupt and Sen Sasse hammers order
RT @costareports : Scaramucci to @RyanLizza: “Reince is a [expletive] paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac." https://t.co/suTcLCkHlN
watching C-Span in background while doing DH work. honest question: for whom are Senate-floor speeches made? do other Senators really care?
@goldstoneandrew @Elijah_Meeks paging Sir Worshipful Honorable Mr @Elijah_Meeks, Esq. -- please advise
@goldstoneandrew @Electrostani also check out https://t.co/U4jRWE3ZJM by the Honorable Mr. @Elijah_Meeks
A provocative and (to me) persuasive response to a set of questions that feel more and more pressing in DH. https://t.co/0Eb6P3qe1j
i would so watch this: https://t.co/xPTRNqACyO
RT @K8brannen : Trump's decision on transgender troops had zero to do w/ "unit cohesion" and everything to do w/ politics. https://t.co/K70u4ywmsi
RT @kylegriffin1 : WaPo: The military spends five times as much on Viagra as it would on transgender troops’ medical care. https://t.co/jhDmOZX30B
RT @abasu_ : The King James Bible as a network of people and places. 2.6K nodes, 36K edges. The red cloud is the New Testament! #EMDA17 https://t.co/Bsl03zgZSy
what a principled maverick! https://t.co/eqUJQ6ElYC
goddammit
wait, so-- did it fail? https://t.co/nw26SvISgV
protesters just entered senate chamber shouting "kill the bill, don't kill us!" https://t.co/dgJVVF0yN9
@kvanaren lol, i hadn't! his eyes say it all. https://t.co/Vi1fe3QpRe https://t.co/HKtxByEmuB
ah, the C-SPAN2 call-in talk show, where folks drunk-dial the nation about politics
RT @KatherineBode : Please circulate: 4 year position teaching literature and researching on a dh/reception project - come work with me: https://t.co/T4QIiOQg5s
.@cwellmon &amp; @_akpiper quantify the "epistemic inequality" of lit studies (eg Harvard/Yale PhDs produce ~20% of articles in 4 big journals). https://t.co/vzga9M2sGf
RT @cwellmon : "Publication, Power, and Patronage: On Inequality and Academic Publishing" w/@_akpiper up @CriticalInquiry https://t.co/5UAhQytwPU https://t.co/rDQbrftFmo
i feel bad for sean spicer... o god, what is happening to me
@marynoblest @FoxNews .@_FloridaMan strikes again!
is it Russian business dealings? is it that they might show he's actually not that rich after all? or what?
as someone who clicks "next" through TurboTax every April 14th, I don't understand what could be in Trump's taxes that makes him so nervous? https://t.co/5IFfA1TD5x
RT @astridoverthere : I have seen at least 20 people say the first reporter to do this would be lauded. Her name is Ksenija Pavlovic. Give her her due. https://t.co/yJF9heXbvT
RT @poniewozik : Can you say 'leak'? 'Fox &amp; Friends' reaches Trump like kids' shows reach kids, with interactivity. https://t.co/aRiwO5vJi0
RT @yashar : Reminder: When Sen McCain was running against Sen Obama he repeatedly defended his honor and shut down conspiracy theories. As it should be. https://t.co/TK6n17zRHM
"Hear Me Out." poignant, expressive, desperate, wounded ambient/experimental electronic by Huerco S https://t.co/EliY0WHiLi
@scottenderle @koepermx @williamleif btw, thanks to Will's help, I was able to adapt the alignment code from HistWords to work on gensim word2vec models: https://t.co/017LhcN9hz
@scottenderle @koepermx yep, I was def thinking of @williamleif's project here too, which uses Procrustes alignment to compare wordA-in-decadeX &amp; wordA-in-decadeY
@williamleif @benmschmidt @IgorBrigadir @teddyroland cool, thanks Will. quick followup: what would constitute a "global" analysis? would procrustres / "semantic displacement" (from your paper)?
@yoavgo e.g. comparing cosine_sim(wordA,wordB) in decadeX to cosine_sim(wordA,wordB) in decadeY
decades range now from 220M-616M words. that ok, or should i sample all to ~200M? (cc @benmschmidt @IgorBrigadir @williamleif @teddyroland)
word2vec ppl: when comparing word-word similarity across models (e.g. decades), is it ok that later decade-models were trained on more text?
RT @DavidCornDC : And it turns out that Putin was the 9th person at the meeting.
the past 24 hours in the news, and especially this, feel like a TV show hurrying up its plot before the season ends https://t.co/EMtGcGqbi1
RT @Ted_Underwood : I think, even now, few people have grasped the size of the decline in English. At the elite end of the pool, ⬇️ 50%. https://t.co/0lCoC1GCjg
@Michael_A_Gavin ew
RT @stevemorris__ : Literally Obamacare every three weeks since 2016 https://t.co/XbcahxprC6
@SethRudy how'd it go?
RT @AJentleson : First &amp; foremost, what we're witnessing is an unprecedented, full-blown rebellion by Republican senators against their leader, McConnell. 2/
RT @Lollardfish : Note to @TheDemocrats - Maybe campaign on #SinglePayerNow?
Please read this thread from @mwidner—it's important, and something we as a field need to face up to, talk about more often, and respond to. https://t.co/Zlc7xp2DK2
@clured About 7-8k feet. A bit of section "L", starting at I-80 and going north for a day, then looping back the second day. https://t.co/nU7BJGW8Jo
back from a 2-day hike on the Pacific Crest Trail—through snow, in July. now, I was born in Florida, but I think Cali's drought is prob over https://t.co/myrOhcApAo
RT @benphillips76 : There should be an app to watch all Trump interviews like this https://t.co/sthgw5kuKK
RT @Ted_Underwood : Raising a glass to hard-working people in the free press, without whom, our rights wouldn't be worth 1¢.
RT @DaveId : Go, Shepard Smith!  "The deception is mind-boggling. Why are we being told all these lies?" ⸺  @ShepNewsTeam    https://t.co/JWoGbcv1dI
@Audrey_Sage_ Tableau, actually. it's pitched as business viz, but it's free for students [https://t.co/P5pnG3podp]. I like it b/c it's super interactive.
@dbamman @Ted_Underwood i think you're right that this is an empirical question, and there being a groundtruth abt wordfreq can help train &amp; test a predictive model
@dbamman @Ted_Underwood thanks for this David! yeah, accuracy means coverage. not sure what kind of OCR model ECCO used. but even TCP doesn't have perfect coverage
@Ted_Underwood @dbamman k, here's an attempt at re-estimating texts' frequency by OCR acc. Does this method make sense? And what do you make of the result? https://t.co/OI87JssSrY
@Ted_Underwood Haven't done re-estimation yet, but here's AbVal across different OCR accuracies. Same trend shapes? But less clear, and at diff amplitudes. https://t.co/gj04xhUD96
Working toward better understanding how OCR quality affects word frequency results. Here's a micro-experiment showing it does, big lcague. https://t.co/irpeWoZWQ2
@Ted_Underwood @joncgoodwin Cool! I'm sure it'd be useful to many to have hashes, or know estimated jaccard sims between docs in Hathi. e.g. in finding pirated editions
@Ted_Underwood @joncgoodwin yep, i love that paper by @dbamman, and how it shows that metadata can even outperform text reuse data!
@joncgoodwin o i see. hm, maybe? generally they work with ~3grams. minhashing can also use letter-ngrams, though theyre meant to cross words
@joncgoodwin i went with python's datasketch, it does  minhashing to find text reuse. very fast and accurate.. except bad OCR throws it off.
@joncgoodwin twas fine then, but this time too many texts. responses to this thread pointed to great existing libs for text reuse detection
@joncgoodwin it worked well, but grouped separate volumes and even sequels, etc together with reprintings. ended up needing manual combover
@joncgoodwin Surprisingly not. I tried in an earlier project looking at closest texts in a distance matrix (using 1gram freqs), and IIRC...
RT @darth : @connorobrienNH @bshank @ericgeller https://t.co/AHmhfKGP98
RT @Gossenphilosoph : Using salt circle runes to trap an A.I. car is possibly the most cyberpunk thing ever. https://t.co/4ckbQlMyBS
I'll bet Russia is about Trump and the Trumps and their collective narcissistic psychosis, intermediated by Russophiles Flynn, Manafort, etc
I'll bet that Conway, Priebus, Spicer, maybe even Bannon actually have no idea wtf really happened with Russia
RT @oleg_sobchuk : The growth of film length https://t.co/HpVvIIbHmA
Donny's nervous https://t.co/zdQ2jBOYnH
"It is like a carnival mirrior is being held up to American democracy, distorting everything we thought we knew into grotesque new shapes." https://t.co/viH2U8EnnU
RT @nybooks : In retrospect, there were some warning signs. https://t.co/CT3jI9MuON
RT @Ted_Underwood : So who plays Maggie Haberman in the film version of this? Emily Blunt?
RT @whet : @Lollardfish FWD: FWD: RE: FWD: DO U WANT TO COLLUDE
https://t.co/EatYWY0M4c
holy sweet irony of emails, batman!
RT @chrislhayes : And...scene https://t.co/KraYNekLyb
is Robinson Crusoe's DIY optimism amid a lonely, pitiable lot an allegory for DH work? reading it as weeks pass making ECCO "fit for my Use"
RT @clured : On the @literarylab blog - Distributions of words across narrative time in 27,266 novels. https://t.co/e6xSgavx5c https://t.co/IIubhTOFID
RT @MattGertz : If your explanation of this data is based on 50-year trends in the academy, you are doing it wrong. https://t.co/PLW8Eipche
NYMag: climate change brings with it a new temporality, a horrifying sense of "history happening all at once" https://t.co/iBwyiK8Oyq https://t.co/AFMNWuDmdN
RT @StephenKing : The news is real. The president is fake.
RT @danwlin : TRUMP: Did you interfere? PUTIN: No T: Time to move forward  TRUMP: Were you born in US? OBAMA: Yes T: This requires five years of suspicion
RT @ianbremmer : CIA psych assessment of Kim Jong Il. Kind of makes you think.  (ht @eosnos) https://t.co/xq3fHvwgFV
@ShlomoArgamon @Ted_Underwood @mjlavin80 @mesotronium @scott_bot @goldstoneandrew but DH methods that don't compress info as much, like tracking usage of certain words, are more fragile?-&gt; why we need that blog post on OCR
@ShlomoArgamon @Ted_Underwood @mjlavin80 @mesotronium @scott_bot @goldstoneandrew word2vec too seems to work well with bad OCR b/c it compresses bad &amp; good spellings into same low-dimens. vector space (tho shd test this) +
@ShlomoArgamon @Ted_Underwood @mjlavin80 @mesotronium @scott_bot @goldstoneandrew OCR might be bigger problem.. Supervised modeling can afford its selective attention b/c it's ultimately compressing info into a decision? +
@ShlomoArgamon @Ted_Underwood @mjlavin80 @mesotronium @scott_bot @goldstoneandrew Cool paper, @ShlomoArgamon! Very useful to know OCR doesn't affect supervised modeling / classification much. About other methods, though, +
Been listening to lost classics ever since @dan_sinykin, @POrg and I had epic conversation theorizing the tragic rise and fall of indie rock https://t.co/KtqAyoLR8X
@mjlavin80 @Ted_Underwood @mesotronium @scott_bot @goldstoneandrew No, great idea! The errors that introduces might be differently distributed than OCR's typeset-based ones?, but still useful for modeling
@Ted_Underwood @mesotronium @scott_bot @goldstoneandrew Was just wondering this too. It might also have to do with letter frequency/proximity to likely OCR errors, too? Will try this out soon
@Ted_Underwood @mesotronium @scott_bot @goldstoneandrew This is a great idea. I might attempt this soon w/r/t word freqs in ECCO. e.g., normalizing by # recognized words doesn't seem to work? --&gt; https://t.co/phhYfu0ceJ
@Ted_Underwood @mesotronium @scott_bot @goldstoneandrew Tho given @dmimno's comment that it's *distribution* of OCR acc's that matters, could one plot word freqs for separate "bands" of OCR acc's?
@Ted_Underwood @mesotronium @scott_bot @goldstoneandrew But for doing good ol' word frequency plots, you would recommend limiting word counting to texts with &gt;90% OCR accuracy?
@Ted_Underwood @mesotronium @scott_bot @goldstoneandrew Yeah, I'm OCR-paranoid right now because my text-reuse stats were bonkers for bad OCR texts. Good to know supervised modeling more robust. +
@mesotronium @Ted_Underwood @scott_bot @goldstoneandrew Btw, I owe a big thank you to @Ted_Underwood, whose incredible OCR Normalizer (https://t.co/66ftFHrRPL) improved these texts' OCR by a lot!
@mesotronium @Ted_Underwood @scott_bot @goldstoneandrew I hope so? But I'm afraid that small differences across time might tilt any results. Here's ECCO: https://t.co/GwG3IV7SVw
@goldstoneandrew Here's a micro-experiment on how texts of different OCR qualities, vs. texts randomly perturbed by Nth letter, affects word frequency. https://t.co/nesTiWV5Lp
@goldstoneandrew I like that. I'll have to think more about how to calculate that and how it might make noisier texts still tractable, at least sometimes.
@goldstoneandrew anecdata: for 2 pairs of editions of Johnson's Dict, with ~85% vs. ~65% OCR accuracy, Jaccard similarity of 7-letter-grams is 0.49 vs. 0.08.
@goldstoneandrew that's int'g. ya, I'd like to know to what extent that and/or OCR errors are systematic (like longer words appearing to be less frequent)
@goldstoneandrew good idea. not sure how to perturb a text/simulate worsening OCR, but I'll try soon to re-run trend using different distribs. of OCR quality
for people working with noisy OCR text: what's the minimum OCR accuracy of text you'll deal with (for, say, word frequency data)?
RT @scott_bot : This morning's insomnia brings you: the results of my suspicion that every live-action rendition of Superman shares actors. https://t.co/1y4a4f4qcT
RT @tomgauld : A recent cartoon for the Guardian: https://t.co/5LmJxkDNTM
RT @cesta_stanford : CESTA Summer Research Assistants snap a #nofilter picture before starting to map, transcribe, visualize and more! #SummerAtCESTA https://t.co/7Equj5HLgH
RT @ladymisskate : Happy 5th of July https://t.co/jyvsaTqY9b
RT @leahbannon : lol yeah, we've been keepin it top secret til the big reveal https://t.co/MYjNYkksDO
@clured @PaulKintzele @opensyllabus but I think this is missing matches. any ideas on what to change? i could loosen the 99%, but I'm even more afraid of false matches...
