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Marc Farrior

@marcfarrior.bsky.social

Cultural Narratology | Black Modernism | Literature and Film | Race, War, Veterans, Time, Home, Afrofuturism, & Epic (I swear, they're related) |

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The Modernist Review #49: Precarious Modernisms 27 October 2023 Modernism has been productively destabilized in recent years, leading Paul K. Saint-Amour to claim that the masculinist model of “make it new” verges on a kind of “cartoon vitali...

With the ongoing Modernist Studies Association 2023 Conference in Brooklyn what better time to share our collaborative BAMS x MSA Special Issue - The Modernist Review: Precarious Modernisms (guest edited by Zoë Henry)!

modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2023/10/27/t...

27.10.2023 14:47 — 👍 30    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

This article in Rolling Stone is a hell of a read.

“I saw who was building the AI systems and their points of view. I saw what they were being used for, and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, we have a problem.’ ”

— Timnit Gebru

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

23.09.2023 15:05 — 👍 80    🔁 35    💬 3    📌 2
Artists For Morocco Artists For Morocco

Another great way to contribute to earthquake relief in Morocco: buy a photographic print by an amazing Moroccan artist. All proceeds will be sent to local organizations in regions affected by the earthquake. artistsformorocco.com

15.09.2023 20:03 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

And here's a link! artepublicopress.com/product/lati...

11.09.2023 19:43 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college. The school has been gobbling up the remaining houses ever since.

"the Shoe Lane saga illuminates a long-standing aspect of the African American experience: the confiscation and destruction of Black neighborhoods for higher-education facilities in the post-World War II period" www.propublica.org/article/how-...

06.09.2023 21:57 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Wrath of Rogues: Epic Tension in the American Novel - ProQuest Explore millions of resources from scholarly journals, books, newspapers, videos and more, on the ProQuest Platform.

Yes! proquest.com/docview/2840...

06.09.2023 21:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Cineverse Launches Black Cinema Channel With Maverick Entertainment VOD service starts with more than 100 films and TV series

I am a little exasperated with good shows getting kicked over to ad-supported channels, but, sigh, here...take my m̸o̸n̸e̸y̸ privacy: www.nexttv.com/news/cinever...

02.09.2023 00:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Martin MacInnes interview: ‘An SF novel can be as high-brow as any other genre’ | The Booker Pri...

“I could go on for ages about SF’s direct links to Woolf and modernism – the subjective and the impersonal, different levels of perspective, a single day in the life of a character and vast deserts of eternity.”

31.08.2023 09:53 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

Great strategy, even for someone like me who doesn't come close to hating writing, I could use a little more of this medicine :)

01.09.2023 23:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WVU announces final recommendations for several academic programs under review The West Virginia University Office of the Provost announced final recommendations on Tuesday (Aug. 29) from the first four appeals hearings held as part of the Academic Transformation program portfol...

I don’t even know what to say. my high school and undergrad classes helped prepare me for the wider world, including my eventual expertise in Latin America. My courses in French, Italian and German exposed me to amazing culture. I’m gutted for my friends

wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2023...

29.08.2023 19:41 — 👍 26    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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A Novel Therapy, Using Writing, Shows Promise for PTSD A study of veterans with PTSD found that 30-minute supervised writing sessions were as effective as traditional talk therapy.

The human capacity for novel storytelling can't solve everything, but it sure can close the gap
www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/h...

27.08.2023 22:52 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Worth it! :)

27.08.2023 00:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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25.08.2023 19:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Vinyl + Afrofuturism is some kind of anachronistic wonder. If you wrote/write on this, pls let me know!
amsterdamnews.com/news/2023/08...

25.08.2023 17:43 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Here's the beautiful and moving news of the day! Congratulations Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Black Queer Troublemaker and global treasure! windhamcampbell.org/festival/202...

23.08.2023 16:33 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, I'll be there and really looking forward to it!

23.08.2023 18:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism - The Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition upcoming at The Met

Gonna be my version of a Taylor Swift concert and Barbenheimer. Amped and getting dressed up: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

22.08.2023 23:32 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 1
Dissertation acknowledgments page

Dissertation acknowledgments page

Years ago I once projected reels of film for Scorsese who lamented that his entire life’s work could digitally be reduced to a thumb drive. Get over it, I thought, and now as I come up for air in academia, apparently I’m not over it either and ProQuest got me; I ordered a physical copy. Receipts!

22.08.2023 18:49 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0