Dr. M. Harris-Peyton

PhD in English: postcolonial/world lit/SF/crime/adaptation/games person trapped in the Really Long 20th Century. "Preemptive cultural archaeologist." he/him

[Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @DrMBHP]

(By the way, you can find me more active on the bluer, sky-ier place under the same username.)

[Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @DrMBHP]

Right-wing attacks on education--the grad student arrests, defunding battles, long-term reputation attacks--are a strategy, and so I've been thinking about what the big-picture counter-strategy is.

So I wrote an article about it for Liberal Currents.

https://t.co/bLoGNb5cSx

[Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @DrMBHP]

Oh hey I kind of wrote my diss about this (using crime fiction as my focus, but still!) Specifically how those ripoff/copy first/original labels can be very...loaded and weird.

This is a great article:

[John Wiswell @Wiswell]

New essay day! There is an uncomfortable space between when something is new and when it becomes a genre. Most frequently? These works are called "ripoffs" or "copies."

So I wrote this piece about how originality actually works (and doesn't). https://t.co/vUY115NLru

[Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @DrMBHP]

As a person with a PhD in this, I really don't think we emphasize enough that colonialism was very stupid.

[Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @DrMBHP]

Hear me out: this is the Tteokbokki of Theseus

[shreya @shreyabasu003]

GUYS THE NYT MADE THE LEMONY GARLICKY MISO GOCHUJANG BROWN BUTTER GNOCCHI LMAO

[Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @DrMBHP]

I have a whole bit on this in my diss (future book TBA) where I theorize that Anglophone literary culture has two tracks for translations: linked to a similar anglophone "high-value" text (thus subordinated) or cultural curiosity (weird/"literary") displayed as status symbol.

[Sarah Brouillette @brouillettese]

three tiny questions (1) has lit-in-translation become one the last strongholds of the high literary (which has, historically, often been strongly coded "male"), protected by the Nobel and other institutions?

[Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @DrMBHP]

Reinventing the public library from first principles.

[fran @galacticidiots]

No, using an em dash a lot isn’t a sign of AI because the em dash is not punctuation, it’s a vibe. It’s a feeling. You don’t use it because it makes grammatical sense — you use it because your heart tells you to. AI couldn’t possibly do it well because it lacks one.

[Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @DrMBHP]

Inside baseball? He was letting people do their jobs for a dependable and regular payment of money and *not* sending out a "remember to report thoughtcrime!" email every ten minutes with a new and irrational list of new thoughtcrimes.

[Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @DrMBHP]

"what if oat milk had an aftertaste of cheap parmesan cheese and was also heating up the atmosphere"

[Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer]

Real milk is like 'what if oat milk had weird metallic taste and persisted on suffering'

[Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @DrMBHP]

Have we tried manually bending the moral arc of the universe?

[Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @DrMBHP]

I always wondered if King Charles I actually believed in the divine right of kings or if he knew it was just a facade.

[Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @DrMBHP]

So the relentless financial speculation and intellectual property theft *wasn't* the most efficient way to train "autocomplete but with ego" you say?

[Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @DrMBHP]

I should write an article for composition studies on how high school debate competition rules have utterly destroyed rhetoric as an effective real-world practice.

[Siobhan Carroll (also on the Blue Place) @sicarrol]

Ah, Chakotay. I had fun ranting about that character for Asimov’s. More seriously I summarized a bit of the “Ecological Indian” discourse, for those who aren’t familiar with it.

[Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @DrMBHP]

@sicarrol I have never related to anything more than young Siobhan getting mad at the missed potential of a TV show character.

Voyager was my first Star Trek, and as a 9-year-old I remember asking, in kid terms, "what culture is this guy representing and why did they make him magic?"

[Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @DrMBHP]

Between that one professor's olfactory dissertation drama and the South Korean assembly stopping a coup by saying "no that's illegal," many of you need to reconsider the power of words.

[no earthquake (cut his fingers) @no_earthquake]

the olfactory ethics english lit dissertation sounds cool and you’re all stupid

[Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @DrMBHP]

Guys I don't think academics are actually important enough to have somehow lost this election for Democrats. I think maybe there were bigger issues on swing voters' minds than whether your junior-year BritLit seminar's adjunct had a pride flag sticker on their shared office door.

[Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @DrMBHP]

@RezekJoe In the whole pantheon of dumb things I've read in the Chronicle's opinion section, this one takes a cake. Not "the" cake, it's not good enough at being wrong. A participation medal cake, perhaps. An "oooh what an edgy contrarian you are, good job, gold star!" cake.