It's official! We're going to ALA!

Check out our two sponsored panels: "Melville and Justice," and "Entirely Idle: Melvillean Leisure, Laziness, and Labor."

See you in Chicago!

„In total, after doling out little to no money since July 2020, the New York Federal Reserve has transferred more than $420 billion to Wall Street in the past seven months — a record amount from the program“ jacobin.com/2026/01/fede...

“Australian religionists wishing to understand historic American literature for American religion must read Damien Schlarb’s excellent work“ - Neville Buch for the Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 37(1)

"Although it should be regarded simply as an input for conducting research, organizational actors in German science policy, [...] have cultivated the notion that grant funding is equivalent to research success." journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

They deserve some kind of award at Bloomberg for making these excellent visualizations of monopolization tendencies in the AI supply chain.

“American studies began with the aim of subjecting the historical record of the society and culture of the US to a measured, critical assessment-as measured, that is, by the nation's own profession of values and purposes-this is no time to abandon that aim.” Leo Marx, 2005

So much for planned obsolescence. Japan gave us Toyotism, I hope the U.S. and Europe follow suit with this trend as well. I’ll start doing my reading and note taking on my ten-year-old Kindle, just to be safe.
www.404media.co/super-ninten...

“The group posted a claim that confused billions with millions, triple-counted the savings from a single contract and claimed credit for canceling contracts that had ended under President George W. Bush.“

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

Finding quiet spaces in the noisy media ecologies we live in is hard. Making and finding those spaces in #videogames has peculiar design challenges and effects. I explain why in this new piece
books.google.de/books?id=2jV...

My book Melville’s Wisdom is out with
@oxunipress.bsky.social. It covers
🔹Herman Melville’s responses to the Old Testament wisdom books
🔹religious skepticism in 19th-century America
🔹higher criticism of the Bible in America in literature
🔹literary responses to modernity
#hermanmelville #amlit #c19

Hello world. Finally made the jump to greener pastures and bluer skies.