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Open Letter Concerning the Tenure Denial of Dr. Iván Chaar López

The denial of tenure to Dr. Chaar López has become a national concern because it raises questions that extend far beyond one faculty member or one institution. Scholars across disciplines depend upon ...

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2w ago

UT President interfering with faculty tenure. Just the latest egregious example of administrator overreach and political capitulation. Non-paywall follows.

Wait, has McSweeney's gained access to DUP's contracts?!

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 2w ago

"My next book project is a trans-species manifesto-cum-collage assembled from excised first editions of Hemingway novels, decaying roadkill gathered over the course of a summer spent barefoot in Michigan, and a series of scatological limericks generated by my AI companion, Judith."

Rare UChicago W

Dr. Stephanie Seul@stephanieseul.bsky.social · 3w ago

'We need to ensure that our students actually learn to think critically, strategically & independently without relying on AI.'To that end, first-year law students will be entirely banned from using electronic devices like laptops, tablets & cell phones in the classroom" cybernews.com/ai-news/univ...

My book exists on the Internet! Official publication date is May 4th, 2027. www.dukeupress.edu/how-color-be...

How Color Became a Technology: The Making of Chromatic Capitalism

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My department at Notre Dame is hiring TT junior faculty!! We're seeking applications for an Assistant Prof of Film History, broadly defined. Applications due November 1st.

Our residency call for the 26/27 academic year is live! The theme this year is Creative Misuse - interpret as you will. Read the full prompt: https:// drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-7J4UoajGAooans30yEgQKlzys2hD/view Fill out the application: https:// forms.gle/KNfcAGBVCbyURiWJA

"Oysters . . . possess what Parker dubs a uniquely paranatural ontology: they live a 'double life,' existing as both discrete objects as well as agents of transformation." In review, Lida Zeitlin-Wu on Thomas R. Parker's Paranatures in Culinary Culture: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/lida_zeitlin...

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Alivisatos to Be Replaced by A.I. Chatbot

During their quarterly board meeting, University trustees voted to further integrate AI into University administration by replacing President Paul Alivisatos.

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Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

The Inattention Economy

Revealing the unheralded contributions of women of color to the foundation and development of the digital economyThe Inattention Economy challenges the wides...

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brb writing a new book chapter

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4mo ago

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)

Although the timing isn't ideal, hope to see some of you at our "Precarity Media" panel at #SCMS2026 this evening!

chicago! the Inter Chicago Circle for Experimental Critical Theory partners with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (chicago edition) for a special event this saturday: Slop Machine: Anna Kornbluh and Kate Wagner on the Aesthetics of Contemporary Fascism interccect.com/2026/02/16/a...

aesthetics of an antiaesthetic age

In collaboration with the new Chicago branch of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, InterCcECT welcomes you to a moderated discussion on immoderate SLOP. From the bulldozing of the White Ho…

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Obviously naming a snow plow won't fix any of our big problems, but I do think it is evidence of a huge shift in the Overton window where the city has allowed this to win. (In previous years, the name had been disqualified from the competition by city officials)

Block Club Chicago@blockclubchi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Chicago just named a snowplow "Abolish ICE" — here are the other winners: blockclubchi.co/4b6zwaQ

I'm beyond thrilled to announce that How Color Became a Technology: The Making of Chromatic Capitalism is under contract with Duke University Press! (And yes, the images will be in full color 🎨) @dukepress.bsky.social @kwissoker.bsky.social

No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.

I wrote about Pantone's controversial 2026 COTY pick, Cloud Dancer (AKA white) for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. I discuss what color-focused corporations like Pantone are actually selling us and how Cloud Dancer holds up a reactionary mirror to our current fascist times. #Pantone #ColorOftheYear

Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“With the Color of the Year, Pantone is selling color as a cultural and emotional commodity.” @lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social on Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/pantone-color-year-cloud-dancer-whiteness-fascism-eugenics/

As someone who taught just one 8-week asynchronous course during my brief time at ODU, I can't even imagine mandating courses like this across the board. This is what happens when neoliberal universities make massive structural changes with zero regard for the needs of their faculty and students.

Myles McNutt@memles.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Whenever someone asked how my fall was going, I would tell them this story. Everything I said to @chronicle.com was what I told them: change this fast cannot account for the lived reality of faculty and students across diverse programs.

