Check out my review of Calum Matheson's "Post-Weird: Fragmentation, Community, and the Decline of the Mainstream," an excellent book of psychoanalytic rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and overall anti-rhetorical weirdness if I do say so myself! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article dropped! In Critical Studies in Media Communication, I write about how trans people have made 4chan their own and how queer media scholars should deal with online queer subcultures when they fail to show up as icons of progress. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@reedvanschenck.bsky.social and I popped another red pill and suffered mild neurological damage by reading more Curtis Yarvin. This time, we look at his views on climate change, Keynesianism, and race - and how they are surfacing as policy. rolfstromolsen.substack.com/p/ep-06-curt...

Rolf and I are on a roll! Everything you never wanted to know about Curtis Yarvin, the cartoonishly-evil thinker behind the tech right with even more cartoonish ideas about U.S. history.

Reed @reedvanschenck.bsky.social and I have been reading Curtis Yarvin for our podcast so you don't have to. The first part looks at all the reasons why you should be thankful for that. rolfstromolsen.substack.com/p/ep-04-curt...

"Who's city is it Chief? Bovino: "It's our fucking city." And that, in a nutshell, is the problem. It is not a democracy when men with guns and uniforms believe they have more control over a city than its residents.

I'm very proud to announce that "Digital Platforms and Agency" is live! Check out the special section published by Lateral, the journal of the Cultural Studies Association. My colleague Elaine and I worked very hard to curate this selection of essays. csalateral.org/archive/sect...

Grab your free copy of "Gamer Publics," one of my recent publications about live-streamed debate and argument among gamers. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QSI6X...

Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business

I'm going live at the top of the hour to discuss queer critical challenges to/through AI on Breaking Culture! Join us www.youtube.com/@BreakingCul.... Or if you want to join the Zoom to ask a question, DM me.

In our latest podcast episode, @reedvanschenck.bsky.social and I look at Shmitt's "The Concept of the Political" and explore how his idea of the Friend/Enemy dynamic is increasingly relevant to the volatile polarization in our modern democracies. rolfstromolsen.substack.com/p/179403645?

It's finally live! Listen to "While Our Students Are Sleeping." Join me and Rolf as we dissect political theory for our students. Our first few episodes are about Carl Schmitt, trad-cath Nazi jurist. All relation to current events is strictly non-coincidential. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

In IE Insights today, I write that Europe needs to de-risk from the U.S. or face a major, digitally-mediated identity crisis. www.ie.edu/insights/art...

New article just dropped! "Christian Nationalism as Media" explores how the political identity of Christian Nationalism retrieves racist and sexist ideas of the human through its obsession with owning and controlling the media. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Just pasted the whole book in 1 word doc. I only have to trim a minimum of 800 words! I'd like to thank my 10th grade English teacher.

They are priming themselves to lead MAGA after Trump, a kind of fascist theocracy.

Pretty crazy how "America is a legit, no bullshit fascist country" is now a NYT headline.

In 2019 Nick Fuentes' neo-Nazi "Groypers" engaged in a systematic campaign to harass Charlie Kirk at his events for not being racist enough. He responded by becoming more racist. www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-gr...

Check out this resource library NCA has launched! "Addressing Authoritarianism" is a resource to enable successful pedagogical, research, creative, and administrative interventions into authoritarianism and fascism. www.natcom.org/addressing-a...

Check out my review of @transform6789.bsky.social's fascinating and all-too-timely book Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason's Siege. And if that doesn't sound like too much nausea for a summer, read the book!!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"This silence has made a mockery of the slogan 'Never again,' transforming its meaning from an assertion of resistance to inhumanity wherever it is perpetrated to an excuse, an apology, indeed, even a carte blanche for destroying others by invoking one’s own past victimhood."

Wow @reedvanschenck.bsky.social absolutely killing it on the top papers of ethnicity race & comm panel w their paper on white supremacists, Telegram, and interfaces

Ding ding ding

I just signed a book contract! The Reactionary Web is a book about why white supremacists manage to stay online, and what that teaches us about the racist conceits of the internet at large. Coming in 2026 from @brisunipress.bsky.social

This happened a couple years ago, and the group that did it has not fared well since, but the point stands.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Israel, "We do not trade with a genocidal state"

So basically, there was a Signal chat with tech folks and some Harpers Letter writers, and the Harpers folk were chased out when Andreessen realized they would not go along with censorship. But the tech guys stuck with Chris Rufo. www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

Seems like all those tactics people have been using to diminish the value of Tesla have worked more effectively than both the legislative and judicial branches.

A "sex" that's immutable even if you change every single sex characteristic you have is not a biological one actually

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

Pope Francis staying alive long enough to insult JD Vance is an amazing exercise in will. May his memory be a blessing.

Wow Punked JD Vance and then just dropped the ultimate mic Hall of fame hater moment RIP to a real one

I'm not sure how it is possible to burn cold brew but the Starbucks next to campus found a way.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

One more re-up for my hissy fit about wolves. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

in so much news coverage there’s still this sense of propriety and decorum in the face of an outright assault on our civil and human rights. i just want to remind journalists that your politeness will not save you—so you might as well say what you really mean.

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

In my element! Had a great time coaching the media team during the #iehonorsprogram

This has been the "alt tech" end game. Build infrastructure (platforms for now) to self-isolate from governance, which Torba displaces onto the Third World. The real question is -- What can we do to build an Internet that doesn't give so much power to racists who happen to own web infrastructure?

Sign to support the reinstatement of Dr. Ricky Crano, a phenomenal colleague whose scholarship and activism have put him in the crosshairs of an institution complying with the regime. actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...

If you're new here: a critical tech and Internet culture starter pack I made last year, featuring some of my favourites. There are a few bigger accounts here, but the point is mostly to point folks to voices and people they might not otherwise find go.bsky.app/VFxSES6

Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡 Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.

they’re already calling for eradication openly in friendly ABC news interviews

Joshua Lee Atwood, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, was in court last week for a "status hearing on charges connected with a stabbing at a Chester restaurant in April 2023." Atwood is now the 9th pardoned Capitol Rioter to be arrested or face additional criminal charges since Trump's pardons. ⬇️

I, for one, am shocked to discover that the big metrics, attractive name, hot takes journal that makes you pay APCs cares more about workflow efficiency than quality of scholarship.