ellie

🌿english BA & american studies MSt @uniofoxford, doctoral researcher in experimental poetry, semiotics, and queer theory @wminhumanities

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

"I reached my reading goal" oh really? You determined how the work's form registers the contradictions of its historical circumstances? I didn't think so

[ani @anilarity]

no but in all seriousness imagine this is your very first time in the world cup and not only do you not lose a single game in the group stage (one of which is against a top 3 team) but your first knockout game is against the current world champions and u still almost win

[barry pierce @BarryPierce]

mid-century british novels looooved having their characters living in St John’s Wood. literally where the fuck is St John’s Wood? I’ve lived in this city for six years and I couldn’t even give you a rough estimate. nobody in real life has ever said “St John’s Wood” to me

[Judith Butler Bible Thumper @philosophysux]

yes, i support women in STEM. Women in
Semiotics
Theory (Critical)
Existentialism &
Marxism

[John Attridge @John_Attridge]

AI movies are art. Video games are novels. Reading summaries of classic literature is more efficient. Let people enjoy things

[ellie @elliemcdx]

@AvantiWestCoast Hi - what’s the best way to get from Preston (Lancs) to Glasgow?

[ellie @elliemcdx]

travelling from london to scotland on a december morning

[ellie @elliemcdx]

barthes anticipating booktok slop genres a whole 50 years ago

[Dialectical Zach-Zack Loeffler @thezachloeffler]

It’s remarkable that modernism still elicits fascist disgust. I almost can’t believe it’s genuine when I see it.

[Alexander Avila @aretheygay]

“Social construct” is not a synonym for “fake” or “immaterial”

[ellie @elliemcdx]

doing a phd in literature in 2025 and hating autotheory/autofiction/life writing/memoirs is not for the weak

[ellie @elliemcdx]

kornbluh accusing autotheorists of ‘using theoryspeak and poetized composition to bedazzle the contours of the concrete body and strum the charisma of, to recall Knausgaard, “the voice of your own personality”’ is like drugs to me

[Mateba @NewSweezyite]

using this stupid article as an excuse to post Derrida's great and funny response to the whole sokal hoax where he calls alan sokal a schmuck

[ellie @elliemcdx]

people who make those web weaving posts on tumblr are just speed running english phds straight to the published monograph stage

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Desperately sad to report that you’ve read enough to start writing

[ellie @elliemcdx]

the only bad part about meal prepping overnight oats is having to eat overnight oats

[ellie @elliemcdx]

listening to the smashing pumpkins on a rainy autumn day in london is enough to make you feel religious

[ellie @elliemcdx]

@boyracerrollbar chapel: DEFACED
window: SMASHED
tortilla: STOLEN

[Anthony Ballas @tonyjballas]

CFP: Frederic Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory
April 10–12, 2026
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.

Please circulate far and wide.
Submission info linked below.

[ellie @elliemcdx]

@boyracerrollbar tbf 15 is crazy work I can’t blame u there. i read it at the big age of 21 and was like woah this may be the Best Ever. religion. homosexuality. awful characters. went as far as to write about in my MA coursework! which bombed but that’s besides the point! (it’s not)