Steven Swarbrick
@stevenswarbrick.bsky.social
Author of The Environmental Unconscious (2023), The Earth Is Evil (2025), & Divest (2026) | coauthor of Negative Life (2024) https://www.stevenswarbrick.com/
I'm organising (with Hunter Phillips) 2 sessions at @kzooicms.bsky.social on RETHINKING ECOTHEORY! (Sponsored by Medieval Ecocriticisms) Please apply (by 11/15) for either DISENTANGLING ECOCRITICISMS (tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S1) or DISAPPOINTING ECOCRITICISMS (tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S2).
I’m reading Paradise Lost for the first time and it’s just such a fuckin banger. Line after line of pure brilliance. It’s such a privilege to read this poem slowly.
Three new books out today! -The 3rd book in Mary Logue's Brigid Reardon Mystery series is set in Salt Lake City, 1881. -A visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation by Reid Gómez. -A manifesto on political masochism by Steven Swarbrick in our Forerunners series.
A special issue of b2o just landed. “EXOCRITICISM.” Check it out! 👽 www.boundary2.org/exocriticism...
EXOCRITICISM | special issue
Volume 8, Issue 1 (May 2026) Special Issue: EXOCRITICISM Special Issue editors: Arne De Boever and Frédéric Neyrat Image: 978-0980544008 - Ferdinand Altenburg, 2024 b2o: an online journal is an online...
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My forthcoming book, DIVEST, is available for preorder. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148... Get 30% off using the discount code below. That’s less than a cup of coffee in some places! @uminnpress.bsky.social
"We might not win in the end, but even in the attempt to resist, we will salvage some of our humanity." Thomas Dekeyser's @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social TECHNO-NEGATIVE is a Lit Hub most anticipated book of 2026! lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...
Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026
After the year we’ve had, there’s no predicting anything about the year that’s to come. But whatever else might be fated to happen (to us) in 2026, there will definitely be books,…
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THE EARTH IS EVIL by @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social examines the connection between subjectivity and lack, arguing for a destituent ecology that sees lack as the universalist core of social, political, and environmental struggles. Save 40% when you order now: bit.ly/48bvDjr
Read below for an excellent review/ distillation of Negative Life. Many thanks, Anda! “Negative Life is an insightful critical work, in tune with the contemporary aesthetic and conceptual landscape. It might just be the horror-inflected revitalizing read we all need.”
Anda Pleniceanu🌻🍉@aplenice.bsky.social · 9mo 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!
There's a shadow in the doorway and something keeps rattling the window. We fear we might be....HAUNTED. What better way to soothe restless spirits than offer them our books? From now through Nov 1, they (and you) can get 40% off using discount code HAUNTED at checkout. nupress.northwestern.edu
🦉whooooooo would like to buy Here Is a Figure for 40% off?? 🦇🦇🦇
Northwestern University Press@nupress.bsky.social · 9mo agoThere's a shadow in the doorway and something keeps rattling the window. We fear we might be....HAUNTED. What better way to soothe restless spirits than offer them our books? From now through Nov 1, they (and you) can get 40% off using discount code HAUNTED at checkout. nupress.northwestern.edu
A truly forward thinking editor, generous mind and interlocutor. Thanks for everything, @noctambulate.bsky.social.
Publishers Weekly@publisherswkly.bsky.social · 9mo agoDoug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, trade, and regional publishing programs.
Fourth in the ASAP/16 Book Prize shortlist is Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s NEGATIVE LIFE: THE CINEMA OF EXTINCTION from @nupress. The winner of the prize will be announced at our conference in Houston in a few weeks. Please join us!
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
New book! The Earth Is Evil is short and punchy ecocriticism, featured in the Provocations series @univnebpress.bsky.social, and available Oct 1. Pre-orders are hitting mailboxes now. 40% off with code 6AF25. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
Get 40% off my forthcoming book, The Earth Is Evil, with discount code 6AF25 www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... Out in October
The Earth Is Evil - Nebraska Press
The Earth Is Evil examines the connection between subjectivity and lack, arguing for a destituent ecology that sees lack as the universalist core of social, ...
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Ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026? Submit an abstract to Dan Reeve and I's CFP: "BEYOND TOUCH: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" We invite submissions for 15-20 minute papers that examine queer and trans temporalities from new and unexpected angles. #IMC2026. Full CFP below 👇
there are some amazing books on this list!! 🌿 congrats to @snarlsdickens.bsky.social @jttremblay.bsky.social @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social @jamieljones.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 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
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
I had a blast chatting with the grad student-run journal Soapbox about my solo and coauthored work. Topics include sex, negativity, ecology, and psychoanalysis. Full interview below. www.soapboxjournal.net/online-artic...
Queer Ecologies: An Interview with Professor Steven Swarbrick
This interview emerges from the Queer Ecology Tutorial Group's early 2025 gathering, which set out to interrogate the relationship between queerness and our ungoing ecological turmoil. Rejecting the c...
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My first sighting of "Fake Work" out in the wild. I'll be doing my first Fake Event tomorrow, and then others throughout the month of June. I've been sitting with this book for 25 years, literally, and I'm so excited/anxious to see its reception.
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
join us in Providence on March 7th for Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique — a colloquium featuring Lynne Huffer, Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...
Very fun book!! I also really like their critique of “entanglement” tropes in ecocriticism—that word always makes me think of a sea turtle caught in a discarded net!
Karl Steel@karlsteel.bsky.social · 2y agoFor funsies I started reading @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social and @jttremblay.bsky.social NEGATIVE LIFE, and it scratches my itches, bc I too am irritated by the 'only connect' clichés of so much ecocriticism + I'm a fan of the movies they're doing, eg, FIRST COW, Pösler's THE WALL.
For funsies I started reading @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social and @jttremblay.bsky.social NEGATIVE LIFE, and it scratches my itches, bc I too am irritated by the 'only connect' clichés of so much ecocriticism + I'm a fan of the movies they're doing, eg, FIRST COW, Pösler's THE WALL.
