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Leigh Claire La Berge @lclaberge.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Excited for this to be in the world soon; my own contribution: the Family Foucault, my family, that is.

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I'm organising (with Hunter Phillips) 2 sessions at @kzooicms.bsky.social on RETHINKING ECOTHEORY! (Sponsored by Medieval Ecocriticisms) Please apply (by 11/15) for either DISENTANGLING ECOCRITICISMS (tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S1) or DISAPPOINTING ECOCRITICISMS (tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S2).

CALL FOR PAPERS: ICMS (KALAMAZOO) 2027
RETHINKING ECOTHEORY
This pair of sessions (sponsored by Medieval Ecocriticisms) questions ‘entanglement’ as the predominant idiom of ecocritical thinking, arguing that the medieval past both yields and necessitates alternative ways of thinking about our ecological investments, both affective and ontological. Drawing upon recent critiques (e.g. Swarbick and Tremblay 2024), this pair of sessions interrogates the limits of ‘enmeshment’ as the predominant idiom for ecocritical approaches to the premodern past. Although the (specifically European) premodern past is often identified as ‘The Green Middle Ages’ (e.g. Chavannes-Mazel 2023, Kehnel 2024), these sessions question the recuperation of this period as one of ethical, reciprocal, and harmonious relations between humans and the natural world.
Session 1: DISENTANGLING ECOCRTICISMS
How can ecocritical discourse benefit from attuning to bodies and environments in the Middle Ages for whom entanglement is either a problem or an impossibility? We welcome papers that “rethink nature as a limit” (Swarbrick & Tremblay, 2024), considering how the natural world or “Nature” in the Middle Ages makes demands on precarious bodies in a precarious world where uncomfortable boundaries trouble or refuse entangled thinking. APPLY: tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S1
Session 2: DISAPPOINTING ECOCRITICISMS
We invite papers which grapple with the disappointing, dissatisfying, and disconcerting relationalities embedded within medieval ecological imaginaries or practices, or the ways in which the premodern past eludes our desire for eco-motional rescue. We welcome papers from any area of medieval studies that explore the bad feelings that attend medieval relations with the environment, and problematize contemporary theorisations of a harmonious, reciprocal mesh. APPLY: tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S2
DEADLINE: SEPT 15
Contact: Hunter Allen Phillips (hap48@cornell.edu) and Basil Arnould Price (basil.price@oneonta.edu)

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I’m reading Paradise Lost for the first time and it’s just such a fuckin banger. Line after line of pure brilliance. It’s such a privilege to read this poem slowly.

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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Three new books out today! -The 3rd book in Mary Logue's Brigid Reardon Mystery series is set in Salt Lake City, 1881. -A visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation by Reid Gómez. -A manifesto on political masochism by Steven Swarbrick in our Forerunners series.

Book cover for A Wasp in the Beehive: A Brigid Reardon Mystery by Mary Logue. Nineteenth-century photograph in orange and brown tones of commercial buildings along a dirt street in a western, mountain town. Title in sky above.

Book cover for The Web of Differing Visions: Where Africa Ends and America Begins by Reid Gómez. Complex layered image of foliage and trees in background. Title and author at top and bottom in large lavender letters; subtitle in center in gold.

Book cover for Divest: An Essay on Political Masochism by Steven Swarbrick. Coral color background with pea-green and white sans-serif font and Forerunners series detail element at lower right corner.

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

My forthcoming book, DIVEST, is available for preorder. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148... Get 30% off using the discount code below. That’s less than a cup of coffee in some places! @uminnpress.bsky.social

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Leah Pennywark @lpennywark.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

"We might not win in the end, but even in the attempt to resist, we will salvage some of our humanity." Thomas Dekeyser's @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social TECHNO-NEGATIVE is a Lit Hub most anticipated book of 2026! lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026

After the year we’ve had, there’s no predicting anything about the year that’s to come. But whatever else might be fated to happen (to us) in 2026, there will definitely be books,…

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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

THE EARTH IS EVIL by @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social examines the connection between subjectivity and lack, arguing for a destituent ecology that sees lack as the universalist core of social, political, and environmental struggles. Save 40% when you order now: bit.ly/48bvDjr

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Read below for an excellent review/ distillation of Negative Life. Many thanks, Anda! “Negative Life is an insightful critical work, in tune with the contemporary aesthetic and conceptual landscape. It might just be the horror-inflected revitalizing read we all need.”

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Northwestern University Press @nupress.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

There's a shadow in the doorway and something keeps rattling the window. We fear we might be....HAUNTED. What better way to soothe restless spirits than offer them our books? From now through Nov 1, they (and you) can get 40% off using discount code HAUNTED at checkout. nupress.northwestern.edu

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🦉whooooooo would like to buy Here Is a Figure for 40% off?? 🦇🦇🦇

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

A truly forward thinking editor, generous mind and interlocutor. Thanks for everything, @noctambulate.bsky.social.

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Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Fourth in the ASAP/16 Book Prize shortlist is Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s NEGATIVE LIFE: THE CINEMA OF EXTINCTION from @nupress. The winner of the prize will be announced at our conference in Houston in a few weeks. Please join us!

