Reposted by Seth BrodskyNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Today is the day! A journey that Astra and I started as an essay in The Guardian is now officially out in the world. End Times Fascism – And the Fight for the Living World is in bookstores now. If you are inclined, please buy one from an indie bookseller or borrow it from your local library. 431120304
Reposted by Seth BrodskyAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026ART IN THESE TIMES October 2-4! events free and open to all: exhibition of political art neighborhood party bookbinding workshop poetry reading theory reading group on Ranciere's The Paradoxes of Political Art join us!! #falloffreedom CHICAGO!! interccect.com/2026/09/10/a...interccect.comArt in These Times: an InterCcECT exhibitionART IN THESE TIMES affirms art’s special obligation to refuse authoritarian assaults on free thinking and creative making. Spotlighting works that circumvent familiar gestures of political ar… 13413
Reposted by Seth BrodskyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026if you want to speedrun developing the level of personal and political brainworms that were characteristic of the elites in the Confederacy I highly advise telling a chatbot all your problems 553890
Reposted by Seth BrodskyTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026RESULT: David Morales, a socialist challenger, has ousted the mayor of Providence David Smiley. Add Providence to NYC, DC, and Ann Arbor as socialist wins in mayoral elections. 463004575
Reposted by Seth BrodskyAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026happy labor day from your local bsky unionist! in one another there is power, in one another there is smarts, in one another there is joy, in one another we win 110118
Reposted by Seth BrodskyAndromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Questionnaire by Wendell Berry 91398509
Reposted by Seth BrodskyAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Raymond 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...bloomsbury.comRaymond Williams at 100Raymond Williams was “by common consent” one of the “two most commanding intellectual figures in the New Left that emerged in Britain at the t… 25915
Reposted by Seth BrodskyThe Onion @theonion.com · 31/08/2026‘Wall Street Journal’ Defends Decision To Publish Peggy Noonan–Generated Article theonion.com/wall-street-journal-de… 332693278
Reposted by Seth BrodskyOrdinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 29/08/2026She is still beautiful. 211210
Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Rereading Joshua Clover‘s book on the song Roadrunner & my god what a vortex of last pages, which were also among his own last pages. Really you must read it. 030
Reposted by Seth BrodskyBear Claw Billie (1590/5000) @bearclawbillie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026HEY THIS IS JUST A PAINTING OF A THEATER SHOWING COYOTE VS. ACME 23840895
Reposted by Seth BrodskyQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 20/08/2026Not that TAH will be dislodged from his lucrative lane of rage-baiting boomers (watch for the book-length version coming soon) but it is good to have this on the record by Andrew Baker analyzing the events at Bates with integrity and political perspective. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...newsletter.thedriftmag.comRacism and labor at Bates: the other side of the storyAndrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper 19425
Reposted by Seth BrodskyNadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026One of the things us an industry need to stop doing is perpetuating the 'they say this on social media, but they're a sweetheart in real life' about awful people I've had other journos say this to me about some of the most pernicious grifters over the years, some of who crossed many lines this week 502059251
Reposted by Seth BrodskyAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately. 542971825
Reposted by Seth BrodskyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026may need to print this and hang it on the wall in my office at this rate 334523591
Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · 17/08/2026🧵 on what Táíwò calls "Trojan horse propaganda." The Arday affair is so painful and cruel, but the political strategy must always be analyzed, again and again. 030
Reposted by Seth BrodskyQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 14/08/2026Eddington was a documentary with an alternate ending. www.fierce-network.com/cloud/oracle...fierce-network.comOracle does damage control after New Mexico data center backlashOracle is pitching fuel cells as a cleaner fix for its massive $165B Project Jupiter data center in Ne | Oracle swapped a gas plant for fuel cells to save its $165B Project Jupiter data center from ba... 1257
Reposted by Seth BrodskyAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 09/08/2026what does political art do? do artists have a special obligation to stand up against authoritarianism? one day left for proposals for ART IN THESE TIMES, part of #falloffreedom interccect.com/2026/08/01/a...interccect.comArt in These Times: an InterCcECT exhibitionIn conjunction with Fall of Freedom, which calls on artists to unite as a constituency specifically challenged by ascending authoritarian attacks on the freedom to learn and free association, Inter… 03314
Reposted by Seth BrodskyMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Over 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.theamericanvandal.comNeuroplasticity As A PraxisWe Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy 413339
Reposted by Seth BrodskyAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026introduction www.versobooks.com/products/303...versobooks.comImmediacy, or The Style of Too Late CapitalismContemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for ... 1312
Reposted by Seth BrodskyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/08/2026love to see it 225023
Reposted by Seth BrodskyTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Moar Please www.curbed.com/article/ken-...curbed.comAfter All That, Ken Griffin Is Not Leaving New YorkThe hedge-fund CEO made a big to-do about Mamdani’s pied-à-terre message but in the end is sticking to his 350 Park headquarters. 233643
Reposted by Seth BrodskyAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 02/08/2026the regime's aestheticization of politics has inspired so much publishing and posting! this is good! looking back, what was strong writing about obama aesthetics? especially keen for academic work (podcast version of current queries, in repayment) thebrooklyninstitute.com/podcasts/pod... 3195
Reposted by Seth BrodskyCongresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 30/07/2026Odyssey this. Odyssey that. We Odyssey ICE abolished. 362912548
Reposted by Seth BrodskyOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026cant believe nobody made a political compass out of this 1249356
Reposted by Seth Brodskythe abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 29/07/2026okay now we're really on a heater news.bloomberglaw.com/employee-ben...news.bloomberglaw.comDemocratic Socialists Win $5.2 Million NYU Retirement AccountA deceased New York University sociology professor’s $5.2 million retirement account will go to the Democratic Socialists of America Inc. based on his 50-year-old beneficiary designation favoring the ... 1662296
Reposted by Seth BrodskyAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026it'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.comagainst-a-i.comAGAINST AI - 09444
Reposted by Seth BrodskyMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Excellent, additive review of “Muskism” by @mrkocnnll.bsky.social in NYRB. 1192
Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · 27/07/2026One of the best piece of psychoanalytic critique in the past decade 0134
Reposted by Seth BrodskyAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026“This victory shows that universities should not capitulate to unjust and unconstitutional demands from the Trump administration,” Grundy added. “When we join together and fight, we win.” go AAUP and ACLU!! grow spines, university admin www.thedp.com/article/2026...thedp.comFederal agency drops subpoena seeking list of Jews at PennThe Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s July 2025 subpoena garnered widespread criticism on Penn’s campus. 05021
Seth Brodsky @sbrodsky.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Exactly why “drive” is not the right category for our moment: there is nothing less drive-like, in the psychoanalytic sense, than accumulation. 1315