@mariadikcis
Leading Edge Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies PhD @ Northwestern | Postdocs @ Harvard + UChicago Pozen Center for Human Rights 20+21 c. literature, poetry, media, AI, data, justice mariadikcis.com
🌌✨🪺🍃 For the March/April issue of @ampoetryreview.bsky.social, I wrote about Ada Limón’s Startlement: New and Selected Poems (@milkweededitions.bsky.social), reading her body of work through the lens of what I call "universe truths."
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🎉cover reveal!🎉 Our March/April issue features bold new work from Bianca Stone, Patrick Rosal, Melissa Broder, and so many more. Make a quality-of-life improvement and subscribe to the print edition here: https://loom.ly/mo_net8
Cover of Racial Beings: Experiments in Asian American New Materialisms by Michelle N. Huang. The cover shows layers of paint and textures featuring sunset hues of yellows, oranges, pinks, and blues. The title is written in all caps in a white sans serif type. The subtitle appears below in a solid hot pink circle. It is written in white in all lower case. The author’s name appears in the same font in the bottom right corner.
In "Racial Beings," Michelle N. Huang @nancyhelicopter.bsky.social brings a feminist new materialist lens to bear on contemporary Asian American literature’s innovative play with discourses of science and technology. #AsianAmericanStudies Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/eWFhHKY
Sarah Conway, a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist, has joined the Reader as the new editor-in-chief. She comes to us after eight years at City Bureau. Conway’s approach to journalism “is inventive, ambitious, and deeply accountable” Welcome to the team, Sarah! https://bit.ly/4ryDsHG
if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
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Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.
Here's a thread of relaxing fun websites to get away from the noise
1. This is sand dot com
Let the sand flow and create weird little landscapes
(this is one I did)
thisissand.com
AIPedagogy.org from Harvard's metaLAB was already the best-designed introduction to AI for educators I knew of.
I return to it again and again for creative, critical assignment ideas.
Now it's even more user friendly and offers a space to compare chatbots and change their settings.
Excited to co-organize the #PublicAISummit (Aug 13–14) with the Data Nutrition Project + metaLAB (at) Harvard's AI Pedagogy Project!
🎙️ Keynotes by Kathy Pham, @randomwalker.bsky.social, @annamillsoer.bsky.social, @mahabali.bsky.social
💻 Free + virtual
🌍 For the public
🔗 Register: publicaisummit.org
I’ll be presenting a workshop on critical pedagogies around AI images at this conference too, looking forward to it! ⬇️
Register for a dynamic, free two-day virtual AI Summit August 13-14 for the general public to hear from leading experts about the latest AI developments, gain a clearer understanding of what these changes mean, and learn how we can leverage these tools in our everyday lives.
publicaisummit.org
In her review of Jordan Magnuson's “Game Poems,” Maria Dikcis explores video games that push back against the norms of mainstream video games by seamlessly blending the playable and the literary.
New at PB: www.publicbooks.org/gaming-the-l...