This is why I love going to the stacks (how was I not aware of kimchiology till now?).

Was just made aware of this incredibly sinister initiative through the Harvard Asia Center in collaboration with JSTOR. Notice that if you don't "opt out" in 10 days, your work gets used to train LLMs, with zero compensation. I spy a class action lawsuit...

Hope to see some of you at ASAP in Houston this week!

Goethe (1810): "Skin color directly corresponds to moral character. The Black man is inferior, while the white man is the best and most beautiful."

Google AI summary (2025): "Goethe never wrote about race."

Color Protocols is out from @mitpress.bsky.social on 9/30! If you have a US mailing address, you can use the discount codes below on orders placed through Penguin Random House:
a. MITP30: 30% off on publication day
b. READMIT20: 20% off at any time after publication.

We have a cover! Color Protocols will be out next month from @mitpress.bsky.social

Media archaeology?

Me, revising a chapter of my book.

Uncommon Senses at Concordia was a wild ride. One of the highlights: painting with Scented Acrylic Colors out of Japan: camp-fire.jp/projects/777...

I'm a gastronomic genius!

If you happen to still be at #SCMS2025 on Sunday afternoon, please come to our panel! We have a great group of scholars and I'll be talking about the past and present of personal color analysis, aka "getting your colors done," which has gone from 1980s fad to TikTok phenomenon.

I receive these kinds of emails weekly. To quote @michaelhobbes.bsky.social, "We live in hell."

Received the advance copies for Technoskepticism, which will be out from @stanfordpress.bsky.social in February! This was a wild collaborative ride: a 14-person-authored monograph written over a week in rural Pennsylvania with @disconetwork.bsky.social. An exercise in open mindedness and humility.