Organizing an ACLA panel on "Speculative Infrastructure" with Philip Bonnano (Penn State) for the 2027 meeting. Please submit! (Or, you know, send a proposal!) www.acla.org/seminar/6efc...

What's the point if you go up to a scholar after their lecture and they can only parrot what the parrot machine spat out? Expertise does not reside in producing an amazing sentence/talk/paragraph/whatever. It's about knowing and understanding content, context, nuance, and shifts in perspective.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

Consider submitting an abstract for our ACLA in-person seminar on "Embodiment Hunger: Reading Bodies in Community after AI"! w/ Anna Mukamal, UNC-Chapel Hill, www.acla.org/seminar/7c63.... As the CFP says: This seminar asks how embodied readers and communities still matter after AI. +

See my ACLA seminar on World Literature and the Global South below 👇 and repost please and thank you!

Juan Meneses@dissentum.bsky.social · 4d ago

CFP: "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature" ACLA 2027 seminar! It explores new disciplinary horizons that emerge from the comparative friction between the categories “world literature” and “Global South.” There are plans for a possible follow-up publication.

CFP: "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature" ACLA 2027 seminar! It explores new disciplinary horizons that emerge from the comparative friction between the categories “world literature” and “Global South.” There are plans for a possible follow-up publication.

What's the point if you go up to a scholar after their lecture and they can only parrot what the parrot machine spat out? Expertise does not reside in prudicing an amazing sentence/talk/paragraph/whatever. It's about knowing and understanding content, context, nuance, and shifts in perspective.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

@philosopher1923.bsky.social has a great list of books they're looking to review, including my edited volume Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination (w/ @uminnpress.bsky.social). If you're interested in reviewing it, check their list 👇 and get in touch with them! See below the table of contents!

The Philosopher@philosopher1923.bsky.social · 3d ago

Call for Reviewers! We're looking for 2,000-2,500 words of thoughtful analysis that highlights the significance of a book from this thread or at the link to our catalogue below. Email the book title, a short bio, and links to previous publications to thephilosopher.print@gmail.com #Philosophy

I mean, even putting social media aside (mentioned in the thread), academia is a huge social network with elevators to the moon if you are connected to the right people.

Check out my CFP, "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature," for ACLA 2027. It will be online, and there are plans for a follow-up publication.

Juan Meneses@dissentum.bsky.social · 4d ago

CFP: "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature" ACLA 2027 seminar! It explores new disciplinary horizons that emerge from the comparative friction between the categories “world literature” and “Global South.” There are plans for a possible follow-up publication.

If you like the phrase "elevators to the moon" to describe academia's power system you should see the rest of my writing

Juan Meneses@dissentum.bsky.social · 2d ago

I mean, even putting social media aside (mentioned in the thread), academia is a huge social network with elevators to the moon if you are connected to the right people.

Internship opportunity! 👇

Deep Vellum@deepvellum.bsky.social · 2d ago

We are seeking interns for the Fall semester! See all available positions and find out how to apply here: www.deepvellum.org/news/call-fo...

One last reminder to publish a shortened version of your Weird Modernisms conference paper, organized by BAMS!

British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)@modernistudies.bsky.social · 6d ago

Final reminder, our Special Issue for the #WeirdModernisms conference invites speakers to publish a shortened version of their paper, an extract, or a summary. Expressions of interest are due tomorrow, 31 July! 🗓️ Email tmr@bams.ac.uk, submissions due 31 August 📨 @moderniststudies.bsky.social

If you like the phrase "elevators to the moon" to describe academia's power system you should see the rest of my writing

Juan Meneses@dissentum.bsky.social · 2d ago

I mean, even putting social media aside (mentioned in the thread), academia is a huge social network with elevators to the moon if you are connected to the right people.

@philosopher1923.bsky.social has a great list of books they're looking to review, including my edited volume Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination (w/ @uminnpress.bsky.social). If you're interested in reviewing it, check their list 👇 and get in touch with them! See below the table of contents!

