Alex Saum
@alexsaum.bsky.social
reader, writer, poet, professor. Doing digital things in and out of UC Berkeley. En inglés y en español. Spain and LatAm, but also English comparative stuff <3 (she/her)
http://www.alexsaum.com/
// not sure if she can do this all over again //
http://www.alexsaum.com/
// not sure if she can do this all over again //
Students: come to Berkeley and do a PhD with yours truly!
DM if you want to know more!
>>> spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu
DM if you want to know more!
>>> spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu
November 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Students: come to Berkeley and do a PhD with yours truly!
DM if you want to know more!
>>> spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu
DM if you want to know more!
>>> spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu
Back from Granada & feeling very grateful and lucky. Huge thanks to all the folks at the Patronato de la #Alhambra and the very special people at @universidadgranada.bsky.social --Ana Gallego eres la mejor <3
www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/
#CULTUR_ALH
with @mariosantamaria.bsky.social 🔥🪱
www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/
#CULTUR_ALH
with @mariosantamaria.bsky.social 🔥🪱
October 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Back from Granada & feeling very grateful and lucky. Huge thanks to all the folks at the Patronato de la #Alhambra and the very special people at @universidadgranada.bsky.social --Ana Gallego eres la mejor <3
www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/
#CULTUR_ALH
with @mariosantamaria.bsky.social 🔥🪱
www.alhambra-patronato.es/culturalh/
#CULTUR_ALH
with @mariosantamaria.bsky.social 🔥🪱
As co-director of Spanish Studies at the Institute of European Studies [@ucberkeleyies.bsky.social], I am very happy to invite you to our first talk of the year by visiting jr. researcher Silvia Rusiñol!! Please join us if you are in Berkeley!!
events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...
events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...
September 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
As co-director of Spanish Studies at the Institute of European Studies [@ucberkeleyies.bsky.social], I am very happy to invite you to our first talk of the year by visiting jr. researcher Silvia Rusiñol!! Please join us if you are in Berkeley!!
events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...
events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/30...
Iba yo tan tranquila auto-citándome en una reseña cuando de repente, zas!... Word sufrió un cortocircuito al encontrarse con una mujer refiriéndose a sí misma. Zasca!
August 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Iba yo tan tranquila auto-citándome en una reseña cuando de repente, zas!... Word sufrió un cortocircuito al encontrarse con una mujer refiriéndose a sí misma. Zasca!
And might as well this one here too. Ugh, summer
June 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
And might as well this one here too. Ugh, summer
“It’s summer, the world is ending, might as well organize this bookcase here” sigh, Alex
June 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
“It’s summer, the world is ending, might as well organize this bookcase here” sigh, Alex
Yes! That’s @elikaortega.bsky.social wonderful quote! The poster is from @skeuomorphpress.org Here’s the full poster!
April 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Yes! That’s @elikaortega.bsky.social wonderful quote! The poster is from @skeuomorphpress.org Here’s the full poster!
April 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Interrupting your doomscrolling to share this cute event our grad students are organizing in our #Spanish and #Portuguese Department, where faculty and grads share our on-going research projects <3
Come if you are around! Friday 1pm at Dwinelle 5125
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Come if you are around! Friday 1pm at Dwinelle 5125
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
February 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Interrupting your doomscrolling to share this cute event our grad students are organizing in our #Spanish and #Portuguese Department, where faculty and grads share our on-going research projects <3
Come if you are around! Friday 1pm at Dwinelle 5125
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Come if you are around! Friday 1pm at Dwinelle 5125
@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social
Like everyone else these days I will be talking about Language, Literature and Culture studies in "an age of AI". Next week! Come and say hi! or a-hi! 😅🫣
blc.berkeley.edu/language-ai-...
#ucberkeley #blc #ai
blc.berkeley.edu/language-ai-...
#ucberkeley #blc #ai
January 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Like everyone else these days I will be talking about Language, Literature and Culture studies in "an age of AI". Next week! Come and say hi! or a-hi! 😅🫣
blc.berkeley.edu/language-ai-...
#ucberkeley #blc #ai
blc.berkeley.edu/language-ai-...
