New article out! On the cynical erasure of teachers, from without & from within: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

“An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the artificial intelligence industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny.” Out from behind the paywall: the Editors on the literature of AI resignation. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Stigmatization is a powerful force, and disgust and shame are among our greatest tools. Put plainly, you should feel bad for using AI. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

“Don’t publish AI bullshit. Don’t even publish mealymouthed essays about the temptation to produce AI bullshit.”

Bless the @nplusonemag.com editors for coining the term "a single-use plastic of the mind" to describe AI www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Everyone bends the knee eventually

What are the most effective things—even if they sound extreme—that we can do to limit, and ideally abolish, the unauthorized use of AI on campus? www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

New interview in @comicsjournal.bsky.social! Really loved having this conversation with Ian Thomas, which was challenging in all the best ways. And it's amazing to be featured in the The Comics Journal, which I've been reading since I was a teenager. www.tcj.com/comics-are-t...

If you're in or near Atlanta, or *super juiced* 😜 about close reading and love to travel, come to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium at Emory University on Friday, November 7. And hear from these superstars...

For everyone interested in creative writing approaches in the classroom, a special issue of Changing English on "A Close Writing Playbook: Coupling Creative Writing and Close Reading Practices," edited by Michael Lockett & Scott Jarvie www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?

“I would need a good reason—pleasure would be sufficient—to engage with a technology that is not only making the physical world worse but is also decidedly optional… A.I. is frankly gross to me…” On the feeling of insanity that comes with living in the world today: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Grift used to be believable

There's a big piece on resistance to AI and Luddism in the New Yorker — pleased to see @jathansadowski.com's great book and This Machine Kills get shouts, as well as a nice nod to Blood in the Machine. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

We are almost at capacity in this starter pack! Everyone now left to be added will be added to Education Scholars Part II! If I didn’t add you to first one & you want to be added reply to to post! #EducationScholars go.bsky.app/H3QkVDR

“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.

dispatch from my job "budgets are direct expressions of an institution’s values, so an unwillingness to meet cost, still astonishingly fucking low, is as good as declaring that working-class kids do not deserve an education of as high a caliber as that of their whiter and wealthier peers"

“The act of physically or digitally cutting puts practitioners in proximity to the language they are altering.”—Jessica Suzanne Stokes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And another question for educators and anybody pushing AI hype: if you’re welcoming AI tools and platforms into schools and universities, how are you grappling with what @ruha9.bsky.social names the New Jim Code? With the acute harm these technologies are inflicting on minoritized communities?

"The power of closely reading and writing detective fiction – attending to the form at both the level of the genre and the sentence – is the capacity of students to channel contemporary cynicism into something legible and literary." --Robert Jean LeBlanc www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"I started using Image Explosion 15 years ago...Across time and grade levels, it consistently produces – through narrative writing – closer textual analysis, greater engagement with analysis, and stronger classroom communities." --Kate Sjostrom www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"A teacher must understand the constant dynamism of the lives of their students, as well as their own lived contexts...An intersubjective encounter brings with it the ethical implications of caring for another person."--Patrick Sitzer #EduSky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“a capacious framing of close writing is alive to identity, culture, power and difference, offering politically-minded English educators a playbook for future pedagogy.”

long live Deep Vellum!

“Coupling close reading w/ playful writing, a practice we call close writing, deepens analytical work by making it accessible & insightful…these works not only demonstrate ways to play but also the political & philosophical & critical necessity of textual play.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Grounded in creative approaches to writing, close writing might offer through writing pedagogy something of the same: a kind of writerly resistance to the vicissitudes of AI through ethically imaginative educational experiences.”

Bringing together creative writing with close reading in the classroom, our new special issue of Changing English: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ccen20/3...

“We have, each of us, been disappointed by our pedagogy: by lessons gone awry, teaching contexts that yoke us to neoliberal methods, encounters with students that make us feel like failures…”

New article out: Marianne Moore, Ben Lerner, and feeling contempt for the work you love: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

From the abstract: "This volume inquires into student teachers’ “stuck moments”—moments of felt crisis—as they occur within the context of a university-based social justice teacher education program."

Lynn Fendler, “Edwin & Phyllis”. Makes me laugh every time.

Standing room only on the train, but I just finished reading Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Groundbreaking opinion I know but: man, so good.

“Through a critique of the affective workings of learning, the authors consider how these discourses can prove counterproductive for the work of teaching for social justice.” #EduSky www.routledge.com/Affect-Learn...

First post / first book! Out this past Friday. Enjoy: www.routledge.com/Affect-Learn...

EmpowerEd screening series on representations of teaching in film with Jesse Hall, Aly Gerdes, Erica Colmenares and Eleni Duret.

“Through a critique of the affective workings of learning, the authors consider how these discourses can prove counterproductive for the work of teaching for social justice.” #EduSky www.routledge.com/Affect-Learn...

This is why I look askance at any, ANY, academic who tells me AI integration into our teaching is "inevitable" and we "must not be luddites" because clearly you have lost any capacity for critical thinking

From the abstract: "This volume inquires into student teachers’ “stuck moments”—moments of felt crisis—as they occur within the context of a university-based social justice teacher education program."

Image we wanted for the cover, courtesy of the brilliant Michael Lockett.

From the intro: “Writing our way through this study surfaced an uncomfortable premise, one that troubles our commitment to teaching for social justice: That it can’t be learned. But saying something can’t be learned is not the same as saying it can’t happen. That it can’t be done.”

Tonight was a hard class. 2 student teachers had lockdowns in school last week. How do you process being a teacher in light of school shootings & the idea of putting your life down before your students? We discussed. We held space. We were angry. We wrestled. We… shouldn’t be in this position.

First post / first book! Out this past Friday. Enjoy: www.routledge.com/Affect-Learn...