Damien Schlarb
@dbschlarb
American Literature, Culture, & Digital Games Book: Melville's Wisdom http://tinyurl.com/mrx658vn New Project: Digital Games and American Culture
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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
"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: 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
🚨 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: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/po…
„In a data-saturated, AI-driven world, literary theory and the theory of data have to merge“—Working on it…
Opinion: The story of AI will be part of a larger story about the replication crisis. chroni.cl/42XxiEZ
Read the full abstracts of the excellent papers by Jonathan Cook, @carolhildebr and Samuel Otter from our panel on Melville's Sacred Texts (#ALA2023, Boston) in the latest issue of Leviathan by @MelvilleSociety . #melvilleswisdom muse.jhu.edu/article/913128
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Opinion: The story of AI will be part of a larger story about the replication crisis. chroni.cl/42XxiEZ
Thanks to @ASChurchHistory for having Melville‘s Wisdom reviewed in their journal. I appreciate the feedback, praise, and criticism and feel vindicated that my project found an audience among such high-calibre scholars. #melvilleswisdom #americanliterature #religioushistory
No matter what they tell you, "maintains several academic institutional and social media profiles" is a CV line.
🖋 New Article 🖋 in @SocialMedia_Soc. In the article "Artificial Intelligence and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework," I discuss the role of 🤖 artificial intelligence 🤖 in democracy: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20… #openaccess #ai #artificialintelligence #democracy
"Beim Einreichen von Publikationen würden Arbeiten von Nicht-Muttersprachlern außerdem etwa 2,5 Mal häufiger aus sprachlichen Gründen abgelehnt. Die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass ihre Manuskripte überarbeitet werden müssten, sei 12,5 Mal so hoch." forschung-und-lehre.de/karriere/engli….
I try to link the insights I gained from my first book #MelvillesWisdom to questions that emerge from my new project on 21st-century new media and digital games in my very first blog post for the Oxford University Press Blog @OUPAcademic. blog.oup.com/2023/07/melvil…
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Melville’s wisdom: making the past speak to the present
Damien B. Schlarb discusses how “Melville’s wisdom,” the version of moral philosophy Herman Melville crafts in his fiction through his engagement with biblical wisdom literature, may help us confront...
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