Damien Schlarb

American Literature, Culture, & Digital Games
Book: Melville's Wisdom Project: Digital Games and American Culture

[Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb]

My book Melville’s Wisdom is out now with @oxunipress. It covers

🔹Herman Melville’s responses to the Old Testament wisdom books
🔹religious skepticism in C19 America
🔹higher criticism of the Bible in America
🔹literary responses to modernity
#hermanmelville #c19study @AARWeb

[The Yale Review @yalereview]

“Eating a madeleine has never turned anyone into Proust.” Hernan Diaz on the referential fetish.
https://t.co/dOZZWZbdQY

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

@pschofie79 Semi-relatedly a lot of the push for AI (therapists! health care professionals! tutors!) is predicated on a tacit acceptance that the broken institutions cannot be fixed and third-rate substitutes are better than nothing.

[Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb]

The cultural paradigm of "vibe work" that emerged in the wake of a.i. discourse is fascinating. "Vibe coding," "vibe reporting," and others need to be studied.

https://t.co/TafRtM2cFo

[Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb]

Baudrillard now writes the news. https://t.co/EZCiKU65CT

[Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb]

@DanielMFeige "Interessant," zumal Automation durch Niedriglohnarbeit oft lediglich nur simuliert wird, dieser Fakt aber mit Vehemenz ausgeblendet wird. Es ist die Vehemenz, der aggressive Panglossianismus, den ich kulturwissenschaftlich spannend finde.
https://t.co/lz6QdBnmXf

[Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb]

@DanielMFeige Interessant finde ich die Strahlkraft und Virulenz des Wunsches nach Automation sowohl im Mediendiskurs als auch unter Managern und Investoren.

[Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb]

Thank you @JASReligion for the review.

[Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb]

“Australian religionists wishing to understand historic American literature for American religion must read Damien Schlarb’s excellent work“ - Neville Buch for the Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 37(1).

[Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb]

I find academia most fun when one‘s work helps others disclose new areas of knowledge. Its an expansive and collaborative ethos.

[Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb]

Buch suggests several surprising ways in which Melville‘s Wisdom may illuminate the discourse about the Australian cultural transformation of the Bible.

[Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb]

"Although it should be regarded simply as an input for conducting research, organizational actors in German science policy, [...] have cultivated the notion that grant funding is equivalent to research success." https://t.co/AmiK470BJQ

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Trump doing whatever he wants makes a complete and total mockery of every single Democratic politician and pundit who ever cited the parliamentarian as an excuse for Dems doing nothing when they had power. Every liberal who somehow believed that nonsense should feel ridiculous.

[Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb]

“American studies began with the aim of subjecting the historical record of the society and culture of the US to a measured, critical assessment-as measured, that is, by the nation's own profession of values and purposes-this is no time to abandon that aim.” Leo Marx, 2005

[Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb]

Finding quiet spaces in the noisy media ecologies we live in is hard. Making and finding those spaces in #videogames has peculiar design challenges and effects. I explain why in this new piece: https://t.co/QieoZDvE7Z

[Sheila Liming @seeshespeak]

“AI-assisted writing is easy to identify but hard to prove.
As a result, I found myself spending many hours grading writing that I knew was generated by AI.”

This “time-saving” technology is sure yielding a lot of wasted time and labor.

[Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb]

Excited to serve as interim Professor of American Studies @uni_regensburg this fall 🍂. I'll give lectures and hold seminars on American literature, culture, and digital games 🎮📚 #americanstudies

[Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb]

For those interested in the connection between libertarianism and platform governance, esp. content moderation, check out this sharp-eyed article

[Andreas Jungherr @ajungherr]

🚨 New publication 🚨 with @OuzhouAdi in @policyinternet: In our new article we ask who people in the US blame for disinformation and who they feel is obligated to fix it:

https://t.co/WExXUOih4i

[Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb]

„In a data-saturated, AI-driven world, literary theory and the theory of data have to merge“—Working on it…

[The Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle]

Opinion: The story of AI will be part of a larger story about the replication crisis. https://t.co/VOuyhEaIfI

[Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb]

@MEASeybold @foxxphelan @pnohiostate Looking forward to it. I only recently discovered the pod and enjoy the conversational depth, pace, and tone. Loved the episode on Ed Tech. Please keep it up.

[Damien Schlarb @dbschlarb]

@hl_murray Amen. Thumbs pressed.