Alexander R. Phillips

@arphillips.bsky.social

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Assistant professor of English at Ashoka University, read: rogue Germanist in India. Author: "Ecology and German Realism." Literature, ecocriticism, environmental humanities, C19. I cycle, I make beer, I think about books for money.

Section of reptoduction of Lübecker Totentanz.
Red bicycle at Stonehenge.
Foreground cyclist with red bicycle, background King's College, Cambridge.
Dirty cyclist with a red bicycle holds helmet aloft. Gothic hall of Kings College Cambridge in background.
Bicycle with statue of Robin Hood about to shoot an arrow.
Red bicycle in front of field.
Red bicycle in foreground, background stream bends. Fields.
Adam Smith wearing a traffic cone/dunce cap.
Red bicycle against wall, bridge over river, town on opposite bank. Church steeple is visible.
Red bicycle in front of pasture with a brown cow. The ocean is in the background.
Foreground bottom left red bicycle, background 19th century manor in red brick. Square tower to left, clock tower to right.
Foreground red bicycle with luggage, background Lowestoft Train Station.
Foreground left red bicycle, background pedestrian causeway over river.
Greyfriars Monastery at Dunwich. Ruins in background, cyclist viewed from behind in right.
Red bicycle in foreground, river with boats, island beyond. Pagoda-like structures visible on horizon.
Foreground red bicycle loaded with luggage. Background: Westminster Palace with Big Ben. The sky is grey and it's raining.
Grave of Karl Marx.
Map with route along the coast of Suffolk from Orford to Lowestoft, then west.
Autorickshaw with livery showing American flag and Donald Trump's glowering official portrait. Text reads "happy birthday America! 250 years old."
Spoof TNG title screen reading "It's 1990, and We're Allegorizing the Existential Danger of Global Warming Again."
Glass of golden beer next to a beer bottle.
"You Die Every Time You Use the Transporter."
Illustration of Karl Marx giving peace sign.
Tortoise shell cat staring attentively from top of futon.
DVD cover of the film "Flow." Cover art shows wide-eyed black cat in water surrounded by tropical fish.
Large bottle of beer with tall glass straw-colored beer. Label has portrait of three cats. Trees and building in background.
CD covers of Mahler symphony 5 (Claudio Abbado, Chicago Symphony) and Mahler 6 (George Szell, Cleveland Orchestra).
A vinyl record player spinning a record.
Audrey from "Twin Peaks," grinning after she drove off a delegation of Norwegian visitors by telling them about Laura Palmer's murder.
Left, glass of golden beer with white head, right bottle of beer. Both sit on balcony railing in late afternoon sun, trees and a school in background.
Left computer monitor with draft essay displayed. Right a grey Persian cat with golden eyes looks on.
Chrome colored hybrid bicycle before a blue wall. A silver bicycle frame hangs on the wall.
Red bicycle in front of canal.
Copy of Moby-Dick in foreground, white whale cutout on wall in background.
Buff dog/wimpy dog meme. Buff dog as characters from Dracula. "A wolf burst through my bedroom window, gave my mom a deadly heart attack, and I am turning into a vampire. I will write it all down in lengthy elegant prose!" Wimpy dog as techies. "I need ChatGPT to write happy birthday."
Cyclist on a red bicycle.
App data of cycling. Shows bar graph for months, plus total 12,007.6km for the year.
High reluef lion, low reluef boar on pillar.
Red bicycle in foreground, mountain valley in background.
"You arenow forced to have the same job as the main character in the last book you read."
Books: Tokarczuk "Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead," Beagle "The Last Unicorn," Battistoni "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature," Stoker "Dracula," Hardy "Tess of the D'Urbervilles."
Foreground red bicycle, background green air filtration tower with clockface.
Scene from final sequence 2001: A Space Odyssey. old Bowman in bed sees monolith.
Max Beckmann's triptych "Departure."
Altbier Zutaten.
Cover of "The Origins of Totalitarianism."
Logo for Ashoka University.
Cover "Ecology and German Realism."
Cover 1st edition Christoph Hein's "Der fremde Freund."
Last page of Moby-Dick.
Glass of beer with bottle.
Three cats on a blanket.
Bottles of beer.
AQI monitor at 500.
AQI monitor showing level at 417, "hazardous."
Screenshot New York Times headline about live artillery detonated over interstate. Featured imshows I-8 in San Diego. Traffic alert reads "live weapons over freeway."
Scene from Monty Python sketch, teo women eating a painting.
Book on table, "Ecology and German Realism: Poetics, Politics, and the Conquest of Nature."
Foreground: bowl with caps in sanitizing solution on left, bottle in capping machine on right. Center background, grey Persian catloaf.
Exchange between Mephisto snd Baccalaureus from Faust II. Mephisto says students learn the hard way what teachers try to tell them, Baccalaureus retorts that teachers are frauds pander.