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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My 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...

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Relatability

An 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...

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NYC: this winter we're reimagining the Jefferson School--a radical labor school--alongside an exhibit about McCarthyism at NYU. We are looking for one-off study groups on study (including what we need to do it), academic unionism, & speculative futures for learning. Short application due 9/1!

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Call for Study Groups

This fall and winter (November-March), we are excited to host a reimagining of the Jefferson School of Social Science—a radical labor school—at the Espacio de Culturas gallery at NYU in New York City,...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

it's a monday afternoon at the end of july, of course we're writing syllabi against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, PLEASE SEND! against-a-i.com

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AGAINST AI -

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kenoma.bsky.social @kenoma.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Cultural Critique's special issue on "Marxism, Form, and Futurity" now up online, essays by @annakornbluh.bsky.social @kqandrews.bsky.social @cphiliphaines.bsky.social and then some muse.jhu.edu/issue/57283

Table of Contents reading:
Editorial Statement
1 Liam Kruger, Oded Nir, and Christian P. Haines
Marxism, Form, and Futurity: An Introduction
21 Anna Kornbluh A Very Special Relationship:
Capitalism and the Novel Form
34 Oded Nir Utopian Allegory and the Return of Futurity
in Itay Meirson’s The 90- Minute War
49 Liam Kruger The Location of Critique
68 Kimberly Quiogue Andrews Disciplinarity’s
Temporal Forms
80 Mitch R. Murray Undead Academia:
On the Campus Novel of Decline
97 Phillip E. Wegner A Future Worthy of Her Spirit:
Reproductive Futurism and the Neoliberal University
in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun
114 Brittany Murray Caring Badly: Reproductive Labor,
Aesthetic Autonomy, and Futurity in Leïla Slimani’s
Chanson Douce
130 Brent Ryan Bellamy (Energy Heterotopia):
The Case of Trouble on Triton

Marxism, Form,
and Futurity

141 Caren Irr Bridging the Metabolic Rift with
Tom Comitta’s The Nature Book
154 Christian P. Haines Marxism and Human Form
169 Books Received

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

“try then you say oh just praise what you can you smiling bag of death” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Anne Carson · Poem: ‘Smile’

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So I'm starting a podcast about friendship and aesthetic experience called "Some Marvelous Experience." I've posted a brief teaser that explains a little bit about the main idea and will drop the first episode soon. Please subscribe and help me spread the word! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Some Marvelous Experience

Arts 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...

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This was such a great interview! Learn more about about the fascinating Alternative Press in Detroit publishing ephemeral, political, and just fricking awesome stuff in the 70s and beyond.

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Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"In the 2020s, we see Tiqqun’s pronouncements materialized and metastasized in Instagram and TikTok girl genres: Clean Girl, Literary Hot Girl, VSCO Girl, Tomato Girl, Girl Dinner, Girl Math, Just a Girl." www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Theory of the Counterinsurgent Girl

Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - Theory of the Counterinsurgent Girl

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The April 2026 issue of Modernism/ Modernity is out! Read my review of Stitch, Unstitch by @kristingrogan.bsky.social Here's a link to the journal and I'm happy to share the review, if you don't have access. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Project MUSE -- Verification required!

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Anyone here at MSA? Come to @ncecire.bsky.social and @miayou.bsky.social and my session today and talk to us about the social reproduction of empire

Roundtable: Modernism and the Social
Reproduction of Empire
Location: DAV1108, Sir David Davies Building Chair: Kristin Grogan, Rutgers University
Keegan Finberg (University of Maryland, Baltimor County)
Natalia Cecire (University of Sussex)
Seb Franklin (Kings College London)
Mia You (Utrecht University) Amy De'Ath (Tufts University)

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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 ♥️👍

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Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 01/06/2026

There is something in here for everyone: Marxists, logistics obsessives, obsolete-software enthusiasts, and those are all the kinds of people I know about. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Seeing Like a Supply Chain

A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...

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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I went on This Guy Sucked to talk about a guy who sucked: Ezra Pound. 20 minute preview; full thing subscriber only; I hope you haters enjoy @ceaubin.com . @thisguysucked.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Ezra Pound with Kristin Grogan (Subscriber Preview)

Podcast Episode · This Guy Sucked · April 23 · 21m

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

couldn’t be more excited for @anniemcc.bsky.social and @alybatt.bsky.social to be in conversation with @mattseybold.bsky.social this Friday at noon at Swarthmore. Hope those nearby can join!

Two blue books in front of a blooming cherry tree

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

If only every month were national poetry month? While we work on that, check out this list of CUP books by @kristingrogan.bsky.social and @xenoglossic.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social and @afilreis.bsky.social and yours truly. 🤩

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Baltimore! I am looking forward to @stschrader1.bsky.social ‘s launch tonight! Can’t wait to read the book too

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

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Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books

Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Abstracts are due today for POETRY'S PROGRAM ERA INSTITUTIONS--a seminar at ASAP/17 in Madison this October. A heavy line-up is shaping up--join us! @asapartsnow.bsky.social

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Heather Christle @heatherchristle.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

For National Poetry Month I would like to invite people to go outside without a phone and notice when two things are trying to resemble each other. You don't even have to write it down.

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Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

it's officially out! :)

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

In case you want to read about poetry in poetry month!

