I don’t post much, but I recently published a piece on AI, student writing, and labor that some followers might find interesting — a mostly Marxist approach to the problem in the context of writing pedagogy/assessment: doi.org/10.1007/60490_2026_4
Temple University is requiring grad students to pay back a tuition remission as retaliation for strike action. I can’t sufficiently underline how reprehensible that is. Higher education will not forget, @TempleUniv. I truly hope faculty are raising hell on their students’ behalf.
My article on small talk, social media, and contemporary subjectivity, “The Decline of Phatic Efficiency,” is out in Postmodern Culture! Check it out: muse.jhu.edu/article/864900
We invite students of philosophy, readers of Alain Badiou and those interested in Badiou's work to join us for a close reading group on Immanence of Truths: Being and Event III.
immanence.eventbrite.com
Matt Rigilano has brilliantly applied Lacan’s ontology to Margaret Cavendish. He determines, “Cavendish creates a hierarchy of negations that are not no-things but fancies…or hermaphroditical forms.” - The Online Olios 2021
"Quarantine is only tolerable if you quarantine from it."
Read Catherine Malabou's "To Quarantine from Quarantine: Rousseau, Robinson Crusoe, and 'I'" on the CI blog. critinq.wordpress.com/2020/0…
Alexander Lock, our Modern Archives and Manuscripts Curator, looks at an 18th-century cigarette paper bearing a legend written in code.
He will be here this Wednesday at 12.00 for #AskACurator. Do you have a burning question for him? Tweet us👇
Ultimately, Spotify is nothing more than a cultural landlord. It owns a space, for which some of us pay rent to access our music and artists pay to have their music heard.
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When we immerse ourselves in Bill Viola’s videos, it is as if we are dipping into a pool that brings us into other realms of consciousness. "I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like" continues at the Barnes Foundation through September 15.
hyperallergic.com/512282/i-d…