@clured @PaulKintzele @opensyllabus then (e) called a match any two texts (above 0.4 jacc similarity) the logistic model thought were 99% likely to be matches.
@clured @PaulKintzele @opensyllabus (d) trained a logistic regression on those annotations using jaccard similarity estimate, title-to-title string similarity, etc +
@clured @PaulKintzele @opensyllabus (c) manually tagged ~1000 random "matches" (distributed across jaccard similarities above 0.4) for whether they were in fact matches, +
@clured @PaulKintzele @opensyllabus yeah, I (a) used datasketch to make a minhash for each text using trigram shingles, (b) used it to estimate text-to-text jaccard similarity+
@PaulKintzele @clured I think my "high degree of textual overlap" might be *too* high a degree right now, because it's currently missing a bunch of these.. :-/
@PaulKintzele @clured just checked manually: ECCO has ~26 reprints, ESTC has ~45. Many are abridgments, "abstracted from the folio edition," etc. Still, ... +
dear 18Cists: what analog sources could I assess these results by? I know Raven/Garside for fiction. St Clair's Reading Nation? Any others?
The 30 most reprinted works in the 18th-C? [A is a "reprint" of B if published later and if A&amp;B have a very high degree of textual overlap.] https://t.co/XnIDhtuE20
RT @goldstoneandrew : A debt. https://t.co/2hIYNENdHq
RT @Bencjacobs : The man who went on a hike – and never stopped walking https://t.co/fye5LKvVJ5
RT @Acosta : Isn't pro wrestling fake?
RT @Ted_Underwood : New @DHQuarterly, "A Genealogy of Distant Reading." Controversial, so rip it apart! But first, ⌘+ the font size. https://t.co/pa4WYtkkZi
watching All the President's Men and half of the drama is about how to google things like where someone works --- but without google
working on identifying reprints of 18C texts, and some of the title variations are oddly touching... https://t.co/QZK3CENBxs
RT @cushbomb : David Brooks and Bret Stephens in the NYT during the walk-out. https://t.co/6aUtAChPLW
e.g. https://t.co/bD5u9yyezs
The plot thickens. https://t.co/vh0Gk1ipdH
RT @jenboudinot : @margotcodes @jennydeluxe @MsPackyetti @nytimes https://t.co/AsH3o5bhD0
so isn't it obvious now that @GOP's clamoring to repeal Obamacare was never about health insurance, it was politically-mediated whitelash?
RT @SHABOOTY : @realDonaldTrump  https://t.co/N3RQRwb1DS
so, omg, Nite Jewel's new album is a warm, gorgeous, time-traveling glow back to Janet-Jackson-esque R&amp;B perfection: https://t.co/W7OjVHRPCl
Wow-- thanks @Dorialexander, @matthewdlincoln, @clured, @kintopp, @dasmiq, and others! ya'll just taught me a lot about text alignment in DH
hey DHers, has anyone experimented with automatic text duplicate/reprint detection in a big corpus? any tips on best ways to do this?
RT @literarylab : Come work with us! The Stanford Literary Lab is hiring a lead developer. Apply here: https://t.co/qfQ9Zar3TR
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RT @clured : A stats question, for any takers. I've got a bunch of chi-square scores, and I'd like to use them to produce a ranking. 1/
RT @benmschmidt : Like many, I hate writing about model coefficients; but writing about T-SNE placement is great, since it's an extended geography metaphor. https://t.co/LXrPN7aMmf
RT @ryancordell : Thread from late last night. TL;DR if you think #AHCA won’t affect you because of employer insurance: stuff can happen to anyone https://t.co/vtThYrbpNm
RT @adriandaub : I used to think the #AHCA was Dickensian. Starting to wonder if Swift's Modest Proposal was the inspiration: https://t.co/78tvCHlIV5
RT @SethRudy : In 1721, George Renolds calculated that King Solomon had 1,217,270,828l, 9s, 1d in silver and gold. About £172b today. #18thcentury https://t.co/AOgj8UFo5P
@runcolerun @KatherineBode interesting! @iangadd also has a great piece on EEBO/ESTC (https://t.co/PLBatLKpsq). Ian, what's your sense regarding Cole's question above?
@runcolerun @KatherineBode "The notorious 'Private Case' has several 'sensitive' eighteenth century items which do not appear to have been recorded."
@runcolerun @KatherineBode "The long arm of ESTC does not yet seem to have reached every corner of the British Library." 3/
@runcolerun @KatherineBode Patrick Spedding has piece on ECCO (https://t.co/KvabgfdHqS) citing PJ Atkins, "The Covent Garden Ladies," Factotum 30 (Dec 1989): 10: [2/]
@runcolerun @KatherineBode good Q! difficult to know. ESTC obviously records only surviving texts. but unclear how much of what survived into archives is in ESTC. 1/
RT @Ted_Underwood : @Dorialexander @quadrismegistus @KatherineBode Here's an image from collaborative work with Sabrina Lee, checking HT against the larger universe of Pub Weekly. https://t.co/S9UTa5EmET
@Ted_Underwood @clured @KatherineBode woops: yes! newish to machine classification, so I hope this makes sense. accuracy (88%) is so-so (?) but it seems enough for comparison (?)
@Ted_Underwood @clured @KatherineBode Yes: 1) model trains on 120k titles genre-tagged in ESTC; 2) model predicts genre on all ESTC titles; 3) titles filtered by whether in ECCO
@scott_bot @ariddell @TimHitchcock @SimonDeDeo Cool project! Let's DM about this.
@joncgoodwin @KatherineBode It's Tableau, a business viz software. Not exactly the most academically respected, but I can't shake how it lets me play around with data.
@scott_bot @ariddell @TimHitchcock @SimonDeDeo Yeah. All in a Jupyter notebook I can share if you'd like to look at the code; though unfortunately I'm not allowed to share ESTC/ECCO data.
@clured @KatherineBode Genre is infamously hybridic in the 18C, so "classification" is fraught. But I thought for a bib/corp comparison, a rough sense was worth it
@clured @KatherineBode I tried specifying this category further in a number of ways, but the classification accuracy always dropped below what was trustworthy. 2/
@clured @KatherineBode A very regrettably mixed bag: pamphlets, letters, speeches, grammar books, treatises, biographies, petitions, essays, proclamations, etc. 1/
How representative of the 18C bibliography is the 18C digital archive? Graphs inspired by @KatherineBode's article and its recent discussion https://t.co/IB20PtXTNx
@Ted_Underwood @scott_bot hm, chairs... when's the last time you went to IKEA?
@Michael_A_Gavin @DanAShore @cwellmon @mxmcadam @scott_bot my favorite take is Koselleck's, in the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe: concepts *need* to be ambiguous and unstable in order to be concepts. https://t.co/nmwqBJU9Jz
@Michael_A_Gavin @DanAShore @cwellmon @mxmcadam @scott_bot diff b/w word &amp; concept is the central methodological question for any school of intellectual history (Cambridge, Begriffsgeschichte, &amp;c) 1/
@clured well, you just made it +1. but then I just made it -1
the Left needs to rescue the Democratic party. isn't it common sense that in a polarized political world, centrism will always fall flat? https://t.co/pyEj5ZEinm
RT @neeratanden : One important lesson is that when they go low, going high doesn't f**king work.
RT @SeanMcElwee : has anyone tried unplugging the Democratic Party and plugging it back in?
RT @sethmoulton : #Ossof Race better be a wake up call for Democrats - business as usual isn't working. Time to stop rehashing 2016 and talk about the future.
RT @PatBlanchfield : [pounds bottle of chardonnay, huffs giant bag of paint] I DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION OF KGB INFILTRATION IN GEORGIA'S SIXTH DISTRICT
RT @goldstoneandrew : Here’s a preprint of “The Doxa of Reading,” my short comment on “distant reading” and *Distant Reading*: https://t.co/a11kCfSnkq
RT @existentialcoms : I wonder, has my entire webcomic just been events leading up to showing Simone Weil lay the beatdown on Richard Dawkins? Have all webcomics? https://t.co/0ZHlHleQrX
@Ted_Underwood @teddyroland i.e. curatorial bootstrapping? does trend hold if corpus is novels ___ (in genre X; by gender Y; in first-person; starting with "the"; etc)?
@Ted_Underwood @teddyroland that, but your tweet made me imagine a more generalized method of checking robustness of any trend against range of selective procedures +
RT @freedarko : Steve Scalise gets to be a victim. Philando Castile doesn't. That's exactly why BLM is a thing.
@SethRudy "Sir, Cleidophorus Mystagogus is a quack." -- Hermes Quadrismegistus, 16 Jun 1717
@Ted_Underwood @teddyroland jumping in to say I find this^ really persuasive—much more so than the typical big data argument (=we have so much data, selection is moot!)
lol wtf amazon just bought whole foods? where do the contradictions of late capitalism go next? facebook buys mcdonald's?
Stepping back from computational formalism and the "doxa of reading" (@goldstoneandrew's term) to look at publishing market trends in ESTC. https://t.co/4744r0M3vK
ok, it turns out my friend's machine is actually infected. thanks everyone, and let's all pray for his machine's quick recovery.
hey, does anyone see "ads" on my website (https://t.co/9Jc3bGaQF7)? they don't show for me but do for a friend-- worried i've been hacked.
RT @davidaxelrod : The targeting of members of Congress, regardless of party, is an assault on our democracy.  A terrible day.
@fitnr "computer, where is there no there there?"
RT @JuddLegum : Sessions is happy to answer ANY QUESTIONS except those which violate a policy he hasn't read and might be written down but he isn't sure
RT @alanyliu : When I think about it, much of DH is a "demo." I.e., here's a method; let me demo it on a haphazard or only semi-rigorous corpus that
RT @matthewchampion : #Marr: "You're looking chipper."  Corbyn: "It's a nice sunny morning." https://t.co/gyZXUa1rJu
RT @therealadamwest : Our beloved AW passed away last night. He was the greatest. We'll miss him like crazy. We know you'll miss him too - West Family https://t.co/8bkEq1C2ao
RT @michikokakutani : Reading Yeats in the Age of Trump. via @BostonReview  https://t.co/En7DpDS4qs
RT @GreatDismal : The thuggishly entitled rich boy, hesitantly trying out his accustomed moves on the head of a fierce tribe of armed forensic bookkeepers
@Ted_Underwood @ryancordell @NUlabTMN to the act of human will in knowledge production, &amp; how the machine as praxis/metaphor has long been attractive in science for that reason.
@Ted_Underwood @ryancordell @NUlabTMN def a rhet. challenge! but what I most like about RC's post is his exposing how DH's "objectivity" particip. in a tradition of resistance +
@ryancordell @Ted_Underwood @NUlabTMN DH-as-social-science might reinforce objectivity as an ethic. imo humanities and SS can legitimately take distinct roads w/r/t "objectivity"
@ryancordell @Ted_Underwood @NUlabTMN I agree-- and justified! might be overreading here, but I guess I'm uncomfortable with a potential DH + humanities = social science, bc.. 1/
@ryancordell @Ted_Underwood @NUlabTMN I agree that elements of "supervision" in models help ensure patterns link back to interpretation, but to me the latter is what is essential
@ryancordell @Ted_Underwood @NUlabTMN DH-style pattern recognition is new and important, but it remains a first step in the same broader hermeneutic circle of cultural criticism
@ryancordell @Ted_Underwood @NUlabTMN i.e., objectivity as an implicit DH ethics too often serves as implicit critique of any interpretive move or stance toward data patterns. 2/
@ryancordell @Ted_Underwood @NUlabTMN loved this blog post! for me the DH discourse of objectivity is best and most problematically seen in DH's dismissal of data hermeneutics 1/
RT @LeftSentThis : All that's missing is Comey breaking the fourth wall, and talking directly to the audience.  #HouseOfComey https://t.co/cjPQqrJFwD
RT @BrentSirota : The postmodern nihilism of the present-day GOP. They're seconds away from lecturing us on arbitrary relation between signified &amp; signifier.
Comey is pissed. This is gonna be good. #ComeyDay
Comey's deadpan stare approaches Clint Eastwood levels of badass
holy moly I've never heard so many cameras clicking at once before
I just rushed out of bed because I almost overslept my Comey alarm! rise and shine California it's Comey o'clock!
@cwellmon ya. That DH reminds us how as humanists we forgot to theorize search was recently argued by @Ted_Underwood https://t.co/nBKsU5PqEN
RT @BraddJaffy : 48 hours till Comey o'clock
RT @j0_0n : I'm loving this 1887 digital humanities study of Dickens's style, in the journal Science, of all places. https://t.co/W6OfgLqTuF https://t.co/SmK7qSRrjf
RT @VICENews : TFW you're listening to Sean Spicer https://t.co/pSKuxDA6kv
RT @sfchronicle : Climber makes chilling, unroped ascent of #Yosemite’s El Capitan. https://t.co/njV5Vb0Vj0 via @rachelswan https://t.co/qVohZ3dpfi
RT @CFPetrella : Brand new Census report on median household net worth:  White: $132k Asian: $112k Hispanic: $13k Black: $9k  https://t.co/GbO91Ne76Y https://t.co/JSF8Cujm0v
RT @BrentSirota : 1799. https://t.co/SJ721AHka7
please someone give the @washingtonpost the prestigious Bruce Wayne Award in badass detective journalism https://t.co/ICqmMWmpqk
RT @geoplace : 'Almost all internet searches in Africa bring up only results from the US and France' - piece by @lilkuo in @qz https://t.co/TwXW4wiqj5
RT @a_ballatore : Our research on the geography of Google results covered by Quartz @geoplace @shiladsen @bbkgeography https://t.co/fmvOok0uYa https://t.co/or8bZnblBk
RT @nycsouthpaw : May 23 --&gt; May 31 https://t.co/0faAIdRHMv
@christof77 maybe vector spaces are best thought of as a geometric abstraction of semantics, which, like all abstractions, ignores aspects of the real?
