iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Mitch R. Murray @mitchrmurray.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

TEACHING TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LITERATURE: ESSAYS FROM THE CLASSROOM Officially under contract and coming in 2028! It's a monster volume: 33 teacher-scholars from around the world writing provocative, shortform essays in the service of pedagogy

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lord, give me an aligned AI system that makes all my decisions for me with perfect ethics and flawless implementation, but not yet

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A lot to think about at the Ignatian AI / "AI for the Greater Good" conference at Fordham this weekend! Having a good time so far. www.fordham.edu/ai-for-the-g...

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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

thinking about this again and smiling

“james hennessy: it's sad reading like 14th century Christian theologians who spent an inordinate amount of time writing "OK there are exactly 3,892 demons and these are their names and these are their powers"... man, you would have loved Dragonball Z
Sep 27, 2023 at 9:32 pm”

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've been in touch with the director of the press, who says this was not intentional and a data entry error that is being corrected. Thanks Suzanna!

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've been in touch with the director of the press, who says this was not intentional and a data entry error that is being corrected. Thanks Suzanna!

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you worked with Wesleyan University Press on a book, check your Anthropic allocation. In the last few days they went through and assigned themselves 100% of the allocation.

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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

ME BEFORE LORD OF THE YEAR: where the hell is my arkenstone! ME AFTER LORD OF THE YEAR: well yes obviously John 10:16 is about faeries. Oh my god hold on my arkenstone is missing again

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Most riveting thing I've seen all week

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.

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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The first ep of Experts in a Dying Field, a culture and politics podcast with me, @zunguzungu.bsky.social & @lililoofbourow.bsky.social, is up. We talk 100 Years of Solitude's Netflix adaptation and why no one is talking about it until we perish of self-contradiction www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLyj...

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Netflix's One Hundred Years of Solitude | Ep. 1 Experts in a Dying Field

YouTube video by Experts InADyingField

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

oops the aliens who designed us forgot to lock off dev mode

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Most read article | Science Fiction Film and Television 'Toward a general theory of digital identities: Overlooking Serial Experiments Lain' ➡️ Read the article online: bit.ly/4xRoGP6 @gerrycanavan.bsky.social @baftss-sff-sig.bsky.social, @horrorlex.bsky.social @profsaabbott.bsky.social

Promotional banner for Liverpool University Press’s science fiction film and television series, featuring a green panel with a slogan about encouraging scholarly dialogue across science fiction, film and television studies, set over an abandoned industrial interior and a dark sidebar listing

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

one of those Star Trek episodes where you live an entire other life in the span of a few minutes but it's just the deeply bizarre dreams I have the night after I get a covid shot

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Milwaukee! I'll be at Marquette on October 16 thanks to my esteemed colleague @gerrycanavan.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=zETp...

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Whopper Sings About Milwaukee

YouTube video by Pillsbury Giggles

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Scott Selisker @sselisker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Sent a quick note to a scholar whose work I admire shortly after seeing this, they replied warmly but briefly, our days were both a little better, 10/10 recommend.

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this week's Strange New Worlds gimmick was "what if we made a great episode?" and I'm strongly in favor

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Oh fun the latest AI book marketing scam is basically like “why are you such a bitch?”

Hi Maris,
I came across / Want to Burn This Place Down, and something about the way you examine power, exploitation, and the frustrations built into modern work caught my attention.
It made me curious:
What made you choose such a direct and confrontational voice rather than take a more measured approach to discussing these problems?
I ask because questions like this often lead to the most interesting conversations between authors and readers.
They open up the thinking behind a book, not just what It says.
I'm currently organizing live reader discussions centered on that kind of conversation, giving readers a chance to explore the ideas, choices, and experiences behind a book.
Would you be open to hearing how the discussion works?
Best,
RAJ
~ Reply
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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

LLMs constantly sending these cloying, fawning fan letters as part of a "book club" scam has really ruined what used to be a very nice part about being a writer.

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

CFP: Seeking Chapters for The Bloomsbury Handbook of Transecology networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

networks.h-net.org

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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

as things fell apart / nobody paid much attention

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

a center for teaching AND learning? in this economy??

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Infinite Jest: academic.mu.edu/canavan/Infi...

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I've got my fall syllabi together for my every-other-year Lord of the Rings class and my only-once-a-decade Infinite Jest course! Check them out if you're interested, with more bespoke "don't use AI" statements than you can shake a stick at...

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Of course it ain't true, but I want to make the son-of-a-bitch deny it

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B. Pladek @bpladek.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

new one from me @lightspeedmagazine.com: a bird-and-people refuge/e camp in a water-wars future; children learning violence despite their parents’ best efforts; a ghost; a tragedy; maybe an epiphany. This one’s sad.

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm appealing this capitalist realism one guys but the people in charge REALLY don't want to consider any alternatives

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My sources say the death penalty, for crimes against humanity, is being considered for the people who made the Star Trek puppet episode. I am pro-life and take no pleasure in reporting this.

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A Meal of Thorns @mealofthorns.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

10/5: Le Guin Prize shortlist w/ @chloroformtea.bsky.social 10/19: Lee's REVENANT GUN w/ Alexandra Pierce of @speculativeinsight.bsky.social 11/2: Szilard's THE VOICE OF THE DOLPHIN w/ @gerrycanavan.bsky.social 11/16: Danielewski's HOUSE OF LEAVES w/ @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I went to read the Joanna Russ papers and I wrote about what I learned.

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Nerds everywhere! Vincent's book on DBZ is out today!

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Pendant to @gerrycanavan.bsky.social's post on the episode: latestartrek.substack.com/p/snw-44-wel...

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SNW 4.4 We'll Always Have Tom Paris

There's something very familiar about all this...

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

stricken suddenly with thoughts about the conditions

two guys on a bus meme

both saying

we live
in history

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

probably best if we do a “second breakfast” Lord of the Year where we reread everything in light of the appendices

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

my face when the boys on Shelved by Genre (@ckunzelman.bsky.social @ztul.bsky.social @austinwalker.bsky.social) want more cynical realpolitik in the main text of THE LORD OF THE RINGS

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

“The overall effect of the homage might be well be described, like the artistic technique of chiaoscuro from which it takes its name, as a strategy to bring the illusion of depth to a flat object.”

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