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Woolf Doctor | Turns squiggles into angle brackets | modernism, digital humanities, bad puns | he/him | would prefer not to

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · Aug 27

*ahem* now for a professional one.

I am excited to announce the publication of The Digital 'Anon', a new digital edition of Virginia Woolf's final, unpublished essay drafts which makes this remarkable corpus available as an OA resource.

It is available here: www.digital-anon.com.

The Digital Anon

www.digital-anon.com

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 2h

Even putting to one side the sheer inanity of this, how might he expect to do that? Reach into individual classrooms and throw things at students using singular ‘they’?

The chancellorship is an unpaid p/t gig where you gladhand donors and trot about in a silly robe once in a while.

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 3h

'Nowhere will be safe for teenagers while I'm around.' is an odd boast, Bill.

William Hague still being a thundering tool after all these years.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 3h

It a good job nothing ever happens to stroke victims’ faces.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 5h

Some Like It Hot (King’s Landing Edition)

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

While language-shaming for political gain is on the agenda, can we please throw things at politicians who use the construction ‘do + noun’ when there’s a perfectly good verb, like ‘doing tax cuts’.

It makes them sound like they’re speaking through 2010s-era machine translation.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 1d

We’re going to make migrants read Ian McEwan? Now that’s a hostile environment.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

Stakes are sunk deep down, buried beneath the seafloor of the Gulf of America.

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

And once they’ve barred every neurodivergent person from ever settling in the UK, what then? Go to work on those of us who are already here?

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

And maybe we shouldn’t restrict English degrees from the shiny new Maintenance Grant 2.0: Now With Extra Neoliberalism™️

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 1d

Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

*film trailer voice* in a world where all you see is shadows…

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

One of Lagan’s horrible diagrams from Seminar XX. Lots of Greek symbols, some arrows, some barred letters, and “La femme” crossed out, all in a 2x2 grid. Ugh.

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

The Documentary Cinematic Universe is the most ambitious cinematic experiment ever conceived!

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

Acid-free paper is the best archival technology we've managed to invent.

(Parchment and vellum are pretty durable, but medievalist friends say that they get a bit stinky over the centuries)

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

We can do that?

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

Isn’t that the plot of The Comforters, give or take a few nuns?

(It has been a while don’t @ me)

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

Foster and Partners? As in the Gherkin guys? Wild.

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s hoping Ellison finishes the Eagle and Child refurb before the wheels come off.

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

Modernism never existed.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 1d

Add a smartwatch for good measure?

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 2d

(Sorry, the ‘Source’ thing should read ‘Source: I live here, too’)

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 2d

The kind of weird that this thread describes is very rarely tolerated in contemporary Britain. Imagine art appreciation class in UK primary schools, actively promoting aesthetic self-formation!

dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 2d

Beyond that small circle within which whimsy is permitted to function , it’s deeply small-and-large-c conservative curtain twitching that views anything outside the normate as contamination to be expelled, viz. the aggressive policing of gender boundaries, the horror-show around refugees.

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, source. Britain is tolerant of the kind of eccentricity you discuss. This is a pleasant enough whimsy that functions within an incredibly narrow set of parameters. It’s a whimsy that doesn’t threaten or upset or even expand.