@christof77 very interesting! makes sense that not all semantic relationships can be expressed in a single geometric space. 1/
RT @Ted_Underwood : Using estimates of sales and critical prestige to draw maps of the literary field, and trace a "great divide." https://t.co/hDOXk4j8jw
RT @jbouie : Finally realized that what Jared Kushner reminds me of is some random background Imperial officer in Star Wars.
RT @BraddJaffy : New CBO score:   2018: 14 million more would be uninsured than ACA  2020: 19 million more  2026: 23 million more   https://t.co/NORcfHGT2m
RT @ianbremmer : Manchester, United https://t.co/z6q7EKGy8v
RT @hkpmw : No. Please, please no. https://t.co/Lw1A1yRsu7
RT @PGourevitch : just ask MacBeth what happens when the forest moves https://t.co/eO0eqVd5N9
RT @xychelsea : First steps of freedom!! 😄  https://t.co/kPPWV5epwa  #ChelseaIsFree https://t.co/0R5pXqA1VN
RT @BraddJaffy : Rep. Al Green (D-TX) on the House floor calls for President Trump to be impeached https://t.co/yi1oPizkyI
RT @daisykpgardner : Today, as the story broke that Trump wanted to jail reporters, he entertained Erdogan (who kills reporters) at WH while this happened... https://t.co/ryPerpEjvd
RT @teddyroland : Cannot overstate value of projects on the institutions that mediate archives used for distant reading: libraries, publishers, vendors https://t.co/z1G0vu5LHh
Just heard a great presentation by @christof77 on his interesting adjustments to Burrows' Zeta to uncover style of French comedy vs. tragedy https://t.co/Wms3b3fIFH
RT @kvanaren : (•_•) &lt;)   )╯It doesn't matter /    \  \(•_•) (   (&gt;  what you say /    \   (•_•) &lt;)   )&gt;  if you do nothing /    \ https://t.co/VhRbCeVdPz
seriously, do it! Access Hollywood -- Flynn -- Sessions -- this. @washingtonpost is practically leading the resistance. Thank you WaPo! https://t.co/IUCToqFmbB
RT @Gaby_Moss : remember the other stuff Trump bragged he could do bc he wanted to? It's almost like a history of sexual assault indicates poor character
RT @jbouie : Gonna start calling these post-official denial Trump confessions a "reverse Shaggy."  "Hell yeah it was me!"
RT @kylegriffin1 : .@NYDailyNews comes out swinging.  Tomorrow's front page: "LEAKER OF THE FREE WORLD" https://t.co/VNvgkpDdOs
so, remember that "Dossier"? remember how it claimed Trump was being blackmailed, or could be? Really looks more like that every day..
RT @NewYorker : The Twenty-fifth Amendment allows for the replacement of a President who is judged to be mentally unfit: https://t.co/rhQHgmaWD1 https://t.co/7zFkLpeNOL
@FoxNews actually @FoxNews is fascinating right now: they're caught between "look at this fake news spin" and being legimately freaked the f*** out
how in the hell does @FoxNews come up with its hallucinatory talking points in real time?
RT @GlennThrush : This is an earth-shaker of a story. https://t.co/ogDzfGsPFW
@Ted_Underwood for me, it's pretending to be in The Matrix. really grounding for me. https://t.co/Wc1LyvkjBb
Combine his radical media asynchrony (my 80yo grandparents are on FB!) with his radical media sensitivity = A new &amp; monstrous media ecology?
Has there ever been a prez so asychronous with current state of media? Trump apparently doesn't even email. Says things like "the cyber". 2/
Unbelievable. Trump rarely surfs the web "on his own" but a single 'news' clipping slipped onto his desk can suddenlychange whole policy. 1/ https://t.co/IUUSZktKDZ
RT @nedoliver : Things are getting dark at Washington Post Magazine https://t.co/9mNZj2t3jr
https://t.co/EIJaquS4XS
can we talk about Clapper's lovable perma-frown? https://t.co/XaT45AtPZE
"Do you think the President is simply trolling us, Sir?"
boy the word "trolling" caught on quick... when good old Chris Wallace can use it deftly and frequently, you know it's reached peak uptake
my CNN-ish Q: what could Comey reveal? he wouldn't talk about results of investigation. he'd presumably just contradict Prez abt the dinner? https://t.co/7TbAKfLhCn
FYI: This is Day 114 of Trump. Comey fired on Day 110. Only 1,346 more to go!
@SethRudy mine did
hats off to the only journalist at @FoxNews, Chris Wallace https://t.co/jU6t1WTpxR
I swear, if this just blows over, I'm following through on my Jan. threat to move to Canada and go on e-Harmony dates full-time til marriage
RT @jennycz : The complete collection of Trump interviews/speeches/tweets/etc https://t.co/kMGdPSrxAq who’s got the stomach 2 analyze it? #corpusLx #style
RT @legogradstudent : Drowning in a relentless deluge of news, the grad student gets nothing done. https://t.co/y33O4NY9eH
flagging this for consideration from our local English department presidential historian, @jdporterlive
RT @SarahClapp : @realDonaldTrump Hey @FBI RELEASE THE KRAKEN
help us Citi-zen Comey... you're our only hope https://t.co/GoY6pHZfD1
NYT with the #litotes of the year: "Mr. Trump’s mention of tapes did nothing to dispel the echoes of Watergate heard in Washington this week
RT @ryancordell : Man…all those decades of missiles, spies, proxy wars, walls, &amp; political gamesmanship only for Russia to win the cold war like like this…?
just woke up... grabbed my phone.. read this. ADRENALINE. man who needs coffee anymore in the Age of Trump? ADRENALINE, CORTISOL, ADRENALINE https://t.co/cBUAz7cTb0
@kvanaren omg congratulations!!!
RT @GreatDismal : A permanent IV drip of absolutely pure bullshit is progressively suppressing the immune system of the American state
RT @janaysays_ : Shit. https://t.co/140SCVlqhE
RT @Ted_Underwood : Basically, this amounts to "I am guilty of obstruction of justice, please impeach me immediately." https://t.co/GFDTOwjPUW
RT @PreetBharara : Whatever one's opinion of Comey, does anyone still believe that the STATED reason for Comey's firing was the ACTUAL reason? Anyone?
RT @ddiamond : A sampling of the Comey, Trump and Russia news breaking tonight. https://t.co/YILtXVclLk
RT @BraddJaffy : Holy wow. Deputy AG threatened to quit after WH narrative cast him as main force behind the decision to fire Comey. https://t.co/1zyIGWn4UR https://t.co/5iskRCOqVh
RT @peterbakernyt : Why did Trump agree to meet with Lavrov today? Because Putin personally asked him to, @sbg1 reports. https://t.co/qQZZloVIfl
RT @MarkAgee : If you try to do a coup against a democracy Henry Kissinger appears out of a cornfield like a baseball loving ghost https://t.co/Yqw2l99mue
RT @srl : Even Bannon questioned whether the timing was right to dismiss Comey https://t.co/E80Jakx3Ou
RT @JuddLegum : The results of the Trump word association question in the latest Q poll are pretty brutal https://t.co/yjVzaXLxpN https://t.co/pJFuxdAnPU
it hath begun
video now live
o boy o boy i can't wait for this press conference https://t.co/xi6v9WUHbz
RT @jdawsey1 : Trump weighed firing for at least a week, has grown increasingly angry about probe, occasionally screaming at TV.  https://t.co/vh6Pva4pmG
wow @FoxNews is disturbing. the two quasi-liberals so far are minorities—a queer and a black man—to dog-whistle to audience to ignore them
RT @neeratanden : I plan to protest outside of the White House this week.
yes, we need an independent investigation. we also need patriots in the FBI to leak everything they can about their investigation thus far.
this is so outrageous i'm even streaming cable news. who is this lone-ranger Trump puppet on @CNN? and how can @FoxNews have *no* criticism?
i feel like i forgot how to use the colon in writing—(or ":" ?)—i'm such an em-dash kind of person these days...
RT @buttpraxis : Leftists: can we just get healthcare and sick leave like every other fucking country   Capitalism: innovation is a Bluetooth salt shaker https://t.co/tzWfj2P2J7
RT @mattwilkens : Looking forward to Cultural Analytics @NotreDame, May 26-27. Data, computation, culture. Awesome speakers. https://t.co/EJSSUd81gC. #ca2017
Looking forward to this, being from Florida, a state which repels theory, history. "On this higher level, [Florida] does not seem to exist.” https://t.co/eIvCyxYLiO
dammit
@kvanaren cool site! it's just, I like to call and pester other peoples' (Republican) members of Congress, even though I'm not their constituent
comrades, what's a good website for quickly looking up members of congress' phone numbers? I found one that was super easy but then lost it
@tallinzen @Ted_Underwood My guess would be that the test I'm running is multiple-choice, but in the GloVe paper the model has to write in answer. In Drozd et al too? https://t.co/sEyWLqw11m
@tallinzen @Ted_Underwood I don't think so—out of 150 analogies only 21 have real people or places. The rest are ones like germinal : senescent :: nascent : moribund.
@benmschmidt ya, good idea, I didn't think of averaging. And, lol, nope, no ploughs—only plows. Americans!
@benmschmidt Ha, good point! Tricky though, because most missing words are bigrams, which the model for the most part doesn't capture: https://t.co/F58vvX4GUc
attn: @igorbobic, @teddyroland, @benmschmidt, @Michael_A_Gavin, @a_e_lang, @clured, @dmimno
Would #word2vec get into grad school? A w2v model taking the Miller Analogies Test scores in the 85th percentile: https://t.co/WfokKiJIT4 https://t.co/zp8PNkTZN8
@Michael_A_Gavin the visualization you're pointing to at the end is my new favorite DH viz
@sylvangoldberg Who's on the first floor? And what's on the second?
RT @BraddJaffy : SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- US judge blocks Trump order to cut off funding to cities that limit cooperation with immigration authorities.
RT @david_j_roth : When you try to give an anonymous quote but are the only person alive who speaks the language in the way you do. https://t.co/nqp77hGQyO https://t.co/0D3pDlIO5k
"special interests .. uh.. dominate politics in ways .. that .. don't match up... with ... what the majority of Americans ..."
I even miss Obama's speech-rhythms... https://t.co/EsAyfudC8u
@chrisrodley woah, cool. link?
@cejarvis ew! didn't know they were called that... *closes eyes, repeats to self* "what's in a name, what's in a name, what's in a name"...
only problem with working outside now that it's so beautiful out again in Cali is being assaulted by cute fuzzy caterpillars #CaliNonProblem
RT @cwellmon : "Interacting with Print: Elements of Reading in an Era of Print Saturation." New book on print with 21 friends: The Multigraph Collective https://t.co/ZcYXprbKWd
this is absurd. liberals need to realize that upping cigarette taxes is a self-righteous and regressive taxhike on mostly the working class https://t.co/MtsDA9uJyx
"In counties near the tipping point, where the avg. distance between households is about 608 feet, a vote for [R or D] was equally likely." https://t.co/cXkvkInNQa
RT @adriandaub : Oh, this is excellent: Anne Cheng on Ghost in the Shell @LAReviewofBooks https://t.co/9ia8vSNz5p https://t.co/qCPdHLeWhL
Dear Professor, Unfortunately, I'm not able to release my dissertation chapter to you now. It is currently #UnderAudit. til soon, Ryan
@fvrmvn woah, I'm Jeff
RT @kylegriffin1 : "We'll see what comes out in this FISA transcript." —Carter Page can't say for certain that he didn't discuss easing sanctions with Russians https://t.co/SpiFa2qaSR
RT @V21collective : serious stuff.  grad students review journal protocols.  https://t.co/OQ5wa7wdrD
RT @brianstelter : This caption is not a joke. Trump said the missiles were launched toward Iraq -- @MariaBartiromo had to correct him https://t.co/LCNQPXIWto
Definitely check out this brilliant, highly original DH study on the narratology of anachrony in contemporary films, by @oleg_sobchuk et al. https://t.co/ecHPsRdo3e
RT @oleg_sobchuk : Our study of film evolution is finally out. Many thanks to everyone who helped this pamphlet to finally appear - it was a long way! https://t.co/L0kWkykUQ2
RT @existentialcoms : Let us bow our heads in silence for the noble semicolon, once the prince of punctuation; now reduced to being merely half of the winky face.
@kgeographer @mchris4duke @Elijah_Meeks oy vey this millennial just can't win... :P
@mchris4duke @Elijah_Meeks don't mind @Elijah_Meeks's well-preserved Gen X angst, he's harmless. :P plus, just for him I'm listening to My Bloody Valentine right now.
@kgeographer for the beeenefit of mister kite theeere will be a shooow tonight on trampoline...
uh oh, i listened to one Beatles song.. and now i'm doing that thing where i just have to listen to every Beatles album chronologically
RT @nplusonemag : Donald Trump has now undertaken something familiar &amp; understandable—even comforting—to 21st-century Americans: war. https://t.co/azu2XL7tGQ
Final version of #dh2017 abstract submitted. With thirty-nine minutes to spare! I'm getting better at this... https://t.co/3WNrFGFQpC
RT @billmckibben : In most honest move yet by Trump admin, Interior Dept changes its website picture from "family camping" to "80-foot-high seam of coal" https://t.co/MUfUe6Y6Yk
RT @JohnCassidy : True. Also confirms Obama's belief there is a monolithic foreign policy establishment that crosses parties. https://t.co/ctNRZu7fXy
"Sovereign is he who decides on the state of exception." The U.S. both represents liberal democracy, and suspends it in a state of exception
clear irony of Putin's threat to return post-WW2 liberal democracy to a Great Powers model is that the U.S. acts according to Putin's model
fuck. it's only day 76.
RT @washingtonpost : A tense council meeting gets even weirder when a man suddenly hands the mayor a Pepsi https://t.co/LSkq4DrTeI
RT @Ted_Underwood : Saw an earlier version of this talk. Really good, if you're near Pitt. https://t.co/mc3fYXcD2d
Never was "cogito ergo sum" more unconvincingly asserted. https://t.co/c0tqOdtPdy
RT @colbertlateshow : Tonight on #LSSC we drop this #phenomenal collaboration from @TheMuppets and @PressSec. Tune in tonight for more! https://t.co/arMpsT6kSK
@Ted_Underwood yeah... this does all seem headed for a "Lost"-style narratological meltdown. Still, personally, I'm banking on impeachment AND the volcano.
