Michael Martin Shea

Michael Martin Shea

@immanentfields.bsky.social

Poet, translator, scholar | Assistant professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Writing a book about poetry, mysticism, and neoliberalism in the Americas | Also: infrastructure, translation, the seventies, cookbooks www.michaelmartinshea.com

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Anne Helen Petersen
@annehelen.bsky.social

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Karin Wulf
@kawulf.bsky.social

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What’s missing: 1/ Any framing about what higher is or has been that misses the big public investment post-WW2 and then massive disinvestment starting in the 1980s which spirals into rising costs and student debt is disingenuous at best. 5/

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Rob Delaney
@robdelaney.bsky.social

Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.

Michael Martin Shea
@immanentfields.bsky.social

Sample size of one and in a new course to boot but I instituted a "no phones no laptops" policy (with exceptions for accommodations) for my undergrads this semester and we're already having better conversations this semester than we were at any point in previous semesters.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social

Get the laptops out of the classroom!! No internet!!! Print readings for the students! Use real books, pens, & paper! We are doing a “low-tech” classroom this semester, and just a week in, I can tell it has made all the difference

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Michael Martin Shea
@immanentfields.bsky.social

Also: I'm grateful to be a tenure-track faculty member in a supportive department, at a university with very attainable tenure standards, and I move through the world as a straight, white, able-bodied man. I broadly don't have to worry about student evaluations, and that also makes this easier.

Michael Martin Shea
@immanentfields.bsky.social

Sample size of one and in a new course to boot but I instituted a "no phones no laptops" policy (with exceptions for accommodations) for my undergrads this semester and we're already having better conversations this semester than we were at any point in previous semesters.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social

Get the laptops out of the classroom!! No internet!!! Print readings for the students! Use real books, pens, & paper! We are doing a “low-tech” classroom this semester, and just a week in, I can tell it has made all the difference

Michael Martin Shea
@immanentfields.bsky.social

Not only are more students engaged, they're more engaged *with each other* and that's what has really made the difference: the ban on screens is most palpably felt in the sense of classroom community, which then produces more dynamic conversations.

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Elephant Mastodon
@emath.bsky.social

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

Michael Martin Shea
@immanentfields.bsky.social

Incorrect. It's Frau Chauchat fall, baby, let's slam some doors.

Henry Snow@henrys.now

you need to be settembrinimaxxing. wearing the same outfit at all times. contributing to idealistic co-authored literature. warning young men not to eroticize tuberculosis. going on sweeping rants about republican virtue and the beauty of humanity

Michael Martin Shea
@immanentfields.bsky.social

First week of semester five at UL in the books, featuring new syllabi numbers nine and ten. Things can be difficult here, our students and many of my colleagues deserve better (Athletics deserves worse). But what a joy to get to teach this dream-slate of classes.

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Harris Feinsod
@feinsod.bsky.social

Among the singularly recognizable enclaves of poetic enunciation--say, Shandong in 740, Paris in 1857, Havana in 1931, or what have you--I would rank Buffalo in 1991 pretty highly.

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Michael Martin Shea
@immanentfields.bsky.social

A modest proposal: abolish football

David at FOIAball@foiaball.com

Sounds ridic. But college coaches are control freaks. They want every single thing rehearsed. So Iowa State did a practice run at the hotel they stay at for game days. Practice dinner. Practice sleep. Practice breakfast. And yes practice snacks. It cost $116,000 www.foiaball.com/p/training-c...

foiaball.comIs your team practicing how to stay in a hotel?It costs one team $116,000 to do a dry run.

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Christian Haines
@cphiliphaines.bsky.social

Very happy to have had the opportunity to contribute a piece on Commune Editions to this issue! Claire and Michael were amazing editors.

Michael Martin Shea@immanentfields.bsky.social

The special issue of College Literature on "Infrastructural Poetics" that Claire Farley and I co-edited has just been published! We're so proud of this volume and all the brilliant writing that we get to feature here. You can find the full TOC at the link below: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57479

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Michael Martin Shea
@immanentfields.bsky.social

It also includes an introduction by Claire and myself, where we situate our intervention into the overly-narrative "infrastructural turn" in literary studies and make the case for infrastructuralism as an already-extant (and particularly vibrant) methodological tradition in poetry and poetics.

Michael Martin Shea
@immanentfields.bsky.social

We also argue that what we mean by infrastructure and how it gears into literary questions looks quite different when viewed through poetic form. It's the piece of scholarly writing that I'm most proud of, and it was a joy to write with and learn from the brilliant (and social-media-less) Claire.