Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Compton’s Cafeteria riot (1966) involved lobbing coffee and doughnuts at police 110
Reposted by Astrid LorangeShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 25/09/2026FIND A WAY TO PRODUCE EVERYTHING EVERYBODY NEEDS & TO GET IT TO THEM MAKE IT WORK www.getty.edu/publications... 1368
Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 25/09/2026amazing! let me know how you go, and if the essay is useful! 011
Reposted by Astrid LorangeFelicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"A headache in a novel is more than a character trait or plot point: it is a narrative object that registers the force of, & embodied responses to, history...the way a headache mediates inner life & outside world tells us...abt the felt dimension of social reality organised by the capital relation" 031
Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 24/09/2026as someone who also suffers from weird little guy headaches it's been fascinating thinking of headaches as symptoms in novels and as symptomatic reading as a way of understanding the headache as the pain of history itself. 120
Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 24/09/2026thanks to @johnattridge.bsky.social whose invitation to present a talk on this novel a few years ago was the beginning of this project; also to @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social for reading an earlier version and giving great notes ofc 210
Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 24/09/2026My article on Jason Compson's weird little guy headaches in The Sound and the Fury has been published in Textual Practice! It's open access and you can read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.com‘How can a car give a man a headache?’: a symptomatic reading of The Sound and the FuryThis paper offers a reading of Jason Compson’s elusive headache, frequently attributed to gasoline, as a symptom of capitalist crisis in the American century. Beginning with a recommitment to ‘symp... 251
Reposted by Astrid LorangeDeepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026For the first time, an Australian court has heard expert evidence linking Pine Gap to Israel's atrocities. Prof Richard Tanter tendered a 34-page report to the Alice Springs Local Court in a case involving two protestors. www.deepcutnews.com/p/pine-gap-l...deepcutnews.comPine Gap linked to Israel’s atrocities, NT court toldExpert evidence was tabled in the defence of two protestors charged for an offence at the US spy base 5113101
Reposted by Astrid LorangeDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 27/07/2026"Notes from the Sex Worker Left" by @drheatherberg.bsky.social highlights the unruly thinkers who are at the vanguard of radical theorizing on family, work, the state, and community care, drawing on interviews with sex workers and their writings. Check out the intro for free: buff.ly/fKIQIDz 02812
Reposted by Astrid LorangeBlue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Do you ever read a series of words 1084063568
Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 21/09/2026who has written about "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"? cc @johannawinant.bsky.social @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @glavey.bsky.social 242
Reposted by Astrid Loranges. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 14/09/2026Transphobia is a losing strategy. If you’re telling trans people to eat shit for the cause you either know this and want cover for your own transphobia or you don’t know this and think it’s morally acceptable to mark some bodies and lives for death in the name of expediency. Fix your hearts or die. 2573126
Reposted by Astrid Lorangeferal streep @feralstreeep.bsky.social · 08/09/2026new vision board brought to you by Family Feud 141293260
Reposted by Astrid LorangeBrian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026My book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be out later this year--just in time to stuff it in your stockings--but you can preorder now with the code UCPNEW for 30% off. @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...press.uchicago.eduRelatabilityAn engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal... 46022
Reposted by Astrid LorangeSarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 02/09/2026a gift of collaboration (why isn't everyone doing this) is feeling like when I lack all motivation I can always muster some energy to get something down *for you* 141
Reposted by Astrid LorangeBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Coincidentally (but not unrelated) this week Sydney Uni released survey results in which 0% of staff in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences – ZERO PERCENT! – agreed with the statement: "I trust the University of Sydney to act in the best interests of staff, students and the broader community."theguardian.com‘We have had enough’: thousands of University of Sydney staff walk off the job over AI and job securityHundreds of university staff were stationed at picket lines, calling for stronger protections around the use of AI 1124
Reposted by Astrid LorangeSarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Lovely to see this piece by Seb B. Grossmann (a PhD student in my department) on Andrew Brooks' Year of the Ox 🔥poetryproject.org#285 - Summer 2026 > On Year of the Ox by Andrew Brooks, Seb B. GrossmannIn Andrew Brooks’s poetry, someone is always playing music, always reading poetry, there are always snacks (toasted almonds, citrus fruit, a pot of dal or stew simmering). There is dancing and crying.... 022
