Soop
@puddles13.bsky.social
Academic of modern lit and culture, failed diarist, distracted thinker, singer of dithyrambs in depressive episodes, otherwise innocuous.
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Scandalous self-dealing by New School trustees
Newest memo demonstrating the claims of financial exigency can‘t be taken seriously
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December 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Scandalous self-dealing by New School trustees
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AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
September 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
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teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
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NEW!
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
The Jameson Tapes, Side A
with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson
theamericanvandal.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
NEW!
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
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this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility
July 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility
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Just, you know, apropos of nothing. cc: @zunguzungu.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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June 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Just, you know, apropos of nothing. cc: @zunguzungu.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
February 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.
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In the latest installment of my series on Trump administration overreach, I discuss the Dept of Education "Dear Colleague" letter condemning race-based preferences and also seemingly (but maybe not actually) condemning even classroom statements promoting equality or recognizing racism exists.
Wait, Can He Actually Do That? Part 7: The Valentine's Day "Dear Colleague" Letter
Unless and until the Trump administration persuades Congress to eliminate the Department of Education (DOE) or, as with various other federa...
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February 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
In the latest installment of my series on Trump administration overreach, I discuss the Dept of Education "Dear Colleague" letter condemning race-based preferences and also seemingly (but maybe not actually) condemning even classroom statements promoting equality or recognizing racism exists.
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Great letter from my colleagues @sbagen.bsky.social, @mjschlanger.bsky.social and other legal scholars across the country explaining why it is not necessary to start eliminating university programs because Trump
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February 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Great letter from my colleagues @sbagen.bsky.social, @mjschlanger.bsky.social and other legal scholars across the country explaining why it is not necessary to start eliminating university programs because Trump
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This is a good resource to start but I suspect is missing academic research that is being removed in advance from various organizations that rely on grants etc.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Un...
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2025 United States government online resource removals - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
February 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This is a good resource to start but I suspect is missing academic research that is being removed in advance from various organizations that rely on grants etc.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Un...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Un...
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The American Sociological Association joins the American Federation of Teachers in filing suit over the Dear Colleague letter. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
February 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The American Sociological Association joins the American Federation of Teachers in filing suit over the Dear Colleague letter. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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We had a great discussion of the Dear Colleague letter to universities in class Thursday and I have all of you to thank for it. I promised I'd report back, so here goes.
Well, I guess this has to be addressed in my higher ed class on Tuesday. For folks navigating teaching current events right now, do you have strategies for setting up primary sources like this so they aren't just read as the propaganda they are?
From the new Dear Colleague Letter out of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights on race and education:
“It would, for instance, be unlawful for an educational institution to eliminate standardized testing to achieve a desired racial balance or to increase racial diversity.”
“It would, for instance, be unlawful for an educational institution to eliminate standardized testing to achieve a desired racial balance or to increase racial diversity.”
February 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
We had a great discussion of the Dear Colleague letter to universities in class Thursday and I have all of you to thank for it. I promised I'd report back, so here goes.