Harris Feinsod
@feinsod.bsky.social
Comp Lit and English Prof. Baltimore. 💙⚓️💚🌱🖤📖. *Speaking only for myself*
The lead off to the mix tape in heaviest rotation in my car, 1997–2000. RIP Jimmy Cliff www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz_Q...
Johnny Too Bad
YouTube video by The Slickers - Topic
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November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The lead off to the mix tape in heaviest rotation in my car, 1997–2000. RIP Jimmy Cliff www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz_Q...
n+1 comes out swinging www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
n+1 comes out swinging www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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Next Monday & Tuesday, Sept. 15 & 16, I’ll give two talks in Baltimore, one at the Bird in Hand bookstore about *Freedom Ship*, the other at Johns Hopkins University about “How to Write (Maritime) History from Below.”
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
September 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Next Monday & Tuesday, Sept. 15 & 16, I’ll give two talks in Baltimore, one at the Bird in Hand bookstore about *Freedom Ship*, the other at Johns Hopkins University about “How to Write (Maritime) History from Below.”
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
Join us
Tuesday, Sept. 16, 10:30 am, I'll give a talk/workshop at Johns Hopkins entitled "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below." The event is sponsored by the Tidewater Initiative and the Maritime Committee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture. Join us!
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
September 13, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Join us
Next week! Marcus Rediker will be at the Tidewater Initiative in Baltimore for two events. First up: a conversation about the new book "Freedom Ship" at Bird in Hand, 6:30pm 9/15
@marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
@marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
Humanities in the Village: Marcus Rediker, in conversation with Nadia Nurhussein and Harris Feinsod | The Tidewater Initiative
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute will launch its fall 2025 programming with a special additional edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series dedicated to making scholarship publicly ...
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September 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Next week! Marcus Rediker will be at the Tidewater Initiative in Baltimore for two events. First up: a conversation about the new book "Freedom Ship" at Bird in Hand, 6:30pm 9/15
@marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
@marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
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It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.
September 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.
Reading a copy of a book I’ve been teaching since the age of the course pack. Bring pack the course pack.
September 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Reading a copy of a book I’ve been teaching since the age of the course pack. Bring pack the course pack.
Transportation Dept. Cancels $679 Million for Offshore Wind Projects
www.nytimes.com
August 30, 2025 at 3:09 AM
We’re kicking things off Sept 15 @ Bird in Hand with Marcus Rediker in conversation about his new book Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery at Sea @marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
August 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We’re kicking things off Sept 15 @ Bird in Hand with Marcus Rediker in conversation about his new book Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery at Sea @marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...
We're launching a new Tidewater Initiative at JHU. Our research group on working waterfronts and coastal infrastructures includes a new student research lab, courses, programming partnerships with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and more in the works. sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/
Home | The Tidewater Initiative
We are a multidisciplinary research group devoted to study, stewardship, and stories of working waterfronts, coastal infrastructures, and oceans under conditions of globalization and environmental ins...
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August 8, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We're launching a new Tidewater Initiative at JHU. Our research group on working waterfronts and coastal infrastructures includes a new student research lab, courses, programming partnerships with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and more in the works. sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/
“So long, Mom,
I'm off to drop the bomb,
So don't wait up for me.”
I'm off to drop the bomb,
So don't wait up for me.”
Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97 | CNN
Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other uni...
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July 28, 2025 at 12:29 AM
“So long, Mom,
I'm off to drop the bomb,
So don't wait up for me.”
I'm off to drop the bomb,
So don't wait up for me.”
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AI is the intellectual equivalent of styrofoam: it’s cheap and easy for the individual user, but poisoning the ecosystem for everyone forever.
Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.
July 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
AI is the intellectual equivalent of styrofoam: it’s cheap and easy for the individual user, but poisoning the ecosystem for everyone forever.
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Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.
July 23, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.
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Friendly reminder that Instructure, parent company of Canvas, is owned by KKR, a private equity firm that purchased it for $4.8 billion last November.
“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”
Instructors Will Now See AI Throughout a Widely Used Course Software
New features integrated into Canvas include a grading assistant, a discussion-post summarizer, and even a way to pair assignments with generative AI tools.
www.chronicle.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Friendly reminder that Instructure, parent company of Canvas, is owned by KKR, a private equity firm that purchased it for $4.8 billion last November.
RIP Alice Notley whose poems are a Grave of Light
Alice Notley passed away Monday night in Paris, where I'm writing from. This will come as a shock to many, but she was battling a number of maladies in recent months, and things had gotten difficult rapidly. Her work is out there. Please feel free to spread the word.
