Nate Wolff

Professor of heterodox humanistic cetology 🐳

[Nate Wolff @proffwolff]

Moby-Dick and Bartleby take place in the same universe.

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Great album. Contains the second most important Jude 1:13 reference after Moby-Dick.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“Dummy” by Portishead was released 32 years ago today.

[Nate Wolff @proffwolff]

Everything is dumb and bad right now, but at least reporting on the new Melville statue is appropriately horny.

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nay, lad, methinks ye mean "leg"

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unsettling GRE marketing, c. 2001

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Not since the Pequod herself weighed anchor have I sighted such a portentous, doomed (complimentary) enterprise 😍

[Dennis M. Hogan @dennismhogan]

Official editorial communication: The New England Review of Boats, a handmade regional zine about the vessels and people who go down to the sea for adventure, work, or pleasure--seeks submissions for its inaugural issue.

[Nate Wolff @proffwolff]

@Tyler_A_Harper But don’t you think disciplinary shifts happen as intra field contestation—colonialist anthro to anticapitalist anthro; return to close reading in lit studies—so invoking “correction” as admin project invites the authoritarian crackdown on higher ed that is in fact happening?

[Nate Wolff @proffwolff]

@Tyler_A_Harper Which is worse between "disciplines have internal debates about, face external scrutiny over, guiding principles, which shift over time" and "uni admins legislate the content of curriculum and research to ensure alignment w/ their own politics" doesn't seem like a tough call?

[Nate Wolff @proffwolff]

Yeah and I mean, you never know. Ahab’s “white whale” for example is intimacy

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

People are dunking on this, but what a great sign that a word has truly established itself in the lexicon.

[Nate Wolff @proffwolff]

@lynnwardley this is the plumbing diagram

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fml. I’m about to get hybrid assemblaged to this bosch :(

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@bdjansenphd This discourse makes me feel crazy. I grew up in Maine, listened to Dead Kennedys, was into the army surplus punk aesthetic, am now pretty historically literate, and if I ever saw that tattoo and had a thought beyond "kinda lame skull & crossbones" it prob would've been "marines"

[Nate Wolff @proffwolff]

"nickname literate" people be like

[Will Provost @GremlinIndustry]

"Media literate" people be like

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Herman Melville: ADDICTED TO WIKIPEDIA

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@angularityyy 💯

[Nate Wolff @proffwolff]

This, to me, is public humanities

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@HartWexford spouting 👏 fish 👏 with 👏 a 👏 horizontal 👏 tail

[Nate Wolff @proffwolff]

Look, Middlemarch is a great novel. It complexly mediates class conflict, commodification of all life, emerging ideological structures of Victorian capitalism. I just personally think it’s more impressive when a novel does that through a story about a guy who hates a weird fish.

[Nate Wolff @proffwolff]

@stevebikes Whales are fish. 1818 Maurice v. Judd. I don't make the rules.

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@Ozymetsdias a thing with fins that lives in the ocean? Think about how you sound right now.

[Nate Wolff @proffwolff]

@imfleetwoodjack THANK YOU

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@AnnMile71721158 free yourself from the tyranny of Linnaean taxonomy