#bartleby

Roby Niais de Haut Tièdepietrodito@mastodon.online
2025-06-13

@mrencyclopedia

"I would prefer not to

#Bartleby

2025-06-11

„I would prefer not to.“ Statt #Aktionismus : radikaler Trotz, der sich verweigert. Kein Konsum-Rebell, kein Funktionsmensch – sondern Störung als ethische Haltung. Žižek & Waldenfels lesen Bartleby als Einladung zum Andersdenken.

kontrapunkte.hypotheses.org/81

#Philosophie #Widerstand #Bartleby

2025-04-13

Amerikaliebe, Teil 1: "#Bartleby" von Herman #Melville (1853). Die Erzählung kreist um einen Büroangestellten, der alle Tätigkeiten mit einem fühllosen "Ich möchte lieber nicht" verweigert. Er wohnt bald im Büro, zwingt durch seine große Weigerung den Arbeitgeber zum Auszug, stirbt aber an Lebensabsage...

#usa #literatur

(((Cindy Weinstein)))CindyWeinstein@zirk.us
2025-04-05

Universities, law firms, and anyone else complying beforehand. Stop! And follow the lead of NY State's Education Department and refuse to comply.

If outright refusal is too hard, take a page from "Bartleby, the Scrivener," and say "I would prefer not to."

#Melville
#Bartleby
#Resistance

(((Cindy Weinstein)))cindyweinstein@mastodon.world
2025-04-05

Universities, law firms, and anyone else complying beforehand. Stop! And follow the lead of NY State's Education Department and refuse to comply.

If outright refusal is too hard, take a page from "Bartleby, the Scrivener," and say "I would prefer not to."

#Melville
#Bartleby

2025-02-03

American people are reading all sorts of books to prepare themselves for the new reality that is the US of 2025, but if you work in any kind of office more or less related to any kind of government, Bartleby is the book you should be reading.

Let's face it, despite your grand declarations on social media, you're not going to go underground and start building pipebombs (and if you are, maybe you shouldn't mention it on social media, just saying). Still, there are real ways to resist that are more effective than virtue signaling.

If you need advice, also ask your librarian if they were already in the profession in 2002 when the Patriot Act was passed. (younglings don't remember it, but the US already suffered a coup in 2000 which opened to the doors to today's fascism)

#Bartleby #UnitedStates #Resistance #books #reading #library

2025-02-03

People are reading all sorts of books to prepare themselves for the new reality that is the US of 2025, but if you work in any kind of office more or less related to any kind of government, Bartleby is the book you should be reading. (1/3) #Bartleby #UnitedStates #Resistance

2024-12-04

@djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology @djsundog@fedi.reclaim.technology I'd never read #Bartleby before. Thanks for the suggestion! I was both engrossed and frustrated by that story. Definitely left wanting more.

"Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance" is my favorite quote and seems like it deserves a lot more thinking than I've given it so far, particularly in the moment we find ourselves in right now.

Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥cgervasi@fosstodon.org
2024-11-05

I am so confused as to what the #Bartleby Resarch website is all about. You can search topics for grade-school #writing assignments. It returns crappy essays, that are graded as "satisfactory", "decent", or "good". They are full of typos, misspellings, and grammatical mistakes. It presents like a serious site, but why would anyone want a large collection of bad essays?
bartleby.com/

2024-09-23

[05:45] Zelfs als negentiger schrijft deze legendarische journalist nog met een ongekende joie de vivre


In de jaren zestig ontketende de Amerikaanse journalistiek een revolutie, waarbij verslaggevers zich losmaakten van droge opsommingen van feiten en he said, she said-vraaggesprekken. Belangrijke pioniers in dit gebeuren, dat later bekendstaande als 'New Journalism', waren namens Truman Capote, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion en Norman Mailer.

Weinig journalisten hebben meer bijgedragen aan deze stroming dan Gay Talese - op zijn 92e en nog altijd pico bello in pak. In zijn memoires, "Bartleby & Me", voert hij de lezer terug in de tijd: naar zijn beginjaren als journalis bij The New York Times en Esquire, zijn werkwijze bij het schrijven van zijn magnum opus over Frank Sinatra, en een reconstructie die zeventien jaar vergde, over een Roemeense arts die zijn woning in de chique Upper East Side in New York opblies.

