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kenoma.bsky.social @kenoma.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Reminder, for folks in the business of comparing literatures, to propose to this ACLA panel trying to figure out what Exemplarity and Comparability amount to - abstracts due Sep 22
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Contemporaries at Post45 @atpost45.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New cluster, new cluster!! 🚨💡 💌 💫 💌 💡 Come to post45.org/contemporari... to read "Asian American Mass Culture," edited by Leland Tabares and Timothy K. August! post45.org/sections/con...
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Contemporaries – Post45
Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...
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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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All Grim Prints @allgrim.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Just crossed $500! Win it! Fuck ICE! donorbox.org/marxopoly-ag...
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Marxopoly Against ICE | All Grim Prints (Powered by Donorbox)
I’m Adam Ahlgrim of www.allgrimprints.shop. I decided to raffle off this hand-made Marx Monopoly board to help raise a bit of money to support the Immigrant Defenders Law Center. Fascism is sickening ...
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kenoma.bsky.social @kenoma.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Exemplarity and Comparability seminar at ACLA next year: how do we pick our examples, and how do we decide what to compare? Chaired by Alya Ansari and Carson Welch, abstracts due end of August: www.acla.org/seminar/c983...
Exemplarity and Comparability
Organizers: Carson Welch, Alya Ansari
The selection of "cases" is a fundamental aspect of literary criticism. As early as 1952, Erich Auerbach observed that choosing a proper Ansatzpunkt is an important task for...
Keywords: exemplarity, comparison,
Criticism, Method, judgement
Date Submitted: June 24, 2026•ACLA
American Comparative Literature Association
This seminar scrutinizes the process by which we make claims on the basis of exemplarity or comparability. These claims are at once aesthetic and conceptual: aesthetic, in the sense that what leads us to single out a set of passages for scrutiny or comparison is often, effectively, our intuition; conceptual, to the extent that what justifies a selection is the coherence of the argument built around it. We would like to explore more rigorously the nature of these judgments which quietly undergird the field's critical practice.
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Pavel Andrade @pavelandrade.com · 30/07/2026
Combined and uneven modernism seminar for the upcoming ACLA. In person, U of Houston, 20-23 May, 2027. How do peripheral literatures register, model, and think the historical and material configurations of the world system? www.acla.org/seminar/f2f2...
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View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association
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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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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Many faculty have been sounding the alarm about the problems generative AI poses for student learning. Strangely, some higher ed administrations seem have emerged as major AI boosters. Why? As I write in the latest @hedgehogreview.bsky.social it's a labor story: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...
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Tommy Craggs @tcraggs22.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Was not counting on being moved by any "Infinite Jest"-at-30 essays. And but then @pauline2k.bsky.social performed a tour de force of reparative reading. This is so lovely! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/infinity-plu...
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Infinity Plus One
You’d never mistake one of his sentences for anyone else’s. At a time when the worst thing you could be was a poser, Wallace was obviously and overtly himself.
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Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
My book is now available for pre-order!
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Beneath The Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work - Zone Books
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
new issue of MEDIATIONS! "Transitions" globalization, commodity form, financialization, development and so many genres thereof mediationsjournal.org
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Mediations : Journal of the Marxist Literary Group
The journal of the Marxist Literary Group. Publishes cultural theory, critical history, philosophy, literary criticism, and reviews. Issued twice yearly.
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Rosa Press @rosa-collective.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Rosa Press has collated a folio of tributes in memory of our friend Joshua Clover. Please read pieces by @lalouverouge.bsky.social @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social @charmainechua.bsky.social Oki Sogumi, Mark Steven, @andrew-brooks.bsky.social + @alorange.bsky.social here: rosapress.net/joshua-clove...
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Joshua Clover, 1962–2025 – Rosa Press
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Clear-eyed, strategic analysis from @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social at @thedrift-mag.bsky.social: "I’m not sure that the [pro-Palestine] movement has saved a single life, and that’s extremely sobering. It speaks to the fact that we don’t live in a democracy; + www.thedriftmag.com/we-will-not-...
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“We Will Not Win on Our Own”
In April 2024, Columbia’s administration brought in the New York Police Department to dismantle the tents that had been set up by pro-Palestinian protesters occupying the university’s South Lawn.
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kenoma.bsky.social @kenoma.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
last time for everything
The song lists a series of things that you will do for the last time. The examples are universal but sort of dudely, wide-ranging but white as fuck, and steeped in small town nostalgia: using a fake ID, making out in a car, asking SuperCuts for a mullet, last time for everything. What distinguishes these from things you do for the first time is not that it’s the last time but that you do not know it’s the last time when it’s happening. You think you will come back to this beach, have another summer, feel this love a second time. You won’t, last time for everything. This is what the boys of summer don’t yet know, and it is about them.

Lit by heartland virtue, the song seems sort of sentimental and possibly boring. Then it scales up. At the end of the second verse, Paisley remembers “Watching Glenn Frey sing “Already Gone” at the Forum in LA.” Run the chorus, now gone dark: “last call, last chance, last song, last dance.” Frey was already gone two years. There’s a last breath for everyone. But we still don’t know what’s coming. We find out 100 seconds later.That could be it but it isn’t. With 21 seconds left, already too late for anything new to happen, after an almost bored “last time for everything,” we arrive at the final enumeration, there’s a last item for everything, “…hearing Prince sing “Purple Rain,”” but this he sings with a sudden abandon, breaking into falsetto that heads for the heavens as it trails off and I want to assure you it is the first Black reference in the entire song and you suddenly recognize that this is not a blind spot but a strategy, that the song’s naïveté and predictability and invocation of the fucking Eagles were all a long and patient way to make it okay for country to talk about this, except that all talk ends there, there’s a last line for everything, and it is at this moment that you can hear how the guitar’s rolling arpeggio has been calling down “Purple Rain” the whole time, since the very beginning, and that the song is the first great elegy for the last great star.

It’s heartbreaking. Prince is dead and Glenn Frey is dead and Don Henley is the “Boys of Summer” guy. Your tomb is Paisley Park or the Hotel California or it’s Eighties Radio. Henley is there, “Boys of Summer” was the last time for him, the last song he made that mattered, he is there looking backward from the autumn of 1984 from which he would not escape, suspended there between never go out of style and already gone.
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