Thomas S. Davis
@thomassdavis.bsky.social
English/Env Hum/Analog Hum/Prof. The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism & Everyday Life (Columbia 2016). Finishing: Forming Attachments: Aesthetic Education & Ecological Crisis. Starting: Irrelevance: Art & Literature in the 21st Century.. www.thomassdavis.net
These are the new state mandated questions that will appear at the end of our student evaluations. Just in case anyone was curious about the effects of right wing higher ed legislation in Ohio:
November 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
These are the new state mandated questions that will appear at the end of our student evaluations. Just in case anyone was curious about the effects of right wing higher ed legislation in Ohio:
Homemade costume for Jevil from Deltarune for my 11 year old. His friends also went as video game characters & we saw some amazing Hollow Knight costumes.
October 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Homemade costume for Jevil from Deltarune for my 11 year old. His friends also went as video game characters & we saw some amazing Hollow Knight costumes.
Writing retreat in the mountains of West VA is going well. I’m going to finish this fucking book & yes, until further notice, my preface poaches its title from this abandoned truck I saw in the Bakken: “Piece of Shit, Left for Dead.” I also scared two coyotes by accident on a hike in Canaan Valley.
October 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Writing retreat in the mountains of West VA is going well. I’m going to finish this fucking book & yes, until further notice, my preface poaches its title from this abandoned truck I saw in the Bakken: “Piece of Shit, Left for Dead.” I also scared two coyotes by accident on a hike in Canaan Valley.
The midterms from my analog upper level seminar; they’re brilliant & full of theories on the function of art
in the present while undertaking micro-scale formal analysis. An 80 minute class & no one left early. Print is a rent strike & a pedagogical asset for this moment. @mattseybold.bsky.social ✊🏼
in the present while undertaking micro-scale formal analysis. An 80 minute class & no one left early. Print is a rent strike & a pedagogical asset for this moment. @mattseybold.bsky.social ✊🏼
October 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The midterms from my analog upper level seminar; they’re brilliant & full of theories on the function of art
in the present while undertaking micro-scale formal analysis. An 80 minute class & no one left early. Print is a rent strike & a pedagogical asset for this moment. @mattseybold.bsky.social ✊🏼
in the present while undertaking micro-scale formal analysis. An 80 minute class & no one left early. Print is a rent strike & a pedagogical asset for this moment. @mattseybold.bsky.social ✊🏼
Because they used to rip things off my office door or slide “Identity Europa”’materials underneath, I got a dry erase board so that it is very easy to clean up. I guess this is “viewpoint diversity”?
October 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Because they used to rip things off my office door or slide “Identity Europa”’materials underneath, I got a dry erase board so that it is very easy to clean up. I guess this is “viewpoint diversity”?
Lest we forget this one too.
October 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Lest we forget this one too.
We went into the hills and the caves and found large wolf spiders and something close to silence.
September 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
We went into the hills and the caves and found large wolf spiders and something close to silence.
Getting back to my modernist roots and tying up this essay for the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook to Caribbean Modernism. I always wanted to write about Andrew Salkey's Escape to An Autumn Pavement. I hope I didn't fuck it up.
August 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Getting back to my modernist roots and tying up this essay for the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook to Caribbean Modernism. I always wanted to write about Andrew Salkey's Escape to An Autumn Pavement. I hope I didn't fuck it up.
I’m enjoying this book & learning a lot about my disdain for optimism & “hopeful” discourse around climate, but not engaging with Berlant’s cruel optimism, while talking about optimism as a cruel philosophy via Voltaire, is a missed chance for some dialectical twists that could have been 🔥.
July 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I’m enjoying this book & learning a lot about my disdain for optimism & “hopeful” discourse around climate, but not engaging with Berlant’s cruel optimism, while talking about optimism as a cruel philosophy via Voltaire, is a missed chance for some dialectical twists that could have been 🔥.
Staring at Giacometti at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark as a balm against the AI takeover of my university’s curriculum.
June 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Staring at Giacometti at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark as a balm against the AI takeover of my university’s curriculum.
