David Arditi

One of the strangest insights I receive from students is that the music industry doesn't care about appearances anymore. They think that because Lizzo exists, everything is body positivity . . .

Adorno and Horkheimer describe Shylock as one of the most fundamental elements of antisemitism. In Catholic Europe usury was a grave sin. Jews couldn't work most jobs. Europeans made Jews do usury. Then Jews were treated even worse for committing usury

This is antisemitism, not opposing Israel

Looking for an Introduction to Popular Culture textbook?

My OER textbook Keepin' Up with Popular Culture is coming very soon

Free open access!

I want to be with people who share my research interests!

European academics have all these cool conferences. I sit here thinking, "man, that is my research!" But there is no chance for me fund that travel . . .

YouTube video by The World Forum My AI Teacher: Education for all of Humanity | The World Forum 2025 - full panel

It was great being part of this panel on AI in Education at The World Forum's AI World Summit
youtu.be/oU3oeACdYkQ

Spent all day building a desk in my new office

David Arditi, PhD David Arditi Associate Professor of Sociology

I'm starting to book speaking events for 2025-26 academic year. If you're interested in having me speak about my research or give a book talk, feel free to reach out!

www.davidarditi.com

This is essential!!!

New Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI Decisions Today, the AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions, sharing survey findings and calling for the establishment of policies in colleges and universities that pri...

Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.

www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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I'm a Marxist classist then . . .

This Spring they were back to drip!

Over a decade ago, I asked my pop culture students to describe a coffee maker as part of a discussion about signification and representation. I was amazed how quickly the dominant description changed from drip coffee pot to Keurig

I'm going to call next week, which i absolutely dreaded even before they fired everyone

My wife has 2 months to pay PSLF. We asked to pay back missed months in January, still no response

This reminds me of the TikTok panic, all I could think of was "but what about American tech companies giving info to government or just themselves?"

I was close with my analogy

If you just added $3 TRILLION to the debt, why would you care about cutting $9 BILLION?

Cruelty

I may buy it's cousin tomorrow at the estate sale. Waiting for the 75% off

Bought a 1918 cylinder Edison Phonograph and records for $140!

The Trump Administration Appears to Have Another College President in Its Crosshairs Similarities to recent events at another public university in the state are hard to ignore.

Just getting UVA's president fired and aiming for GMU's now
www.chronicle.com/article/an-i...

Dallas Fort Worth has not had a 100 day yet this year. Beautiful

I was just talking about the Blue Bell listeria thing today. Why would you ever go back to eating that?

AI itself is a problematic term. We're really talking about algorithms that have more or less reach. This is the part that trips up younger people - what is the difference between AI Overview and Google search? Word grammar check and Grammarly?

Wow