Gabriel Hankins

Televising Decline | Los Angeles Review of Books Elizabeth Alsop reviews “The Studio,” “The Franchise,” and other recent industry satires.

Sure, these series aired earlier this year, but what could be more timely than the specter of DECLINE? For LARB I wrote about TV's recent interest in imagining Hollywood's decline, and maybe allegorizing its own @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/tele...

They asked me about spark notes. I proceed to go off on learning theory and cognition.

I think there's a very strong reason not to -- it protects our ability to peer review scholarly work that we can assume hasn't been auto-generated. I had to work through a process to refuse but it's possible. In the case of Cambridge these aren't open to the web

Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans put 338 rural hospitals at risk so they could fund tax giveaways for billionaires and billionaire corporations.

A systemic chart of the divisions of knowledge in the Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert, with "Memory" at right, including natural history and human history; "Reason" at center, including philosophy, mathematics, metaphysics, and logic; and "Imagination" at right, comprised of narrative, dramatic, and allegorical poetics.

Diderot and d'Alembert, 1752

very grim. as the article notes, some relevant context is that the university expanded its debt exposure by 260 percent in two decades & set up a scenario where 68 percent of total assets are tied up in leveraged debt

18 to 8 -- incredible.

Book submitted, finally -- time for some genre reading / writing.

What a list. On the syllabus for next semester: survival

Sobering indeed. A complication that I wonder about is how different US state governments will respond to the new situation and what that will mean in a decade.

William Harvey Challenges Audience to Create Environment Where All Are Treated Fairly

Shouldn’t have started my day by reading that NYTimes article. None of these shallow pieces covering the DOJ’s take down of President Ryan has deigned to research the history of DEI at UVA. In 2005, former president John Casteen established the ODE 1/

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Skepticism and Impersonality in Modern Poetry: Literary Experiments with Philosophical Problems

Philosophy and literature friends: I am pleased to announce that this book has finally entered the world!

Intro and purchase information below!

cover of Parapraxis Magazine issue #6

new issue of Parapraxis drops this week!

order and subscribe, for all your psychoanalysis discoursin' needs!

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I show the latter to the kids all the time! Holds up

There's more to be said about the reductions involved in quantification, and media studies / DH critical conversations are where a lot of that's been done. I'm working through that in the current book too. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social, loved the distinction on J / Bourdieu's anthropology, great point

This was a great episode, despite the misgendering up front! I loved the clarification of the Jamesonian / Bourdeusian stakes of contemporary literary sociology, of the history of post45, and especially the role of Mannheim in the '77 lecture, such a great deep cut.

Cuban man who lived in U.S. for nearly 60 years dies in ICE custody in Miami, agency confirms A 75-year-old Cuban man who had lived in the U.S. since 1966 died in ICE custody in South Florida after experiencing chest pain, according to the agency.

The cult of cruelty www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/c...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Indiana Jones and the scene of dialogue he didn't finish because his fixed term contract ended and everyone else in the film started pretending he didn't exist.

Yeah I don’t remember— social media I think! If that’s still true I’ll just cite Bluesky

I think this was a skeet from 2023? Holds up

without any clear sense of which skills and attitudes will be valued during their long working lives, and in place of the liberal arts and social science degrees that might more broadly prepare them for the collective demands of pervasive epistemic uncertainty, disinformation, and climate collapse."

@jsench.bsky.social How should I cite you on this: "As Jonathan Senchyne has noted, students are being pushed into computational-adjacent degrees across the Western world against their own inclinations and preferences...

what a time to join! thanks for doing the work

DH folks, if anyone wants to read an early version of the introduction for the Cambridge Introduction I'm doing before I send it in Friday, let me know -- could use a reader to see if this still makes sense. #dh #mediatheory #mediastudies etc

My mom just texted me to ask how the money laundering business is today. 💀

600,000 people in North Carolina alone would lose coverage, from babies to nursing home residents

And it's all reminiscent of this, from a little earlier in the US

Relate so hard — I do feel as if there are things we can now just say (after two books?) and then folks cite US — and then a later generation gets to write the delightful takedowns

None of that is incompatible with intellectually generous reviewing at every level.