Paul Fyfe

I did a talk on just how deep the overlaps are between Frankenstein and AI last year! m.youtube.com/watch?v=fmF1...

That was a Brad Pasanek joint. Bet you could share/screen a Google doc and use text color or highlighters

Maybe fictional agency or character, as in M. Ward’s book *Seeming Human*

Oh damn, there's a contender: "Now, what I want is Vibes. Teach our young men nothing but Vibes. Vibes, and only Vibes, are what our feeds crave. Follow nothing else, and block everything else."

an older woman with blue hair and red glasses says absolutely perfect Alt: Me appreciatively grading a student's essay

Gave students an assignment to rewrite a snippet of Hard Times as, instead, a "condition of America" novel circa 2025. The winner: a scene from a school board meeting in "Woketown."

Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts”? wrd.as.uky.edu/sites/defaul...

The unholy cult of the Lamb.

It’s a big deal. You delivered!

The Ends of Knowledge Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of the Enlighten…

There’s been an attempt already: Mark Algee-Hewitt,“The Ends of Digital Humanities” chapter In The Ends of Knowledge www.bloomsbury.com/us/ends-of-k...

Senior year I took Gravity's Rainbow to the Florida keys. In class afterwards, it at least looked well read, because it got rained on.

Congrats Maria! Its awesome to see your book getting recognition. (And in the TLS!)

Congratulations Nathan! Looks fascinating.

Action without Hope A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...

*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual.

So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:

Privacy is not about something to hide. And invasions of privacy are about power, not uncovering hidden things. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

It's a perfect fantasy of disintermediation and the hypergendering of the labor it cannot fully erase. In this talk, I will ...

There's no consensus. But I'd say think about why you're quantifying at all, what and how you want to query or analyze at the other end. And, if you have access, maybe consult with a data librarian for their expertise.

Donated. Contribute a little if you can.

A scene straight out of Calvin Kasulke's *Several People Are Typing* -- the best novel written on Slack

How Are Students Using AI? A W. W. Norton newsletter with Annette Vee, offering insights and ideas for building AI literacy.

"How Are Students Using AI?" @anetv.bsky.social bringing the data to the ongoing convo aiandhowweteach.substack.com/p/how-are-st...

Blind plot, dark channeled, sunk streams

At the moment my slide deck is half screenshots.

Supposed to give a pedagogy talk next week about AI and I might just scroll Bluesky with the audience

Hans: Research as a patriotic bargain - Public Ed Works By Peter Hans President, University of North Carolina System RALEIGH (May 1, 2025) – For more than 70 years, federal funding for university research has been a patriotic bargain and a core driver of n...

Great to see this op-ed by UNC System President Peter Hans on WHY the federal government funds research through competitive grants. #HigherEd

Victorian Studies: Who Cares? The 2025 conference of the Victorians Institute

"Victorian Studies: Who Cares?" Come to the Victorians Institute 2025 conference at Furman University in Greenville, SC this Sept 14-15. CFP deadline now May 31. Please submit and share! vi2025.wordpress.com

Oregon State U is accepting proposals, aimed at developing public-facing writing, for four public humanities fellowships on "Trust in the Age of Generative AI" (apply by 4/25) prax.oregonstate.edu/residencies/...

National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (P.L. 89-209)

"Democracy demands wisdom & vision in its citizens. It must therefore foster & support a form of education, & access to the arts & the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds & wherever located masters of their technology & not its unthinking servants." www.neh.gov/about/histor...

The university and legislative liaisons are doing what they can. Our college may supplement a fraction of costs to keep a version of the project going. We still have to meet to figure it out.

Not sure it matters what the topic concerns anymore. It’s slash and burn. :( I’m sorry about yours.

Yep. Such a colossal waste.

Public Funding and the “Untamed Wilderness” of Victorian Studies – Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net An article from Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net, on Érudit.

For instance, see Russ Wyland’s piece on how important the NEH and public funding were to establishing Victorian studies as a field www.erudit.org/en/journals/...

Feels awkward in the timeline, but I'll be talking about how scholarly fields depend on hidden infrastructures, uncelebrated knowledge workers, and government investments that, until like yesterday, have been so vital.