#ucberkeley #blc #ai
El top 11 de las lecturas que leeremos en clase este semestre; esto es la España contemporánea que más me interesa (y la mayor parte de las veces, que más me gusta, aunque no siempre es amor lo que nos mueva)
January 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
El top 11 de las lecturas que leeremos en clase este semestre; esto es la España contemporánea que más me interesa (y la mayor parte de las veces, que más me gusta, aunque no siempre es amor lo que nos mueva)
Poetry Foundation being spot on today
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
January 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Poetry Foundation being spot on today
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...
Self-portrait found on my morning run. Facts.
January 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Self-portrait found on my morning run. Facts.
Evidencia fotográfica de mis intentos de terminar el plan de lecturas de mi próximo seminario; una cosa extraña que he llamado El Antropoceno liminal, o España 1965-2025 🫠
January 15, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Evidencia fotográfica de mis intentos de terminar el plan de lecturas de mi próximo seminario; una cosa extraña que he llamado El Antropoceno liminal, o España 1965-2025 🫠
Aquí lo tienes, la Kornbluh said it best: NFTs scrap "money as the medium of value (...) while also stripping the dimension of aesthetic value from art". Ouchie.
December 12, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Aquí lo tienes, la Kornbluh said it best: NFTs scrap "money as the medium of value (...) while also stripping the dimension of aesthetic value from art". Ouchie.
Uh oh, I am wackier than I thought 🥴
December 11, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Uh oh, I am wackier than I thought 🥴
I wrote a chapter called "Algorithms, the Earth and the Spanish State" almost 4 years ago, before AI went cray, and I wonder if it still makes sense now at the time of copy editing? sigh for academic publishing times and double sigh for me who takes ages to do virtually anything
December 10, 2024 at 8:26 PM
I wrote a chapter called "Algorithms, the Earth and the Spanish State" almost 4 years ago, before AI went cray, and I wonder if it still makes sense now at the time of copy editing? sigh for academic publishing times and double sigh for me who takes ages to do virtually anything
Anyone interested in coming to UC Berkeley to do a PhD with us? The #Spanish and #Portuguese department wants you! Deadline is Dec 15
spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu
Gracias por compartir 🙏✨
spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu
Gracias por compartir 🙏✨
December 2, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Anyone interested in coming to UC Berkeley to do a PhD with us? The #Spanish and #Portuguese department wants you! Deadline is Dec 15
spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu
Gracias por compartir 🙏✨
spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu
Gracias por compartir 🙏✨
Y dejo por acá tb esta charla tan simpática que tuvimos con @mrsbunz.bsky.social y Joan Fontcuberta sobre #IA y la producción cultural en el #CCCB la semana pasada
www.cccb.org/en/multimedi...
www.cccb.org/en/multimedi...
February 16, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Y dejo por acá tb esta charla tan simpática que tuvimos con @mrsbunz.bsky.social y Joan Fontcuberta sobre #IA y la producción cultural en el #CCCB la semana pasada
www.cccb.org/en/multimedi...
www.cccb.org/en/multimedi...
Friends around the Bay Area: Get on our bus!!
*Internet Tour*: Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations departs Oct 12!!
Only a few tickets left!
>>An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure, a tourist route of non-touristic places.
www.eventbrite.com/e/internet-t...
*Internet Tour*: Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations departs Oct 12!!
Only a few tickets left!
>>An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure, a tourist route of non-touristic places.
www.eventbrite.com/e/internet-t...
September 30, 2023 at 8:21 PM
Friends around the Bay Area: Get on our bus!!
*Internet Tour*: Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations departs Oct 12!!
Only a few tickets left!
>>An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure, a tourist route of non-touristic places.
www.eventbrite.com/e/internet-t...
*Internet Tour*: Invisible Infrastructures and AI Hallucinations departs Oct 12!!
Only a few tickets left!
>>An in-person journey through the physical Internet infrastructure, a tourist route of non-touristic places.
www.eventbrite.com/e/internet-t...
I've spent the past couple of days in the surprising Fulton, Missouri, participating at the Hancock Symposium www.wcmo.edu/symposium/ge... at Westminster College, where I talked about the material backbone of digital works. It has been so fun!
September 20, 2023 at 2:16 PM
I've spent the past couple of days in the surprising Fulton, Missouri, participating at the Hancock Symposium www.wcmo.edu/symposium/ge... at Westminster College, where I talked about the material backbone of digital works. It has been so fun!