iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 8h

Finally reading the “who needs writing in higher education anyway?” piece, and it is truly one of the most blinkered perspectives on the scale and processes of modern learning I have ever encountered or imagined possible.

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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Why has no one been talking about how criminal it is that Twin Peaks: The Return--which clealry should be no. 1--was . . . no. 57!!!?

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again shocking dinner guests by saying I never use AI

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is also deliberate deliteracy.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

two years gone, forever here

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“For the tech bros to remain dominant, their story has to change. So, Silicon Valley’s best storytellers no longer want our capitulation to their technology’s inevitability. They want us to panic, instead of seriously deliberating at the polls, in community meetings and in Congress.”

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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Amen

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

👇🏻

302 END TIMES FASCISM
We are convinced that our collective safety will come only when our elites are forced to imagine living and surviving here, with the rest of us. They will see this as a cruel and terrible punishment at first.

They will have to get over it.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

SOCRATES: Picture the following in your mind. Imagine human beings living in an underground cave-like residence. Shadows are cast on the wall by a fire Glaucon: so the shadows are like people! Have we discovered a new intelligence?!? SOCRATES: Glaucon: I, for one, welcome our new Shadow Lords!

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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I gave a talk to my Hartwick College colleagues today, "Teaching Without Computers," about my move, like so many of us, to an all-paper pedagogy in the spring 2026. The talk was simultaneously published at the b2o review. www.boundary2.org/2026/09/brad...

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Bradley J. Fest–Teaching Without Computers

Teaching Without Computers Bradley J. Fest In a moment, I am going to talk about despair. But let me be clear: What I have to say in the following is not about frustration, burnout, or stress; it is...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"What it means to be human, to be poetic, to be a meaningmaking animal: we can imagine our world differently+so can change it. GenAI cannot imagine or originate anything, cannot depart from what it was given, + so cannot change" ever wise @bradleyfest.bsky.social www.boundary2.org/2026/09/brad...

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Bradley J. Fest–Teaching Without Computers

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Get the laptops out of the classroom!! No internet!!! Print readings for the students! Use real books, pens, & paper! We are doing a “low-tech” classroom this semester, and just a week in, I can tell it has made all the difference

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I've been doing this for a couple years, so maybe this is the cumulative effect of tech-free policies at secondary schools & across a growing number of disciplines, but my students this term are so attentive it is actually freaking. me. out. a. little.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"To help humans adjust to the NEW REALITY that is about to be ushered in by the UNQUESTIONING AND UNIVERSAL ADOPTION OF THE SHIT MACHINE, we will also be creating an APP that will allow you to POINT YOUR PHONE at the SHIT from the SHIT MACHINE" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-...

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We Must Create the Shit Machine

“For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there were a COMPUTER that could A...

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16/09/2026

The Nerd Reich wants to control the universe, but they can't control book readers. My book is #6 on Amazon's bestseller list—a month after publication! Please buy at your LOCAL bookstore or via Bookshop! Use this link to support my work: bookshop.org/a/109206/978...

screenshot of amazon chart showing Nerd Reich at #6

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We’re reconstructing the prison-house of language, but this time we’re leaving humanity on the outside of it.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Talking to new k-12 English teachers in training and it is striking how frustrated they are at how little book reading happens in or for class.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The professors and instructors who turn classrooms back into spaces for reading and discussion, are going to leave the biggest legacies in this world. Everyone one else will disappear into LLM wallpaper proxies and derivatives.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This book is a romp through our contemporary that blends shoe-leather reporting from “hot zones” with self-consciously non-conspiratorial theorization of the novel political alignments producing fascism now. Fortunately, it also reveals how brittle & already fractious those fascist coalitions are.

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Finishing a first book in literary studies? Don't miss the Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Award. Applications due Nov 15. (You can submit with or without a contract, though in either event there is a brief publisher's application to join your author submission). www.acla.org/prize-awards...

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Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Award | American Comparative Literature Association

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

book on main book on main post it post it book on main

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"as the world changes our elites are changing, becoming more fascist, attracted to ideas justifying that only some people are going to make it. it’s the job of a credible left to put forward a vision of the future for how we live together well on this planet." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/m...

