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Scott Gregory
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I talked to the New Books in East Asian Studies podcast about my book Bandits in Print
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Associate Professor of Chinese literature at Cornell, poet, translator. My current project is "On Stricture: Chinese Poetry and American Culture." Also at zirk.us/nadmussen.
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Scott Gregory
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I talked to the New Books in East Asian Studies podcast about my book Bandits in Print
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ArtButMakeItSports
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Archimedes Setting Roman Ships of Consul Marcellus on Fire with a Burning Mirror, by Cherubino Cornienti, 1855, 📸 @freshmanwkxc
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Nick Admussen
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This would be a huge boon for scholars, too. Authors don't really create genres, exactly, at least not to the extent that acquisitions editors do.
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Nick Admussen
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On brainwashing, by the way, I recommend this great lecture from 2015: youtu.be/KmxkU826x0I?... about how the CCP basically abandoned intensive reeducation, but how it captured the American imagination anyway.
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Nick Admussen
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This is exactly my experience. I don't teach about Gaza or Israel (not in my area) but students talk about it to me. I've met anti-encampment/anti-protest students, but the student body overwhelmingly supports Palestine in person and in digital spaces. I'm learning from them on this, not vice versa.
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Nick Admussen
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Literally got this seconds after polishing off an 8pc, have never felt closer to your children
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Nick Admussen
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Humantastic!
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Prof. Dr. Michael Hö (Sinologist) 何彌夏 🇹🇼🇪🇺🇭🇰
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#BOTD: Liu Bannong 劉半農 (1891–1934), author, linguist, and translator of Sherlock Holmes in #ModernChina. A pioneer of vernacular 白話 poetry, simplified characters 简体字, and photography, he coined the distinction of masculine 他, feminine 她, and neuter 它 (all 'tā' in MSC).
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Nick Admussen
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cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Cornel...
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Nick Admussen
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I bet it was great (I would sign up if I could!) but I think some overlap between lucidity and fugue makes for awesome teaching. Or at least I hope so. If not, my students sadly don't have the 'advance ten seconds' button to mash repeatedly in case of emergency...
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Nick Admussen
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That gives more concepts. My students are expected to recognize it but don’t have to use it to read literature or texts, soo can cheat. Contemporary Anglo versions I don’t think emphasize the birth cycle, just rock-paper-scissors back and forth.
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Nick Admussen
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I don’t ever have to do the details, so this might not be enough, but I show the chart of Pokémon type interactions, the back of a Magic: the Gathering card, and if there’s space on the slide a bit of the new age elemental tarot. Then I explain it and it’s still weird but no longer crazy.
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Nick Admussen
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Okey dokey, CNKI.
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David Hayden
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the statue itself Frank Bidart, ‘Hammer’
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Nick Admussen
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We are at 97% of the fundraiser's goal, thanks so much to all who participated! If you want to give that laaaast $15: givebutter.com/Readathon202...
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Nick Admussen
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Was chatting with my brother about reading poems for the Ithaca library fundraiser, and he was like "why don't you read your poems?" I said "well, the library probably doesn't have any." He just raised an eyebrow. Master bibliographer, that guy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iWf...
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the Mountain Goats
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I keep thinking this format has been exhausted and then a banger like this comes along
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Tao Leigh Goffe
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Im a professor & as of today, I quit my position as Artist-in-Residence Columbia University. Im an Assoc Prof at Hunter & in support of the courageous student protestors at Columbia, I cannot in good conscience be affiliated w an institution that arrests, intimidates, endangers, & censors students.
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Nick Admussen
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Happy to report that due largely to Ithaca parents, my bit of the fundraiser has reached its goal and I have created a modest stretch goal of juuuust a bit more. You can donate here: givebutter.com/Readathon202...
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Nick Admussen
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Guerrilla reading in the library stacks, today a bilingual reading of Liu Xiaobo's "A Small Rat in Prison," tr. Jeffrey Yang. A security door cachunked behind me right at my favorite line of the translation: "A very gentryman, the mouse tonight..." so I read it 2x. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENTT...
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Nick Admussen
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New Readathon poem! Charles Simic, "Paper Dolls Cut Out of a Newspaper." Donate to the Readathon here: givebutter.com/Readathon202.... The whole playlist is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh6d....
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Nick Admussen
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New Readathon poem! Wishing all of you a middle-aged poem in which almost every line starts with “It’s alright.” m.youtube.com/watch?v=C-nv... Donate to the Tompkins County Library here: givebutter.com/Readathon202...
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Nick Admussen
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Strong Krampus energy on that hot dog.
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Nick Admussen
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Only now occurs to me that I should have given the dollar to the library? Like, what is this all for if not that?
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Nick Admussen
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Big news! My 2024 TCPL readathon is halfway to its goal, thx in part to @jeremywallace.bsky.social. Also, I found a dollar in Eileen Miles' book _Evolution_ next to a fun-weird Creely-style poem. If you want to donate, click here: givebutter.com/Readathon202....
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Nick Admussen
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New poem reading! Jericho Brown, “David”. One of those poems that’s intense enough that you have to take a little break after reading it. m.youtube.com/shorts/e1PmA.... Donate to the Ithaca library here: givebutter.com/Readathon202...
