Remi Kalir
@remikalir.bsky.social
Associate Director, Faculty Development and Applied Research, Duke University
Order “Re/Marks on Power” from MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551038/remarks-on-power/
Keynote Speaker | Author | Researcher:
https://remikalir.com/
Order “Re/Marks on Power” from MIT Press: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551038/remarks-on-power/
Keynote Speaker | Author | Researcher:
https://remikalir.com/
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Remi Kalir
@remikalir.bsky.social
· Apr 15
Today, after years of research and writing, is the day.
A very happy birthday to "Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice" from @mitpress.bsky.social.
Please read, write in it, and request it from your local library and bookstore.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255103...
A very happy birthday to "Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice" from @mitpress.bsky.social.
Please read, write in it, and request it from your local library and bookstore.
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255103...
As visual summaries of primary sources, Google NotebookLM infographics are AI slop akin to ultraprocessed food manufactured in a lab to maximize consumption at the expense of nourishment. As a scholar and educator I’ll pass on this ultraprocessed facsimile of knowledge:
remikalir.com/blog/noteboo...
remikalir.com/blog/noteboo...
NotebookLM Infographics: Ultraprocessed, Biased Slop
Ok, I’ll bite: First take with the new NotebookLM infographic feature: Surprising? Sure. Slop? Yes. Biased and mostly useless? Definitely. First, context: I have a Notebook called “Remi’…
remikalir.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
As visual summaries of primary sources, Google NotebookLM infographics are AI slop akin to ultraprocessed food manufactured in a lab to maximize consumption at the expense of nourishment. As a scholar and educator I’ll pass on this ultraprocessed facsimile of knowledge:
remikalir.com/blog/noteboo...
remikalir.com/blog/noteboo...
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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It’s 6:38 AM and I can report with confidence that any benefit from this lovely Sunday morning sunrise is negated by a six-year old who demanded cereal an hour ago, has crashed two sets of Lego down the stairs, and is now eating Halloween candy because why not, who can parent after Daylight Savings!
November 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
It’s 6:38 AM and I can report with confidence that any benefit from this lovely Sunday morning sunrise is negated by a six-year old who demanded cereal an hour ago, has crashed two sets of Lego down the stairs, and is now eating Halloween candy because why not, who can parent after Daylight Savings!
threw my back out washing dishes this morning because age
October 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
threw my back out washing dishes this morning because age
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Friends! I wanted to make sure you saw that @writinglit.bsky.social is having a #Literacies Chat Homecoming on 10/28 at 7PM ET. I hope you can come! *Black tie optional
@dontworryteach.bsky.social @remikalir.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social @anterobot.bsky.social @sarahlw.bsky.social
@dontworryteach.bsky.social @remikalir.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social @anterobot.bsky.social @sarahlw.bsky.social
We encourage you to repost this RSVP if you're coming to our #literacies Homecoming!
October 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Friends! I wanted to make sure you saw that @writinglit.bsky.social is having a #Literacies Chat Homecoming on 10/28 at 7PM ET. I hope you can come! *Black tie optional
@dontworryteach.bsky.social @remikalir.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social @anterobot.bsky.social @sarahlw.bsky.social
@dontworryteach.bsky.social @remikalir.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social @anterobot.bsky.social @sarahlw.bsky.social
❤️ 📚 🌈
🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈
#FollowTheRainbow
September 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Talk about public re/marks of resistance! @remikalir.bsky.social
Yeah, everyone hates the AI subway ads as much as you do nygroove.nyc/ai-subway-ads/
September 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Talk about public re/marks of resistance! @remikalir.bsky.social
Awesome! #annotation
We're trying out a new format on the UVA Teaching Hub! CTE director @michael-palmer.bsky.social has contributed an annotated assignment for the site. The collection explores a digital media project he's used successfully in his general chemistry course. teaching.virginia.edu/collections/...
September 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Awesome! #annotation
“Inviting commentary turns a static course document into a living conversation. Students ask clarifying questions, highlight confusions, and voice what matters to them—all while signaling that learning will sometimes be a co-constructed endeavor.”
#AnnotatedSyllabus
#AnnotatedSyllabus
WDYN is back for 2025–26 with @remikalir.bsky.social on syllabus #annotation (plus a LS classroom pivot), a nod to the value of sports psychology in the classroom (h/t @jeffgreene.bsky.social), and a look at the info landscape in the age of generative AI.
We've never been more back!
We've never been more back!
