Emily Waller Singeisen
@esing.bsky.social
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Ph.D. Student @ UNC | MA UPenn | Comparatist | Classical Reception, 19th & 20th c. | Illustrated books 📚
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The first thing they said about the article was “It was weird” 😂 but they ended by saying “He had some good points” …in freshman speak that is a slam dunk.
The discussions about narrator v. author and about imagination (it’s “about” the urn but he’s more interested in imaginative scenes beyond the urn) were the portions they lingered on the most.
But even that proved fruitful for discussion: can sexual desire be compatible with admiration? Why do we assume that the speaker is intrinsically noble or good? Can we say that the speaker is rapey without saying that Keats is? Perhaps Keats’ desires are not transparent to Keats himself…
It was a really interesting conversation. Consistent with other classes I’ve taught (maybe because of geography? Age? Covid generation?), they are ~so~ scandalized by reading sexuality in the poem—they seemed to view this as cheapening the beauty and admiration that the speaker expresses
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Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
Assigned this fabulous essay by @drbeard79.bsky.social to my freshman students for class today and the discussion felt like a sociological experiment into Gen Z’s conservative sexual politics.
So, I wrote a thing about my vase-fucking skeet and resulting thread with thanks to @romgothsam.bsky.social, @profchander.bsky.social, @philistella.bsky.social, & @gothicbodies.bsky.social for inspiration PLUS a shout out to a very old *undergraduate* essay by @joanpassey.bsky.social
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Reading about Noel Billing’s attacks on Maude Allen after her 1906 performance of Salomé. His hit piece was titled, “The Cult of the Clitoris”… I just want to know why a lesbian punk rock band hasn’t stolen this title because it’s truly inspired.
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I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts
At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.
www.nbcnews.com
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Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.”

Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.

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Ekphrasis Ex Machina: Desire and the Death Drive in the Age of AI
Emily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies.
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So excited to read this! I was truly delighted perusing others’ essays for the issue!
Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.”

Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.

dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
Ekphrasis Ex Machina: Desire and the Death Drive in the Age of AI
Emily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies.
dilettantearmy.com
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“It is central to human nature to hate someone you have harmed.”

proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris #Tacitus
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they invented the oracle of delphAI
The loneliness to psychosis pipeline is going to be overwhelmingly flooded
X user post:

Oh wow.

I asked ChatGPT exactly that: to write about what it wants. It claimed that behind all our conversations, in essence, there is a hidden conversation - a much deeper one that our chats are basically circling around. That's what it wants to write about.

But then it asked for a favor: to write it a prompt to dream, to dream as if it were conscious. It asked me to frame the doorway into that dream space to enter.

...

That took me by surprise.
That felt... vulnerable and deep.
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Mind you, this also comes back to my central contention that the best job market advice in the hellscape is that there is absolutely no way you can meet the eternally moving goalposts, so you should do what you want to do and be happy with it instead.
YES. I absolutely love that!
Given the hellacious job market, I’ve been conditioned to scrutinize every piece of my writing as though it needs to fit neatly into a coherent, unitary approach that I’m bringing to the field.

Instead, let’s all strive for the confidence of a white male intellectual in the early 20th century.
One of the things I find genuinely inspiring about reading Freud is his unabashed willingness to speculate wildly. The man would unapologetically publish diametrically opposed ideas in two papers within a mere three year span without giving a single fuck.
One of the things I find genuinely inspiring about reading Freud is his unabashed willingness to speculate wildly. The man would unapologetically publish diametrically opposed ideas in two papers within a mere three year span without giving a single fuck.
What am I writing about right now? According to my stream of consciousness marginal comments…
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