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All Grim Prints @allgrim.bsky.social · 4h ago

Just crossed $500! Win it! Fuck ICE! donorbox.org/marxopoly-ag...

Marxopoly Against ICE | All Grim Prints (Powered by Donorbox)

I’m Adam Ahlgrim of www.allgrimprints.shop. I decided to raffle off this hand-made Marx Monopoly board to help raise a bit of money to support the Immigrant Defenders Law Center. Fascism is sickening ...

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@kenoma.bsky.social · 5d ago

Exemplarity and Comparability seminar at ACLA next year: how do we pick our examples, and how do we decide what to compare? Chaired by Alya Ansari and Carson Welch, abstracts due end of August: www.acla.org/seminar/c983...

Exemplarity and Comparability
Organizers: Carson Welch, Alya Ansari
The selection of "cases" is a fundamental aspect of literary criticism. As early as 1952, Erich Auerbach observed that choosing a proper Ansatzpunkt is an important task for...
Keywords: exemplarity, comparison,
Criticism, Method, judgement
Date Submitted: June 24, 2026

•ACLA
American Comparative Literature Association
This seminar scrutinizes the process by which we make claims on the basis of exemplarity or comparability. These claims are at once aesthetic and conceptual: aesthetic, in the sense that what leads us to single out a set of passages for scrutiny or comparison is often, effectively, our intuition; conceptual, to the extent that what justifies a selection is the coherence of the argument built around it. We would like to explore more rigorously the nature of these judgments which quietly undergird the field's critical practice.

Pavel Andrade @pavelandrade.com · 6d ago

Combined and uneven modernism seminar for the upcoming ACLA. In person, U of Houston, 20-23 May, 2027. How do peripheral literatures register, model, and think the historical and material configurations of the world system? www.acla.org/seminar/f2f2...

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@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

Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 3w ago

Many faculty have been sounding the alarm about the problems generative AI poses for student learning. Strangely, some higher ed administrations seem have emerged as major AI boosters. Why? As I write in the latest @hedgehogreview.bsky.social it's a labor story: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...

Tommy Craggs @tcraggs22.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Was not counting on being moved by any "Infinite Jest"-at-30 essays. And but then @pauline2k.bsky.social performed a tour de force of reparative reading. This is so lovely! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/infinity-plu...

Infinity Plus One

You’d never mistake one of his sentences for anyone else’s. At a time when the worst thing you could be was a poser, Wallace was obviously and overtly himself.

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Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

My book is now available for pre-order!

Beneath The Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work - Zone Books

Zone Books

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 7mo ago

new issue of MEDIATIONS! "Transitions" globalization, commodity form, financialization, development and so many genres thereof mediationsjournal.org

Mediations : Journal of the Marxist Literary Group

The journal of the Marxist Literary Group. Publishes cultural theory, critical history, philosophy, literary criticism, and reviews. Issued twice yearly.

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Rosa Press @rosa-collective.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Rosa Press has collated a folio of tributes in memory of our friend Joshua Clover. Please read pieces by @lalouverouge.bsky.social @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social @charmainechua.bsky.social Oki Sogumi, Mark Steven, @andrew-brooks.bsky.social + @alorange.bsky.social here: rosapress.net/joshua-clove...

Joshua Clover, 1962–2025 – Rosa Press

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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · last yr.

Clear-eyed, strategic analysis from @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social at @thedrift-mag.bsky.social: "I’m not sure that the [pro-Palestine] movement has saved a single life, and that’s extremely sobering. It speaks to the fact that we don’t live in a democracy; + www.thedriftmag.com/we-will-not-...

“We Will Not Win on Our Own”

In April 2024, Columbia’s administration brought in the New York Police Department to dismantle the tents that had been set up by pro-Palestinian protesters occupying the university’s South Lawn.

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@kenoma.bsky.social · last yr.

last time for everything

The song lists a series of things that you will do for the last time. The examples are universal but sort of dudely, wide-ranging but white as fuck, and steeped in small town nostalgia: using a fake ID, making out in a car, asking SuperCuts for a mullet, last time for everything. What distinguishes these from things you do for the first time is not that it’s the last time but that you do not know it’s the last time when it’s happening. You think you will come back to this beach, have another summer, feel this love a second time. You won’t, last time for everything. This is what the boys of summer don’t yet know, and it is about them.

Lit by heartland virtue, the song seems sort of sentimental and possibly boring. Then it scales up. At the end of the second verse, Paisley remembers “Watching Glenn Frey sing “Already Gone” at the Forum in LA.” Run the chorus, now gone dark: “last call, last chance, last song, last dance.” Frey was already gone two years. There’s a last breath for everyone. But we still don’t know what’s coming. We find out 100 seconds later.