Harris Feinsod
@feinsod.bsky.social
Comp Lit and English Prof. Baltimore. 💙⚓️💚🌱🖤📖. *Speaking only for myself*
Looking forward to this one!
Lukas Moe@lukasmoe.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo excited to announce my book comes out in the Fall; I owe many thanks to Lucas Church, Sarah Ehlers, Jennifer Clarvoe, @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social, @afilreis.bsky.social, @kristingrogan.bsky.social, @feinsod.bsky.social, @cmcgowan373.bsky.social, @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146969401...
Giving a master class on how to deal with these ridiculous attacks on academic freedom.
Jonathan Birch@birchlse.bsky.social · 7mo agoMartin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
n+1 comes out swinging www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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Next Monday & Tuesday, Sept. 15 & 16, I’ll give two talks in Baltimore, one at the Bird in Hand bookstore about *Freedom Ship*, the other at Johns Hopkins University about “How to Write (Maritime) History from Below.” sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev... sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
Join us
Marcus Rediker@marcusrediker.bsky.social · 11mo agoTuesday, Sept. 16, 10:30 am, I'll give a talk/workshop at Johns Hopkins entitled "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below." The event is sponsored by the Tidewater Initiative and the Maritime Committee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture. Join us! sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
Next week! Marcus Rediker will be at the Tidewater Initiative in Baltimore for two events. First up: a conversation about the new book "Freedom Ship" at Bird in Hand, 6:30pm 9/15 @marcusrediker.bsky.social sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
Humanities in the Village: Marcus Rediker, in conversation with Nadia Nurhussein and Harris Feinsod | The Tidewater Initiative
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute will launch its fall 2025 programming with a special additional edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series dedicated to making scholarship publicly ...
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It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.
Reading a copy of a book I’ve been teaching since the age of the course pack. Bring pack the course pack.
"Anyway the wind blows doesn't really matter to me" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/c...
Transportation Dept. Cancels $679 Million for Offshore Wind Projects
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We’re kicking things off Sept 15 @ Bird in Hand with Marcus Rediker in conversation about his new book Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery at Sea @marcusrediker.bsky.social sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
Humanities in the Village: Marcus Rediker, in conversation with Nadia Nurhussein and Harris Feinsod | The Tidewater Initiative
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute will launch its fall 2025 programming with a special additional edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series dedicated to making scholarship publicly ...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu
Harris Feinsod@feinsod.bsky.social · 12mo agoWe're launching a new Tidewater Initiative at JHU. Our research group on working waterfronts and coastal infrastructures includes a new student research lab, courses, programming partnerships with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and more in the works. sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/
We're launching a new Tidewater Initiative at JHU. Our research group on working waterfronts and coastal infrastructures includes a new student research lab, courses, programming partnerships with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and more in the works. sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/
Home | The Tidewater Initiative
We are a multidisciplinary research group devoted to study, stewardship, and stories of working waterfronts, coastal infrastructures, and oceans under conditions of globalization and environmental ins...
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“So long, Mom, I'm off to drop the bomb, So don't wait up for me.”
Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97 | CNN
Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other uni...
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AI is the intellectual equivalent of styrofoam: it’s cheap and easy for the individual user, but poisoning the ecosystem for everyone forever.
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · last yr.Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.
Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.
Friendly reminder that Instructure, parent company of Canvas, is owned by KKR, a private equity firm that purchased it for $4.8 billion last November.
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last yr.“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”
When it comes to the cultivation of human subjectivity I plan to go down swinging.
Jayme Collins—who podcasts about archival loss in climate disaster—discovered this envelope of dried mud from the 1966 Arno flood in the Ransom Center archives of conservator Peter Waters (the pioneer in salvaging water damaged paper). Amazing relic & great story—> global.utexas.edu/news/ransom-...
Great experience—we all sat around talking about meter, metadata, and how various societies construe poetic knowledge. Made me want to be a literature professor. Poetry’s Data, out now, wherever University Press Books are sold
Meredith Martin@mmvty.bsky.social · last yr.So lovely to chat about Poetry's Data with friends at Johns Hopkins! And, @feinsod.bsky.social snapped this lovely picture of me which I'll share because I love the book slide (and yes I wear too many hats). press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
I was privileged to have met Alain Peauroi a few times, and to have known many of the extraordinary landscapes he made with TERREMOTO. He was a gifted designer and beloved by all. Here is a beautiful tribute a few months after his passing. www.archpaper.com/2025/03/alai...
Alain Peauroi, TERREMOTO cofounder, shied away from the spotlight but was foundational to the ethos of the West Coast firm
Alain Peauroi, cofounder of TERREMOTO, passed away earlier this year. Colleagues and other industry professionals remember him and his work.
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Pierre Joris was one of the great and rare symposiasts of the whole.
Charles Bernstein@l-a-n-g-u-a-g-e.bsky.social · last yr.Pierre Joris (1946-2025) From the family: We will gather at main gate, Greenwood Cemetery, 500 25th Street (Fifth Avenue and 25th Street, Brooklyn), on Friday, February 28 at 9:45am and proceed to the gravesite. At 2pm, we will meet at Sunny’s Bar in Red Hook (253 Conover Street, Brooklyn).
Rip Pierre Joris. Probably the translator who influenced my own practice/thinking about translation the most.
sanctorium.bsky.social@sanctorium.bsky.social · 2y agoPaul Celan, Snow Part; tr. Pierre Joris
Just learned that James Ferguson died. That absolutely sucks. The Uses of Neoliberalism, Expectations of Modernity, The Anti-Politics Machine, those are incredible works of a kind of almost implausibly rare scholarly mind.
This general-interest book by legendary troubadour scholar Linda Paterson is a delight to read
Greg Barnhisel gave a great talk at JHU last Thurs on Code Name Puritan: Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power. There were shades of a requiem for the bygone age of multifarious collaboration between academia and the state.
Now is the time of wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beasties
