At this latest conference, a number of people were asking me about the status of my book and I confessed that it had not come along as quickly as I hoped because real-world things keep happening that were forcing me to reconsider or grapple with what I had planned to write: the proliferation of Gen AI, policies and laws limiting access to social media, Trump and his bullshit, and JK Rowling and hers.

One of my colleagues suggested that I write this somewhere in my book. I decided this was a good idea and added it to the acknowledgements section as a way to acknowledge the things that hindered the writing before I acknowledge all the people who have helped me along the way. Below is a draft of this anti-acknowledgement:



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Back in January, I was invited to give a talk for the local Creative Mornings branch here in Malmö on the theme of language. Since I've been doing work on fandom and fanfiction, I decided to talk on the transformative world of fandom and fanfiction and the many different kinds of learning (language and otherwise) I've seen in it.