can’t wait to listen to this J— thank you for doing this work!

this indeed sucks, & if it's in the humanities i'd also bet that the teacher in question is on a contract basis, likely adjuncting, & almost certainly overloaded, which is why as @jraden.bsky.social has written "AI in the classroom" is fundamentally an issue of academic labor

mine says the same thing. essentially everyone is navigating the cognitive and emotional crises that are the completely normal result of living in a broken social order

i learned about the combo of nondevelopmental narrative and structural crisis from my incredibly brilliant colleague & friend from grad school, sarah lincoln

there are some very good arguments out there that track across widely varied contexts how magical thinking & non-developmental plot forms —lotteries, miracles, rich cousins emerging from out of nowhere to solve the problem— emerge in conditions of structural stalling or futurelessness. crypto is one

it's a scholarly book about victorian literature, so not likely to be of immediate interest! but it does try to give an account of this mood-complex or social feeling, and figure out one version of its history: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

i feel like i wrote my whole book just because i was so sick of the fact that my brilliant, curious, very vulnerable students were being systematically bullshitted on this exact topic by the adults who were supposed to be teaching them

"For too long, young people have been told to tighten their belts, hustle harder, .... We’ve been told that if we just worked a little more or spent a little less, we could make it work—as if our economy is a test of character & resilience instead of a system that’s fundamentally broken." ✅

😂 can't beat that price for actual knowledge!

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brutal, wrong — I’m so sorry this happened!

That is a good change; thank you for making it. NH