"Lost in the Fields: Who is Training Whom when Writing with AI" by Alex Saum-Pascual / @alexsaum.bsky.social: doi.org/10.16995/olh... Published as part of the #OLHJournal Special Collection, "Contemporary Perspectives on AI and Narrative"

Lost in the Fields: Who is Training Whom when Writing with AI

In this essay, I examine the 2023 AI-generated text Los campos electromagnéticos [The Electromagnetic Fields] by writer Jorge Carrión as an early example (perhaps the first) of writing with GPT-2 and ...

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Alex Saum@alexsaum.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'm on the news ;) news.berkeley.edu/2026/01/21/t... #Elit #digitalliterature #infrastructures #AI

Announcing the 2026 ELO Awards: eliterature.org/2026/07/2026...

Friends! I wrote a thing on how difficult it is to write with #GenAI (among other things; many inspired by @jorgecarrion21.bsky.social) It's OA @openlibhums.org and it's part of a timely Special Issue co-edited with my friends at the @cdn-bergen.bsky.social olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Lost in the Fields: Who is Training Whom when Writing with AI

In this essay, I examine the 2023 AI-generated text Los campos electromagnéticos [The Electromagnetic Fields] by writer Jorge Carrión as an early example (perhaps the first) of writing with GPT-2 and ...

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Delighted to share that Binding Media has won the 2026 N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature! So honored to received this particular award because Hayles' work taught me to think about the weird literary works I've always been interested in. @stanfordpress.bsky.social

We're about to open the Zoom and welcome participants to @eliterature.bsky.social #ELO2026! Check out the schedule here - anastasiasalter.net/ELO2026/sche... - later this weekend, there will be open access recordings available as well as our online exhibition to explore!

Ok. Enough. Stop making me hate the internet, Meta, dear. Just stop.

WIRED@wired.com · 4w ago

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

This is a fantastic opportunity: a Fulbright fellowship with the Center for Digital Narrative (@cdn-bergen.bsky.social) at the University of Bergen in Norway. Apps due by September 15!

But I was told it was inevitable.

Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learni...

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From issue 22.3, Sonia García López recovers the untold and largely unknown histories of the group of women who passed through the Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía during Francoism doi.org/10.1080/1463...

Miradas invisibles: mujeres en la Escuela Oficial de Cinematografía (1947–1976)

Esta contribución aborda la experiencia de las mujeres que estudiaron la especialidad de Dirección Cinematográfica en el Instituto de Investigaciones y Experiencias Cinematográficas/Escuela Oficial...

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Álvaro Álvarez Rodrigo studies the figure of actress of Sara Montiel – “el primer gran mito sexual del franquismo” – in this article from issue 21.3, analyzing some of her most famous roles and her mentions in magazines doi.org/10.1080/1463...

Sara Montiel, de Lolita a vampiresa: la sensualidad de una estrella que desarma la moralidad nacionalcatólica de posguerra (1942–1950)

El artículo aborda las contradicciones y tensiones generadas por las políticas franquistas de género durante los años 40 a través de una investigación histórica desde la perspectiva de los “star st...

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The figure of Helena Lumbreras, Spanish director and co-founder of Colectivo Cine de Clase, is studied by Annalisa Mirizio in this article from a 2017 special issue on “Anachronism and the militant image” doi.org/10.1080/1463...

El anacronismo visual en el cine militante de Helena Lumbreras. Notas a propósito de la influencia de Pasolini y Zavattini

Este artículo propone pensar el anacronismo del cine de Helena Lumbreras como un efecto de la recuperación por parte de la cineasta española de algunas propuestas del proyecto de los cinegiornali l...

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In this article by María Rosón’s from issue 16.2, she analyzes the photo album compiled by painter Esperanza Parada (1928–2011), comprised of images taken during the first sixty years of the 20th century doi.org/10.1080/1463...

“No estoy sola”: Álbum fotográfico, memoria, género y subjetividad (1900–1980)

Este artículo aborda el análisis cultural de un álbum fotográfico, que recoge retratos datados en los primeros sesenta años del siglo XX y que fue compilado entre 1975 y 1982 en Madrid. Su hacedora...

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Popular romance novel author María Mercedes Ortoll is the focus of Nino Kebadze’s article from issue 11.2, which studies the representation of women in “El pecado de Lida Verona” (1953) doi.org/10.1080/1463...

FRANCOIST POLITICS OF FEMALE IDENTITY: THE CURIOUS CASE OF LIDA VERONA

Published in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (Vol. 11, No. 2, 2010)

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Accompanying JSCS 27.2 is a selection of FREE ACCESS articles from our archive, all grouped around a theme of women during Francoism, chosen to accompany Lekuona-Mariscal and Barcenilla’s essay on María Paz Jiménez

We just published JSCS 27.2! With essays on early modern music and dance cultures, the fiction of Adelina Gurrea and Almudena Grandes, and the art and archives of María Paz Jiménez www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjsc20/2...

I had the pleasure of talking about data centers + water with students who made a podcast for a class assignment: wateruseindatacenters.wordpress.com/interview/

Interview

Interview with Dr. Hogan We had the honor of interviewing Dr. Mél Hogan as our water expert for this project. This interview took place over Zoom on March 25, 2026. Back in 2015, Dr. Hogan and fell…

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get caught up on the backstory while you can't get caught up on grading theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/historyofc...

The Secret History of Canvas LMS, Corporate Raiders, & The Chatbot Bubble (Vandal Live at UVU)

Listen now (112 mins) | with Christa Albrecht-Crane, Angie McKinnon Carter, and Chiler Moore

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I'd say

Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’d say the Ed Tech space is ripe for some disruption.

They told us to make the headlines conversational what can I say www.wired.com/story/using-...

Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows

New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.

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See you Wednesday, Berkeley folks!

Miguel Ángel Hernández@mahernandez.bsky.social · 4mo ago

U.S.A., there we go!

Sometimes the universe aligns and one gets to have dinner with three super stars ✨✨ @alexsaum.bsky.social @loriemerson.net @mariaa.bsky.social ✨✨

Um.

Darach Ó Séaghdha@darach.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

So pumped for this! 💜💜

Élika Ortega@elikaortega.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Big exciting week ahead! First, I'm heading out to TTU for a double header book talk of Binding Media and @rkokayokay.bsky.social's Dispatches from the Avant-Garage. Second, @alexsaum.bsky.social will be coming to CU Boulder this weekend to keynote the grad student conference on Saturday.

When people use AI for writing assistance, it can shift their political attitudes by autocompleting sentences in biased ways. Yet people are often unaware of the AI bias & it's influence This is not merely about the facts presented, but how autocomplete worlds www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Bay Area Poets! my friends are in town; come and read some poetry with us? This Thursday 4/9! <3 bcnm.berkeley.edu/events/109/s...

OpenAI's Sora and Meta's metaverse were shuttered the same week. Both were defined by an aesthetic that embodies Silicon Valley's current project: to undermine labor, replace art + lived experience with digital facsimiles, and extract value at any cost. And users recoiled at the mere sight of them.

AI's aesthetics of failure

On the demise of Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop

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Every year, around this time, someone leaves a chocolate egg on my desk at work. It's definitely trespassing, but still, thank you.

long story but i just founded an AI education platform. if you want to join the board or contribute to the blog, hit me up. just submitted a conference talk on "surveillance as care" to ELO. wish me luck!!!! puregenius.education

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