Looking for a compelling case for the relevance of Marxist criticism? Well, I've got a bunch of them! Liam Kruger, Oded Nir, and I put together a special issue of @culturalcritique.bsky.social on "Marxism, Form, and Futurity"! #humanities #marxism muse.jhu.edu/issue/57283

no one needs to know what this cost me

Sarah Brouillette@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · last mo.

speaking of UNHINGED, I want to buy a paperback copy of Shy Girl -- DM or email me if you have this contraband #shygirl

A feature essay by @andrew-brooks.bsky.social and me has just been published in our favourite magazine @parapraxismag.bsky.social — thanks to the legendary editors! www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/whe...

Where’s Daddy? — Parapraxis

Andrew Brooks & Astrid Lorange

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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...

We (faculty at USC) took on an institutional behemoth with all the money and clout on earth, and we WON. We won our union. We're the biggest private-university faculty union in US history. Trying to make people care about this, challenge level IMPOSSIBLE

If you’d read this in a sci-fi novel, it would be perfect. “July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the nation. The capital grounds are empty, the crumbling remains of a despot’s carnival baking under the heat and haze. The toxic air above is shifted by nothing save the passes of military jets.”

speaking of UNHINGED, I want to buy a paperback copy of Shy Girl -- DM or email me if you have this contraband #shygirl

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · last mo.

new romantasy dedicated bookshop is opening in Oxford today and 10/10, no notes

out now, "Mythic Violence, Memes, and the Recursive Rhetorics of Resistance" -- incredible essay by my colleague @sjmurray.bsky.social (complete with critique of Judith Butler on nonviolence) muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Just belatedly read this excellent @rpanchasi.bsky.social essay at @publicbooks.bsky.social on Zoe Wallbrook's "History Lessons" and other academic / campus fictions that may or may not be in the "dark academia" orbit. (Looking forward to diving into "History Lessons" w/what's left of summer...)

roxanne panchasi@rpanchasi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

oh hi i wrote this

if you are coming to SNS consider joining our keyword seminar :)

Aarthi Vadde@aarthivadde.bsky.social · last mo.

The website for SNS 2027, hosted by Janice Ho at UBC, just launched with a fabulous lineup of keynote speakers, keyword seminars, and novel seminars. Check it out! And please submit abstracts for panels or single papers on any novel-related topic (deadline Nov. 15): snsnovelgeographies.arts.ubc.ca

In the last three hours, Musk has posted that USAID “was central to the creation of COVID-19,” “funded coronavirus research in China that killed millions of people,” “was used for terrorism,” and “killed millions.”

Now available for preorder, arriving in warehouse 10/02/2026: dukeupress.edu/content-mach... Duke UP gave me a discount code for 30% off paperback preorders: it's E26CNTNT ♥️👍

Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era

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two substantialisms is an incredibly important and insightful piece of writing that kind of unlocked my whole thesis so I'm very very glad it's published now

Sarah Brouillette@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 2mo ago

new issue of Mediations, "Total Sexual Difference" and damn mediationsjournal.org/toc/volume-3...

new issue of Mediations, "Total Sexual Difference" and damn mediationsjournal.org/toc/volume-3...

What Kyle Kubler and I argue in our piece on influencer aesthetics docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol27...

@seanobrien.bsky.social and I have edited a special issue of CLCWeb titled “Keywords for Value and Culture”. Across 34 essays, it explores the shared conceptual terrain between value-form theory and aesthetic theory. The full issue is available open access here: docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol27...

Some real bangers in this one - Keywords for Value and Culture - including one from me (no office, i'm not obliged to tell you which one) docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol27...

Much incredible stuff in here! "Keywords for Value and Culture" edited by @seanobrien.bsky.social and @thomaswaller.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥

Chilling tour from Ruth Fowler through dystopian world of AI “tasker” gigs www.wired.com/story/i-work...

I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI

For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.

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The incredible queer revolutionary magazine I help edit is raising money for printing our next, already completed issue. Please donate and circulate. I have an article in it! A wild one

Pinko Magazine@pinko.online · 2mo ago

Happy pride, comrades! Our next issue is almost ready to print and we’re fundraising to pay for it. Help us send it to the printer for the cost of one overpriced drink: fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/pinko-magazi...

I wrote an essay exploring how structuralism and deconstruction have informed recent theory around 'AI' and 'LLMs' including @leifw.bsky.social's Language Machines: olrsupplement.com/2026/06/01/w...

I have a new article out in Labor, I'd appreciate if you'd read it. Thank you! read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...

The Work of Forgetting: Industrial Physicians, Medical Forms, and Industrial Violence in the Early Twentieth-Century United States

Abstract. This article uses inquiry into the medical subfield of industrial medicine in the early twentieth-century United States to build on recent work in the history of occupational safety and heal...

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I took part in a discussion of @andrewhartman.bsky.social's Karl Marx in America, alongside the inimitable Cedric Johnson and @lclaberge.bsky.social. Come, listen to Gen X Marxists debate the relative significance of the Battle of Seattle, Occupy, and the movements against the wars on Iraq!

Karl Marx in America

YouTube video by Red May TV

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When writing an article first get your draft fleshed out then move your conclusion to your introduction where it actually belongs. Now rewrite the second half of your paper to create a new conclusion. Move that conclusion to your introduction, too. Now you have two intros and no conclusions so next

Today I reviewed @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com's excellent *Muskism*, in which I argue that situating Elon Musk within the dynamics of class struggle transforms our approach to the international capitalist crisis and the imperial strategies to contain it cosmonautmag.com/2026/05/capi...

Capital’s Musk: A Review of Slobodian and Tarnoff’s “Muskism”

Reviewing Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Julian Assele foregrounds class antagonism and re-situates Muskism as a class strategy to re-discipline globally mobile ...

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ICYMI: @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social 's review of @anniemcc.bsky.social 's Beneath the Wage ( Zone Books, @princetonupress.bsky.social ) is still live on our website.

@journalspectre.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Read @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social 's review of @anniemcc.bsky.social 's Beneath the Wage ( Zone Books , @princetonupress.bsky.social ). Brouilette highlights the book's focus on the new terrains of antagonism and solidarity afforded by service labor. spectrejournal.com/service-with...

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.