"That's unexpected." "It's completely unexpected." ... is an objectively funny way to begin a conversation about one of the most widely reported (if collectively disavowed) ongoing stories in the higher ed and tech industrieds.

Ground beef entrepreneur predicts all-hamburger future.

Featuring excellent methodological foreword by DCMI fave Marc Steinberg.

If you're in Durham for @sns2025.bsky.social at the end of the month, come by, say hi, bright and early. Friday @ 8:30am, with Ben Mangrum and Justin Mitchell:

hi everyone—I’m taking on a few more clients this summer. if you need an editor or indexer, please get in touch! [email protected]

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Our third and final talk of this year's series is next week! In “Finance by Other Means? The Ambiguous Moral Economies of the Subscription Business Model," Aaron Shapiro (@bricolageyumyum.bsky.social) asks how we might "reclaim subscriptionization for post-capitalist transformation." Join us!

"Data Work as Care Work" — we couldn't be more excited for our upcoming visit from Kalindi Vora of Yale. On April 10 at 3:30 in the Grucci Room, @kalindivora.bsky.social urges us to "challenge ongoing coloniality in tech design in the face of growing datafication."

TODAY!

Classroom report: This article by @ursulahuws.bsky.social can still strike the hearts of students learning to be creative workers (and of at least some of the teachers who teach them). It's also a crystal-hard model of dialectical thinking.

Cannot wait: on 4.3, the year's first DCMI talk is Omedi Ochieng, brilliant author of INTELLECTUAL IMAGINATION and GROUNDWORK FOR THE PRACTICE OF THE GOOD LIFE! (Up next: Kalindi Vora on 4.10 + Aaron Shapiro on 4.17!) @omediochieng.bsky.social @kalindivora.bsky.social @bricolageyumyum.bsky.social

Special session of #MLA25 #MLA2025, next Friday at 3:30: "Sentimental Politics after Doomerism," with Zachary Loeb, Matt Tierney, Melanie Abeygunawardana, and Sheila Liming (@seeshespeak.bsky.social). Come say hi.

An outlier in our program of in-person talks, our series of spring 2022 was held remotely in a series of webinars. Videos still linked from our site, under "recent posts," include such friends and luminaries as Yuri Furuhata, Armond Towns, Marc Steinberg, Jim Hodge, Alenda Chang, and Michael Sawyer.

So excited to announce our spring speakers! April 3: Omedi Ochieng, Colorado (@omediochieng.bsky.social) April 10: Kalindi Vora, Yale (@kalindivora.bsky.social) April 17: Aaron Shapiro, UNC (@bricolageyumyum.bsky.social) Talks are in-person in the Grucci Room, Burrowes 102, at 3:30pm. Join us!

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