Olga Kravets
@olgakravets.bsky.social
I teach critical cultural consumer studies @ RHUL
research on social class, gender, and inequality
research on social class, gender, and inequality
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I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
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Teachers Are Not OK
AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."
www.404media.co
June 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives:
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
www.404media.co/teachers-are...
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No news hook sorry (‘Trump take egg’? ‘RFK take vaccine’?? maybe!) but here’s a new piece by me in Slate talking about kitchen aesthetics & ideology, John Berger’s The Eaters and the Eaten, food anxieties, and the Tartine bread book: slate.com/business/202...
The Unnerving Meaning of the Two Kinds of Instagram Kitchens
They look different, but they underscore the same anxieties.
slate.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
No news hook sorry (‘Trump take egg’? ‘RFK take vaccine’?? maybe!) but here’s a new piece by me in Slate talking about kitchen aesthetics & ideology, John Berger’s The Eaters and the Eaten, food anxieties, and the Tartine bread book: slate.com/business/202...
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March 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Read on your #kindle or Amazon Fire Love #Amazon #ebooks? Download 50 FREE amazing short short stories dealing with unique #ethical and #philosophical problems. Complete with discussion questions! buff.ly/TYI3x8E
#freebooks #freeshortstories #freefiction #freekindle
#freebooks #freeshortstories #freefiction #freekindle
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If you’re wondering what a spreadsheet looked like in 1800 BCE, here is one that tallies foodstuffs for cattle received by four cowherds.
Three are named in the right hand column as Ubar-Shamash, Sin-iddinam, Sin-re’um, and the last one making the record simply writes “mine”
Three are named in the right hand column as Ubar-Shamash, Sin-iddinam, Sin-re’um, and the last one making the record simply writes “mine”
March 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
If you’re wondering what a spreadsheet looked like in 1800 BCE, here is one that tallies foodstuffs for cattle received by four cowherds.
Three are named in the right hand column as Ubar-Shamash, Sin-iddinam, Sin-re’um, and the last one making the record simply writes “mine”
Three are named in the right hand column as Ubar-Shamash, Sin-iddinam, Sin-re’um, and the last one making the record simply writes “mine”
saw The Brutalist a while back but still thinking about it... def recommend! Adrien Brody. beautiful cinematography. American Dream revealed as a nightmare but... so many buts re execution of this message. a good read here: thepointmag.com/criticism/ou...
Outwitting History | The Point Magazine
Adrien Brody is the most beautiful man in Hollywood, and maybe on the planet.
thepointmag.com
February 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
saw The Brutalist a while back but still thinking about it... def recommend! Adrien Brody. beautiful cinematography. American Dream revealed as a nightmare but... so many buts re execution of this message. a good read here: thepointmag.com/criticism/ou...
happy Monday
(photo by Eileen Pan via unsplash)
(photo by Eileen Pan via unsplash)
February 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
happy Monday
(photo by Eileen Pan via unsplash)
(photo by Eileen Pan via unsplash)
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general public facing note directed to no one in particular: just because genAI is professionally useful to you in this moment does not mean it is worth the broader social costs and does not mean it will not be used against you, professionally, soon
January 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
general public facing note directed to no one in particular: just because genAI is professionally useful to you in this moment does not mean it is worth the broader social costs and does not mean it will not be used against you, professionally, soon
my succulent is blooming😳 what a lovely surprise!
never happened to me. ever. what could it mean?!?
"sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." - Rumi
never happened to me. ever. what could it mean?!?
"sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." - Rumi
January 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
my succulent is blooming😳 what a lovely surprise!
never happened to me. ever. what could it mean?!?
"sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." - Rumi
never happened to me. ever. what could it mean?!?
"sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment." - Rumi
today ‘the unappeasable wish for escape’😞
#goodread on the estranging effects of Bruegel’s work
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
#goodread on the estranging effects of Bruegel’s work
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Daniel Zamora, World Upside Down — Sidecar
On T. J. Clark’s Bruegel.
newleftreview.org
January 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM
today ‘the unappeasable wish for escape’😞
#goodread on the estranging effects of Bruegel’s work
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
#goodread on the estranging effects of Bruegel’s work
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
“‘epistolary sociability”?!🧐 interesting take on customer feedback
'Marriage between classes, rape and suicide: Richardson’s plots, to some extent, explain the sensation he caused.'
Oonagh Devitt Tremblay on Samuel Richardson’s correspondence with readers about his novels in progress
Oonagh Devitt Tremblay on Samuel Richardson’s correspondence with readers about his novels in progress
Samuel Richardson’s correspondence with readers about his novels in progress
“I beg you to send me immediately the remaining Vols:”, Henry Fielding wrote to Samuel Richardson in October 1748. Fielding was requesting the final
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January 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“‘epistolary sociability”?!🧐 interesting take on customer feedback
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The cult grocery store Erewhon emerged from a New Age ethos that emphasized meaningful work as much as wholesome eating. But as @erikmbaker.bsky.social writes, this “new spirit” of capitalist endeavor was a lot like the old one.
Fairytale in the Supermarket | Erik Baker
Erewhon emerged from a countercultural ethos—but a business is still a business.
thebaffler.com
January 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The cult grocery store Erewhon emerged from a New Age ethos that emphasized meaningful work as much as wholesome eating. But as @erikmbaker.bsky.social writes, this “new spirit” of capitalist endeavor was a lot like the old one.
today, learned smth new: "asemic writing"😳
fascinating! because I totally had this happen when speed-writing ie creating my own language😂 but didn't know it's a thing!
www.samwoolfe.com/2022/05/derr...
fascinating! because I totally had this happen when speed-writing ie creating my own language😂 but didn't know it's a thing!
www.samwoolfe.com/2022/05/derr...
Derrida, Barthes, and the Origins of Asemic Writing
In my first post on asemic writing, I briefly touched on the origins of this art form, noting that the artists Tim Gaze and Jim Leftwich applied the term asemic to their quasi-calligraphic works in 19...
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January 14, 2025 at 10:45 AM
today, learned smth new: "asemic writing"😳
fascinating! because I totally had this happen when speed-writing ie creating my own language😂 but didn't know it's a thing!
www.samwoolfe.com/2022/05/derr...
fascinating! because I totally had this happen when speed-writing ie creating my own language😂 but didn't know it's a thing!
www.samwoolfe.com/2022/05/derr...
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
January 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
"To speak up is not about speaking louder, it is about feeling entitled to voice a wish." - Zofia Kalinska (in Deborah Levy's Things I Don’t Want to Know, 2013 p10)
August 14, 2023 at 10:39 AM
"To speak up is not about speaking louder, it is about feeling entitled to voice a wish." - Zofia Kalinska (in Deborah Levy's Things I Don’t Want to Know, 2013 p10)