Reposted by Astrid LorangeSarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 30/08/2026in addition to @mitchtherieau.bsky.social and @bildoperationen.bsky.social -- both so fantastic -- and forthcoming book from @sjmurray.bsky.social, what should I read about fascist AI slop? 153
Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 26/08/2026there's no feeling better than cowriting a book with @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social from the opposite side of the world -- I wake up every day to new and brilliant writing from her. who said we can't have it all!!!!!!!! 250
Reposted by Astrid LorangeJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 24/08/2026The real "administrative bloat" in education is the money that schools are being forced to fork over to tech vendors that can just keep jacking up their prices year after year, because it would cost even more to rebuild the systems and retrain the people that were built/trained on that tech. 9498145
Reposted by Astrid Lorangekatherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 24/08/2026read muthafuckas! read!!!!!! 14113
Reposted by Astrid LorangeMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 24/08/2026Anti trans figures aren't just tangentially overlapping with the attempt to defend the white supremacist eugenicist wing of the academy from backlash, they are integral to it. 126171
Reposted by Astrid LorangeJeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 21/08/2026It seems we need a reminder that the Luddites did not hate technology. The were, in fact, technology experts who objected to the dehumanization and abuse of workers by investors and factory owners through new technologies. 211004252
Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Can recommend Crimes of Class by @furiousaffects.bsky.social and Nick Southall and published by @rosa-collective.bsky.social for anyone wanting literature on the former! 020
Reposted by Astrid LorangeBrian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I had so much fun talking with Rainer Diana Hamilton and Shiv Kotecha about Elaine Sturtevant for this week's episode of Some Marvelous Experience. Give it a listen wherever you give listens! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...podcasts.apple.comSome Marvelous ExperienceArts Podcast · Updated Biweekly · A podcast about friendship and art hosted by Brian Glavey. For each episode I'll talk to a pair of friends about a work of art or aesthetic experience that they share... 0146
Reposted by Astrid LorangeNathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026A footnote to David's superb essay is that part of trying to be an educated person is that you're in a constant struggle to make yourself adequate to things you don't yet understand. this struggle is more fun & rewarding than almost anything else on earth, and it can never end; + 15012
Reposted by Astrid LorangeSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Writing means doing a shit-ton of research, then writing, then thinking you're saying something, realizing you've approached the limit of your knowledge on a sub-topic, going away to read more, realizing you actually mean something else better or more specific, then doing it all over again. 417641
Reposted by Astrid LorangeBrandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026love love love this essay by David Hollingshead. So smart, so funny, and winningly earnestdefector.comHumanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | DefectorFor many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ... 931086
Reposted by Astrid LorangeOrdinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 13/08/2026World on fire. Arsonists in control. 25921
Reposted by Astrid LorangeSarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 12/08/2026We could not be happier that Annie McClanahan will be in Ottawa this fall, to speak to the venerable Socialist Seminar in the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. It's a hybrid event. 1122
Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 13/08/2026my uncle sent me videos of teens chanting PAULINE HANSON IS A FASCIST and FUCK OFF as part of their school walkout in Canberra — I love teens 💙 010
Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 13/08/2026i asked my kid to describe my gender and she was like "well you're a ... [looks at me uncertainly] girl???? but also maybe 25% a boy". i think i could squabble over the ratio but i liked it as a description, better than where i am at w/r/t myself 110
Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Forthcoming Content Machines by @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social 120
Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Joshua Clover’s essay “Form Adequate to History” 120
Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 11/08/2026All of Ngai’s Theory of the Gimmick with a special s/o to the Henry James chapter 120
Reposted by Astrid LorangeMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 11/08/2026At one point today I took a break from reading @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social’s forthcoming book to read an excerpt from her next forthcoming book.open.substack.comYesteryear's Tradwifeguess what, it's liberal 1102
Reposted by Astrid LorangeSarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The introduction to my book is now available online, thanks @dukepress.bsky.social 🫶 The official pub date is in October www.dukeupress.edu/content-mach....tinyurl.com 109238
Reposted by Astrid LorangeRosa Press @rosa-collective.bsky.social · 08/08/2026so special to launch Crimes of Class in Canberra — I moderated with a reading child on my lap ❤️ @furiousaffects.bsky.social 122
Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 06/08/2026my 8yo is family dj so this is on repeat courtesy of her but tbh when I’m alone I hit it too cause I fucking love it 000