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Comp Lit and English Prof. Baltimore. πŸ’™βš“οΈπŸ’šπŸŒ±πŸ–€πŸ“–. *Speaking only for myself*

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Dada poet Hugo Ball dressed as the β€œmagic bishop” for a performance of his β€œwordless verses” in Zurich, 1916

Dada poet Hugo Ball dressed as the β€œmagic bishop” for a performance of his β€œwordless verses” in Zurich, 1916

18.01.2026 17:58 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Giving a master class on how to deal with these ridiculous attacks on academic freedom.

09.01.2026 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ok Three the Hard Way is a stretch but it has an A+ Chicago River scene

29.12.2025 02:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Three the Hard Way

29.12.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Stony Island
Hoop Dreams
Chain Reaction
Medium Cool
About Last Night
Candyman
Bad Boys (sean penn)

29.12.2025 02:05 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Lol while this was blowing up i was in a paper archive looking at ashes from a previous domain of human experience that was discarded in the slag heaps of automation

17.09.2025 19:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

n+1 comes out swinging www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

17.09.2025 14:12 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
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16.09.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Next Monday & Tuesday, Sept. 15 & 16, I’ll give two talks in Baltimore, one at the Bird in Hand bookstore about *Freedom Ship*, the other at Johns Hopkins University about β€œHow to Write (Maritime) History from Below.”

sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

08.09.2025 11:48 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Join us

13.09.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œHow to Write (Maritime) History from Below”: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker | The Tidewater Initiative Marcus Rediker visits the Literature and the Sea seminar at Johns Hopkins to lead a lecture and workshop on the topic "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below."Β  This event is co-sponsored by the J...

... and on 9/16 @ 10:30am, "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker"

In partnership with the Maritime Committee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture @mdhistory.bsky.social

@marcusrediker.bsky.social

sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

09.09.2025 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Humanities in the Village: Marcus Rediker, in conversation with Nadia Nurhussein and Harris Feinsod | The Tidewater Initiative The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute will launch its fall 2025 programming with a special additional edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series dedicated to making scholarship publicly ...

Next week! Marcus Rediker will be at the Tidewater Initiative in Baltimore for two events. First up: a conversation about the new book "Freedom Ship" at Bird in Hand, 6:30pm 9/15
@marcusrediker.bsky.social

sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

09.09.2025 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
green and yellow cover of University Keywords, ed by Andy Hines

green and yellow cover of University Keywords, ed by Andy Hines

Table of contents for University Keywords

University: An Introduction, Andy Hines

Academic Freedom, Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker
Adjunct, Heather Steffen
Admissions, Scott Gelber
Alternative Institutions, Andy Hines and Eli Meyerhoff
Athletics, Wayne L. Black
Board of Trustees, Asheesh Siddique Kapur
Budget, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Campus, Davarian Baldwin
Classroom, Richard Simpson
Critical University Studies, Rana M. Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, and Heather Steffen
Debt, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak
Degree, Christopher Newfield
Discipline, Vineeta Singh
Diversity, p.s. kehal
EdTech, Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune
Endowment, Dennis M. Hogan
Entrepreneurship, Jesse Goldstein

Table of contents for University Keywords University: An Introduction, Andy Hines Academic Freedom, Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker Adjunct, Heather Steffen Admissions, Scott Gelber Alternative Institutions, Andy Hines and Eli Meyerhoff Athletics, Wayne L. Black Board of Trustees, Asheesh Siddique Kapur Budget, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra Campus, Davarian Baldwin Classroom, Richard Simpson Critical University Studies, Rana M. Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, and Heather Steffen Debt, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak Degree, Christopher Newfield Discipline, Vineeta Singh Diversity, p.s. kehal EdTech, Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune Endowment, Dennis M. Hogan Entrepreneurship, Jesse Goldstein

Table of contents for university keywords

Fiction, Jeffrey J. Williams
Legislation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Noncitizen Student, Abigail Boggs
Police, Yalile Suriel and Grace Watkins
Ranking, Jelena Brankovic and Stefan Wilbers
Revenue, Dan Nemser and Brian Whitener
Risk Management, Mattie Armstrong-Price
Sustainability, Kai Bosworth, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Hines, and Eli Meyerhoff
Title IX, Rana M. Jaleel
Union, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein

Appendix: Questions to Consider for Composing a Keywords Entry

Contributor Bios
Acknowledgments
Index

Table of contents for university keywords Fiction, Jeffrey J. Williams Legislation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer Noncitizen Student, Abigail Boggs Police, Yalile Suriel and Grace Watkins Ranking, Jelena Brankovic and Stefan Wilbers Revenue, Dan Nemser and Brian Whitener Risk Management, Mattie Armstrong-Price Sustainability, Kai Bosworth, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Hines, and Eli Meyerhoff Title IX, Rana M. Jaleel Union, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein Appendix: Questions to Consider for Composing a Keywords Entry Contributor Bios Acknowledgments Index

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

09.09.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 144    πŸ” 74    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 9
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Reading a copy of a book I’ve been teaching since the age of the course pack. Bring pack the course pack.

09.09.2025 12:23 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing. Also, love the letterhead program. My close reading is that it faintly and ironically echoes the residual genre of the campus visit itinerary.

08.09.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Transportation Dept. Cancels $679 Million for Offshore Wind Projects

"Anyway the wind blows doesn't really matter to me"

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/c...

30.08.2025 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Proudly remembering the time I held my ground on β€œcahoots.” Be troo to yoo!

17.08.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We got you, Steelkilt

09.08.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œHow to Write (Maritime) History from Below”: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker | The Tidewater Initiative Marcus Rediker visits the "Literature and the Sea" seminar to lead a lecture and workshop on the topic "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below."Β  This is an "open classroom" event. The JHU communi...

And a follow up on Sept 16 in the seminar on Literature of the Sea: β€œHow to Write (Maritime) History from Below”: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

09.08.2025 15:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We’re kicking things off Sept 15 @ Bird in Hand with Marcus Rediker in conversation about his new book Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery at Sea @marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

09.08.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks, Nathan! We’ll reconnect soon!

09.08.2025 01:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Home | The Tidewater Initiative We are a multidisciplinary research group devoted to study, stewardship, and stories of working waterfronts, coastal infrastructures, and oceans under conditions of globalization and environmental ins...

We're launching a new Tidewater Initiative at JHU. Our research group on working waterfronts and coastal infrastructures includes a new student research lab, courses, programming partnerships with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and more in the works. sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/

08.08.2025 21:28 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

My poet friend told me all I do is talk about ports these days. Can’t wait to tell her about this interaction. πŸ˜‚

29.07.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Recusatio?

29.07.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97 | CNN Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other uni...

β€œSo long, Mom,
I'm off to drop the bomb,
So don't wait up for me.”

28.07.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AI is the intellectual equivalent of styrofoam: it’s cheap and easy for the individual user, but poisoning the ecosystem for everyone forever.

23.07.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.

23.07.2025 00:29 β€” πŸ‘ 867    πŸ” 222    πŸ’¬ 24    πŸ“Œ 29

Friendly reminder that Instructure, parent company of Canvas, is owned by KKR, a private equity firm that purchased it for $4.8 billion last November.

23.07.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 132    πŸ” 70    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 5

I’ve never seen that Robert Bechtle before :)

27.06.2025 01:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

RIP Alice Notley whose poems are a Grave of Light

20.05.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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