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Marc Farrior
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Cultural Narratology | Black Modernism | Literature and Film | Race, War, Veterans, Time, Home, Afrofuturism, & Epic (I swear, they're related) |
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With the ongoing Modernist Studies Association 2023 Conference in Brooklyn what better time to share our collaborative BAMS x MSA Special Issue - The Modernist Review: Precarious Modernisms (guest edited by Zoë Henry)!

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The Modernist Review #49: Precarious Modernisms
27 October 2023 Modernism has been productively destabilized in recent years, leading Paul K. Saint-Amour to claim that the masculinist model of “make it new” verges on a kind of “cartoon vitali...
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October 27, 2023 at 2:47 PM
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This article in Rolling Stone is a hell of a read.

“I saw who was building the AI systems and their points of view. I saw what they were being used for, and I was like, ‘Oh, my God, we have a problem.’ ”

— Timnit Gebru

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
www.rollingstone.com
September 23, 2023 at 3:05 PM
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Another great way to contribute to earthquake relief in Morocco: buy a photographic print by an amazing Moroccan artist. All proceeds will be sent to local organizations in regions affected by the earthquake. artistsformorocco.com
Artists For Morocco
Artists For Morocco
artistsformorocco.com
September 15, 2023 at 8:03 PM
September 11, 2023 at 7:43 PM
"the Shoe Lane saga illuminates a long-standing aspect of the African American experience: the confiscation and destruction of Black neighborhoods for higher-education facilities in the post-World War II period" www.propublica.org/article/how-...
Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood
Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college. The school has been gobbling up the remaining houses ever since.
www.propublica.org
September 6, 2023 at 9:57 PM
I am a little exasperated with good shows getting kicked over to ad-supported channels, but, sigh, here...take my m̸o̸n̸e̸y̸ privacy: www.nexttv.com/news/cinever...
Cineverse Launches Black Cinema Channel With Maverick Entertainment
VOD service starts with more than 100 films and TV series
www.nexttv.com
September 2, 2023 at 12:01 AM
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“I could go on for ages about SF’s direct links to Woolf and modernism – the subjective and the impersonal, different levels of perspective, a single day in the life of a character and vast deserts of eternity.”
Martin MacInnes interview: ‘An SF novel can be as high-brow as any other genre’ | The Booker Pri...
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August 31, 2023 at 9:53 AM
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I don’t even know what to say. my high school and undergrad classes helped prepare me for the wider world, including my eventual expertise in Latin America. My courses in French, Italian and German exposed me to amazing culture. I’m gutted for my friends

wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2023...
WVU announces final recommendations for several academic programs under review
The West Virginia University Office of the Provost announced final recommendations on Tuesday (Aug. 29) from the first four appeals hearings held as part of the Academic Transformation program portfol...
wvutoday.wvu.edu
August 29, 2023 at 7:41 PM
The human capacity for novel storytelling can't solve everything, but it sure can close the gap
www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/h...
A Novel Therapy, Using Writing, Shows Promise for PTSD
A study of veterans with PTSD found that 30-minute supervised writing sessions were as effective as traditional talk therapy.
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2023 at 10:52 PM
Vinyl + Afrofuturism is some kind of anachronistic wonder. If you wrote/write on this, pls let me know!
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August 25, 2023 at 5:43 PM
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Here's the beautiful and moving news of the day! Congratulations Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Black Queer Troublemaker and global treasure! windhamcampbell.org/festival/202...
August 23, 2023 at 4:33 PM
Gonna be my version of a Taylor Swift concert and Barbenheimer. Amped and getting dressed up: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition upcoming at The Met
www.metmuseum.org
August 22, 2023 at 11:32 PM
Years ago I once projected reels of film for Scorsese who lamented that his entire life’s work could digitally be reduced to a thumb drive. Get over it, I thought, and now as I come up for air in academia, apparently I’m not over it either and ProQuest got me; I ordered a physical copy. Receipts!
August 22, 2023 at 6:49 PM