faculty! Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas faculty! please answer this anonymous AAUP survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey

The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

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@deebeehobbs.bsky.social and I went on @glavey.bsky.social’s brilliant new podcast Some Marvelous Experience to talk about Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels and our thirteen-year friendship. I had so much fun thinking about art, friendship, place, and the end of the world with David and Brian.

Sun Tunnels

Podcast Episode · Some Marvelous Experience · August 10 · 55m

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I noticed I suddenly have a bunch of new followers today! Hi! I suspect @annehelen.bsky.social is once again at fault. If you haven’t listened, check out the podcast I recorded with her on the gorgeous Culture Study podcast about AI and creativity. ❤️🥳

How Does AI Mess With Our Creativity?

Podcast Episode · Culture Study Podcast · August 12 · 1h 16m

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Josh & I had SO much fun talking to Brian about our trip to see landart in Utah w/ our buddy Stu — sincerely: seeing the Sun Tunnels was the great art experience of my life so far + I really hope we persuade some people to make the trip

Brian Glavey@glavey.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm thrilled to be launching Some Marvelous Experience today with this conversation with Josh Schneiderman and David Hobbs about their trip to see Nacny Holt's Sun Tunnels. I think it's an episode about having friends at the end of the world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

degenerative AI, you can refuse it www.wired.com/story/the-ai...

The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.

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Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5d ago

resource squander, you can ban it www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"The desire to outline a cinema of geopolitical liberal humanism that has increasingly infused Nolan’s work might indicate why the value of the trick has slowly receded from his films."

David Hering@davidhering.bsky.social · 3d ago

I wrote on the role of the trick in the films of Christopher Nolan davidhering.substack.com/p/the-tricks...

I'm thrilled to be launching Some Marvelous Experience today with this conversation with Josh Schneiderman and David Hobbs about their trip to see Nacny Holt's Sun Tunnels. I think it's an episode about having friends at the end of the world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Sun Tunnels

Podcast Episode · Some Marvelous Experience · August 10 · 55m

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In "Content Machines," @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social considers how short-form, platform-based, and social media writing on digital mediums like Wattpad and TikTok has reshaped the modern reading and writing landscape. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/Tip538L

"What a marvelous book..at once a terrific read and a textured, multi-angled mine of information about the life and work of a genuinely singular figure." — Robert Levin, author of Going Outside: Fiction, Commentary, Jazz Preorder at sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-... #ForthcomingFriday

It's syllabus season: perhaps you are looking to talk with your students about how the work of study in the university is (and has long been) in jeopardy? May I offer for your consideration UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS, a book that historicizes many dimensions of the present attacks on higher ed.

University Keywords

How American universities operate as social and economic engines that shape society beyond their traditional educational roles.University Keywords gathers, contextualizes, and develops original unders...

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Book dusting. This has been annoying me for six years. Just put the fix on my current book shopping list.

Norms are out we are governing lineages of property relations instead of

Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · last wk.

In "Good Vibes Only," @robinjames.bsky.social shows how vibe checks have become a technology of literal and figurative policing, drawing on philosophy, popular music studies, and media studies. Check out the intro for free: buff.ly/1JCvlbe.

James Schuyler writing in his diary, 58 years ago today, at Fairfield Porter’s home on Great Spruce Head Island in Maine

From James Schuyler’s Diary (August 5, 1968)

Fairfield Porter, “Islands” (1968) Here is an excerpt from James Schuyler’s diary on August 5, 1968, written 58 years ago today, at Fairfield Porter’s home on Great Spruce H…

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"the aesthetics of AI slop take the logic of quantification to its extreme form by embedding it in a technological system of increasingly automated production, circulation and consumption to which human signification appears ever more marginal." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Doing the numbers: The operational aesthetics of AI slop - Jernej Markelj, Jakko Kemper, 2026

What to make of the bizarre imagery of AI slop? If AI slop feels meaningless to interpret, this is because it has little to do with meaning and representations....

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Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

Punch me in the face for 10,000 years

Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · last wk.

Trying out the features in Claude for education. Join me as I see how it "helps" me write a research paper. My chosen topic: "AI and education". /1

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Brian Glavey@glavey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Laura Heffernan and I are proposing an in-person seminar on "Aesthetics for Amateurs" for ACLA 2027. It's about recentering creativity and making--especially amateur making--in our theories of the aesthetic. If this is your jam, please consider submitting! www.acla.org/seminar/d6b4...

It's an honor that Critical Inquiry published the first review of my new book, Lyric Logic.

Critical Inquiry@criticalinquiry.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Modern American poetry, she argues, reasons inductively rather than deductively, moving from particulars towards provisional generalities rather than letting a governing intuition shine through it." Sneha Chowdhury on Johanna Winant's Lyric Logic: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/sneha_chowdh...

this reading list and more is the deep background list we recommend for teachers and knowledge workers at against-a-i.com

“ … technology isn’t just large language models or agents or data centers. It is the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation”

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Artificial intelligence is not just a market product or a scientific achievement. It is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy." connect the dots! Dr. McMillan Cottom has homework! go to the library, host a reading group, organize your neighbors www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

"Artificial intelligence is not just a market product or a scientific achievement. It is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy." connect the dots! Dr. McMillan Cottom has homework! go to the library, host a reading group, organize your neighbors www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Opinion | A Reading List for Our Age of A.I. (Gift Article)

A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.

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Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2

Laura Heffernan and I are proposing an in-person seminar on "Aesthetics for Amateurs" for ACLA 2027. It's about recentering creativity and making--especially amateur making--in our theories of the aesthetic. If this is your jam, please consider submitting! www.acla.org/seminar/d6b4...

I guess I am comfortable saying that in cases where people you formerly respected, or presumed you did, are now actively choosing to sunset their own minds & surrender them to machines invented by incels and billionaires, then yes there should be a stigma for that. This is what society is for

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“There is also a moral and political judgment that is coming along with AI usage…Especially in creative industries where the stigma is the strongest.”

"Students anted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model produced; they wanted to wrestle with difficult readings+complex ideas. They didn’t want to outsource any of this effort to gen AI. They wanted to do the work.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)

We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect.

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“Closing the Writing Center and removing its leadership now sends a disturbing signal about how seriously Harvard actually takes [its] mission.” Closing a writing center or library or dept or program or university press—an attack on one is an attack on all. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

In Defense of the Harvard College Writing Center | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director, Jane Rosenzweig.

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The luck is entirely mine. Just look at this beauty! sunypress.edu/Books/H/How-...

Lisa L. Moore@lisalmoore.bsky.social · 3w ago

I got lucky and got @rcolesworthy.bsky.social as my editor for my forthcoming crazy creative-critical hybrid volume, HOW LESBIANS SAVED POETRY. The SUNY Press fall catalog just dropped and mine is a Featured Book! Rebecca and I would both love it if you pre-ordered a copy. Link in comments.

it's a monday afternoon at the end of july, of course we're writing syllabi against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, PLEASE SEND! against-a-i.com

LACK, the lacanian conference that lacks an acronym, invites anyone interested in exploring the philosophical and cultural implications of psychoanalytic theory join us march 11-13 at UVM; CFP due October 1 lackorg.wordpress.com/2027-confere...

2027 Conference

We are excited to announce LACK vi at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont March 11-13, 2027. Please send any general questions about the conference to Hilary.Neroni@uvm.edu or Todd.McG…

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The poet Frank O'Hara died 60 years ago today at the age of 40, after a tragic accident on Fire Island, NY. Here's a piece I wrote for the Poetry Foundation to mark the 50th anniversary in 2016, about O'Hara's posthumous legacy: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/900...