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Brian Glavey

@glavey.bsky.social

Author of Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press) and The Wallflower Avant-Garde; Associate Professor of English, Univ of South Carolina

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Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5h ago

"the aesthetics of AI slop take the logic of quantification to its extreme form by embedding it in a technological system of increasingly automated production, circulation and consumption to which human signification appears ever more marginal." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Doing the numbers: The operational aesthetics of AI slop - Jernej Markelj, Jakko Kemper, 2026

What to make of the bizarre imagery of AI slop? If AI slop feels meaningless to interpret, this is because it has little to do with meaning and representations....

journals.sagepub.com

Delilah S. Dawson@delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 10h ago

Getting real sick of slop midwives pleading for a 'respectful discussion' of AI as relates to the arts. Your use of AI to 'make art' is not respectful. It benefits from stolen art, destroys the planet, and does not make you an artist any more than someone driving 26.2 miles is a marathoner.

Sheila Liming@seeshespeak.bsky.social · 2d ago

“ … technology isn’t just large language models or agents or data centers. It is the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation”

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Artificial intelligence is not just a market product or a scientific achievement. It is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy." connect the dots! Dr. McMillan Cottom has homework! go to the library, host a reading group, organize your neighbors www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Jay Shelat@jshelat1.bsky.social · 5d ago

Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2

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Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social · 6d ago

I guess I am comfortable saying that in cases where people you formerly respected, or presumed you did, are now actively choosing to sunset their own minds & surrender them to machines invented by incels and billionaires, then yes there should be a stigma for that. This is what society is for

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d ago

“There is also a moral and political judgment that is coming along with AI usage…Especially in creative industries where the stigma is the strongest.”

Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · last wk.

“Closing the Writing Center and removing its leadership now sends a disturbing signal about how seriously Harvard actually takes [its] mission.” Closing a writing center or library or dept or program or university press—an attack on one is an attack on all. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

In Defense of the Harvard College Writing Center | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director, Jane Rosenzweig.

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Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · last wk.

LACK, the lacanian conference that lacks an acronym, invites anyone interested in exploring the philosophical and cultural implications of psychoanalytic theory join us march 11-13 at UVM; CFP due October 1 lackorg.wordpress.com/2027-confere...

2027 Conference

We are excited to announce LACK vi at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont March 11-13, 2027. Please send any general questions about the conference to Hilary.Neroni@uvm.edu or Todd.McG…

lackorg.wordpress.com

Tricia Lockwood@tricialockwood.bsky.social · 2w ago

there is one (1) booker entry that miette chose specifically; she sits on its embossed dust jacket at least eight hours every day and freaks out when it’s not in its proper place. in the end I will reveal which book shall receive the first ever inaugural 🌈🐈🌈 Miette’s Booker🌈🐈🌈

@kenoma.bsky.social · 2w ago

Cultural Critique's special issue on "Marxism, Form, and Futurity" now up online, essays by @annakornbluh.bsky.social @kqandrews.bsky.social @cphiliphaines.bsky.social and then some muse.jhu.edu/issue/57283

Table of Contents reading: Editorial Statement 1 Liam Kruger, Oded Nir, and Christian P. Haines Marxism, Form, and Futurity: An Introduction 21 Anna Kornbluh A Very Special Relationship: Capitalism and the Novel Form 34 Oded Nir Utopian Allegory and the Return of Futurity in Itay Meirson’s The 90- Minute War 49 Liam Kruger The Location of Critique 68 Kimberly Quiogue Andrews Disciplinarity’s Temporal Forms 80 Mitch R. Murray Undead Academia: On the Campus Novel of Decline 97 Phillip E. Wegner A Future Worthy of Her Spirit: Reproductive Futurism and the Neoliberal University in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun 114 Brittany Murray Caring Badly: Reproductive Labor, Aesthetic Autonomy, and Futurity in Leïla Slimani’s Chanson Douce 130 Brent Ryan Bellamy (Energy Heterotopia): The Case of Trouble on Triton Marxism, Form, and Futurity 141 Caren Irr Bridging the Metabolic Rift with Tom Comitta’s The Nature Book 154 Christian P. Haines Marxism and Human Form 169 Books Received
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3w ago

today in journal special issues received! CULTURAL CRITIQUE features "Marxism, Form, and Futurity" special editors Liam Kruger, Oded Nir, and Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social @culturalcritique.bsky.social

white and green hard copies of the journal special issue
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 2w ago

"This time, the moral panic isn’t coming from older generations—in fact, kids are turned off by the way AI is being pushed on them by adults and tech corporations. They’re also, Green says, 'acutely aware that whatever disruption happens, their generation is going to be bearing the brunt of it.'"

Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool

“I think it should stand for ‘artificial idiot,’” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.”

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Andrew Epstein@andrewepstein.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm so excited for Brian Glavey's new book, "Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets," to be out in the world! @glavey.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social

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Brian Glavey@glavey.bsky.social · 2w ago

OK, if you were waiting to find out what kind of fox I am before you pre-ordered Relatability, wait no more. These generous blurbs (or blurps, as O'Hara called them) just posted and I am seriously verklempt. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

A blurb from Jonathan Flatley of the University of Chicago reads: "This is a major book by a brilliant critic at the height of his powers. By way of a revelatory argument about the New York School poets and the importance of queer sharing to the aesthetic experiences they offer and promote, Glavey here develops a thrillingly original theory of oversharing and relatability. I know of no book that speaks so insightfully and movingly about how we read, teach, think and feel today." A second blurb, from Anna Kornblugh of the University of Illinois Chicago reads: "In Brian Glaey's charming and piercing readings, poetry is an aspiration to mutuality as much as it is a representation, and anything like the singularity of a queer poem flutters fortuitously towards the generality of utopian expanse. A smart and lovely book."
Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 2w ago

A blurb from one of the author’s former students: “I was one of thirty first-semester Black men in Dr. Rambsy's class. By exposing me to authors who’d shape my consciousness, he introduced me to the potential weight of my own words." — Dometi Pongo, journalist and former MTV News correspondent

Rebecca Colesworthy@rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Howard Rambsy II’s The Convergence: When Collegiate Black Men Meet African American Literary Studies is headed to the printer! Among other things, Rambsy’s book makes a powerful argument for lit study, the hums, & seeing/engaging all college students as intellectuals. sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

Sheila Liming@seeshespeak.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m giving an author talk at the Aldrich Library in Barre, VT next Thursday and — at least according to the library’s website — I’m also playing the accordion 🪗 , which is how all the most serious and professional authors conclude their talks, look it up.

Calendar event notice that reads: “Authors at the Aldrich: Sheila Liming Thursday, July 30⋅6:00 – 7:00pm Milne Community Room Discover why spending time together matters with writer and Champlain College professor Sheila Liming, author of Hanging Out. Sheila will explore the importance of human connection and conclude the evening with a special accordion performance.”
Brian Glavey@glavey.bsky.social · 2w ago

People are tired of me being milnerpilled, but Marion Milner’s A Life of One’s Own is absolutely astonishing. It’s making me feel like a new life is possible in a way no book has since Snacking Cakes.