Bradley J. Fest
@bradleyfest.bsky.social
associate professor of English at Hartwick College | poetry: The Rocking Chair (2015), The Shape of Things (2017), & 2013–2017: Sonnets (2024) | criticism: C20-21 lit. & culture | https://bradleyjfest.com
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Bradley J. Fest
@bradleyfest.bsky.social
· Aug 19
BRADLEY J. FEST / POSTROCK — always crashing
Things show restraint. The guitar’s evening light, the decades, at least three ways of space running on, spilling over from us no matter the font of being’s omissions. It, that: here. Here . Let’s ...
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I am beyond delighted that my long poem, “Postrock,” is now in @alwayscrashing.bsky.social. I am forever indebted to @inauthenticity.bsky.social and the other editors of AC for their ongoing support of my work. www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
I am honored that the editors of @alwayscrashing.bsky.social have nominated my long poem, “Postrock,” for a Pushcart Prize. Thanks so much to them and their ongoing support of my work. www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
BRADLEY J. FEST / POSTROCK — always crashing
Things show restraint. The guitar’s evening light, the decades, at least three ways of space running on, spilling over from us no matter the font of being’s omissions. It, that: here. Here . Let’s ...
www.alwayscrashing.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I am honored that the editors of @alwayscrashing.bsky.social have nominated my long poem, “Postrock,” for a Pushcart Prize. Thanks so much to them and their ongoing support of my work. www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2025...
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ready, set, go:
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
In world of AI, Michigan State University Extension bets on human expertise - Bridge Michigan
For 118 years, Michigan State University Extension has existed to serve the public with programs ranging from canning classes to soil testing and financial literacy workshops. Now, it aims to bill its...
bridgemi.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
ready, set, go:
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
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I am so honored to have been interview by Brad Fest for boundary 2.
My interview with @roberttally.bsky.social, “Grateful and Generous Reading: An Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr.,” has just been published in the November 2025 issue of boundary 2. read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...
Grateful and Generous Reading: An Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr. | boundary 2 | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I am so honored to have been interview by Brad Fest for boundary 2.
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When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, you may be entitled to compensation. Have YOU been involved in a food-related lunar gravitational mishap that wasn’t your fault? You could be in line for a big payout from the estate of Sir Isaac Newton. Call the hotline now.
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, you may be entitled to compensation. Have YOU been involved in a food-related lunar gravitational mishap that wasn’t your fault? You could be in line for a big payout from the estate of Sir Isaac Newton. Call the hotline now.
My interview with @roberttally.bsky.social, “Grateful and Generous Reading: An Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr.,” has just been published in the November 2025 issue of boundary 2. read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...
Grateful and Generous Reading: An Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr. | boundary 2 | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
November 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
My interview with @roberttally.bsky.social, “Grateful and Generous Reading: An Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr.,” has just been published in the November 2025 issue of boundary 2. read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...
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I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.
November 18, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I think Americans are realizing that democracy is a participation sport, and the the government is ours if we want it to be. I feel like we got complacent and hoped some other third party would do the work for us. Seems like we have to learn that lesson every generation.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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At the end of the day, Generative A.I. is nothing more than a plagiarism machine. It will never birth the next Dr. Seuss, Jim Henson, David Lynch or any other artist known for their unique and creative imagination and storytelling.
November 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
At the end of the day, Generative A.I. is nothing more than a plagiarism machine. It will never birth the next Dr. Seuss, Jim Henson, David Lynch or any other artist known for their unique and creative imagination and storytelling.
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Paramount, Netflix, and Comcast are putting in bids for Warner Bros. Discovery.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was, in the long run, a very bad idea with disastrous consequences.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was, in the long run, a very bad idea with disastrous consequences.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
Exclusive | Paramount, Comcast, Netflix Prepare Bids for Warner as Deadline Approaches
Warner Bros. Discovery is holding an auction process in the hopes of having it completed by the end of the year.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Paramount, Netflix, and Comcast are putting in bids for Warner Bros. Discovery.
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was, in the long run, a very bad idea with disastrous consequences.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was, in the long run, a very bad idea with disastrous consequences.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
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beyond honored to have been subject to Titus Blome's intense intelligent scrutiny for this profile in Die Zeit
www.zeit.de/2025/48/phil...
www.zeit.de/2025/48/phil...
Philosophie in Krisenzeiten: Alles längst zu spät? Nichts ist zu spät!
