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Ah thx :) Hope people like it ❤️

New issue of CQ has landed! “Chaplinish”, edited brilliantly by @becimay.bsky.social

:) I’ve written on why there are 54

Reading is an irresistible invocation of all the breasts you’ve wanted more from 💕 🍸 🥛

I know :)

Here’s the first page …

The Last Line Click on the article title to read more.

My article on the last line has just been published over at Critical Quarterly. I’d ❤️ to know what you think 🤔

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hating Sexy Wuthering Heights will only make it stronger

Close Reading For The 21st Century Symposium (Vandal Live at Emory) Podcast Episode · The American Vandal · S12 E4 · 1 sec

It's here! I hosted a symposium on close reading at Emory in November. Matt Seybold recorded it for his podcast, American Vandal, and the first of three episodes is out today. Catch me, @johannawinant.bsky.social, @becimay.bsky.social, @bakaari.bsky.social + more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Don’t you wish this were a podcast? 😉

Gosh what a lovely thing to stumble in on ☺️

Close Reading Is For Everyone Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant Call for Pitches Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version that’s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: “The Gettysburg Address,” Macbeth, and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail? If you’re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing we’re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, we’ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step. We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that aren’t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it. Send your pitches—please include your name and contact info—to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.

CALL FOR PITCHES

@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.

We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.

Details below!

About to lecture about nits

❤️ thanks my friend

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❤️ thx buddy! I love your book. I bought it with an OUP discount a while back.

Modernism’s Whims Abstract. Hatched from the nonsense word ‘whim-wham’ in the seventeenth century, ‘whim’ began its linguistic life in obscurity, and even having risen to pr

So it looks as though you can access my new book already if you’re subscribed to OUP. Here’s the link :) 🎉✨

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But but but Jacob Elordi though 😍

The Technology That's Taking Your Freedom It's more than AI. A Q&A with Matt Seybold.

Really enjoyed this Q&A with @biblioracle.bsky.social, who pushed me to think about my work in terms of the somewhat amorphous, but not obsolescent principles of academic freedom.

Keats slamming his era’s riot police 👮🔥💪

Poetic rhythm vs AI 🔥

Infinite Joyce Click on the article title to read more.

I got to write on Joyce below …

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Ah thank you :) Yes but this is lots better :)

Proofs of my essay on the last line ✨💕

Starting a new thread to collect critical perspectives on AI, as they are articulated dozens of times every day and appear repeatedly on my timeline. I can't read everything right away, but if, like me, you want to stay up to date, then this might help a bit:

Researchers Just Found Something That Could Shake the AI Industry to Its Core Researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying copyrighted data, not "learning" from it.

"Now, a damning new study could put AI companies on the defensive. In it, Stanford and Yale researchers found compelling evidence that AI models are actually copying all that data, not “learning” from it."

Ressourcenintensive Kopiermaschinen, die andere berauben.

futurism.com/artificial-i...