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Eric Hayot

@ehayot.bsky.social

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Teacher (Penn State), writer of books about China and the West, literary worlds, academic style, history of the humanities. New project on the end of aesthetic history.

Arsenal fan, occasional Cassandra.

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Sociology 21%

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 3d

Couple name Fregel obv.

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Richard Grusin @rgrusin.bsky.social · 3d

In the mid-1990s, at the time Jay Bolter and I were writing Remediation, articles like this began to appear in the media about the dangers of the Internet for children--not only discussion boards and forums and online predators, but also text-based games like MUDs and MOOs.
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Her daughter was unraveling, and she didn’t know why. Then she found the AI chat logs.

A majority of teens are interacting with AI companions, and many of their parents have no idea.

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 14d

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...

Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?

The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.

www.chronicle.com

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 21d

Look at this garbage... (from our Provost's office).

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 23d

if you watch Goal Rush on peacock you will see 90 percent of the Arsenal game

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 23d

Adrian if you have access to Peacock the Goal Rush channel is mostly focused on the Arsenal game and doesn't seem to have the USA issues.

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 23d

4. Zizek, having run through these options (and a few more; I haven't mentioned capitalism), turns the screw one final time and says, the secret truth of the symbolic is in fact the literal: maybe it's just that these guys are all assholes.

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 23d

3. Bersani, rectum/grave, Edelman, no future: the a(i)nus as a site of refusal of reproduction, of temporality, of the self as whole; what the AI gives us is a vision (appealing to some, as in Kurzweil's singularity) of the dissolution of the human entire.

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 23d

2. AI as/and shit factory: like medieval debates about the gastrointestinal system of Jesus, the question here is whether it is possible for the machine to contain vile matter, or whether its holiness is preserved in digestion: is the shit AI produces the remnant of the good, or identical to it?

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 23d

I dreamed the following last night, four options:

1. Bataille, solar anus, AI as the all-avenging/consuming force that destroys the world; its blinding light is the return of the entire symbolic logic of the human, and looking at it is like staring into the sun.

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Nov 26

Otherwise strength of schedule ends up equal for the whole season for everyone (and more or less equal, with home/away effects, after first half). But I think that doesn't adequately account for those kind of differences. More work for you, of course, but maybe a fun project?

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Nov 26

And playing a team when they go on an early-season run of form is different than when their best two defenders get injured and they fall apart late. I wonder if something like a running 5-game xg difference might capture some of what it means to play Liverpool now (in crisis) vs at start of season

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Nov 26

Scott, what would it take at this point in the season to create a strength of schedule rating that wouldn't rely on team performance to date but would take into account something like "form"? So, for instance, playing a team when it has 7 players at Afcon is different from playing it when it doesn't

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · Nov 26

this essay tells one piece of my CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY origin story

press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century

A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises

press.princeton.edu

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Leila Essa @leilaessai.bsky.social · Nov 7

these are my LLM guidelines for the course - grateful for everyone who’s shared their approaches on here and especially for the ideas shared on the against-a-i.com website by @annakornbluh.bsky.social @ehayot.bsky.social and Krista Muratore

Photo of syllabus section “Use of Large Language Models (LLM or 'AI’)”:

“The use of LLM tools (i.e. of generative 'artificial intelligence') such as ChatGPT is not allowed in this course, but more importantly, it is not necessary: the above assessments are specifically geared towards encouraging your own spontaneous thinking. It would be significantly more effort for you to try and generate your weekly 250-350 words about the specific texts in our course reader with an LLM than to simply take that same time to write down your personal, original reactions to the text. It will make our seminars infinitely more rewarding to hear about each other's own thoughts - not the 'most likely' thoughts that a machine might spit out. There will be no way to use LLMs on the university computer for your paper, so I also encourage you to take Assignment One seriously as practice for your own spontaneous thinking and writing.”

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Oct 30

Some significant %age of quantitative work is just rediscovering stuff that humanists (or indeed ordinary people) already know (b/c we read literature, understand history, do ethnography, etc.), but which doesn't count as "real" knowledge b/c not quantified or experimentally "proven." Sigh.

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Oct 22

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Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Oct 22

“Instructure does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, you grant Instructure a fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right (including any moral rights) and license to ...

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Oct 21

not gonna lie, this is pretty cool

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · Oct 10

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Sep 27

something something complex joke about aerodynamics of the V formation...

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Sep 27

"I went through partners like shit through a, well, me, I guess..."

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Sep 26

Ooh ooh... is the answer to the physician one "a shaman"? Or is that unfair to shamans?

This is actually a fun game. Every school bus driver needs to identify a person who has had their driver's license revoked they admire... Every optician needs to identify a naked mole rat they admire...

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Sep 25

Very good summary of AI/education situation, from progressive educator Alfie Kohn, with lots of useful links:
www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/

The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym

EDUCATION WEEK September 22, 2025 The Chatbot in the Classroom, the Forklift at the Gym By Alfie Kohn [This is a significantly expanded version of the published article, which was given a different ti...

www.alfiekohn.org

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Sep 17

This is a fabulous, useful piece of writing and thinking.

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

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Sep 17

Who benefits from attacks on higher ed?

Certainly not the US economy.
Certainly not the states where higher ed is the major employer.
Certainly not the American people.

excellent work @ehayot.bsky.social and @paulakrebs.bsky.social
www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Eric Hayot and Paula Krebs: It's not about Palestine, DEI or trans athletes

We are facing a defunding of knowledge production in this country. This isn’t only a problem for academia. Many local economies, like Pittsburgh’s,...

www.post-gazette.com

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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · Sep 17

Higher ed drives economic growth and innovation, and it’s under attack. Read the new op-ed from @paulakrebs.bsky.social‬ and @ehayot.bsky.social‬ and tell your legislators that research, teaching, and innovation are important to you and your community. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Eric Hayot and Paula Krebs: It's not about Palestine, DEI or trans athletes

We are facing a defunding of knowledge production in this country. This isn’t only a problem for academia. Many local economies, like Pittsburgh’s,...

www.post-gazette.com

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Aug 29

He might but pretty sure the bit would have thousands proposing to you, so, even-steven.

Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · Aug 27

I need AI glasses to tell me what your AI glasses are doing.

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Miller Prosser @millerprosser.bsky.social · Aug 21

The LLM was this bad at correcting my misinformed take on ancient writing systems. Now do a topic involving human rights or democracy. Why would I encourage the use of this? See the work of @annakornbluh.bsky.social and @ehayot.bsky.social at against-a-i.com (end of 🧵)

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