Anastasia Salter

@anasalter.bsky.social

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Professor of English and Director of Texts & Technology at UCF. Author most recently of Playful Pedagogy in the Pandemic & Twining. More at: https://anastasiasalter.net/

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Oct 9

My new book Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope? is out today from the @uchicagopress.bsky.social Replay series, which is dedicated to short, personal takes on games. I hope it invites readers to visit (or revisit) the Underground and befriend some fabulous monsters. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Replay book: Undertale - Can a Game Give Hope? with some absolutely fantastic University of Chicago Press wrapping paper.

Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 14h

We're excited to be hosting the next fully-online #ELO2026 @eliterature.bsky.social conference at UCF. As before, we're committed to a low-cost event with an open access archive of recordings and a virtual exhibition open to all. CFP up now: projects.cah.ucf.edu/elo2026/ #dhmakes

Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Mark Sample @samplereality.bsky.social · 1d

It's National Novel Generation Month. LLMs have drained much of the original creativity and impetus for NaNoGenMo, but I gave it a go this year anyway. I took "No Time to Discourse," my interactive web-based speculative atlas of climate disaster, and turned it into a ~400-page book.

No Time to Discourse (Novel) · Issue #15 · NaNoGenMo/2025

My NaNoGenMo '25 contribution reworks No Time to Discourse, my interactive web-based speculative atlas of climate disaster, transforming it into a stable print book. The online version uses context...

github.com

Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, that's very kind!

Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 1d

We're entering the last week of my Humanities in the Age of AI course, and I ended up completely revising the last five weeks of assignments to take advantage of Claude Code's new web version and emphasize the growing non-code uses of agents. Final version is here: anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI/

Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats, can't wait to read it!

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Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 6d

My first monograph, 'Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction', will be published by
@lsupress.bsky.social on 16 May 2026!

It connects contemporary fiction, fanfiction and literary theory.

See lsupress.org/978080718642... for more details.

Cover of book 'Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction.

Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 7d

Hey folks in the MLA, please consider voting for me in the Executive Council election. apps.mla.org/ballot_main My statement is on the site: I particularly bring experience navigating ideological pressures on institutions as a Florida professor and a critical lens to AI, edtech & surveillance #MLA26

Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 8d

Welcome to the grad studies leadership club, happy to chat sometime if you want! Grats!

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 10d

my book with @anasalter.bsky.social, A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy, is ON SALE through November 19. if you have been waiting to get your hands on it, now's the time! www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/A-Po...

A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy

Increasingly over the past decade, fan credentials on the part of writers, directors, and producers have come to be seen as a guarantee of quality media making—the “fanboy auteur. ” Figures like Joss ...

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 10d

One of the lovely things about Florida.

Morning view of palms and sand in Hollywood Beach

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playfultimemach.bsky.social @playfultimemach.bsky.social · 14d

Tune in this Thursday as we ask: what's your favorite crafting mechanic in a game? We'll discuss gendered labor, optimizing creations and, of course, running our own small business. At 15:00, as always on www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16d

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

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Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 18d

"Can expressing and exchanging our experiences through zines provoke changes in perception, convention, or policy?" Tuesday 11/11 Jess Walters helps us explore—and then learn to make!—zines as tools for advocacy. (You may remember their past excellent SLab event on zines for disability justice!)

Zines Now! Workshop: Zines for Change

Join us for an interactive workshop for Zines Now!, a year-long initiative showcasing the history of zines as an art form, highlighting future possibilities for the making and...