The Philosopher@philosopher1923.bsky.social · 3d ago

Call for Reviewers! We're looking for 2,000-2,500 words of thoughtful analysis that highlights the significance of a book from this thread or at the link to our catalogue below. Email the book title, a short bio, and links to previous publications to thephilosopher.print@gmail.com #Philosophy

The idea that we all want an "assistant" is revolting

Book review call. Lots of great titles on the list 👇

The Philosopher@philosopher1923.bsky.social · 3d ago

Call for Reviewers! We're looking for 2,000-2,500 words of thoughtful analysis that highlights the significance of a book from this thread or at the link to our catalogue below. Email the book title, a short bio, and links to previous publications to thephilosopher.print@gmail.com #Philosophy

Check out my CFP, "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature," for ACLA 2027. It will be online, and there are plans for a follow-up publication.

Juan Meneses@dissentum.bsky.social · 4d ago

CFP: "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature" ACLA 2027 seminar! It explores new disciplinary horizons that emerge from the comparative friction between the categories “world literature” and “Global South.” There are plans for a possible follow-up publication.

More good stuff on academic publishing (printing) 👇

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3d ago

I’ve seen in two culture /higher ed magazines recently the claim that the printing press engendered a crisis of authority at universities bc anyone could publish what they wanted and people could learn things without universities. This is not true.

State of the humanities-publishing field update. Important read about the realities of scholarly editors' labor 👇

Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 3d ago

reading the bookforum review of Middlemen and I expect that the scholarly publishing equivalent of the agent is the freelance developmental editor. if conglomeration drove the rise of the agent, austerity drove the rise of the latter—the editor who actually edits, helps w/ the proposal, etc.

CFP: "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature" ACLA 2027 seminar! It explores new disciplinary horizons that emerge from the comparative friction between the categories “world literature” and “Global South.” There are plans for a possible follow-up publication.

Oof... this works for a lot more crises than climate change.

Peter Kuper@pkuper.bsky.social · 5d ago

Trying to visualize how we are being changed by climate change. The 'new normal' is SO not. Thank goodness our leaders are springing into action... NOT. #Climatechange #ClimateChangeEmergency

Book 👇

Alberto Toscano@alfatau.bsky.social · 5d ago

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Important reading 👇

Alberto Toscano@alfatau.bsky.social · 5d ago

e-flux has published an excerpt from Rebecca Comay's wonderful On Persistence, which has just been published by Seagull Books, and which I was honoured to write an afterword for. www.e-flux.com/notes/678352...

Friends! Consider sending an abstract for my "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature" ACLA 2027 seminar! The seminar explores new disciplinary horizons that emerge from the friction between the categories “world literature” and “Global South.” More 👇!

Still baffled that some will think anonymizing someone else is simply not naming them while describing a related matter in so much detail that other people in this person's orbit will instantly recognize them, which might have repercussions. That's not anonymizing. It's like pixelating their shoes.

A while back I read a "hyperpolitics" essay that I assume the book is an extension of, and I still have to read the book itself (though whether I do depends on limited time etc), but I am still not convinced about the hyperpolitics thesis. Also, that Guardian article wasn't great.

Still baffled that some will think anonymizing someone else is simply not naming them while describing a related matter in so much detail that other people in this person's orbit will instantly recognize them, which might have repercussions. That's not anonymizing. It's like pixelating their shoes.

This is a great thread on the absurd reactions to @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social. Like Wilson's now famous review, this takes the acts of aesthetic expression, critique, and dialogue very seriously, unlike those knee-jerk reactions, and demonstrates their importance.

Jessica Ellis@baddestmamajama.bsky.social · last wk.

Oh did a female academic with an extensive history of study and practice in a particular area of literature make a reasoned critique of a male filmmaker’s movie? I’m sure this will be handled with maximum normality.

Also this 👇

Siddhartha Mitter@siddharthamitter.bsky.social · last wk.

*raises periscope* are ppl still talking about the mfn odys— *lowers periscope*

It seems to me that even the people who claim to be offended by film and literary criticism they disagree with or find grating are loving debating the possibilities of translation and interpretation of literature and film and my my my what a gift.