Amy Elias

Wonderful collaboration this week with Knoxville’s Central Cinema and the #DenboCenter for Humanities & the Arts! We sponsored a $5 public screening of Neptune Frost, dir. by Saul Williams, in conjunction with Monday’s Distinguished Lecture Series talk by C. Riley Snorton. Best kind of synergy!

Join us at the #DenboCenter this Monday and Tuesday for our 2-Day Faculty Writing Challenge! Kick off your day with a calming breathing meditation followed by focused writing sessions from 9 am to 1:30 pm. Lunch provided. For dedicated writers, feel free to stay until 4 pm!

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The Costs of the Cloud | Ashley Dawson Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” The US, he warned in an executive order, suffered from “a precariously

"alarming impact of AI on the environment: forprofit utilities will have to make $720 B in grid upgrades by 2030 to meet spiraling demand, costs that they will pass on. locking in planetchoking carbon emissions right when we should be pivoting away from fossil fuels"

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Fascinating talk by C. Riley Snorton at @uthumanitiesctr.bsky.social today on plants, nonbinary identity, film!

Lovely. How many of us today know our bird fellows so intimately…

“Can one possess tenure and still say: The cat sat on the mat?”

Just got a letter about a “small” breech at a national lab

Congratulations Matt! UVA will be an exciting adventure that you so deserve.

I just read a review so aggressively clueless about a book I just finished and enjoyed that it significantly increased my enjoyment of the book knowing that someone else was too dim to get it. Not proud, but not not proud.

Loved that book. Interesting work by AT Kingsmith and of course Berardi n anxiety and productivity

Not necessarily a bad thing, but an odd thing.

Harvey’s Orbital is all tell, no show. A book with the author’s voice as main character. Autofiction with other people…

Wanted to like that so much

Our amazing 2025-26 fellowship cohort at the Denbo Center! Film, Art, queer studies, Lit, German SF, philosophy, anthropology—going to be a fantastic year! @uthumanitiesctr.bsky.social

Used to live in Avondale. Want cool then tho

Getting into the weirdness of Julian Bleecker …

Rest in peace, Brian McHale, dear friend.

Hardcover edition of Death Of The Author by Nnedi Okorafor.

“Stories were the greatest currency to us, greater than power, greater than control. Stories were our food, nourishment, enrichment. To consume a story was to add to our code, deepen our minds. We felt it the moment we took it in. We were changed.”- Death Of The Author, Nnedi Okorafor

Dystopia. I always thought it’d be smarter.

Cutleaf Coneflower (asteraceae) this year in front garden

If you think it’s bad now.

Guilt trip #149

Congratulations! We at the Denbo Center at the University of Tennessee are strong supporters of the National Humanities Center—I look forward to working with you!

Telemundo was my fav

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

Lackawanna Mine tour

Hey hey hey…

“Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.”

✒️ #MatthewLewis, English Gothic novelist (The Monk), was #BOTD 9 July 1775. #Literature