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Elliott Sturtevant

@elliotts.bsky.social
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Historian of architecture, business, and the environment | Assist. Prof. of Architecture | Working in Miami, living in Toronto

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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"Next year, Canada will even have an entrant in the Eurovision Song Contest." www.newyorker.com/news/global-...
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What If Canada Joined the E.U.?
The idea that Canada could join the E.U. used to be a fringe topic of conversation. Donald Trump’s trade war with the country has pushed it into the mainstream.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimiste: The cup ys halfe full Pessimiste: The cup ys halfe emptye Higher ed consultant: Facultye do not neede cups! Make do wyth less!
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Timothy Hyde @hydetimothy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Our sharpest critical voice lucidly distills both the form ("somewhat akin to a brutalist Himalayan salt lamp") and the function ("a kind of cenotaph for neoliberalism")
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I was told I cannot use the terms "politics" or "political" in my course description. Ah, yes, architecture, the famously unpolitical art of building...
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Dümmer geht’s immer... For a taste of things happening in Florida: harpers.org/archive/2026...
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Republican Machines, by Ann Manov
Can the GOP save the humanities?
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Instituto Aldeia @institutoaldeia.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Alice Speri (@alicesperi.bsky.social) of @theguardian.com once again covering the actual story of what’s happening in HigherEd.
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‘Dialogue is all the rage’: why is the right pouring millions into ‘civil discourse’ initiatives on US campuses?
Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
First they welcomed the PragerU Freedom Truck, now this... floridapolitics.com/archives/804...
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Gov. DeSantis OKs ‘Charlie Kirk Memorial Avenue’ at FIU, ‘Trump Boulevard’ in Broward
Kirk was shot and killed by a lone sniper on a Utah university campus on Sept. 10, 2025.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 26/06/2026
You can make more money undermining the humanities, faculty governance, and critical thought than you can make actually doing serious, peer reviewed research and teaching
Screenshot of salary range from Iowa job ad
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
TBH, this was me watching the halftime show live on a flight from Toronto to Miami...
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Alhelí @casadefauxdobe.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
¿… la registración de la conferencia es $375? 😅
Ya está bien cansado Benito
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"At its best, government bureaucracy can be an instrument for leveling inequality and extending what Franklin D. Roosevelt called “freedom from want” to millions. The work of making freedom from want into a guarantee for everyone is still unfinished."
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
"In towns like mine, outsourcing and automation consumed jobs. Then purpose. Then people. Now the same forces are climbing the economic ladder." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/o...
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Opinion | When A.I. Took My Job, I Bought a Chain Saw
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
"It may make sense to think of the United States as a wealthy Latin American country, rather than an offshoot of Europe mysteriously governed by cowboys." newrepublic.com/article/1920...
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What America Can Learn From the Americas
Greg Grandin’s sweeping history of the new world shows how immutably intertwined the United States is with Latin America.
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
"The future of federal architecture, if we are going by what is actually being built at scale by the US government, appears to be the prison, the wall, the climate refugee camp." nyra.nyc/articles/wre...
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Wrecking Ballroom
Trump is tearing down the White House. Good riddance.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
A more fitting headline might be: “Smithsonian Resists White-Supremacist Censorship by Fools with Zero Relevant Expertise”
A NYTimes article headlined: “Smithsonian Criticized for Delay in Turning Over Records”
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/12/2025
Breaking News: Miami voters elected Eileen Higgins as mayor, choosing a Democrat to lead the city for the first time in almost 30 years.
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Eileen Higgins Wins Miami Runoff Election to Become City’s First Female Mayor
Eileen Higgins, a former Miami-Dade County commissioner, will also be the city’s first female mayor and the first non-Hispanic mayor since the 1990s.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (permalink)
Last night, I gave a speech for the University of Washington's "Neuroscience, AI and Society" lecture series, through the university's Computational Neuroscience Center. It was called "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI," and it's based on the manuscript for my next book, "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI," which will be out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux next June:
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"In the Chatversity, the roles are just as scripted and cynical. Faculty: 'They pretend to support us, and we pretend to teach.' Students: 'They pretend to educate us, and we pretend to learn.'" www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Including yours truly and a whole lot of great work by others:
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
This is how administration acts whenever faculty tries to enforce standards. It's why most people have just given up and just hand out A's.
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
"It seems strange to me that many of my liberal friends and students have never travelled to the South... They appear to have much more interest in places like China or Japan, and ... know more about these places than they do about, say, MS or AR." www.commonwealmagazine.org/fulbright-sc...
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Exposure Therapy
What could bridge the gap between the culture of elite higher education and red America? One possibility involves extending the logic of the Fulbright program.