'What Do You Need Wednesday?' from The Beacon
(Still) "...every tiny thing by one percent..."
episcopalacademyctl.substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM
“Inviting commentary turns a static course document into a living conversation. Students ask clarifying questions, highlight confusions, and voice what matters to them—all while signaling that learning will sometimes be a co-constructed endeavor.”
#AnnotatedSyllabus
#AnnotatedSyllabus
Hey yall, lots of new followers (huh? ok!), a few links if you’d like to connect.
I recently wrote a book about annotation and power, it’s open-access, read it here:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255103...
Subscribe to my newsletter:
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And learn more about my work at: remikalir.com
I recently wrote a book about annotation and power, it’s open-access, read it here:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255103...
Subscribe to my newsletter:
www.readingremarks.com
And learn more about my work at: remikalir.com
Re/Marks on Power
Annotation—the seemingly simple act of marking a text—is often diminished as a marginal practice. It is prohibited in physical objects and considered irr...
mitpress.mit.edu
August 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Hey yall, lots of new followers (huh? ok!), a few links if you’d like to connect.
I recently wrote a book about annotation and power, it’s open-access, read it here:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255103...
Subscribe to my newsletter:
www.readingremarks.com
And learn more about my work at: remikalir.com
I recently wrote a book about annotation and power, it’s open-access, read it here:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255103...
Subscribe to my newsletter:
www.readingremarks.com
And learn more about my work at: remikalir.com
Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them.
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
How to Read an "AI" Press Release — Sonja Drimmer
Every so often someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman will dribble out some unadorned text in Times New Roman font, announcing with stentorian certitude the advent of a new world that their latest...
sonjadrimmer.com
July 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Reposted by Remi Kalir
I'm here for annotation as counter-storytelling - and an annotation activity like this is something teachers and students can do together to analyze the rhetorical moves in Big Tech press releases about AI in education too.
Zuckerberg farted out some nonsense today, and since most media outlets refuse to report critically any time a tech CEO offers them some a pseudoserious press release, I've decided to do it for them.
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/7/30/how-to-read-an-ai-press-release
How to Read an "AI" Press Release — Sonja Drimmer
Every so often someone like Mark Zuckerberg or Sam Altman will dribble out some unadorned text in Times New Roman font, announcing with stentorian certitude the advent of a new world that their latest...
sonjadrimmer.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I'm here for annotation as counter-storytelling - and an annotation activity like this is something teachers and students can do together to analyze the rhetorical moves in Big Tech press releases about AI in education too.
Reposted by Remi Kalir
😡 Called it, sadly. As reported yesterday in the NYTimes, an annotated sign at Muir Woods National Monument has been censored and removed.
Annotation isn't neutral. Nor are responses to notes of power.
The annotated sign may be gone, but history won't change.
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
Annotation isn't neutral. Nor are responses to notes of power.
The annotated sign may be gone, but history won't change.
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
Re/Marks on "Restoring Truth"
Anticipating censorship, what will become of the annotated Path to Preservation timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?
www.readingremarks.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
😡 Called it, sadly. As reported yesterday in the NYTimes, an annotated sign at Muir Woods National Monument has been censored and removed.
Annotation isn't neutral. Nor are responses to notes of power.
The annotated sign may be gone, but history won't change.
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
Annotation isn't neutral. Nor are responses to notes of power.
The annotated sign may be gone, but history won't change.
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
😡 Called it, sadly. As reported yesterday in the NYTimes, an annotated sign at Muir Woods National Monument has been censored and removed.
Annotation isn't neutral. Nor are responses to notes of power.
The annotated sign may be gone, but history won't change.
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
Annotation isn't neutral. Nor are responses to notes of power.
The annotated sign may be gone, but history won't change.
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
Re/Marks on "Restoring Truth"
Anticipating censorship, what will become of the annotated Path to Preservation timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?
www.readingremarks.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
😡 Called it, sadly. As reported yesterday in the NYTimes, an annotated sign at Muir Woods National Monument has been censored and removed.
Annotation isn't neutral. Nor are responses to notes of power.
The annotated sign may be gone, but history won't change.
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
Annotation isn't neutral. Nor are responses to notes of power.
The annotated sign may be gone, but history won't change.
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
Reposted by Remi Kalir
"#Annotation enables the production of new forms of public dialogue and paratext in response to other people..., texts..., and ideas...that are of social and political consequence." - @remikalir.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social.
The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
July 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"#Annotation enables the production of new forms of public dialogue and paratext in response to other people..., texts..., and ideas...that are of social and political consequence." - @remikalir.bsky.social and @anterobot.bsky.social.
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Authors in Part 3 include: @remikalir.bsky.social, Emily Southerton, Shelley E. Rose, Molly Buckley-Marudas, Calida O'Brien, @drtanksley.bsky.social.
