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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 2h

Written by a fellow PASSHE public regional prof, love to see it: “These are small but significant reminders that the university is not doomed to permanent privatization.”

Universities Are Selling Themselves Off Piece by Piece

American higher ed has become a mesh of corporate contracts and outsourced services. From dining halls to student records, private vendors now run many institutions’ most basic operations — atomizing ...

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Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social · 11h

Teachers are heroes.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago Teachers Union
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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 14h

I teach Benito Cereno, after the big reveal, as if Babo is ghost narrator and it is The Way

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 23h

Snooki & JWow, specifically for this scene: www.tiktok.com/@paramountpl...

15 years ago, one letter changed everything 💌 Tell your friends! All seasons of Jersey Shore are on #ParamountPlus. #JerseyShore #Snooki #JWoww

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 1d

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 1d

if this is the standard size of a millstone, it would be a real challenge to get it around your neck. Ithaca’s pretty though

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 1d

also @calebwellum.bsky.social, @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social, and many others with us in spirt by way of citation. so much enlivening conversation, companionability, and solidarity! buoying in these dark days.

Thomas S. Davis @thomassdavis.bsky.social · 2d

This was such a treat to be with @mattseybold.bsky.social @aprilanson.bsky.social @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social @jlb.bsky.social @natewolff.bsky.social( & others not on here?) to think through the knots of energy, aesthetics, politics & the hell we inhabit. Thanks Matt, Jeff, & Joe for having us.

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 3d

Quarry Farm Symposium, my favorite event on our annual calendar, kicks off tonight with a discussion of everyday ecofascism with @aprilanson.bsky.social & Alexander Menrisky.

This year’s theme is Energy Studies, co-organized with @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 3d

Quarry Farm Symposium, my favorite event on our annual calendar, kicks off tonight with a discussion of everyday ecofascism with @aprilanson.bsky.social & Alexander Menrisky.

This year’s theme is Energy Studies, co-organized with @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social.

marktwainstudies.com/2025-quarry-...

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 2d

my main contribution to an energy humanities conference today was my correct assertion at dinner that Ariana Grande popularized the phrase “big dick energy” referring to her then-fiance Pete Davidson

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 4d

also grew up in Michigan in late 80s & 90s!

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 5d

going to find out if I’m allowed to put “the gf of one of the founders of antifa” in my faculty bio

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 5d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 6d

my grandma let me consume unlimited amounts of minty carnauba wax at her house back in the day. The candy bowls hated to see me coming.

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 6d

someone drew a “rat disco” on the board in a classroom, and who am I to erase it 🪩

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 6d

these disgusting, delicious little things

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 6d

Mellvillainy, or, Shitty Husband Studies

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 6d

sure, if you dm me an email I’m happy to send pdf

Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 6d

that’s so kind, Laurel! Thank you!

Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 6d

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 6d

I joke that it took me twenty years to figure out how to get this off my chest about Herman Melville, starting from my first encounter as an undergrad in 2005. But it kind of did. So thrilled that this essay has a home at J19: Project MUSE - Melville's Idea of a Wife muse.jhu.edu/article/970112

Project MUSE - Melville's Idea of a Wife

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 7d

except Herman Melville, he did it a few times

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 7d

“We’re attracted to ideas of self-managed craft and nonmarket investigation…Yet we regard them as best suited to exceptional people who have merited tenure and the like…less a necessary feature of democracy than an individual privilege, the result of personal merit rather than its collective cause.”

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 7d

"the solution is still the one that can succeed: to build a new cultural order, a new civilization. To do so, academics must embrace an unusual new role: as knowledge workers, they must seize the means of knowledge production."

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