John Levi Barnard
@jlb.bsky.social
American Literature & Environmental Humanities @ U of Illinois
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It’s important to state it plainly, regardless of what you think about the long-term utility of LLMs, what they are currently being used to build are primarily for-profit propaganda machines which will be used to replace educators, technocrats, social workers, & journalists.
May 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
It’s important to state it plainly, regardless of what you think about the long-term utility of LLMs, what they are currently being used to build are primarily for-profit propaganda machines which will be used to replace educators, technocrats, social workers, & journalists.
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Necessary reading from @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social :
"The question is not, what do we suffer ...if petromodernity persists? The question is, what do we gain from shutting the pipeline down, from releasing ourselves from oil’s sticky grip?"
thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/bad-attach...
"The question is not, what do we suffer ...if petromodernity persists? The question is, what do we gain from shutting the pipeline down, from releasing ourselves from oil’s sticky grip?"
thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/bad-attach...
Bad Attachments
What if our biggest obstacle to shutting down Line 5 isn’t the pipeline, but the story we’ve been telling ourselves about modern life?
thecurrentowdm.substack.com
May 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Necessary reading from @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social :
"The question is not, what do we suffer ...if petromodernity persists? The question is, what do we gain from shutting the pipeline down, from releasing ourselves from oil’s sticky grip?"
thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/bad-attach...
"The question is not, what do we suffer ...if petromodernity persists? The question is, what do we gain from shutting the pipeline down, from releasing ourselves from oil’s sticky grip?"
thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/bad-attach...
Must-see TV
Just learned my documentary series about the US of A will be released on the 4th of July, which feels like a lot of patriotism ATM, but, as Baldwin said, "I love this country more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
May 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Must-see TV
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Congratulations to Jamie and her wonderful book!!
I'm *thrilled* that my book was shortlisted for the MLA Prize for a First Book! Enormous thanks to the committee for honoring RENDERED OBSOLETE, and congratulations to the winners, Adhaar Noor Desai and Miya Qiong Xie!
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
December 11, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Congratulations to Jamie and her wonderful book!!
Just in time for the holidays, yet another reason to get this brilliant book by my amazing friend and colleague @jamieljones.bsky.social!
I'm *thrilled* that my book was shortlisted for the MLA Prize for a First Book! Enormous thanks to the committee for honoring RENDERED OBSOLETE, and congratulations to the winners, Adhaar Noor Desai and Miya Qiong Xie!
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
December 11, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Just in time for the holidays, yet another reason to get this brilliant book by my amazing friend and colleague @jamieljones.bsky.social!
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don’t comply in advance also applies to the enclosure of all hitherto existing cultural production and expulsion of labor
The Humanities must firmly reject AI taking over our classrooms, our pedagogy. It’s the only way.
December 9, 2024 at 2:37 AM
don’t comply in advance also applies to the enclosure of all hitherto existing cultural production and expulsion of labor
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The Humanities must firmly reject AI taking over our classrooms, our pedagogy. It’s the only way.
December 9, 2024 at 1:17 AM
The Humanities must firmly reject AI taking over our classrooms, our pedagogy. It’s the only way.
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Richard Primack and Abe Miller-Rushing in the current issue of The Dial explaining how Thoreau’s Kalendar has offered a key dataset for their work as climate scientists:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
Project MUSE - Thoreau's Contributions to Climate Change Science
muse.jhu.edu
November 22, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Richard Primack and Abe Miller-Rushing in the current issue of The Dial explaining how Thoreau’s Kalendar has offered a key dataset for their work as climate scientists:
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
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Jamie Jones, in the inaugural issue of The Dial, discusses containerization, Thoreau’s Cape Cod, and her own habits of ship-watching at the Strait of Gibraltar.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
Project MUSE - Long Looking, Without Seeing: Thoreau's Cape Cod and Global Capitalism at Sea
muse.jhu.edu
November 22, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Jamie Jones, in the inaugural issue of The Dial, discusses containerization, Thoreau’s Cape Cod, and her own habits of ship-watching at the Strait of Gibraltar.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
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Happy birthday to @jlb.bsky.social whose essay in the current issue of The Dial takes Thoreau’s writings on the railroad as a chance to draw out the meanings of infrastructures of speed and mobility during a time of climate crisis.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
Project MUSE - Thoreau and the Future We Choose
muse.jhu.edu
November 24, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Happy birthday to @jlb.bsky.social whose essay in the current issue of The Dial takes Thoreau’s writings on the railroad as a chance to draw out the meanings of infrastructures of speed and mobility during a time of climate crisis.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...
