Michael Martin Shea
@immanentfields.bsky.social
Poet, translator, scholar | Assistant professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Writing a book about poetry, mysticism, and neoliberalism in the Americas | Also: infrastructure, translation, the seventies, cookbooks
www.michaelmartinshea.com
www.michaelmartinshea.com
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My translation of Liliana Ponce's THEORY OF THE VOICE AND DREAM is now available for pre-order from World Poetry Books! I started this project almost ten years ago, can't believe it's finally going to exist in the material realm.
worldpoetrybooks.com/books/theory...
worldpoetrybooks.com/books/theory...
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If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.
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the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history
Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)
The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history
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Congratulations to Jennifer Scappettone on the official publication day of her much-anticipated new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM. Use the code CUP20 and save 20%: tinyurl.com/4xatbnkd
@xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
@xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
Poetry After Barbarism | Columbia University Press
Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers a stateless, polyglot poetry of resista... | CUP
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October 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Congratulations to Jennifer Scappettone on the official publication day of her much-anticipated new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM. Use the code CUP20 and save 20%: tinyurl.com/4xatbnkd
@xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
@xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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Last week, Public Books published a roundtable that we put together on higher ed under Trump. Six contributors, six essays, six ideas for what those of us in higher education can do now to make the world a little better, a little saner, and a little safer. Read the series here (my intro below):
“Taken together, our roundtable contributors present a suite of ideas that, if enacted, just might make higher education more livable for us all.”
The full series “Higher Ed Under Trump” is live at Public Books. Read all the contributions here:
The full series “Higher Ed Under Trump” is live at Public Books. Read all the contributions here:
Toward the Next American University: A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Higher Ed - Public Books
The path higher education was on before Trump’s reelection was neither certain nor stable. There is not much to go back to now.
www.publicbooks.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Last week, Public Books published a roundtable that we put together on higher ed under Trump. Six contributors, six essays, six ideas for what those of us in higher education can do now to make the world a little better, a little saner, and a little safer. Read the series here (my intro below):
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Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
October 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Found-audio-on-a-Godspeed-You!-Black-Emperor-album-ass clip
Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."
October 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Found-audio-on-a-Godspeed-You!-Black-Emperor-album-ass clip
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ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
October 12, 2025 at 9:43 PM
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
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flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university
The over-reliance on standardization as the mechanism for writing instruction really was a pretty unbeatable context to produce de-professionalized teachers okay with using AI to grade
October 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university
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Adjusted for inflation, NEA funding was highest--$1.8 billion--over the four years of the first Reagan administration & has remained stagnate--about $750 million per presidential term--for the last 25 years.
October 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Adjusted for inflation, NEA funding was highest--$1.8 billion--over the four years of the first Reagan administration & has remained stagnate--about $750 million per presidential term--for the last 25 years.
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Good riddance to ‘The Best American Poetry’ defector.com/good-riddanc...
Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector
When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology…
defector.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Good riddance to ‘The Best American Poetry’ defector.com/good-riddanc...
Heading to MSA this weekend to chat infrastructure and residue. Bright and early Saturday morning✌️
October 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Heading to MSA this weekend to chat infrastructure and residue. Bright and early Saturday morning✌️
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"Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers + info mgmt systems, w/ spiraling costs... Understanding [the uni as an infrastructure stresses] that the tech it chooses to adopt follow a colonial + extractivist model...
CM Vol 25 CfP University as Infrastructure
Culture Machine Vol. 25 Call for Papers: University as Infrastructure Guest-edited by: Alexandra Anikina, Johannes Bruder, Megen de Bruin-Molé, Stephen Cornford, Kwame Phillips & Geoff Cox …
culturemachine.net
July 14, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"Universities have become increasingly dependent on a proliferation of outsourced services, database providers + info mgmt systems, w/ spiraling costs... Understanding [the uni as an infrastructure stresses] that the tech it chooses to adopt follow a colonial + extractivist model...
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thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map
July 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map
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We are living through an imbecilic, tech-drunk counterenlightenment whose aim is to reverse the democratizing gains of the bourgeois revolutions & re-secure elite power by trapping ppl in a state of algorithmically-engineered darkness & numbed incapacity. It is a war, and must be won—
July 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
We are living through an imbecilic, tech-drunk counterenlightenment whose aim is to reverse the democratizing gains of the bourgeois revolutions & re-secure elite power by trapping ppl in a state of algorithmically-engineered darkness & numbed incapacity. It is a war, and must be won—
Lmao Jesus Christ
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
From Sotomayor's dissent:
From Sotomayor's dissent:
July 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Lmao Jesus Christ
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Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
July 13, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
My life had stood - a loaded gun -
Pew pew! - Pew Pew Pew!
Bang bang - bang bang
Skratttttt poppoppoppoppop -
Pew pew! - Pew Pew Pew!
Bang bang - bang bang
Skratttttt poppoppoppoppop -
July 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My life had stood - a loaded gun -
Pew pew! - Pew Pew Pew!
Bang bang - bang bang
Skratttttt poppoppoppoppop -
Pew pew! - Pew Pew Pew!
Bang bang - bang bang
Skratttttt poppoppoppoppop -
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I’m Sorry But None Of This Is My Fault is out on July 30th! @immanentfields.bsky.social
www.essaypress.org/shea/
www.essaypress.org/shea/
July 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I’m Sorry But None Of This Is My Fault is out on July 30th! @immanentfields.bsky.social
www.essaypress.org/shea/
www.essaypress.org/shea/
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⚡ CFP: a themed issue in Computational Humanities Research!
Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting!
for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social !
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting!
for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social !
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
July 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
⚡ CFP: a themed issue in Computational Humanities Research!
Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting!
for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social !
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting!
for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social !
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Hell is empty and all the devils are here...but yeah I'm grillin
July 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Hell is empty and all the devils are here...but yeah I'm grillin
Fix your hearts and die
July 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Fix your hearts and die
Bad days for the future.
July 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Bad days for the future.
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Teachers don't need more tech. They need smaller classes and more (paid) time for prep and instruction. But alas, the tech option means more profit for billionaires, while the latter would cost billionaires more in taxes. And so, in our current kleptocracy, tech is what teachers are going to get...
🧵 addressing the argument: "AI won’t replace teachers, but it will save them time and make them more effective.”
Adding edtech doesn't necessarily save teachers time. A recent study found that LMSs sold to schools over the past decade+ as time-savers aren’t delivering on making teaching easier.
Adding edtech doesn't necessarily save teachers time. A recent study found that LMSs sold to schools over the past decade+ as time-savers aren’t delivering on making teaching easier.
Technology is supposed to decrease teacher burnout – but we found it can sometimes make it worse
Efforts to simplify teachers’ jobs through technology can backfire without a strong focus on teacher well-being.
theconversation.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Teachers don't need more tech. They need smaller classes and more (paid) time for prep and instruction. But alas, the tech option means more profit for billionaires, while the latter would cost billionaires more in taxes. And so, in our current kleptocracy, tech is what teachers are going to get...