Lee Konstantinou

Still have flashbacks to playing Deadly Towers on the NES.

Seem to be caught in a "Steve's Lava Chicken" / "APT." musical time loop. Help!

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Decided to look at the Wikipedia page of David Eddings—who I read a ton of in junior high. *Yikes*.

Kind of wild how many academic journals permit LLM text "with human oversight" or "with disclosure."

The following books written by Brian McHale: Postmodernist Fiction, Constructing Postmodernism, The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems, and The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism, plus two books he co-edited: Teaching Narrative Theory and Postmodern Literature.

Devastated to learn of the death of Brian McHale, my good friend for over 50 years, from metastatic melanoma. Here are some of Brian’s books. His many articles and books leave a great legacy, but not as great as his friendship. RIP.

Big fan of the Palma!

How about an ethnography where I just hang around a couple indie bookstores for a year and then transcribe all the conversations I overhear. 🤪

Because of the subject matter I have come to wonder if this might be a Sokol-like test of the peer review system… but honestly I think it’s just run of the mill academic dishonesty.

Someone should start a SLAC where students have their phones and laptops confiscated from them at freshman orientation—and get them back at graduation. Parents would pay good money for that.

I guess I got a free lesson in AI-detection forensics! 😅

Further investigation confirms: wholly invented sources and hallucinated quotes from real and invented sources. 😭

I shouldn’t comment on it since it’s still under review technically but it’s a work of literary criticism.

it’s bad but in a weird way.

Got my first peer review request, from a major journal, where I have a very strong suspicion the article under review has been substantially, if not wholly, written by AI. Wild times.

I'll be teaching Intro to Grad Studies this Fall. Among many other things, we do a week on humanities-in-crisis talk.

Any favorite recent pieces in this genre—including both writing that powerfully spells out the shape of the current crisis, and pieces that push back against crisis narratives?

Clearly, you are destined to write a TNG novel called "I, Data."

So, these generic wooden blocks are apparently "perfect for STEM learning." Uh huh. 🤔

Mythic Capital (w/ Lee Konstantinou) Podcast Episode · The Entmoot Podcast · 07/21/2025 · 1h 6m

If you want to hear a podcast featuring me talking about Tolkien and the far right, have I got something for you.

*me and my book project

Phonics books seem evenly divided between books that systematically map the relation between phonemes and graphemes in English—and books with activities that are actually fun and tractable for kids to do. Someone should try to combine the two approaches.🤪

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Rice cooker YouTube is a real place...

Trust no one. Also... submit an abstract to our ACLA panel on "Conspiracism" when the portal opens on August 1! (with @lalouverouge.bsky.social and @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social) www.acla.org/seminar/a770...

He wanted to issue a correction: “Everything you say about me is true!”

Not inaccurate.

If you want to read deeply researched accounts of what happened to novels in the last fifty or so years, may I recommend Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier uipress.uiowa.edu/books/novel-...

Finally finished JAMES. I am surprised how much it's structured like a thriller -- short sentences, short chapters, many quasi-cliffhangers, and a propulsive narrative energy.

Very happy to learn that _Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman_ won the CSS Edited Book prize this year.

You know what the critical world needs? One more—final, definitive, epic—essay on the category of "homology."