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Sarah Brouillette
@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social
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literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly

https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 15h
did I immediately go and try to identify the senior scholar in question? well of course

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 15h
where is our "despair loop" emoji?

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 15h
the author of the article I shared has another one more closely tied to the question of what is a photograph, which I'm about to read
Images from Images: Generative AI and the Reconfiguration of the ‘Photographic’
AI image generators such as Midjourney, Dall-E or Stable Diffusion are able to perfectly simulate the appearance of photographic images, but they are no longer part of the history of optical media....
www.tandfonline.com

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 15h
to clarify: it's possible to be struck anew by the awfulness of something you know full well is happening (in fact I think that's a mark of good scholarship)

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 15h
I love a shitty moon photo -- the audacity of our striving!

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 16h
From tear gas attacks to violent abductions, we are collectively witnessing the mass-scale abuse of children. Young people are fighting back.
In the Fight Against ICE, Kids Are on the Front Lines
From tear gas attacks to violent abductions, we are collectively witnessing the mass-scale abuse of children. Young people are fighting back.
inthesetimes.com

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 16h
"Platform realism is an aesthetic of wastefulness... However, from the AI companies’ point of view ... As a test image, they produce valuable data for further optimization of the models." Waste AS optimization -- h/t @alorange.bsky.social this is a useful article

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 16h
I find this so fucking sad actually

it's from a great article by @bildoperationen.bsky.social

journals.openedition.org/transbordeur...

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 20h
if you will be in Montreal on ACLA weekend we would love to see you at this event Friday Feb 27th, 6-8PM -- celebrating and discussing Solidarity with Children by @lalouverouge.bsky.social
Event poster: discussion of Solidarity with Children, a book by Madeline Lane-McKinley. With Sarah Brouillette. 6-8PM, Friday, Feb 27th, at Librarie L'Euguelionne, 1426 rue Beaudry, Montreal

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tante @tante.cc · 23h
So, @ketanjoshi.co who has been on the beat for a long time, actually looked into the story of if "AI" can "solve climate change". Conceptually as well as evidence based.

Super worth reading and sharing around.
NEW REPORT – The AI climate hoax – Ketan Joshi
A new report on AI greenwashing, analysing the rhetoric and evidence behind the idea big tech will solve climate change
ketanjoshi.co

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 1d
🤝

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 1d
finishing reading vol. 3 so that I may become truly insufferable

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 1d
straight fire from Melinda Cooper as usual

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 1d
grade 9 Ontario English: Romeo & Juliet and ... Lord of the Flies 😆

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Leni @leni.bsky.social · 1d
I'm working on a reader (in both English and German) to collect literature critical of the employment of generative AI technologies within academic contexts.

Please feel free to add relevant titles here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Critique of AI Reader
Reader: Critique of ‘AI’ Technologies Within Academia English Reader Please feel free to add suitable titles below the respective chapter (Research Articles, Books, Chapters in Ed. Vol.). You may ...
docs.google.com

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 1d
I have a new post at the Remaking blog on That Atlantic Article. It blames Mellon for the humanities crisis, I say why this is misdirected. It's not the wokeness it's the weakness--weakness in (not) fighting for a funding system for ALL humanities research. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2026/02/line...
Liner Note 47. Did The Atlantic’s Anti-Woke Bias Spoil its Analysis of Humanities Funding Death?
East Village on October 31, 2022    Looks like it.     There’s some good stuff in Tyler Austin Harper’s  Atlantic  article,  “The Multibil...
utotherescue.blogspot.com

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 2d
Excited to read this share.google/STKJgHop3FVm...
Cover of Amy De'Ath's book

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 2d
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

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Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 3d
Melinda Cooper on the household servitude economy in general, and in extreme form (Epstein).
www.equator.org/articles/eps...
Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
www.equator.org

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 3d
Stuart Schrader on what Trump’s urban occupations mean for police and the unions that represent them https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/02/14/authoritarianism-from-below-trump-city-takeovers-police/?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=2026-02-14_Schrader-policing-1
Authoritarianism from Below | Stuart Schrader
As National Guard troops and federal officers swarmed Washington, D.C., in August, sent by President Donald Trump to confront what he declared a “crime
www.nybooks.com

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 4d
his aunt is married to Daniel Libeskind lol

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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 4d
As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵

academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
High School English and the Making of American Readers
Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars
academic.oup.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d
Incredible, horrific piece.

thebaffler.com/latest/im-no...
I’m Not Done With You | Mary Turfah
You cannot harm a corpse, though you can use it to harm others.
thebaffler.com

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 6d
I find this question about whether chatbots are “alive” to be truly, truly boring. You can torture a definition of “life” so that it includes chatbots or you can listen to actual, unequivocal flesh-and-blood people talking about harm it does them *right now*.
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 6d
Experiments conducted with the A.I. system Claude are producing fascinating results—and raising questions about the nature of selfhood. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from inside the company that designed it, Anthropic. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rOfXjg

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Charlotte Shane @charoshane.bsky.social · 7d
I finally wrote my big essay about Daniel Berrigan! For anyone with an interest in non-violence, futility, the political/social/moral role of writing, and so much more, even if you've never heard of the man www.bookforum.com/print/3203/f...
Father Knows Best
Daniel Berrigan’s spiritual radicalism – Charlotte Shane
www.bookforum.com

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Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social · 7d
I got to give a talk last week about one of my very favorite topics--prison education! So much gratitude to @ucilifted.bsky.social
What Matters to Me and Why: Annie McClanahan
YouTube video by UCI Media
www.youtube.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7d
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 8d
Hell yeah.
In addition to their latent insurgent potential, the Twin Cities' rapid response networks signal the possible resurgence of a proletarian civic life independent of the mainstream two-party system and the institutions of a decrepit civil society and left-wing milieu. In the suburbs especially, thousands of working-class people have glimpsed the prospect of a more meaningful experience of community, following decades of atomization and a decaying social fabric. The formation of these networks, from Minneapolis and Saint Paul to the suburbs, and even into parts of the exurbs and rural hinterland, has provided a rich supply of oxygen and nutrients to the formerly comatose brain of working-class civic life, spurring the formation of new socio-neural connections. These proto-political networks harbor the potential to mature into class institutions tasked with coordinating sustained oppositional political and economic action, while restoring a social fabric promised, but never delivered, by so many astroturfed campaigns that too often accomplish little more than channeling our longing for collective agency into transferable email lists.

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 8d
“I don’t understand why so many people have conceded that the university is a left space. Can someone show me a Marxist university president?”
Defending the Possibility of the University: A Roundtable on “University Keywords” - Public Books
“What would it look like for faculty unions and graduate student unions to collaborate or work together with K-12 teachers’ unions to push back against anti-DEI legislation or book bans?”
www.publicbooks.org

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 8d
for years everyone was freaking out about students using AI to do their assignments: the death of the humanities, again!

but we are about to see reams of research activity in our own scholarly fields assigned to AI

will this be mystified as some kind of intellectual windfall?