Welp…AI integration is now mandated across all majors at OSU so that students will be, in the words of our new Provost, “bilingual.” oaa.osu.edu/ai-fluency
June 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Welp…AI integration is now mandated across all majors at OSU so that students will be, in the words of our new Provost, “bilingual.” oaa.osu.edu/ai-fluency
I walked up about 2000 Sherpa steps to get to the summit of Reinebringen and I fully expect my legs to fail me tomorrow.
May 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I walked up about 2000 Sherpa steps to get to the summit of Reinebringen and I fully expect my legs to fail me tomorrow.
In Oslo doing Oslo things. And now leaving for Svolvær.
May 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
In Oslo doing Oslo things. And now leaving for Svolvær.
This lovely book by @nathankhensley.bsky.social arrived yesterday. It’s been an absolute pleasure, & a gift, to have had this friendship for over 23 years & to see all the thinking, commitment, & labor bloom into amazing work after amazing work. I can’t wait to read & be inspired by this one.
May 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This lovely book by @nathankhensley.bsky.social arrived yesterday. It’s been an absolute pleasure, & a gift, to have had this friendship for over 23 years & to see all the thinking, commitment, & labor bloom into amazing work after amazing work. I can’t wait to read & be inspired by this one.
When I’m not writing books, teaching, or complaining, I guess I still play punk & hardcore shows. From Blind Rage records fest this weekend with Frail, Usurp Synapse, Sect, & others
May 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
When I’m not writing books, teaching, or complaining, I guess I still play punk & hardcore shows. From Blind Rage records fest this weekend with Frail, Usurp Synapse, Sect, & others
My noisy punk/hardcore band Prevail will be playing this stacked show next week and it’s our first show, umm, this century? Anyway, I love Frail and Sect and you should too and I have new pedals and pickups. It will be loud. Come hang if you’re in the area.
May 3, 2025 at 11:53 PM
My noisy punk/hardcore band Prevail will be playing this stacked show next week and it’s our first show, umm, this century? Anyway, I love Frail and Sect and you should too and I have new pedals and pickups. It will be loud. Come hang if you’re in the area.
All the hail from the storm an hour ago evidently landed outside of our door.
April 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
All the hail from the storm an hour ago evidently landed outside of our door.
As a child of the 1980s, I probably watched Real Genius 100+ times. “Oh Kent, that is so unfair. And we were gonna make you king of the winter carnival.”
April 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
As a child of the 1980s, I probably watched Real Genius 100+ times. “Oh Kent, that is so unfair. And we were gonna make you king of the winter carnival.”
Kohei Saito on the possibility that the success of his book Slow Down indicates a leftist revival in Japan. This was a fabulous talk.
March 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Kohei Saito on the possibility that the success of his book Slow Down indicates a leftist revival in Japan. This was a fabulous talk.
We got a kitten. Class prep is going poorly.
March 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We got a kitten. Class prep is going poorly.
It’s too early for this shit, Bluesky…
March 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It’s too early for this shit, Bluesky…
We are getting this kitten tomorrow and my 10 year old son is thrilled (remains to be seen how the 3 year old cat reacts).
March 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We are getting this kitten tomorrow and my 10 year old son is thrilled (remains to be seen how the 3 year old cat reacts).
My alma mater is dismantling TTU and I take this as Dawn Staley telling me “now would be a good time to order take out and go buy more beer. Ain’t nothing happening here.”
March 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
My alma mater is dismantling TTU and I take this as Dawn Staley telling me “now would be a good time to order take out and go buy more beer. Ain’t nothing happening here.”
I submitted my opponent testimony to Ohio SB 1, a right wing takeover of higher ed. Today my colleagues will be testifying against it in person. All testimony will be public soon but I couldn’t resist the opportunity to sling Orwell back at them near the end of my take on “intellectual diversity”:
February 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I submitted my opponent testimony to Ohio SB 1, a right wing takeover of higher ed. Today my colleagues will be testifying against it in person. All testimony will be public soon but I couldn’t resist the opportunity to sling Orwell back at them near the end of my take on “intellectual diversity”:
We finally learned to play Wingspan and loved it. The lovely folks at Tabletop Game Cafe took time to walk us through the basics. The world is hell, but boardgames are good.
February 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
We finally learned to play Wingspan and loved it. The lovely folks at Tabletop Game Cafe took time to walk us through the basics. The world is hell, but boardgames are good.