Ian C Boyd

PhD Candidate in French at the University of Cambridge. Working on the imagination of the subterranean in the eighteenth century.

[Nate Wolff @proffwolff]

DATING TIP: there is no possible way to ride a sled down a snowy hill with your mistress in a way that will not hit a tree leaving you trapped in a grim invalid polycule with her and your wife in an isolated mill town around the turn of the twentieth century. Avoid at all costs.

[jean charles leonard @jc_leonard]

intellectual history is awesome because some weirdo will spend decades in the archive trying to convince the rest of the world that their crank guy is the key to understanding everything. which is very stupid because actually *my* crank guy is the key to understanding everything

[teen vampire, aged 40 @witchesflight]

https://t.co/GMCafOgrlO this is the only good thing ive ever read in my life. “Isaac choitner interviews the guy who runs the lottery in Shirley Jackson’s ‘the lottery’”

[Ian C Boyd @IanCBoyd]

@katherineveritt Diderot writes something like this to his mistress. The great atheist imagining (hoping!) his atoms will mix with his lovers when they’re dead and buried…

[Eric Adler @ProfEricAdler]

U of Chicago is going to merge humanities departments and downscale its language offerings in part because...the institution spent too much money on construction projects. Its endowment: over $10 billion.

Are there any leaders in higher ed who *want* to save the humanities?

[Ian C Boyd @IanCBoyd]

@mcmansionhell Slop was invented between 1750-1850 (the Sattelzeit) during which the language became the language of modernity

[Mr. Chau @Srirachachau]

Most people think the theremin is just for aliens, maybe ghosts. Only Brian Wilson had the true vision that it could also be for summertime sweetheart jams

[adam @resurrecti0ns]

so many people (not just students) have this idea that a university is somehow trying to exploit or trick or punish you when it assigns you work. they're trying to help you! they can't teach you anything if you refuse to do any work!

[Ian C Boyd @IanCBoyd]

@BigMeanInternet Definitely worth checking out this 2014 book by Elizabeth Heath: https://t.co/sD5VytXzty

[Ian C Boyd @IanCBoyd]

@josephcoward Will do!!

[SIMONE 🩷 @parasocialyte]

had a straight dude come to my house and he was SO impressed by the simplest things. my family's catacombs and wine cellars, the cask of amontillado, the chains i used to restrain him, the bricks i used to seal him up in my catacombs,

[COSMIC 🖖🏾 SLOP @afrocosmist]

no one talks about embarking on a treacherous journey to the center of the earth anymore

[Ian C Boyd @IanCBoyd]

My research is, in many ways, only possible thanks to the Internet Archive. Whenever my institution’s library didn’t have something readily accessible, it was always somehow on the Internet Archive. This is devastating

[Publishers Weekly @PublishersWkly]

BREAKING: The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the long-running, closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books. Full story to follow.

[Ian C Boyd @IanCBoyd]

@apuddleofmuddle @KingsCollegeLon Congratulations!!

[Ian C Boyd @IanCBoyd]

@iglesiascrespoc Congratulations!!!

[Ian C Boyd @IanCBoyd]

Christine de Pizan: MENTIONED
Big day for Pizanheads

[Ian C Boyd @IanCBoyd]

Paris catacombs in the opening ceremony!!

[Evan @evan7257]

Thank you Air France travel guide for teaching me about the mythical Houston cow-boy, which is now a very real and very true cryptid

[Ian C Boyd @IanCBoyd]

@sophiemarie_ng @AcademicDiary @jean23bean @alim1213 CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!