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Pannill Camp

@pannill.bsky.social
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Assoc. Prof. Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at Tufts. Author of The First Frame. 18c France, social theory, freemasonry. Co-host, www.ontappod.com.

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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have learned that today I was lecturing (yelling) about Freud's ideas of the castration complex and penis envy so loudly that my wife, who is also the chair of the department, could hear me down the hall.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Of the conceivable possibilities, the best would be that Tilly Norwood is an elaborate Nathan Fielder project that ends with her unhinging her jaw and swallowing an entire Labrador retriever puppy live at the Oscars.
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On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
On episode 085, Elise Morrison of Yale University joins Pannill and Sarah to talk about new book on war trauma and theater, plus the performance angles of Flock camera surveillance, and the MIT report on AI and Education. Have a listen! www.ontappod.com/home/2026/9/...
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On TAP 085 — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast
Elise Morrison joins Pannill and Sarah to talk about her new book, Beyond the Fourth Wall of War: Theater and Therapy for Embodied Trauma . They also discuss the performance dimensions of Flock surve...
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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Big announcement today: Tufts is joining the consortium of editors for TDR: A Journal of Performance Studies as.tufts.edu/news-events/...
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Tufts Joins the TDR Consortium | School of Arts and Sciences
September 8, 2026Tufts School of Arts and Sciences and its Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) are proud to announce that Tufts has joined the TDR Consortium, a group of leadi...
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
If you're not using asbestos yet, you are being left behind. Everyone is using asbestos, there's no point in trying to fight it. Asbestos is the future.
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Properly understood, the Trishuli Valley is now a crime scene — the site of catastrophic tortious harm resulting from criminal negligence with respect to efforts to mitigate climate change.
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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Never forget to use a vpn when sending yourself threatening messages to get out of directing a play.
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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Score one for human scenic designers apnews.com/article/germ...
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AI-assisted staging draws boos at the Richard Wagner festival in Germany
An experiment with artificial intelligence at the annual Richard Wagner festival in the German town of Bayreuth has drawn boos from the audience after producing a staging that appeared to leave some s...
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John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A classics professor is clearly not qualified to evaluate a movie. To correctly appreciate the medium of film, you need a degree in English literature
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Mostly I wrote this because I wanted to do a post with a bunch of photos of Trump grimacing and looking embalmed in it, but it wound up being about how shabby and fake all the familiar political rituals feel now, and why that is. defector.com/the-dodgers-...
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The Dodgers Went To Grandpa's House! | Defector
There are aspects of being president of the United States that Donald Trump is really bad at, and others at which he is significantly worse. It goes without saying that none of that is improving, but ...
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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Dink is the #1 movie on Apple+ and I’m about to make it even more so by watching it. #thedink
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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The American research university has been in serial crisis for 60 years. AI is now upending the whole applecart — but rightly seen, this is an opportunity as much as it is a threat. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
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The University As We Know It Is Finished
That’s a good thing.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/06/2026
Surprise, surprise! The Vanderbilt report decrying the state of scholarship in the humanities is itself a terrible work of “scholarship“:
Screenshot of a quotation from Khiara Bridges of Berkeley discussing how the Vanderbilt Report inaccurately distorts her scholarship.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
“When I assign analysis, (…) I am trying to put the student’s mind through resistance in order to make it stronger. Offloading the struggle to a chatbot does not “free students up for higher-order work.” It deprives them of building the strength to do any substantial cognitive work at all.”
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 05/06/2026
Rutger Hauer in Bladerunner saying "Six, seven."
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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
“The kids want liminal spaces!”
Michael Lerner as a studio boss in Barton Fink.
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WBUR @wbur.org · 30/05/2026
That big boom heard around Boston was like a meteor:
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Loud boom heard in Boston likely exploding meteor above ocean
The unsettling boom, rumble and shaking heard and felt across Greater Boston Saturday afternoon may have come from a meteor, according to meteorologist Danielle Noyes. Now it's up to NASA to confirm w...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 20/05/2026
Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal bit.ly/44aNdkq
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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
As Chief Quality Control Officer at Sunmaid, my main responsibility is raisin questions.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The problem as I see it for that Odyssey movie is that Christopher Nolan has no sense of humor and the Odyssey is kind of a black comedy about a guy unable to execute a work commute.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 16/05/2026
in five years we will learn that "looksmaxxing" was actually just a conspiracy to generate dissertation topics for gender studies graduate students
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Robocop (1987) @robocop1987.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
They'll fix you.
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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
RIP Rex Reed, who wrote this sentence--which has remained stuck in my head for almost twenty years--about the movie Factory Girl:
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
New from 404 Media: spoke to four people who attended a trade show where senior ICE officials spoke about how much Palantir is supercharging their arrests. List of 20 million people on ICE agents phones now; increased chance of successful arrest from 28 to 80% www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...
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ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir
The comments made by a senior ICE official at a trade show highlight how Palantir is increasing the speed at which ICE operates. Most people detained by ICE have no criminal conviction.
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On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
On a special episode of On TAP, Helen Shaw, chief theatre critic for The New York Times, joins us to talk about theatre criticism, journalism, and pedagogy. Click through to listen, or subscribe in your favorite podcasting app... www.ontappod.com/home/2026/5/...
