Also they had had an agent come previous years but he bragged that he made the last one cry when he berated her during the workshop she was invited to attend

Katherine Bode’s “What’s the Matter with Computational Literary Studies?” offers such a great analysis of some of the debates of the late 2010s/ early 2020s

In general it seems to better than ChatGPT at analyzing text and backing up its own (still overconfident) conclusions, but I’m pretty surprised at how sloppy it is with basic data stuff, like finding unique terms across a number of datasets.

Official line just now from Emory president is that these were mostly outside agitators, which as far as I know is very bullshit. One of our grad union co-chairs was arrested.