Gabriel Hankins

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Modernist studies, digital critique, psychoanalysis, horror, literary color. Asheville / Clemson. Literary and Cultural Studies feed here: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m22fqufavn4t3bpxa6y53jqz/feed/aaajitqeisltw (like it to be added)

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"Expand the court" has gone from radical solution to the most exceptionally moderate option on the table.

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Sianne Ngai on Valences of the Dialectic Andrew Cole on The Hegel Variations me on Representing Capital all three part of what Jameson calls a trilogy project on the dialectic new today in the FJ at 90 series! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/m...

Marxist interpretation as a vocationwww.versobooks.com The gerund Representing Capital (2011) casts at least two vectors of analysis: representing Capital, volume one, the book, and representing capital, the subject of modern totality. These two vectors i...

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Update on this - I sent the book proposal out! 😱 So many shouts to @katinalynn.bsky.social for her help workshopping my work through the process. It really helped take an idea and a frustration and turn it into something that felt fleshed out and fulfilling to think about.

Tfw you finish your book proposal course with @katinalynn.bsky.social. Highly recommend working with her! Gave me a real jumpstart and now I’m excited to get this thing done.

Folks working on labor, digital mediation, and labor activism please apply (graduate activists in particular!) July deadline for inquiries cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

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#lit oops sorry for my hamfisted bski usage 😅 @gabrielh.bsky.social

Hello summer! DRAFTY HOUSES is now published online and soon in print too (it takes about 15 days to make a book I hear). Please order if your library can do so, and be in touch if you want to read and don't have access

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Mostly recovered from a humbling 2-year-covid-to-post-concussion-syndrome interlude, hoping to get back up to speed with academic pals and lit studies fields. Hi!

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📰Hey, friends! 📰 You can now read the introduction to Paratextuality on Google Books. If you're interested in newspaper poems as objects on the page, take a look: books.google.com/books?id=9O8...

Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in the US Press, 1855-1901books.google.com Drawing examples from over 200 English-language and Spanish-language newspapers and periodicals published between January 1855 and October 1901, Paratextuality in Anglophone and Hispanophone Poems in ...

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Hello Blue Skyers "Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities" is currently available for pre-order! My contribution is in spectacular company, as you'll see. The book has been skillfully edited by @gabrielh.bsky.social, Anouk Lang, and @sjappleford.bsky.social Thanks for the shares!

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Available for preorder - coming out December, 2024 - _Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities_ edited by @gabrielh.bsky.social Anouk Lang and @sjappleford.bsky.social. I've got a little piece in here called "The Futures of Digital Humanities Pedagogy in a Time of Crisis."

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good morning Art Review "Kornbluh has done better than almost anyone in recent memory to define the elusive, claustrophobic spirit of the age and get started on excavating its cultural subterranea." artreview.com/what-comes-a...

What Comes After Late Capitalism?artreview.com Anna Kornbluh’s new book, ‘Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism’, suggests a new way of understanding the rapid, ‘stylised flood’ of our present culture

Feel free to send us abstracts for comments before the deadline! Look forward to reading your work.

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) themed Issue 25 is seeking work on Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation! Edited by Matthew N. Hannah, @gabrielh.bsky.social, and Anna Alexis Larsson. Submit by June 15: cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/jitp-ca...

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Beginning and ending Modern Fiction with Henry James: this is the way

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In which I convert my longstanding beef with TV's excessive reliance on traumatic backstories into an essay! The first installment of our new Screen Shots column for the LA Review of Books:

The Past Is Never Dead: On TV’s Backstory Problem | Los Angeles Review of Bookslareviewofbooks.org Elizabeth Alsop explores the ubiquity—and limitations—of the “trauma backstory.”...

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This is as good a time as any to remind folks that Chris Rufo's top assistant is a groyper shitposter who endorses racist pseudo-science on Twitter.

The amount of power and authority the New York Times has given Chris Rufo is deeply unhinged. This article is not journalism. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/b...

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"Can you imagine? Trying to hollow out the arts and humanities? In the UK, where it’s one of the few things we’re good at? (No offence, scientists: you’re good too.) You don’t have to imagine it – you can see it."

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The Goldsmiths crisis: how cuts and culture wars sent universities into a death spiralwww.theguardian.com Arts education is essential – yet on both sides of the Atlantic, the humanities and critical thinking are under attack. With massive redundancies announced at this London institution, is it the canary...

