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Friday essay: AI is devastating higher education, but the system was already broken

AI is a project of the powerful, implemented in the name of an efficiency that has nothing to do with the good, writes Jeff Sparrow.

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Letting it All Out: Orla Mackey's Mouthing

Each chapter of Mackey's innovative novel comprises a set of characters delivering monologues in which they confess, complain, and reminisce. Chris and guest Profes…

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Irish Books Season [series] 2 is imminent (or must I say "ready to drop"?) tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

Enjoying Oswyn Murray (no relation)'s historiography

Product of team collage activity at today's Teaching and Learning conference

If you want a PhD just send me some AI slop and I'll lob a scholarship your way. That's how it works, right?

The Self-Cultivation from East to West exhibition has opened at the Matheson Library. I curated with Anne Holloway tinyurl.com/4r323txs @monashuniversity.bsky.social

Really have to look up a lot of words when I read John Banville

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Showcase – Master Shao

YouTube video by Monash University Library

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Colum McCann's #Twist - a sea adventure with shades of Verne, Conrad, and Fitzgerald - is the book for our latest episode tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

For the (Blooms)day that's in it. My Ulysses group meets on a Tuesday and is discussing Oxen of the Sun today

Kevin Barry's The Heart in Winter is like Irish folklore, the Wild West, and a Nick Cave ballad all at once tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

Mary Shelley has us view her novel The Last Man through a classical aperture: it's framed as sybilline prophecy. A key source is Gibbon’s Decline and Fall. Yet Shelley draws on tragedy too to suggest her characters inherit a curse on Constantine the Great. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56924

Man, the dog massacre.

My other life: interviewed in Xinhua as "Bajiquan bronze medalist" h.xinhuaxmt.com/vh512/share/...

James Chandler of U. Chicago joins me to discuss Milkman tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

Sebastian Barry's Old God's Time is a belter. Hear me discuss the novel with Kevin Foster tinyurl.com/irishbookspo...

Taking Sally Rooney as broad millennial spokesperson risks neglecting her engagement with modern Ireland. A discussion of Intermezzo tinyurl.com/irishbookspo...

Sally Rooney's Intermezzo is the topic of my discussion with my great ally Maddy Callaghan tinyurl.com/irishbookspod Great to see some coverage for the show in the Irish Times recently too www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

@lcollins232.bsky.social joins me to discuss The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth, Adrian Duncan's latest novel from @serpents-tail.bsky.social - episode at tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

Did Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn need a sequel? tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

Entire 2-hour seminar spent on Yeats's "Easter, 1916." That'll learn 'em

Being away from Ireland on 17 March tends to make me feel like I'm missing something - but glad to have my Ulysses group today (we're talking about Stephen in the classroom, lots of Blake references). Meanwhile for discussion of Eimear McBride's Joycean exile (of sorts) tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

Grime, passion and addiction in 90s London, with experimental writing - a discussion of Eimear McBride's The City Changes its Face tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

Religion in Irish Literature and Culture has been published! Glad to meet this one in the flesh. www.cambridge.org/by/universit...

Irish Books Podcast E2 tackles Paul Lynch's Prophet Song with guest Chris Morash of Trinity College Dublin @langslitscultures.bsky.social Full discussion tinyurl.com/irishbookspod

Historian Dianne Hall and I discuss Emma Donoghue's "textual nuances" and historical evidence of diverse sexualities and ethnicities in the 1890s, realities that far predate our own moment. Full discussion at www.monash.edu/arts/languag...

Irish Books Podcast debuts with a discussion of Emma Donoghue's Paris Express featuring guest historian Dianne Hall @dihall.bsky.social Available on all platforms www.monash.edu/arts/languag...