Scott Jarvie

(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para6 graph (2), no State or political subdivision thereof 7 may enforce any law or regulation regulating artifi8 cial intelligence models, artificial intelligence sys9 tems, or automated decision systems during the 10- 10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment 11 of this Act.

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.

from @404media.co

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The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?

My Brain Finally Broke Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.

“I would need a good reason—pleasure would be sufficient—to engage with a technology that is not only making the physical world worse but is also decidedly optional… A.I. is frankly gross to me…”

On the feeling of insanity that comes with living in the world today: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Grift used to be believable

There's a big piece on resistance to AI and Luddism in the New Yorker — pleased to see @jathansadowski.com's great book and This Machine Kills get shouts, as well as a nice nod to Blood in the Machine.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Hi Dan, would you mind adding me? I’m a colleague of Roxana Marachi’s working on techcritical projects right now, and eager to find ways to connect with people in CoT. (Unfortunately I teach Tuesday nights). Thanks!

We are almost at capacity in this starter pack! Everyone now left to be added will be added to Education Scholars Part II! If I didn’t add you to first one & you want to be added reply to to post!
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Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...

“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.

dispatch from my job

"budgets are direct expressions of an institution’s values, so an unwillingness to meet cost, still astonishingly fucking low, is as good as declaring that working-class kids do not deserve an education of as high a caliber as that of their whiter and wealthier peers"

Suturing language: cut-up poetry as part of crip, ecological close-reading/writing ‘Suturing Language’ argues that cut-up poetry enacts a simultaneous practice of close-reading and close-writing. As an embodied and ecological practice of creative writing, cut-up poetry draws toge...

“The act of physically or digitally cutting puts practitioners in proximity to the language they are altering.”—Jessica Suzanne Stokes

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Hi Gabriel, would you mind adding me to this?

And another question for educators and anybody pushing AI hype: if you’re welcoming AI tools and platforms into schools and universities, how are you grappling with what @ruha9.bsky.social names the New Jim Code? With the acute harm these technologies are inflicting on minoritized communities?

Style and Cynicism: Reading and Writing Hardboiled Detective Fiction in Secondary English This article explores the pedagogical potential of closely reading and writing hardboiled detective fiction in a Canadian secondary English Language Arts classroom. Grounded in narrative theory and...

"The power of closely reading and writing detective fiction – attending to the form at both the level of the genre and the sentence – is the capacity of students to channel contemporary cynicism into something legible and literary." --Robert Jean LeBlanc

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Image Explosion: Using Narrative Writing to Deepen Critical Reading In the English classroom, narrative writing is often separated from the work of reading literature or used merely to coax reluctant students into discussing textually relevant topics. This article ...

"I started using Image Explosion 15 years ago...Across time and grade levels, it consistently produces – through narrative writing – closer
textual analysis, greater engagement with analysis, and stronger classroom communities." --Kate Sjostrom

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Narrative Medicine as Framework for Close Writing in English Teacher Education This paper introduces readers to the field of narrative medicine to build a bridge to the field of English teacher education. After seeking an urgent change in the ways medical students were being ...

"A teacher must understand the constant dynamism
of the lives of their students, as well as their own lived contexts...An intersubjective encounter brings with it the ethical implications of caring for another person."--Patrick Sitzer #EduSky

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“a capacious framing of close writing is alive to identity, culture, power and difference, offering politically-minded English educators a playbook for future pedagogy.”

long live Deep Vellum!

A Close Writing Playbook: Coupling Creative Writing with Close Reading: An Editorial Introduction Published in Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2025)

“Coupling close reading w/ playful writing, a practice we call close writing, deepens analytical work by making it accessible & insightful…these works not only demonstrate ways to play but also the political & philosophical & critical necessity of textual play.”

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“Grounded in creative approaches to writing, close writing might offer through writing pedagogy something of the same: a kind of writerly resistance to the vicissitudes of AI through ethically imaginative educational experiences.”

Changing English A Close Writing Playbook: Coupling Creative Writing and Close Reading Practices. Volume 32, Issue 1 of Changing English

Bringing together creative writing with close reading in the classroom, our new special issue of Changing English: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccen20/3...

“We have, each of us, been disappointed by our pedagogy: by lessons gone awry, teaching contexts that yoke us to neoliberal methods, encounters with students that make us feel like failures…”

A Perfect Contempt for Teaching - Scott Jarvie, Cori McKenzie, Erica Eva Colmenares, 2025 In his hopeful defense of poetry, poet Ben Lerner confesses his contempt for the artform as a kind of bulwark against the disappointment inherent in the writing...

New article out: Marianne Moore, Ben Lerner, and feeling contempt for the work you love: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the abstract: "This volume inquires into student teachers’ “stuck moments”—moments of felt crisis—as they occur within the context of a university-based social justice teacher education program."

Lynn Fendler, “Edwin & Phyllis”. Makes me laugh every time.

would you mind adding me?

Standing room only on the train, but I just finished reading Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Groundbreaking opinion I know but: man, so good.

Affect, Learning, and Teacher Education: Getting Stuck in Social Justice This volume inquires into student teachers’ “stuck moments”—moments of felt crisis—as they occur within the context of a university-based social justice teacher education (SJTE) program. The book comp...

“Through a critique of the affective workings of learning, the authors consider how these discourses can prove counterproductive for the work of teaching for social justice.” #EduSky

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Affect, Learning, and Teacher Education: Getting Stuck in Social Justice This volume inquires into student teachers’ “stuck moments”—moments of felt crisis—as they occur within the context of a university-based social justice teacher education (SJTE) program. The book comp...

First post / first book! Out this past Friday. Enjoy: www.routledge.com/Affect-Learn...