Neil Hultgren
@profneilh.bsky.social
Professor of English. _Melodramatic Imperial Writing from the Sepoy Rebellion to Cecil Rhodes_ (2014). Current project on cosmic romance. Books, TV, running, biking, 🦖, 🏳️🌈
All I want for Christmas is for Orville Peck and Conan Gray to record a duet together.
December 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
All I want for Christmas is for Orville Peck and Conan Gray to record a duet together.
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I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
December 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.
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Because if you care about securely owning a movie that you love--as opposed to "owning" it only until a license agreement over which you have no control expires without warning--you need a DVD or Blu-ray. The hardware may be yesterday; the concern is very much of this moment.
Why do (us) old people want to burden Gen Z with our nostalgia for an antique piece of hardware in the first place?
A (quite) young movie lover said to me recently, "Not everybody can afford a DVD player," and I said "How much do you think a DVD player costs?"
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
He said, "I don't know, like $500?"
Those of us who advocate physical media are maybe not doing the best job of messaging.
December 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Because if you care about securely owning a movie that you love--as opposed to "owning" it only until a license agreement over which you have no control expires without warning--you need a DVD or Blu-ray. The hardware may be yesterday; the concern is very much of this moment.
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The President of the United States has the exact same power to pardon a state-court conviction that you or I have—which is to say, none.
December 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The President of the United States has the exact same power to pardon a state-court conviction that you or I have—which is to say, none.
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I’m excited that The Necromantics is now out in paperback! Link in the comments if you have a loved one that would treasure a holiday gift full of reanimated corpses 🧛🏻♀️♥️
ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
December 12, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I’m excited that The Necromantics is now out in paperback! Link in the comments if you have a loved one that would treasure a holiday gift full of reanimated corpses 🧛🏻♀️♥️
ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
Just learned about this story today...what an embarrassment for the system: Cal State says staff AI use 'resulted in errors' in legal filing edsource.org?page_id=745499
Cal State says staff AI use ‘resulted in errors’ in legal filing
An administrative law judge said a document filed by Cal State had "all the hallmarks" of AI hallucinations.
edsource.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Just learned about this story today...what an embarrassment for the system: Cal State says staff AI use 'resulted in errors' in legal filing edsource.org?page_id=745499
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
He had to die so that the birds we know and love could live
December 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
He had to die so that the birds we know and love could live
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I don’t know, I still randomly trip out over the fact that the President told states to specifically gerrymander for him. And they did.
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I don’t know, I still randomly trip out over the fact that the President told states to specifically gerrymander for him. And they did.
For Pete Hegseth, does the “fog of war” actually require literal fog or smoke?
December 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
For Pete Hegseth, does the “fog of war” actually require literal fog or smoke?
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For the AIDS Dead by Frank Bidart
www.divasofverse.com/2017/12/for-...
www.divasofverse.com/2017/12/for-...
For the AIDS Dead by Frank Bidart
For the AIDS Dead The plague that you have thus far survived. They didn't. Nothing that they did in bed that you didn't. ...
www.divasofverse.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
For the AIDS Dead by Frank Bidart
www.divasofverse.com/2017/12/for-...
www.divasofverse.com/2017/12/for-...
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This was so hilariously bizarre and grotesque. The Borges connection that the author makes in the afterwards is insightful. Definitely an author to follow.
November 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This was so hilariously bizarre and grotesque. The Borges connection that the author makes in the afterwards is insightful. Definitely an author to follow.
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I don't wish this job on anyone, but someone should do a history of how Trump's social-media pronouncements get particularly rageful/hateful/insane on holiday weekends. Maybe there's something about being alone while others celebrate, or vague, in-and-out awareness that he's waning and hated, etc.
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I don't wish this job on anyone, but someone should do a history of how Trump's social-media pronouncements get particularly rageful/hateful/insane on holiday weekends. Maybe there's something about being alone while others celebrate, or vague, in-and-out awareness that he's waning and hated, etc.
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"Modernism can best be understood as a cultural field of force triangulated by three coordinates: formalized academicism in the arts; technologies of telephone, radio, automobile, aircraft; and the imaginative proximity of social revolution."
Perry Anderson
(modernism debates contra blackfriday)
Perry Anderson
(modernism debates contra blackfriday)
November 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
"Modernism can best be understood as a cultural field of force triangulated by three coordinates: formalized academicism in the arts; technologies of telephone, radio, automobile, aircraft; and the imaginative proximity of social revolution."
Perry Anderson
(modernism debates contra blackfriday)
Perry Anderson
(modernism debates contra blackfriday)
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thanksgiving reminder: after your turkey comes out of the oven it is important to let it rest inside a wall or floor for 1 to 2 hours
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
thanksgiving reminder: after your turkey comes out of the oven it is important to let it rest inside a wall or floor for 1 to 2 hours
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excited my grocery store had the gay rainbow carrots
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
excited my grocery store had the gay rainbow carrots
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clarence thomas has no jurisprudential argument, he just hates women and thinks the constitution doesn’t protect a varia suit
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
clarence thomas has no jurisprudential argument, he just hates women and thinks the constitution doesn’t protect a varia suit
10/10 no notes!
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
10/10 no notes!
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Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.
I have so many stories about my institution to share, but the tedium of telling them would exhaust you all (and me).
November 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I have so many stories about my institution to share, but the tedium of telling them would exhaust you all (and me).
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wearing slippers and pajamas to the airport is antifa now
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
wearing slippers and pajamas to the airport is antifa now
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Sometimes I think about how many people were convinced that the Vice President of the United States lost the presidential election because she didn’t contort herself to do this show.
If it’s true it says a lot about this country.
If it’s true it says a lot about this country.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 25, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Sometimes I think about how many people were convinced that the Vice President of the United States lost the presidential election because she didn’t contort herself to do this show.
If it’s true it says a lot about this country.
If it’s true it says a lot about this country.
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i’m going to bless you all with the good news that Olivia Nuzzi isn’t real.
if you hold this truth in your heart and live it out faithfully, you will miss nothing in life.
if you hold this truth in your heart and live it out faithfully, you will miss nothing in life.
November 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
i’m going to bless you all with the good news that Olivia Nuzzi isn’t real.
if you hold this truth in your heart and live it out faithfully, you will miss nothing in life.
if you hold this truth in your heart and live it out faithfully, you will miss nothing in life.