Jean-Thomas Tremblay
@jttremblay.bsky.social
assoc. prof of english at york | coauthor of negative life: the cinema of extinction (northwestern) | author of breathing aesthetics (duke) | https://jeanthomastremblay.carrd.co/
At tomorrow's brown bag colloquium, moderator Jonte Palmblad will be joined by Jean-Thomas Tremblay and Marika Ceshia. www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/events_conf_... #rccevents #envhum #climate #literature #culturalstudies #usdiaspora #diaspora #womensliterature #domestic #ecology
This, by @moiraweigel.bsky.social, is great—with the addendum (or caveat?) that much of what, against the Right's phobias, presents itself as love of theory is just hate in disguise (e.g., a liberal insistence on the literalism of synthetic abstractions--the body, lived experience, situatedness).
Hating Theory Today
Abstract. Drawing on nearly a decade of research, this essay investigates the hatred of theory on the political right. The phobic fascination with theory is over a century old. Yet, in recent years, i...
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I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
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Todd Haynes's sublime CAROL is turning ten. I once wrote about it about, it, and the problem of the happy lesbian, for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social.
The Haynes Code | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jean-Thomas Tremblay reviews a recent anthology about Todd Haynes as feminist-queer filmmaker.
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Our special issue of differences is out! Claire and I were asked to suggest one article that would be open access, and (although it was VERY hard to choose) we picked Whitney’s, which is about Claudia Rankine’s “American lyric” in Ibero-American translation: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
Volume 36 Issue 2-3 | differences | Duke University Press
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differences@differences.bsky.social · 8mo agodifferences 36.2–3 is out now — edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, "Lyric beyond Containment" features essays from Jacques Khalip, David Marriott, Andrea Brady, Amy De'Ath, Whitney DeVos, Jan Mieszkowski, Ren Ellis Neyra, Susan Briante, more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
Thank you, @aplenice.bsky.social, for this generous review! @nupress.bsky.social
Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉@aplenice.bsky.social · 10mo agoI really enjoyed reading and reviewing Negative Life by @jttremblay.bsky.social and @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social for Ecozon@. A wonderful book that conceptualizes art and extinction beyond pastoral narratives of interconnectedness and exalted (green) consciousness!
Happy anniversary of the Sudden Departure to all who celebrate. For an @atpost45.bsky.social cluster edited by @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social, I wrote about the trauma of living to tell (and retell) the tale. post45.org/2025/01/bein...
Congratulations to Jennifer Scappettone on the official publication day of her much-anticipated new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM. Use the code CUP20 and save 20%: tinyurl.com/4xatbnkd @xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
Poetry After Barbarism | Columbia University Press
Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers a stateless, polyglot poetry of resista... | CUP
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We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize! Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information. 1/4
Cinema & Media Arts at York is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Film & Media Industries with a focus on AI Practices. Please share widely--and don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions about the place! www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult...
Cinema & Media Arts at York is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Film & Media Industries with a focus on AI Practices. Please share widely--and don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions about the place! www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult...
The sudden pervasiveness of AI is infuriating. I'm doing final proofs on my book and Acrobat is asking me if I want an AI summary because the document is long. So the ostensibly neutral "tool" has a built-in anti-literacy nudge?
Do you have brain worms?
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 11mo agoBy using reason to understand his emotions, the 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza “canceled his cancelers where it really mattered: in his own mind,” Arthur C. Brooks writes. His techniques reveal how to prevent emotional hijack: https://theatln.tc/hfT0S2m2
Since ppl love campus anecdotes so much, here's one: I have colleagues who give students they know to be MAGA an A (in one case I'm aware of overlooking clear AI use), because the colleague is on a Green Card or H1B, and they know: one complaint like at Texas A&M, and they're on a flight home. (1/3)
I'm an alum of the University of Chicago, and I wrote Dean Deborah Nelson a letter today.
GTA pals, I’m reading at Coach House tomorrow evening in their 5 à 7 series with Sam Creely. It’s planned for outside, but we’ll move indoors if it rains. Would be lovely to see you there!
I’m thrilled that Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, coauthored with @jttremblay.bsky.social, is a finalist for the ASLE #ecocriticism book award 👀🔥 Congrats to the other finalists. @nupress.bsky.social
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment@asle-us.bsky.social · last yr.Judges have announced the finalists for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards in #ecocriticism and #environmental creative writing! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky
I'm happy to share that Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, coauthored with @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social, has been nominated for the ASLE Ecocritical Book Award. The winner will be announced on July 9. @nupress.bsky.social
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment@asle-us.bsky.social · last yr.Judges have announced the finalists for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards in #ecocriticism and #environmental creative writing! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky
Great work from the graphic designers at CTV on yassifying the various party leaders.
ICYMI: watch The Climate of Critique colloquium on our YouTube playlist. Featuring Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, Jean-Thomas Tremblay, Lynne Huffer, and Elizabeth A. Wilson. Organized by the journal differences. buff.ly/iKlFqFJ @jttremblay.bsky.social @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social
Nowhere in North America or Europe is not currently actively destroying its universities; it's just usually through austerity. 10k UK university workers are losing their jobs *this year.* A "brain drain" would be an optimistic scenario.
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · last yr.The best scholars are not going to leave US universities. They can't. There aren't nearly enough academic jobs abroad. As per usual with how we talk about higher ed, the focus will be on elite institutions / actors, not on the many people and places that will suffer much more than the Yale faculty.
Thanks to the panelists and moderator for the second differences colloquium: The Climate of Critique. Video coming soon! @jttremblay.bsky.social @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social
Looking forward to UofT's Cinema Studies & Comparative Literature Grad Conference this weekend! Keynote address, "Calamity as Defacement": March 14 at 16:00 in Innis Town Hall. Roundtable on exits and extinctions: March 15 at 16:00 in the Centre for Culture & Technology Seminar Rm.
The first essay from my Solanas project @criticalinquiry.bsky.social 🖤 "Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind" www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... bit.ly/valeriesolanas
Karla Sofía Gascón's racist tweets perfectly espouse the logic of Emilia Pérez. So do the other cast and crew members' claims that she, a trans woman, is desecrating the film, and thus extraneous to it. Apologies for the light deconstruction, but all of this lives within Emilia Pérez, the text.
Jean-Thomas Tremblay@jttremblay.bsky.social · 2y agoEmilia Pérez is perfectly symptomatic of wretchedly racist, French colonial fantasies of sexual variance and deviance, criminalization, and cosmopolitanism--but, in its defense, the songs are also terrible.
Interesting essay on “toxic melodrama” & the overwrought aesthetics that mediate the felt impossibility of containing industrial chemicals in late capitalism (communicated, in part, by way of "flaunting a commitment" to the "rank interpretative pathology" of paranoid criticism)
Jean-Thomas Tremblay@jttremblay.bsky.social · 2y agoIn Representations' new issue on "Elementality," edited by Jim Porter and Mario Telò, I wrote about forever chemicals and the liberal melodrama of legal and symbolic containment they activate. Featuring Ibsen, Haynes, Nichols, Soderbergh, and a guest appearance by one Amy Jellicoe.
In Representations' new issue on "Elementality," edited by Jim Porter and Mario Telò, I wrote about forever chemicals and the liberal melodrama of legal and symbolic containment they activate. Featuring Ibsen, Haynes, Nichols, Soderbergh, and a guest appearance by one Amy Jellicoe.
Enemies of the People
“It’s in the water!”The elemental exclamation identifies the aquatic and its associated processes (dissolution, saturation, flow) as the hitherto-undisclosed source of a clear and present danger. “It’...
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