Gerry Canavan

The Military’s AI Strategy Threatens Everything We Love Chris Jeske, CODEPINK Milwaukee

I’m quoted in this in ways that intersect with the Critical Star Trek Studies project. codepink.substack.com/p/the-milita...

So Be It! See To It! A Conversation with Butler's Biographers
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"Teaching with AI... is a case study in how even well-meaning educators operating in good faith can become inadvertent agents of a pedagogical de-skilling & institutional dehumanization."

"A Pedagogy of the Inevitable"

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Contents | Science Fiction Film & Television 16, 1-2 This article covers the ontologico-theoretical groundwork of Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Solaris, articulating the meanings behind the assignment of specific states of being. Following – and ultimately, upending – the philosophical questions of Martin ...

The "Oversights" special issue of SFFTV is currently open access!
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when you accidentally become important at work and it ruins your life

I've got another one on the history and form of the redshirt in the chamber, as soon as I find the time.

Trek and/as Boomerslop And the children shall lead.

Adam Kotsko roped me into becoming a poster on his Star Trek blog. First post: "Trek and/as Boomerslop."

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CFP: DLC+ Presents Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture Mini-Conference: "Slop" and "Nostalgia" We are excited to announce the second installment of our Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture series, mini-conferences devoted to studying the most pressing and emerging concepts actively shap...

🤖 "SLOP" and "NOSTALGIA" 📀 – DLC+ mini-conference: Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture. May 14th

CFP out now. See link for details and submission. Deadline: Mar. 13th.

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Please share widely! #nostalgia #slop #digitalhumanities #digitalculture

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Book 2 is liftoff I think -- hopefully you feel the same way! I've read it six times in ten years so I may just have Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

Can I ask what chapter you're on? The composition of Book 1 can be a bit grating on a reread.

Coming this April, the second book in the Mass Markets series: FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: HOW THE SERIALIZED BLOCKBUSTER REMADE HOLLOYWOOD by the great @danhf.bsky.social!

Here's the link, and thanks! academic.mu.edu/canavan/Game...

Here's the link, and thanks! academic.mu.edu/canavan/Game...

Spring 2026 Syllabi Behold, my syllabi for Spring 2026: a revised version of my Game Studies course (still centered on Disco Elysium) and a grad literature course called “Genre, Utopia, Theory.”

Behold, my syllabi for Spring 2026: a revised version of my Game Studies course (still centered on Disco Elysium) and a grad literature course called “Genre, Utopia, Theory.” gerrycanavan.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/s...

Neutral Ground On politicization and the decay of legitimacy

Some good political theology from Adam Kotsko (or, why it's not going to get any better): adamkotsko.substack.com/p/neutral-gr...

Gen Z are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence—professors warn it could lead to a generation of anxious and lonely graduates | Fortune With Gen Z students struggling to read, academics have been forced to adapt—a move critics describe as “coddling” the next generation of workers.

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Making a Life: Catholic Social Teaching and the Meaning of Work is available for pre-order (and 10% off at the moment!) If something about your work life is troublesome, you hate jargon and you aren't sure about Catholic teaching, I wrote it for you. www.bloomsbury.com/us/making-a-...

Extended Call for Nominations: 2026 SFRA Innovative Research Award sfra.org/extended-cal...

it’s a bad system

VP is a cursed chalice

(Jan 3) 🎵 🎶 I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me 🎶 🎵

With a knock on your door, a kindly wizard invites you to join us on Shelved By Genre's LORD OF THE YEAR, in which we will consider the popular but contested works of JRR Tolkien, kicking things off with a long rumination upon the first four chapters of THE HOBBIT: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/t...

This is not what America is about. America's about *opens history book* Uh oh *Frantically starts flipping through pages* Uh oh. Oh no. No no no. Uh oh

The media using "captured" to describe what happened to Maduro is really strange. He is the sitting president of the country, not a fugitive!

(guy running for president in 2035 on Trump nostalgia)

guy: And what did Trump used to say, folks?
crowd (absolutely rabid): THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!!

Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice|Paperback The first in-depth study of the dark side of worldbuilding, exploring the connection between speculative imagination and political practice.Speculative imagination brings to life an array of possible ...

I coedited a collection titled "Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice" with Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, and David M. Higgins. It's forthcoming from MIT Press, and you can preorder at a discount here.

the classical formulation is “the magic goes away” and “the magic comes back” (Niven)

Homestuck Made This World 2