“If you live under late capitalism, historicize. If you live under nascent techno-feudalism, run!”

What could go wrong? 😑

"Not just X but Y" is the new "delve"—not just a lexical AI tell but a formula now forever banished from my prose. Well, now.

Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.

Look, if I just perfect the anti-AI language on my syllabus, I think we’ll be just fine.

Four weeks of Grokipedia entries should just about cover it.

Autocorrect wants to change "praxeology" to "proctology" which seems somewhat apt.

@lkonstan.bsky.social wrote a great essay explaining why, highly recommend arcmag.org/mythic-capit...

The latest dispatch from my Doom Bunker, about AI and existential risk. arcmag.org/move-fast-an...

The latest dispatch from my Doom Bunker, about AI and existential risk. arcmag.org/move-fast-an...

Apple's Weather app failed me.

Ready for ASAP/16.

What if we just let Canvas stay down… forever?

Is this not the exact plot of You've Got Mail?

I have for several years been obsessed with so-called PKM tools -- it's what I play with instead of Being Productive -- and I think I've finally found an actual long-term winner with the db version of logseq (which is still not formally released).

The original *Arkanoid* jingle has been stuck in my head all day.

After all the critiques of the sociology of literature, I am reduced to defensively arguing that a text is, you know, not *not* an allegory of its conditions of production, right?

One minor detail.

Ayyyy!

Where were you when you discovered that Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s dissertation advisor was Jürgen Habermas? 🤯

I am glad Murderbot turned out good.

Before they’re done the men leading our major AI labs are gonna not only discover the secrets of intelligence but — more importantly — speed(re)run the history of 20c literary theory. They coulda just majored in English.

I am so happy to announce we’re starting a new major in LLM Prompting. I hear it’s the future.

I’m convinced. Gonna give this “reading” thing a try.

Baby’s got a pub date! And some juicy catalog copy. MIDDLEMEN coming your way on April 26! (Cover reveal soon!)

Trying to explain to my 7yo what linear television was.

Pretty sure we’re gonna nuke that asteroid. You know, mostly as a show of strength.

Just learned the word “methodolatry” which I wish I’d learned sooner. 😜

See, if you just wait long enough, reality will provide you with the perfect anecdote to open the conclusion of the book you are writing.

Who knew living in a cyberpunk dystopia would be so boring.

Important also that students and faculty not be given or allowed to use email either. 🤔

I managed to leave just as the questions were getting hard! 🤪

👀

"Cake-Pop Demon Hunters" has proven to be too scary for the 7yo.

Surprised they didn't go the last mile and rename it the Department of War Crimes.

I do like the notion/trend of paper-only classes. I wonder to what degree folks have gotten pushback on accomodations grounds.

"None of the quotations attributed to Infomocracy appeared in the book." A thrilling, scary essay from Lee Konstantinou in the Chronicle. www.chronicle.com/article/peer...

Every single quote from the novel supposedly under analysis was hallucinated. Every single one.

“Like the wonks who worked for Information, I was holding the line against the ensloppification of academe, one false citation at a time …” ensloppification is the new enshittification, and they’re both super gross

En voor wie twijfelt aan de omvang van het issue: @lkonstan.bsky.social beschreef eergisteren exact hetzelfde fenomeen en kwam tot gelijkaardige conclusies. www.chronicle.com/article/peer...

still upset about this. tl;dr (or registrationwall; didn't read): @lkonstan.bsky.social was asked to peer-review an article about #Infomocracy, and it had made-up quotes and citations because it was clumped together by a machine.

This is so nuts. Also "The article I was reading gave off that robot stink." is a fantastic line.

“Many secure people — tenured professors, university administrators, lawmakers — have contributed to making academe a pressure cooker, incentivizing cheating.”

this gave me a fizzy, unsettled, questioning of reality feeling similar to the first time I read Borges, but without the excitement of discovering Borges

"The article I was reading gave off that robot stink."

Thanks to @evankindley.bsky.social for shepherding this into print. www.chronicle.com/article/peer...

Thanks to @evankindley.bsky.social for shepherding this into print. www.chronicle.com/article/peer...

Am I the only one who is seeing these injected ads on ASAP/J’s website? Malicious Wordpress plugin?

Feeling nostalgic for the days when "being the biopower of the enlightenment" was a real career option.

I'm in the "Spending Saturday morning searching for peer-reviewed scholarship on MrBeast"–stage of my career.