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16.11.2021

only one exam left and i’m up to my ears in analytic philosophy. it’s definitely one of the most difficult philosophy modules i’ve taken, but that makes coming to understand it all the more rewarding! wishing everyone busy with exams the best!

🎧: use me like you used to // vlad holiday

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E-MORTALITY / @blueskies-bluescreens / status of a steam user / death, virtual grief and your digital footprint by kelley edwards and johanna j. lunn / STurner4077 on twitter / the new forms of mourning: loss and exhibition of the death on the internet (2016) by julie alev dilmaç / description for all the ghosts in the machine: illusions of immortality in the digital age (2019) by elaine kasket

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second week of january

a little late update

completed

diversity final

revision of irish folk tales project

to be continued

revision/editing of the book project on irish folk tales

revision of conference paper on charles perault’s fairy tales

preparing an abstract for the acl journal

a year of productivity challenge (2/52)

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18th century mourning ring, traditionally gifted by close friends and family to the bereaved. This one is inscribed “John Thompson Mar 1773″. 

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first week of january

completed

literary history final

american history final 

revision of irish poetry translation project

to be continued

revision/editing of the book project on irish folk tales

revision of conference paper on charles perault’s fairy tales 

preparing an abstract for the acl journal 

diversity final

a year of productivity challenge (1/52)

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books i want to read in 2022

selected poems of emily dickinson

spatiality by robert tally

agnes grey by anne bronte

saving fish from drowning by amy tan 

problems of dostoevski’s poetics by mikhail bakhtin

i’m going to add some more. and this list is open to recommendations. 

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arabic poetry is so beautifully yet painfully romantic, i mean “they asked “do you love her to death?” i said “speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life" and “because my love for you is higher than words, i've decided to fall silent" could have got jane austen crying and shaking

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2022

the end of semester. and the end of 2021. i finally have the time to reflect on my studies and reconnect with my original goals. transition from 2021 to 2022 is not going smoothly so far with overwhelming responsibilities. but i feel motivated to make something out of this mess. 

so, hello.