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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my book is out now 🫶 💗 $18 with coupon code E26CNTNT enjoy!!!??? :)

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Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This book is a romp through our contemporary that blends shoe-leather reporting from “hot zones” with self-consciously non-conspiratorial theorization of the novel political alignments producing fascism now. Fortunately, it also reveals how brittle & already fractious those fascist coalitions are.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

LACK, the lacanian conference that lacks an acronym, invites anyone interested in exploring the philosophical and cultural implications of psychoanalytic theory join us march 11-13 at UVM; CFP due October 15 Rebecca Comay keynote lackorg.wordpress.com/2027-confere...

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2027 Conference

We are excited to announce LACK vi at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont March 11-13, 2027. Please send any general questions about the conference to Hilary.Neroni@uvm.edu or Todd.McG…

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"as the world changes our elites are changing, becoming more fascist, attracted to ideas justifying that only some people are going to make it. it’s the job of a credible left to put forward a vision of the future for how we live together well on this planet." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/m...

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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Say the End of the World Is Now on the Table (Gift Article)

In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of “end times fascists” is just fine with the earth’s demise.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The NYT gave @astra.bsky.social & @naomiaklein.bsky.social a video header!!! I have never known a Leftist to get one. It’s usually reserved for humanizing reactionaries like Henry Kissinger & Jordan Peterson. Holy shit. We are going to win, y’all.

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Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I have an essay in the new ELH (special issue on speculation) about RL Kuang's _Babel_ & online classes & the history of automation in higher ed. It's kinda an oddball piece but it was fun to write! I think it's open access but DM me if you can't get it and want a PDF. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Cover of RL Kuang's novel Babel depicting a tower in black and white

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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 07/09/2026

Worldcon report! ARB editor Jake Casella Brookins interviews authors, scholars, and organizers, participates in a live panel with other SFF podcasters, and discusses the whole trip experience! Listen to "A Meal of Thorns" wherever you get your podcasts:

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A Meal of Thorns 58- LACON V

Worldcon episode time: we’ve got interviews, we’ve got a coffee report, we’ve got an only-mildly chaotic group podcast attempt! Podcasts, reviews, interviews, essays, and more at …

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m a Dartmouth professor. Pres. Beilock implies in this piece that she speaks for us as a college. She does not. I don’t permit AI in my classroom. Not because it stole my work; because as I wrote in @chronicle.com, most of my students hate it—and feel betrayed by the college—even more than I do.

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Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I haven't seen many folks talking about Ray Nayler's excellent novel Palaces of the Crow. It's a book about several young people surviving WWII in Soviet territories, communicating however tentatively with crows, living in/with/through the forest. It's beautifully written, taking language and

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Raymond Williams had a birthday yesterday. we celebrated his 100th with this book. read some essays, read more Williams, read. like he says, culture is ordinary! www.bloomsbury.com/us/raymond-w...

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Raymond Williams at 100

Raymond Williams was “by common consent” one of the “two most commanding intellectual figures in the New Left that emerged in Britain at the t…

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Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m so sad to hear Wendell Berry has passed. His rigorous, moral work was so important to me. A line of his is quoted in my novel Appleseed: “A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.” That line is close to the center of my thinking about so much.

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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92

A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Oh. My. God. The book galleys have arrived. And they are GLORIOUS.

My book, Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"Literature, in spite of its approaching end, is nevertheless perennial+universal. It will survive all historical+technological changes. It is a feature of any human culture. These two contradictory premises must govern all serious reflection “on literature” these days." Hillis Miller

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

They should do a spider-man 2 ps5 dlc where Mamdani is mayor so there can be a subplot of Mamdani fixing problems before Spidey can get to them

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“Science fiction is an anti-inevitabilist literature. Science fiction is only incidentally about thinking up new gadgets & explaining what they do. Far more important than what the gadget does is who it does it to & who it does it for.” - Cory Doctorow

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In "Transplanetary Americas," Robb Hernández explores how the modern space race has driven Latinx artists to look up and attune to expressions derived from the solar system and beyond. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/h90oYId

Cover of Transplanetary Americas: Art, Outer Space, and the Latinx Imagination by Robb Hernández. It features an image of Leo Villareal’s Star Ceiling, installed in a plaza with tall columns and benches. 2 people stroll below. The text is in a retro sci-fi font in bright lime-green and yellow.

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Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Very happy to have had the opportunity to contribute a piece on Commune Editions to this issue! Claire and Michael were amazing editors.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Give me or, more accurately, give Sofya Aptekar of Coalition Against Campus Debt, like, ten minutes to radicalize you this morning. The hook on this episode is sharp as hell.