@Ted_Underwood does a secret Seychelles lair count? https://t.co/yU2Aq1b4HH
RT @compostmesoftly : LOL I'm done. Thanks. https://t.co/VA6lOnga2e
RT @neeratanden : Did you ever apologize for assaulting women? https://t.co/ks6jvf5YDY
RT @will_mccants : "Bush gave a brief assessment of Trump’s inaugural after leaving the dais: 'That was some weird shit.' https://t.co/RUG6cODE4I ht @nadabakos
RT @Ted_Underwood : An old-fashioned blog post of the sort that used to be written about "digital humanities." https://t.co/RLLKIRlFNB
so why hasn't anyone made a "Democracy Dies in Darkness" metal song yet? *googles* nevermind. https://t.co/h8nui50TCG
RT @kgeographer : My article on (not exclusively geographic) "Spatial Concepts"  from new International Encyclopedia of Geography: https://t.co/SgtVKnRcfj
RT @ryancordell : sick burn https://t.co/PF8cWaiRLX
Featuring one of @StanfordEnglish's rising stars, Prof. Vaughn Rasberry. https://t.co/KiDPAqPHeB
RT @walshbr : If you’re looking for an intro to #python for humanities computing needs, check out our course @HILT_DH this summer. https://t.co/2a903mUT87
@SethRudy second, what's funny is that we trust so much in *virtual* institutional authorities like Google and Facebook as arbiters of truth
@SethRudy first, en passant, why is there no stoner metal album called "Kingdom of Ends"?
@SethRudy ya, good point. maybe there is Enligh. inside #PostTruth: "Nullius in verba." except now it's applied to institutions of knowledge
@SethRudy #PostTruth truth feels more like Romantic truth, conviction, or American-pragmatist truth, "consensus"—of one's twitter followers
@SethRudy yep. but for some good reasons: intellectual conservatism of "Reason", etc. so, what's the Aufhebung of Enlightenment+#PostTruth?
@SethRudy I mean, Obama was arguably more Enlightenment than Jefferson. Plus: we 18C-ists just became cultural radicals. who knew? Vive! etc
@SethRudy lately, after Trump, #PostTruth, etc etc, it doesn't feel cool anymore to knock the Enlightenment. Truth! Reason! Liberty! = sexy
A literary history of abstract and concrete words in English, French, and German fiction, poetry, and prose, 1700-1900. #WordVectorsIn18C https://t.co/qtYYJvGVbm
@Dorialexander Do you know of any larger/better French corpora? I'm a naïf with respect to distant reading in French.
@Dorialexander For English I mainly used @Ted_Underwood's great 18C+19C corpus from his and Sellars' JDH article (https://t.co/07HxfiGhEj).
@Dorialexander For French I scraped the word counts from the excellent ARTFL-FRANTEXT (https://t.co/fJpjNEbXj5). (Hope that's ok, ARTFL!)
@chrisrodley @scott_bot Given trend in both Fre. and Eng., I think it's prob. related (broadly) to literary fate of European Enlightenment.
@chrisrodley @scott_bot B/c abs-words rising and falling in Eng. non-fiction, Fre. poetry, and other genres; &amp; rising in fiction pre1750. /2
@chrisrodley @scott_bot Sure, an Ian-Watt-style rise-of-the-novel narrative prob fits in here somewhere. But it can't be whole story... /1
Abstract words rise in frequency across 18th century, then fall across 19th century—in both French and English fiction. #WordVectorsIn18C https://t.co/pyUXDZvy2b
Best and most devastating take I've read so far, from the conservative Washington Examiner: https://t.co/VmuUcJS4bh
RT @SenatorMenendez : Hey Republicans, don't worry, that burn is covered under the Affordable Care Act
SOURCES: What Obama is doing right now. https://t.co/VC8XZOGY12
bwahahaha! who's drinking whose tears now? boy, one unforeseen outcome of a Trump presidency is that, damn is schadenfreude delicious. https://t.co/wKeC1VQvkv
Taking bets: what do you think will happen today?
RT @junkyardmessiah : Immortan Joe: Join me in Valhalla  Half Life Don: WITNESS ME https://t.co/I4E9NEnoan
RT @BraddJaffy : A+ https://t.co/HiSr1i4AZo
RT @FullFrontalSamB : Delaying the health care vote today to try to figure out what a woman is. https://t.co/ezu5p4r40A
RT @KathyHartWeimer : Every day, another installment of #YouCantMakeThisStuffUp https://t.co/g0Vc77ngyz
to @GlennThrush and @maggieNYT: you both are my favorite NYT journalists. keep up the great work!
Well, I hope Trump at least shuts the lid on the pragmatist theory of truth as consensus.
@SethRudy Sir, you have tweeted a Tweet to which no Answer Will be made, or Dare be made, or Can be made, without Treason.
can't wait for #AHCA to flop tmrw. never thought I'd be rooting for the House Freedom Caucus, but hell, these days I'm rooting for the FBI.
RT @DrAnnaClark : Mapping London's emotions in 200 years of fiction @Stanford  https://t.co/rtKh578FZ9 https://t.co/ilax6nWavM
My favorite OCR error, in digital copies of scholarly books: "modem" for "modern": "historia ipsa is thus not merely a modem construction.."
RT @LotteLeicht1 : https://t.co/KaUYysAveC
RT @mervatim : Blown away by the cover Lauren Smith designed for my book, now available for pre-order at the @UChicagoPress website https://t.co/jJyr6v7Iwh https://t.co/Jlvn2eUAy5
RT @andykesson : SHAKESPEAREAN FAKE NEWS. https://t.co/CkFnMj0T6p
RT @mattmfm : This is morally reprehensible. https://t.co/LPW5DYwsn3
@veek wow, cool, thanks for the mention! it's HYOO-zer, although sometimes I also go with the original German HOY-zer for fun. :)
Amazing. I love the fall of noses across time! One is *introduced* to a nose, one doesn't carry on a novel about it—unless you're Sterne. :P https://t.co/bLFlvqUIiB
lo, i have discovered the secret to happiness, and it is headphones
we're trapped inside a moebius strip of mediation https://t.co/xFV3gaNBQe
just wrote "questions made new again" in a paper, and then i deleted it for obvious reasons.
I also re-read @mesotronium's post today! A brilliant, persuasive argument using innovative methods to nuance our literary interpretations. https://t.co/hvYA6kjm2P
RT @DavidCornDC : Any commentator who went on about Trump's "presidential" tone on Tuesday night owes the American public an apology.
RT @davidgross_man : Imagine if u honestly uncovered a Watergate-level scandal abt yr own presidency, but then 30 min later got bored &amp; started tweeting about TV https://t.co/YBhcbLJfcS
RT @brhodes : No President can order a wiretap. Those restrictions were put in place to protect citizens from people like you. https://t.co/lEVscjkzSw
RT @kgeographer : twitter banner of @TheOnion has it exactly right https://t.co/gTobnshbTg
"Obama just wasn't enough, I just need some more closure And Donald Trump is not equipped to take this country over" https://t.co/84CtUuy76l
RT @Ted_Underwood : NIU library link leads to a collection of 1,608 dime novel .txts; very uneven OCR but still useful. https://t.co/5ZHiwHETNG
Keep it coming @washingtonpost! https://t.co/fwG4RkLrdX
if any of my DH friends need #musicforhacking—see Rother, Anthony. "Little Computer People." This Is Electro (2005). https://t.co/3P9zRogVhU
@cejarvis at least, better than accidentally eating a plate?
RT @kvanaren : True, and this is also the missing piece of "Trump as Reality Show President" narrative. What does good criticism of that genre look like? https://t.co/mX73RRXlxZ
well, one good thing about hardly exercising is that it's a gawddamn religious experience each time i do. jesus himself just spotted me brah
fascinating visualization of the history of american anxieties by the @nytimes: https://t.co/cwA890Adb7
kinda sad that the headlines about the Oscars are about how there was a snafu, rather than that an all-Black casted movie won best film.
i'm feelin kinda caps-lock, brah
RT @alanyliu : Fascinating post on the hermeneutics of word embedding models by Fabian Offert (@haltingproblem) in my grad seminar: https://t.co/lYCgwuR9jS
RT @S_Insley_H : She got me. I start with Kant's "What Is Enlightenment?" so they'll bow to my authority without question. https://t.co/oiBShbs1Pq
RT @MoCoLitTCD : Victorian emojis. Puck magazine, 1881. @TCDEnglish https://t.co/9OSNKaWlHN
Back from the amazing #wsecs17! Thanks @alanyliu for moderating a great DH panel, &amp; thanks @rachael_scar for organizing this wonderful conf.
RT @RuthAhnert : Only one week to go until the deadline! Come and hang out with @wellsheisnt @owilliamsdc @schichmax @Mattie_Burkert+ https://t.co/Ig9gyt5w34
@alanyliu Thanks Alan! Looking forward to tomorrow!
ask me sometime to regale you with stories from my epic 14hr drive, from stanford to santa barbara for #wsecs, involving many fallen trees..
RT @alanyliu : Looking forward to moderating #WSECS DH panel this Sat., featuring Ryan Heuser (@quadrismegistus) &amp; Heather Zuber, https://t.co/3Kpa3I09lB https://t.co/AQoE7swnIs
RT @kylegriffin1 : "Another day in paradise." —Trump's response today after reporters repeatedly ask questions on Russia (which he ignores) https://t.co/CtJQy4rRpX
RT @DannyDutch : No one is safe from PM Steal Yo Girl! https://t.co/TYrTV1U4CN
RT @historying : Postdoc in African-American History at Rutgers: https://t.co/cAB41V5JHJ (I was at RCHA as a postdoc, fantastic place to work.)
RT @DaveId : As more info goes public, it looks more and more like the Russian kompromat dossier on @realDonaldTrump is accurate. https://t.co/rGWVI8u2B0
RT @neeratanden : It worked so well here, why not go global. https://t.co/fs8hKI4JDb
rediscovered my love of Cocteau Twins today: classic delicious shoegaze. my valentine's gift from me, to me, to you? https://t.co/yacgdJmDtF
today i want to thank The Media, poor scapegoat of our times. thanks especially to @washingtonpost, and @nytimes, for bringing #Flynn down.
RT @AltStateDpt : Sally Yates: Acting Attorney General for 10 days. She helped bring down Trump's immigration ban &amp; exposed Flynn.  She persisted. #Resist
RT @teddyroland : New blog post: Distant Reading Debates in DH (2012) https://t.co/OcY2qc42u0
@erikj0 @TheAtlantic US academics: https://t.co/r4VGmXev5c
RT @parisreview : Decorum is futile in times of upheaval. Artists should reacquaint themselves with vulgarity, @MikePepi argues: https://t.co/3JWNmHoldq
RT @GreatDismal : Fundamental antibodies now kicking in, at various levels, in the body politic?
RT @ArobertB : Trump protest in West Palm Beach. They are marching all the way to Mar-a-Lago where the Pres is staying this wknd. https://t.co/f1XWErkiJS
RT @ashleyfeinberg : I find Scott Walker's instagram deeply upsetting for reasons I can't fully articulate https://t.co/LH6K99NRt1
RT @cwellmon : Subtweet perfected https://t.co/bM1NgCAZ7B
RT @CNBCi : Kellyanne Conway made up a fake terrorist attack to justify Trump’s 'Muslim ban' https://t.co/3iHZ4nS7Ek https://t.co/0qdf74rTPV
RT @RyanLizza : Haven't checked news since last night. Quick scan of twitter suggests since then Trump has started fights w/Iran, Australia, Mexico &amp; Calif.
RT @Phil_Lewis_ : Obama's on vacation with the hat backwards. He's never coming back. https://t.co/RUakcwwgtT
RT @McJesse : Spinal Tap audio under Trump is 😂👌🏼 https://t.co/zXgKNMxWbd
RT @AlvaroLaParra : US Academics https://t.co/NdN9Ps1fGU
RT @maggieNYT : Folks worried Clinton would be hawkish https://t.co/naqwarzY7S
@SethRudy although, better than #tfw you ask to borrow a pen and ten minutes later realize you've been chewing on it since
RT @Nate_Cohn : Striking that Alaska Senator Murkowksi is a no vote on Devos, given that the state contains 98% of US brown bears
RT @LianReay : https://t.co/YcDrvqDSqr For anyone who feels hopeless or at a loss of how to help. #lovetrumpshate #handstoosmall #resistthemall https://t.co/dg56QBemFY
Life, Love, Work, and the Resistance -- how to balance, how to balance...? https://t.co/r4VGmXev5c
Twitter threads: kind of like (unrhymed) heroic couplet poems? "Essay on Criticism" could begin "'Tis time for some theory of games.." #woah
RT @arieldora : Dear [EDITOR], unfortunately my referee report for [JOURNAL] is late because I have recently had to start regularly protesting fascism...
RT @Ted_Underwood : Basically: "Use the Force, Luke." https://t.co/ubmNXsigcw
Don't miss today's episode of #FascismAsFarce!, in which Trump blames #MuslimBan's chaos on protesters and, yes, Sen. Schumer's tears. SAD! https://t.co/US3pQdNoQw
RT @jamieleewi : This is what resistance looks like. #sfo #NoMuslimBan https://t.co/9fgIYT49Rs
tfw you and ~1000 comrades shut down an airport to fight a fascist #MuslimBan https://t.co/Qc3eTmFAXZ #SFO
#sfo protest so big i dont know how big it is https://t.co/bCcrMTDxtc
California: #Resist! https://t.co/Zk5xuFcL0j
RT @RepRaskin : "When injustice becomes law, #resistance becomes duty." --Thomas Jefferson #nomuslimban #NoBanNoWall
#ResistanceIsFertile! https://t.co/S3dIlix4m7
Remember how some wacko conservatives called Obama the Antichrist? I'd like to return the favor, and pass that accusation onto Steve Bannon. https://t.co/XE7TZwF8QY
Welcome to fascist State TV https://t.co/noNlSSR1eT
@RoguePOTUSStaff this is starting to seem fake.. but who knows what's real anymore? it's as if the whole world is having a really bad trip..
