Amy Elias

Wanted to like that so much

Our amazing 2025-26 fellowship cohort at the Denbo Center! Film, Art, queer studies, Lit, German SF, philosophy, anthropology—going to be a fantastic year! @uthumanitiesctr.bsky.social

Used to live in Avondale. Want cool then tho

Getting into the weirdness of Julian Bleecker …

Rest in peace, Brian McHale, dear friend.

Hardcover edition of Death Of The Author by Nnedi Okorafor.

“Stories were the greatest currency to us, greater than power, greater than control. Stories were our food, nourishment, enrichment. To consume a story was to add to our code, deepen our minds. We felt it the moment we took it in. We were changed.”- Death Of The Author, Nnedi Okorafor

Dystopia. I always thought it’d be smarter.

Cutleaf Coneflower (asteraceae) this year in front garden

If you think it’s bad now.

Guilt trip #149

Congratulations! We at the Denbo Center at the University of Tennessee are strong supporters of the National Humanities Center—I look forward to working with you!

Telemundo was my fav

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

Lackawanna Mine tour

Hey hey hey…

“Vice is ever most dangerous when lurking behind the Mask of Virtue.”

✒️ #MatthewLewis, English Gothic novelist (The Monk), was #BOTD 9 July 1775. #Literature

Unfortunately timed on nazi AI day

I'm an "A.i." abolitionist.

No consumer-facing LLMs or generative "A.i." in anything.

Sure, machine learning in science and a few other limited applications is fine.

But consumer-facing LLMs and generative "A.i." that are based on theft, push disinfo, and can be manipulated by billionaires?

No.

I liked Glyph also! Though I am not Sidney Poitier is a fav….

James Baldwin in the back seat of a car.

Bette Davis and Oliva de Havilland in "In This Our Life."

Jason Miller and Max von Sydow as priests in "The Exorcist."

Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier as law enforcement officers in "In the Heat of the Night."

“The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin’s Cinema of the Mind” 📽️ Jul. 25–Aug. 15

This series presents films analyzed by Baldwin in his 1976 book “The Devil Finds Work,” a blend of memoir and film criticism, with live readings by @roxanegay.bsky.social and other special guests!

Free: ucla.in/3Ie2tG1

Artificial Intelligence Cannot Experience a heart attack while working in the herb garden. Wonder what its middle school bully is doing now. Show up to court in a white linen sui...

Experience a heart attack while working in the herb garden.

Wonder what its middle school bully is doing now.

Suspect that something evil has happened in this very room.

Fall for Doreen.

Bot?

Dalkey, Coffee House…

A beautiful black and white image of Toni Morrison.

Needed to look this up last night to get the precise language of one of my favorite Toni Morrison quotes:

"There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal."

Man wasn’t meant to speak this much about Columbia University

These books prove worldbuilding is vital to sci-fi and fantasy New books by Nova Ren Suma, Neon Yang, Emily Tesh and Sayaka Murata revel in the ways that speculative fiction rewrites reality.

We are seriously blessed with some amazing sff books lately. I just reviewed four brand new titles that take place in worlds that are utterly irresistible.

wapo.st/4mrm0lQ

Authors are:

@novarensuma.bsky.social
Neon Yang
@emilytesh.net
Sayaka Murata

Nothing is
the way you think it is
going to be.
Take this little flower
from me, and let it go
into the way you think of it.

- Ron Padgett, “American Cowslip”

College majors with the best and worst job prospects — art history beats finance In general, what college students choose to major in has significant implications for job prospects and future earnings potential.

humanities major hiring on the rise against the hallucination plagiarism arson machine www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...