nonwayne.bsky.social
Literary critic in a library. Scholarly publishing, egoism, manifestos, and modernism. My book, The Ego Made Manifest, is available from Bloomsbury. Views my own and mostly on the other one.
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Thanks for posting the link! I don't think it pasted properly from the other site 😅
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Seriously, this was really hard on both of us, and I'm so impressed with Jade for persevering. Governments, university managers of all levels, the public, employers, academics, even ECRs. None of us should sleep at night knowing the mess we've made. Now is the time for wisdom
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There's a lot of Rand knocking around in their heads for sure. Wouldn't be surprised if some have drunk from the well of a bad Stirner reading
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I’m depressed at how lazy faculty are with using AI and trying to rope students into it so you don’t look bad. Do your own damn work. If you can’t be bothered to write it, I can’t be bothered to read it.
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The thing about this is the last 20yrs gov (esp) has shifted that public memory to Anzac, Gallipoli and WW1 - much more about nation ‘birth’ / taking a seat at the table of nations than any memory of fascism
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Students who aren't confident of their ability to be discerning about the outputs of AI will still use 3rd parties. Also, "The term paper industry" is already logging into many, many, uni/college's LMS and completing literally anything that students will pay them to do. It's worth billions.
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It *can* be good, but I'd agree that in most cases academic writing has become formulaic drivel. I always point to Charles Darwin as an example of how science writing can be great literature
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Agreed. It's a very inefficient way to fund people to write
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Not least because we don't need more dreary MFA novels but more risk-taking literary fiction
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Yep! At the moment the big appeal of a creative writing PhD is a three-year stipend to write. We'd be better served with more direct arts funding rather than carving out scholarship to fund the creation of art
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I talked to a young poet once who was worried that they couldn't write poetry because ... they didn't have a degree. Every poet they knew was doing an MA or PhD. I explained that *you do not need a degree to be a poet*. Not sure they believed me.
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Important work! I think artistic expression needs to be liberated from capture by academia. That requires more dedicated arts funding and less academic grift
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This is it. Australian universities destroyed TAFEs and replaced them with junk. We have no business teaching creative writing or art practice because we inflicted the cookie-cutter, MFA-style novel on Australian literature. Universities are were creativity goes to die