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On TAP Special: Helen Shaw — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast
Pannill, Miriam, and Brian welcome Helen Shaw, chief theatre critic for The New York Times , for a conversation about theatre criticism, journalism, and pedagogy. Here are links to some of the thi...
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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Not to worry everyone, I have a plan to fix Canvas.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"Killing student writing outside the classroom means an enormous reduction in the volume of time spent writing, and learning more generally: it is a loss of thousands of hours of reading, thinking, puzzling over problems, writing, revising."
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
“The current political atmosphere is surely proof that the majority of the general public simply cannot be frightened into climate action by stories of future impacts, no matter how luridly described.” substack.com/app-link/pos...
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The Old Worst-Case CO₂ Emissions Track Has Long Been History; Now RCP8.5 is Officially R.I.P.
Will activists and the media notice?
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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Next do Massachusetts.
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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
They'll do anything to try to change the story on this guy. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/n...
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Is a ‘Curse of the Mambino’ Plaguing the Mets? Mamdani, Say It Ain’t So.
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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
It's honestly getting to the point where this is so funny I never want it to end. Make KP perpetual FBI director. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: F.B.I. Director Files Defamation Suit Against The Atlantic
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I wrote up my response. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/04/ther...
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There's Lots of Good Continental Philosophy
For a long time I resisted the label "analytic philosopher" for myself. I had done a fair bit of metaphilosophy reading on this and come to ...
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
It’s becoming increasingly evident that securing our democracies requires ridding ourselves of the incurably reactionary classes through expropriations and confiscations.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Over on The Other Website this blog post is causing a flutter as analytic and continental philosophers fight each other. I shall try and do a longer reply later, but in essence I think... benthams.substack.com/p/what-conti...
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What Continental Philosophy Defenders Cannot Explain
How we know continental philosophy is largely nonsense
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Robocop (1987) @robocop1987.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
ED 209.
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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Just a reminder on this Easter Sunday: 1) Attacking civilian infrastructure is a war crime. 2) The head of state threatening to commit a war crime is itself a war crime.
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Hazel Rah @mrhazelrah.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Legend
Director John Waters at the No Kings rally in Provincetown holding a sign that reads "*#%&# ruined bad taste"
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
One thing that gets me kicked out of the socialist club is that I fundamentally don't like the ultra aggro polemic style of the classic authors. I even polemicised against it myself here (from: www.liamkofibright.com/uploads/4/8/...)
The essence of Bernstein’s argument is summarised by Rosa in the first chapter — she adopts
the irritatingly polemical style typical of Marxist theorists, and so refers to this as “the opportunist
method”. You will never be at any risk of accidentally thinking she might be sympathetic to
Bernstein, and to me this style borders on the condescending. It’s as if she must constantly
remind the reader who they’re supposed to be cheering for, who they’re supposed to be booing. It
is very typical among Marxists so I don’t hold her especially to blame for it, but I will note that it is
perhaps extra galling from her given that she begins the text with stirring remarks on how the
working class, if they are to govern, must be conversant with and full participants of the leading
theoretical discussions about politics and economy. Quite so! But then why she seems to utterly
mistrust them and any other readers unless she continually presses home the point is beyond me.
(This gets even worse when contemporary Marxists adopt the tone. I think because Marx himself,
along with Rosa and Lenin, have been so very influential culturally there is some desire to ape
their style. And because Marx and Rosa are genuinely witty at times (note that I do not here repeat
Lenin’s name - see, I can patronisingly hold the reader’s hand too!) it can even seem aspirational,
as one enjoys the experience of reading them. But if you adopt this writing style while in fact
being an incredibly stupid know-nothing educated in the school of Twitter dunks it is insufferable.)
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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Put these students in charge! Resist the corruption of higher education by business idiots.
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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Real talk
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
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Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent
The new AI agent aims to save faculty time on “low-value tasks,” but stops short of fully automating grading. But some experts worry that the rise of agentic AI could lead to a dead classroom, where c...
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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Robbie Avila looks like Jokic* out there! *covered in scratches and bruises
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I published this in the Boston Globe in November 2022, right before ChatGPT was released which I didn't know was coming that next week and had no idea this conversation would be where it is three years later.
I tell my students that writing — in the classroom, in your journal, in a memo at work — is a way of bringing order to our thinking or of breaking apart that order as we challenge our ideas. We look at the evidence around us. We consider ideas we disagree with. And we try to bring a shape to it all. Sometimes my students see the process differently. They see writing a paper as a hoop they are being asked to jump through, a way for me to evaluate them and pronounce them successful or not. In other words, they see writing solely as a product. If the end point rather than the process were indeed all that mattered, then there might be good reason to turn to GPT-3. But if, as I believe is the case, we write to make sense of the world, then the risks of turning that process over to AI are much greater.
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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Keep saying it. There are students who get it.
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Shannon, Mistress of Shenanigans @shay3322.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
So did ICE
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Solidarity with Emily Tucker and her open letter to students. Tucker writes, "But the great thing is, you don’t have to go along with this, and I urge you not to. You can refuse to use the chatbot. You can tell your professors that you don’t want them to use it or to require you to use it."
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An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements about "Generative AI"
Image source: Bibliothèque nationale de France An Open Letter to Georgetown Students, In Response to Recent Announcements by the University about “Generative AI” Dear students, As you know, in …
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