James
@jamesdraney.bsky.social
VAP in the Writing Program at Haverford College. Working on a book about the novel, interiority, and big data. https://tinyurl.com/yc6jdn9z
This symposium on poetry and AI seems very cool. Proposals due mid-august
Adversarial Poetry: Home
Adversarial Poetry - Home
unive.it
A pretty significant test case, as to whether sheer weight of marketing can remake public space and social relations, in ways that nobody would consciously choose. So far, so good...?
“I think the most I’ve ever written in one go is four pages. I can’t remember the last time that happened.” —Mary Gaitskill
Mary Gaitskill, The Art of Fiction No. 257
“I think that if humans are still walking around in fifty years, and still reading fiction, my work will last that long. Beyond that, I don’t know.”
buff.ly
It turns out that writing a book is, in fact, as hard as they said it would be
if you are coming to SNS consider joining our keyword seminar :)
Aarthi Vadde@aarthivadde.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe website for SNS 2027, hosted by Janice Ho at UBC, just launched with a fabulous lineup of keynote speakers, keyword seminars, and novel seminars. Check it out! And please submit abstracts for panels or single papers on any novel-related topic (deadline Nov. 15): snsnovelgeographies.arts.ubc.ca
Bro, Voigt-Kampff is so 2024. It's all about testing the reflex-arc response in the upper ganglia of the spinal column, bro.
Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era
nytimes.com
AI: Artificial Intelligence (2001) remains the greatest film of the 21st century prove me wrong
"A simple feedback loop--and information machines bypass humans, their so-called inventors. Computers themselves become subjects." -Kittler
My working hypothesis is that most people go to extreme lengths to hide their singularity. Sounding like a generic robot is therefore highly appealing, a kind of psychic balm.
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 2mo ago‘Perhaps editors could memorise a list of tells to check submissions against, or spend remedial hours on ChatGPT and Claude – AI boot camp – to familiarise themselves with the cadences of LLM-speak.’ Malin Hay on AI detection, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
new university motto just dropped: "Aligning Students with Human Values"
Reading Kyle Booten on "word gyms," digital interfaces that challenge writers to produce more interesting sentences
Build Word Gyms, Not Word Factories | Critical AI | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
Reading literary fiction to escape reality and reading science fiction to better attune myself to the rhythms and textures of my everyday world
i think many of the effects of LLMs on cognition are continuous with and compound the effects of always-available web search. effects which were widely researched and mostly ignored at the time.
Musil: "No one knew what exactly was in the making; nobody could have said whether it was to be a new art, a new humanity, a new morality, or perhaps a reshuffling of society. So everyone said what he pleased about it."
Any good writing about the software tool Grammarly? Looking for scholarly essays from either a rhet/comp or media theory perspective.
@moiraweigel.bsky.social wrote one of the most enlightening (and earliest) pieces on Alex Karp's fashy PhD. She now has written this luminous piece that gives a persuasive materialist account of the right wing assault on theory. Truly brilliant stuff. direct.mit.edu/octo/article...
Hating Theory Today
Abstract. Drawing on nearly a decade of research, this essay investigates the hatred of theory on the political right. The phobic fascination with theory is over a century old. Yet, in recent years, i...
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wait wut: “In the past there was a group called ‘Dire Straits.’ It’s a dire strait now, and it is going to have major implications for the global economy."
AP Exclusive: Europe has 'maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,' energy agency head warns
The head of the International Energy Agency has warned that Europe has about six weeks of jet fuel left.
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Alice G. Brand, 1987, "The Why of Cognition: Emotion and the Writing Process": "We may sometimes think of ourselves as if we are computers. But computers do not grow. They do not learn with practice or understand what they do. And computers do not feel."
Kline: "New York City itself now constitutes a core problem in American art."
New York Real Estate and the Ruin of American Art*
Abstract. Part of October's “Art Communities at Risk” series, Josh Kline's essay examines key structural problems in the American art industry through the lens of class, tracing their origins back to ...
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I like @maxread.info's piece because it articulates what I've been thinking of as the Giuseppe di Lampedusa theory of LLMs and writing: that everything must change in order for everything to stay the same.
Is ubiquitous A.I. writing "inevitable"?
On a weird few weeks of A.I.-writing scandals
maxread.substack.com
Looking forward to learning what Ben Lerner thinks about everything that's happened since 2019
Reading something in which a writer refers to their personal life as their "private sector"
i'm always surprised people haven't done more with ngai's idea of stuplimity, "a strange amalgamation of shock and boredom"
