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Thrilled to have a project I’ve been working on for awhile in #ReviewsinDH. Thanks to @AdrianWisnicki for the helpful feedback and thanks to the journal team for making it possible. @roopikarisam @jenguiliano @graphtie
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I have a new article out in this issue. I am as proud of it as I am of any of my public writing, and hope you read it. In contrast to many histories that position neuroscience as coming out of cybernetics, I show how neurophysiologists rejected key cybernetic tropes and claims.
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The example that mentioned when the article came out was the Borderlands Shakespeare Collectiva. This is an organization devoted to making Shakespeare a meaningful part of US/Mexican border studies, and available to students who've been affected by US border policy....
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Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
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This recent @IrishTimes article highlights the importance of Ireland’s online records:
irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/…
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70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. This collection is at the Library & contains moving narratives & photos. #Juneteenth
Narratives: loc.gov/collections/slave-na…
Photos: loc.gov/pictures/item/200169…
ALT A portrait of an elderly Black woman, Sarah Gudger, who was reportedly 121 years old at the time the photo was taken to accompany the narrative she shared with the Federal Writers' Project. Her hair is short and white, her hands are in her lap with her fingers laced together and she is looking into the distance, to the left of the camera (her right). Her tattered shawl is safety-pinned together under her neck.
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Trump just fired Dr. Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress. A complete tragedy and a scandal. democrats-appropriations.hou…
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With @RColesworthy, I resigned last week from the MLA Executive Council in solidarity with members who've proposed the org stand with colleagues in Palestine.
The EC should reverse its decision to block a vote on this resolution.
lithub.com/the-modern-langua…
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My interview with Salvador Lopez Rivera about Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right for the New Books Network is now available! I really enjoyed our conversation. open.spotify.com/episode/1HA…
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The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress is proud to announce that the first collection of 20 interviews documented for the COVID-19 American History Project — with service and hospitality workers in New Orleans — is now available online. blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2024/…
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Just found a profound & out of print Audre Lorde interview from 1988. She's absolutely spitting philosophical wisdom on identity, voice, writing, oppression.
The PDF is up on my Lorde page for your use: calebward.xyz/research/audre…
🙏🙏 to the archivists at @lesbianherstory!
ALT Cover of Sept/Oct 1988 issue of Visibilities, with Lorde pictured in B&W smiling with hand on chin. Title reads "Letter from Berlin: Audre Lorde Answers Questions"
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INVESTIGATION: A salary analysis of 7,735 faculty at Louisiana's public colleges & universities found that at nearly every rank at nearly every school, men are paid more than women. @ByPiperHutch explains the reasons behind gender pay gap lailluminator.com/2024/08/01… #HigherEducation
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Hot off the press! Congratulations to Laura Helton (@lheltonian) on the arrival of her book, SCATTERED & FUGITIVE THINGS: HOW BLACK COLLECTORS CREATED ARCHIVES & REMADE HISTORY published in the Black Lives in the Diaspora series. rb.gy/d2px7b @columbiaUP
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ICYMI:
The #WeeklyRead is "'There Are Lives Here': The African and African American Cemeteries of the Bonnet Carré Spillway," by Robin McDowell and published in issue 147 of @RadHistReview.
Read it for free through 2/29: ow.ly/Vi1S50QuMYP
#NewOrleans
ALT Cover of "The Political Lives of Infrastructure." Radical History Review number 147. A dark green cover with white and orange text. In the center is a close-up color photograph of a person looking at an object with a jeweler loupe.
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One of the quotes you won't see much of today:
“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and racism. The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.”
— MLK
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Asking all my friends at private colleges & universities to repost & urge their followers to join them in signing this petition calling on @GovKathyHochul to fund SUNY & CUNY like the public goods they are! Her State of the State Address is next Tuesday.
change.org/FundSUNYCUNYFairl…
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"Data Worlds," the first issue of @CriticalAI (1:1-2), a new interdisciplinary journal edited by Lauren M. E. Goodlad, is now available and freely available in its entirety for a limited time: ow.ly/F3vH50PRXmN
ALT A section of a painting showing a human hand holding a lit torch, the figure is wearing red cloth. "critical AI" is in white and gray text in a red banner at the bottom.
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I have never talked about the weather as much as I have with Irish cabdrivers these last few weeks, so it's fitting I come home to find this!
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*Keys to the Archive, an archival collection focusing on the works of Ernest J. Gaines, directed by @esqueerier, and reviewed by @AdrianWisnicki reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/k… #ReviewsInDH