Writing, 18C lit & culture, novels, psychoanalysis, literary theory

Joined October 2018
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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
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“Labor-Based Assessment, Student Labor, and Postdigital Subjectivity in the Age of Generative AI”
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.@TempleUniv found a scab for my class, so I made a new Canvas module to help them out. @TUGSA_6290 #TUGSAStrike
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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.
Lol “for my convenience”
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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

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3 Jul 2022
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
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16 Feb 2022
Me: How did they die 1600s Doctor: Kil'd by accidents I'm afraid Me: ...accidents? 1600s Doctor: S E V E R A L
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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
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Oh this is a happy day, this will have been another happy day! [Pause.] After all. [Pause.] So far.
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We do not mean to do any harm, but we could not help either.
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"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…
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Karl Marx was right
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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👇
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3 Sep 2019
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. bit.ly/2zO1RAc

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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…
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