RT @RoguePOTUSStaff : After call, #UnholyTrinity do not seem to have had any fears allayed.  POTUS behavior during call said to be suspicious. #POTUSindistress
ACADEMICS! Sign this petition against Trump's racist immigration ban! #Resist! https://t.co/QtNoA6i7Of
RT @oaklanduprising : EMERGENCY RESPONSE PROTEST AT SFO AIRPORT. 3PM. OBSTRUCT TRUMP FROM DEPORTING REFUGEES NOW! #SFProtest #BayArea #Trump #Ungovernable #resist
@sacca @ACLU i'm now contributing $15 monthly to the ACLU. Let's take Trump to court! #RESIST https://t.co/PQCDEu5Bkx
RT @sacca : The @aclu took Trump to court. Let's stand with them. Reply w/ donation receipts from today &amp; I'll match to $25k. https://t.co/0uiQPpQsyH
RT @StephenMarche : Calexit seeming less and less crazy by the hour.
RT @ThomasErdbrink : Let me share some of the stories I have received today from people under the travel ban. This from an Iraqi Kurdish woman https://t.co/qHd3viHFQO
RT @SamMorrisDesign : This photo of an Eagle taking a hard look at itself is not a metaphor for anything that's been in the news recently https://t.co/FLyANNUg44
RT @igorbobic : First diplomatic standoff and it’s only Thursday https://t.co/zouFKwyoxu
@VictorStinner @IgorBrigadir blassssphemy! python 2.7 4eva!! :P
RT @gregory_palermo : Median sentence length of #Trump's inaugural address, compared to past presidents'. Exercise for @ryancordell's #s17hda https://t.co/mmDymh1Dc0
@kvanaren i'd still love to read it though! there *has* to be a venue for that. Reality TV + Richard III?
@kvanaren i.e. once you try to make plot, to rationalize the narrative into cause/effect, you escape Trump's orbit. you need pure character.
@kvanaren ^ why imo only Shakespeare(anism) can capture Trumpy melodrama. soliloquy + the zany + Richard III-ish sociopathic characterology.
@kvanaren imagine Alec Baldwin/Trump alongside Spacey and Robin Wright. he'd be a cartoon character, a Jessica Rabbit, a generic irruption.
@kvanaren i think the problem with political melodrama is that it's Ted Cruz based. evil ideologues. but what's scarier is evil 6 year olds.
@kvanaren makes me rethink lit-crit moments like "poetry completely changed after French Rev! -- wait, nah, that's too simple." BUT IS IT?
@kvanaren and if House of Cards wants to stay edgy they'll need to scrap that Kevin Spacey kind of evil — pssh! — and bring on Alec Baldwin
RT @BraddJaffy : This is incredible. *in-cred-i-ble* ... Read this right now. https://t.co/C08XmZ9Wk5 via @GlennThrush https://t.co/w7MbeIDBjU
RT @BraddJaffy : So @Greenpeace is hanging this banner from a crane that's visible from the White House https://t.co/3lRgjnKes5
RT @sacca : I heartily recommend taking a look at: @Trump_Regrets.  It's cheaper than therapy.
overheard in california https://t.co/elCnSELmTG
RT @WearyWithToil : TELL US THE LOCATION OF THE THERMAL EXHAUST PORT https://t.co/D7QpYUoePk
From earlier today, in Oakland https://t.co/TURVyqYH7P
RT @nytimes : The Women's March on Washington is expected to be the largest inauguration-related demonstration in U.S. history https://t.co/kDwX5do7So https://t.co/iH0uIjmRUy
RT @muckrakery : A band plays the Darth Vader theme amid a thousands-strong protest outside Trump Tower in Chicago. https://t.co/CJx1Nnw14r
Like dancing with a bored bipedal walrus. Feel bad for Melania. https://t.co/OJ2F5AS3zj
Rick Perry blowing bubblegum bubbles during the benediction. God help us all. https://t.co/5RHHXcgSY5
looking at weather in DC on @wunderground .. supposed to rain at noon. please God! (my invocation) show us what you think of this travesty.
@OccupyOakland Please announce: Join the #J20 General Strike, Mutual Aid Fair, and March, in Downtown Oakland 7a-5p! https://t.co/33iomzmwY7 https://t.co/Tfec2gTGDm
FINALLY THE THING I WANTED TO HAPPEN HAPPENED in Ferrante's Neapolitan novels omg omg omg
@morganbenjamin ♫ rolly rolly got nowhere, nowhere to go ♫
RT @morganbenjamin : Sad chairs of academia (and defunct water fountain). https://t.co/7uZXaTLz6e
quick Q: is it possible to edit one's #DH2017 submission in light of reviews? is that even desired, or should one simply respond to them?
RT @allahpundit : Mystery: House Dems flip out at Comey over revelations made in classified briefing on Russian hacking https://t.co/m90QW0IUE3
RT @maddow : "Russia says nothing exists"? https://t.co/y5PG9kzBNV
RT @cwellmon : We have "steadily legitimated anger as a kind of reason, indeed, come to treat it as the very equivalent of Reason." https://t.co/PcsQ5EwnJs
@matthewharrison I have, but thanks for the link! If I and @bardbott have time this year we'd love to compete, though we'll need practice :)
RT @hralperta : Thrilled that my article on automatic transcription, ocr, and colonial Latin America is out from @DHQuarterly! https://t.co/jAfhJfeFMc
RT @goldstoneandrew : “Teaching Quantitative Methods: What Makes it Hard”: my Debates in DH essay, and some liner notes. https://t.co/RzUVEF8UnT
RT @mattwilkens : In unrelated news, my book with @JHUPress is out. Revolution: The Event in Postwar Fiction https://t.co/SdzsxSkFuw. W00t!
RT @Carlisle_Paddy : @jackschofield @cheekiwife @sddphoto @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/QGrVcF2KKl
RT @normwilner : This is literally sedition, isn't it? https://t.co/0Dkiqj5sLC
RT @cwellmon : "Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age." New book project with Paul Reitter.   https://t.co/TG304DJB2r
RT @fvrmvn : let the record show that this was Extremely accurate https://t.co/H2T2cfnWU7
RT @Ted_Underwood : New blog post with @dbamman, underlining just how badly fiction needed second-wave feminism. https://t.co/K47FidxDQf
i'm reading 2nd now, but as a reflection so far, it's especially interesting, humbling, even humiliating, to read these novels as a cis-man.
i know i'm late to catch the #FerranteFever, but i just finished the 1st Neapolitan novel and wow am i hooked on their slow ruthless beauty
RT @poptimality : why is matthew mcconaughey always leaning on women https://t.co/wD0bNMOuYu
@benmschmidt @goldstoneandrew @Ted_Underwood @yoavgo b/c I saw similar neighborhoods across runs, except when low freq words weren't pruned
@benmschmidt @goldstoneandrew @Ted_Underwood @yoavgo I'd like to run their reliability measure on the ECCO corpus and time-slices thereof +
@benmschmidt @goldstoneandrew @Ted_Underwood @yoavgo Thanks Ben for this post—relieved to know w2v unreliability might have been exaggerated
RT @scott_bot : New post by @benmschmidt on choosing corpora for diachronic word2vec (see pic ↓), &amp; potential Google Ngrams biases. https://t.co/H3uvAAFDVW https://t.co/xVUyXGAckc
k, I finished #Westworld—and now, for the sake of humanity's survival, I am decommissioning @bardbott. If I turn up dead .. you know why....
RT @michaelschaub : Let's all calm down and remember that Trump is putting someone qualified in charge of our nuclear arsenal. https://t.co/nyLDWEmhFU
RT @walshbr : Grateful for the #DH2017 review process which does its best to encourage transparency and constructive feedback.
@ryanfb @ariddell although @bardbott didn't do so well in this impromptu Turing Test so he's gonna have to practice... :P
@ryanfb @ariddell thanks for passing this on! wanted to compete last year but was super busy. i think this is the year! @bardbott is stoked
RT @ryanfb : @quadrismegistus Timely? https://t.co/C4nZSfsoXC
+ as well as @gabrielsmy, @b_hawk, and @ndiscenza1!
A big thank you! to @Ted_Underwood, @glennhroe, @RuthAhnert, @sebastianahnert, @gregg_sh, @cforster, @fvrmvn, @matthewharrison, @SethRudy, +
Well! Not exactly sure how to score a #TuringTest, but it seems that human critics have largely won out over the machine poets-- for now...
RESULTS! of 13 respondents, 13 realized that "Message" was by a machine 12 that "Test" was by a human 10 that "Resistance" was by a machine.
@Ted_Underwood @scott_bot @matthewdlincoln it's the "ELIZA effect": people love to attribute agency to computers! (come to my MLA talk!) :P
@Ted_Underwood @scott_bot @matthewdlincoln making us forget the 'impenetrability' between all literary data and real literary/cultural forms
@Ted_Underwood @scott_bot @matthewdlincoln in a way, word counts are *more* susceptible to an ethos of "factiness" through their simplicity
@Ted_Underwood @scott_bot @matthewdlincoln for unsupervised research designs. word2vec is "unsupervised" but can be used for human-guided ?s
@Ted_Underwood @scott_bot @matthewdlincoln i agree w the spirit of this thread, but i'm afraid unsupervised models are becoming a scapegoat+
OMG it's my lifelong dream to dance to @AphexTwin live .... i'm indescribably jealous of those there, but so glad I get to listen! https://t.co/nRbSc7QNsf
@matthewdlincoln @scott_bot wanted to say @Ted_Underwood and I had an interesting conversation about this yesterday: https://t.co/i2gWiusH8a
Wanna help me out by doing a virtual poetry #TuringTest? If so, reply here with "human-" or "machine-made" for each of these three sonnets: https://t.co/JSQqR07bqo
just landed in florida, which is a giant steamed up bathroom, i'm outside smoking and the airport is playing "baby its cold outside" ...
@Ted_Underwood @yoavgo yeah, but (imo) at the cost of our capacity to interp what linguistic/literary/cultural forces explain the separation
@Ted_Underwood @yoavgo to me challenge is making interp at level of abstraction above the variability (eg 'neg affect words' over 'anguish')
@Ted_Underwood @yoavgo i agree, but isnt variability a prob for all DH interp? e.g. which words turned out significant for predictive model?
@yoavgo @scottenderle @Ted_Underwood @benmschmidt @tallinzen btw in case unclear i think @mesotronium is making valid&amp;same argument as in OP
@yoavgo @scottenderle @Ted_Underwood @benmschmidt @tallinzen @mesotronium but inmy https://t.co/I3Rl1QUkRr i saw same general clusters recur
@yoavgo @scottenderle @Ted_Underwood @benmschmidt @tallinzen e.g. @mesotronium's critiq of my single analogy interp: https://t.co/FlMT9rKV5Y
RT @jtonra : Announcing Personæ: A Character-Visualisation Tool for Dramatic Texts, developed with @davkell &amp; Lindsay Reid https://t.co/E44Q7WDuys #dh https://t.co/Fx6ZBDsulI
@JonathaNgrams who knew pretending you're in the Matrix could be so entertaining for so long? 1999 4eva!
RT @RealDonalDrumpf : First known instance of a celebrity feuding with, getting schooled by his own parody account #unpresidented https://t.co/W1EAk0GJVt
@mwidner i'd be honored! and @bardbott babbled: "yes absolutely, colourless for their rhyme, to welcome her, loved the books of blank time."
RT @zunguzungu : Dear USA,  Love, Chile https://t.co/d8wijq3XXe https://t.co/XEzC7Ra8HG
The panel is chaired by @yohei_igarashi and will feature @ncecire and Giorgina Paiella. Come! Thurs, Jan 5, at 7pm: https://t.co/V4T6E4KlzH
To prep for our MLA talk on the 50th anniversary of ELIZA—the first chatbot—my algorithmic colaborator @bardbott is writing (bad) sonnets! https://t.co/mj71dVJQfZ
POTUS's press conference starting now! https://t.co/khw8aa68T6
RT @cforster : Quick (HA!) &amp; rough use of diction measure described by @Ted_Underwood and Jordan Sellers [https://t.co/p5xJVEVcJW] on data from POETRY mag: https://t.co/prKV9UOXmx
RT @n_j_dames : Merve Emre (@mervatim) writing provocatively about the rhetoric of innocence in Ferrante's latest for @publicbooks: https://t.co/lIWygdm2RD
RT @BradMossEsq : FBI once sent an agent to make sure @JasonLeopold hadn't pressured someone to give a privacy waiver, but this they phoned in... https://t.co/bvbyemMzV4
RT @jackholmes0 : Rick Perry will succeed a nuclear physicist as Department of Energy chief: https://t.co/Bxp79DXvOB https://t.co/8o0c8qrWbQ
RT @hkpmw : Appeal to @cesta_stanford and @literarylab folks: help spread the word about my winter quarter text mining course! https://t.co/M3JA8USsWg https://t.co/plX5OAONgI
so how famous do i have to be to have one of those blue, "verified" checkmarks? is anyone concerned that i might not be the real slim shady?
I'm from Florida. This could have been me. (Oh wait... was it?) https://t.co/0lW7My57fZ
@goldstoneandrew ya. scanning issue @hoytlong mentioned &amp; wondering if neoliberalization displaced dehumanization as DH's academic critique?
@goldstoneandrew i do know of Katie Trumpener's critique of distant reading in Critical Inquiry: https://t.co/WBISeZXcjJ
@goldstoneandrew not yet. which in itself might be interesting, compared to the number of anti-Theory and anti-New-Historicism articles...
wow! big thanks to @matthewharrison, @cwellmon, @gregory_palermo, @Ted_Underwood, and to all! i love our wonderfully human DH community. :)
@Ted_Underwood, I know! felt the same. &amp; @djp2025, that's actually what I want to argue: anti-theory ≈ anti-DH ≈ humanistic critiques of AI.
hi, DH folks! Q: what would you point to as a canonical anti-DH paper, esp. one arguing that DH de-humanizes literary creativity/history?
RT @literarylab : New Techne posts! Three of our wonderful research assistants reflect on their time in the Lab so far: https://t.co/6IeXYiFCD9
RT @susanatkey : For folks exploring new @hathitrust Extracted Features Dataset, there's a great companion tutorial over @ProgHist https://t.co/Um6qK77VnP https://t.co/lUASvGgBxm
RT @Ted_Underwood : New version of HTRC Extracted Features Dataset runs through the 20c, beyond the wall of copyright! https://t.co/lzP3rYtS93 cc: @hathitrust
RT @Ted_Underwood : New from Jockers &amp; Kirilloff: "Understanding Gender and Character Agency in the 19c Novel": https://t.co/jFjhy775KI #CulturalAnalytics
RT @marcushjohnson : This is the actual photo representation of making a deal with the devil https://t.co/26LlxYYh0W
@Ted_Underwood cool! look at that trend from 2003 on, with the iraq war. i think these (self)analyses are important for us academics to make
@Ted_Underwood The other causal ingredient is Trump (cf Romney), whose Know-Nothingism radicalized the lesser-educated against the "elites."
