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@paulbarrett1.bsky.social

Associate Professor of English and DH at the University of Guelph

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Cindy Lee - Dreams of You, Lamb of God & Wild One (Toronto 2025)
YouTube video by ShakyShorty Cindy Lee - Dreams of You, Lamb of God & Wild One (Toronto 2025)

Cindy Lee was a magical, hallucinatory, overwhelming experience.
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07.11.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Heavenly Office of Legal Counsel would like to remind the public that the official term for what Dick Cheney is currently experiencing is β€œenhanced repentance.”

04.11.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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The Forgotten Captives: Israel Still Imprisoning 9,000 Palestinians Even After Hostage Deal β€œEven after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians, in what it calls security prisoners or detainees,” says Sari Bashi, an Israel...

β€œEven after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians,” says Israeli American human rights lawyer Sari Bashi. β€œOnly about a thousand of them have actually been convicted of any crime."

26.10.2025 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 454    πŸ” 280    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 14
CFP for A Field Guide to Lost Modernisms

CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions.

Abstracts by February 2:
www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.

20.10.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 3
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Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance In July 1990, a dispute over a proposed golf course to be built on Kanien’kΓ©haka (Mohawk) lands in Oka, Quebec, set the stage for a historic confrontation that …

www.nfb.ca/film/kanehsa...

30.09.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump's "peace" plan is continued denigration and humiliation of the Palestinian people. No one should accept this horrific proposal from American fascists and Israeli war criminals.

30.09.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Political violence is awful. Charlie Kirk was a grifting scumbag. Remember his "amazing patriot" comments? These fascists don't care about freedom of speech -- they care about silencing people, quashing dissent and destroying democracy.

16.09.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Six murdered Israelis was the headline on The Guardian today. Six Palestinians were murdered, without comment, in the time it took you to read this. Humanism.

09.09.2025 01:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is "This is not normal" American for "Fuck fascism!" Such muted and measured response from Americans to their new king. When will they actually, you know... do something to stand up for their republic!?!?

08.09.2025 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sure!

05.09.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But only one planet? πŸ€”

02.09.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Research Chairs - All Disciplines Award 261265-CA Research Chairs - General and interdisciplinary COMPETITION OPENS FEBRUARY 2025 Awards to be taken up in theΒ  2026-2027...

US colleagues! Join us in 2026/27 to advance your work in #DigitalHumanities for a semester at the THINC Lab at the University of Guelph via the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digital Humanities! Applications until Sept. 15! #DH www.fulbright.ca/programs/ame... www.uoguelph.ca/arts/dhguelp...

02.09.2025 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can AIs suffer? πŸ€”
Are Palestinians suffering? 🫒

26.08.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
"If I Must Die," A Poem by Refaat Alareer A poem written before the author's death in an airstrike by the Israeli military.

"If I Must Die" by Refaat Alareer, written just before he was murdered by Israel along with his brother, nephew, sister, and three children:

inthesetimes.com/article/refa...

22.08.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, that was the case the last time I was there. I was really impressed with the vegan sausage roll.

22.08.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wishing you all the best, Kiera!!!

22.08.2025 11:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Greggs is a must

22.08.2025 11:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

10.08.2025 22:33 β€” πŸ‘ 12428    πŸ” 9864    πŸ’¬ 626    πŸ“Œ 1631

Friends, I'm currently writing up a methodology chapter and would love your help. Are there any recent projects that use AI or large language models (LLMs) as a direct entry point into Latin American literary texts? I'd be delighted to spotlight innovative work I may have missed. Feel free to share!

07.08.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Call for Papers – Suburb Nation

Deadline: August 15, 2025

csn-rec.ca/conferences-...

31.07.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Archival & Special Collections / Rare Book Librarian - Assistant or Associate Librarian Archival & Special Collections / Rare Book Librarian - Assistant or Associate Librarian

We're hiring a Rare Book Librarian! Maybe it's you?
careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

30.07.2025 20:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Children of the Grave (2009 Remaster)
YouTube video by Black Sabbath - Topic Children of the Grave (2009 Remaster)

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23.07.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks! It was a pleasure to share the panel with you and your collaborator. Your work looks excellent!!

17.07.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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CFP: Suburb Nation. Canadian Literature. Submissions due August 15!
canlit.ca/call-for-pap...

10.07.2025 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Governments like mine have a duty to stand up to Israel. Far too many have failed | Gustavo Petro Without decisive action, we risk stripping the global legal order of its remaining protections for less-privileged nations, says Gustavo Petro, president of Colombia

Urge the Canadian government to stand up for Palestine and be counted among those nations that challenge Israel's criminal war.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

08.07.2025 13:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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For the @puddingviz.bsky.social, I explored which animals we gender, and why.

Come for the extremely cute interactive viz of animals, stay for the extremely nerdy etymology of the ladybug.

Story: pudding.cool/2025/07/kids...

07.07.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 72    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4
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We wrote a book! Sarah Roger and I! It comes out today! CanLit and DH! πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

02.07.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Exactly correct from The Guardian's Owen Jones: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

01.07.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One way to celebrate Canada is to cancel your accounts with US companies that pay no taxes here. Amazon, Uber, if you're a dinosaur still on FB, ...

01.07.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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