Eric Hayot
@ehayot.bsky.social
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.
Arsenal fan, occasional Cassandra.
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this essay tells one piece of my CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY origin story
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Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century
A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises
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November 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
this essay tells one piece of my CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY origin story
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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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
November 7, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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
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October 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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One of my favorite bailiwicks from Chris’s recent work, which he reiterated with tremendous force yesterday:
Literary studies has an extensive record of producing knowledge that influences society, our research has always been generative, but is better now than it has ever been, despite austerity…
Literary studies has an extensive record of producing knowledge that influences society, our research has always been generative, but is better now than it has ever been, despite austerity…
October 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
One of my favorite bailiwicks from Chris’s recent work, which he reiterated with tremendous force yesterday:
Literary studies has an extensive record of producing knowledge that influences society, our research has always been generative, but is better now than it has ever been, despite austerity…
Literary studies has an extensive record of producing knowledge that influences society, our research has always been generative, but is better now than it has ever been, despite austerity…
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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...
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.
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October 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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...
www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...
Very good summary of AI/education situation, from progressive educator Alfie Kohn, with lots of useful links:
www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/
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
September 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Very good summary of AI/education situation, from progressive educator Alfie Kohn, with lots of useful links:
www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/
www.alfiekohn.org/article/ai/
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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,...
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September 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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...
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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...
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
September 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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...
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...
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There's even great data on this, despite all the talking points & revealed preferences of everyone, including many university leaders, for participating in the collective societal push to convince parents & students that the liberal arts are bad choices for students' career & salary prospects.
👇🎯 Periodic reminder that the right-wing career/salary talking points about the liberal arts are belied by huge piles of data (e.g., news.wisc.edu/new-data-on-...), & the complicity of Democrats & university administrators in repeating those right-wing talking points is a major part of then problem.
September 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
There's even great data on this, despite all the talking points & revealed preferences of everyone, including many university leaders, for participating in the collective societal push to convince parents & students that the liberal arts are bad choices for students' career & salary prospects.
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Here’s my bottom line on the firehose of AI higher ed discourse: for the vast majority for us it’s over. “It” here is not “college” or “teaching”’per se; rather, “it” is the transactional underpinning of those endeavors. Let me explain: 🧵
August 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Here’s my bottom line on the firehose of AI higher ed discourse: for the vast majority for us it’s over. “It” here is not “college” or “teaching”’per se; rather, “it” is the transactional underpinning of those endeavors. Let me explain: 🧵
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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 🧵)
AGAINST AI -
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August 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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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Playing around with some graphics.
August 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Playing around with some graphics.
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thanks to everyone sharing and contributing!
thousands of individual visitors this afternoon already suggests how much we need to work together, carry one another, take heart in solidarity. and the students want more too.
thousands of individual visitors this afternoon already suggests how much we need to work together, carry one another, take heart in solidarity. and the students want more too.
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:58 PM
thanks to everyone sharing and contributing!
thousands of individual visitors this afternoon already suggests how much we need to work together, carry one another, take heart in solidarity. and the students want more too.
thousands of individual visitors this afternoon already suggests how much we need to work together, carry one another, take heart in solidarity. and the students want more too.
against-a-i.com
Teachers! And everyone else struggling with course and assignment prep for the fall: a website with resources, readings, assignments, and background on Gen AI and its classroom use/implications. With the great @annakornbluh.bsky.social
Teachers! And everyone else struggling with course and assignment prep for the fall: a website with resources, readings, assignments, and background on Gen AI and its classroom use/implications. With the great @annakornbluh.bsky.social
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
against-a-i.com
Teachers! And everyone else struggling with course and assignment prep for the fall: a website with resources, readings, assignments, and background on Gen AI and its classroom use/implications. With the great @annakornbluh.bsky.social
Teachers! And everyone else struggling with course and assignment prep for the fall: a website with resources, readings, assignments, and background on Gen AI and its classroom use/implications. With the great @annakornbluh.bsky.social
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teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
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Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world.
OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts.
But they can’t make us use their trashware.
Boycott. Luddify. Open source.
Don’t let them have your work or your students.
OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts.
But they can’t make us use their trashware.