May 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
RIP Alice Notley whose poems are a Grave of Light
When it comes to the cultivation of human subjectivity I plan to go down swinging.
May 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
When it comes to the cultivation of human subjectivity I plan to go down swinging.
Jayme Collins—who podcasts about archival loss in climate disaster—discovered this envelope of dried mud from the 1966 Arno flood in the Ransom Center archives of conservator Peter Waters (the pioneer in salvaging water damaged paper). Amazing relic & great story—> global.utexas.edu/news/ransom-...
April 23, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Jayme Collins—who podcasts about archival loss in climate disaster—discovered this envelope of dried mud from the 1966 Arno flood in the Ransom Center archives of conservator Peter Waters (the pioneer in salvaging water damaged paper). Amazing relic & great story—> global.utexas.edu/news/ransom-...
Great experience—we all sat around talking about meter, metadata, and how various societies construe poetic knowledge. Made me want to be a literature professor. Poetry’s Data, out now, wherever University Press Books are sold
So lovely to chat about Poetry's Data with friends at Johns Hopkins! And, @feinsod.bsky.social snapped this lovely picture of me which I'll share because I love the book slide (and yes I wear too many hats). press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
March 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Great experience—we all sat around talking about meter, metadata, and how various societies construe poetic knowledge. Made me want to be a literature professor. Poetry’s Data, out now, wherever University Press Books are sold
I was privileged to have met Alain Peauroi a few times, and to have known many of the extraordinary landscapes he made with TERREMOTO. He was a gifted designer and beloved by all. Here is a beautiful tribute a few months after his passing.
www.archpaper.com/2025/03/alai...
www.archpaper.com/2025/03/alai...
Alain Peauroi, TERREMOTO cofounder, shied away from the spotlight but was foundational to the ethos of the West Coast firm
Alain Peauroi, cofounder of TERREMOTO, passed away earlier this year. Colleagues and other industry professionals remember him and his work.
www.archpaper.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I was privileged to have met Alain Peauroi a few times, and to have known many of the extraordinary landscapes he made with TERREMOTO. He was a gifted designer and beloved by all. Here is a beautiful tribute a few months after his passing.
www.archpaper.com/2025/03/alai...
www.archpaper.com/2025/03/alai...
Pierre Joris was one of the great and rare symposiasts of the whole.
Pierre Joris (1946-2025)
From the family: We will gather at main gate, Greenwood Cemetery, 500 25th Street (Fifth Avenue and 25th Street, Brooklyn), on Friday, February 28 at 9:45am and proceed to the gravesite. At 2pm, we will meet at Sunny’s Bar in Red Hook (253 Conover Street, Brooklyn).
From the family: We will gather at main gate, Greenwood Cemetery, 500 25th Street (Fifth Avenue and 25th Street, Brooklyn), on Friday, February 28 at 9:45am and proceed to the gravesite. At 2pm, we will meet at Sunny’s Bar in Red Hook (253 Conover Street, Brooklyn).
February 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Pierre Joris was one of the great and rare symposiasts of the whole.
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Rip Pierre Joris.
Probably the translator who influenced my own practice/thinking about translation the most.
Probably the translator who influenced my own practice/thinking about translation the most.
February 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Rip Pierre Joris.
Probably the translator who influenced my own practice/thinking about translation the most.
Probably the translator who influenced my own practice/thinking about translation the most.
Experiential learning surges as educators try to lure students back to phenomenal reality
"'Experiential' retail surges as landlords try to lure customers back to the mall." One for your files, @langealexandra.bsky.social. www.latimes.com/business/sto...
'Experiential' retail surges as landlords try to lure customers back to the mall
The recent growth in experiential retail combines the changing attitudes of shoppers with landlords' need to fill space. Malls have been struggling for decades as department stores consolidated and fe...
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February 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Experiential learning surges as educators try to lure students back to phenomenal reality
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Just learned that James Ferguson died. That absolutely sucks. The Uses of Neoliberalism, Expectations of Modernity, The Anti-Politics Machine, those are incredible works of a kind of almost implausibly rare scholarly mind.
February 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Just learned that James Ferguson died. That absolutely sucks. The Uses of Neoliberalism, Expectations of Modernity, The Anti-Politics Machine, those are incredible works of a kind of almost implausibly rare scholarly mind.
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This general-interest book by legendary troubadour scholar Linda Paterson is a delight to read
February 26, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This general-interest book by legendary troubadour scholar Linda Paterson is a delight to read