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A Moral Document (Vandal Live at Wayne State)

Podcast Episode · The American Vandal · August 17 · 1h 34m

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

now available for preorder! Princeton University Press reissue of Jameson's Marxism and Form with new intro by Sianne Ngai! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

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Marxism and Form

An influential introduction to Marxist cultural criticism by the acclaimed literary theorist

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Another way of saying this is: When admins hires an ed consultancy it is not to solve a problem. No cookie-cutter outsider is going to be better at solving uni problems than their own teams. Admins hire consultants to create problems that admins WANT to create, but don't want to shoulder blame for.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

today in cultural decline gambling eclipses arts and entertainment combined film box office $8.87B recorded music $11.5B live music $18.51B books $14.6B museums $16.4B add it up: $70B less than half of the $166B Americans wagered on sports fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...

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Gambling becomes America's favorite pastime as Americans spend more on sports bets than movies, arts, museums, and music combined | Fortune

Americans wagered $166 billion on sports last year, more than Hollywood, the music industry, books, and museums combined.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

At one point today I took a break from reading @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social’s forthcoming book to read an excerpt from her next forthcoming book.

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Yesteryear's Tradwife

guess what, it's liberal

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Xavier Aldana Reyes @xaldanareyes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Body Horror is out today in the UK (and I believe already out in the US and other countries)! The code CUP20 gets you 20% off when purchasing the book directly from @ColumbiaUP. I’d be really grateful for any reposts or help with promotion! 🪰🧪🩸 #horror #bodyhorror cup.columbia.edu/book/body-ho...

Cover for Body Horror: Biology, Biopower, Biotechnology, by Xavier Aldana Reyes. It includes a still from the film, featuring Jeff Goldblum. His face shows visible signs that his body is beginning to change.

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The introduction to my book is now available online, thanks @dukepress.bsky.social 🫶 The official pub date is in October www.dukeupress.edu/content-mach....

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

www.theamericanvandal.com/p/neuroplast...

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Over the last couple years reading, and especially collective modes of reading, have come to mean ever more to me. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s challenge from earlier this week helped me see why. I’m going to double down on building community around books. I hope you will too.

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Neuroplasticity As A Praxis

We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy

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Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Who are some recent (i.e. twenty-first century) US novelists who have written novels about failing to write novels (or about writing novels that are in some sense dead on arrival)? The obvious one is Ben Lerner, but other ones?

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"the aesthetics of AI slop take the logic of quantification to its extreme form by embedding it in a technological system of increasingly automated production, circulation and consumption to which human signification appears ever more marginal." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Doing the numbers: The operational aesthetics of AI slop - Jernej Markelj, Jakko Kemper, 2026

What to make of the bizarre imagery of AI slop? If AI slop feels meaningless to interpret, this is because it has little to do with meaning and representations....

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

artists of chicago and the midwest! 5 days left to submit proposals for ART IN THESE TIMES, in conjunction w #falloffreedom artists unite against authoritarianism! artists reconsider political art! (politics here start with: selected artists will be PAID!) interccect.com/art-in-these...

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Art In These Times – Fall of Freedom

Art in These Times October 2–4, 2026 Authoritarian assaults on free thinking, fellow feeling, and creative making call for artists to unite in defiance. The 2nd annual Fall of Freedom festival conv…

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

hey everybody, Nietzsche here, I am going to have to take a step back from content creation because lately I've been noticing that our writing tools are also working on our thoughts. Getting a lot of dopamine hits from this Hansen Writing Ball, so I need to pause and reevaluate.

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Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Organizing an ACLA panel on "Speculative Infrastructure" with Philip Bonnano (Penn State) for the 2027 meeting. Please submit! (Or, you know, send a proposal!) www.acla.org/seminar/6efc...

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View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Awesome work here by @cphiliphaines.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, and many others. And don’t sleep on @mitchrmurray.bsky.social’s essay about Percival Everett & the campus novel!

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sean guynes @guynes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Today's the anniversary of one of my favorite essays I wrote last year, a response to my first reading of Robert Jordan's THE EYE OF THE WORLD (1990). Spoiler: I thought was pretty great! And I put the book in the context of fantasy scholarship that has largely ignored/bashed it.

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Reading “The Eye of the World” by Robert Jordan (Wheel of Time 1)

Robert Jordan’s The Eye of the World (1990) is the titanic first novel in his Wheel of Time series (1990-2013), yet for all its prominence in the fantasy field, it has rarely been given serio…

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Upcoming publication! TEACHING SCIENCE FICTION from MLA Press. www.mla.org/Publications...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

"$10.6B is being spent this year to rush AI into our classrooms. You’d have to assume there’s a mountain of evidence motivating this Manhattan Project-style spending. Well, not so much. More like a mountain of AI hallucinations." medium.com/@jasonsattle...

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Here’s what we know about AI and education. It’s not good.

Yet we know the proven interventions that do work will remain sorely underfunded.

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Christian Haines @cphiliphaines.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It's Matt with McKenzie Wark doing the good work, like he does.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 27/07/2026

OMGGGG -- I'm not applying for this (because my body is a sad sugarcube dissolving in a cup of tea, among other reasons) but if you can apply you should apply and if you get in you SHOULD GO www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

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Futurisms Intensive Writing Residency 2027

This residency supports writers exploring potential futures, perspectives, and narratives.

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