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Perhaps we should understand AI as the layering of grift upon grift:

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Alongside the decades-long gutting of institutional funding, I believe part of what has happened is the system-wide pressures to de-skill and modularize core curriculum so that the foundational courses are taught by the cheapest, largest, and least-protected population of instructors.

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The academic Twitter of those years felt to me like an illustration of the "counterpublics" argument; many sub-groups and sub-fantasies about what community, or the public broadcasting of self, might mean. It was painful how much it felt like a sop to the collapse of sustaining employment.

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Many thanks to the @aarweb.bsky.social for bringing us together to think about the idea of diaspora in the study of American religion. Special thanks to Judith Weisenfeld for a rich keynote and to my co-covener, Leonard McKinnis, for making this all happen at UIUC.

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