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Chris Forster@cforster.bsky.social |
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Associate English Prof., Syracuse University. Interested in modernism, history of media, obscenity, and computational approaches to literary studies (uh, fine *digital humanities*).
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Chris Forster
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"You can't think about Rudolf Höss without thinking about three things: history, ideology, and psychology." /The Zone of Interest/ renounces all three."
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While I was blown away when I saw the movie, I think this essay is right.
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Chris Forster
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I learned from the erstwhile bird-themed short-form blogging platform: I don't need to comment on everything! Probably not on most things! Especially not the polarizing, headline-generating topics du jour. I'm trying to bring that energy here. That said: I agree that Biden should step aside.
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Nathan K. Hensley
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post columnist stumbles onto the concept of ideology
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Chris Forster
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I wrote about my recent experience working with HathiTrust data to try to categorize about 1,000 three-volume, Victorian novels. There's mystery, intrigue, and some odd visualizations.
cforster.com/2024/06/data...
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Chris Forster
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I wrote about my recent experience working with HathiTrust data to try to categorize about 1,000 three-volume, Victorian novels. There's mystery, intrigue, and some odd visualizations.
cforster.com/2024/06/data...
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Andy Famiglietti
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It's a human child, Michael, how much could raising it cost? Ten dollars?
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Colleen Theisen
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Violent, aggressive, and personal attacks; language used to challenge books has changed dramatically, research presented at Oregon Library Association conference shows www.orartswatch.org/violent-aggr...
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Ryan Cordell
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Hey all, if we get just a few more students my new @calrbs.bsky.social course "Hands-On Book History Pedagogy" will definitely get to run this August at UCLA—if you’re considering the class, apply ASAP—I’m really looking forward to it! www.calrbs.org/program/cour...
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The Real Slim Sade
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We must imagine the Itsy-Bitsy Spider happy.
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John Attridge
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(at the Kazuo Ishiguro masterclass) unreliable narrators can be divided into three main categories: butler, clone, and robot
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Colleen Theisen
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The birth of our system for describing web content Dublin Core aeon.co/essays/the-b...
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Natalia Cecire
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Jfc
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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Oh? You like Romantic poetry? Name one spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling taking its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility!
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Paul Fyfe
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AI detectors are unreliable, but after reading 30 student essays co-generated (on purpose) by ChatGPT, I can confidently advise you to flag anything that includes "grapple," "delve," "intertwined," "intricate," "ever-evolving," and--its apparent favorite word--"tapestry."
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Andy Famiglietti
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This is going to be very hard for algorithmic search to defeat. If there was a search engine that only indexed whitelisted, human approved sites I would definitely give it a go. I already tend to add the name of a trusted source to most Google searches (ie "cooperative extension" for garden stuff)
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Chris Forster
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No complaints beyond *gesture widely*. But I'm trying to tend my garden, don't you know.
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Chris Forster
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Alex! Hope you’re doing well!
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Anna Kornbluh
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the NSF's own numbers show that in research expenditures per GDP the US now ranks only 23rd in the world; massive defunding of basic research across arts and sciences is afoot
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IamFeyisayo
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What readings would you include in a class on Digital Storytelling? Please help a sister out 🙏🏾#CulturalBluesky
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Chris Forster
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www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
In recent years, I've assigned Jacqueline Rose on the Oscar Pistorius trial, as a text that shows a psychoanalytic critic working in ways that feel compelling, and accessible.
Any suggestions for similarly short, accessible, psychoanalytically inspired/adjacent text?
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Chris Forster
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I’d love to be added.
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Anna Kornbluh
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chop from the top chop from the cop chop from the coach
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Dr. Liz W Faber
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Hey AcademicSky: are any of you currently teaching undergraduate courses in AI ethics? I'm building a new philosophy course for my college and want to list comparables at other institutions.
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ktb (minimally online era)
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Lol, Marinetti is listed as one of the patron saints.
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Chris Forster
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Finished Smith's /The Fraud/ and was going to post a few thoughts; but they were a bit too long, so I posted 'em here: cforster.com/2023/10/the-...
(Ug, 1000 words. I was trying to be *very* brief!)
cc: @rezekjoe.bsky.social
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Natalia Cecire
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It's really great
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Chris Forster
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Until I relented & poached an invite to see what all the fuss was about, I imagined this place must simply be better than Mastodon. And it is nice here; it's lovely to see you all (many of you for a second time!). But I prefer many elements of Mastodon's affordances & interface. (Bookmarks!)
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David Bamman
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This might be flying under the radar (so please RT!), but the US Copyright Office is soliciting comments for its decisions on training ML/NLP/AI systems on copyrighted material (even *non*-generative AI). They need to hear from researchers, so please comment! Deadline Oct 30. www.copyright.gov/ai/
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Chris Forster
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I’m reading it as well, and am basically as far as you. I like it! But am interested to see how things pan out.
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Chris Forster
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Very much share your feelings about MUST WE MEAN. I was reading the HAMLET essay in DISOWNING KNOWLEDGE, and it was… less compelling. (Though I was heartened to learn of an entire debate about the dumb show in the play within the play, which has always puzzled me. )
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Chris Forster
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(Apologies for butting in) Textual signs though aren't indexical---or (here's the provocation) haven't been. The suggestion that LLMs represent a sort of indexical trace is one I find provocative. I've tried to imagine the model as a sort of casting taken from its training data.
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Ben Schmidt
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OK, I've been holding off writing about the new IPEDS numbers for college majors because I'm having trouble believing some of what they're saying: specifically, that national degrees dropped 2.5% in 2022 after rising 1.4% in 2021. Is this really true? That would mean that seniors and juniors when…
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Chris Forster
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For the first time, I actually asked ChatGPT for help with something this week: two emacs regex. While one of the two needed some tweaking, it saved me drudgery that otherwise I would have simply endured.
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Chris Forster
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I really want Mastodon to be post-Twitter solution, and so I'm staying there too. But I've recognized, poking around here for the last week, that more folks are more active here. Its hard to argue with network effects. Even though I *really* want to.
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Chris Forster
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My first twitter post was: 1. The world is that which is the case. (The opening of Wittgenstein's TRACTATUS.) I knew no one and probably no one saw it. More than a decade later, another jokey allusion, chastened by a decade of social media. (It's WALDEN, by way of Cavell, so not really so far.)
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Chris Forster
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I thus unblushingly publish my guilt.
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Tony Corsentino
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The attack on libraries will not end with any consensus standard for what counts as prurient or pornographic, because the attack isn’t about that. It’s about eliminating the library as a public space where a child can find the smallest measure of freedom from parental domination. 📚
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