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வித்தியாசம் Viththiyaasam
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CCCC 2025: AI & the Enshittification of Academic Writing
April 12, 2025
I presented at 4C25 on AI refusal, focusing on the ways that AI reduces intentionality and creativity in the craft…
C&W 2024 Keynote: perimortem (in [theoretical] rigor)
June 21, 2024
When I was invited to deliver one of the keynote addresses at Computers & Writing, "The planning committee was excited…
CCCC 2024: If to Move the Soul a Writer
April 5, 2024
Catch the Italo Calvino reference? This virtual presentation at 4C24 was complicated, as it involved designing and scripting a tiny…
RU Ph.D. Colloquium 2024: Composing with Chronic Pain & Fatigue When You Just #$%ing Can’t
March 6, 2024
Rutgers SC&I invited me to give a talk about what the process of composing my dissertation was like, to show…
DISCO 2024: Writing (or Not) on Crip Time
January 26, 2024
I didn't use scripted remarks for this roundtable talk, but below are some of the questions that were asked, and…
Sri Lankan American Writers on Emerging Literary Identity
February 10, 2017
A combination of Winter Storm Niko and a resulting spike in chronic pain has left me housebound in New York…
Affect Conference 2015: The Author Is In Pain
November 15, 2015
Written for and performed at Affect Theory Conference: Worldings, Tensions, Futures, "The Author is in Pain" is my first foray…
C&W 2014: Autonomy in the Hivemind
June 5, 2014
Reasons I love C&W: I can come here brain-dead after qualifying exams, and everyone I talk to has advice to…
C&W 2011: Grammatical Memes & Linguistic Practice on 4chan
May 1, 2011
I presented a paper titled "I think writing is a pretty cool guy. eh makes meaning and doesnt afraid of…