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Read my new preprint "Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text and its Styles." I argue that we should not only look at the depth behind LLMs, but also take the surfaces seriously with which they present us: as the principal plane on which we encounter them in the life-world.
Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text and its Styles
Despite a potential plateau in ML advancement, the societal impact of large language models lies not in approaching superintelligence but in generating text surfaces indistinguishable from human writi...
arxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Read my new preprint "Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text and its Styles." I argue that we should not only look at the depth behind LLMs, but also take the surfaces seriously with which they present us: as the principal plane on which we encounter them in the life-world.
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More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...
Selected British Literary Prizes (1990-2022) – Post45 Data Collective
The Selected British Literary Prizes (SBLP) dataset contains information on nine major literary prizes in the U.K. from 1990 to 2022 and demographic information on 682 prize winners and shortlisted au...
data.post45.org
June 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
More than 30 years worth of data on UK literary prizes (and their winners) goes live today @post45data.bsky.social! Bravo to researchers Katherine Binhammer, Kanika Batra, Theo Gray, and Maryse Jayasuriya for compiling and publishing this incredible resource! data.post45.org/posts/britis...
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I wrote about close reading. What it is, why it matters, and what John Guillory gets right and wrong in his recent On Close Reading. Offers a sneak peek of a little of what @johannawinant.bsky.social and I are up to in our forthcoming Close Reading for the 21C
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
What is Close Reading?
By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to transform postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art form?
www.thenation.com
May 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I wrote about close reading. What it is, why it matters, and what John Guillory gets right and wrong in his recent On Close Reading. Offers a sneak peek of a little of what @johannawinant.bsky.social and I are up to in our forthcoming Close Reading for the 21C
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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These bodies of work rhyme so beautifully. Lots to learn from artists engaging with the refusal of transparency and intelligibility :) Show closes on April 13.
April 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
These bodies of work rhyme so beautifully. Lots to learn from artists engaging with the refusal of transparency and intelligibility :) Show closes on April 13.
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"Dickinson seemed to revel in the formal opportunities presented by letters, wrappers, envelopes, folds, adhesives, and their related paraphernalia.... When working with containers and enclosures, what possibilities does a poet have to explore interiority, concealment, revelation...?"
Emily Dickinson’s Playful Letterlocking
Emily Dickinson used envelopes and seals to turn letters into poetry, layering hidden messages and playful forms.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
March 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"Dickinson seemed to revel in the formal opportunities presented by letters, wrappers, envelopes, folds, adhesives, and their related paraphernalia.... When working with containers and enclosures, what possibilities does a poet have to explore interiority, concealment, revelation...?"
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OK, every year I try to explain to my students how LLMs work, and every year I have to do a big trawl for good resources and activities. Here's this year's haul of *introductory* materials. (In-class activities + visualizations, not so much readings.)
March 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
OK, every year I try to explain to my students how LLMs work, and every year I have to do a big trawl for good resources and activities. Here's this year's haul of *introductory* materials. (In-class activities + visualizations, not so much readings.)
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For more on library funding: static1.squarespace.com/static/64063...
March 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
For more on library funding: static1.squarespace.com/static/64063...
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CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY now has a website at @princetonupress.bsky.social, complete with very generous blurbs from David James, @rbuurma.bsky.social & @laheffernan.bsky.social , and Andrew DuBois.
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
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
February 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY now has a website at @princetonupress.bsky.social, complete with very generous blurbs from David James, @rbuurma.bsky.social & @laheffernan.bsky.social , and Andrew DuBois.
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
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The Video Game History Foundation opens its digital archives to the public next week
The Video Game History Foundation opens its digital archives to the public next week
The online archive will include over 1,500 magazine issues and other gaming artifacts at launch.
buff.ly
January 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Video Game History Foundation opens its digital archives to the public next week
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For this excellent @atpost45.bsky.social cluster, I wrote about The Leftovers as a case study in how (not) to watch television
To @elizabethalsop.bsky.social, "the show’s elevation of the experiential over the explanatory is not so much a single methodology — post-critique versus paranoia, textual erotics versus forensics — as an orientation that allows for experiencing and explicating"
post45.org/2024/12/let-...
post45.org/2024/12/let-...
