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#FreeTalk! On May 3 from 2-2:30pm Eastern, I'll be giving a #free online talk on #TheLastMan by #MaryShelley. This talk previews my month-long "Meet The Last Man" module with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity, which is scheduled for June 2025. This is part of the SPACE Showcase day of programming.
Everyone is invited!
Teaser: https://youtu.be/tzV-5T-td38?si=19zzTmQW-W6_w7mG
Info on the May 3 talk: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/events/2025-spring-space-showcase/
To my delight, my month-long "Meet #TheLastMan" module with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity has been confirmed. It will run in June 2025.
This #MaryShelley novel is one of the most relevant books we can read right now, and I can't wait to discuss it with students!
Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzV-5T-td38
More info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/iteration/2011/
I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.
-- Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
“Disenchantment, when it came…was total.” #Byron #Shelley #MaryShelley
Whilst I'm always really delighted to receive birthday and Christmas books, I've noticed I have the really bad habit of putting them in nice TBR piles and forgetting about them... Which is very naught, but there are always so many bookish distractions! I *have* read and loved books which were kindly sent by Ali and Jacqui, but I was browsing through the stack recently and my eye was caught by one of…
Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings · “Disenchantment, when it came…was total.” #Byron #Shelley #MaryShelleyWhilst I’m always really delighted to receive birthday and Christmas books, I’ve noticed I have the really bad habit of putting them in nice TBR piles and forgetting about them… W…
“Under the leadership of Candace Reilly, manager of Special Collections, Drew has successfully brought two major collections online: the unfinished monograph of Dr. Betty T. Bennett, a leading #MaryShelley scholar, and the broader Byron Society Collection, which contains realia related to the Romantic poet #LordByron.” #Archives
https://about.jstor.org/case-studies/drew-university-uses-jstor-digital-stewardship-services/
About JSTORAnimating the archive: How Drew University uses JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to expand access to scholarship and increase student engagementDrew University brings rare archives to life with JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, cataloguing the Betty T. Bennett Papers and the Byron Society Collectionfor global access.
Today in Labor History March 29, 1797: William Godwin married Mary Wollstonecraft. Godwin was an English journalist, philosopher and novelist. And one of the first modern proponents of anarchism. His most famous books are “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice” and “Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams,” a mystery novel that attacks aristocratic privilege. Wollstonecraft was a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights, and is regarded by many as one of the founding feminist philosophers. Her most famous book was “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (1792). She died 11 days after giving birth to her second daughter, Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #feminism #marywollstonecraft #williamgodwin #philosophy #novel #fiction #frankenstein #maryshelley #books #author #writer #journalism @bookstadon
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i find all of this extraordinary:
#MaryShelley created "#Frankenstein"
the seminal work (arguably the first work of #scienceFiction)-
humanity creating artificial life
in a ghost story writing contest suggested by #LordByron
the father of #AdaLovelace
who predicted #AI (the first person to seriously address the topic)-
humanity creating an artificial mind
something to think about this #womensHistoryMonth:
the artistic and technological mothers of our age
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24565995
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BBC NewsA Point of View: Will machines ever be able to think?The pursuit of "machine intelligence" has long interested computer scientists, but will machines ever think for themselves, ask Lisa Jardine.
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an interesting connection:
it was #LordByron who proposed the ghost story writing contest that led to #MaryShelley writing "#Frankenstein", and he was the father of another #womensHistoryMonth notable: #AdaLovelace
her story is well known, but less well known is that she predicted #AI
she rejected it
her rejection was not without teeth, because the first non-#scienceFiction champion of AI, #AlanTuring, spent an inordinate amount of time refuting her critique
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NIST · Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Computer Programmer Who Predicted Artificial IntelligenceDuring Women’s History Month, I am remembering Ada Lovelace’s contributions and thinking about the impact she had on me as a scientist and mathematician
What do many consider the 1st #scienceFiction?
One of the first works of #horror (certainly #bodyHorror)?
#MaryShelley's "#Frankenstein"
Written as a *teenager*
A teenager who had recently lost a baby
I think that's key
Horror not from taking life
But creating life
She went to Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who was fleeing creditors in Britain
The summer was cold and rainy so #LordByron (yes him) proposed a #ghostStory #writingContest
I think she won
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Today in Labor History March 25, 1811: Oxford University expelled Percy Bysshe Shelley for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism. Shelley was an English Romantic poet, radical in both his art and his politics. His poem "The Mask of Anarchy," which he wrote in 1819 after the Peterloo Massacre, is one of the first modern descriptions of nonviolent resistance. His admirers included Karl Marx, Gandhi and George Bernard Shaw. He was married to Mary Shelley, author of “Frankenstein.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchy #anarchism #atheism #marx #poetry #peterloo #massecre #PercyBisheShelley #gandhi #MaryShelley #frankenstein #writer #author #books #fiction #poet @bookstadon
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To my delight, my month-long "Meet #TheLastMan" module with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity has been confirmed. It will run in June 2025.
This #MaryShelley novel is one of the most relevant books we can read right now, and I can't wait to discuss it with students!
Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2EcVRnhii0
More info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/iteration/2011/
You are a modern Prometheus. Marriage is not for you. You will find employment in the high Arctic.
Project GutenbergFrankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyFree kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
I'm delighted to say that it's back! My month-long "Meet #TheLastMan" module with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity is currently a candidate for June 2025. Voting runs through May 1. Early voters will help decide the scheduling of the live discussion sessions.
This #MaryShelley novel is one of the most relevant books we can read right now.
More info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/iteration/2011/
I'm delighted to say that it's back! My month-long "Meet #TheLastMan" module with SPACE (Signum Portals for Adult Continuing Education) #online via #SignumUniversity is currently a candidate for June 2025. Voting runs through May 1. Early voters will help decide the scheduling of the live discussion sessions.
This #MaryShelley novel is one of the most relevant books we can read right now.
More info: https://blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/iteration/2011/
Mary Shelley-en Frankenstein, eleberri beldurgarri bezain filosofikoa
https://peertube.eus/videos/watch/6a53f42b-5cc4-4a4c-9b9f-cd5f6a732f08
“When Guillermo del Toro won the BAFTA for Best Director back in 2018 for THE SHAPE OF WATER, the fabulist filmmaker took the time to personally thank Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley for the inspiration she has given him throughout his life and career…. “ 
#cinema #film #movies #CineMastodon #GuillermoDelToro #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #horror #HorrorMovies
EmpireOscar Isaac Is Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein In First-Look Photos From Netflix Gothic HorrorNew images from GDT's adaptation of Mary Shelley's sci-fi horror classic, starring Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth, have been released. See them at Empire.
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."
~ Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
#photography #trees #nature #abstract #digicam #quotes #maryshelley #SilentSunday
~ Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)
#photography #trees #nature #abstract #digicam #quotes #maryshelley #SilentSunday
Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley’s half-sister, book reveals | Mary Shelley | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/19/frankenstein-inspired-by-suicide-of-mary-shelley-half-sister-fanny-imlay-book-reveals
The Guardian · Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley’s half-sister, book reveals