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Someone needs to collect the comics criticism and/or interviews of John Benson.

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“The US of AI,” public draft of a talk given yesterday at Princeton. drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...

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Seems completely reasonable.

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Just started experimenting with Zoom-based co-working for writing, and it's frankly sort of embarrassing how well it works for me! But also exciting because, well, it works.

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The weirdest thing about Vernor Vinge’s “True Names” is that fully immersive virtual reality exists—but email seemingly doesn’t.

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Actually, I think they are most offended by the Magna Carta.

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I am just reminded that almost all podcasts are, for me, unbearable to listen to at 1x speed.

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Academic publishing is sloooow. Except when it's fast.

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Maybe half our class discussion of "The Time Machine" in my posthuman imagination Honors class centered on this throwaway detail in the first paragraph of the novella. "Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon." 🤔

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Am just now once more reminded that Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men is a deeply strange book.

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Guess I better delete all instances of the word "delve" from this review. 🤪

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Getting through Intermezzo was rough. Don't even know where to start with Peter and his, eh, happy ending.

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Reading about the history of the neo-fascist Camp Hobbit festivals. Yikes.

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Converting all my classes to Asynchronous Situational Distance Learning classes.

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The Email Semester seems to have started a week or two early. 😭

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Probably good, after all, that I didn't write that monograph on the Endless-as-franchise-world. 😬

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Formal analysis often seems to rely on systematically thinking through counterfactuals. (What if this story were articulated otherwise, etc.) Who has written well about counterfactual thought in lit studies? Not counterfactual history (Gallagher), but counterfactuals as part of formal analysis?

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Turns out there is such a thing as Greenlandic noir.

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The Amazon Prime adaptation of “Click, Clack, Moo” is mysteriously anti-union…

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Ceiling-fan-dome-removal YouTube is a real place. Sadly, the ceiling fan dome remains unremoved.

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Today, I learned of the existence of the genre category of “hockey romance.” My work for the day is now done.

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in search of: fans and scholars of romance, romance readers, romcom enthusiasts, etc, for a future mid theory thing. if this is you (or someone you know), comment or PM me!

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Getting long pieces of writing done seems positively correlated with sitting down in front of a computer and actually spending time writing. Must immediately cease working on this long piece of writing and investigate further.

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snow emergency, declared!

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Working on my Crying of Lot 49 fanfic sequel.

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What is the relationship between slop and slush?

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if you are looking to get through one more book before New Year's to hit your reading goal, Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right is only 120 pages and you can read it for FREE here: manifold.umn.edu/projects/spe...

Someone needs to collect the comics criticism and/or interviews of John Benson.

“The US of AI,” public draft of a talk given yesterday at Princeton. drive.google.com/file/d/1O2qk...

Seems completely reasonable.

Just started experimenting with Zoom-based co-working for writing, and it's frankly sort of embarrassing how well it works for me! But also exciting because, well, it works.

The weirdest thing about Vernor Vinge’s “True Names” is that fully immersive virtual reality exists—but email seemingly doesn’t.

Actually, I think they are most offended by the Magna Carta.

I am just reminded that almost all podcasts are, for me, unbearable to listen to at 1x speed.

Academic publishing is sloooow. Except when it's fast.

Maybe half our class discussion of "The Time Machine" in my posthuman imagination Honors class centered on this throwaway detail in the first paragraph of the novella. "Our chairs, being his patents, embraced and caressed us rather than submitted to be sat upon." 🤔

Am just now once more reminded that Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men is a deeply strange book.

Guess I better delete all instances of the word "delve" from this review. 🤪

Getting through Intermezzo was rough. Don't even know where to start with Peter and his, eh, happy ending.

Reading about the history of the neo-fascist Camp Hobbit festivals. Yikes.

Converting all my classes to Asynchronous Situational Distance Learning classes.

The Email Semester seems to have started a week or two early. 😭

Probably good, after all, that I didn't write that monograph on the Endless-as-franchise-world. 😬

Formal analysis often seems to rely on systematically thinking through counterfactuals. (What if this story were articulated otherwise, etc.) Who has written well about counterfactual thought in lit studies? Not counterfactual history (Gallagher), but counterfactuals as part of formal analysis?

Turns out there is such a thing as Greenlandic noir.

The Amazon Prime adaptation of “Click, Clack, Moo” is mysteriously anti-union…

Ceiling-fan-dome-removal YouTube is a real place. Sadly, the ceiling fan dome remains unremoved.

Today, I learned of the existence of the genre category of “hockey romance.” My work for the day is now done.

in search of: fans and scholars of romance, romance readers, romcom enthusiasts, etc, for a future mid theory thing. if this is you (or someone you know), comment or PM me!

Getting long pieces of writing done seems positively correlated with sitting down in front of a computer and actually spending time writing. Must immediately cease working on this long piece of writing and investigate further.

snow emergency, declared!

Working on my Crying of Lot 49 fanfic sequel.

👀

What is the relationship between slop and slush?

if you are looking to get through one more book before New Year's to hit your reading goal, Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right is only 120 pages and you can read it for FREE here: manifold.umn.edu/projects/spe...

Revising my AI policy.

Is there a good biography of Leslie Fiedler?