Wälder brennen, Demokratien bröckeln, überall prasseln Krisen auf uns ein. Wie kann man hier noch denken? Im von Trump bekriegten Chicago findet Anna Kornbluh Antworten.
www.zeit.de
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 PM
beyond honored to have been subject to Titus Blome's intense intelligent scrutiny for this profile in Die Zeit
www.zeit.de/2025/48/phil...
www.zeit.de/2025/48/phil...
Just got the new issue of boundary 2, which contains my interview with @roberttally.bsky.social, “Grateful and Generous Reading: An Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr.” I'll post links as soon as they're live. Thanks so much to Rob for sitting down w/ me! More here: bradleyjfest.com/2025/11/12/g...
“Grateful and Generous Reading: An Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr.” in boundary 2
I am really happy that my interview with Robert T. Tally Jr.—the first of two interviews I conducted in conjunction with The Babcock Lecture at Hartwick College, which I organized as Cora A. …
bradleyjfest.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Just got the new issue of boundary 2, which contains my interview with @roberttally.bsky.social, “Grateful and Generous Reading: An Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr.” I'll post links as soon as they're live. Thanks so much to Rob for sitting down w/ me! More here: bradleyjfest.com/2025/11/12/g...
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Be right back, asking chatGPT how to convert half built data centers into cheap housing and printing out the answers before the second Great Recession
Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
November 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Be right back, asking chatGPT how to convert half built data centers into cheap housing and printing out the answers before the second Great Recession
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if you told 17 year old me how thoroughly, world-historically vindicated ICP would be within a couple decades...
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
if you told 17 year old me how thoroughly, world-historically vindicated ICP would be within a couple decades...
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Public service announcement: criterion films are 50% off at Barnes and Nobles until dec 7th. And i want to know what you're getting!
The Criterion Collection of Blu-rays and DVDs
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November 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Public service announcement: criterion films are 50% off at Barnes and Nobles until dec 7th. And i want to know what you're getting!
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November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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“Mamdani could, in the span of a single term, dynamically change the entirety of U.S. higher education for the better.”
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production
Let CUNY socialize EdTech for all of us.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“Mamdani could, in the span of a single term, dynamically change the entirety of U.S. higher education for the better.”
Linda-Philomène Tsoungui contiues to be a revelation. #TheMarsVolta
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Linda-Philomène Tsoungui contiues to be a revelation. #TheMarsVolta
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The problem with scammers and loneliness these days is that everything is digital, so the scammer never gets the chance to fall in love with a plucky local librarian and change his wicked ways. And forget about the implications of not even having to buy a bunch of marching band instruments.
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The problem with scammers and loneliness these days is that everything is digital, so the scammer never gets the chance to fall in love with a plucky local librarian and change his wicked ways. And forget about the implications of not even having to buy a bunch of marching band instruments.
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Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century
Orbit is a peer-reviewed, digitally preserved, open-access journal with no author-facing charges. Part of @openlibhums.org
orbit.openlibhums.org/news/869/
Orbit is a peer-reviewed, digitally preserved, open-access journal with no author-facing charges. Part of @openlibhums.org
orbit.openlibhums.org/news/869/
Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century
Guest editor: Ali Dehdarirad (University of Rome, Sapienza) In 1987 Tom LeClair formulated the concept of the “systems novel,” a generic category that included highly erudite works that “master the …
orbit.openlibhums.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century
Orbit is a peer-reviewed, digitally preserved, open-access journal with no author-facing charges. Part of @openlibhums.org
orbit.openlibhums.org/news/869/
Orbit is a peer-reviewed, digitally preserved, open-access journal with no author-facing charges. Part of @openlibhums.org
orbit.openlibhums.org/news/869/
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✨ New Essay! ✨
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us)
by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …
moneyontheleft.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
✨ New Essay! ✨
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
@mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
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The NYC mayor‘s election might be the first big election where Millennials and Gen Zers realize that their broad participation can literally dictate the outcome of elections.
That alone is everything. It’s the way democracy will be reborn.
That alone is everything. It’s the way democracy will be reborn.
November 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The NYC mayor‘s election might be the first big election where Millennials and Gen Zers realize that their broad participation can literally dictate the outcome of elections.
That alone is everything. It’s the way democracy will be reborn.
That alone is everything. It’s the way democracy will be reborn.
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All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
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Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Dick Cheney did more than anyone else to build up expansive and destructive executive branch powers in the wake of 9/11; he lived to see another president turn those same powers against his own daughter.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
He should be a warning sign to the GOP today but too many of them are in the cult.
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Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
www.abc.net.au
November 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
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For years people made fun of big tech for inventing things that already exist and they responded with their magnum opus: inventing fascism. Incredible work
November 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
For years people made fun of big tech for inventing things that already exist and they responded with their magnum opus: inventing fascism. Incredible work