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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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