Eleanor Courtemanche

The color of intellectual stasis and fear! Deer in the headlights blankness; forgetting your identity and history

Maybe

Yes, gray is over for wall paint

Unless it’s Farrow and Ball, mixed with the color of a Scottish bog in the rain, etc

😂😂 Twist!!

Yes, I’m already through the first cycle of bafflement and on to the slatepitch angle 😄

In fact white has been dominant in fashion for several years. But it’s being deposed in interior design as everyone reacts against the horrible white-and-gray monopalette of the 2010s

A dancing figure wearing cloud white, Pantone’s 2026 color. Has her mind been erased by propaganda, or have her rights just been restored? Who’s to say

designboom it's here! @pantone introduces 'cloud dancer' as the color of the year 2026, a billowy, pared-back white that reflects 'a collective push toward clarity, rest, and reset' 'cloud dancer is a true neutral white with an equal balance of warm and cool undertones giving it the versatility we are looking for both in our choices for apparel and in our homes, the #pantone team tells designboom. 'it is an uncomplicated, clearly definitive color that is intuitively understood and attainable. find out more on #designboom! 2 hours ago

I’ve got so many takes!
1) who doesn’t like light-filled spaces
2) this FEELS Trumpy but he’d probably have chosen ✨gold✨
3) they are counterprogramming the blackness of our hearts 😡
4) a color of death, of being unable to see the future, of erasure. Maybe someone will go into the light

sobbing and throwing up as Mr. Milchick makes me say this for the 500th time

Future location of the Institute of Liberal Civic Enlightenment, with its Bureau of Tirelessly Whacking Disinformation, Office of Unfucking the Universities, and Billionaire Accountability Center

How Illinois passed its third big clean-energy bill in a decade Kady McFadden and John Delurey join me to talk about why "fast and cheap" is the new winning message for climate policy.

Today on Volts: while some blue states hedge on their green commitments, Illinois is doubling down, passing its third major energy bill in a decade. Among other things, this one empowers the state's utility regulator to directly procure clean energy. I get into it w/ two of its architects.

Remember the part in the old Peter Pan play where Peter tells the boys and girls in the audience that if they all just clap harder they can save Tinkerbell?

That's what Trump's Cabinet Meeting reminded me of. A bunch of children wildly applauding him, all in an effort to bring him back to life.

💔

Their soles lack traction 😔

Oh my god.

While movie theaters struggle, Chicago’s historic Music Box is adding a third screen The venue is adding a third 100-seat theater and expanding to Minneapolis as the new owner of the Heights Theater.

While movie theaters struggle, Chicago’s historic Music Box is adding a third screen ... and taking over another historic art house theater in Minneapolis

Gift 🔗

Yup 😜 many of the authors we teach are politically bad too: that’s why the post only works if it’s wrong answers

Larry Summers being expelled from the AEA makes me wonder: what crimes would get you kicked out of the MLA? Wrong answers only

“It is reductive to say that the central fantasy of contemporary conservatism is Punching The Teacher, but it is not really wrong.” 😞

Wowwwww

Rotting mini-pumpkins decorated with some fresh fluffy snow

Thinking of banning list-of-three-things thesis statements.

List of readings from a class on the English Novel. Includes Moll Flanders, Tom Jones, Emma, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Adam Bede, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Heart of Darkness, Sons and Lovers, Portrait of the Artist, To the Lighthouse and Pincher Martin.

College course on the English Novel from 1970.

(Sorry @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social, no Middlemarch.)

day 1 is "penzeys revolution blend" and i cant stop laughing at "we have to GET RID of this lying, cheating, CORRUPT SCUMBAG PRESIDENT!! RESIST! REVOLT! REVOLUTION NOW!! good on roast poultry and carrots"

In a weird way I feel like Costco is one of the last megacompanies that actually practices capitalism as its supposed to work

Every few years I am amazed by Kristen Bell's ability to make her 100th 'sassy blonde girl with light family trauma' character feel very real and totally distinct from the 99 that she did already

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I remember a monthly poetry read-aloud event at Macalester: one faculty member’s little project. I usually found something funny in an old used anthology of “great poems” 😄

I saw them perform this in a parking-lot tent during Champaign’s Pygmalion festival 🥰

for World AIDS Day, a 1988 cartoon from the Advocate's Gerald Donelan

Nathan K. Hensley, Professor of English at Georgetown University (USA), will discuss his book Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (University of Chicago Press, 2025) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 8 December 2025, at 16:00 Central European / 10:00 Eastern. Zoom link: https://stavanger.zoom.us/j/61351916503?pwd=bn4WaobjC5WqEzWl8BnYVnVR8zL6Je.1 A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that is coming undone? Nathan Hensley turns to Victorian literature to uncover a prehistory of this deeply contemporary sense of powerlessness. For many in nineteenth-century Britain, their world seemed so scarred by human rapacity that restoring it seemed beyond the powers of any one individual. Like George Eliot’s characters in Middlemarch or the doomed lovers of Wuthering Heights, observers of the gathering carbon economy felt themselves ensnared by interlocked and broken systems. In the face of damage so vast and apparently irreversible, what could possibly be done?

Book cover, Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse, Nathan K Hensley [Detail of Turner watercolor showing wash of gray, blue, orange, yellow, and red]

Very excited and honored to be doing an online book conversation about *Action without Hope* at @greenhouseuis.net next Monday, December 8th, at 10 am Eastern / 4 pm Central European — Zoom link below. Would be so psyched to see people there, if you can make it 🌿

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So interesting

This is how tiny scholars of the 19th century are created

(Or bankers, or old ladies who feed the birds, I guess)