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Amanda Vincent
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French Studies professor, studying post-1968 cities, gardens, and landscape and posting about all kinds of stuff. Opinions my own. https://www.pennpress.org/9781512823851/constructing-gardens-cultivating-the-city/
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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

It'll be chaotic, chances of survival are low to very low.
The six main human characters of the TV show Murderbot gathered together, gazing at a screen
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Reading María Puig de la Bellacasa's article "'Nothing comes without its world': thinking with care" (DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2012.02070.x) in which she mentions Donna Haraway's "call to pay attention to the workings and consequences of our 'semiotic technologies'- that is, to practices and arts of fabricating meaning with signs, words, ideas, descriptions, theories' ["Situated knowledges" chapter of _Simians, Cyborgs, and Women_], it occurred to me that this is my problem with using AI in teaching/learning: generative AI seems, to me, for now, not to be a technology of care.
February 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Well that's ... not promising
The word "somnolent"
January 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Currently obsessed with the painting "La Femme à la robe verte" (1866) by Claude Monet that a student included in a presentation this semester. I'd love to find an undergrad-accessible article about the role of the color green and green pigments in nineteenth-century French fashion and art
Claude Monet painting Femme à la Robe Verte 1866 showing a full length portrait of a standing woman on a dark background wearing a black fur-trimmed jacket and a long skirt with wide green and black stripes. From Wikimedia Commons
December 5, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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August 15, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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It's been a year since my book was published! You can order it for 40% off at pennpress.org using the code PENN-SUMMER24.
May 23, 2024 at 7:37 PM
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it's this:
"A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress. " Walter Benjamin, " Theses on the Philosophy of History"
December 21, 2023 at 2:38 PM