Noa Saunders, PhD

poet, scholar in poetry & film. performance, affect, media. anti-fascist, she/her // @ninthletter @poetryshore @atc_mag @TheBitchinK others

[Noa Saunders, PhD @noarheva]

@becimay I wonder tho if pleasures exceeding explanation is a concession? As if there’s a massive reluctance to cultivate humanist-aesthetic thinking that includes a deeper vocabulary about our pleasures. Scholars know they exceed explanation because we actually try.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

"what if the professor punishes me for disagreeing with their argument"

Professors seeing a student show any kind of passion about anything in the course at any time

[Brett Chapman @brettachapman]

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! I think it is very important to get the day name right because Native Americans are still here and we are more than Columbus, medieval White people, genocide, and death—thousands of rich, uniquely American cultures that never went anywhere!

[trash jones @jzux]

i did not spend years turning the faucet off while i brushed my teeth so corporations could ruin the environment with festering AI slop

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

We went from “what good are the humanities?” to “suddenly, no one can read” in about a year, and it's no coincidence that we're suddenly awash in misinformation and lack of critical thinking. This is WHY we need the humanities. This is what they prevent.

[rob cham @robcham]

DIY>AI

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Saw someone say, “Stop hoarding books, we don’t need paper books anyway” and I can’t express how misguided this is. Online libraries disappear, digital books can be altered, and with Big Tech seeking to destroy history and literacy, print media has never been more essential.

[Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick]

Emma Goldman: "Anarchism is not, as some may suppose, a theory of the future to be realized through divine inspiration. It is a living force in the affairs of our life, constantly creating new conditions."

[zay - drawing @isaiah78th]

Here is my Biggest Painting!

JAMES BALDWIN

[Maureen Thorson @maureenthorson]

“We hardly ever see the moon any more” A poem by Frank O’Hara.

[⚔️𝖈𝖑𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖈𝖊 𝖙𝖚𝖉𝖔𝖗⚔️ @claricetudor_]

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[Calum Barnes @balumcarnes]

obsessed with Bob Dylan’s new dripped out look wearing a North Face with the hood up on stage

[Columbia University Press @ColumbiaUP]

Now available! Blending Marxist and feminist theory with attentive close readings, STITCH, UNSTITCH is a revelatory materialist account of the values of poetry. https://t.co/NEVM9i1Uuy #CreativeLabor #FeministModernism #WagesForHousework #Modernism

[David Hering @hering_david]

Me on first day of teaching: Performative reading? Well if we’re going to talk about performative I’d better tell you about a little guy called JL Austin (spills entire cup of boiling hot coffee all over my lap)

[Dok @Dok845]

I feel like at some point we're going to need a legal reckoning about the plagiarism machine that sometimes kills mentally ill children.

[erin @maizie_star]

sitting in this AI training for work and they’re showing us how to compose an email with Copilot and it really is just, “keep giving it more prompts and adjusting it until it sounds like you!” as though that isn’t obviously slower and worse than just writing your own email lol

[matthew leger @lightumbreIla]

Anne Sexton ~ Just once I knew what life was for.