PhD Candidate in French at the University of Cambridge. Working on the imagination of the subterranean in the eighteenth century.
Cambridge, England
Joined October 2020
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Ian C Boyd retweeted
DATING TIP: there is no possible way to ride a sled down a snowy hill with your mistress in a way that will not hit a tree leaving you trapped in a grim invalid polycule with her and your wife in an isolated mill town around the turn of the twentieth century. Avoid at all costs.
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Ian C Boyd retweeted
intellectual history is awesome because some weirdo will spend decades in the archive trying to convince the rest of the world that their crank guy is the key to understanding everything. which is very stupid because actually *my* crank guy is the key to understanding everything
Ian C Boyd retweeted
archiveofourown.org/works/73… this is the only good thing ive ever read in my life. “Isaac choitner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s ‘the lottery’”
Ian C Boyd retweeted
U of Chicago is going to merge humanities departments and downscale its language offerings in part because...the institution spent too much money on construction projects. Its endowment: over $10 billion.
Are there any leaders in higher ed who *want* to save the humanities?
Ian C Boyd retweeted
so many people (not just students) have this idea that a university is somehow trying to exploit or trick or punish you when it assigns you work. they're trying to help you! they can't teach you anything if you refuse to do any work!
Ian C Boyd retweeted
no one talks about embarking on a treacherous journey to the center of the earth anymore
My research is, in many ways, only possible thanks to the Internet Archive. Whenever my institution’s library didn’t have something readily accessible, it was always somehow on the Internet Archive. This is devastating
I just read an archival source about an eighteenth century Parisian plasterer named Michel Jourdain.
That man lived and died without ever imagining why his name would make an American laugh 300 years later
Movies really made me think I’d hear more breaking news from a big stack of televisions in a shop window than I actually do
Ian C Boyd retweeted
Remember, Coca-Cola was invented in 1886. Dracula takes place in 1897, therefore it is possible, nay probable that the Count served Jonathan Harker a Coke with dinner.
Ian C Boyd retweeted
Watching this video with sound off is kind of beautiful… when the flailing hands reach toward the burger it becomes something profound
I hope that everyone enjoyed a peaceful and reflective Groundhog Day yesterday as we come together as one people to celebrate the predictive powers of God’s noblest rodent!