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Nick Admussen
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I felt that! Thought it was construction next door.
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Nick Admussen
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Very worried that my Chinese visa will get rejected because of "unnatural expression (crying)," this is more or less my resting face
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Nick Admussen
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(link error, reposted): New library Readathon poem video! I found a Bing Xin collection in the stacks in Chinese, so I read and translated a short one: youtube.com/shorts/Oh6do.... Here's the text:
弱小的草啊！
骄傲些吧，
只有你普遍地装点了世界。
Donate here: givebutter.com/Readathon202...
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Nick Admussen
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Whatever it becomes, it should end “hail satan” m.youtube.com/watch?v=DRNT...
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Nick Admussen
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New poem reading! Jim Harrison, "The Bear." www.youtube.com/shorts/MXUgK.... Donate to the Ithaca library fundraiser here, if you get the urge: givebutter.com/Readathon202....
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Nick Admussen
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_Sigwa_ contains a reprint of my essay "Six Proposals for the Reform of Literature in the Age of Climate Change," originally published in the Critical Flame (criticalflame.org/six-proposal... ). It is humbling to watch engaged creators react to, challenge and upend the essay!
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Nick Admussen
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Ecstatic over the long-awaited release of _Sigwa: Climate Fiction Anthology from the Philippines_. A hard-fought activist publication: in 2016 a climate defender died in the Philippines every twelve days. You can register (simple, nonintrusive) for a free PDF here: www.pup.edu.ph/research/ric...
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Tita Chico
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From Lisa L. Moore, U of Texas: "The chilling effect is real. In the wake of SB17, the Texas anti-DEI legislation, a lecture with word "queer" in the title is cancelled at UT. My friend Lauren Gutterman and I wrote this piece because we need to put these assaults on freedom on the record."
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Nick Admussen
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New poetry reading: Wang Ao, "The Crab I Fell in Love With," tr. Daniel Bryant. My local library has a surprising amount of Chinese poetry! Donate to them here: givebutter.com/Readathon202...
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New post! Featuring Meng Haoran, Li Bai, Zhang Yanghao, existential dread, Hanshan, the remnants of the ancient mountain range Philadelphia sits atop, Liu Yin, and juuuuuuuust the right amount of perspective, which is too much.
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CDT’s @alexludoboyd.bsky.social recently interviewed Prof Hillenbrand about this and another of her books, “Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China” chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/02/inte...
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Nick Admussen
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I got to review Margaret Hillenbrand's book _On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China_ for _Critical Inquiry_, and it was goooood. Still thinking about it, full review is here: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/nick_admusse...
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Nick Admussen
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What I'd add is that Heidegger's specific methodology is also palingenetic, arguing the (intellectual) purity and superiority of a mythic past. This kind of thinking is not limited to, but is endemic in fascist cultures, a sort of "make Germany Greek again." It can play a similar role in China.
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Nick Admussen
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I love this Humanities Seed Bank episode and recommend it to people who do Chinese cultural+literary study: character retention+the classical/modern divide in Chinese make Heidegerrian etymological argumentation super tempting and common. humanitiesseedbank.substack.com/p/jd-connor-...
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Nick Admussen
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Here's the first reading, Emily Dickinson's poem #328, which is my son's favorite. If you have a SUGGESTION, please make it, even if you can't donate. I have flexible tastes and will read almost anything! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry_J...
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Nick Admussen
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And...ok! My Readathon fundraiser for the Tompkins County Public Library has officially begun. givebutter.com/Readathon202... I'll read a poem from the stacks (actually, whispered nervously in the stacks as people walk by) every few days.
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Nick Admussen
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So weird. Did you buy it at the booth? That's not a CEAS or CUP book inside... wait, did someone /steal/ _Bandits in Print_? :D :D :D
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Nick Admussen
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This is how I feel about AI plagiarism detectors and “AI decides if this essay is algorithmically generated” services: intense you-must-scan-the-baby energy.
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Nick Admussen
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Check with Cornell’s East Asia Series when you’re ready, we had two recent open-access books (Scott Gregory’s and Tom Mazanec’s) that have done great. You can email me at my uni address if you want to know who/how to query.
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Garth Greenwell
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“Close reading” a poem just means inventing new ways to see it, which (for me anyway) usually means a lot of counting & lists & unraveling of syntax. Up till the wee hours the other night w/ this marvel from Diane Seuss’s frank: sonnets. Result here: garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/what-makes...
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Nick Admussen
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Got an essay out on reading translations as and through versions in the new Bloomsbury Handbook, was especially fun to write because I got to talk about Thai film versioning, where a translator/performer stands in front of a foreign film and acts out dialogue: www.nickadmussen.com/uploads/8/6/...
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Nick Admussen
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Man, this is going to really slow down my class prep.
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Nick Admussen
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Totally disappointed with AI tools for translation, but getting more and more impressed with Google Translate. I'm working from a fuzzy 1985 magazine scan, and I mistyped 毕加索 (Picasso) as 华加索 and the service...accurately translated my typo?
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eileen chengyin chow
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Friends: Please help me spread the word to anyone who might find this of interest - a new endeavor initiated by Annie Jieping Zhang and me, a mini-fellowship to encourage and support new Chinese-to-English translators. www.frontlinefellowship.io/translationfellowship
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