Jimmy Butts, Matthew Blakesley, and I are keeping the proposal window open a little while longer for The Sophist's Cookbook! If you have an idea for a recipe and a story, submit something! kraa.io/sophists_coo... The deadline is now March 2.

Here it is, a modern masterpiece by my friend and colleague @drsbk.bsky.social, parlorpress.com/products/pla..., hot off the press.

Plato's Nightmare

This poetic-rhetorical-epic-treatise traces the theme of disembodiment across historical, philosophical, literary, and rhetorical concepts and periods.

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@austinkleon.bsky.social Clearly engrossed.

New book; free download! Artificial Infrastructures investigates how AI reshapes technical & professional writing across high-technology industries. Salvo & Sherrill interview 3 experts to historicize, analyze, and contextualize the emergent disruptive technology wac.colostate.edu/books/practi...

Here's an excellent review of Mark Mussman's Steal the Street: The Intersection of Homelessness and Gentrification (Parlor Press, 2022) by Mike Templeton. bit.ly/steal-the-st...

Steal the Street: the Intersection of Homelessness and Gentrification. The New Book by Mark Mussman - Welcome to UACC

By Mike Templeton The Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition, a community partner of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition, provides material assistance to people in Cincinnati struggling with home...

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Let's count it down. bit.ly/end-in-sight

Full Screen Countdown to Jan 20, 2029 in Washington DC, District of Columbia

This countdown counter counts down days, hours, minutes and seconds to new year or another date

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Interesting conversation with a graduate student about his dissertation. "In the Year 2525" popped into my head. Hear ye, rhetoricians! It's from the album, "Exordium and Terminus." The looming dystopia seems much too far off, but by the end, "it was only yesterday." Boom. youtu.be/izQB2-Kmiic?...

Zager And Evans - In The Year 2525

YouTube video by eitan19611

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Here's a new review by Michael Quinn of Kevin Brown's Countée Cullen’s Harlem Renaissance: A Personal History: www.star-revue.com/quinn-on-boo.... Thanksgiving-themed!

Quinn on Books: In Search of Lost Time

Review of “Countée Cullen’s Harlem Renaissance,” by Kevin Brown Review by Michael Quinn   “Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: / To make a poet black, and bid him sing!” – Countée Cullen, “…

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Two ideas come to mind, precedence beyond mathematics: Humans are "inventors of the negative" (Kenneth Burke) and presence is always already absent (Derrida et al.). Zero! www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

This is Your Brain on Zero

Researchers are finally unraveling how the mind processes nothing.

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First post. Three of my best buddies. L-R: Flo, Steph, and KT (Steph and KT, aka the Splash Sisters). Happy Holidays!