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Günter Leypoldt

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Prof American Studies @ U Heidelberg Am Lit 1800-present, cultural sociology, literary institutions https://www.as.uni-heidelberg.de/personen/Leypoldt/

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Günter Leypoldt @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social · 6d

Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.

Cover of my book: Literature's Social Lives: A Socio-Institutional History of Literary Value. The Cover depicts a bookseller in 1930s Cambridge, with a book rack on her back, and a customer perusing one of her books

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 20h

A very reasonable take on AI in education

Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 20h

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It.

If we want to stay at the forefront of knowledge production, we must fit technology to our needs.

www.chronicle.com

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Günter Leypoldt @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social · 2d

Money and art have been bundled for some time, but people have always differed on when the two are no longer in a good match (Viviana Zelizer‘s term). Jameson‘s phrase implies a good match is no longer possible, not sure that‘s true

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 3d

Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.

You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”

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Günter Leypoldt @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social · 2d

Spiffing!

Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 4d

Galleybrag heck yeah @lbmcgrath.bsky.social

A copy of the book middlemen: literary agents and the making of American fiction by Laura B McGrath

Günter Leypoldt @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks Alex

Günter Leypoldt @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social · 6d

Looking forward to this!

Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social · Oct 1

Baby’s got a pub date! And some juicy catalog copy. MIDDLEMEN coming your way on April 26!

(Cover reveal soon!)

Günter Leypoldt @guenterleypoldt.bsky.social · 6d

Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.

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