Alberto Andrés
@aandres.bsky.social
AHRC-funded PhD candidate, University of Leeds' School of English (attention in the contemporary stream of consciousness novel) | EN-ES/ES-EN translator.
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"How will a student who is learning to write well know when to transform an automated output or how to infuse it with A-worthy value? Which of a chatbot's always confident ideas or texts do or do not meet the bar?"
Really brilliant piece on AI infiltrating the university.
Really brilliant piece on AI infiltrating the university.
One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
A Pedagogy of the Inevitable
Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...
read.dukeupress.edu
February 2, 2026 at 8:09 AM
"How will a student who is learning to write well know when to transform an automated output or how to infuse it with A-worthy value? Which of a chatbot's always confident ideas or texts do or do not meet the bar?"
Really brilliant piece on AI infiltrating the university.
Really brilliant piece on AI infiltrating the university.
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Interested nonfiction writers! Do you have a book project you'd like to get off the ground but aren't sure where to start? I'll be offering one-on-one consultations from February! DM me here or contact me through my website to discuss if it could be right for you
January 22, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Interested nonfiction writers! Do you have a book project you'd like to get off the ground but aren't sure where to start? I'll be offering one-on-one consultations from February! DM me here or contact me through my website to discuss if it could be right for you
Thought this was very good on the Hamnet Mass Delusion letterboxd.com/miseryminist... 'significations of significance itself'; 'the actual image counts less than its conspicuous aura of prestige'. All correct!
A ½ review of Hamnet (2025)
I’m literally passing out on the train trying to write this, so forgive me if the results are disorganized. Not that this movie—among the year’s worst, in a shitty year—rewards extended contemplation....
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January 27, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Thought this was very good on the Hamnet Mass Delusion letterboxd.com/miseryminist... 'significations of significance itself'; 'the actual image counts less than its conspicuous aura of prestige'. All correct!
Obsessed with Knausgård not only blurbing every single Significant Literary Novel of the past 12 months but doing so as "Karl Ove Knausgård - author of Recent Non-Autofictional Novel I'm Desperate for People to Read Instead of the Autofictional Stuff". Genuinely humanising grifting
January 17, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Obsessed with Knausgård not only blurbing every single Significant Literary Novel of the past 12 months but doing so as "Karl Ove Knausgård - author of Recent Non-Autofictional Novel I'm Desperate for People to Read Instead of the Autofictional Stuff". Genuinely humanising grifting
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Still plenty of time to submit an abstract for the BACLS New Work in Contemporary Literary Studies graduate conference at The University of Leeds on May 20th for PGRs and ECRs! Please share widely call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/...
@bacls.bsky.social
@maxrshirley.bsky.social
@bacls.bsky.social
@maxrshirley.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Still plenty of time to submit an abstract for the BACLS New Work in Contemporary Literary Studies graduate conference at The University of Leeds on May 20th for PGRs and ECRs! Please share widely call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/...
@bacls.bsky.social
@maxrshirley.bsky.social
@bacls.bsky.social
@maxrshirley.bsky.social
Still plenty of time to submit an abstract for the BACLS New Work in Contemporary Literary Studies graduate conference at The University of Leeds on May 20th for PGRs and ECRs! Please share widely call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/...
@bacls.bsky.social
@maxrshirley.bsky.social
@bacls.bsky.social
@maxrshirley.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Still plenty of time to submit an abstract for the BACLS New Work in Contemporary Literary Studies graduate conference at The University of Leeds on May 20th for PGRs and ECRs! Please share widely call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/11/...
@bacls.bsky.social
@maxrshirley.bsky.social
@bacls.bsky.social
@maxrshirley.bsky.social
Time to speak truth to power: not only is it a banger but also it's effectively the first Animal Collective song ever
When NPR reaches out and says, “Hey, do you want to talk about Paul McCartney’s ‘Wonderful Christmastime’?” you of course say yes. www.npr.org/2025/12/01/n...
Is Paul McCartney's 'Wonderful Christmastime' simply… horrible?
In the decades since its release, "Wonderful Christmastime" has become a seasonal staple beloved by some but loathed by others.
www.npr.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Time to speak truth to power: not only is it a banger but also it's effectively the first Animal Collective song ever
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In my experience, Iris Murdoch is the only novelist who allows their characters to say "Oh goodie!"
Selling a few Iris Murdoch novels. What fun!
me: "The wrong person dies in this one, that's all I'm saying"
IYKYK
me: "The wrong person dies in this one, that's all I'm saying"
IYKYK
November 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
In my experience, Iris Murdoch is the only novelist who allows their characters to say "Oh goodie!"
Best thing I've read so far on the new Pynchon (imo a good-not-great, astonishingly addictive novel, which to be fair is a lot more than I expect to contribute to society at age 88) + just an extremely lucid career retrospective
“We’re back in pulp fiction wonderland, the fleeting apocalyptic allusions having been yoinked offstage by a vaudeville hook from the wings.” New online: Mark Iosifescu (@iosifescu.biz) on Thomas Pynchon’s SHADOW TICKET.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Using the Night | Mark Iosifescu
Maybe you know the drill: metahistorical intrigue and antiauthoritarian politics; several deep benches’ worth of quirky characters toting loudly emblematic affectations and not-strictly-probable names...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Best thing I've read so far on the new Pynchon (imo a good-not-great, astonishingly addictive novel, which to be fair is a lot more than I expect to contribute to society at age 88) + just an extremely lucid career retrospective
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I went to pay homage at Thomas Bernhard's grave in Vienna. A few minutes later, I was locked in the cemetery and had to try to flag down the caretaker to let me out. It was pitch black aside from the many candles guttering on the graves. I was unnerved, but I expect TB thought it hilarious.
