Professor of Arabic Lit, reader of riddles, lecturer of the ostensibly old and obscure. Formerly in the bad place: Lit_as_Adab https://barnard.academia.edu/MatthewKeegan (Opinions expressed here are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.)
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Frida Kahlo, Viva la Vida, Watermelons, 1954
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Jamal Elias posted this image of another beautiful book he’s published. I don’t have it yet, but I am inside it thanks to him. I wrote something about Punjabi Braj Arabic Persian Urdu literature. Very nice to be inside such books. @drkeegan.bsky.social is also inside. Free us
Contributor copy just arrived in the mail! I enjoyed writing up this short study: “Some medieval Islamic debates about sex and sexuality.”
I wonder how much of the anti-AI backlash stems from the fact that for decades we supposedly didn’t have money for human needs and infrastructure and now that there’s a tech that could eliminate the need for many human labors, there is suddenly endless money available to make that tech. Huh.
Bread and roses.
My book “Before World Literature” about the Maqamat of al-Hariri is on sale. Hardcover book for about $30 until June 12 w the promo code. Also all Penn press books 📚 🤓
Klein: I agree that it is a revolutionary technology, that it is going to transform our economy on the scale of the Industrial Revolution.
But unlike the Industrial Revolution, which created huge numbers of jobs, the goal of this revolution is to eliminate jobs.
Happy to be published alongside @pashamkhan.bsky.social and other esteemed colleagues, including the late Tony Stewart.
Or maybe it’s the general intuition that this kind of thing is going to happen more and more. thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...
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An account of Arabic literary history through the lens of the reception of the Maqāmāt of al-Ḥarīrī, a twelfth-century collection of fifty trickster st...