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Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize! Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information. 1/4

Sarah Dimick- Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (Columbia UP)

Kency Cornejo- Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America (Duke UP)

Brooke Belisle- Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation (University of California Press)

Steven Swarbrick & Jean-Thomas Tremblay- Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP)

Amber Jamilla Musser- Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke UP)

Christopher T. Fan- Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP)

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

New book! The Earth Is Evil is short and punchy ecocriticism, featured in the Provocations series @univnebpress.bsky.social, and available Oct 1. Pre-orders are hitting mailboxes now. 40% off with code 6AF25. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026? Submit an abstract to Dan Reeve and I's CFP: "BEYOND TOUCH: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" We invite submissions for 15-20 minute papers that examine queer and trans temporalities from new and unexpected angles. #IMC2026. Full CFP below 👇

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I’m thrilled that Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, coauthored with @jttremblay.bsky.social, is a finalist for the ASLE #ecocriticism book award 👀🔥 Congrats to the other finalists. @nupress.bsky.social

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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Judges have announced the finalists for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards in #ecocriticism and #environmental creative writing! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky

Stack of books with rock on top, photo by Robert Thorson

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Jean-Thomas Tremblay @jttremblay.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I'm happy to share that Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, coauthored with @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social, has been nominated for the ASLE Ecocritical Book Award. The winner will be announced on July 9. @nupress.bsky.social

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Leigh Claire La Berge @lclaberge.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

My first sighting of "Fake Work" out in the wild. I'll be doing my first Fake Event tomorrow, and then others throughout the month of June. I've been sitting with this book for 25 years, literally, and I'm so excited/anxious to see its reception.

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

The shapes of a book to come. Out October 2025. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

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Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The first essay from my Solanas project @criticalinquiry.bsky.social 🖤 "Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind" www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... bit.ly/valeriesolanas

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differences @differences.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

join us in Providence on March 7th for Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique — a colloquium featuring Lynne Huffer, Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...

Poster for a colloquium titled "Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique." White and yellow text on black background. Logos in the bottom corners indicate that the event is sponsored by differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies and the Pembroke Center at Brown University.

Poster for a colloquium titled "Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique." White and yellow text on black background. The description reads: "Ecocriticism has been seduced by metaphors of entanglement. Four critics challenge the increasingly dominant logic of relationality to think the climate crisis without displacing the social and racial antagonisms that found it." Below this description is a list of participants: Lynne Huffer (Emory), Axelle Karera (Emory), Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo (Brown), and Jean-Thomas Tremblay (York), with Elizabeth A. Wilson (Emory) moderating. The event will take place on March 7th from 2pm to 6pm at Brown University in Pembroke Hall 305.

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Very fun book!! I also really like their critique of “entanglement” tropes in ecocriticism—that word always makes me think of a sea turtle caught in a discarded net!

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

For funsies I started reading @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social and @jttremblay.bsky.social NEGATIVE LIFE, and it scratches my itches, bc I too am irritated by the 'only connect' clichés of so much ecocriticism + I'm a fan of the movies they're doing, eg, FIRST COW, Pösler's THE WALL.

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Jean-Thomas Tremblay @jttremblay.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Ami.e.s à Montréal: this, with @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social, is happening Thursday and Friday at McGill. January 16 lecture open to all / January 17 workshop by registration only at www.sexintheory.org. 🐄

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I spy NEGATIVE LIFE along with other great @nupress.bsky.social titles. Get 30% off using discount code MLA30

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Rethinking Institutions CFP deadline tomorrow for the next Marxist Reading Group! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...

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High Theory Podcast @hightheorypodcast.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

NEW EPISODE: NEGATIVE LIFE STEVEN SWARBRICK ( @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social ) and JEAN-THOMAS TREMBLAY ( @jttremblay.bsky.social ) name the misalignment of individual and species survival, as condition of thought and film. hightheory.net/2025/01/08/n... @nupress.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PodSky

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

MLA-goers, please mark your calendars for “Freud’s Ecology” on Jan 10 at noon! There will be spit, critters, and symptoms galore! 🐀 mla.confex.com/mla/2025/mee...

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

MLA-goers, please mark your calendars for “Freud’s Ecology” on Jan 10 at noon! There will be spit, critters, and symptoms galore! 🐀 mla.confex.com/mla/2025/mee...

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Thrilled to be joining Sex in Theory at McGill in January! @jttremblay.bsky.social and I will be discussing our new book Negative Life and sharing works in progress. Should be fun! @nupress.bsky.social nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014719...

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

HAPPY PUB DAY TO MY BOOK!!!! If you’d like to join me for a celebratory reading at 12:30 EST, please DM for a link! I started thinking about this project in 2013-2014, and I’m very excited for it to finally spread its book wings and fly away. nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014790...

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Here Is a Figure - Northwestern University Press

A study of supine, prone, and recumbent figures in contemporary literature The prostitute, the protester, the murder victim, the invalid, the layabout, the d...

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

My book HERE IS A FIGURE, which will be published in a mere 19 days, is currently on sale! 50% off with the code MITTENS at checkout!! nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014790...

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Here Is a Figure - Northwestern University Press

A study of supine, prone, and recumbent figures in contemporary literature The prostitute, the protester, the murder victim, the invalid, the layabout, the d...

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David Cecchetto @davidcecchetto.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

With the many absurd #SCMS2025 rejections today, seems apt to mention the SLSA CFP is out here: litsciarts.org/2024/11/09/s... SLSA interprets its annual themes extremely capaciously, and chooses venues with the aim to accommodate the vast majority of apps—consider repurposing your panels for it!

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SLSA 2025 CFP: “Risk” | Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts

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