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Sinophobic Sinophilia | The Editors In the contemporary Chinese context, the idea that crucial parts of the central government could simply cease to operate for more than a month, as part of a procedural standoff between rival governing...

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/the...

Absolutely vital reading on the media and ed tech systems as they currently stand.

Opinion | When Viewpoint Diversity Means Conformity Trump’s compact isn’t just coercive. It’s incoherent.

Another good take on the compact in higher ed and the problems inherent to viewpoint diversity talk.
Opinion | When Viewpoint Diversity Means Conformity www.chronicle.com/article/when...

Crisp clear decisive account of the self-contradictory nature of viewpoint diversity. Bravo @lsiraganian.bsky.social !

The Autumn Schedule of the London Modernism Seminar is here!
18 Oct: Asha Rogers 'Un/modern matter'
James Jordan 'The East End, Television and the Documentary Imagination, July 1939'
1 Nov: Aaron Rosenberg 'Climate of Conspiracy: Conrad, Greenland, and the Fourth Dimension'
Jed Esty Title tbc.

The Technofeudal Text Literacy Is Our Commons, Technolords Wish To Enclose It

"the trivialization of reading by AI hype merchants is a fable of obsolescence in support of a practice of enclosure." YES

Always worth reading(!): theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-techno...

As well as following:
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/cruelfutur...

Excited for this new OUP series on Literature & Politics! Paired authors tackling vital terms and topics of the day, starting with Amanda Anderson and @simoncd.bsky.social on *Humanities Theory*. Next up Doug Mao and @duncanbell.bsky.social on *Utopia*.

global.oup.com/academic/con...

A great reading project! @katemarshall.bsky.social and I are glad you joined. And thanks for the reminders about Schnitzler & Zweig in relation to Zoë Henry’s talk on novella/play relations

The ChatGPT-driven disruption of education is often presented, including in today’s viral NYMag piece, as a surprise event for which ed workers were caught unprepared

This ignores dynamics & decisions that, in some cases, go back decades, without which we could’ve metabolized ChatGPT competently

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Thanks, Scott!

Thank you (very belatedly), Natalia

Everyone should be reading and following these blistering pieces about this real-time bailout and consolidation of the tech right

blistering and on the right targets

👇 Gil (& @newrepublic.com) were among the handful of journos who saw this coming. My conversation with him (recorded before the election) will be part of the next arc of American Vandal, during which we will turn to the political economy of mass media in Gilded Ages old & new.

Also canal st Martin walk. and this place is out of the way with a tranquil Japanese garden: albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr

Both the catacombs and sewer tours are fun for tweens (if they are ok seeing thousands of skulls— creepy! ). Also good sometimes uncrowded: magic/automaton museum near metro St. Paul

Friends, I had the fantastic fortune of writing a postscript to a @mmodernity.bsky.social cluster abt book covers w/ some amazing covers & authors. Thank you @alixbeeston.bsky.social & @pdabashi.bsky.social for including me (& highlighting my own cover 💜) modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...