'Ô muse, dis moi l' homme aux mille tours' is the first line of the first translation of the Odyssey by a woman, Anne Dacier in 1716. She had previously translated the Iliad in 1699. And she got involved in a controversy, much like the current Nolan vs Wilson one #QuerelleD'Homer

As @katemanne.bsky.social notes, it's reinforcing male entitlement to female deference. If men wallow in AI porn and bots saying "yes, sir," all day, they may react poorly when real women say no. It could lead to violence. katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...

A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants

And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue

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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.

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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. +

Sometimes people with shared interests speak different languages. Last week I read the new Theory & Methodologies section on Victorian studies in PMLA with huge interest, especially @emilysteinlight.bsky.social and Josephine McDonagh's pieces on on US and UK scholars' ambitions for the field at +

Christopher Nolan’s In Search of Lost Time, with Timothée Chalamet as Marcel, Zendaya as Odette, Tom Hardy as Bane

Maddy B. Hare@mbhare.eurosky.social · 2d ago

Christopher Nolan's Pale Fire

I've been reading this book that just came out f/ @roopikarisam.bsky.social that has rightfully been getting a lot of attention & yeah, it's really excellent. Fantastic longue duree history of "data" with sharp analysis of the present moment. I learned a lot. www.harpercollins.com/products/dat...

Data Empire

BARACK OBAMA’S 2026 SUMMER READING PICK “A must-read.”—NPR, “15 Books Our Critics Can’t Wait to Read This Summer” An NPR, New Scientist, Nautilus, and Next ...

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Modern equivalent of the funeral games for Patroclus in the Iliad , book 23

The Onion@theonion.com · 3d ago

Moment Of Silence Followed By Hot Dog Race

BEING PAID,—what will compare with it?

1. @robdelaney.bsky.social is the best read and smartest person in Hollywood/London 2. The dizzying adrenaline of talking about Moby-Dick with him every day was amazing and I think is contagious if you subscribe to the podcast?!? 3. Our digressions are EPIC and rival Melville's 4. 🐳 4 life

Rob Delaney@robdelaney.bsky.social · 5d ago

1. This was so fun to make I almost threw up every day. 2. This is the trailer on YouTube if that’s how you’ve chosen to live your life: youtu.be/IZYZaRWwYR4?... 3. I’d be super grateful to anyone who reposted the post above. 4. Have any Qs about it for me? I’ll endeavor to answer! 5. Get in!🚣🏾‍♀️

Laura Heffernan and I are proposing an in-person seminar on "Aesthetics for Amateurs" for ACLA 2027. It's about recentering creativity and making--especially amateur making--in our theories of the aesthetic. If this is your jam, please consider submitting! www.acla.org/seminar/d6b4...

This is a truly smart paper -- yay Anna Lisa Mark and others!

Richard Jean So@richardjeanso.bsky.social · 5d ago

I just got put on to this cool paper f/ Stanford Lit Lab colleagues on using cultural analytics methods to model/detect therapy discourse in US novels + therapy discourse in general. I think it's great esp. as an ideal example of how to use data to study literature: academic.oup.com/alh/article-...

I just got put on to this cool paper f/ Stanford Lit Lab colleagues on using cultural analytics methods to model/detect therapy discourse in US novels + therapy discourse in general. I think it's great esp. as an ideal example of how to use data to study literature: academic.oup.com/alh/article-...

Modeling Therapy as Discourse in Twentieth-Century American Literature

Abstract. This article uses quantitative methods of cultural analytics in order to trace points of contact between the discourse of therapy as it emerges i

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Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2

It’s been a hard week and I nearly missed that this was finally out. I wrote “Victorian Studies and the American State” 5 years ago and have been discussing it with some of you for a decade. Surreal to see, and grateful to be in the good company of @jakeromanow.bsky.social and brilliant respondents

Victorian Studies and the American State | PMLA | Cambridge Core

Victorian Studies and the American State - Volume 141 Issue 2

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“…our sense that we are reading the work of another human being, someone with connections to others, to a time and a place like postwar Naples, someone to whom we might relate our own life stories, is our strongest reason not to cede too much ground to AI-generated text.”