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I went to pay homage at Thomas Bernhard's grave in Vienna. A few minutes later, I was locked in the cemetery and had to try to flag down the caretaker to let me out. It was pitch black aside from the many candles guttering on the graves. I was unnerved, but I expect TB thought it hilarious.
New Rafael Toral is beautiful and strange AND a perfect cosy season album rafaeltoral.bandcamp.com/album/travel...
Traveling Light, by Rafael Toral
6 track album
rafaeltoral.bandcamp.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
New Rafael Toral is beautiful and strange AND a perfect cosy season album rafaeltoral.bandcamp.com/album/travel...
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Thrilled to share that Killing Children in British Fiction has been jointly awarded the @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 2025. Thanks to judges; huge congratulations fellow winner @dremmaparker.bsky.social and shortlisted @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social.
bacls.org/news/187/
bacls.org/news/187/
News - BACLS Monograph Prize 2025 Winners
bacls.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Thrilled to share that Killing Children in British Fiction has been jointly awarded the @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 2025. Thanks to judges; huge congratulations fellow winner @dremmaparker.bsky.social and shortlisted @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social.
bacls.org/news/187/
bacls.org/news/187/
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The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration.
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
March 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration.
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
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Then there was the famous exchange between Bill Gates and Terry Pratchett in 1996(?) when clearly only one of them understood where human nature would take the Internet, and it wasn't Mr. Microsoft.
October 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Then there was the famous exchange between Bill Gates and Terry Pratchett in 1996(?) when clearly only one of them understood where human nature would take the Internet, and it wasn't Mr. Microsoft.
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Been thinking a lot about Raymond Williams’s “Culture & Technology” essay where he critiques the liberal account of technological disruption: organic progress, rather than conscious choices by capital.
Just imagine if the money we are flushing into data centers went to railways or solar panels.
Just imagine if the money we are flushing into data centers went to railways or solar panels.
September 30, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Been thinking a lot about Raymond Williams’s “Culture & Technology” essay where he critiques the liberal account of technological disruption: organic progress, rather than conscious choices by capital.
Just imagine if the money we are flushing into data centers went to railways or solar panels.
Just imagine if the money we are flushing into data centers went to railways or solar panels.
This is great. 'A refusal of AI in creative work begins with a refusal of that product’s ideological packaging'
“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...
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 ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This is great. 'A refusal of AI in creative work begins with a refusal of that product’s ideological packaging'
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Post-feudalism 🤝 neo-feudalism
September 18, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Post-feudalism 🤝 neo-feudalism
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I’m very proud to be running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. You can read my full statement here:
jencalleja.com/writing/
jencalleja.com/writing/
September 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I’m very proud to be running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. You can read my full statement here:
jencalleja.com/writing/
jencalleja.com/writing/
Love this album so much
'Devonté Hynes returns to England with a jolt on the first new Blood Orange LP for 6 years. Essex Honey isn’t about England, it’s about the mourning Hynes experienced there. If there’s anything more complicated than country, it’s that.'
Blood Orange - Essex Honey
buff.ly/bi8GJvC
Blood Orange - Essex Honey
buff.ly/bi8GJvC
September 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Love this album so much
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Sally Rooney putting her money where her mouth is (figuratively of course). Bravo.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
August 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Sally Rooney putting her money where her mouth is (figuratively of course). Bravo.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Thirty-seven years after the fact, the drum machine, doom-klezmer moves of Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows" remain an astonishingly radical gesture. From the crypt-keeper vocals to the reverse-Sermon-On-The-Mount-sentiment, it's the sound of Satan trying out his stand-up act and absolutely killing.
August 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Thirty-seven years after the fact, the drum machine, doom-klezmer moves of Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows" remain an astonishingly radical gesture. From the crypt-keeper vocals to the reverse-Sermon-On-The-Mount-sentiment, it's the sound of Satan trying out his stand-up act and absolutely killing.
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Also, like, there’s a lot of sublimating of Sub-Sp!ked patter that the cause of the Brexit vote or Trump or Reform polling was due to the attitudes of sneering of metropolitan liberals and guys it really wasn’t, it’s nearly always about - sorry to say, because I find it depressing - immigration
do think Political Social Media Brain makes people assume that they have to act as little politicians and not loathe anyone/always try to convince people and understand where they're coming from when actually, as a normal person: you do not have to do that, you can just hate them, it's fine
August 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Also, like, there’s a lot of sublimating of Sub-Sp!ked patter that the cause of the Brexit vote or Trump or Reform polling was due to the attitudes of sneering of metropolitan liberals and guys it really wasn’t, it’s nearly always about - sorry to say, because I find it depressing - immigration
Bring Her Back surely the greatest exponent of A24 slop so far? Toothless, with the whiff of the focus group hanging over it, as aesthetically bland and derivative as you can get -- the image not language but merely an empty husk
August 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Bring Her Back surely the greatest exponent of A24 slop so far? Toothless, with the whiff of the focus group hanging over it, as aesthetically bland and derivative as you can get -- the image not language but merely an empty husk