cal.lib.virginia.edu

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 19d

We Haven't Been Here Before
BY MATTHEW KIRSCHENBAUM
$ 2025 draws to a close, we know that generative artificial-intelligence models can furnish good-enough
which is expected or compelled of us either by way of a salary or a grade. To acknowledge this is not boosterism or credulous absorption of industry "hype": It is the baseline for how much the conditions of writing have changed in the three years since the public launch of ChatGPT.
For higher education this means that, where the classroom deliverable is a piece of student prose, the expectation has to be that Al is adequate to the task of creating a passable imitation; and that it can do so in ways that are all but impossible to prove to the standards of an academic-integrity violation. Now, with the emergence of so-called agentic-Al browsers,
capable of autonomously fulfilling tasks on the user's behalf, we are on the verge of a fully automated loop in which assignments are Al-generated with the help of a learning-management system; Al-generated content is submitted by an agentic browser on behalf of the student; and Al-driven metrics then evaluate the work on behalf of the instructor.
Moments of real rupture can be hard to reckon with, especially for those of us in the humanities where our training is
more given to prodiemanzine, contextualzne, and historicing, all utmately demadonary — and in that sense
conservative — critical postures. We have been here before, we like to say, nodding knowingly all the while. Similarly, there is much hope in some circles that Al will prove a mere "bubble," destined to burst like other ed-tech fads. At the very least | this betrays a curiously robust faith in markets to self-correct in the interest of collective salvation. It is also, I would
venture, a dangerous misreading of the current political landscape, where the very corporations at the forefront of Al have aligned themselves with the present administration's authoritarian excesses, including a fistful of executive orde…

Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 19d

I'm co-teaching a DHSI workshop next summer with @lucidbard.bsky.social on programming for the digital humanities in the context of agentic AI and rapidly changing interfaces for computational work. Watch our awkward promo video + consider joining us: dhsi.org/2025/09/30/d... #dhmakes

DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI (DHSI 2026)

Allow functionality cookies for video to play Description In this team-taught workshop, we invite scholars to join us in exploring the relationship between generative AI and the future of programming pedagogy in the digital humanities and a frontline of what the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI called “critical AI literacy.” Generative AI […]

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Tessa Hill @tessahill.bsky.social · 20d

A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program

Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.

www.insidehighered.com

Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 20d

Just added this excellent MLA statement to the workshop I'm running contextualizing agentic AI for faculty and graduate students tomorrow - we need conversations around this new iteration of the tech urgently. Here's my materials if anyone is interested: anastasiasalter.net/AgentWorkshop/

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Noah Wardrip-Fruin @n-w-f.bsky.social · Oct 26

ICYMI, my new book on Animal Crossing: New Horizons is 30% off (w/ free shipping)

It's a scholarly book, looking at ACNH through lenses like craft, compulsion, and community. It's also a personal book, about playing with my kids during the pandemic

More details: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/vi...

Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Oct 22

This is just taunting those among us still grading...🤣

Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · Oct 22

I have finished
the grading
that was planned
for Monday

and which
the AWS outage
thwarted
so thoroughly

Forgive me
I am drowning
so late
and so behind

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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · Oct 22

I have finished
the grading
that was planned
for Monday

and which
the AWS outage
thwarted
so thoroughly

Forgive me
I am drowning
so late
and so behind

Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Oct 20

I mean, what else are we supposed to do today but complain on the working platform about all the platforms that are down? Our writing? 😆

Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Oct 20

Getting really tired of this robots in space maintenance screen today. Maybe concentrating our infrastructure to rely heavily on a single cloud computing provider was not a great plan...

Two robots repairing a space ship would like us to know that there will be no grading today, as "Canvas is experiencing issues due to an ongoing AWS incident."

Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · Oct 18

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The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · Oct 17

THANK YOU @uchicagopress.bsky.social and @anasalter.bsky.social for this morning’s coffee shop reading 💙 ☕️ 📕

Absolutely loving this REPLAY series!

#Undertale

The book cover for Undertale: Can A Game Give Us Hope?

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The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · Oct 17

THANK YOU @uchicagopress.bsky.social and @anasalter.bsky.social for this morning’s coffee shop reading 💙 ☕️ 📕

Absolutely loving this REPLAY series!

#Undertale

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · Oct 16

"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."

On robots.txt.

www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)

The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.

www.heise.de

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Dan Cox @videlais.bsky.social · Oct 14

I am thrilled to announce the opening of the Call for Submissions for Electronic Literature Volume 5.

eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/

I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa.

This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!

Call for Submissions

The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.

eliterature.github.io

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · Oct 9

Keynote at #COLM2025: Nicholas Carlini from Anthropic

"Are language models worth it?"

Explains that the prior decade of his work on adversarial images, while it taught us a lot, isn't very applied; it's unlikely anyone is actually altering images of cats in scary ways.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · Oct 5

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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