Damien Schlarb

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

“Eating a madeleine has never turned anyone into Proust.” Hernan Diaz on the referential fetish. yalereview.org/article/diaz-e…

@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.

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. calnewport.com/the-dangers-of…

Baudrillard now writes the news. youtube.com/watch?v=wnYPze…

@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. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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

Thank you @JASReligion for the review.

“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).

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

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

"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." journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

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.

“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

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: #v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">books.google.de/books?id=2jVEE…

“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.

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

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

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

@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.

@hl_murray Amen. Thumbs pressed.