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Migrant anti-fascist anarcha-feminist medievalist philology • arch • paranomasiac moralising facetious analogical foreign academic marginalia • ela/doctritz de trobar
extra extra resources: where to buy books
RESOURCES FOR ACCESSING READINGS Here are some places where you can borrow or buy books … I last updated this information in January 2025, and originally made it for a 300-level literature course. The links are useful for other course readings and for…
31 August is Ken Campbell Day: learning is radical
And so the great wheel turns and it is time to celebrate St Ken’s Day again. Time for the annual pilgrimage that is the start of this Happy New Year for people in the formal cycle of learning, from crèche and kindergarten to university; and for…
Readings on Generative artificial intelligence
My summer reading report: a shared album of images and a curated collection of links, mostly in reverse chronological order. Includes some videos for light relief. (Sort of. They're heavy.)
Readings on and around Generative Artificial Intelligence: in pictures
My summer reading report, part 1 of 2.
teaching, course design, pedagogy: a Medieval Studies / Romance Studies course – mid-term update
Innovative assessments: “A World of Marvels”
(long live the old medieval*witter community & its communitarianism, sharing, love of learning, delight, & mutual aid; seekers, finders, makars, trobadors; the small print: ‘but with less greatness & gain, more wit, better—hopeful & beautiful—fonts, & even more allegories of “avenir” & “futura” ‘)
14.11.2024 16:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good morning. I made a hat.
14.11.2024 16:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A fine initial 'B'(eatus) at the beginning of Psalm 1, with which to end the day
The John Rylands Library; Latin MS 116; Psalter of St. Maximin; 9th century, not before 814 CE; The Abbey of St Maximin, Trier, Germany; f.16r
Putting the TOP in juxTOPositions, somewhat like when The Place That Shall Not Be Named put the LOL in phiLOLogy once upon a very long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
14.11.2024 04:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There’ll be this sort of thing. Less curated collection, more coincidental collage; no guarantees on light amusement or groanworthy stale memes; but if we’re lucky there might be poetic sense to be made out of serendipitous juxtopositions. Let’s keep whimsy alive, this centenary year of Surrealism.
14.11.2024 04:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0So. There may be weasels … finally, nearly four years after that work first started … and probably a resumption of silliness, grumpy pathetic bitching about the state of it all, and finding other ways to luxuriate with three hundred characters (as it were).
14.11.2024 03:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“Hello, world”
This is nice. It feels like that place that existed once upon a time, a happy place for medievalisticisticals, before it Fell into Corruption and became The Unmentionable. So, hello world, thank you for letting me be here, I’ll do what I can to be good or at least to leave no trace.