Boycott. Luddify. Open source.
Don’t let them have your work or your students.
July 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Canvas just became one of the most powerful surveillance, IP theft, & data monetization tools in the world.
OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts.
But they can’t make us use their trashware.
Boycott. Luddify. Open source.
Don’t let them have your work or your students.
OpenAI bought a user-base locked in to long-term contracts.
But they can’t make us use their trashware.
Boycott. Luddify. Open source.
Don’t let them have your work or your students.
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The author affiliations caught my eye... seven of the fourteen authors have a variant of information/library.
#AI #skybrarians #academicsky
#AI #skybrarians #academicsky
NEW: I was happy to have a small role in preparing this just-dropped AAUP report on “Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions.” It includes a smart overview
of the threats, analysis of collected survey data, and action items. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
of the threats, analysis of collected survey data, and action items. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions
Executive SummaryEducational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight.
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July 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
The author affiliations caught my eye... seven of the fourteen authors have a variant of information/library.
#AI #skybrarians #academicsky
#AI #skybrarians #academicsky
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some of my best, most valuable, college classes were straight-up lectures
sure, it depends on audience/context/material, but the wholesale valorization of "student-centered" classrooms (in the humanities at least) ceded the cultural capital of expertise in truly damaging ways
sure, it depends on audience/context/material, but the wholesale valorization of "student-centered" classrooms (in the humanities at least) ceded the cultural capital of expertise in truly damaging ways
Thing I am an absolute complete total reactionary about: there has not actually been invented a better model of conveying information in a learning environment than the basic structure of a traditional lecture. A speaker standing in some sort of unique focal point for the attention of listeners...
July 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
some of my best, most valuable, college classes were straight-up lectures
sure, it depends on audience/context/material, but the wholesale valorization of "student-centered" classrooms (in the humanities at least) ceded the cultural capital of expertise in truly damaging ways
sure, it depends on audience/context/material, but the wholesale valorization of "student-centered" classrooms (in the humanities at least) ceded the cultural capital of expertise in truly damaging ways
The emotional whirlwind of responding to spammers:
June 20, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The emotional whirlwind of responding to spammers:
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As CalState and Ohio St. say they're going to integrate AI into every aspect of the class experience to prepare students for the future, companies are telling applicants you can't use AI when you apply. Tell me how the lurch towards AI makes sense. fortune.com/2025/06/11/g...
June 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
As CalState and Ohio St. say they're going to integrate AI into every aspect of the class experience to prepare students for the future, companies are telling applicants you can't use AI when you apply. Tell me how the lurch towards AI makes sense. fortune.com/2025/06/11/g...
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This is so important. Please read. I have been doing blue book exams and in class writing in my 150 person intro to pol theory class for the last couple of years, and it has worked really well. However…
June 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This is so important. Please read. I have been doing blue book exams and in class writing in my 150 person intro to pol theory class for the last couple of years, and it has worked really well. However…
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They plop their massive, polluting data centers into black neighborhoods
They have to underpay, overwork, and exploit workers in Africa just to get it to function
The “training data” is stolen work of creatives and academics
That data is then used to steal opportunities from those same people
They have to underpay, overwork, and exploit workers in Africa just to get it to function
The “training data” is stolen work of creatives and academics
That data is then used to steal opportunities from those same people
May 18, 2025 at 3:48 AM
They plop their massive, polluting data centers into black neighborhoods
They have to underpay, overwork, and exploit workers in Africa just to get it to function
The “training data” is stolen work of creatives and academics
That data is then used to steal opportunities from those same people
They have to underpay, overwork, and exploit workers in Africa just to get it to function
The “training data” is stolen work of creatives and academics
That data is then used to steal opportunities from those same people
Urging everyone who can, and who cares about universities and the humanities, to donate to the MLA Paving the Way fund, which specifically supports lawsuits vs. the administration's policies.
If every person who thinks this is a good idea contributed $10 to the legal costs, we’d be able to cover them right now. MLA’s link is here: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...
May 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Urging everyone who can, and who cares about universities and the humanities, to donate to the MLA Paving the Way fund, which specifically supports lawsuits vs. the administration's policies.