June 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Authors in Part 3 include: @remikalir.bsky.social, Emily Southerton, Shelley E. Rose, Molly Buckley-Marudas, Calida O'Brien, @drtanksley.bsky.social.
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The book explores how digital platforms are remaking the study, teaching, and practice of literacy—and the implications for educational equity.
What does it mean when the same platforms that enable powerful forms of networked reading/writing also enroll those literacies in extractive data regimes?
What does it mean when the same platforms that enable powerful forms of networked reading/writing also enroll those literacies in extractive data regimes?
June 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The book explores how digital platforms are remaking the study, teaching, and practice of literacy—and the implications for educational equity.
What does it mean when the same platforms that enable powerful forms of networked reading/writing also enroll those literacies in extractive data regimes?
What does it mean when the same platforms that enable powerful forms of networked reading/writing also enroll those literacies in extractive data regimes?
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Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities—edited by me and @anterobot.bsky.social—is out today! 🎉
It's been an absolute privilege to work with so many brilliant people, over multiple years, to make this book a reality.
www.routledge.com/Literacies-i...
It's been an absolute privilege to work with so many brilliant people, over multiple years, to make this book a reality.
www.routledge.com/Literacies-i...
June 27, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Literacies in the Platform Society: Histories, Pedagogies, and Possibilities—edited by me and @anterobot.bsky.social—is out today! 🎉
It's been an absolute privilege to work with so many brilliant people, over multiple years, to make this book a reality.
www.routledge.com/Literacies-i...
It's been an absolute privilege to work with so many brilliant people, over multiple years, to make this book a reality.
www.routledge.com/Literacies-i...
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Check it @remikalir.bsky.social
Marginalia mania: how ‘annotating’ books went from big no-no to BookTok’s next trend
Readers are sharing how they write their predictions into novels, colour-code their emotional responses and even gift annotated books to friends. Is it actually fun, or just a bit like homework?
www.theguardian.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Check it @remikalir.bsky.social
Great commentary that echoes my post from earlier this week on the NPS, censorship, history, and the current administration’s so-called “restoring truth” efforts.
What will become of the annotated Path to Preservation timeline at Muir Woods National Monument? www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
What will become of the annotated Path to Preservation timeline at Muir Woods National Monument? www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
June 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Great commentary that echoes my post from earlier this week on the NPS, censorship, history, and the current administration’s so-called “restoring truth” efforts.
What will become of the annotated Path to Preservation timeline at Muir Woods National Monument? www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
What will become of the annotated Path to Preservation timeline at Muir Woods National Monument? www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
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📨 My latest in Reading Re/Marks on censorship and truth:
What will become of an annotated timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
What will become of an annotated timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
Re/Marks on "Restoring Truth"
Anticipating censorship, what will become of the annotated Path to Preservation timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?
www.readingremarks.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
📨 My latest in Reading Re/Marks on censorship and truth:
What will become of an annotated timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
What will become of an annotated timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
📨 My latest in Reading Re/Marks on censorship and truth:
What will become of an annotated timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
What will become of an annotated timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
Re/Marks on "Restoring Truth"
Anticipating censorship, what will become of the annotated Path to Preservation timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?
www.readingremarks.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
📨 My latest in Reading Re/Marks on censorship and truth:
What will become of an annotated timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
What will become of an annotated timeline at Muir Woods National Monument?
www.readingremarks.com/remarks-on-r...
“Did your dad die?” our six-year old son asked me this morning.
“No,” I replied, “But I don’t talk to him. He didn’t raise me. Who raised me?”
“Grandma Wendy.”
Father’s Day is becoming a bit more nuanced in our family and I don’t take it for granted that Ade and I can make sense of this together.
“No,” I replied, “But I don’t talk to him. He didn’t raise me. Who raised me?”
“Grandma Wendy.”
Father’s Day is becoming a bit more nuanced in our family and I don’t take it for granted that Ade and I can make sense of this together.
June 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“Did your dad die?” our six-year old son asked me this morning.
“No,” I replied, “But I don’t talk to him. He didn’t raise me. Who raised me?”
“Grandma Wendy.”
Father’s Day is becoming a bit more nuanced in our family and I don’t take it for granted that Ade and I can make sense of this together.
“No,” I replied, “But I don’t talk to him. He didn’t raise me. Who raised me?”
“Grandma Wendy.”
Father’s Day is becoming a bit more nuanced in our family and I don’t take it for granted that Ade and I can make sense of this together.
June 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM