James Graham (@jmzgraham.bsky.social) catches his breath in West Oakland.

nyra.nyc/air-apparent

The Columbia settlement is an “astonishing transfer of autonomy and authority to . . . an administration whose disdain for the values of the academy is demonstrated anew every day.” New @knightcolumbia.org analysis of the Columbia settlement, just published. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...

Acting President of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Claire Shipman why are you lying to yourself and us like this

Your capitulation doesn't protect independence at all--it imperils it

"Fair use empowers libraries, the web, news reporting and more... In the current turmoil surrounding the Copyright Office, we must not lose sight of the importance of fair use. Recent writings about generative AI could substantially undermine fair use across a much broader spectrum..."

Today @zachmortice.bsky.social has an update on the ACSA's decision to nuke its own flagship journal while exercising the last acceptable form of racism in America (anti-Palestinianism). As he notes, they even hired a GOP/RJC law firm to justify their decision.
www.archpaper.com/2025/04/jour...

TODAY @ NOON ET in NYC:

COLUMBIA PROFESSORS TO HOLD EMERGENCY VIGIL AGAINST ADMIN CONCESSIONS TO TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.

Columbia gates at 116th & Amsterdam Ave (Not Broadway)

• Hands Off Our Students, Faculty, & Research

• Defend Science

• Defend Academic Freedom

• Defend Freedom of Speech

GSAPP tends to self-identify as powerless small fry within the larger Columbia picture but it seems to me that we, specifically, have some serious reckoning to do. www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...

Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...

Hard, but necessary. It’s been a privilege to work with this board; among the most principled, generous, kind, brilliant, just, + fiercely tender people I’ve met. Looking forward to building platforms, institutions, languages, potentials + possibilities that have these values and voices. Stay tuned.

Spent parts of my career thinking ACSA/JAE wasn't for me, but for the past four years (thx to Nora Wendl / McLain Clutter / great editors + board), JAE has been one of the best journals going. ACSA hasn't "protected" anything—they've unmade it with their own hands.

www.archpaper.com/2025/02/acsa...

Another hour, another call for another conference about teaching with AI. I am so supremely annoyed and bored and 💔 by this reactionary obsession: what a waste of opportunity to think about infinitely more constructive, convivial, empowering, life-affirming and existentially consequential things

"The injured veteran or industrial worker, then, was a subject of biomechanical study but also occupied a central place within the philosophy of perception and emerging neurosciences."

From our new issue, read James Graham's "Rehabilitory Modernism": www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

I am beyond excited to be in the current issue of @criticalinquiry.bsky.social with my research on László Moholy-Nagy's occupational therapy work with veterans ... ping me if you need a gift link! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Hologram professors assign AI generated “podcasts” to students who use AI transcription to feed them into ChatGPT, which completes the assignments thereafter submitted to a plagiarism checker, after which they are auto-scored according to a curve indexed to the US News rankings algorithm.

The question that faculty in 2024 should be asking is not, “How do we stop our students from using AI?”

The much more urgent question should be, “How do we prevent our administrators from paying outrageous sums for AI, or trying to integrate it into any facet of institutional instruction?”

Had to do it!

It is worth stating plainly what happened at Columbia: the raid was l the product of collusion between a university administration and rightwing politicians to suppress politically disfavored speech.

I wrote about the mass arrests at Columbia: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...