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Erica Fretwell

@ericafretwell.bsky.social

UAlbany English | The Art of Slight Living, 1900/2000 (in progress) | Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (Duke UP) | Co-editor (w Sarah Wasserman), Oxford Studies in American Literary History | she/her

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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last mo.

“In 2024, Google DeepMind unveiled a ‘Habermas Machine,’ which has been described as a ‘scaffolded pair of LLMs designed to find consensus among people who disagree.’ The philosopher had not given Google permission to use his name, and he was horrified when he heard about the scheme.”

Jürgen Habermas Defended Reason in a Darkening Age

The great German philosopher, who died in March, understood how much depended on a principled public sphere.

newyorker.com

Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy to say this article is now published as part of an overall fantastic special issue on Writing in the 21st Century. Just look at those contributors! (Plus me.) If you don’t have institutional access, would like a copy, and we are mutuals, please DM me an email address. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57010

Project MUSE - Social Research: An International Quarterly-Volume 93, Number 2, Summer 2026

muse.jhu.edu

Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Looking forward to having this one out in SOCIAL RESEARCH in another month or two.

Matthew Kirschenbaum The Writing Lesson Revisited: Al [and | in | is] the Scriptural Economy ABSTRACT. This essay uses Michel de Certeau's framing of modernity as a scriptural economy-and that concept's parafictional deployment in Tom McCarthy's 2015 novel Satin Island and the novel's debt to Claude Lévi-Strauss's famous chapter "A Writing Lesson"-to situate large language models (LLMs) in a tradition of writing and textual production rooted in capitalism and transactional practices. It argues that generative artificial intelligence should be understood not as the disruption of writing or an aberration but as the completion of the structural logic of the scriptural
Melissa@bibliothecar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I stepped off the library dean path when it became clear that this would be the job--managing the end of academic libraries as we know them. Please know that these changes are just a result of defunding. They do not herald some bright digital future. There will just be less access to knowledge.

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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This talk, from @ericafretwell.bsky.social, looks characteristically 💯: exploring the contribution of tactile print "to Progressive Era pedagogical reform, especially the philosophies and practices of experiential learning advocated by John Dewey and Maria Montessori."

Presenters and Abstracts

Sari Altschuler (Northeastern University) and David Weimer (Newberry Library)  “Touch This Page: What We Learned from Creating a Pop-Up Tactile Exhibition” In early 2019, we launched Touch Thi…

readingbytouch.com

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books

Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

publicbooks.org

Dorothy Berry@dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I had two college dreams as a HS senior: either Mills College to study experimental music (final choice!), or Hampshire for my self-designed historical puppetry major. It is such a disappointment that current weird kids will have neither option available to them.

Jody Rosen@jodyrosen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 4mo ago

A huge loss, a bad sign. Plus the elimination of Hampshire College means an end to one of the best things about Hampshire: getting to take classes there on UMass tuition. (I did, all the sweeter for having been accepted to but not being able to afford Hampshire.) RIP “the Five Colleges.”

Jody Rosen@jodyrosen.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Devastating: Hampshire College is permanently closing following the Fall 2026 Semester. A beautiful institution & community that has done so much for so many. My child is a current Hampshire senior. Hampshire's approach to education is so unique, humane, & exciting—I've seen it first hand. Tragic

Sheila Liming@seeshespeak.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“Paula Rabinowitz … argues the format’s genius was its physical intimacy and portability … ‘I consider [the mass market paperback] one of the significant technological interventions, of the 20th century.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

‘We’re losing accessibility’: America says goodbye to the mass-market paperback

The so-called ‘pocket book’ sold in supermarkets is being phased out across the US, the latest sign of an ongoing shift in how people are choosing to read

theguardian.com

Jordan Alexander Stein@jordanstein.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3 blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2...

Franklin Research Center Announces the Opening of the Sylvia Wynter Papers, Exhibition, and Symposium - The Devil's Tale

Post contributed by John B. Gartrell, director John Hope Franklin Research Center  The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvi...

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