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Bradley J. Fest

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associate professor of English at Hartwick College | criticism: C20-21 lit. & culture | poetry: The Rocking Chair (2015), The Shape of Things (2017), & 2013–2017: Sonnets (2024) | bradleyjfest.com

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15h
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Authoritarianism is the Bailout
Klepto-Keynesianism's final phase.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 19h
Totalitarianism is The Bailout
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The Ellisons Are Beta-Testing Big Brother.
If your feeds, subs, streams, games, and sports don't ensure you are on your "best behavior," your school and its EdTech partners will.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"Culture might seem a less consequential right than due process or free assembly. Its infringement makes less spectacular news than police action. In this way, the gross repeal of a right that took decades to build goes unreported." OTD 2025 hyperallergic.com/how-to-prote...
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How to Protect Your Right to Culture
The United States government’s coordinated repeal of the right to culture has grave consequences for the texture of our daily lives. But there are ways to fight back.
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Toril Moi @torilmoi.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
My essay on Fred Jameson as a reader will be out in the next London Review of Books! @lrb.co.uk
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"Employers are navigating a flood of errors and low-quality work that are sapping employee time, raising privacy and security risks and pushing up costs. 90% of executives say AI efforts have yet to translate to productivity gains." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back
Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
happy 25th release - aversary to MULHOLLAND DRIVE!! got to talk with the beautiful Colm Toibin about how to understand this odd odd dream of cinema stay tuned: we're doing it again soon for a new episode about a different movie, a preposterous choice
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Academic: the Recession Interviewer: and this one? Academic: COVID Interviewer: and this one? Academic: mass state funding cuts Interviewer: and this one? Academic: admin trying to replace my field with chatbots Interviewer: and this one?
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"...Little public things—like designing postage stamps or National Park Service photographer stipends or spending the pittance of pre-DOGE NEA dollars on public programming—did something to cohere a nation. Everyday aesthetics made place."
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Not quite this but Any Austin does some truly amazing stuff on landscape and environment in games. www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You can lie to yourself every day that this horseshit doesn't make you lazy and stupid, but reality comes at you pretty fast
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
One of my favorite podcasts.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
no and no some more
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
America was an empty mall. America was shoddy caulk oozing from a vinyl arc in a historic heatwave. America was a brutishly redacted Frederick Douglass speech on foam posterboard in a tractor trailer Freedom Truck. America was not even selling corndogs. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
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How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration
What Was America?: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era tackles United States’ most ambitious cultural project: the bicentennial.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
thrilled this piece on bicentennial and sesquicentennial art and culture is now out online!
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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Where can I sign up?
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Spent all day refining a press release for our upcoming symposium on Creative Writing in the Age of AI and then . . . he just tweeted it out.
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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I couldn't believe this crap.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
here's fall www.annakornbluh.com/portfolio/li...
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Literary Knowledge
UIC English PhD Proseminar: Literary Knowledge Professor Kornbluh     Fall 2026  This course introduces English PhD students to conversations about literary knowledge and critical knowledge.  How does...
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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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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I'll re-up this recent poem too. I really like it. dazedsanta.com/2025.1314
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Bradley J. Fest is associate professor of English and coordinator of creative writing at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY. He is the author of three volumes of poetry, The Rocking Chair (Blue Sketch,.....
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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Re-upping "Teaching Without Computers" from last week for the weekend. (Also: Thanks for all the good feedback I've gotten from so many this past week!) 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 · 22/09/2026
two years gone, forever here
Fredric Jameson cairn
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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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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Jesus.
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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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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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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Columbia University bans all electronic devices in required courses in its Core Curriculum. This is the way! I’m rarely proud to be a Columbia graduate, but this is great:
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Columbia prohibits electronic devices in all Literature Humanities, Contemporary Civilization sections
Columbia has prohibited the use of electronic devices in all Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization sections starting this fall, 12 syllabi for the courses reviewed by Spectator show and ...
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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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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🎃👻 all hayo’s eve 👻🎃 @superhayo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my kiddo just started college, and one of their classes ai-policy ended with this lovely sentence: genAI simply reproduces the knowledge that has already failed us.
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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oof. Yup, it's def. the water.
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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well, Iron City had been stealing city water for years to make their, um, beer, so surely that's it!
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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My first-year writing classroom this semester is one of the most engaged groups of students I've had in years. It IS freaking me out a little!
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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I went to exclusively in-class writing in the spring, and it was marvelous, and yes, this semester is already like: The ENTIRE tide has shifted. Making this piece I wrote this summer and published yesterday already seem out of date somehow. 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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Bradley J. Fest @bradleyfest.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I just published a piece about how wonderful all-paper pedagogy is! So many of us thinking on the same wavelength right now. 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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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
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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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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