Gerry Canavan
Doomsayer, Utopologist. Minor but representative. Professor of 20th- and 21st-Century Literature at Marquette University.
Special issue on Fictional Games and Fictional Game Studies
| Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture
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Gen AI and the problem of (dis)trusting students (opinion)www.insidehighered.com A year and a half into the generative “AI” moment, the ability to trust students may be the biggest casualty, Jacob Riyeff writes.
Comedy Central’s Website Purges 25 Years of Video Clips and Other Contentvariety.com The vast repository of content on Comedy Central's website has been removed by Paramount Global, in a move to push fans to Paramount+.
Citation, Slavery, and the Law as Choice: Thoughts on Bluebook Rule 10.7.1(d)digitalcommons.law.uw.edu Today, more than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, lawyers and judges continue to rely on antebellum decisions that tacitly or expressly approve of slavery. This reliance often occurs without ...
Imagining Utopiawww.versobooks.com I’m far from the first graduate student to worry that my advisor had already solved all the problems of the field before I’d written a single word of my dissertation—but I think I may have had more to...
If You're Z, Here's What You Seetimothyburke.substack.com Time Is Running Out
Science fiction debate: Why have we stopped imagining futures?news.err.ee On May 7-11, University of Tartu hosted the annual conference of Science Fiction Research Association, featuring nearly 200 presentations from more than 20 countries. Andres Reimann, an ERR science correspondent, met up with three scholars – Mark Bould, Amy Cutler, and David Higgins – to talk about the possible futures imagined in science fiction and beyond.
Ten Years Out of Academiaannehelen.substack.com Grad school theoretically expands your marketability and job prospects. What happens when it narrows them?
Tom Bombadil Finally Steps Forth in ‘The Rings of Power’—An Exclusive First Lookwww.vanityfair.com J.R.R. Tolkien’s peculiar ‘Lord of the Rings’ character, excluded by other adaptations, comes to life on the Amazon series.
Futurity as Praxis: Learning from Octavia E. Butler | The Huntingtonhuntington.org This two-day conference explores Octavia E. Butler, how we have learned from her writing, and what her archive at The Huntington can help future generations discover.
Why “Hallucination”? Examining the History, and Stakes, of How We Label AI’s Undesirable Output | Los Angeles Review of Bookslareviewofbooks.org Joshua Pearson examines the history of the term “hallucination” in the development and promotion of AI technology....
‘Tacos are Mexican-style sandwiches,’ judge rules in Indiana courtwgntv.com A ruling Monday by a Superior Court judge in Indiana that “tacos and burritos are Mexican-style sandwiches” may end a years-long battle between a restauranteur and a county commission.
When Online Content Disappearswww.pewresearch.org A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.