New article out! On the cynical erasure of teachers, from without & from within: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

New article out! On the cynical erasure of teachers, from without & from within: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

“An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the artificial intelligence industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny.” Out from behind the paywall: the Editors on the literature of AI resignation.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

Stigmatization is a powerful force, and disgust and shame are among our greatest tools. Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

“Don’t publish AI bullshit. Don’t even publish mealymouthed essays about the temptation to produce AI bullshit.”

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

Bless the @nplusonemag.com editors for coining the term "a single-use plastic of the mind" to describe AI

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Everyone bends the knee eventually

The Question All Colleges Should Ask Themselves About AI How far are they willing to go to limit its harms?

What are the most effective things—even if they sound extreme—that we can do to limit, and ideally abolish, the unauthorized use of AI on campus? www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

'Comics are the perfect medium for challenging material': An interview with Johnny Damm - The Comics Journal Ian Thomas talks to Damm about his new comic, Technocrat Tales, the art of collage, and what makes comics special.

New interview in @comicsjournal.bsky.social!

Really loved having this conversation with Ian Thomas, which was challenging in all the best ways. And it's amazing to be featured in the The Comics Journal, which I've been reading since I was a teenager.

www.tcj.com/comics-are-t...

A program for a close reading symposium at Emory University on November 7, 2025, in Room 208 in Convocation Hall, from 8:15 to 5:15, with breakfast, lunch, and panels on studying, teaching, and evaluating close reading, and close reading across the disciplines

If you're in or near Atlanta, or *super juiced* 😜 about close reading and love to travel, come to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium at Emory University on Friday, November 7. And hear from these superstars...

Like many colleges, San Jose State University is embracing AI. That’s a mistake “ ‘AI Everywhere’ isn’t a university value. It’s a marketing slogan. And if we accept it uncritically, we risk destroying the core of what we as educators are here to do,” Morgan Sanchez...

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A Close Writing Playbook: Coupling Creative Writing with Close Reading: An Editorial Introduction Published in Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2025)

For everyone interested in creative writing approaches in the classroom, a special issue of Changing English on "A Close Writing Playbook: Coupling Creative Writing and Close Reading Practices," edited by Michael Lockett & Scott Jarvie

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(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para6 graph (2), no State or political subdivision thereof 7 may enforce any law or regulation regulating artifi8 cial intelligence models, artificial intelligence sys9 tems, or automated decision systems during the 10- 10 year period beginning on the date of the enactment 11 of this Act.

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.

from @404media.co

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The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?

My Brain Finally Broke Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.

“I would need a good reason—pleasure would be sufficient—to engage with a technology that is not only making the physical world worse but is also decidedly optional… A.I. is frankly gross to me…”

On the feeling of insanity that comes with living in the world today: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Grift used to be believable

There's a big piece on resistance to AI and Luddism in the New Yorker — pleased to see @jathansadowski.com's great book and This Machine Kills get shouts, as well as a nice nod to Blood in the Machine.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Hi Dan, would you mind adding me? I’m a colleague of Roxana Marachi’s working on techcritical projects right now, and eager to find ways to connect with people in CoT. (Unfortunately I teach Tuesday nights). Thanks!

We are almost at capacity in this starter pack! Everyone now left to be added will be added to Education Scholars Part II! If I didn’t add you to first one & you want to be added reply to to post!
#EducationScholars

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Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...

“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.

dispatch from my job

"budgets are direct expressions of an institution’s values, so an unwillingness to meet cost, still astonishingly fucking low, is as good as declaring that working-class kids do not deserve an education of as high a caliber as that of their whiter and wealthier peers"

Suturing language: cut-up poetry as part of crip, ecological close-reading/writing ‘Suturing Language’ argues that cut-up poetry enacts a simultaneous practice of close-reading and close-writing. As an embodied and ecological practice of creative writing, cut-up poetry draws toge...

“The act of physically or digitally cutting puts practitioners in proximity to the language they are altering.”—Jessica Suzanne Stokes

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Hi Gabriel, would you mind adding me to this?

And another question for educators and anybody pushing AI hype: if you’re welcoming AI tools and platforms into schools and universities, how are you grappling with what @ruha9.bsky.social names the New Jim Code? With the acute harm these technologies are inflicting on minoritized communities?

Style and Cynicism: Reading and Writing Hardboiled Detective Fiction in Secondary English This article explores the pedagogical potential of closely reading and writing hardboiled detective fiction in a Canadian secondary English Language Arts classroom. Grounded in narrative theory and...

"The power of closely reading and writing detective fiction – attending to the form at both the level of the genre and the sentence – is the capacity of students to channel contemporary cynicism into something legible and literary." --Robert Jean LeBlanc

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Image Explosion: Using Narrative Writing to Deepen Critical Reading In the English classroom, narrative writing is often separated from the work of reading literature or used merely to coax reluctant students into discussing textually relevant topics. This article ...

"I started using Image Explosion 15 years ago...Across time and grade levels, it consistently produces – through narrative writing – closer
textual analysis, greater engagement with analysis, and stronger classroom communities." --Kate Sjostrom

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Narrative Medicine as Framework for Close Writing in English Teacher Education This paper introduces readers to the field of narrative medicine to build a bridge to the field of English teacher education. After seeking an urgent change in the ways medical students were being ...

"A teacher must understand the constant dynamism
of the lives of their students, as well as their own lived contexts...An intersubjective encounter brings with it the ethical implications of caring for another person."--Patrick Sitzer #EduSky

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“a capacious framing of close writing is alive to identity, culture, power and difference, offering politically-minded English educators a playbook for future pedagogy.”

long live Deep Vellum!

A Close Writing Playbook: Coupling Creative Writing with Close Reading: An Editorial Introduction Published in Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education (Vol. 32, No. 1, 2025)

“Coupling close reading w/ playful writing, a practice we call close writing, deepens analytical work by making it accessible & insightful…these works not only demonstrate ways to play but also the political & philosophical & critical necessity of textual play.”

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