@Ted_Underwood True, but economic disparity isn't new either; people are pointing to the decline in manufacturing jobs over last 30 years.
Is historical materialism so ingrained in us that we can't fathom how gaps in education itself are the cause here, not missing factory jobs? https://t.co/EnfkkuuD2i
@hkpmw @Ted_Underwood ironically this is where his rage against cultural capital is actually sincere. he assaults what(who)ever rejects him.
@Ted_Underwood he's still the crass kid from Queens trying to get accepted and consecrated by Manhattan. he craves cultural capital
RT @jntod : 'We're gonna build a fourth wall, folks, and make the Brechtians pay for it' https://t.co/wVtlofz3g0
@quadrismegistus cry, baby, cry!
lol https://t.co/md3Aj0VmLu
RT @SenWarren : Gov @MittRomney: when you're meeting with @realDonaldTrump, maybe you could bring your binders full of women with you? https://t.co/4tJdYxTchc
did anyone audio-recording strange commentary in the 1950s think, i wonder if this will be endlessly sampled in the music of the future?
@Ted_Underwood and then in Act II, Fox News is devoured by its freakazoid internet children
RT @hbons : there. I fixed it for our times. https://t.co/eJKTHvhX65
@PatrickMeier
@PatrickMeier yes! can find volunteers. can also python-hack if thats helpful in any way
RT @SethRudy : Big Data failed to provide necessary insight; we confused calculation with understanding. Lessons here for #digitalhumanities?
streaming online in about an hour. i'm looking forward, because -- dear left, ---- wtf is happening? https://t.co/7NSGIdHnHS
the silence of @NateSilver538 is deafening
i wake up feeling the historical tragedy. i can't help but feel we've crossed the rubicon of the twenty-first century...
i got behind Hillary, i voted for her. she lost because of sexism and racism. but it may have ironically been *pragmatic* to nominate Bernie
RT @IntifadaBlack : FYI: Bernie Sanders on average polled higher than Clinton against Trump in battleground states. #Elections2016 #HillaryClinton https://t.co/glez73hijh
can i say "told you so" yet? why in such a strong anti-establishment environment did we nominate the single most establishment candidate?
the president-elect just said "this political stuff is nasty and it's tough"
this is going to make the war on terror look like the appetizer to the 21st century's feast of horror: the global rise of ethnonationalism.
fuck this racist sexist country
@ewanjamesjones apparently!!!
RT @lookpark : Maybe we shouldn't have neglected public education for the last 30 years
f*** f*** f*** f*** https://t.co/Nolx6eEBMj
holy f*** https://t.co/BowE5BH7HO
the NYT's meter predicting the future president is literally toggling between blue and red right now https://t.co/iyhbYIAhpU #ElectionNight
this is way way too close right now... #ElectionNight
goddammit florida
Voter discrimination underway in Georgia https://t.co/IKWAdZTZHR
Votecastr seems to be predicting a landslide victory for HRC https://t.co/nTA7skv8nT
RT @monicalangley : Trump Tower fortress for @realDonaldTrump: sanitation trucks, heavily-armed police, Secret Service. Overheard: "Where's the extra dog?" https://t.co/MuedksRcbf
In Philly, Michelle Obama now introducing the President at his last campaign rally for a long time. Watch live here: https://t.co/zoQxoqIJM8
I'm phone-banking for Hillary while I'm chillin' like a villain' at home... kinda like this stock photo but also not https://t.co/TQVVP7RpyK https://t.co/RkbfHs5bWC
RT @UR_Ninja : Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. of Black Panther Cubs tells us why he stands on the frontline w/ #NoDAPL water protectors. https://t.co/mvxdNbD8XA
RT @cwellmon : Anticipated times for state calls Tuesday night. Or your drinking timetable. https://t.co/RRXxUMaMxB
"To the assembled men sitting in white leather seats, the answer was simple." -- The @nytimes is killin' it lately. https://t.co/RDNq518AY0
RT @Indybay : [New Feature] Oakland Police Veteran Says OPD Covered Up Domestic Murder by Officer https://t.co/iXC7AqMKbi
how much more badass can @NateSilver538 get? https://t.co/qEIo7U9Gjm
RT @AliceAvizandum : I love Zizek, he keeps alive the Ancient Greek tradition that a philosopher is an annoying dick with a beard who's wrong about everything
ok i confess i'm loving the nostalgia of listening to baseball on radio ... Florida Marlins 1997 4eva!
.@NateSilver538 told me the Cubs had the same likelihood of winning the World Series as Trump had of being elected. naturally i am concerned
@SethRudy woah
RT @Ted_Underwood : New #CA article by @mattwilkens reveals genre-like patterns in contemporary fiction associated with gender and race: https://t.co/Au4QoxL7Xm
Just submitted my abstract to #DH2017, with, as usual, only a few minutes to spare!
The @nytimes Strikes Back: "documents recently discovered...during a search of [Trump's] casino bankruptcy filings" https://t.co/9LtQMDj2fa
RT @AdamParkhomenko : If Trump were to debate Reagan and H.W. Bush...it would go something like this... must watch. https://t.co/wc5CAwvLZ8
@Ted_Underwood natural selection might be one of the most ruthless unsupervised learning algorithms around
RT @rezendi : "My vacuum cleaner crashes if I send certain malformed HTTP requests to [its] API endpoint, which isn't a good sign" https://t.co/ky5NLYlJ4c
RT @SocialHistoryOx : 'Nobody hath more respect for womyn then I doe'. https://t.co/gQhVX0UgaP
bartender! get my buddy @SethRudy here a double
RT @collinj : The new "Happenings" blog is up at the @Bard_EH site! Check out our 1st post on the "Privacy Performed" potluck https://t.co/PtsggyPjhk
i don't consider myself a spiteful person... but i'm also drunk morning and night on schadenfreude these days
whew! so glad the election is over now
RT @HillaryClinton : "Nobody respects women more than me." —Donald Trump earlier tonight  "Such a nasty woman." —Donald Trump just now #DebateNight
ugh i have a migraine
RT @bencasselman : Churchill: "We shall fight them on the beaches..." Trump: "WHY ARE YOU GIVING AWAY OUR STRATEGY???"
Trump's Alec Baldwin impression is spot-on #debatenight
Trump will maybe accept that he loses when he does ("i will look at it at the time")
wooooaahhhhhhh
finally
RT @Matthew_Orr : https://t.co/5XEYVXYsKO
ok, pretty good: it took until 33 minutes this time for the house to start burning down #debatenight
nuhuh! you're the puppet! you're the puppet! #debatenight
"bad hombres." wow...
RT @MattGertz : Rudy Giuliani going out how we always expected: Babbling about Bill Clinton's fictional "illegitimate children" on national television. https://t.co/q2LPKW9MxA
@Elijah_Meeks sir, your level-11 d3 wizardry has become frightening
RT @poptimality : i scraped all transcripts from the presidential primary debates &amp; published them on @Kaggle. have fun, #linguistics and #NLProc folks! https://t.co/ztM42y1MWg
RT @stanfordnlp : Obama shows that he has a good understanding of the blindnesses of the average Silicon Valley visionary https://t.co/EaLxtUJzY6
@jacobeisenstein might be tangential, but check out @yohei_igarashi's great paper on I.A. Richard's "Basic English": https://t.co/02ZWiIse8V
RT @literarylab : Today we released our 13th pamphlet, "The Emotions of London" by @quadrismegistus, Franco Moretti, and Erik Steiner: https://t.co/DatAg2Qtqq
@poptimality @Ted_Underwood wow, these are great, thanks!
anyone know of a corpus of tweets from/to/about Trump? getting older data from twitter api seems well-nigh impossible. don't ask why (yet)..
o my god... it's raining. #california
the powerful speech Michelle Obama just gave in NH, laying down the gauntlet to Trump and the sexism he embodies: https://t.co/0tNfzU0zIY
also i feel like thanking the press, too-- they may have given us Trump, but they're also helping to get rid of him
but more seriously we should thank these survivors of sexual assault for their courage in coming out with this publicly for all of our sakes
damn i'm glad the @nytimes has embraced the post-unbiased era: it's bringing the press back to nineteenth-century levels of badass
at least, through most the debate. we'll see what the headlines do and how the public reacts #debate
unfortunately my takeaway is that somehow Trump pulled a houdini and made the undisappearable of the tape release somehow disappear #debate
absurdly touching moment of seeming gender parity with Trump praising Clinton's "fighting spirit" ... oh god my brain hurts #debate
ewwwww #debate
"Believe me, she has tremendous hate in her heart." #debate --almost blank verse
by far the best question of the debate: "are you devoted to serving *all* Americans" #debate
lol he went to NAFTA in 2 sentences.. someone needs to DH-map Trump's short-wired brain
is petulancy attractive to american voters? #debate
MARTHA RADDATZ FTW
i love this theory of why the current administration is bad at fighting ISIS: they're not secret enough about it! more secret! #debate
"russia is new, in terms of nuclear; we're old, tired, exhausted" -- sometimes i feel like this #debate is monosyllables vs. polysyllables
Trump immediately pivots away from the questioner to speak to the cameras and the room ... ever the performer, he needs the stage #debate
i can't think of a more insensitive response to this question from a muslim-american woman about islamophobia than trump's #debate
Anderson vs Trump!!!! #debate
Trump's body language, voice and pointing and interrupting are out of this world #debate
this is getting really creepy guys..
HRC: "when they go low you go high" #debate
well... Trump goes nuclear... #debates
HRC just slammmmduuuunked that alleyoop #debate
Trump denies his talk was sexual assault -- instead it's locker room talk -- oh and also there's ISIS -- carnage all over the world! #debate
i'm more excited to see this #debate than i was to see the newest star wars movie.. which says something: not a lot, but not nothing
remarkable how much we know about Trump's inner circle. those anonymous advisers! god bless em. they're willing to say anything to the NYT.
man life doesn't get better (or worse, depending how you count) for those of us who are news junkies out there...
@EmojiUlysses @TDozat yeah. it's based on syntax: generally the rightmost word of each phrase gets more stress, where phrases are nested
does anyone else feel like we're literally coming to the end of a reality TV show of ourselves in a reality TV show electing the president?
my! doesn't it feel wonderful to dance around and watch this after-tragedy farce, "The Fall of the House of GOP," reach its absurdist end?
@EmojiUlysses @TDozat that's just showing the sentence stress on the whole word-- but it can be combined with word stress into a bigger grid
tfw you realize the annoying penciled-in annotations in your library book are ... in your handwriting
@EmojiUlysses I've actually been working on visualizing @TDozat's "Metrical Tree" that does prose rhythm annotation: https://t.co/i1UrI3Wu8Y https://t.co/nS74tl8mCR
To prep for a @literarylab blog post on it, I've just finished re-documenting PROSODIC (metrical scansion in Python) https://t.co/sEK23IANOP
@MuhSabry also with only 2 words in my_words, the network will just have 2 nodes and one edge. it's more fun with a lot more words!
@MuhSabry hm it works for me. if it's not saving a file.. maybe try saving it to a different directory?
@MuhSabry did it save a graphml file to disk? try opening that file with Gephi, a network visualizer: https://t.co/wPg6q07zVj
damn i would hate to be a BART elevator
@MuhSabry woops, my bug, thanks! change g.add_edge([...], weight=weight) to g.add_edge([...], weight=float(weight)) to make graphml happy
@MuhSabry hi Muhammad! I have a github gist for making them in Python here. You'll need to make a word2vec model 1st https://t.co/AnjzAezPJD
RT @Elijah_Meeks : Remove stop words make cave man debate transcript. https://t.co/Z97kA3KivT
feel like i just came out of an IMAX-3D movie and the sun's still out, there are birds, and i feel strange and popcorned and empty #Debates
"she deserves it." wow. #Debates
poor Lester. #Debates
HRC literally shouting out to world leaders everywhere, yo, look, don't listen to my creepy uncle Donald here, we're still friends #Debates
RT @davidaxelrod : I have tremendous temperament, dammit! #DebateNight
this literally just happened, from Trump: "you was totally out of control!" #Debates
i told howard stern i was for the war but ya know i was drunk, look, ok, majorly drunk, ok? #Debates
RT @pattheflip : screw Trump's tax returns, i need Trump's drug test for this debate
so glad HRC is not afraid to say racism, implicit bias, systemic racism, racist birther lie #Debates
RT @deray : Lester: Was Obama born in America?  Trump: I want to talk about ISIS. Also, check CNN.   What? This is absurd. #Debates2016
RT @SheryllCashin : Go Hillary: "Implicit bias is a problem with everyone not just police." Lester Holt is doing a good job. #debatenight
boy this dog whistle is loud #Debates
HRC's speculation about what Trump might be hiding in his undisclosed tax returns is brilliant, using Trumpian rhetoric back at him #Debates
are there rules to this bar fight? where is the moderator?  #Debates
Announcing the fourth episode of "Word Vectors in the Eighteenth Century," a slideshow essay on "Semantic Networks": https://t.co/I3Rl1QCJsR
Inspired by @edsu, just uploaded to InternetArchive a README plus 5 word2vec models across 20-yr periods of 18C https://t.co/8cwVCRLxVG
RT @uheise : It's modern epic. https://t.co/BaijbVclVo
RT @Ted_Underwood : Here's a draft of the talk I delivered at the English Institute yesterday. #EIChicago2016 https://t.co/P7gKPQsimQ
@Ted_Underwood ya i like the book. hardseed could be "affect" / "present" / temporally shorter bc hand/head/etc index the now, the this, etc
@Ted_Underwood cool! reminds me of jameson's "antinomy of realism" between recìt (abstract plot) and affect (spatiotemporal presence)
RT @dave_thomason : Why does Mike Pence always look like he's about to introduce legislation to outlaw the X-Men https://t.co/q0FCIak5u7
@AD_Classics @MattSimonton But, twitter and method-descriptions don't mix very well. :) I'm going to blog about this soon-- it's def fun!
