The 'Grievance Studies' hoax discourse is gonna be a nightmare. I need to go somewhere without internet for the next... two months?

Some of these actually are top journals. The hoax does show one can master these fields very quickly and in bad faith

I'm on the side of literary history that thinks the Ern Malley poems were great and the Spectra poems good, so I'm not one to go from 'you can learn this quickly and in bad faith' to 'it's worthless'

On the other hand, the fact that three randos who perfectly fit the profile of the kind of centrist who gets mocked for not-getting-it could perform at an expert level in the discourse very quickly is kind of a big deal. And the highest-profile accepts were pure theory so 'fair'

Which, again, only implies so much-- that these conceptual technologies are operationally shallow doesn't mean they're bad -- but bears discussion