Kathryn

@fivefteditrix
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Editor, writer, occasional feral Victorianist.
@JPinNV It's...unfortunate
@profchander @SethRudy Manu, I barely had the energy to drag myself to the fediverse's doorstep, never mind change anything

I'm not sure how much furniture I'll move into this space, but a belated #introduction is probably in order:

I'm a freelance academic editor, an occasional literary writer, & an unaffiliated scholar of Victorian things whose current project deals with crime, gender, & print culture. I think & talk a lot about the devaluation and casualization of editorial & other forms of intellectual work.

I'm happy to talk shop, connect you to editorial resources, pull articles for you, etc. Just ask.

@SethRudy It does not feel like a space hospitable to silliness

You know how the Eiffel Tower won the Grand Prize at the 1889 World Fair? Well, it had to share the glory with a book.

Not any book: A book ENTIRELY WOVEN IN SILK.

You heard right. And nerds, get this: All pages of this book were produced on the Jacquard loom in 1889, using thousands (200k-500k) of punch cards. Only 50-60 copies were made. >

@SethRudy Pro or con? The ranking Victorianist at my institution and I talk about this. Part of the pedagogical reason she explicitly assigns novels, not audiobooks, is that absorbing large amounts of written info at speed is a skill students will need to develop and use, often especially in their work lives (can confirm, myself). Audiobooks, while fine, don't help them do that.
@oishani I have this feeling about every second time I read Adorno's Aesthetic Theory. It's great while it lasts
@profchander hi; nice to find you here! now I feel a bit more at home
@JeffMelnick Not mastodons precisely, but there's Primus's "Southbound Pachyderm."