@AD_Classics @MattSimonton Thanks! On method: words connect here if they are close in the semantic space a "word2vec" model made from ECCO
@edsu Great idea! I seem to be collecting a strange and diverse collection of "gigabyte" flowers--would be nice to archive them somehow! :)
Download of 1 word2vec model per 20yrs of 18C (ECCO Lit &amp; Lang), each trained on 150 mil words (data for 50k MFW): https://t.co/Ikr50KJKod
@heatherfro I see ya--you're 17C and even a bit 16C? if OCR gods allow i'd love to collaborate on getting an EEBO+ECCO model going on...
@heatherfro totally :) yeah, I'm working with just 1700-99. But I'm uploading these models now if you want to play with them! link in a sec
@heatherfro Across history? Yeah, that is something I'm really interested in! Recently made 5 models, 1 per 20 years, each with 150mil words
@heatherfro Yeah, a word2vec model on the 1780-99 slice of ECCO's Lit and Lang section. Strength of association = cosine distance in model
semantic networks! top 4000 strongest associations between the 2000 most frequent abstract nouns-&gt; giant component-&gt; https://t.co/SGwJno6lHk
This method was introduced by @williamleif et al in their paper "Diachronic Word Embeddings ... Semantic Change" &lt;https://t.co/aKhxTUdUu9&gt;
Once aligned, you can measure the cosine similarity between the same word across two different models. Allows for measure of semantic change
With help from @williamleif of HistWords, I hacked some code to "Procrustes"-align two gensim word2vec models https://t.co/017LhcN9hz
so am I the last to realize that Carly Rae Jepsen is soooo funnnnnn...?
RT @heatherfro : I opened the MLA JIL page. WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CANNOT BE UNSEEN https://t.co/7we764TJET
Presenting "From Fields to Vectors," third blog-post in the 18C Word Vectors series, in experimental slideshow form: https://t.co/PsezdlTMfU
@Dorialexander @Ted_Underwood Thanks for sharing this! Just strained Google Translate and my bad French to read it. :)
Sharing these fascinating thoughts on word vectors in DH, and a word2vec experiment on French music criticism: https://t.co/sIaarGQWhP
Thanks to @ipam_ucla, the video of my May 25th talk there, "Word Vectors in the Eighteenth Century," is now online: https://t.co/IeT4hoz2pE
@danielwcarter wow! these are gorgeous!
@JonathaNgrams how are things in NYC?
@JonathaNgrams great! just finished my dissertation prospectus a few weeks ago: starting chapter 1 now &amp;, ahem, playing with computer poetry
@matthewharrison not yet! just finished programming this an hour ago. results are interesting but I'm still getting a handle on them...
trying to "semantically color" poems: a word's RGB values are its vector positions compressed into 3 dims by T-Sne https://t.co/g2qoukTs2A
RT @patrick_mooney : How the free publicity for the #AltRight works, in a nutshell.  https://t.co/jq4mGuOa9j https://t.co/CDxxNxk9ew
stoked with how my 50 printed "algorithmic fortune cards," with computer poems and a markov-viz, look. thanks @MOO! https://t.co/necMTloUt9
boom! final sentence of draft 0.1 of chapter 1 of my dissertation! almost done, right?
@Ted_Underwood could this be esp. hard for DH, which may resonate unintentionally more with public sphere than with institutional knowledge?
RT @NewBlackMan : What Are Donald Trump, Roger Ailes, and Steve Bannon Really Up To? https://t.co/J3JMV3Db6T via @JohnCassidy
@clured totally! i actually wrote about that in my wacky blog post where i pretend to have "found" a virtual sonnet: https://t.co/AidohBwShy
Linking this reddit post I just wrote about bot poetry, machine creativity, and bots' rights: https://t.co/oFIXGVXRl0
@b_hawk having a hard time believing mathematics is the least boring discipline...
RT @RichardJeanSo : Thanks @teddyroland tho I'm sure we learned as much or more from you.  You'll be missed. https://t.co/cZI5jFLXZk
@Ted_Underwood Yeats called Balzac ignorant, “but at midnight over a cup of coffee knew everything in the world.” i email best in meetings..
woah! :P https://t.co/2hGMRxMooe
watching computer poetry generate is like watching someone dreaming; or watching clouds drift into likeness.. but now i sound like @bardbott
@danielwcarter lol! old MacDonald had two farms, one-real-one-di-gi-tal?
dread array, a time farewell! we'll make it clear, the superstitions stricken sinners fear. [dedicated to @danielwcarter]
ahem, i helped him with one. he means, write two words to @bardbott and he'll write you a poem that starts with them https://t.co/1Cv3ewBSP7
RT @bardbott : higher consciousness, one hand in the room, lumpy as sacks worked-up by burke and hume!
introducing my friend, and poet of our times: W. S. Bardbott (@bardbott)
k sorry, can't resist! i need to figure out how to get python to periodically update another twitter account for these. name suggestions? :)
"pervaded her presence, gaining new mass, burning with the nipples like spikes of grass." #ComputerPoetry #VirtualHeroicCouplet
@mwidner hm i'm not so sure... but, that's what interesting to me! Art and AI raise really interesting question about human art and meaning
tfw when computer poetry seduces you: "torrents come down the main city in chains, but love shall sing lullabies in your veins." o really!
interesting whatever words might matter; when, in a summons to a dull clatter. -- #VirtualHeroicCouplet (about #VirtualHeroicCouplets?)
marvel and all ye little childer dear, and literature! cried an engineer. -- #VirtualHeroicCouplet (about #VirtualHeroicCouplets?)
RT @JimEnglishPenn : Just out: Scale &amp; Value, a special issue of MLQ co-edited with @Ted_Underwood + much assistance from Marshall Brown https://t.co/xjCx7xVH3Q
unique building, southwest, swissair, southwest, the noon noise and smoke snapping on each breast. -- #VirtualHeroicCouplet
incipient colorings of sunrise, the shining kidney with red leaking eyes. -- #VirtualHeroicCouplet
making #VirtualHeroicCouplets for an art project: rhyming pentameter lines that emerge from a Markov chain of 3.7 million lines of 20c verse
RT @ewarren : .@realDonaldTrump makes death threats because he's a pathetic coward who can’t handle the fact that he’s losing to a girl.
RT @BraddJaffy : "I Ran the C.I.A. Now I’m Endorsing Hillary Clinton." Stunning NYT op-ed from Michael Morell https://t.co/tWUHd9X2uJ https://t.co/fNfip4ufMN
RT @kvanaren : It's just now occurred to me that the lifestyle of Inspector Gadget's Dr Claw should be reframed as aspirational. https://t.co/r9jRJecRYE
@kgeographer i'm sleeping right now get back to you soon
#RNCinCLE kitschy Trump doc is creepy: "dominating the world of luxury hotels..the world of golf, and now, dominating the world of politics"
someone needs to measure the type-token ratio of these convention speeches: "if they want to take us down.. we're going to take them down!"
#RNCinCLE Reince Priebus's voice somehow combines smoked-too-many-ciagarettes and Luke-Skywalker boy-whine...
RT @mervatim : "After my client was shot, they handcuffed him &amp; left him on the hot Miami summer pavement for 20 minutes." https://t.co/dvb7Z1lIoi
@heatherfro hm, interesting. what are they / what do they represent?
Loving the Trump Family's angry faces here. I'd say I can already see a new Sopranos, but I'm sure they have too... https://t.co/DQs2AdBL7X
#RNCinCLE Nothing like a good old country song to start off the snow white festivities here
#RNCinCLE Why is the announcer a robot?
The #RNCinCLE is the sequel to the Star Wars Holiday Special, directed by Donald J. Trump.
RT @KarlreMarks : We live in a time when we binge watch history.
@walk_the_falk Python2.7 4eva!
@kvanaren don't lie you feel it too
RT @broomgrass : Beyoncé's website right now: https://t.co/N12wTOmA2o
RT @goingHan : I'm absolutely horrified by the videos of the police shootings in MN and LA this week. We need accountability now. BlackLivesMatter.
RT @everythingsjake : Barack can u handle this? Justin can u handle this? Enrique can u handle this? I don't think they can handle this! https://t.co/aNIlt0f6F7
RT @mesotronium : Fun with word2vec and 18th century analogies - a reply to @quadrismegistus' series on 18C word vectors  https://t.co/lbo4TD3eS4
+another question is, did the post-9/11 new "sincerity", as opposed to 20C irony, actually lead us here, to personal-opinion-based populism?
+ we're living in the rise of a 21st century form of fascism: bitter, deadly debates mediated and polarized by person-specific online media.
+ it's hard not to feel that this, Trump, the far nationalist right's rise in Europe, all presage the 20th century repeating itself as farce
i'm sure this is already being said and may be obvious, but to indulge a few pessimistic speculative thoughts about #Brexit...
@Ted_Underwood let's revisit this brilliant idea after November 8th.
Watch the Democratic House sit-in forcing a vote on gun control legislation live here: https://t.co/NShqcPKIIl #NoBillNoBreak
House Democrats stage sit-in protest over gun control--most central manifestation yet of #BlackLivesMatter tactics? https://t.co/EvUyyqg4NQ
RT @pourmecoffee : "An emu runs to escape an approaching wildfire as it burns near Potrero, California" (Mike Blake/Reuters) https://t.co/LOzdW10Jl7
@Ted_Underwood shhh, google is listening
RT @AlbertoCairo : At #digitalHumanities+#dataJournalism, @scott_bot will discuss network analysis https://t.co/oqWRwS4ngT https://t.co/7zQ7VP8rBd
RT @jmhuculak : Announcing the Algorithmic Ulysses an open, collaborative dataset of James #Joyce’s #Ulysses for digital scholarship https://t.co/fgMRAxu6LM
RT @cesta_stanford : Congrats @johnisrude and @amireshel and your whole Poetic Media team on your publication! https://t.co/8MnlMGi6Rp
RT @michaelschwab13 : WATCH NOW: Senate Dems at 12 hours for filibuster on gun laws @politico https://t.co/jwctDumPbD
k one last #realtimeDH tweet: the semantic fields from Pamphlet 4 in the vector space models for ECCO-TCP and ECCO https://t.co/yfj4E3zR2H
Uploaded a word2vec on 40K texts/1.9B words of ECCO's "Lit and Lang" section (300 neurons, 10skip): https://t.co/vCO39tAin2 #18CWordVectors
+woops, forgot to say that this comes from word-vector models per decade, connecting abstract nouns close to each other in the vector space
@elinakori @heatherfro cool-- would love to read the chapter! as well as anything you've written on the concept of semantic networks
+so, #realtimeDH tweet: working now on comparing "semantic networks" between abstract nouns across 18C decade-models https://t.co/BumTKkERkp
+DH blogging creates two conflicting durées: (1) what I've actually programmed and visualized so far, and (2) what I've actually written up!
man DH blogging is hard, since half my motivation for "being in the Matrix" (programming) is to avoid the much harder activity of writing...
RT @ndalyrose : Got a minute? Participate in this Computer Generated Poetry Research Project out of @QMUL: https://t.co/cHKv9eTeIn
RT @isvbella : Hollywood: "POC just don't perform as well! Don't blame us!"  Broadway: https://t.co/RTBrxUvtoK
RT @a_e_lang : Thank you @ETreharne and @RuthAhnert for a brilliant #TextNetworkX symposium: fantastic papers &amp; ideas plus an *excellent* group of people
@IgorBrigadir wow, awesome, thanks so much! will try this soon. tryna to measure distance between diff models' word-word cosine sim matrices
does anyone know how to measure the distance between distance matrices (with same row/col labels)? is there a numpy/scipy thing for that?
tfw you finally almost finish training a word2vec model on 1.9 billion words, and you realize you used the wrong settings: ctrl-c heartbreak
RT @IgorBrigadir : bag of n-scuits https://t.co/zPlcdcD7ZR
RT @DrDavidCooper : It's here! 'Literary Mapping in the Digital Age' has arrived @ManMetUni Many thanks to all of the contributors. https://t.co/KmmVIHIT2Z
well, i suppose it's hard to feel the Bern today--but the Bern was always a spiritual fire--it articulated our society's contradictions
RT @politico : .@JohnKerry tries archery in Mongolia https://t.co/YENeWQtRXH
#LitMapDigitalAge has an essay by me, @Mark_A_H, @Annalise_j, Van Tran, Erik Steiner: "Mapping the Emotions of London in Fiction, 1700-1900"
The book "Literary Mapping in the Digital Age" (Routledge, ed. @DrDavidCooper, @patymurrieta, Donaldson) is now out! https://t.co/B4QuaFcZLJ
@broomgrass please do! :)
@broomgrass yep! haven't finished the model yet but i'm optimistic, word2vec seems to put OCR errors in similar vector space as correct word
@broomgrass i'm working on modeling ECCO (not ECCO-TCP), at least the LitAndLang section, which is big enough for genre- and decade-models
@broomgrass to be honest i haven't tried making a genre-specific model yet. only prose (46 mil words) is big enough, now that i think abt it
@broomgrass ps, i'd love to hear about what you're up to sometime!
@broomgrass awesome! glad you're having fun with it! let me know if there's any other model that'd be helpful -- just prose, etc.
