Norbert Wiener, c. 1950
the thing about trying to rebrand AI as a "tool"/"normal technology" is that such things are also bad when they are used in social relations of worker suppression and dispossession. in this sense, yes, AI is in continuity with the fucking loom, but not in a good way.
In case you missed it: we talked about Avatar: Fire and Ash on @youretallpod.bsky.social with our buddy Dan: open.spotify.com/episode/6a81...
And thanks to Sarah Brouillette, Jim English, David Hobbs, J.D. Connor, Anna Kornbluh, and others I'm sure I'm forgetting for doing this for me.
I've been really blessed by academics who've been willing to do guest appearances in my classes despite my relative lack of dept resources (e.g. $). So, I'm not exactly an expert on anything, but FYI I'm always happy to do this for you if it's something in my wheelhouse.
THIS LETS ME BRING OUT THIS POST AGAIN
add All About Eve to the above
in no particular order, some of my favorite first-time watches from 2025:
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I tried to read "Having a Coke with You" to my girlfriend and couldn't without crying
I had to stop myself from continuously fighting with a guy who said I was making a "major oversight" by not doing Vertigo and Citizen Kane
Embarrassing I hadn't heard of it before but I'll def screen it now!
It's been a while but I had a ton of fun, def not as good a movie as Barton Fink but I think it'll let us talk about more things I want to hit than Barton would
How so? Like you think it's bad?
you're the man!
been trying to get a copy - there's not enough of them to go around lol. hopefully my ILL request comes through. but my intention/hope is to teach the intro from that, so I could definitely imagine teaching one of the body chapters if I can ever get a copy
I've gotten two great leads: "Why Is There So Much French in Villette?" by William A. Cohen and "Having a Coke with You Is Even More Fun than Ideology Critique" by Brian Glavey
but that's such a vague remit my brain can't think of where to start
they're all going to be pursuing individualized research projects in a variety of fields (mostly non-literature, presumably), but I think for the purpose of teaching just like "what is a scholarly article, how do we read one, etc." something that's on a relatively "small" lit object would work well
it's for a very vaguely defined "writing" class, so audience is students. something accessible to non-specialists - main goal is just to illustrate clarity of argumentative structure, use of evidence and analysis to back up claims, etc.
insanely useless Q, but can anyone think of just a platonic example of an extremely coherent, well written, well argued scholarly article for a general audience as like, an example of the genre? perhaps on a poem or other "small" object the students could also read for 1 day?
excellent short piece on Twin Peaks: The Return by my friend Mathias Fuelling: inreviewonline.com/2025/12/04/s...
fascists and right-wingers got really mad about this on the other site, but here's the film list for my class "Hollywood on Hollywood," an introductory history of Hollywood told through movies about movies
reminder to check out our episode of @youretallpod.bsky.social on One Battle After Another: youretallpod.podbean.com/e/s5e8-one-b...
if you're ever in a situation where lots of people are passing out (supervillain gassed the bank, etc.), pretend to be passed out too. there's no downside. you can always pretend you woke up early once you've had time to assess the situation.
start calling it B-Sky then
one of the biggest problems with this website is asking my brain to think "go to blue sky" and then not type the letters "blu"
the only way to find out whether or not I am a father is to listen to this episode
I'm never going to post on here but you can listen to me and Ethan talk about One Battle After Another on spotify, apple podcasts, etc.