I HAVE IDEAS

may@maysuser.name · 6mo ago

what the fuck are "immersive weather vibrations"

I just thought everyone should see this

📅🔔 ICYMI 🔔📅 Applications for our 2026 DISCO Network Affiliate Program close this Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 11:59PM! For more information and to access the application, please visit: www.disconetwork.org/affiliate-app

DISCO Affiliate Program Application — DISCO Network

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DISCO Network@disconetwork.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Applications now open for the 2026 DISCO Network Affiliate Program! Join a diverse, interdisciplinary community of scholars and get support developing writing on pressing issues at the intersection of technology and social justice. Open to grad students, early-career professionals, & junior faculty!

"It seems Captain Von Trapp and I misunderstood each other. I assumed he was looking for a wife of taste and sophistication, who was a dead ringer for Tippi Hedren; instead, he wanted to marry a curtain-wearing religious fanatic who shouts every word she says."

I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled

Dear friends, family, and Austrian nobility, Captain Von Trapp and I are very sorry to inform you that we no longer plan to wed. We offer our deepe...

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I love how "welsh rarebit" became "welsh rabbit" 🐇

Discontinued Foods!@discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 2y ago

Men only think about 15 things, and two of them are Macaroni Camp Style and London Loaf

johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc... Best take on the Color of the Year so far. Cloud Dancer is "the color of ChatGPT’s blood if ChatGPT could bleed, if ChatGPT could be slashed with a sashimi knife and if milky fluid could come gushing out of its jugular."

'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response

Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth

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The status of higher ed right now in a fucking nutshell

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · 8mo ago

"I’ve concluded that instead of teaching students to read and write, I should be teaching them how to prompt AI better. If only I’d had a better education in AI prompt writing, I’d be able to get AI to create more AI-proof teaching materials for me."

Environmental metaphors also abound here, making the digital cloud appear weightless. As Tung-Hui Hu writes in A Prehistory of the Cloud: "Today's dominant metaphor for digital space, 'the cloud,' is actually a metaphor for private ownership" (in this case, private ownership over color itself).

Lida Zeitlin-Wu@lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

So Pantone's 2026 Color of the Year is.... white. Each December, the corporation promises consumers that they can soothe themselves to serenity amidst unending crisis--and they do so by taking advantage of a 100+ year history of color's embroilment in self-help culture and emotional capitalism.

"A timeless neutral white of serene sophistication".... Richard Dyer is feeling smug right now, no doubt.

Lida Zeitlin-Wu@lidazeitlinwu.bsky.social · 8mo ago

So Pantone's 2026 Color of the Year is.... white. Each December, the corporation promises consumers that they can soothe themselves to serenity amidst unending crisis--and they do so by taking advantage of a 100+ year history of color's embroilment in self-help culture and emotional capitalism.

So Pantone's 2026 Color of the Year is.... white. Each December, the corporation promises consumers that they can soothe themselves to serenity amidst unending crisis--and they do so by taking advantage of a 100+ year history of color's embroilment in self-help culture and emotional capitalism.

Come visit next summer for the DSI's annual Digital IDEAS! ☀️🗓️ Led by faculty director Sarah Murray, IDEAS brings together those working at the intersection of critical digital studies, social justice, and public intellectualism for a week-long community-building workshop Learn more: myumi.ch/rAP6M

UM Digital Studies Institute@umichdigital.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The 6th Annual Digital IDEAS Summer Institute returns May 31–June 5, 2026! 💡💻✨This year’s theme: AFTER — exploring aftermaths, afterlives, afterworlds & the hereafter. Details + apply: myumi.ch/rAP6M #DigitalStudies #DigitalIDEAS2026 #CriticalTech

Made it through the crapshoot #scms2025 acceptance process this year! Looking forward to talking "precarity media" with Laurie Ouellette, Anna Watkins Fisher, and Roopali Mukherjee. if you want Chicago food/drink/other recommendations as the conference approaches, hit me up.

"An AI-assembled version of Gargano’s Christmas cake, for instance, would have people cooking a 6-inch cake for 3 to 4 hours at 320°F (160°C)." Enjoy your charred dust!

Meredith Shiner@meredithshiner.com · 8mo ago

my unifying theory of AI is that the people in Silicon Valley with the most concentration of wealth and power have never done real human activities. They've never written a note. They've never tried to cook. So they think this shit is both a miracle and something everyone who does things desires.