Let the Mystery Be: The Leftovers and the Limits of Explainer Culture - Post45
No one knows anything on The Leftovers. It’s a state of affairs established in the series pilot, during which several characters accuse each other of “not know[ing] shit” — specifically, about the Sud...
post45.org
January 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
For this excellent @atpost45.bsky.social cluster, I wrote about The Leftovers as a case study in how (not) to watch television
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Good news for feminist book history! A team led by Julie R. Enszer has built a dataset with metadata for all articles and issues of Feminist Bookstore News (FBN) from 1976 to 2000, published open access at the Post45 Data Collective data.post45.org/posts/femini...
Feminist Bookstore News Issues and Articles (1976-2000) – Post45 Data Collective
This dataset contains metadata for all articles and issues of Feminist Bookstore News from 1976 to 2000.
data.post45.org
January 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Good news for feminist book history! A team led by Julie R. Enszer has built a dataset with metadata for all articles and issues of Feminist Bookstore News (FBN) from 1976 to 2000, published open access at the Post45 Data Collective data.post45.org/posts/femini...
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Just want to add my shout out for Scott Newstok's annotated bibliographic resource, www.closereadingarchive.org, which he "compiled in conjunction with John Guillory’s [forthcoming' book _On Close Reading_" (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...)
December 5, 2024 at 8:13 AM
Just want to add my shout out for Scott Newstok's annotated bibliographic resource, www.closereadingarchive.org, which he "compiled in conjunction with John Guillory’s [forthcoming' book _On Close Reading_" (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...)
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🌱🌿🌱 The writer + editor Willa Koerner interviewed me for Dark Properties as part of Ecologies of Entanglement (Are na) Editorial) about moss, repatriation + colonial institutions. Subscribe to her for more! 🌱🌿🌱
dark.properties/becoming-mos...
dark.properties/becoming-mos...
Becoming mossy 𓇢
Historian and Yale professor Elaine Ayers on dismantling colonial institutions from the inside out.
dark.properties
January 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
🌱🌿🌱 The writer + editor Willa Koerner interviewed me for Dark Properties as part of Ecologies of Entanglement (Are na) Editorial) about moss, repatriation + colonial institutions. Subscribe to her for more! 🌱🌿🌱
dark.properties/becoming-mos...
dark.properties/becoming-mos...
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Lavater was the OG physiogyomist, and his collection of 21,000 prints has been digitized and its metadata made available for download by the Austrian National Library. Interesting project possibility! labs.onb.ac.at/datasets/lav...
ONB Labs - Data setsONB Labs
labs.onb.ac.at
December 16, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Lavater was the OG physiogyomist, and his collection of 21,000 prints has been digitized and its metadata made available for download by the Austrian National Library. Interesting project possibility! labs.onb.ac.at/datasets/lav...
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Materials of Solidarity: posters, flyers, zines, and pamphlets of the 🇵🇸 solidarity movement — curated by Nadine Fattaleh at NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute.
So many recent exhibitions have incorporated small libraries - in the exhibition space, rather than as an addendum!
So many recent exhibitions have incorporated small libraries - in the exhibition space, rather than as an addendum!
November 22, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Materials of Solidarity: posters, flyers, zines, and pamphlets of the 🇵🇸 solidarity movement — curated by Nadine Fattaleh at NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute.
So many recent exhibitions have incorporated small libraries - in the exhibition space, rather than as an addendum!
So many recent exhibitions have incorporated small libraries - in the exhibition space, rather than as an addendum!
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Applications are now open for 2025-26 fellowships at @scihistoryorg.bsky.social!
We offer postdoc, dissertation, distinguished & short-term fellowships for researchers from anywhere in any fields w/ projects that can make use of our collections.
