Dave Blakesley

Jimmy Butts, Matthew Blakesley, and I are keeping the proposal window open a little while longer for The Sophist's Cookbook! If you have an idea for a recipe and a story, submit something! kraa.io/sophists_coo... The deadline is now March 2.

14.02.2026 12:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Plato's Nightmare This poetic-rhetorical-epic-treatise traces the theme of disembodiment across historical, philosophical, literary, and rhetorical concepts and periods.

Here it is, a modern masterpiece by my friend and colleague @drsbk.bsky.social, parlorpress.com/products/pla..., hot off the press.

02.12.2025 17:30 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

@austinkleon.bsky.social Clearly engrossed.

14.11.2025 17:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cover of the book Artificial Infrastructures by Salvo & Sherrill. Writing & Artificial Intelligence, literacy & technology: Artificial Infrastructures investigates how generative AI is reshaping the work of technical and professional writing across high-technology industries.

New book; free download!

Artificial Infrastructures investigates how AI reshapes technical & professional writing across high-technology industries.

Salvo & Sherrill interview 3 experts to historicize, analyze, and contextualize the emergent disruptive technology

wac.colostate.edu/books/practi...

04.08.2025 16:09 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Steal the Street: the Intersection of Homelessness and Gentrification. The New Book by Mark Mussman - Welcome to UACC By Mike Templeton The Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition, a community partner of the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition, provides material assistance to people in Cincinnati struggling with home...

Here's an excellent review of Mark Mussman's Steal the Street: The Intersection of Homelessness and Gentrification (Parlor Press, 2022) by Mike Templeton. bit.ly/steal-the-st...

21.01.2025 13:00 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Full Screen Countdown to Jan 20, 2029 in Washington DC, District of Columbia This countdown counter counts down days, hours, minutes and seconds to new year or another date

Let's count it down. bit.ly/end-in-sight

20.01.2025 13:47 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Interesting conversation with a graduate student about his dissertation. "In the Year 2525" popped into my head. Hear ye, rhetoricians! It's from the album, "Exordium and Terminus." The looming dystopia seems much too far off, but by the end, "it was only yesterday." Boom. youtu.be/izQB2-Kmiic?...

18.01.2025 00:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Quinn on Books: In Search of Lost Time Review of “Countée Cullen’s Harlem Renaissance,” by Kevin Brown Review by Michael Quinn   “Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: / To make a poet black, and bid him sing!” – Countée Cullen, “…

Here's a new review by Michael Quinn of Kevin Brown's Countée Cullen’s Harlem Renaissance: A Personal History: www.star-revue.com/quinn-on-boo.... Thanksgiving-themed!

24.11.2024 23:14 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This is Your Brain on Zero Researchers are finally unraveling how the mind processes nothing.

Two ideas come to mind, precedence beyond mathematics: Humans are "inventors of the negative" (Kenneth Burke) and presence is always already absent (Derrida et al.). Zero! www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

19.11.2024 00:34 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

First post. Three of my best buddies. L-R: Flo, Steph, and KT (Steph and KT, aka the Splash Sisters). Happy Holidays!

16.11.2024 15:19 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0