dr joshua phillips
@woolfianjosh.bsky.social
Woolf Doctor | Turns squiggles into angle brackets | modernism, digital humanities, bad puns | he/him | would prefer not to
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The Digital Anon
www.digital-anon.com
*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I am excited to announce the publication of The Digital 'Anon', a new digital edition of Virginia Woolf's final, unpublished essay drafts which makes this remarkable corpus available as an OA resource.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.
I am excited to announce the publication of The Digital 'Anon', a new digital edition of Virginia Woolf's final, unpublished essay drafts which makes this remarkable corpus available as an OA resource.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.
Have we considered that the parents just have bad vibes, etc.?
People are very hard on young people on here, lack of critical thinking, lack of responsibility etc, and then you see something like this and it all makes a different kind of sense.
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Have we considered that the parents just have bad vibes, etc.?
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Pepper's work on Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes remains a cornerstone of the discipline even without accounting for their unique blend of 23 flavors
While not a medical doctor, Dr Pepper does hold a PhD in neoclassical literary theory and thus deserves our respect
November 29, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Pepper's work on Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes remains a cornerstone of the discipline even without accounting for their unique blend of 23 flavors
Hideo Kojima knows writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards
November 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Hideo Kojima knows writers who use subtext and they’re all cowards
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Fated to eat this.
November 28, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Fated to eat this.
King shit (gender-neutral).
I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
November 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
King shit (gender-neutral).
Jesus, this is a horrific prediction. How is this kind of systemic collapse not an issue for government?
'David Maguire and Alex Bols, vice-chancellor and chief of staff respectively at the University of East Anglia, updated their prediction made last autumn that 10,000 jobs could be lost in 2024-25, claiming this same amount could in fact be lost every year going forward.' 1/3
UK universities ‘could cut 10,000 jobs every year’
Academics claim changes made to higher education system a decade ago have divided sector into ‘winners and losers’, with government-imposed limits on income exacerbating financial challenges
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Jesus, this is a horrific prediction. How is this kind of systemic collapse not an issue for government?
Move fast and smelt rings
My rule of thumb is if the company is named after something in Lord of the Rings, it’s almost certainly evil.
Since its founding in 2017, Anduril Industries has become one of the hottest companies in a crowded field of defense-tech startup.
Its fast-moving approach comes with its share of setbacks.
Its fast-moving approach comes with its share of setbacks.
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Move fast and smelt rings
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One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
Any day when I get to show people Leslie Stephen’s terrible doodled animals is a good day.
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Any day when I get to show people Leslie Stephen’s terrible doodled animals is a good day.
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
You just died.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
The 6th picture in your phone gallery is what killed you.
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having gone to university as the last cohort of the 3k/year system never fails to give me a brief taste of that "last chopper out of Saigon" feeling boomers and, to an extent, Gen Xers have been getting for most of the past fifteen years or so
Student loan repayment thresholds frozen for a further three years.
More debt burden falling on graduates.
And even more reason to cut university places by 20-30%.
More debt burden falling on graduates.
And even more reason to cut university places by 20-30%.
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
having gone to university as the last cohort of the 3k/year system never fails to give me a brief taste of that "last chopper out of Saigon" feeling boomers and, to an extent, Gen Xers have been getting for most of the past fifteen years or so
Are they still dunking UKHE’s head in the toilet and pulling the chain or was that just the Treasury press dept doing a bit?
November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Are they still dunking UKHE’s head in the toilet and pulling the chain or was that just the Treasury press dept doing a bit?
Star Trek Phase II
(Not a movie but let me have this)
(Not a movie but let me have this)
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Star Trek Phase II
(Not a movie but let me have this)
(Not a movie but let me have this)
If Austen’s letter is the final boss of modern palaeography, that must make Joyce’s reading notes the secret superboss locked behind the postgame, which has a trillion HP and can wipe your party in one hit
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:44 PM
If Austen’s letter is the final boss of modern palaeography, that must make Joyce’s reading notes the secret superboss locked behind the postgame, which has a trillion HP and can wipe your party in one hit
Efficiency is at the forefront of my teaching practice. Especially when I get a roomful of students in floods of laughter about rotary printing presses and c19–20th American copyright law. Pure, uncut efficiency.
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Efficiency is at the forefront of my teaching practice. Especially when I get a roomful of students in floods of laughter about rotary printing presses and c19–20th American copyright law. Pure, uncut efficiency.
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Its self-alienation has reached such a
degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order, Charlie Brown
degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order, Charlie Brown
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake, Charlie Brown
About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Its self-alienation has reached such a
degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order, Charlie Brown
degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order, Charlie Brown
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God is dead, Charlie Brown
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake, Charlie Brown
About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
God is dead, Charlie Brown
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity, Charlie Brown
About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity, Charlie Brown
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Never mind that they're paying a shitload just to come to welcoming, progressive, Global Britain to study. They're keeping universities afloat, helping local economies. But yeah, paint your fucking red cross all over education. Keep them all out. Extinguish the idea of 'students' while you're at it.
With Rachel Reeves reportedly set to apply a new tax on tuition fees paid by overseas students, most Britons support such a move at the previously mooted level of 6%
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
Support: 57%
Oppose: 18%
yougov.co.uk/topics/socie...
November 24, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Never mind that they're paying a shitload just to come to welcoming, progressive, Global Britain to study. They're keeping universities afloat, helping local economies. But yeah, paint your fucking red cross all over education. Keep them all out. Extinguish the idea of 'students' while you're at it.
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake, Charlie Brown
About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake, Charlie Brown
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Multiple someones in the highest level of government are going to have a very hard time indeed when they find out the hard way that universities are anchor institutions for towns and cities pretty much everywhere.
Wonder who's going to be holding that particular hot potato?
Wonder who's going to be holding that particular hot potato?
'The prospect of hundreds of job cuts at Lancaster University could damage the city's economy, students have warned.'
'Could'? Surely 'will'.
'Could'? Surely 'will'.
Fears Lancaster University job cuts would hit city's businesses
Lancaster University is seeking to cut 400 full-time posts as part of efforts to save £30m.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Multiple someones in the highest level of government are going to have a very hard time indeed when they find out the hard way that universities are anchor institutions for towns and cities pretty much everywhere.
Wonder who's going to be holding that particular hot potato?
Wonder who's going to be holding that particular hot potato?
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Me, glancing at the headlines this morning
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Me, glancing at the headlines this morning
I think it’s reasonable to assume at this point that Labour wants UKHE to collapse.
November 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I think it’s reasonable to assume at this point that Labour wants UKHE to collapse.
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*pinches bridge of nose* Rachel explain to me again how the university funding model works
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
*pinches bridge of nose* Rachel explain to me again how the university funding model works
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Successive Labour and Conservative governments have basically told UK HE to go get any extra money needed from foreign students and now we're going to be punished for having been so overwhelmingly successful at it
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Successive Labour and Conservative governments have basically told UK HE to go get any extra money needed from foreign students and now we're going to be punished for having been so overwhelmingly successful at it