One of the times I've worked with Brim's book was for this conference paper on Virginia Woolf, academia, and fascism (among other topics): matthewcheney.net/blog/poor-qu...

This piece by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social about the revolution necessary for universities in the US to survive in any meaningful form is right on target. Boards of trustees have become enemies of education. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

NEW! 1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

Just, you know, apropos of nothing. cc: @zunguzungu.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

In the latest installment of my series on Trump administration overreach, I discuss the Dept of Education "Dear Colleague" letter condemning race-based preferences and also seemingly (but maybe not actually) condemning even classroom statements promoting equality or recognizing racism exists.

Great letter from my colleagues @sbagen.bsky.social, @mjschlanger.bsky.social and other legal scholars across the country explaining why it is not necessary to start eliminating university programs because Trump

This is a good resource to start but I suspect is missing academic research that is being removed in advance from various organizations that rely on grants etc. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Un...

The American Sociological Association joins the American Federation of Teachers in filing suit over the Dear Colleague letter. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

We had a great discussion of the Dear Colleague letter to universities in class Thursday and I have all of you to thank for it. I promised I'd report back, so here goes.