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librarypunk is a leftist library worker podcast.
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Jun 30, 2026
Jun 30, 2026
1 hr 46 min
Our second live show! Only Justin could make it to ALA but we’ve got THREE great guests plus very good audience questions. We talk about AI through discourse analysis, refusal, STS, and more.
Guests’ writings
Transcending Binaries of Agency through Librarians’ Discursive Constructions of AI
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/961342
Discourses of fear around AI and their implications for library and information science: https://publicera.kb.se/ir/article/view/47548
I Bought Slop: A Conversation on the Accidental Purchase of AI-Generated Material https://acrlog.org/2026/02/09/i-bought-slop-a-conversation-on-the-accidental-purchase-of-ai-generated-material/
ChatGPT Can’t Envision Anything: It’s Actually BS-ing - ACRLog https://acrlog.org/2023/07/21/chatgpt-cant-envision-anything-its-actually-bs-ing/
A ChatGPT generated post (and a first year librarian’s thoughts) - ACRLog https://acrlog.org/2023/01/31/a-chatgpt-generated-post-and-a-first-year-librarians-thoughts/
“Against AI:Critical Refusal in the Library,” from Library Trends: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/968497
“Relationality Over Neutrality: On Technology,” from Information Technology and Libraries: https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/17581
Media mentioned
Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/why-we-fear-ai
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/
Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/imagination-a-manifesto
Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves – In the Library with the Lead Pipe https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/
Resurrecting the Black Body: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/resurrecting-the-black-body/paper
Investigating the 'Feeling Rules' of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/ai-feeling-rules/
Outsiders-within-Library and Information Science: Reprioritizing the marginalized in critical sociocultural work https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.24449
Libraries, Librarians, and the Discourse of Fear https://www.jstor.org/stable/4309528
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14 days ago
Hey, I’m the critical data storytelling scholar who explicitly rejects Aristotle’s rhetorical triangle and instead lifts up the intellectual tradition of women in the 1880s who were also not allowed to speak at ALA conferences (they were 20% of an 80% male profession). Shout out to a great episode! Also, that was the Storytelling Triangle, and you can read all about it and its uses for equity and justice in my book or library journal feature from July or in JASIS&T where I theorized story as a fundamental information form. Enjoyed this episode, but please pass along that we know ALL about Aristotle, and I draw from the intellectual tradition of children’s librarianship instead.