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This episode of Know Your Enemy with Kate Wagner is fantastic! It’s also a stark reminder of the depressed state of architectural culture and architectural criticism, and how much better off we’d be (I think!) if there were more of it. know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/tru...
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Trump's Big, Beautiful Ballroom (w/ Kate Wagner) [Teaser] | Know Your Enemy
Matt and Sam talk to McMansion Hell's Kate Wagner about Trump's White House ballroom.
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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
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Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
"The progressive economic message is often something along the lines of 'there’s enough wealth to go around.' But a more winning message, particularly for Latinos who aspire to social mobility, might be: 'there’s enough work to go around.'" dissentmagazine.org/article/por-...
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¿Por Qué MAGA? - Dissent Magazine
Progressives will only make lasting progress with Latino voters if they examine not just why Trump was appealing, but also why the left was not.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I usually don’t like linking to the NYT, but I think it’s important to know that they wrote and published an obituary immediately for Alice Wong. (It selectively left out parts of her disability activism that they didn’t like, of course.)
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14/11/2025
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
“Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska”
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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This is a grotesque assault on faculty expertise and self-governance. I was fortunate enough to start my academic career as an assistant professor at Montclair State. Solidarity with MSU humanists being buzzworded into a new School of Human Narratives and Creative Expressions none of them want.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 14/11/2025
In the US, the only leverage many academics have is threatening to leave. That leverage is growing weaker and weaker as jobs disappear. At this point, beyond a few superstars, it’s effectively nil. There are, of course, other forms of leverage, but they require working in concert.
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"DeSantis boasted that he was acting in the name of free choice: students would no longer be required to take sociology. But students have never been required to take sociology. What he did was constrain the freedom to choose sociology..." So much for the "marketplace of ideas."
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Commentary: Florida’s education commissioner just fired free thought
Anastasios Kamoutsas’ removal of a sociology professor from a statewide committee is only the latest government attempt to limit the scope of education.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/11/2025
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Shocked to learn that Alison Isenberg has died, far too young. What a terrible loss. A lovely person and an outstanding urban historian. I first met her when we were graduate students at Penn, around 35 years ago. My condolences to her family
princeton.edu
Alison Isenberg, distinguished urban historian and co-founder of Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities, dies
A public memorial and celebration of Isenberg’s life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the University Chapel.
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
✨ New Essay! ✨ @mattseybold.bsky.social agues that the new Mamdani administration ought to fund CUNY to develop its own public, open-source educational technology. The result stands to socialize the means of knowledge production for collaborative use across the entire US higher education system.
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Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us)
by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Taking part in this later this week!
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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The intro to our Itinerario special issue on the entwined histories of tourism and imperialism has just passed 1,000 views! 🥳 Many thanks to all readers, keep spreading the word and remember to check out the great contributions that make up the issue, too. doi.org/10.1017/S016...
Cover of the issue 48:3 of the journal Itinerario, showing a black-and-white photo of a European tourist being pushed/pulled up the side of a pyramid by a group of Egyptian guides.
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 16/10/2025
How are natural and waste materials valued, produced and transformed? What lessons can architects learn from history? Some of the questions that will be explored at tomorrow's event 👇co-hosted by Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Alistair Cartwright & @elliotts.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social. ‬
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
"The agency also had its hands in a 1964 coup in Brazil, the death of Che Guevara and other machinations in Bolivia, a 1973 coup in Chile, and the contra fight against the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua in the 1980s." Left for the last graf. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
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Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
"Values of Waste," taking place at the University of Liverpool this Friday! @leverhulme.ac.uk
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism. 🧵
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I'm giving a talk on the architecture of US empire in two weeks. This couldn't have come at a better time!
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
A helpful read for thinking about the need to push back against false dichotomies—maker/taker, builder/critic, innovator/regulator—that are currently being used to further marginalize the humanities.
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I'm co-hosting this event, titled "Values of Waste," with Alistair Cartwright at the University of Liverpool in two weeks! Please come if you happen to be in the area! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/values-of-...
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Values of Waste
This day-long symposium explores the social and material histories of bio-based construction and architecture.
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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
An excellent line-up featuring two very lovely grad school classmates, including @elliotts.bsky.social!
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Elliott Sturtevant @elliotts.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Little appreciation for my Stargate references in class today. "You know, Abydos, where they first travelled to after entering the Stargate?"
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"Trump has been signaling for a decade or so that political violence committed by his supporters is acceptable and might even be rewarded...Trump and...his acolytes frame such conduct not as violence, but as legitimate...self-defense;...they portray themselves as perpetual victims." New column:
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Violence As Policy in Trump’s America
Jan-Werner Mueller argues that the murder of Charlie Kirk has highlighted the fundamental asymmetry of contemporary US politics.
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