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English/Env Hum @ OSU. The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism & Everyday Life (Columbia 2016). Finishing: Forming Attachments: Aesthetic Education & Ecological Crisis. Starting: Searching for William H Johnson. www.thomassdavis.net
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Some late morning reading from Bifo on the state of play in the contemporary moment, our algorithmic hell, & emergent forms of violence: illwill.com/print/new-he...

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There are so many openings & a lot of our students want us think through the present with them. My “Reimagining Climate Change” class discussed vanishing data from NOAA, NIH cuts, etc. & we noted that some of the data we discussed in week 2 was now gone. That alone opened up the space for us.

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This is also my sense of things. If we did not inhabit a vast piedmont of cul de sacs, we would all be marching together already

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

At least my kid’s elementary school isn’t obeying in advance.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Wednesday (2/19) is a day of Higher Ed Action. Spread the word; sign up. Expand the list. www.labor4highered.org

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

This bill still has to go through the House and get the governor’s signature, all of which is very likely. It is deeply unpopular across the state. Please help us raise hell about it.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Intellectual diversity in Ohio universities will apparently mean that faculty must welcome views like the earth is flat unless we want to risk repercussions for telling the truth and being reported for having an “Earth is round” bias in our classroom.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

It’s important to emphasize how dangerous and deeply unpopular this bill is.

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Friends, here is my full testimony against Ohio SB 1. In my reply below is a link to the 200+ opponent testimonies, including brilliant ones by @meganfaragher.bsky.social , @redguju.bsky.social, Ashley Hope Perez, Jan Nespoor, Shannon Winnubst, and so, so many more brilliant friends & colleagues.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Called every single Higher Ed committee member today and was told majority of incoming calls oppose Ohio SB1

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Listen to our students.

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Hundreds of college students, university faculty and concerned citizens submitted testimony against a controversial bill that would overhaul higher education for Ohio’s public universities, saying it will degrade higher ed in Ohio and make people leave the state.

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I submitted my opponent testimony to Ohio SB 1, a right wing takeover of higher ed. Today my colleagues will be testifying against it in person. All testimony will be public soon but I couldn’t resist the opportunity to sling Orwell back at them near the end of my take on “intellectual diversity”:

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Commentary: The kind of government control over universities proposed in Ohio Senate Bill 1's higher education overhaul is more appropriate for authoritarian regimes such as the Soviet Union than a mature democracy like the United States, committed to the free exchange of ideas

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

A very clear reminder that these seemingly absurd & impulsive remarks are attempts at, and mechanisms for, shaping reality. And this one in particular will be full of horrors.

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I submitted mine this morning and took some time to explain “intellectual diversity,” its historical origins & present use as an ideological Trojan horse.

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We finally learned to play Wingspan and loved it. The lovely folks at Tabletop Game Cafe took time to walk us through the basics. The world is hell, but boardgames are good.

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Friends, thought I’d share this Ohio State reddit thread where you can see the vibe shift on campus. Students are already picking up on the silencing of professors, the fear percolating through faculty and staff, etc. www.reddit.com/r/OSU/commen...

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I really need some of my colleagues to hear this.

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Not to minimize what catastrophic damage is happening in science and medicine with funding, but your humanities colleagues have been in this defund and delegitimize spiral for a decade or more. We have lost tenure lines despite increased enrollment. When they attack higher ed, it’s an attack

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