Since I’ve had a slight uptick in followers here, for whatever reason:
I don’t use this platform much. Just haven’t taken to it. The occasional announcement is all. I’m more active on 🦋, same username.
Matthew Kirschenbaum
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Professor of English at the University of Maryland, though I speak only for myself here. Author of three books. Main interests are book history (letterpress to digital) and media studies, especially what the cool kids call media archaeology. Here you’ll also find tabletop gaming, cats, cooking, and sometimes some of my politics. Google for the rest . . .
Thank you @mwichary for the shout out! I still remember our first conversation. Can’t wait for SHIFT. https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/10/shift-happens-is-a-beautifully-designed-history-of-how-keyboards-got-this-way/
Mark C MarinoICYMI: Don't Text Me About the Textpocalypse, my AI-generated response to @mkirschenbaum feat. @mkirschenbaum
Don't Text Me About the Textpocalypse
Couldn’t be more thrilled that my article “Granulalr Worlds: Situating the Sand Table in Media History” is out in Critical Inquiry, the 50th Anniversary issue no less. If anyone who doesn’t have institutional access would like a copy I am happy to send. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/726299
This is kind of #bookhistory interesting. Trailer for DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (1939). The cuts are shot as fingers turning the pages of the novel, with the next scene shown playing on the newly exposed leaf. This seems like a pretty high end special effects for 1939?
Pssst! Wanna build your own #bookhistory BookLab? We’ll show you how! App,y by Aug. 28 for this online RBS short course. https://rarebookschool.org/courses/library/l140v/
Building a BookLab | Rare Book School
Course Length: 6 hours Schedule: 7–9 p.m. ET on 16 October, 23 October & 30 October Format: Online Course fee: $500 This short course will explore practical approaches and strategies for building a student-centered book arts makerspace—a “booklab”—with an emphasis on those institutions with modest and even scant resources. It will be based upon the instructors’ success in jointly conceiving, developing, and directing BookLab at the University of Maryland since 2018. We will explore start-up considerations, such as physical space and budget, as well as essential purchasing. [...]
When it comes to training LLMs, tokenization is fracking. Discuss.
The MLA/CCCCs joint “task force” of which I am a member has produced its first (of multiple) working papers on Writing and AI. It includes specific recommendations with the upcoming fall semester in mind. Note too, that it is framed as a working paper, i.e. work in progress: we welcome comments and feedback. (Please share.)
A snippet from Don't Text Me about the Textpocalypse. AI-generated song & video response to @mkirschenbaum
Full video: https://bit.ly/textpvid