Tita Chico
@titachico.bsky.social
Prof of English @ U Maryland *Devices of Enlightenment* (current) *On Wonder* (Cambridge '25) *The Experimental Imagination* (Stanford '18/'20) Fellow @ Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Amsterdam https://titachico.wixsite.com/home
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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I highly recommend Dr Zoe Copeman's newest, "Negotiating Their Medical Authority: The Life Writings of Frances Burney, Hester Thrale, and Anne Lister." #C18L #medicalhumanities #feminist ojs.unito.it/index.php/ri...
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quite honored to offer some of the framing to think in the subjunctive, the gloriousness of wonder's 'as if,' as we muddle through what AI could, might, ought to be -- as alluded to by the much-admired Prof @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Matthew Kirschenbaum@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 6d ago6. To that end, I hold out hope for the tare splintered wonder, even now, even here (per @titachico.bsky.social ). “Do a breakthrough.” More, please.
Publisher in this piece says “If an author has used AI to help support their research for a nonfiction book, that’s fine. But… that means that we now need together to apply another layer of human research to make sure that the facts are actually true.” So it’s not fine really, is it?
The new premium product: books written by people
Some publishers think AI could not only help authors but replace them
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It’s terrific. Best thing I’ve read on this nonsense.
Gosh, the news out of Indiana is horrible. ICYMI, the Indiana Historical Society fired its entire Education and Engagement Team and its Exhibits staff. Apparently, the emergency all-hands meeting lasted 3 minutes & then they were all escorted from the building, having to return later for their stuff
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And the rhetorical beauty of Prof @gabrielh.bsky.social's own words: "Let us pass silently over the series of slides presented without validation or replicability that is offered as evidence for the supposed rise and fall of Chinese literature and Shakespeare in 'Appendix 2.'"
Tita Chico@titachico.bsky.social · last wk.Prof @gabrielh.bsky.social adopts the sloppy, ill-informed approach that Appiah used for his LLM analysis on Appiah's own cv to prove the point that the approach is meaningless. It is sloppy. And it is wrong. Appiah did not do the reading.
Prof @gabrielh.bsky.social adopts the sloppy, ill-informed approach that Appiah used for his LLM analysis on Appiah's own cv to prove the point that the approach is meaningless. It is sloppy. And it is wrong. Appiah did not do the reading.
Tita Chico@titachico.bsky.social · last wk.------> "Running a similar classifier task on Appiah’s own academic CV helps show the absurdity of this procedure. When I asked an LLM to classify the published titles and book descriptions in Appiah’s CV... I found that Appiah would seem to be part of the trend he wants to critique." 8/n
A tour de force of analysis and exegesis. Bravo, Prof @gabrielh.bsky.social, and thank you. "Kwame Anthony Appiah Hasn’t Done the Reading: The philosopher’s report on the state of literary studies is a shambles." @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/kwam...
Opinion | Dear Critics of Literary Studies: Do the Reading
The philosopher’s report on the state of literary studies is a shambles.
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Boards! Accreditation! All the sexiest higher ed topics.
Knight First Amendment Institute@knightcolumbia.org · 2w agoHow can higher education better withstand political attacks? In a new essay, @bakerdphd.bsky.social argues that power must be shifted away from governing boards and governments, and toward faculty, staff, students, and accreditors.
Can anyone point me to good readings about connections between "extracts/extracting" in the literary sense (pulling out a quote or passage) and "extractive" practices in the environmental sense? I feel like there must be work out there, perhaps in environmental book history, that synthesises this?
The University of Chicago law school has banned AI and electronic devices from its classrooms for first-year students. Why won't the college do the same for its first-year undergraduates?https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/13/university-of-chicago-ai/
The AI effect: University of Chicago Law School opts to prohibit electronic devices in some classrooms
Come fall, first-year students at U. of C. Law School will be prohibited from using electronic devices like laptops, tablets and phones in the classroom.
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the entire project of AI is predicated on forced enclosure i.e. theft
Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 3w agoHuge new class action lawsuit filed by big publishers and authors against Google this week over AI training. It accuses Google of taking millions of books / articles provided to them for use only in Google Books, Google Play Books, and Google Scholar, and secretly using them to train LLMs. 🧵 1/4
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The 51st@51st.news · 3w agoExciting news: We were recognized in the first-ever ZinePrizes, sponsored by @spj-posts.bsky.social and @microcosm.bsky.social! Come out to an in-person event to snag a copy 👀
once again saying: Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
Reuters@reuters.com · 3w agoSecurity camera footage obtained from local businesses showed individuals who are believed to be U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounding a car and pulling the driver onto the street, in events connected to the fatal shooting of a man in a coastal town in Maine on July 13.
I just read Prof Kim's newest and it addresses so many fantastic questions I've had for a long time about *The Woman of Colour*, epistolary form, and Black liberation. Thank you!
Joey S. Kim (she/her)@joeykim.bsky.social · 3w agoGot my hands on the latest print issue of @ecfjournal.bsky.social! I’m happy to share my essay, “Epistolarity and Black Futurity in The Woman of Colour,”which is the first piece I wrote postpartum and now the first that shows my new “Associate” title in print! 🥰🥹 dm me if you’d like a copy!
"Larsen said the chances of a child achieving permanent status in the U.S. without an attorney present are low to none." Due process this is not. This is a deportation machine that simply processes people with life or death consequences.
OPB@opb.org · 4w agoStarting Tuesday, the federal government embarked on what it says is a new way to process a backlog of cases. Now, hearings for minors are being moved up, sped up and packed in on more days — in what are called “mega master” hearings.
Ok I'm following @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's rec and reading Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. Mixing that with The Tyranny of Metrics by Muller and seeing what wild and crazy ideas I have.
my soon-to-be colleague, Prof Yasmin Solomonescu, has just published a fantastic title with @universitypress.cambridge.org, *Reimagining Persuasion in British Romantic Literature*. You can order it with a 20% discount like I just did by using the code RPBRL2026 www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
Reimagining Persuasion in British Romantic Literature | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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I am full of joy and gratitude & astonishment. I've read Dave Alff's extremely generous & thoughtful review of my *On Wonder* @universitypress.cambridge.org in @asecsoffice.bsky.social's *Eighteenth-Century Studies* several times now, utterly moved. thank you, thank you.
This is really cool #LongC18 urbanformation.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/a...
Analyzing London’s Eighteenth-Century Road Network
Mapping centrality on the roads from London: A study of late eighteenth-century London and its environs to measure the correspondence between global radiality and local centrality I am posting belo…
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thank you so much! hearing this makes us so happy <3
@themerl.bsky.social inspired a slide in a keynote I gave today at the University of York. My title is GEORGICAL TECHNOLOGIES in the long 18th century. In my coda, I discussed MERL & its commitments to community in the broadest & most generous sense as exemplary. Plus, the Absolute Unit.
