Ted Dawson

German Studies. Austrian Studies. Environmental Humanities. Digital Humanities. Human Humanities. (Not opposed to post-human).

[Ted Dawson @germanisted]

German Lessons on vinyl kinda sums up my career.

[Ted Dawson @germanisted]

@buckystanton @StephenMolldrem Christoph Ransmayr wrote a novel about that ("Cox"), and I wrote an article about that novel:
https://t.co/WloFtHu0h8

[Ted Dawson @germanisted]

@BotCapitalocene @PortalezRegis @hisullivan In other words, this bot is great, but we also have a rather enormous task ahead of us as a species: understanding how, even if capitalism is the cause, railing against it is an insufficient response.

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So I wrote a thing about how"renewable energy" will not get us out of the anthropocene, but rather helps constitute it. https://t.co/4B7fdrxlnw

[German Quarterly @GermanQuarterly]

Happy to announce the Winter 2022 issue of @GermanQuarterly featuring Dennis Johannßen on Benjamin and Heidegger, Tim Sommer on Mann’s “Zauberberg,” Linda K. Hammarfelt on Roth’s “Leviathan,” Dominik Zechner on Brinkmann’s poetry, and Edward Dawson on Ransmayr’s “Cox”!

[Ted Dawson @germanisted]

@BotCapitalocene sloppy of me. A neat bot that @PortalezRegis made. Great intervention. But my article also considers Chakrabarty's arguments about the need to merge critiques of capital and species thinking, as well as arguments of e.g. @hisullivan about diminishing individual vs. species agency

[Ted Dawson @germanisted]

Also about a novel by Christoph Ransmayr that is an example of the sort of fiction Amitav Ghosh says isn't being written (enough): "serious" fiction about climate change

[German Quarterly @GermanQuarterly]

Happy to announce the Winter 2022 issue of @GermanQuarterly featuring Dennis Johannßen on Benjamin and Heidegger, Tim Sommer on Mann’s “Zauberberg,” Linda K. Hammarfelt on Roth’s “Leviathan,” Dominik Zechner on Brinkmann’s poetry, and Edward Dawson on Ransmayr’s “Cox”!

[Ted Dawson @germanisted]

Scholars like Chris deserve a better academy than the one we have. But they give me hope that we can build a better one.

[Ted Dawson @germanisted]

I'm deeply touched. I don't know how I would have made it through these past two years without some incredible students, foremost among them Chris. His work reminds me of what the academy can be in its best moments: a foundry for new ways of thinking.

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@UNLGerman @ChrisGEtheredge @MattGress They're not only smart, but also very tall...

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@ChrisGEtheredge Maybe there's a great idea under all the mud?

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@themustardguy You can then drop a parenthetical reference to your preface when it first appears in the text

[Ted Dawson @germanisted]

@themustardguy You could always adress it in a preface, rather than a note. That way it's sort of "first things first"

[Ted Dawson @germanisted]

@Linguacene Yes! I was just thinking about that seminar. What an impact it made on me, both in modeling what our field can be, and in imaging what academic work can look like.

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@jeffreymoro Makes sense to me. I, too, was surprised by your new pro-cob-shit stance.

[Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly]

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[Ted Dawson @germanisted]

So you always get to see a small number! Look. Only 4 new cases today! Is this ineptitude--how embarrassing! Or is it deception? I'm gonna give us the benefit of the doubt...

[Ted Dawson @germanisted]

Hey dh folks! Who's teaching the (mis)presentation of COVID data at universities? @UNLincoln has a great example of how to mislead with data for you on their COVID dashboard. Thread: https://t.co/DoGpxGOZqM

[Ted Dawson @germanisted]

Every day at 5, they report the small number of new cases already known that day at the top of the dashboard, then don't update until they have the next small number to post, at which point they quietly post the previous day's much larger results in a table further down.