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Kairos is hiring! We have an immediate opening for a social media manager who is able to join our current social media co-editor @vymanivannan.bsky.social to assist with outward-facing communication & act as a social media ambassador for Kairos on X, FB, BlueSky, and professional listservs.

I suspect that a not insignificant amount of the outrage and horror at Kirk's death is that theres an entire class of people in America who are more or less safe and stable and used to being able to speak and act without fear of any consequences whatsoever because they've insulated themselves well.

If you have and wouldn't mind saying so, please lmk and tyvm in advance 🙏🏾

"'But You Look So Well!': (Un)Professionalizing Chronic Pain Through Academic Dress" in JOMR: journalofmultimodalrhetorics.com/3-2-issue-mani…

"If to Move the Soul a Writer," a Bitsy game excerpt from my monograph WIP that my 4C24 talk was adapted from (direct link): visforvali.github.io/tinygames/if_t…

Chaos Itself Is an Order

"Chaos Itself is an Order" in Fourth Genre: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/fg/arti...

Kairos 29.2: Manivannan, perimortem [in (theoretical) rigor] – Home perimortem [in (theoretical) rigor] is a creative-critical parser game that enacts Eelam Tamil diasporic-disabled repairing composition, extending Aaron Trammell's (2023) repairing play: a Black pheno...

"perimortem (in [theoretical] rigor)" in Kairos: kairos.technorhetoric.net/29.2/inventi...

"Pain and Relief Come of Themselves" in Peitho (direct link here): visforvali.github.io/peitho-archive…

In the middle of collecting evidence of social impact to prove myself for A Thing (The Thing, even) and hoping to address what some might call a gap in my record... so I was wondering if anyone out there has been influenced by (in any way)/has taught any of the following pieces:

Anyway if you're disabled/precarious/caregiving/unsupported & thinking of applying for something don't forget you may be playing in a rigged game & what you invest should never exceed that fact--it's a big chance to take when the only one living with any long-term costs is you

I think we're all used to institutions and their affiliate organizations being or becoming morally bankrupt or ignoring definitional work around their own mission statements but damn it's disappointing every time

Maybe awards were always popularity contests but its like the metric has explicitly shifted just now to reward campaign stamina & highlighted how much harder it'll be for junior/precarious/disabled/caregiving faculty to succeed over those w/ privilege (& a suggestion of cronyism)

Critical humanities discourse on AI will be doomed if it does not come up with better metaphors. Corporate AI is not a «cognitive entity» or some «other intelligence». It's a political project and a system of surveillance, extraction & exploitation
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I think that's almost all the panels this year according to the program anyway... we got into that but also mentioned that we were among the few who were. It's pretty disappointing

Next up, #L24 "Resisting AI Hype and Remixing Critical and Creative Resistances to GenAI in Writing Classrooms and Programs" with many awesome folks! #4C25

Direct link to the interactive photo/parable gallery: visforvali.github.io/peitho-archi...

What with everything I missed that the new Peitho just dropped--got a piece in it from the WIP book, on culturally specific writing & archival preservation & (re)construction as Eelam Tamil diasporic-disabled resilience in the face of genocide & erasure wac.colostate.edu/peitho/

REMEMBER KIDS
when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query
Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down.
This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless

NYC parents push for statement from schools chancellor opposing Trump executive order on race, gender The city Education Department has not sent any systemwide communication to families or educators, and it hasn’t issued specific guidance for administrators about Trump’s executive order.

NYC parents push for statement from schools chancellor opposing Trump executive order on race, gender www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025... @chalkbeat.org

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AI is a technology of non consent and at this point decentralization is about unpaid extracted labor

If you are too old or set in your ways to react with adequate urgency, then step aside for those who do. Don’t write ‘why can’t we all get along’ op eds

Call TODAY to stop RFK Jr RFK Jr is a danger to every single American… and Trump wants him to lead Medicare. Help us stop him!

StopRFKjr.com is a simple link you can send to your friends, family, colleagues that makes it incredibly easy for them to call their U.S. Senators and tell them to oppose the disastrous nomination of RFK Jr to run all federal health programs.

Please share StopRFKjr.com as widely as you can

If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

Kairos is seeking submissions for our Disputatio section! The co-editors are particularly interested in submissions that offer provocations to and for the field, including but not limited to:

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the publication of our Spring 2025 issue, featuring exciting new webtexts, interviews, and reviews: kairos.technorhetoric.net/index.html

FDA purges material on clinical trial diversity from its site, showing stakes of Trump DEI ban Following the Trump administration's DEI ban, the FDA's move to scrub webpages has ensnared many pages focused on ensuring diversity in drug trials.

This is insanity. If you're researching Tay Sachs Disease or Sickle Cell or hypertension understanding the makeup of your sample--age, gender, ethnicity--is central and necessary.

www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...

Brb screaming that I landed a parser game about chronic pain and intergenerational trauma and torture and gaming and writing and academic racism and ableism anywhere let alone in @kairosrtp.bsky.social

kairos.technorhetoric.net/index.html

Ableism is what transforms disabled lives into lesser or inferior lives.

Related: My very first denial ever was Aetna refusing to cover a brain MRI when the referring doctor suspected a tumor 😂