James Opp
@jamesopp.bsky.social
History, photographic studies, 80s pop culture, and slurpees.
Carleton University
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They’ve arrived! It’s out!
January 7, 2026 at 8:08 PM
They’ve arrived! It’s out!
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If you're in the Ottawa area, please come out to our rally at Carleton University on Jan. 22 at noon, in support of AI protections for education workers. You absolutely don't have to RSVP to come, but if you feel comfortable, it helps us plan. Dress warm, bring a sign, bring a friend:
Rally for AI Guardrails at Carleton
TAs are calling for AI guardrails at Carleton. CUPE 4600 TAs have been fighting for fair AI protections since September. If you are concerned about protecting your TA work from AI, join us on Thursday...
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January 12, 2026 at 9:03 PM
If you're in the Ottawa area, please come out to our rally at Carleton University on Jan. 22 at noon, in support of AI protections for education workers. You absolutely don't have to RSVP to come, but if you feel comfortable, it helps us plan. Dress warm, bring a sign, bring a friend:
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register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️
January 12, 2026 at 5:07 PM
register now for the Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies conference, 2-3 Feb 2026 in Oxford! with keynotes @joannazylinska.bsky.social and Daisy Ginsberg www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-visual... 🌳 📹 🦫 🛰️
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CFP posted on the blog - Memories of Erasure: The Lost Villages of Eastern Canada 16th-21th Century
For more information:
For more information:
CFP: Memories of Erasure: The Lost Villages of Eastern Canada 16th-21th Century
Call for papers Memories of Eresure-Appel à contributions Mémoire de l’effacementDownload
acadiensis.wordpress.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:02 PM
CFP posted on the blog - Memories of Erasure: The Lost Villages of Eastern Canada 16th-21th Century
For more information:
For more information:
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We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist
Annual Conference 2026
Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…
photographichistory.wordpress.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:20 AM
We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist
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I'm a member of CUPE 4600, the union of contract instructors, teaching assistants and research assistants at Carleton University, and we have just launched an open letter demanding AI guardrails in our work. Please sign and share if you can.
Open Letter: Re Demanding AI Guardrails at Carleton - CUPE 4600
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cupe4600.ca
January 7, 2026 at 1:16 AM
I'm a member of CUPE 4600, the union of contract instructors, teaching assistants and research assistants at Carleton University, and we have just launched an open letter demanding AI guardrails in our work. Please sign and share if you can.
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More gems from the family archive of John and Anya Berger, as discovered and compiled by their daughter Katya. Here, on her uncredited contribution to the concept of ways of seeing.
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...
The New Way of Seeing: In Anya Berger's Archives by Emily Foister
December 18, 2025 – "In an untitled fragment from the summer of 1974, after her separation from John, she begins: 'To live alone is, first and foremost, not to be seen. No interested eye observes you....
www.theparisreview.org
December 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
More gems from the family archive of John and Anya Berger, as discovered and compiled by their daughter Katya. Here, on her uncredited contribution to the concept of ways of seeing.
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/12...
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working at a university
December 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
working at a university
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What was Lo-Fi?
Latest from music writer-critic Adam Harper locates the term “Lo-fi” in the changing historical contexts of the 1950s-2020s. Open access 🔓from ‘Popular Music and Society’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Latest from music writer-critic Adam Harper locates the term “Lo-fi” in the changing historical contexts of the 1950s-2020s. Open access 🔓from ‘Popular Music and Society’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
What was Lo-Fi?
Latest from music writer-critic Adam Harper locates the term “Lo-fi” in the changing historical contexts of the 1950s-2020s. Open access 🔓from ‘Popular Music and Society’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Latest from music writer-critic Adam Harper locates the term “Lo-fi” in the changing historical contexts of the 1950s-2020s. Open access 🔓from ‘Popular Music and Society’
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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If you feel like teaching photography as an art practice and as a historical matter, here is your position at Boulder:
Assistant Professor in Photography and the History of Photography
jobs.colorado.edu
December 23, 2025 at 7:34 AM
If you feel like teaching photography as an art practice and as a historical matter, here is your position at Boulder:
This is a good argument for withdrawing entirely from using institutional LMS’s.
YorkU management is building systems to comb through instructor course pages to create AI tutors.
There are plenty of people within the academic space, whether they're staff, managers or faculty who see an opportunity.
Whether it is right or not is not being asked.
www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/0...
There are plenty of people within the academic space, whether they're staff, managers or faculty who see an opportunity.
Whether it is right or not is not being asked.
www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/0...
December 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is a good argument for withdrawing entirely from using institutional LMS’s.
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due to a new federal initiative Carleton is hiring 5 to 10 "Canada Impact+ Research Chairs" at the rank of Associate or Full Professor
if you work in any of the strategic priority areas listed, and long for Canada, consider applying (&feel free to reach out)
carleton.ca/deputyprovos...
if you work in any of the strategic priority areas listed, and long for Canada, consider applying (&feel free to reach out)
carleton.ca/deputyprovos...
December 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
due to a new federal initiative Carleton is hiring 5 to 10 "Canada Impact+ Research Chairs" at the rank of Associate or Full Professor
if you work in any of the strategic priority areas listed, and long for Canada, consider applying (&feel free to reach out)
carleton.ca/deputyprovos...
if you work in any of the strategic priority areas listed, and long for Canada, consider applying (&feel free to reach out)
carleton.ca/deputyprovos...
