#poetics
GOODBYE POETICS LOOLOLOLOL
November 1, 2026 at 4:18 AM
• New standby poses while weapon is unsheathed? Yoshida says more are being worked on.
• The fate of Allagan tomestones? Poetics will be removed. Another system will allow you to obtain gear for alt jobs. Rest assured, but it won't be with Poetics.
November 1, 2026 at 4:20 AM
dang rip poetics 2014-2027 you practically carried old endgame
• New standby poses while weapon is unsheathed? Yoshida says more are being worked on.
• The fate of Allagan tomestones? Poetics will be removed. Another system will allow you to obtain gear for alt jobs. Rest assured, but it won't be with Poetics.
November 1, 2026 at 5:34 AM
'Juan Atkins, the Detroit producer widely credited as the originator of techno, has died aged 64. In tribute, we’re republishing Andy Thomas’s history of Detroit techno from Wax Poetics Issue 45, the Dance Issue, which carried Atkins on its cover.'
waxpoetics.com/blogs/editor...
Remembering Juan Atkins: Electronic Enigma - The Myths and Messages of Detroit Techno
Juan Atkins, the originator of techno, has died aged 64. In tribute, we revisit Andy Thomas’s history of Detroit techno from Wax Poetics Issue 45.
waxpoetics.com
November 2, 2026 at 7:58 PM
I'll defer to you on oral poetics but it's worth stressing that this is a completely wrong characterization of how LLMs work.
Let's start with the lll m side of things. I wrote about l lms and homer years ago in neos kosmos.

An l l m can combine and recombine extant forms and information , but it eventually degrades into slop because it cannot produce new information based on embodied experience
November 2, 2026 at 12:29 PM
yoshi-p said tataru would get rid of poetics if she won
November 4, 2026 at 5:12 AM
The tomestone bubble just popped rowena is in shambles all her poetics gone
October 31, 2026 at 3:33 AM
*go bills voice* go poetics!
November 3, 2026 at 4:03 PM
For the better tbh. Poetics are kinda useless after a while
• New standby poses while weapon is unsheathed? Yoshida says more are being worked on.
• The fate of Allagan tomestones? Poetics will be removed. Another system will allow you to obtain gear for alt jobs. Rest assured, but it won't be with Poetics.
November 2, 2026 at 2:01 AM
actually wth does this mean for past relics that depended on poetics
November 1, 2026 at 5:41 AM
If you're looking for more info about the supposed falsehoods admin claims are being spread on social media, you can start here, with this site put together by UB grad students: poeticsinexile.crd.co#updates
Poetics in Exile
Poetics in Exile: Updates on the state of the UB Poetics program.
poeticsinexile.crd.co
October 31, 2026 at 6:29 PM
POETICS ARE DEAD

KILL POETICS
• New standby poses while weapon is unsheathed? Yoshida says more are being worked on.
• The fate of Allagan tomestones? Poetics will be removed. Another system will allow you to obtain gear for alt jobs. Rest assured, but it won't be with Poetics.
November 1, 2026 at 1:07 PM
“'[UB's poetics program] has changed American literature & it should be allowed to continue to do that work,' [alum Juliana] Spahr wrote. 'Someday, someone will write a laudatory history, & if it ends now, that history will have to say who let it end & why.'" investigativepost.org/2026/10/30/r...
Renowned University at Buffalo poetry program in limbo
The UB Poetics program has produced a Pulitzer winner & two Guggenheim fellows and is in limbo after losing two positions & program funding.
investigativepost.org
October 31, 2026 at 6:20 PM
I am sorry. This is techno-obscurantist nonsense thst would be risible if it were not absolutely dangerous.

It is a fundamental misrepresentation of both oral poetics and the creative arts
1. A quick thread to summarize my and Cosma's new piece on LLMs as Homeric songs at the Economist. The piece has its origins in bactra.org/weblog/feral... and this fantastic article by Murray Shanahan et al, which we couldn't link as we would have liked www.nature.com/articles/s41...
AI is a technological version of the Homeric songs
Its agents are more than stochastic parrots and stranger than machine gods, write Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi
www.economist.com
October 30, 2026 at 12:28 PM
how will relic tome steps work without poetics
November 2, 2026 at 4:48 AM
People are talking about the Poetics Pgm @ the University of Buffalo again today. It’s important to remember how much creative experimentation has emerged from Buffalo and other public universities…
In class on Tues we'll talk a bit abt the history of Tolstoy College, the anarchist college @ Buffalo. I planned to offer some context re: UB's progressivism in media studies, xprmental 🎞️ + poetics in the 60s + 70s. Learned (belatedly) that Buffalo just eliminated its whole legendary poetics pgm 😭
November 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
And it was important for my own sense of poetics too: see robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-...
November 1, 2026 at 12:04 PM
My boy… his colors are already fading away. Damn you, Yoshi-P.
November 2, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Removing poetics? But he’s so nice
November 1, 2026 at 5:43 PM
NO MORE POETICS???????????????????????????
November 1, 2026 at 4:18 AM
poetics gone... the end of an era
November 1, 2026 at 4:18 AM
Happy NAHM! Thank you to @clmporg.bsky.social for including our folio on Queer Indigenous Poetics and a piece by Laura Da' on this list!
November 3, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Sasha Brown is wrong about a lot of things, but not this one: Gore Poetics rules
AL is right about many things and this is one of them: Samir Sirk Morató's Gore Poetics is the horror collection of the year.
I talked this book up in the green room last night, so I'm talking it up here today.

This is it, your horror collection of the year.
October 31, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Evercold to do list:

Gather enough poetics to get gear for fending and maiming (to have Bastion and Zephyr ready to go)
November 1, 2026 at 3:49 AM
aw man that scene in shadowbringers where the wol is being shown the poetics seller isnt gonna translate well to newer players anymore 😔
• New standby poses while weapon is unsheathed? Yoshida says more are being worked on.
• The fate of Allagan tomestones? Poetics will be removed. Another system will allow you to obtain gear for alt jobs. Rest assured, but it won't be with Poetics.
November 1, 2026 at 8:39 AM