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Funny that, while taking a work break after re-reading Kafka’s short story “The Vulture” (“Die Geier”), I should encounter this animal interest piece about a beluga whale caught on tape sounding an awful lot like a person. According to i09, … Continue reading →

At the beginning of the 1950 essay in which he lays out his famous “Turing test,” Alan Turing tells us that, before we can imagine a machine thinking like a human, we have to imagine a man thinking like a … Continue reading →

Since I’m not teaching this semester, it seems like fall has barely started. Actually, apparently, it’s time to look ahead to spring classes. I’m excited to be teaching a solo reading and composition course next semester called “Lost Girls: Constructing … Continue reading →

Yesterday was the last day of “Lee Miller and Man Ray: Partners in Surrealism” at The Legion of Honor. The exhibit, which highlighted Miller and Ray’s overlapping careers, seems to have garnered mixed reviews. Personally, as a scholar who works … Continue reading →

I’m headed back to Sweden in just a few days to deliver the opening keynote at the Gotland Game Conference, “Reading Video Games like Literature.” Here’s the gist: Whole books have been written about Hamlet’s famous six words, “To be … Continue reading →