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One of the points Newfield makes in this talk is that the American people are deeply dissatisfied with how their lives are organized under capitalism, and the solutions offered by corporate media are actually not satisfying them. What they need is the type of knowledge that humanists provide.
Here’s a recording of Chris’ amazing, deeply moving, and inspiring talk this afternoon on building a future for the humanities. So much to think about: m.youtube.com/watch?v=yVNc... 🗃️
November 20, 2024 at 1:57 AM
One of the points Newfield makes in this talk is that the American people are deeply dissatisfied with how their lives are organized under capitalism, and the solutions offered by corporate media are actually not satisfying them. What they need is the type of knowledge that humanists provide.
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Introducing The Dial, a new open access journal.
thedialjournal.org
Many thanks to our roster of contributors to Issue 1: @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, Jamie L. Jones, Kristen Treen, John Levi Barnard, Russ Castronovo, Elise Lemire, Richard B. Primack, Maria Madison, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing.
thedialjournal.org
Many thanks to our roster of contributors to Issue 1: @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, Jamie L. Jones, Kristen Treen, John Levi Barnard, Russ Castronovo, Elise Lemire, Richard B. Primack, Maria Madison, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing.
The Dial – A Journal of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
thedialjournal.org
November 18, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Introducing The Dial, a new open access journal.
thedialjournal.org
Many thanks to our roster of contributors to Issue 1: @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, Jamie L. Jones, Kristen Treen, John Levi Barnard, Russ Castronovo, Elise Lemire, Richard B. Primack, Maria Madison, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing.
thedialjournal.org
Many thanks to our roster of contributors to Issue 1: @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, Jamie L. Jones, Kristen Treen, John Levi Barnard, Russ Castronovo, Elise Lemire, Richard B. Primack, Maria Madison, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing.
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In this brilliant essay, @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social reminds us that on matters of energy, infrastructure, and climate, we're still living in the long 19th century. No one writes about energy like Jeff!!
I wrote about Emersonian and other C19 solar dreams but also-- probably to the surprise of no one-- about Enbridge and infrastructure.
November 18, 2024 at 6:29 PM
In this brilliant essay, @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social reminds us that on matters of energy, infrastructure, and climate, we're still living in the long 19th century. No one writes about energy like Jeff!!
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Emerson and Fuller's Transcendentalist journal, THE DIAL, has relaunched, thanks to the labor and love of @chrishanlon.bsky.social. I'm so honored to have an essay in the inaugural issue, where I write about climate change, Thoreau and global shipping.
thedialjournal.org
thedialjournal.org
November 18, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Emerson and Fuller's Transcendentalist journal, THE DIAL, has relaunched, thanks to the labor and love of @chrishanlon.bsky.social. I'm so honored to have an essay in the inaugural issue, where I write about climate change, Thoreau and global shipping.
thedialjournal.org
thedialjournal.org
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Super excited about the 21st c. resuscitation of The Dial-- and to be in such brilliant company. Check it out!
Introducing The Dial.
Many thanks to our roster of contributors to Issue 1: @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, @jamieljones.bsky.social,
@jlb.bsky.social, Kristen Treen, Russ Castronovo, Elise Lemire, Richard B. Primack, Maria Madison, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing.
thedialjournal.org
Many thanks to our roster of contributors to Issue 1: @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, @jamieljones.bsky.social,
@jlb.bsky.social, Kristen Treen, Russ Castronovo, Elise Lemire, Richard B. Primack, Maria Madison, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing.
thedialjournal.org
The Dial – A Journal of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
thedialjournal.org
November 18, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Super excited about the 21st c. resuscitation of The Dial-- and to be in such brilliant company. Check it out!
Huge thank you to @chrishanlon.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to this amazing inaugural issue of @thedial2024.bsky.social, along with my dear friends and co-operators @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social and @jamieljones.bsky.social.
Introducing The Dial.
Many thanks to our roster of contributors to Issue 1: @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, @jamieljones.bsky.social,
@jlb.bsky.social, Kristen Treen, Russ Castronovo, Elise Lemire, Richard B. Primack, Maria Madison, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing.
thedialjournal.org
Many thanks to our roster of contributors to Issue 1: @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, @jamieljones.bsky.social,
@jlb.bsky.social, Kristen Treen, Russ Castronovo, Elise Lemire, Richard B. Primack, Maria Madison, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing.
thedialjournal.org
The Dial – A Journal of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
thedialjournal.org
November 18, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Huge thank you to @chrishanlon.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute to this amazing inaugural issue of @thedial2024.bsky.social, along with my dear friends and co-operators @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social and @jamieljones.bsky.social.