Ika Willis
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Academic at UOW. Tweets do not represent my employer, but rather, the relation between what I command and what I do not command of the language at my disposal.
Wollongong, New South Wales
Joined October 2011
12. The "essential adventure of our time" is "the shift from the Industrial Growth Society to a life-sustaining civilization" based on Indigenous principles and thought (Joanna Macy)
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11. AI is not a neutral tool and should be resisted with every Luddite fire in our collective hearts, as should (in general) the enclosure of the digital commons by for-profit internet platforms
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Computations will “estimate” your aim, tend to miss the nail and push for a different design. Often unnoticeably.
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10. Bridget Jones is consistently misread as if Helen Fielding were not an intelligent author deploying Bridget as a character for specific artistic and cultural reasons, and this conflation of narrator and author happens more often to books written by women
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9. It's not the boomers' fault, it's 40 years of neoliberal economic and social policies
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6. There is no such thing as "the text itself", which (like "women" and "men" actually) is the effect, not the cause, of interpretative acts, and all texts are co-produced by multiple agents including their readers
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5. Whatever you think of the texts and ideas it purports to refer to, "Western civilisation" as a term has an irredeemably racist history and currently functions as a white-supremacist dogwhistle
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4. Trans women are women and trans men are men and trans nonbinary people are nonbinary people AND SIMULTANEOUSLY "women" and "men" are ideological effects not real ontological things going around in the world
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3. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land: vote #Yes23 (that one should have been first)
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2. The pandemic is still going on: even "mild" cases of COVID-19 can have serious long-term effects (the bit that looks like a cold is not the bit to be concerned about! the blood/brain injuries are the scary bit!), wear a mask and keep up with your boosters
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AND ALSO before I go--
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AND the critical edtech tweeps and fellow sceptical uni-improvers @KateMfD @DonnaLanclos @CCguerilla @sandyosullivan @brennacgray @PlashingVole I have learned so much from you--
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@unamccormack @ythos @katwhen @kilbswhitecrow @munkas @marginalia62 @philippa22 @NomDeClare @jekesta @RogersonSteve @sally_mn @hollyglolightly @JVLamond @Millicent_Weber @DrBibliomane @EmmettStinson @MicWink @elias_greig @ElizabethKnoxNZ @jocaseau @crrrritic @Unwise_Trousers @evelynaraluen @jonathandunk @namleti @derridalicious @JenniferRichar7 @JenlynClement @LukeKennard @TheLong1930s argh there are too many of you
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@unamccormack @ythos @katwhen @kilbswhitecrow @munkas @marginalia62 @philippa22 @NomDeClare @jekesta @RogersonSteve @sally_mn -- as well as the Book History/LitTwitter people who have been more important to me than you probably know: @hollyglolightly @JVLamond @Millicent_Weber @DrBibliomane @EmmettStinson @MicWink @elias_greig @ElizabethKnoxNZ @jocaseau @crrrritic @Unwise_Trousers j
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THANK YOU to everyone responsible for the good times here over the last twelve years(!), starting with the LJ/B7 crew @unamccormack @ythos @katwhen @kilbswhitecrow @munkas @marginalia62 @philippa22 @NomDeClare @jekesta @RogersonSteve @sally_mn and anyone I've forgotten--
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