Het tweede hoofdstuk is het memorabelst. Talese neemt meer dan honderd pagina's de ruimte om na te vertellen hoe hij 'Frank Sinatra Has a Cold' maakte - het fenomenale stuk van 15.000 woorden uit 1966 waarin het publiek alles te weten komt over de zanger, zonder dat de auteur hem fatsoenlijk te spreken kreeg.

Wil je ook nog lezen hoe dit stukje Manhattan via een Ierse drukpersmagnaat, een Amerikaans spionnengezelschap en een Russische zakenvrouw bij een suïcidale Roemeen en een Nederlandse diplomate terechtkwam? Als het Gay Talese is die het allemaal opschrijft: liever wel.
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#jarenzestig #Amerikaanse #NewJournalism #TrumanCapote #TomWolfe #JoanDidion #NormanMailer #GayTalese #Bartleby&Me #NewYorkTimes #Esquire #FrankSinatra #zeventienjaar #Roemeense #NewYork #tweede #15.000 #1966 #Manhattan #Amerikaans #Russische #Roemeen #Nederlandse #AI

2024-07-01

Wrong again. . . #Bartleby #TheArchers

2024-06-28

#TheArchers Old horses never die, they just get put out to pasture #Bartleby

2024-06-23

#TheArchers (spoilers):

So this oh-so-too-good-to-be true-buyer of #Bartleby has been given Oliver's bank details to pay into?
OoooKaaaay. . .

(((Cindy Weinstein)))cindyweinstein@mastodon.world
2024-04-01
(((Cindy Weinstein)))CindyWeinstein@zirk.us
2024-02-12

You know when you reread a book and the main character is doing something awful and you just wish she would do something different than what you know she is going to do? Well, that was me rereading #EdithWharton's #HouseOfMirth. To riff on the end of #Melville's #Bartleby: Ah Lily!, Ah humanity!

Penguin Classics Edith Wharton The House of Mirth.
David WakehamwakehamAMR
2023-11-28

and it’s subsidiary are trying to weasel their way out of their responsibility as one of instigators of flagrant plagiarism, academic fraud, contract cheating and essay mills.

Their first tactic was to send their responses to different email chains rather than respond directly. These emails are automatically sent to spam and are often inadvertently deleted. They the request the same information, over and over again.

Screenshot of my email response.

Re: Your Support Request with Bartleby

Thank you for your response. 

How will I be recompensed for this and how are you going to make amends for this whilst making assurances this does not happen again?

As anti-plagiarism software has been widely available since the late 1990’s I struggle to understand why you have not taken due diligence in accepting these submissions previously.
(((Cindy Weinstein)))CindyWeinstein@zirk.us
2023-11-01

November is #NationalCaregiver'sMonth. If you have time to read (or listen to) one #book that magnificently, painfully, and honestly shares the challenges of #caregiving, the complex workings of a #brain with #dementia, and the sheer power of #empathy, read #DashaKiper's #TravelersToUnimaginableLands. You will also learn how #Melville's #Bartleby, #Beckett's #Godot, #Kafka's #Metaphomorphosis, and other works of #literature help us understand #Alzheimer's.

Dasha Kiper, Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, The Caregiver, and the Human Brain.
(((Cindy Weinstein)))cindyweinstein@mastodon.world
2023-11-01

November is #NationalCaregiver'sMonth. If you have time to read (or listen to) one #book that magnificently, painfully, and honestly shares the challenges of #caregiving, the complex workings of a #brain with #dementia, and the sheer power of #empathy, read #DashaKiper's #TravelersToUnimaginableLands. You will also learn how #Melville's #Bartleby, #Beckett's #Godot, #Kafka's #Metaphomorphosis, and other works of #literature help us understand #Alzheimer's.

Dasha Kiper, Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, The Caregiver, and the Human Brain.

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