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An anthropologist dishing up "dark academia," starting with a fictional account of my own department https://hartiganj.substack.com/p/why-i-wrote-the-last-cohort After writing 8 scholarly books, now it's only novels. https://books2read.com/u/38wOXV

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AI vs Class of 2029 “If the AI takeover of higher ed is nearly complete, plenty of professors are oblivious.” Ian Bogost.

Students "wondered why faculty weren’t doing more to adjust teaching practices to match the fundamental changes wrought by new technologies."
Here's my what I'm trying. hartiganj.substack.com/p/ai-vs-clas...
What about other profs?

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College Students Have Already Changed Forever Members of the class of 2026 have had access to AI since they were freshmen. Almost all of them are using it to do their work.

“If the AI takeover of higher ed is nearly complete, plenty of professors are oblivious.“

For those of us about to welcome the class of 2029 to campus, what are your strategies for teaching them about AIs? Ideas? #Classof2029 #vsAI #SyllabusFall25

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Gateway to the Afterlife: Portalén One strand of The Last Cohort leads back to Portalén, an ancient menhir atop Monte Seixo, in the Serra do Cando range of Galicia, Spain.

Ever wonder about portals to the Afterlife? This is about one in Galicia, Spain hartiganj.substack.com/p/gateway-to...

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Olivia finds out she’s the only grad who didn’t get summer research funding. #academicsky #HigherEd #Academia

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A grad student wants to study hauntings, amzn.to/4ob0oLn #gradschool, #anthropology, What advice would you give her?

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Cool! I was just thinking I should start re-reading and posting about other novels by anthropologists, such as those by José María Arguedas, Tahmima Anam, Amitav Ghosh, and Camilla Gibb. I didn't know of the novels by Pym and Carr, thanks for the tip!

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Right-Wing Crackdowns Drive Academics Away From UT and the U.S. Staff morale, federal funds, and state confidence dry up

This is how bad it's getting for academics here in Texas. We’re being policed by a new state entity, the Office of the Ombudsman, designed to to intimidate faculty. Professors who are accused will have little right to defend themselves.
www.austinchronicle.com/news/2025-07...

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Available now at your favorite digital store! The Last Cohort: A Novel of Dark Academia by John Hartigan Jr.

You'll appreciate my new "dark academia" novel, it's only 218 pgs, a great summer read! books2read.com/u/38wOXV

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