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Albert Lloret

@albertlloret.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Spanish & Catalan, UMass Amherst || https://websites.umass.edu/lloret/

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Albert Lloret@albertlloret.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's not that easy to write a back-cover blurb for a dazzling book. But what this blurb suggests (and other similar ones, which repeatedly made the novel totally uninteresting to me) is very misleading. The book cover design and the critics' quotations (in aggregate) are definitely more helpful.

Cover of Han Kang's "The Vegetarian". Image of a naked shoulder, clavicule, upper chest, and neck with naive-styled flowers painted on them.Laudatory critics' quotations about Han Kang's "The Vegetarian"Back-cover blurb and laudatory critics' quotations about Han Kang's "The Vegetarian"
John Attridge@johnattridge.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

Romànic Català@romaniccatala.bsky.social · 2mo ago

El romànic apareix on menys t'ho esperes 😮. Acompanya'm a visitar la Col·lecció Casacuberta Marsans, al carrer de la Palla número 21 de Barcelona. 📹 Si arribes al final del vídeo veuràs com el romànic català i el barroc del Segle d'Or es troben gràcies al cubisme. Increïble però cert!

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 3mo ago

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Rule: The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit. AI use is prohibited for any use for any purpose in any exam situation. Students may not upload course materials—including assignments, readings, slides, class recordings, or other class content—into generative AI systems. AI can be used for research on papers ONLY for the limited purpose of identifying sources, such as cases, statutes, or secondary sources. Students are responsible for the accuracy of their research and all other aspects of their submitted work. Citations to sources that do not exist will raise a presumption of prohibited AI use
Daniela Gutiérrez Flores@danielagtzf.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A year ago, my friend Alexandra Bellow died: a Romanian mathematician, former wife of Saul Bellow, and an extraordinary woman who was in love with Don Quixote until her very last day. I wrote this small tribute in the days just after her death. www.guernicamag.com/three-pages-...

Three Pages of Don Quixote

Here was a woman who had lived through a dictatorship, been through three marriages, and built a brilliant career in a relentlessly male-dominated field. And she was happy.

guernicamag.com