If you see this, quote skeet with a screenshot from a video game that released the year you were born. By the time I was aware of games, Galaga was out and I was more into that one. But this is pretty solid.

list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep: 1. The triangle era of Superman comics. 2. William Blake's approach to mysticism & illuminated printing. 3. Why Dark Souls is a Buddhist game.

Commitment to free speech doesn't just mean commitment to letting people say things you don't believe in. It's a commitment to them saying or expressing it in a *way* that you dislike, or is actively unpleasant to you.

For instance, the way he links cybernetics with Whitehead's philosophy of organism is amazing. It's something that seems obvious, but I never made the connection between them.

The scope of Yuk Hui's work is pretty breathtaking, but it only comes into focus after looking at several of his works - at least for me. I'm fascinated that he spends so much time on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, someone I haven't thought about since reading Annie Dillard in undergrad.

most: Beauvoir or Arendt. I'd have a fun but dramatic friendship w/ Deleuze. Least: Heidegger. I mean, what he did to Husserl....

I'm showing The Matrix in my sci-fi class today. Of 20 students, only three of them have seen it before.

Dark is three seasons. does that count?

Is there anyone familiar with Hegel read Yuk Hui's new book? He spends the first two chapters on Hegel's sense of universality and world spirit, and it occurs to me that I have no way of contextualizing how that take works w/ Hegel or Marx scholars.

hey @ifanboy.com, are y'all still taking questions for the 1000 episode?

This is the coolest thing I've seen in a while.

"Externalization in the form of different institutions and powers would not give rise to the modern state if they did not exhibit [...] an organic mode of organization. This is what Mumford missed in his Myth of the Machine, where [...] the state is only seen from the lens of mechanism." —Yuk Hui

"Planetary freedom means, first of all, the triumph of reason since when every individual and group is able to exercise their own reason without violating the other's freedom to reason, we move towards the realization of freedom." —Yuk Hui reading Hegel in Machine and Sovereignty

I recently started diving into the British Library's Tales of the Weird series. Reader, I love it. shop.bl.uk/collections/...

this is laughable. why ulysses, of all books? it's like someone's trolling lit professors.

I clearly need to read more Lewis Mumford.

Whaaa...?!

I’m ashamed of my former employer. What cowards.

“For us to cope [with the supracognitive mapping of LLMs], we need to move beyond the idea of ideology as a ‘condition,’ (a transcendental notion) and to see that is is expression, ideology in extension (and in development).” -Leif Weatherby, Language Machines

"automated language results from Goedel and Jackobson systems interacting together, without cognition. The incomplete and greedy combine to show us what language is in the absence of cognition and present a strong attractor for meaning." —Leif Weatherby, Language Machines

One of my faves. I briefly thought Tom Mandrake was him when the 90s Spectre series came out.

tfw, you kindof finish an article, but it's still tugging at you. you don't know what it wants, but you're pretty sure it isn't done with you. phhhh.

DH scholars! It may be way too soon, but has any DH scholar (who mentions the field) discussed techno-feudalism at any length? I'm looking through David Golumbia's stuff on cyber-libertarianism, but other suggestions would be welcome.

I didn’t expect that @glennf.com’s How Comics Are Made would be so gorgeous! What a book!

There really isn't any blue sky alternative to tweeting at conferences, is there? It seems like that moment is over. :(

Congrats!

There are a lot of talks at #SLSA25 #SLSA2025 on divination, magic, ritual, the occult, etc. It's very striking. I don't know much about this turn, but my immediate response is to see it as a symptom of current struggles over science and epistemology.

looking to connect with more #slsa25 #slsa2025 peeps today!

#SLSA2025 Games considered to be rational, like chess. Games played by dice, seen to be about hazard. Games of prudence - board games like backgammon. Even Aquinas saw the importance of games and management.

#SLSA2025 Medieval people were interested in approaching risk in literary/formal ways. The concept of risk can be distinguished from mathematical ways of knowing risk.

#SLSA2025 Medieval risk. Risk before statistics and risk management.

#SLSA2025 How do you apply for grants when the landscape of grant-applications is increasingly risky.

#SLSA2025 How do we supplement traditional studies of risk? i.e. risk management?

#SLSA2025 Group of scholars from across OSU, thinking about communication studies, rhetoric, literary studies and others in thinking about risk.

Gonna type up a few notes from #SLSA2025 panel on Interdisciplinary Risk.

Just ran into @shanedenson.bsky.social at #slsa2025 which was a lovely surprise. :)

Trying to connect w/ peeps on bluesky for my lit, science, and the arts conference #SLSA2025 next week, and I inadvertently fell into posts about socio-legal studies.

i've been ambivalent at best about honors students in the past, particularly how the history of honor's programs in public schools interfaces with segregation. but i'm ngl, it was super-charming that the students in my honors course wanted to shake my hand today. 😊

I'm about two chapters into Language Machines by @leifw.bsky.social, and it's already one of the more illuminating academic texts on AI out there. It's already impacted how I talk to my students about it.

"Cognitive science in Chomsky's mold, AI risk, and AI ethics share the theoretical move that backs us into a 'humanist' corner, an ever-shrinking area of things that 'computers can't do.'" Leif Weatherby, Language Machines

Reading Weatherby's Language Machines and realizing just how much linguistics and philosophy of language I've forgotten since undergrad. Yeep.

yup.

are there any good articles on decoloniality and artificial intelligence that have recently emerged?

I don't get why Lisa Frankenstein got bad reviews. It's really cute, super-fun, and hilarious. Carla Gugino is a force in the film.

DH-ers: Is there a good piece addressing LLMs, writing in English Departments, and Science Fiction? It's a pretty narrow ask, to be sure. I'm just teaching artificial intelligence in my sci-fi class and wondering if anyone made those connections.

"[They are isolated among modern philosophers] as far as science is concerned; as though they strayed to extremes which lie beyond the boundaries of safe philosophy, Spinoza by retaining older ways of thought, and Leibniz by the novelty of his monads." AL Whitehead, Science and the Modern World

I remember how scandalized I was when the pictures from Abu-Gharib appeared. It seems, comparatively, like a much more innocent time - and how messed up is that? www.propublica.org/article/vene...

Not depression, but this is me. Kids, schedules, insanity - then deeper problems from not making the time to read. Reading is my anchor.

Reframe: What have you been thinking about these days? What interesting things have you learned?

I'm rereading China Mieville's The City and the City to teach it in a fall class. It's really hitting me how it doesn't seem like weird fiction anymore, but some kind of realism.