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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We’re doing a photography conference! Please circulate!
A single-stream 2 day International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool.
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
December 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
We’re doing a photography conference! Please circulate!
Photography’s ’that has been’ quality is now competing with normative assumptions of the post-edited self on what is and isn’t ethical to show in portraiture … when your frame of reference is fascist aesthetics, the ugliness ( and ridiculousness ) of power deserves to be pictured.
he also kind of gets everyone's asses again in this follow up with the washington post
December 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Photography’s ’that has been’ quality is now competing with normative assumptions of the post-edited self on what is and isn’t ethical to show in portraiture … when your frame of reference is fascist aesthetics, the ugliness ( and ridiculousness ) of power deserves to be pictured.
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ICYMI!! Our book is out in the world, & we're so proud!
If you want to grab a copy, use code SPIN2909 for 50% hard copies from now til the end of Jan! 🏺
#archaeology #deathstudies
If you want to grab a copy, use code SPIN2909 for 50% hard copies from now til the end of Jan! 🏺
#archaeology #deathstudies
DEATH, COMMEMORATION, AND CULTURAL MEANING: Past and Present, edited by Robert Spinelli @librarianchef.bsky.social and Robyn S. Lacy @graveyardarch.bsky.social has now been published!
Find out more here: bit.ly/4oq7xqO
#CulturalStudies #History #Archaeology
Find out more here: bit.ly/4oq7xqO
#CulturalStudies #History #Archaeology
December 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
ICYMI!! Our book is out in the world, & we're so proud!
If you want to grab a copy, use code SPIN2909 for 50% hard copies from now til the end of Jan! 🏺
#archaeology #deathstudies
If you want to grab a copy, use code SPIN2909 for 50% hard copies from now til the end of Jan! 🏺
#archaeology #deathstudies
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New issue of Canadian Journal of Film & Media Studies recently dropped. Issue is devoted to Crawley Films, Canada’s largest sponsored film company in mid-20th century. With essays by Charles R. Acland and Liz Czach (issue editors) + seven other brilliant scholars!
utppublishing.com/toc/cjfms/34...
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Contents | Canadian Journal of Film and Media Studies 34, 2
From award-winning amateur filmmakers to leading Canada’s busiest commercial film company by the mid-twentieth century, F.R. “Budge” Crawley and his wife Judith were responsible for an eclectic body of work. Yet tourism promotion films remained a ...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New issue of Canadian Journal of Film & Media Studies recently dropped. Issue is devoted to Crawley Films, Canada’s largest sponsored film company in mid-20th century. With essays by Charles R. Acland and Liz Czach (issue editors) + seven other brilliant scholars!
utppublishing.com/toc/cjfms/34...
utppublishing.com/toc/cjfms/34...
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more power to any Dean who makes the case that their discipline-specific standard for AI is refusal, and AI refusal will be what they integrate into the curriculum
It's hard to overstate how impossible this demand is from Purdue's administration to implement these AI requirements by next fall. We are nowhere close to understanding what AI proficiency means or what it looks like in education.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
December 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
more power to any Dean who makes the case that their discipline-specific standard for AI is refusal, and AI refusal will be what they integrate into the curriculum
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It's really something to watch the corporate sector admit that GenAI is an applied failure, while universities double down on massive integration to benefit from the same "productivity gains" as corps - layoffs + decimation of programs + destruction of critical thinking.
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's really something to watch the corporate sector admit that GenAI is an applied failure, while universities double down on massive integration to benefit from the same "productivity gains" as corps - layoffs + decimation of programs + destruction of critical thinking.
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This is more than twice the amount of money paid to every writer in Canada in royalties who has had their book taken out of a library in the past year.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time.
The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
The CRA spent $18M on 'Charlie,' a new tax information chatbot that is wrong most of the time
The Canada Revenue Agency paid $18 million for a chatbot the auditor general says give her team the wrong answer 66 per cent of the time.
nationalpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This is more than twice the amount of money paid to every writer in Canada in royalties who has had their book taken out of a library in the past year.
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It’s arrived!
December 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
It’s arrived!
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Harrowing (literally). And one of the knock-on effects from this kind of curricula violence is that legitimately interesting and promising computational work—including, yes, involving AI—is inevitably tainted by association. It’s not good for anyone, except administrators.
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Harrowing (literally). And one of the knock-on effects from this kind of curricula violence is that legitimately interesting and promising computational work—including, yes, involving AI—is inevitably tainted by association. It’s not good for anyone, except administrators.
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In these cases, AI is being used to solder together the libertarian goal of dismantling administrative capacity with the fascist goal of ever present control and enforcement. This mediating function between contrasting desires is at least as important whether it actually works.
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
www.texasmonthly.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:46 PM
In these cases, AI is being used to solder together the libertarian goal of dismantling administrative capacity with the fascist goal of ever present control and enforcement. This mediating function between contrasting desires is at least as important whether it actually works.
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2026 photo research fellowships now open. Come to Toronto to work with the amazing collections at TMU’s Image Centre!
theimagecentre.ca/fellowship/
theimagecentre.ca/fellowship/
Fellowship | The Image Centre
theimagecentre.ca
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
2026 photo research fellowships now open. Come to Toronto to work with the amazing collections at TMU’s Image Centre!
theimagecentre.ca/fellowship/
theimagecentre.ca/fellowship/