Questions? Ask here!
We offer postdoc, dissertation, distinguished & short-term fellowships for researchers from anywhere in any fields w/ projects that can make use of our collections.
Questions? Ask here!
Science History Institute Fellowships
The Institute is home to the largest private fellowship program in the historical study of science, medicine, and technology in the United States.
www.sciencehistory.org
November 18, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Applications are now open for 2025-26 fellowships at @scihistoryorg.bsky.social!
We offer postdoc, dissertation, distinguished & short-term fellowships for researchers from anywhere in any fields w/ projects that can make use of our collections.
Questions? Ask here!
We offer postdoc, dissertation, distinguished & short-term fellowships for researchers from anywhere in any fields w/ projects that can make use of our collections.
Questions? Ask here!
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Okay! We've got a website for our grad Cinema + Media Studies Theory + Methods class! I'm especially looking forward to our "What Values Animate Your Research?," "Methods Toolkits," and "Bespoke Methods" classes :) cimsmethods.wordsinspace.net/2024/
August 28, 2024 at 12:59 AM
Okay! We've got a website for our grad Cinema + Media Studies Theory + Methods class! I'm especially looking forward to our "What Values Animate Your Research?," "Methods Toolkits," and "Bespoke Methods" classes :) cimsmethods.wordsinspace.net/2024/
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For the Syllabus Project, I created a speculative syllabus exploring the connections between libraries 📚and landscapes 🌱. I hoped to sketch some of the potential conceptual and creative terrain for our new Library Field project at the Metro New York Library Council :)
Syllabus
Visit the post for more.
syllabusproject.org
August 20, 2024 at 2:51 PM
For the Syllabus Project, I created a speculative syllabus exploring the connections between libraries 📚and landscapes 🌱. I hoped to sketch some of the potential conceptual and creative terrain for our new Library Field project at the Metro New York Library Council :)
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I’ve also created open-access websites for about 40 classes since 2002 — all free for use (with credit :) wordsinspace.net/classes/
July 28, 2024 at 2:32 AM
I’ve also created open-access websites for about 40 classes since 2002 — all free for use (with credit :) wordsinspace.net/classes/
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i watched this 86 minute long youtube documentary about the creation of the video game OREGON TRAIL and enjoyed it a lot - a reminder that a documentary that isn't trying to be dramatic or suspenseful can still be valuable and entertaining www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qbj...
The Story of The Oregon Trail
In 1971, three student teachers in Minneapolis, MN created a little computer game about westward expansion in the United States. Over 50 years later, The Ore...
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April 26, 2024 at 3:26 AM
i watched this 86 minute long youtube documentary about the creation of the video game OREGON TRAIL and enjoyed it a lot - a reminder that a documentary that isn't trying to be dramatic or suspenseful can still be valuable and entertaining www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qbj...
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another MLA CFP from the Forum on Literary Criticism!
Genres of/in Criticism: The critical form today
the genres that shape criticism today. We seek a reflection on the aesthetic and intellectual forms of criticism in the tension between the academic and the public
mla.confex.com/mla/2025/web...
Genres of/in Criticism: The critical form today
the genres that shape criticism today. We seek a reflection on the aesthetic and intellectual forms of criticism in the tension between the academic and the public
mla.confex.com/mla/2025/web...
Call for Papers: Genres of/in Criticism: The critical form today. (2025 MLA Annual Convention)
mla.confex.com
February 28, 2024 at 8:58 PM
another MLA CFP from the Forum on Literary Criticism!
Genres of/in Criticism: The critical form today
the genres that shape criticism today. We seek a reflection on the aesthetic and intellectual forms of criticism in the tension between the academic and the public
mla.confex.com/mla/2025/web...
Genres of/in Criticism: The critical form today
the genres that shape criticism today. We seek a reflection on the aesthetic and intellectual forms of criticism in the tension between the academic and the public
mla.confex.com/mla/2025/web...