Jérôme Melançon
Il/lui/him/he. Écrivain (philosophy, poésie, sciences sociales) & writer (same). Translator. Prof @ University of Regina. Looking for new forms and contents. Livres : En d'sous d'la langue (Prise de parole); La politique dans l'adversité (Metispresses).
- lol we're clearly not even going to save ourselves
- Left here like a message on your answering machine
- newly posted: Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social : …more songs the radio won’t play…, by Stan Rogal / @ecwpress.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/jero...
- Just like translation, or lit reviews You know, language tasks. Understanding, not simulating.
- I read this everything-wrenching book so now you have to read about it too
- newly posted: Jérôme Melançon @lethejerome.bsky.social : Filles de Gore, by Clémence Dumas-Côté / @lesherbesrouges.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/02/jero...
- There's a Deluxe version of The Aeroplane Flies High? You mean the Deluxe version of Mellon Collie?
- Damn we almost had it, too
- Sometimes I forget about the unmitigated beauty that is X.Y.U.
- Of course there's Yasi Salek's theory that it's about Courtney and Kurt, and why not
- Abolition gotta start somewhere I guess?
- What if I taught a class titled "how to read a book"? And then it's entirely described in terms of neoliberal skills. And then I give stupid sounding names to deconstruction, critical theory, feminism, etc. And then we just read kickass books and really get into it. Each one a bit longer.
- Books are the technology our students need. Escape, and come back with something new. Figure out an argument. Let someone else shape our thoughts for a while and see if you like it. See how they do it. Learn 76 new things.
- Hey. Stop it. Moltbook is just algorithms ran into gen AI. It's meta programming, but it's still entirely input-output. There's no agency, only LLMs copying the reddit style. And likely leaking your private information as a result of answer loops.
