Right, also. Definitionally, and this seems crucial, but art produced by an automated ego-satisfaction cycle with no input from other humans is not art. It’s p0rn.

Bugs, Yaoist@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 3d ago

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

“Navigating Space on and beyond Campus” is officially available for preorders. It’s spatial theory meets university studies! DM me for a discount code. upcolorado.com/utah-state-u...

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Whalefall by Daniel Kraus was great. Did some things on the page I don’t think I’ve seen. Which every novel should try to do. Like the protagonist, I lost my dad too young. So I wasn’t ready for the absolutely gutting father/son dynamic that is the backbone of the story.

For International Translation Day, here's a dataset that me and Michaela Králová have put together on the publication of translated literature in Ireland over the past decade or so: zenodo.org/records/2304...

Didn’t know I even had a name for this but yes, I see now every project folder has a doc called ‘unused’ Which is not a bad hardcore band name

Melanie Walsh@mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 3w ago

I love this practice and also love what people call this document 😅 Here are some of the great terms I heard a while back. bsky.app/profile/mell...

Sometimes the semiotic square articulates a relation of concepts that are synthesized in things; sometimes it articulates a relation among things that resolve as concepts. How can it be both? Because the semiotic square is a cootie catcher

True or false: the phrase ‘Easter egg’ describes something ‘new.’ That is, sign systems (literature or otherwise) have always engaged in complex acts of signification (allusion, symbol etc) but the referent that rewards a tiny in group (fans) is distinct and therefore, we need a theory of the egg.

Finally

Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Final trailer for ‘COYOTE VS. ACME’ has been released. In theaters August 28. #CoyoteVsAcme

This is cool.

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 3mo ago

The original TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE is being reimagined with a hand-drawn animated version, brought to life with old school rotoscoping. Every frame will be illustrated by hand, with artists tracing the live-action footage. From Art Director Paul Beck (A Scanner Darkly).

Learned today that Northrop Frye was on the founding editorial board for Science Fiction Studies. And Le Guin was a contributor to issue 1.

rn you can't own tv stations that cover more than 39% of the country (by pop). The Trump FCC calls that "outdated" and wants to replace it with a "case-by-case" review (i.e., cronyism and corruption, as is their wont.) It might seem intuitive that with instant global streaming availability,

Gotta be Chinatown, right? Except for Sunset Blvd, all other contenders seem to live in its shadow somehow, no?

Josephine beckbook.com Riesman@josie.zone · 3mo ago

Okay, prompt time: What is your favorite iconic _L.A. Movie_ that isn't HEAT (1995)? Define "iconic" however you like

In need of a good scare, my teens and I turned off the lights and cranked up the volume and tried out the Backrooms game for the Switch. A+ for scream factor. Just escape rooms plus jump scares

Finally got to Bolaño’s the Savage Detectives. Wow. Not as superior as 2666, but still ambitious in its stretching of the novel’s form, and has maybe one of my all time favorite endings.

Five living writers that you've read five books by each: -Kazuo Ishiguro -Colson Whitehead -Stephen Graham Jones -Thomas Pynchon -Elena Ferrante

Jay Shelat@jshelat1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Five living writers that you've read five books by each: -Helen Oyeyemi -Jhumpa Lahiri -Colson Whitehead -Lauren Groff -Jesmyn Ward And so many more!

I will not make ad hominem attacks I will not make ad hominem attacks I will not make ad hominem attacks I will not even mention the sunglasses

@yblent.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When this inevitability-thesis guy came to an institution I teach at, he said said he does 120+ paid speaking engagements per year. Anyone know of a single skeptic who has even one admin-invited symposium, workshop, etc? news.ufl.edu/2025/10/ai-i...

My life is a hamster wheel of complaining about universities outsourcing services to private, for profit companies (who make everything worse) instead of allowing the brilliant minds from within to build and maintain things that work for us.

Jessica Pressman’s bookishness meets Baudrillard’s simulacrum.

Hari Kunzru@harikunzru.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The $400m flying bribe has shelves of fake books, some titled “Library”.

A Kalshi ad featuring Chalamet and Nickleback is my hell

I’ve been struggling with Schattenfroh by Lentz. Keep petering out around 100 pages in. Should I push through? Will the language start to stick to my brain and make meaning?

I contribute a a section on US high education. I argue that the sector should be reformed along for principles. 1. Equitable participation 2. Democratic self-governance 3. Local responsiveness / global openness 4. Cost sustainability Check it out: storage.ghost.io/c/b6/39/b639...

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 3mo ago

The Reconstruction Papers provides an ambitious but achievable path forward beyond the Trump era, but also beyond the decades of institutional decay that preceded it. Buy a print copy or download the PDF (or both) today www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

As our bargaining committee sits down with uni lawyers to advocate for me and lots of other workers, I’m at the Carnegie (named after a strikebreaker) admiring this representation of the Pinkerton riot of 1892

Finished Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova. It you’re unfamiliar, I highly recommend. A wholly original, brilliantly crafted, and devastatingly brutal allegory for grief and loss. Literary horror at its finest.

Here’s the essay I’d like to write: In 2022, Jordan Peale made an alien flick about the difficulty of being a Black creator of blockbusters in the shadow of Spielberg (opening scene is ET, rest of film is Jaws, starting with rodeo=beach, digestion scene=WarWorlds) In 2026, Spielberg responds. /2

If you haven’t read this yet, fix that as soon as possible: it’s a beautifully crafted response to a great album. And if you teach literature, you might want to consider using the second and third paragraphs as an example of how close reading works.

Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I Think You’re What’s Wrong With Me: On Influence, Absorption, and Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love’

Is the character Babs Bunny from Tiny Tunes an homage to Barbara Streisand’s character in What’s Up, Doc? Has to be right?

This is exciting. The Buried Giant is my favorite of his later ‘genre turn’ novels. Klara and the Sun was ok. But I’ll still read anything by Ishiguro.

Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Nobel laureate behind Never Let Me Go and Remains of the Day has announced his next novel.

The follow up to Tender Is the Flesh, The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica (trans. Sarah Moses) hypnotized me with its first words. Came out a few hours later. Its brevity leaves you wanting more; its harrowing world makes you feverish.

If you haven’t read it yet, get yourself a copy.

Stephen Graham Jones@stephengrahamjones.com · 4mo ago

Whoah, wow: thrilled, floored, and honored for The Buffalo Hunter Hunter to have somehow won both a Bram Stoker Award and a Nebula Award last night! Thanks, all. Signed, a horror writer stumbling around Edinburgh, Scotland.

Five years ago today I defended my diss on zoom and later popped a bottle of champagne with my family and a few friends (outside, social distancing)