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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Say the End of the World Is Now on the Table (Gift Article)

In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of “end times fascists” is just fine with the earth’s demise.

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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

More from DuPlessis's Daykeeping (and just devastating): So I start improving my "dark night of the political soul" street creds. Because I am afraid to even hint that I might have to live the rest of my life under a shambling but intensifying fascism.

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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Rereading some DuPlessis writing about 2020 election: "This is the world A We or Wee-Aache live to vote in, drenched with fear and tinctured with the silent wish for hope that our reading of the current 'air' is true, and will prevail and that doing this a new way (by mail ballot) will prove OK."

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Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I managed to quote the copy Zizek wrote for an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog.

Zizek discussing a nude young man's photo in a 2003 Abercrombie & Fitch catalog.

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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I mourn the passing of Rachel Blau DuPlessis, whose writing taught me so much. Much to choose from, so here’s a bit of Blue Studios I had pinned above my computer for a while: A book should be porous; it should have enough air and space, enough blue air, so that whoever is enters it can breathe.

Extract from intro to rachel blau duplessis’ blue studios

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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm writing a little something remembering Rachel Blau DuPlessis, and I just re-read my 2020 (published 2023) interview with her. Worth checking out if you haven't. (Happy to share a PDF if you don't have access.) read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...

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Something Worth Leaving in Shards: An Interview with Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Abstract. This interview with poet, essayist, literary critic, and collagist Rachel Blau DuPlessis was conducted via email correspondence between June 11 and August 29, 2020. Author of over a dozen vo...

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Dave Stanley @davidwstanley.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

He definitely has a point

"How sad it must be, believing that scientists, historians, scholars, and journalists, would devote their entire lives to deceiving you. But a con man proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth and honesty."
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson pictured

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

go go go

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 03/09/2026

The NBA-Clippers story is a story about two things working better than recent years have led us to expect: the ability of journalism to hold power and money to account and the willingness of an institution to do the same. It also serves as a reminder that those two things should be linked.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

From hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.

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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just utterly devastated to hear that Rachel Blau DuPlessis has passed away. What a monumental loss.

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Cat 🐈 @mrsbadcrumble1975.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This post is ten years old and still accurate. #climatechange

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If I encountered "The Entertainment" tape from Infinite Jest, I would just watch it and then go outside or have a beer or something. Big deal!

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“If there were a problem in our economy that tax cuts could solve they would have solved it by now.” — @kedseconomist.com

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 31/08/2026

Are we great again yet?

Researchers in china have successfully reversed both type one and type two diabetes using stem cells that allow patients' bodies to produce insulin again

Just in: the United States announces a new name for one of the lakes here.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

writing is the extreme overwork + social derangement in peak pandemic when one could draft peer-review revise a whole ass essay then completely forget it exists (as nobody else, all in the same straits, could notice) + then a phrase comes to mind + one remembers annakornbluh.com/wp-content/u...

For the purpose of
confronting the privatising logics of the present, let us consider some opposites:
objectivity and composition. Using these terms counterintuitively may
be a jolt; this section of the essay, in its prescriptive and notional junket, is
necessarily speculative.
Both of these terms have quotidian definitions that tend to fall outside of
literary criticism: objectivity is scientific reasoning, composition is artistic or
technocratic skill. Yet they can creatively dub aptitudes of literature that are
also aptitudes of criticism: a unique kind of thinking (an objectivity in the
literal sense of ob-jectum, throwing in the way of, both towards and
against, customary thinking) and a unique kind of making (putting together
something more than was already available in the plainly phenomenal
world). Practiced as the embrace of objectivity and composition, instead of
subjectivity and dissolutionism, criticism could have different prospects.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

At the outset of Fall term (and, for some, the rampup of bargaining prep) we’ve got two episodes loaded with praxis - debt reveal kits, FOIA pointers, oppo research, budget models, etc. - co-sponsored by @aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @publicgoodu.bsky.social

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A Moral Document (Vandal Live @ Wayne State)

with Sofya Aptekar, Brian Deyo, Kelly Grotke, Stephen Hastings-King, & more

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I went out of cell phone range for one day on a mountain and my @bostonreview.bsky.social essay on close reading blew up again? Happy back to school, everyone!!!!

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