Baryon Posadas

Science Fiction, Empire, Japan.

[Baryon Posadas @baryontensor]

My copy of Techno-orientalism 2.0, which includes my essay on the animated adaptations of the novels of Project Itoh, arrived today.

[Baryon Posadas @baryontensor]

This certainky seems indicative of the inadequacy of current forms and genres to apprehend the contemporary moment. Yet, this might not be a bad thing insofar as it it implicitly acknowledges the present as a distinct historical conjuncture and not just an endless everyday.

[Peter Raleigh @PetreRaleigh]

I would add that I think we actually have a very low *tolerance* for very overt signifiers of the contemporary in our films, lower than I think past generations had, and I find this also an interesting problem which I'd like to see explained

[Mike Pepi @MikePepi]

Here’s a fun one: there would be almost zero rankling about ai slop and ai use if there were clear and standard labeling involved so everyone knew what they were consuming. But scratch a little deeper and you realize AI cos don't want this because that destroys the value. What does that say? It’s a technology built on deception, theft, and displacement. i would buy the abundance argument if we locked down clear NUTRITION FACTS like labeling and categorizations and reorganized our various institutions accordingly, but again the goal is destruction not adaptation.

[Baryon Posadas @baryontensor]

@ragandboneshop I use Zotero now (albeit with a lot of manual editing as it doesn't do well with non-English naming conventions), but in the before times I had to hand edit a book manuscript's worth of MLA references to full note Chicago when I revised my dissertation into a book.

[Baryon Posadas @baryontensor]

Link to essay here: https://t.co/qvq2OOZi7x

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Heart of Darkness with this cover would pair perfectly with Isiah Lavender's essay about rereading the novel as science fiction.

[Fib @_Fibster_]

Are there any other examples of notable comic artists doing novel covers? It seems like something that would happen more

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@Plasma_Legion The most obvious clue that everyone knows and is just playing along is when Bright first boards the Argama he addresses him with the rank of captain (taisa) before Char corrects him and says he is a lieutenant (taii).

[Baryon Posadas @baryontensor]

@snackowska Distant reading would be an obvious candidate.

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@snackowska If the ArXiv debacle was any indication, it would appear that the only thing AI is doing is letting people churn out ever greater numbers of papers wherein no cited sources were actually read and will also not be read when subsequently cited. Knowledge production? Really?

[Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction]

Maybe will seem like a niche grievance against AI-generated prose — but when I’m writing, I am often writing AGAINST the content, form, and interventions of other authors. A great deal of published nonfiction writing is twee, insubstantial, sentimental, conventional, and mediocre

[Baryon Posadas @baryontensor]

@bodenlosig @muhasaba_needer Ning Ma's book The Age of Silver takes up the role of the silver trade in the emergence of novelistic realisms in various locations. Not sure how deeply it gets into political economy, but I thought it might be a relevant reference, if you weren't already aware of it.

[Baryon Posadas @baryontensor]

@HistorianZhang It's the new real estate speculation for universities.

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@gonglei89 @Biyombonesaw One of the things I keep mentally reminding myself observing this discourse is the difference between what counts as "walkable" in my my own mind and what is conventionally thought of as "walkable" in North America.

[zugzwung ukigumo @bodenlosig]

I had my students peer review each other’s drafts and one group was gushing over a paper that was the most obviously ai written thing I’ve ever gotten. Student submitting gptslop is one thing, I get it, what really disturbs me is the other 19 year olds not being able to tell

[Jonathan Basile @jonothingEB]

I wrote an essay exploring how structuralism and deconstruction have informed recent theory around 'AI' and 'LLMs' including @leifweatherby's Language Machines: https://t.co/xgepmNr96A

[Baryon Posadas @baryontensor]

The colonial unconscious of the Philippines is so strong that it even adopts the Anglophone West's chronic inability to plan and build infrastructure on time and on budget.

[Thomas thee Tankengine @goodkidbikecity]

Guy who works for a Japanese train company is complaining that they cannot deliver trains for the North-South Commuter Rail and Metro Manila Subway projects because they are very, very delayed

[Thomas thee Tankengine @goodkidbikecity]

Guy who works for a Japanese train company is complaining that they cannot deliver trains for the North-South Commuter Rail and Metro Manila Subway projects because they are very, very delayed

[Urban Cayman @ProjectEND]

Another unfortunate reminder that Canada is not able to do this:

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For no reason at all, I remembered just now how much the existence of the concoction called "kombucha" in English annoys me so much. Not only does it not have any actual "konbu" in it and hence misnamed, but Anglophones pronounce the word with the accent on the wrong syllable.

[Joel Chan @kjoules]

A 59-year old woman was sentenced to 4 weeks in jail and a fine of HK$2,000 for not declaring 981 cigarettes when entering Hong Kong via the Heung Yuen Wai boundary point. No word on how she was caught by customs officers

https://t.co/wsUS5Kf9IT

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@moghilemear13 There's quite a few in the Philippines too, but few of them ever rise to the level of political influence that the Korean cults seem to do.