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Literature at MIT, within MIT SHASS: School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences @MIT. Great Ideas Change the World
Cambridge, MA
Joined April 2011
My latest cartoon for @GuardianBooks p.s. My new book of science cartoons is here: https://t.co/t5P3yOrkJ3
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You know what the biggest problem with pushing all-things-AI is? Wrong direction. I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes.
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Not all art hangs in museums. Across 1 trillion web pages it lives in sketches, fan sites, & forgotten web design. The Wayback Machine keeps this digital gallery open for all to enjoy. 🎨🧑🎨 📝 Tell us what irreplaceable works the Wayback Machine has saved for you! ⤵️
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.@LITatMIT professor @SirJoshBennett asks about @MIT students' poetry and the continued development of AI in @TheAtlantic.
theatlantic.com
A professor at the Institute discovered that his students were quietly meeting outside class to write verse. What might it mean for the future of AI?
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The Robert A. Muh Award Lecture is Wednesday 10/8 at 5 pm in the Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building's Thomas Tull Concert Hall. 2025 award winner Ray Kurzweil is this year's featured speaker. https://t.co/MKAVN67nCq
@MITEECS @LITatMIT
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Newest @ArtinAmerica article by Prof Eugenie #Brinkema, "Deleuze's Newly Translated Seminars on Painting Are Chaotic and Magnificent." Quote: "Philosophy doesn’t work as TL;DR." Read more about Giles Deleuze eight seminars on what philosophy can reveal about paintings below:
Deleuze's Newly Translated Seminars on Painting Are Chaotic and Magnificent. By Eugenie Brinkema https://t.co/cWfBMvBSh0
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A new book from @LITatMIT professor Benjamin Mangrum explores how we deal with our doubts and fears about computing through humor. https://t.co/ux0looczji
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In a new book, MIT literature professor Benjamin Mangrum explores how we deal with our doubts and fears about computing through humor, whether reconciling ourselves to machines or critiquing them.
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What're you reading this summer? @LITatMIT professors and lecturers have a bunch of cool recommendations for students, bibliophiles, and anyone else interested in good storytelling. https://t.co/edx6Bz0SB7
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I find myself most alone When I believe I am striving for glory. —Tracy K. Smith, Academy Chancellor, born #OTD in 1972 https://t.co/cLud70fjHk
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I find myself most alone
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Haunting century-old art for fairy-poems by Dorothy Lathrop, born on this day in 1891 – the first person to win the Caldecott Medal (the Nobel Prize of children's book illustration)
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Poetic enchantments in pen, ink, and imagination.
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Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, —Emily Dickinson https://t.co/NDcgDl1HVN Happy Poem in Your Pocket Day! Share a poem using #PocketPoem
poets.org
Hope is the thing with feathers
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Today we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of “The Great Gatsby.” Since April 10, 1925 this American classic has been read and reread by generations across the globe. The @librarycongress Rare Books Division has a first edition. https://t.co/BmCa40yKM8
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MIT students: Create an important impact with your Kelly-Douglas-funded travel. These fellowships offer opportunities to pursue independent projects or collaborate in humanitarian projects. Apply before the 4/13 deadline. https://t.co/yYQni7KXvb
#MITSHASS #travel
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In "Opening the doors of perception: Perspectives on SHASS," MIT alum Peter Godart, @LITatMIT professor Mary Fuller, and second-year @MITPoliSci major Siddhu Pachipala discuss SHASS's value. @MIT_alumni
https://t.co/o6wz7fygtm
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.@LITatMIT professor Eugenie Brinkema reviews the latest Anselm Kiefer installation for @ArtinAmerica. "How brave, then, of the Van Gogh and the Stedelijk to organize their show around none of these old stories," she says.
artnews.com
“Sag mir wo die Blumen sind” is a dyptich of a show at the Stedelijk and Van Gogh Museums in Amsterdam.
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This week's edition of SHASS Weekly features the SHASS Faculty Fellows, American attitudes on global policies, movement's pedagogical possibilities, and more. https://t.co/4XWaxdXV4S
@MITphilosophy @LITatMIT @MITPoliSci @MITPSTS @MITanthropology
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Happy birthday to two sages, Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde! Dreaming new worlds with you 🪐 Here’s Toni at home in upstate New York in the 1980s, and Audre at a cafe in Berlin in 1992 🎈
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Edgar Allan Poe was big into code cracking. He once challenged readers of a Philadelphia paper to stump him with coded messages, deciphering dozens before having to “swear off” cryptograms forever. More on how code factors into his stories here: https://t.co/WHAxI6OPMP
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“One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience… Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want.” An Ursula K. Le Guin gem
themarginalian.org
“One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience… Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want.”
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