Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 13/01/2026New issue of Mediations mediationsjournal.orgmediationsjournal.orgMediations : Journal of the Marxist Literary GroupThe journal of the Marxist Literary Group. Publishes cultural theory, critical history, philosophy, literary criticism, and reviews. Issued twice yearly. 021
Reposted by Tom LANSUT @ansut.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Behind every inspired student is a dedicated educator. Contract academic staff teach up to 50% of undergrad courses in some faculties, shaping the future despite uncertain working conditions. Let’s value their contributions. #ANSUTstandswithCAS @dalfaculty.bsky.social @cupe3912.bsky.social 146
Reposted by Tom LCAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 17/09/2025On August 20, the Dalhousie University administration locked out its nearly 1,000 faculty, librarians, counsellors and instructors. Learn more about academic staff association strikes and lockets over the last decade in the latest Bulletin: www.caut.ca/bulletin/aca... 023
Reposted by Tom LPrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 12/01/2026For @theartnewspaper.bsky.social, @tobiascarroll.bsky.social reviews Thomas Crow’s Murder in the Rue Marat: “In Crow’s hands, David’s painting and its legacy crystallise into something truly revelatory.”theartnewspaper.comNew book tells the tale of David's ‘Death of Marat’ through the eyes of a lifelong admirerArt historian’s dissection of famous work is as much about the painting as his decades-long obsession with it 052
Reposted by Tom LAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/01/2026happy first day of school to semester colleagues please enjoy this jameson syllabus from January 1996 821646
Reposted by Tom LDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Volume 50 of the journal Eighteenth-Century Life kicks off with "Marine Worlds of the Long Eighteenth-Century," a special issue edited by Killian Quigley, Kate Fullagar, & Kristie Patricia Flannery. buff.ly/9GFoGES 032
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Although manufactured by the Australian Boot Company, Blundstones are, in fact, the official boot of Toronto 000
Reposted by Tom LOnes and Tooze @onesandtooze.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Episode #205: The Scale of China @adamtooze.bsky.social recently spent a month traveling around China. He and Cameron Abadi discuss the vast scale of the country and how its size bears on China's economic, political, and historical role in the world: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comThe Scale of ChinaPodcast Episode · Ones and Tooze · 08/22/2025 · 56m 011
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 26/08/2025The Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST) in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the area of Philosophy of Science and/or Technology.jobs.utoronto.caAssistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or TechnologyAssistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology 010
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Having completed Eagleton's recent book on "Cambridge" Criticism (Eliot, Richards, Empson, Leavis, Williams) and then followed it up with Simon During's latest on the new "conservative" turn in literary studies, I felt inspired to pick up Leavis himself and dive into New Bearings in English Poetry. 110
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 05/01/2025podcasts.apple.comHeterodox Economists, Part 3: Hyman MinskyPodcast Episode · Ones and Tooze · 2025-01-03 · 35m 010
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 05/01/2025/ 20 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 000
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 05/01/2025/ 19 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 010
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 04/01/2025/ 18 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 000
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 03/01/2025/ 17 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 020
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 02/01/2025/ 16 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers 000
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 02/01/2025/ 15 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 010
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 31/12/2024/ 14 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 000
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 30/12/2024/ 13 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 000
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 29/12/2024/ 12 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 010
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 29/12/2024'The sky is grey, the creature feels the weight of the stone in her hand. A being stirs into life. She is like the giraffe, who does not know she is a monster.' 000
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 28/12/2024/ 11 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 010
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 27/12/2024/ 10 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 000
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 26/12/2024/ 9 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 020
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 25/12/2024/ 8 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 010
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 23/12/2024/ 7 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 010
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 22/12/2024/ 6 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 010
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 22/12/2024/ 5 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 010
Reposted by Tom LTate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 21/12/2024Harold Jones, The Black Door, 1935 botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont… 29410
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 21/12/2024/ 4 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 010
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 17/12/2024/ 3 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 010
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 16/12/2024/ 2 Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 000
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 15/12/2024OK, I'll play Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 010
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024My musings on Fredric Jameson's The Benjamin Files now in a special cluster of reflection pieces published in the latest issue of symploke. Shout out to @roberttally.bsky.social for organizing! Screenshots of first and last pages as a teaser muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic... 051
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 05/12/2024theglobeandmail.comFamily doctors could handle nearly 15% of emergency room visits in Canada, report findsFigure from recent Canadian Institute for Health Information analysis represents about 1.2 million emergency visits 000
Reposted by Tom LThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/12/2024Israel’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide, Amnesty International report findstheguardian.comIsrael’s war in Gaza amounts to genocide, Amnesty International report findsHuman rights group says Israel ‘brazenly, continuously and with total impunity … unleashed hell’ on strip’s 2.3m population A report from Amnesty International alleges that Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip constitutes the crime of genocide… 461048497
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article ‘The thing to emphasize about this characteristically lucid self-retrospection is [Raymond] Williams’s persistent materialism: /1 120
Reposted by Tom LAgon Hamza @agonhamza.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Quentin Meillassoux: 'Mallarmé’s Poetry of the Void' www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/11...theparisreview.orgMallarmé’s Poetry of the Void - The Paris Review“Did Poetry take place?” 0102
Reposted by Tom LAaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Important new white paper on how to fight back against big tech and democratize the internet! www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...ucl.ac.ukReclaiming digital sovereigntyAuthored by Cecilia Rikap, Cédric Durand, Paolo Gerbaudo, Paris Marx and Edemilson Paraná 03011
Reposted by Tom LMIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Ray Johnson, like Emily Dickinson, dreamed of an unworldly art: the sheen without the moon. This week on The Reader, an excerpt from Ellen Levy's stunning full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life & work of Ray Johnson, a collagist and pioneer of mail art: buff.ly/4eXyo89 thereader.mitpress.mit.eduRay Johnson and Emily Dickinson’s Quiet CorrespondenceThe elusive correspondence artist saw himself reflected in the writer of enigmatic letters to the world. 0101
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024What are some short poems that you think lend themselves especially well to the instruction of close-reading skills? Bonus points if they tend to stump AI. Two of my faves are Sylvia Plath's Morning Song and Blake's The Tyger 000
Tom L @tom-laughlin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Interview w/ @brunoleipold.com 'Three traditions have usually been considered to influence Karl Marx’s work: German philosophy, British political economy, and French socialism. Perhaps surprisingly, much less attention has been paid to the influence of republicanism.' jacobin.com/2024/12/marx...jacobin.comHow Karl Marx Became a CommunistIn his new biography of Karl Marx, Bruno Leipold puts his subject in historical context. Marx, he tells Jacobin, was engaged in a political struggle against utopian communists and republicans unable t... 064
Reposted by Tom LMIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 03/12/2024"Darwinizing Gaia is a terrific book: imaginative, thoughtful, informed, and remarkably clear. ... A romp in Darwin's garden of ideas.” W. Ford Doolittle's "Darwinizing Gaia" is out today (and available in a freely downloadable #openaccess edition!): buff.ly/4i14VwW 051
Reposted by Tom LJournal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 03/12/2024The new issue of the journal features the second installment of Sophie Smith’s two-part article, “Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century: Activists, Academics, and the Future"—open access for the next few weeks. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic... 1167
Reposted by Tom LThe Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 01/12/2024What will enter the #publicdomain in 2025? Each day through December we’ll open a window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights! publicdomainreview.org/features/ent... (+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.) 29767
