Eleanor Courtemanche
@ecourtem.bsky.social
Midwestern prof: Victorian lit & financial crisis. Zeitgeist-seismometer. 75% normcore
Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf
Anti-doomer but ☹️☹️ wtf
Pinned
Beyond the Doom Loop of High Theory
If paradox can be toxic, what’s the antidote?
www.publicbooks.org
For @publicbooks.bsky.social, I reviewed Elizabeth Anker's fascinating & extremely ambitious "On Paradox," which critiques almost the whole theoretical connection between politics and aesthetics (and then rebuilds a little). Books should take big swings! www.publicbooks.org/beyond-the-d...
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I'm thankful for all the technologists, FOIA officers, parks workers, public health researchers, criminal investigators, and countless other civil servants who have kept diligently doing their jobs under extreme duress. This year has been bad but it could have been so, so much worse.
November 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I'm thankful for all the technologists, FOIA officers, parks workers, public health researchers, criminal investigators, and countless other civil servants who have kept diligently doing their jobs under extreme duress. This year has been bad but it could have been so, so much worse.
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this is like cyberpunk gothic
"A death-haunted Trump is fed a steady stream of AI-generated news and polls while he focuses 100% of his efforts on building a ballroom that would dwarf the rest of the White House while navigating a series of accellerating and hidden health crises" is my take on the current situation.
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
this is like cyberpunk gothic
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This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.
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So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
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Again, I cannot stand Amazon or Bezos. However, because _Strike_ comes out in paperback in 2 months, they are fire selling it in hardback for $2.84. So if you want it, you can indeed get it for the price of a cup of coffee. www.amazon.com/Strike-Labor...
Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire
Amazon.com: Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire (Audible Audio Edition): Sarah E. Bond, Hillary Huber, Tantor Media: Books
www.amazon.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Again, I cannot stand Amazon or Bezos. However, because _Strike_ comes out in paperback in 2 months, they are fire selling it in hardback for $2.84. So if you want it, you can indeed get it for the price of a cup of coffee. www.amazon.com/Strike-Labor...
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2025 New Macy's balloons:
Carol Sturka
The Sex Cardigan
Black market labubu box which opens to reveal a bag full of dirt labeled "PUTO"
Larry Summers
Carol Sturka
The Sex Cardigan
Black market labubu box which opens to reveal a bag full of dirt labeled "PUTO"
Larry Summers
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
2025 New Macy's balloons:
Carol Sturka
The Sex Cardigan
Black market labubu box which opens to reveal a bag full of dirt labeled "PUTO"
Larry Summers
Carol Sturka
The Sex Cardigan
Black market labubu box which opens to reveal a bag full of dirt labeled "PUTO"
Larry Summers
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I feel like the world is lacking in prestigious 2 hour documentaries about the Costco bakery
since we're talking about pies- one of my favorite internet traditions is r/costco every year, without fail, featuring multiple top-of-page posts of people completely agog at the scale of the costco pumpkin pie display. it must feel like walking onto a sherman tank factory floor in 1944
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I feel like the world is lacking in prestigious 2 hour documentaries about the Costco bakery
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I see we've entered the making-movies-for-the-strongman phase of democratic decline.
‘Rush Hour 4’ in the Works at Paramount at Trump’s Request
"Rush Hour 4" in the works at Paramount after prodding from president Trump.
variety.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I see we've entered the making-movies-for-the-strongman phase of democratic decline.
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Incredibly great news:
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Incredibly great news:
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Literally zooming into a dark age somehow hastened by technology and innovation is weird to think about
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Literally zooming into a dark age somehow hastened by technology and innovation is weird to think about
😂😂
Modernism isn't real, it's just Romanticism again.
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
😂😂
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What time do you get in?
Officially moving to Chicago tomorrow. I assume JB Pritzker will be waiting for me at the airport
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
What time do you get in?
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It’d be exciting to think that Bluesky has people pretending to be American like Twitter but I honestly don’t think they could talk about Star Trek Deep Space 9 the way it’s expected here without having watched all the episodes a dozen times
November 25, 2025 at 12:52 AM
It’d be exciting to think that Bluesky has people pretending to be American like Twitter but I honestly don’t think they could talk about Star Trek Deep Space 9 the way it’s expected here without having watched all the episodes a dozen times
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I absolutely love that the Tish James and James Comey news dropped minutes before Trump is supposed to roll out his latest “healthcare plan,” which just like the last 87 versions doesn’t exist. Perfect timing. Nothing exposes a scam like actual accountability happening somewhere else.
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I absolutely love that the Tish James and James Comey news dropped minutes before Trump is supposed to roll out his latest “healthcare plan,” which just like the last 87 versions doesn’t exist. Perfect timing. Nothing exposes a scam like actual accountability happening somewhere else.
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Oh my god. He's so fuckin real
haven’t seen ROS or Solo but this seems like a pretty ball-knowing list from Pritzker, particularly if he volunteered the name “Star Wars” rather than “A New Hope”
November 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Oh my god. He's so fuckin real
Trump 2 was a daring bet: kneecap American society by going for the big institutions. But now, like the Confederacy, it’s getting bogged down
From @jamellebouie.net
From @jamellebouie.net
Opinion | Trump Is Mired in a War of Attrition
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Trump 2 was a daring bet: kneecap American society by going for the big institutions. But now, like the Confederacy, it’s getting bogged down
From @jamellebouie.net
From @jamellebouie.net
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Getting random likes on this constitution post from weeks ago. Always relevant!!!
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Getting random likes on this constitution post from weeks ago. Always relevant!!!
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bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
bluesky checked the IP addresses of pro-turkey posters and they're all posting from hungry
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If we’re allowing Santa horror movies where Santa is a serial killer we deserve a movie where Santa is a fixer brought in to clean up the mess after one of a law firm's top litigators suffers a breakdown while representing a corrupt chemical corporation in a multi-billion dollar legal suit.
November 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
If we’re allowing Santa horror movies where Santa is a serial killer we deserve a movie where Santa is a fixer brought in to clean up the mess after one of a law firm's top litigators suffers a breakdown while representing a corrupt chemical corporation in a multi-billion dollar legal suit.
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As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution").
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
November 22, 2025 at 11:33 PM
As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution").
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
A cheery article about the dedicated staffers of a beloved college radio station in LA 🙂 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
College Radio Keeps Its Cool
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A cheery article about the dedicated staffers of a beloved college radio station in LA 🙂 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...
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Me, googling, "how does one develop charisma?"
November 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Me, googling, "how does one develop charisma?"