Dan Cohen@dancohen.org · 6d ago

New issue of my newsletter Humane Ingenuity: “The Breath of the Author” — The palpable presence of someone else’s mind in our best writing should give us pause about the encroachment of AI text newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

Found this Lepore interview interesting—esp the broad-strokes claim that in US, every new media revolution has upended party coalitions and the demographics of media and creatives (daily paper, radio, tv, cable/web, social media).. but 1/2 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Dr. Jill Lepore on why the AI backlash is vital for the future

Podcast Episode · Decoder with Nilay Patel · July 20 · 1h

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I feel I must post about something that makes me happy, & right now that's Sheila Heti saying that Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames is 1 of her favourite novels. #19thc The New Yorker had asked her which book had taught her most about another medium. So cool to think of the department store as a medium!

reburial politics! I read the lit. on physicality w/ the dead when writing on Antigone: here, it’s the “‘reading of bones’, a ‘double-bodily engagement’ between the living & the dead, visible in…physical handling of the coffins, the carrying of remains through familiar landscapes” TRL great start!

Ciaran O'Neill@ciaranon.bsky.social · last wk.

What happens when historic human remains are returned to a community of origin? In this new co-authored article we compare recent reburials at Inishbofin in Ireland and Pälkäne in Finland: both controversial processes for reasons that overlap in fascinating ways. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There is SO MUCH good material in Classical antiquity. Just book 1 of Livy could be a seven-season Netflix drama, "The Kings of Rome". Shakespeare wrote Coriolanus out of like four pages of Livy. There's a whole Livy Cinematic Universe there for the taking.

about half of centrists and the center-left for some reason concluded that climate change was passe hippie bullshit that doesn't matter, and we're about to learn how wrong that was, the hard way prospect.org/2026/07/28/c...

The Strongest El Niño in History Is Coming. Get Ready. - The American Prospect

Donald Trump has no ideas, but America is ready for a U-turn on climate change.

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"Nature Bats Last"

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · last wk.

about half of centrists and the center-left for some reason concluded that climate change was passe hippie bullshit that doesn't matter, and we're about to learn how wrong that was, the hard way prospect.org/2026/07/28/c...

Most charisma leaving the building since Polyphemus left his cave

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · last wk.

Scoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.

Vase of flowers and some fruit, 1654, a late work by Judith Leyster. It is incredible that she could do this so well, as a non-specialist in flower painting. It's hard! And today is her day.

This book is so smart!!

Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social · last wk.

I finally have a physical copy of this astonishing book and cried reading the dedication & acknowledgements: what an immense accomplishment. I really do encourage everyone to find a way to read this— it’s unbelievably, inspiringly smart. Thank you, @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social, for writing it.

I finally have a physical copy of this astonishing book and cried reading the dedication & acknowledgements: what an immense accomplishment. I really do encourage everyone to find a way to read this— it’s unbelievably, inspiringly smart. Thank you, @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social, for writing it.

[movie trailer voice] They fuck you up... ...your mum and dad *Country scene, dark, tent in foreground collapses* "DAD!"* They may not mean to but they do *Family arguing as they walk on a cliff path* This year, exclusively in IMAX, they'll add some extra just for you... This! Be! The! Film!

Daniel Tunnard@danieltunnard.bsky.social · last wk.

Are there any other poems that have been made into films? Could Nolan have a crack at "This is just to say"?

*bass blast* Cillian Murphy (whispering): we've got to get the key *bass blast* Sydney Sweeney (also whispering): the key to what? *bass blast* Murphy: the key to all mythologies *bass blast*

Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · last wk.

Manifesting Middlemarch as Nolan's next project so that I can write an LRB review of it 🙏🙏🙏

Ok, I have been MIA on this platform because life has been busy, but I want to remind you Digital Humanities Quarterly invites abstracts for a special issue on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) in relation to digital humanities pedagogy due August 1 dhq.digitalhumanities.org/submissions/...