RT @walshbr : ICYMI: my latest on my talk at #hastac16 - Woolf, machine learning, and algorithms as theories unto themselves. https://t.co/mABHVuoncG
Inspired by @ipam_ucla's #culturalanalytics2016, here's a second post on word vectors, explaining how they work: https://t.co/f2T3rBqAB2
RT @ipam_ucla : Thank you to everyone who attended #cultureanalytics2016 workshop IV! Check back later to view videos of talks here: https://t.co/yTXRoDuDkl
Big thanks to @ashleymchamp &amp; @jeremydouglass for #SyncDH, an onground/online conference that is itself a beautiful DH project and manifesto
RT @ritaraley : "the algorithm was somewhat more accurate than a coin flip" https://t.co/YA5unrlxrc
#SyncDH @goingHan visualizing networks of related apps in Google, highlighting religious app clusters by particular religion and app-type
#SyncDH @goingHan presenting on the app ecology in Google Play Store and, really interestingly, how religious apps figure within it
RT @goingHan : @alanyliu on the challenges of studying an unbounded corpus &amp; ambient vs focal conversations on humanities #SyncDH https://t.co/XsmTmKJbnk
Listening now to @erikfredner virtually present his project on the history and politics of canonicity in the Norton Anthology. #SyncDH
wearing a sports coat, at home: getting ready to skype-present 18C Word Vectors at the brilliant "asynchronous" UCSB DH conference, #SyncDH
@kvanaren i can identify
RT @Ted_Underwood : Good post. A huge intellectual shift relevant to humanists took place, as it were, right beneath our noses. https://t.co/4k75GKqf8O
RT @mkirschenbaum : New (personal) essay: "Am I a Digital Humanist? Confessions of a Neoliberal Tool": https://t.co/KfO2DZ5nAN
RT @VersoBooks : *evil cackle through our office*
RT @noctambulate : DDH 2016 has now arrived (and couldn't be more timely). 600 pp; all new @dhdebates @mkgold @laurenfklein @UMinnPress https://t.co/eJzLBKOnrK
RT @politico : Facebook won't skip Trump's convention https://t.co/ie5XiaNZSL | Getty https://t.co/dvagoQr2i4
RT @matthewdlincoln : Please RT: CFP for “Digital Dimensions of Art Hist." https://t.co/5P8tKvYqUw at @UMDArtHistory Oct 19-21
RT @pruett_jordan : Step 1 of Rey's training: slog through Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit... and so on. #StarWars #philosophy https://t.co/0tQ9XbGVdy
+ in sum, insofar as DH sees itself as reforming or purifying the humanities of "non-empirical" ways of thinking, then LARB may have a point
+ and, crucially, to me, that combination is less a blending than an epistemological interface that preserves the distinctness of its parts
+ to me, DH is not a science: its beauty lies in its interdisciplinary combination of scientific and humanistic methods and epistemologies
+ i also believe that it's important for DH to maintain a respect and an attachment with hermeneutic epistemologies and concerns
+ but, i also share a belief that DH, self-styled as an insurgent within "traditional" scholarship, might discard important ways of thinking
+ and I'm as offended as other DHers of being accused of neoliberalism—especially, tbh, a day after I was arrested protesting neoliberalism
+ the accusation that DH is facilitating the neoliberal takeover of the university is a disturbing resurrection of culture-war paranoia...
a few tweets, a few preliminary thoughts, about the LARB controversy...
RT @Ted_Underwood : Some historical connections elided by a recent article in LARB. https://t.co/7o99I9XwLm
RT @ATLBlackStar : New York Times has a type it's allegedly not: Black, Old or Poor. https://t.co/wqNttbfq0d
RT @NewReadia : Arrived in CA for talk with @LorenGlass at @literarylab . Jazzed for Palo alto and showing the work we've been doing with @TheStudio_UI
RT @PaulREhrlich : Stanford board votes not to divest from fossil fuels despite protests https://t.co/qTWBC8EoQD.  DISGUSTING.
RT @roopikarisam : If you want DH's political history talk to @elotroalex, @amyeetx, @elikaortega, @angeldnieves, @profwernimont, @DrTonieshaT, etc. We exist.
RT @Ted_Underwood : Purdue symposium on Black Studies' Perspectives on the Digital Humanities. Papers June 6, symposium Dec 1-3. https://t.co/45A4IEtrIU
@kvanaren yep, ok now, bit scratched up but fine, glasses broke so blind until an hour ago, but replacement contacts and big breakfast, mmmm
RT @yamphoto : Donald Trump spurs a fresh wave of Latino activism. https://t.co/fCSoLRq8vY https://t.co/6TWrPTRDZ9
RT @RichardJeanSo : #digitalhumanities people, this is a crazy easy to use implementation of Word2Vec, a great new method in text mining https://t.co/qg7rW5UZtC
seems especially useful for the very californian question, where should we go camping with less than a 4-hour drive? https://t.co/bPrYBB13Mq
RT @wonway : Prince Day at Dolores Park tomorrow. Let's say 3pm. Spread the word.
tfw you're just trying to eat your "starvin student" burrito in peace and some techbro is pitching his company 10 feet away. #stanfordlife
RT @teddyroland : Curious about Word2Vec after @quadrismegistus 's recent blog? Here are my lesson materials from this week https://t.co/BiOozR7JBG
@mandellc @anterotesis @elotroalex @jamescummings @gregg_sh @EMGrumbach awesome, thanks!! so it's cool to push other versions to each repo?
@elotroalex @anterotesis @jamescummings @mandellc @gregg_sh @EMGrumbach cool! this part of TCP repo looks helpful: https://t.co/DdE7NjzJaG
@jamescummings @elotroalex @mandellc @gregg_sh @anterotesis @EMGrumbach cool -- is there a link to that script? or name to search for on GH?
@jamescummings @elotroalex @mandellc @gregg_sh @anterotesis @EMGrumbach is there a github account/link from which all repos can be found?
@jamescummings @mandellc @gregg_sh @anterotesis @EMGrumbach cool! didnt know that. i have POS- and syntax-parsed versions i could contribute
RT @jamescummings : @mandellc @quadrismegistus @gregg_sh @anterotesis @EMGrumbach And we put all texts on github as well. You could contribute versions there!
@mandellc @gregg_sh @anterotesis @EMGrumbach + ive yet to see a DH project find a pattern in a corpus of 10k+ texts that isn't visible w/ 2k
@mandellc @gregg_sh @anterotesis @EMGrumbach yep! &amp; IMO, high-quality, transcribed, xml-tagged data (TCP) &gt; untagged big "big data" corpora
@gregg_sh @anterotesis @EMGrumbach @mandellc no matter what it's still beautiful data! i ♥ EEBO- &amp; ECCO-TCP!
@matthewdlincoln congrats!!
RT @YaleDHLab : May 4 workshop: "11 Things You Can Do With EEBO-TCP" with @heatherfro Registration is now open! https://t.co/rEvCc9iyI6 #TextMining
@scott_bot i believe i may be experiencing colaughter
RT @gregg_sh : Crowdsourcing attributions in Georgian newpapers 'Georgian Pingbacks' https://t.co/AvgGxpf4NI @mhbeals
@benmschmidt @Michael_A_Gavin @yoavgo @IgorBrigadir no idea what to make of the data, to be honest.
@benmschmidt @Michael_A_Gavin @yoavgo @IgorBrigadir i also put the tableau workbook online for exploring: https://t.co/Ceds1KppnM
@benmschmidt @Michael_A_Gavin @yoavgo @IgorBrigadir here's a fig comparing models w/ skipgrams of 2,5,10,15,25 words https://t.co/0AysWiYT3N
@yoavgo and i the interaction! :) fun to be part of a wave right now. haven't got geek-excited like this in long time
@yoavgo @IgorBrigadir @Michael_A_Gavin demo here https://t.co/QHz5jxUjq0 interesting in light of distance comparison idea by  @benmschmidt
@yoavgo @Michael_A_Gavin @IgorBrigadir @benmschmidt except maybe window size? but ya, why i'm often limiting analysis to same part of speech
@yoavgo @Michael_A_Gavin @IgorBrigadir @benmschmidt to me, "pet": those two words can function similarly in discourse, an added proximity
@Michael_A_Gavin @yoavgo @IgorBrigadir @benmschmidt i guess so: less syntagmatic/syntactic relationships and more substitutive/conceptual.
@benmschmidt @Michael_A_Gavin @yoavgo @IgorBrigadir cool idea! why not? would be nice to know ideal dist for, say, semantic/conceptual rels
@yoavgo @Michael_A_Gavin @IgorBrigadir @benmschmidt hm. better= improved semantic over syntactic relations, bc syntax boundaries contextual?
@yoavgo @Michael_A_Gavin @IgorBrigadir @benmschmidt instead of a list of 5-word skip-grams, a list of n-word clauses or phrases or sentences
@yoavgo @Michael_A_Gavin @IgorBrigadir @benmschmidt does anyone know if better results using variable size, syntactic windows? clause sent
@Michael_A_Gavin @yoavgo @IgorBrigadir @benmschmidt +the neural net in w2v is too theoretically interesting as a virtual Mind to pass up :P
@Michael_A_Gavin @yoavgo @IgorBrigadir @benmschmidt i don't like blackboxes either but w2v has state of the art accuracy and...
@yoavgo @Michael_A_Gavin @IgorBrigadir @benmschmidt cool: will try to do this for my next post (on me trying to explain to me how w2v works)
@benmschmidt @IgorBrigadir @Michael_A_Gavin seems possible: i think gensim just passes whatever skip-grams you give it (5, 10) to training
Inspired by @benmschmidt and @Michael_A_Gavin, a new blog post: "Word Vectors in the Eighteenth Century, Episode 1" https://t.co/0daDpLeHoi
germans sighting: 7th this week. they appear to follow me. will continue investigation
RT @fvrmvn : welcome to silicon valley https://t.co/SCD54KCtm7
also very thankful for @Michael_A_Gavin's fascinating exploration of word vectors and late 17C discourse of rights (https://t.co/kuusNClDTx)
just started playing with word2vec and am blown away -- but even more thankful for amazing intro by @benmschmidt (https://t.co/WZczqxf7xy) +
RT @broomgrass : So how long until we get a Sexy Trudeau calendar? (only half joking) (also those boards are tiny, c'mon JT) https://t.co/SDXjqeomL8
super exciting work, @ahmmnd!--reading over the book-as-tweets and now i can't wait to read the book-as-book! #LitDA https://t.co/VJuUowFi62
RT @ahmmnd : Ch 5.2 includes discussion of work by @literarylab's @quadrismegistus and Long Le-Khac #LitDA https://t.co/Ntd9fezdXl
RT @mervatim : We canceled our subscription months ago when the NYT's election biases became clear. But this is just outrageous: https://t.co/kSq2MY2grg
RT @LitCritTrump : Odysseus took 20 years to travel 600 miles. Would not want him as captain of my boat. BAD SAILOR https://t.co/iZWpQhBwJQ
RT @Walldo : Completely forgot about it until I watched this video but... https://t.co/lXdKfYZTr6 https://t.co/14LShMeD0N
RT @farman : Periodic Table of Typefaces https://t.co/UIw2NRaE2B https://t.co/kMk417VGji
RT @gregg_sh : Excellent. RT “@farman: Periodic Table of Typefaces https://t.co/4fs07XQo8U https://t.co/V47WtPrB8r”
RT @alanyliu : My Voice of the Shuttle in 1996 viewed in https://t.co/IAa3RTG2IJ emulation of NCSA Mosaic browser. https://t.co/kURWdQZjxA
RT @historying : Digital Blackness Conference at Rutgers (@RUDigitalBlack), April 22-23: https://t.co/QHhYVmfIYp
Very excited to see @RichardJeanSo and @hoytlong present at the @literarylab in an hour!
looking at my poor grad student excuse for a bank acct and considering either street miming or freelance DH work. (effectiveness? ethics?)
RT @heatherfro : I'm so pleased to introduce my PhD thesis, "Social Identity in Early Modern Print: Shakespeare, Drama &amp; EEBOTCP1" https://t.co/Hj7na00DsM
RT @yohei_igarashi : "ELIZA at 50" at #mla2017: Spread word pls! @mkirschenbaum @gamegrower  @alanyliu @Ted_Underwood @quadrismegistus https://t.co/pQc7qTg1dn
@vanessalashawn reminds me of when i went to buy black clothes and came back with a plush velvet psychedelic-red-flower jacket
RT @Ted_Underwood : Apply to be lead developer at @PrincetonDH, work w/ a great team inc. @mmvty: https://t.co/XiFCynk4JY
RT @BMichaelNorton : Doing research ahead of today's class on Pamela and all the new articles seem to be by @S_Insley_H.
RT @zellieimani : Race Best Predicts Whether You Live Near Pollution  https://t.co/LmOne1GflP https://t.co/5nCh7Uy75H
RT @Ted_Underwood : Three nasty problems in search of the vigilante or hard-drinking detective distant reading needs right now. https://t.co/PHS1Y1Wx1e
RT @ncecire : I wonder what moves a prof to go, "Know what? Millenials are too coddled. This is a trenchant new perspective; how do I get the word out?"
RT @yrochat : @quadrismegistus https://t.co/2peX02yHu8
Ok, Twitter, congratulate me! I just passed my Ph.D. oral/field exam! (Enter: Braveheart GIF, "Freeeeeedooooommmm!!!!")
dear 18Cists (@ClaudeWillan) or meta-lit-hist (@Ted_Underwood) ppl, anyone know when "Age of Johnson" was coined as a period in criticism?
RT @eltonteb : Who would like to test drive an ipad app that combines a library of some 247 translated ancient texts with a map of 5000-odd ancient places?
RT @YouTube : #BlackLivesMatter activist @deray talks racism and white privilege with @StephenAtHome. https://t.co/6JjKYv1BBd https://t.co/Lh5Vmx3bzI
RT @RichardJeanSo : W/@_akpiper new project on politics of literary rejection, crowd sourcing for reject manuscripts.  Please circulate! https://t.co/7C3XDQtUvh
RT @_akpiper : We're pleased to share our multilingual novel data set #txtlab. Includes 450 novels in German, French and English: https://t.co/s2vXsqKEPi
RT @proseb4bros : guys!!! i got to write about drake (&amp; voice, rap, internet virtuosity) and had so much fun! https://t.co/IB435CYN96 https://t.co/M5N7SDXd5X
RT @alanyliu : Brad Pasenek &amp; @chadwellmon's absorbing essay on Kant's "What is Enlightenment?" from a print/media system viewpt: https://t.co/YoUjGEEJLk
RT @Jim_ItsNotRight : #RealDonaldTrump @tedcruz https://t.co/7VK2JDsKRK
RT @alanyliu : Really admire @ryancordell's "Taking Dirty OCR Seriously" https://t.co/TSsK1SaLPW A paradigmatic medium-specific approach to digitized text
RT @historying : New Post: What I Wrote in 2015 - https://t.co/mL5d7BbhrZ
RT @moody : I always thought the State of the Union felt like a Wes Anderson movie.  So we made one.  https://t.co/FDgHOwup0M https://t.co/BSftwvG7jK
RT @CoreyRobin : Somewhere between J.L. Austin and Judith Butler is Bowie: alphabetically, chronologically, conceptually.