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For those who have asked: a huge f*cking alligator is reading the audiobook of Absolution in hisses and growling coughs. Just deal with it, okay. It's the end times. Listen to mah audiobook of grunts and clucks for 50 hours, okay? Just do it.

The cover for Absolution, out October 22, is amazing! Art by Pablo Delcan. Preorder now: us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

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The latest goings-on in the Weird Barbie basement window diorama (Dundas St., Toronto) It's hard to photograph in the sunny weather, but . . . it's most definitely a coffee bar now, and Ken appears to have been hired as the hipster barista. It looks like a nice place to hang out quite honestly.

Uh oh, Ken is in the building … (Thus post also enables me to correct for the lack of alt text in my last post.)

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a patient, rigorous, learned scorcher for the ages www.bookforum.com/print/3004/l...

Star Struckwww.bookforum.com Lauren Oyler’s meditations on Goodreads, anxiety, and gossip – Ann Manov

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If you work in education, please please please educate your colleagues that "AI detectors" like TurnItIn are all scams and none of them can reliably detect AI-generated content. www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/c...

Will be amazing!

New England! LABOR, the NVSA 2024 symposium begins in 1 week! Registration open for anyone who wants to join us. Alongside Carolyn Lesjak+Amanpal Garcha I'll be keynoting about Oscar Wilde, Charles Babbage, Karl Marx, creative labor, scabgpt, + of course, academic unioning. nvsa.org/nvsa-2024-la...

NVSA 2024: Labornvsa.org Friday April 5 - Sunday April 7 College of the Holy Cross Final Program Small group dinners Friday, April 5 at 7:30pm: Sign up! Shuttle Schedule Location All panels and lectures will take place at Col...

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the second is up, Chris Breu reflecting on Marxism and Form! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/o...

April 14 is Fredric Jameson's 90th birthday! To celebrate, Verso Books publishes a series of short essays on each of his many major works. Today: Dan Hartley on FJ's very first book, Sartre: The Origins of Style (1961). check back all month for others! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/j...

On Prophetic Form and the Whole Tangled, Dripping Mass of the Dialectiwww.versobooks.com There is a chart three quarters of the way through the epochal 110-page final chapter of Marxism and Form, “Toward a Dialectical Criticism,’ that transfixed me when I first read it. My initial reading...

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This is excellent, not only on Lavender which you’ve likely been reading about, but on the discourse machine around AI, and how default modes of critique actually feed back into what Baker terms “objectivity theater.”

From me: open.substack.com/pub/artifici...

Lavender, Military AI, and Technological Delegationopen.substack.com Earlier today, the Tel Aviv-based outlet +972 Magazine published a long exposé on “Lavender,” an artificial intelligence-based program that Israel uses to automatically identify and target suspected H...

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The Israeli army "gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices...human personnel often served only as a 'rubber stamp' for the machine’s decisions" www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-...

‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gazawww.972mag.com The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local C...

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The most important thing the far right came to learn about US politics is that the path to power goes through one of the two major parties. They built a lot of momentum for their cause by running against "the uniparty," but they produced Trumpism by playing the long game inside county & state GOPs.

The post-2016 journey of some Bernieworld hangers-on has been wild. The guy whose job it was to flip superdelegates from Hillary (none flipped) is now getting RFK Jr on the ballot. Tim Canova ran against DWS w Bernie support, he's now a crank liking "Michelle Obama is a MAN" posts. Also: TULSI.

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Barth is someone whose writing meant a lot to me at one point in my life, if for nothing else than teaching me that a historical novel didn’t need to be stuffy he leaves a broader legacy than many people might know—one of the literary grandfathers or great-grandfathers of a lot of writers today

Nobody did it quite like John Barth, a real literary original.

John Barth, Writer Who Pushed Storytelling’s Limits, Dies at 93www.nytimes.com His sprawling and boisterous novel “The Sot-Weed Factor,” published in 1960, projected him into the ranks of the country’s most innovative writers.

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I'd hear constantly as a Vice editor that "digital" (the website and its editorial team) was one of the only unprofitable parts of the company. imagine my surprise that this was in part because PRIVATE JET TRANSPORT for execs was being written to our balance sheet www.theverge.com/24094310/vic...

“A fucking clown show”: how Vice’s execs burned down its newsroomwww.theverge.com The wild expenses, shady deals, and greed that ruined Vice.