John Funchion

SETEC ASTRONOMY

Evergreen still at the moment:

CUP Companion to C19 US Literature and Politics

Essay page.

Excited this arrived today and to be in such great company.

Your post reminds me that, while I really appreciated the election postmortem, I hope you'll return to The Saint again on Unclear and Present Danger for a fuller account. That movie and The Shadow are two radio show adaptations from the 90s that have weirdly stuck with me.

“The US of AI,” public draft of a talk given yesterday at Princeton.

drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...

Bethany Collin's handwritten Moby Dick.

#whalespotting at Seattle Art Museum.

Thank you!

Do you have a link to the full article/study?

I'm teaching Vandermeer's Annihilation for the first time in my Poe class. If anyone has any favorite critical takes on the aesthetic category of "the weird," I'd be interested.

hahahah

A perfect seasonal gift for this upcoming year.

Thanks, Tim, I do! I'm more of a reader than a poster currently, but I'm here. And thanks, @stephenshapiro.bsky.social, for putting this together!

An Evening with Logan J. Connors and the UM Center for Humanities Locally-owned, independent neighborhood bookstore

Looking forward to my friend and colleague's book presentation this evening where I will gladly ask him to answer questions about *my* work.
www.booksandbooks.com/event/an-eve...

Clotel by William Wells Brown: 9780142437728 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books First published in December 1853, Clotel was written amid then unconfirmed rumors that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with one of his slaves. The story begins with the auction of his mistress,...

This 1853 novel is one that everyone who studies nineteenth-century US literature knows well, but I find that readers outside academia or even outside literary studies are shocked to learn of its existence when I happen to bring it up in conversation. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/288980...

credit to @mikesoriano.bsky.social specifically for citing it in his excelllent dissertation prospectus!

The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber: 9781612195186 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books From the author of the international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives   Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations,...

A book that I should have probably read awhile ago that a graduate student put on my radar. It even features a really great critique of superhero movies toward the end.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/239809...

I Googled gluten-free shepherd's pie recipes yesterday, and now my Android's news feed is filled with shepherd's pie videos. I trust nothing newsworthy occurred today?

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Also, after two attempts, I'm stuck with this weird photo of it. It was not an artistic choice. Bluesky did it.

Pic of Richard Seymour's book, Disaster Nationalism.

This just arrived in the mail. I'm not sure if it's too soon or too late to start reading it.

Having left most social media a long while ago, I am pleasantly surprised at how much I am enjoying this space. Don't let my introverted inclinations fool you, I am interested in what you're all up to and happy to thus far be spared from the toxicity.

YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Late Night Eats: How To Make A Negroni With Anthony Bourdain (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon)

Thankfully, I somehow stumbled upon this old video, and the spirit of Bourdain introduced me to this unexpected pleasure.

youtu.be/MNxWjRU8oxU?...

Count me in.

When @ritaraley.bsky.social and I wrote this (all the way back last spring) we wondered if it was maybe a bit much. But only for a minute.

Full essay “AI and the University as a Service,” in PMLA:

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Slow Down - Astra Publishing House “[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary proposal.” —Publishers Weekly, (starred review) “Saito’s clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and...

I realize I'm probably late to this revelation, but this is a fantastic read, especially at a moment like this. astrapublishinghouse.com/product/slow...

Alas, a good friend and talented teacher will have to "teach out" the last semester of students . . . www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...

I enjoyed working on this special issue on the "Radical" Henry James with Michelle Coghlan as well as with all the essay contributors. It just dropped today!