The book Here Is a Figure, by Sarah Dowling (me), on a tabletop with some tulips and candles

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Relatability

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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

New online: @sarahljaffe.bsky.social interviews Kathi Weeks about her new book. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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Abolitionist Feminism - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Kathi Weeks.

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE has a cover, a website, and is available for preorder! (Use code NUP2026 for a discount.) See the full contents at the link below — lucky to be part of this extraordinary project and excited to see it in print this fall! ✨🔥 nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948066...

Book cover: THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE, edited by Devin M. Garofalo & Nathan K. Hensley — in black font, against a Barbie pink background, design inspired by 80s literary theory book series.

Promotional flyer for THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE. Includes image of cover, description of book, editor bios, and brief promotional blurb by Heather K. Love: “This book makes clear why language, thought, and writing matter, now more than ever.” Discount code: NUP2026. All information included in the flyer, plus more, can be found at the linked website.

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I am about 40 minutes in and I recommend this to every student, faculty member, and person who cares about the future of higher ed

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This means so much coming from Sarah Dowling and alongside Amy D’Ath’s book, which is on my nightstand right now.

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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

BLUE POWER is out a month from today! Preorder using discount code BLUE20 www.basicbooks.com/titles/stuar...

Picture of massive record collection with pile of books and random guy blocking the view

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madeline lane-mckinley 🍉🍉🍉 @lalouverouge.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Doing a mini east coast book tour, starting this Friday: Montreal: Friday 2/27 at Librairie l’Euguélionne with @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social (6pm) Brooklyn: Monday 3/2 at The Word is Change with @downevent.bsky.social (6pm) Baltimore: Tuesday 3/3 at Red Emma’s with @keegancf.bsky.social (7pm)

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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Issue 78 of Baltimore Beat is live! It’s our literary issue! Our zine-inspired cover was designed by nat raum.

The cover of Baltimore Beat. It is designed to look like a zine, with places to fold it and collaged images on it. Yellow text reads “Baltimore Beat” and “The Literary Issue.”

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I am headed to Nashville tomorrow for a book talk and workshop at Vanderbilt. I spent two years with this department after I finished my Phd and before I truly conceived of what I was doing as writing a book. It feels so special to come back now! as.vanderbilt.edu/english/robe...

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Robert & Lillian Drake Lecture Series

The Robert & Lillian Drake Lecture Series was established in 2002 in the College of Arts and Science to fund annual lectures in the English Department. The series presents opportunities for studen...

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I am thrilled to be giving a public lecture for the Vanderbilt English Department next week. If you are in Nashville, come hear me talk about social reproduction, diets, and poetry.

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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

My new article in @nybooks.com on Authoritarianism from Below.

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Our fam loves Baltimore city snow removal! ❤️DPW

Child, young toddler, and adult standing at window watching snow removal

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

And from Grogan’s STITCH, UNSTITCH !

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

This is from Myers’s WORKS AND DAYS (!)

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This is a wonderful read about (among other timely topics) the interaction of autonomous learning and organizing within institutionalized spaces.. and both of their interaction with the left.

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

One week from tomorrow, I’ll be reading and talking to Gina Meyers and Kristin Grogan about poetry and labor. We will be waxing on about the wageless and the low-waged labors that make up most of our lives. The bookstore is called Lot 49. Philadelphia, you are perfect!

Feb. 7th 6PM
poetry and labor a reading and discussion

Keegan Finberg, author of Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public

Kristin Grogan, author of Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work

Gina Myers, author of Works & Days

Lot 49 Books
408 E Girard
Philadelphia

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Philly-adjacent! On 1/27 at 4:15p ET I'll talk with Chris Newfield, Eleni Schirmer, and Jason Wozniak about the University Keywords book, but also how to approach the contemporary situation in US higher education. If you can't make it in person, you can join online. bit.ly/UniversityKeywords

Poster with green and yellow background, four moody black and white portraits all with interesting hair, and the green and yellow cover of University Keywords with the text:

Degrees, Debt, and the University: Andy Hines, Chris Newfield, Eleni Schirmer, and Jason Wozniak in conversation

January 27, 4:15p ET
Sproul 201, IC Dome
In-Person and Livestreamed
Free and open to the public

Supported by the Aydelotte Foundation and Swarthmore College Libraries

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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

#MLA26 might be over but you can still save 30% on all @columbiaup.bsky.social books in literary studies, including new books in poetry criticism by @xenoglossic.bsky.social, @kristingrogan.bsky.social, @keegancf.bsky.social, and @afilreis.bsky.social. Use the coupon code MLA! bit.ly/4jBA1fP

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I got to chat with @alixbeeston.bsky.social about Here Is a Figure for her @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! Alix asks such great questions, and it was really a joy to talk to her about where the book came from and what it’s about! If you’d like to listen: newbooksnetwork.com/here-is-a-fi...

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Sarah Dowling, "Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form" (Northwestern UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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The Elizabeth Bowen Society @bowensociety.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Proposals invited: special issue: *Feminist Modernist Exiles*, to show how women’s ongoing experiences of transnational, transcultural, and translingual experiences in voluntary and involuntary exile continue to generate new forms of feminist modernism. Info: phyllisl @ northwestern .edu

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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I'm not at MLA but my book is, hanging out with @keegancf.bsky.social and flirting with Joe Brainard, as is only right

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

This was published in the dead week between Christmas and New Year’s. If you work in education & were, reasonably, taking a break, maybe you missed it. Don’t miss it.

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The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.

All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.

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