Daegan Miller
@daeganmiller.bsky.social
Essayist and Critic. For all the beautiful radiant things. Book: *This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent* http://bit.ly/2HYSaSK | Essays: http://bit.ly/2Gn3EPM
What an excellent critical essay by Anahid Neressian on @joriegraham.bsky.social for @nybooks.com. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Refusing to Look Away | Anahid Nersessian
In Killing Spree, the poet Jorie Graham pursues an essentially ethical impulse to find a true language for the evil in the world.
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At least 32 people have died at the hands of ICE and Border Patrol so far in 2026. These are their names.
Max Granger@maxgranger.info · 2w agoI wrote about ICE & Border Patrol killings, and the normalization of mass incarceration and police violence. To date in 2026, at least 32 people have died at the hands of 'immigration enforcement'—more than one person a week, on pace to break all records. These are their names.
Hey all--I've been spending more time on Instagram recently. I'll keep my presence here, but you can also find me over there: www.instagram.com/daegan_r_mil...
Caroline Tracey (@cetracey.bsky.social) on the long history of proposals to suck up profits from the Great Salt Lake
Putting the Lake to Work | Caroline Tracey
In November 2022, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record-low water level. That winter, dust blew off newly exposed patches of the lakebed, clouding the
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I am excited to announce that I am working on a new book with @haymarketbooks.org and @inthesetimes.com, tentatively titled "AMERICAN SACRIFICE: Working People Talk About Fighting for Their Lives—and Our Future—in America's Sacrifice Zones"...
“He bore all the elements of approachability, arranged instead to disconcert.” In n+1, Nicholas Dames writes an excellent essay about William Gass. @nplusonemag.com @njdames.bsky.social www.nplusonemag.com/issue-53/rev...
The High Style of the Hater | Nicholas Dames
If Gass entertained any escape fantasies, however, The Tunnel does not indulge them. It’s the big, the biggest, Man Alone in a House story. It’s an anti–systems novel, uninterested in conspiracist lin...
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"... You cannot hammer the truth into a person or turn your wrist and use the claw to pry it out. You cannot pound a nail into the sky. But the truth is there, and here, as blue, to repeat, as the sky, ..." From "In The Dark," by Susan Stewart poems.com/poem/in-the-...
In the Dark
You cannot pound a nail into the sky.
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So at the risk of immodesty, if you too are fatigued by the profound mismatch, in even very good analyses of the contemporary polycrisis, b/t the clarity of structural diagnosis and the “ta-da” clichés of solutionism tacked on at the end by law of the culture industry, you might like this
Action without Hope
A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...
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Writing is a craft that many dead people would have loved to learn and instead of making a society where everyone can learn we made a button that means no one will learn
A beautifully written and thoughtful essay! I’ve always found the strong response against @royscranton.bsky.social ‘s first book puzzling and often wondered how many people had bothered to read it.
Daegan Miller@daeganmiller.bsky.social · 3mo agoBeen itching to write this essay for years, and @literaryhub.bsky.social made it happen: on "the ultimate doomist" @royscranton.bsky.social his new book on ethical pessimism, and why it's important to read past title of his (in)famous *Learning to Die in the Anthropocene*. lithub.com/lessons-in-l...
Okay, so he's saying we need to go higher. I'm game.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoBezos on CNBC: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you."
(Another!) excellent essay from Daegan Miller... Sobering realism and the deep question, "how does one commit to a future that cannot be imagined?"
Daegan Miller@daeganmiller.bsky.social · 3mo agoBeen itching to write this essay for years, and @literaryhub.bsky.social made it happen: on "the ultimate doomist" @royscranton.bsky.social his new book on ethical pessimism, and why it's important to read past title of his (in)famous *Learning to Die in the Anthropocene*. lithub.com/lessons-in-l...
Is Roy Scranton actually “the ultimate doomist?” Or just misunderstood?
Lessons in Living in the Anthropocene (From the World’s Most Pessimistic Climate Writer)
I remember the thrill of transgression I felt the first time I pulled Roy Scranton’s Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization off a shelf. It was at City Lights…
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Been itching to write this essay for years, and @literaryhub.bsky.social made it happen: on "the ultimate doomist" @royscranton.bsky.social his new book on ethical pessimism, and why it's important to read past title of his (in)famous *Learning to Die in the Anthropocene*. lithub.com/lessons-in-l...
Lessons in Living in the Anthropocene (From the World’s Most Pessimistic Climate Writer)
I remember the thrill of transgression I felt the first time I pulled Roy Scranton’s Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization off a shelf. It was at City Lights…
lithub.com
Been itching to write this essay for years, and @literaryhub.bsky.social made it happen: on "the ultimate doomist" @royscranton.bsky.social his new book on ethical pessimism, and why it's important to read past title of his (in)famous *Learning to Die in the Anthropocene*. lithub.com/lessons-in-l...
Lessons in Living in the Anthropocene (From the World’s Most Pessimistic Climate Writer)
I remember the thrill of transgression I felt the first time I pulled Roy Scranton’s Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization off a shelf. It was at City Lights…
lithub.com
Who's afraid of the ultimate doomist? @daeganmiller.bsky.social takes to LitHub to talk about my book IMPASSE, climate discourse, and how pessimism is actually "a deeply vital way of attuning oneself to the world." lithub.com/lessons-in-l...
Lessons in Living in the Anthropocene (From the World’s Most Pessimistic Climate Writer)
I remember the thrill of transgression I felt the first time I pulled Roy Scranton’s Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization off a shelf. It was at City Lights…
lithub.com
As a very proud UCP author, I'm delighted to support the peopIe who helped publish my book in their effort to unionize. Help them out by signing their petition here: We’re the UCP Workers Guild. Help our union get recognized! . Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/were...
We’re the UCP Workers Guild. Help our union get recognized!
The University of Chicago Press produces and distributes books and journals that meet the highest standards of scholarship, foster public understanding, and enrich cultural life. For over 130 years, p...
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Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 3mo agoThe Academy has banned AI from ever winning an Oscar. • Only roles “demonstrably performed by humans with their consent” can be nominated for acting Oscars • Screenplays “must be human-authored” to qualify for a nomination
Happy May Day! Our office is closed today; we’ll see you in the streets!
is there any better metaphor for the democratic party than an old man on his deathbed trying to impede progress
Politico@politico.com · 3mo agoEXCLUSIVE: Liberal icon Barney Frank is entering hospice care. One of his final acts: Preparing a book repudiating his party's left flank. One of his regrets: "I won’t see the continued implosion of Donald Trump.” Read the full interview👇
the imperial mode of living —emblematized in plastics, cheap meat, throwaway packages, endless commodities, online slop, all of this predicated on the relentless enclosure of commons & ceaseless torching of fossil fuels— is a war on life itself other social forms are possible & we need them now
The precise botanical term for mayapples is “freaky deaky.”
If you're willing and able to help out Hampshire workers who are suddenly facing job loss, there's a fundraiser: www.helphampshireworkers.com
Help Hampshire Workers | Support Hampshire Workers Today
Support Hampshire College staff and faculty facing job loss with emergency relief funds for essential needs. Contributions and support help provide immediate assistance during this critical time.
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The New York Review of Books@nybooks.com · 3mo ago“The shuttering of Hampshire College,” writes Christopher Benfey, seems to represent “not so much another liberal arts domino falling as the symbolic end of a whole tradition of progressive education in the US.”
