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

New book, Divest, coming out in spring 2026 with @uminnpress.bsky.social 🍉 www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148...

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.”

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

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

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

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!

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

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...

Get 40% off my forthcoming book, The Earth Is Evil, with discount code 6AF25 www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... Out in October

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 👇

there are some amazing books on this list!! 🌿 congrats to @snarlsdickens.bsky.social @jttremblay.bsky.social @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social @jamieljones.bsky.social

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

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

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

I had a blast chatting with the grad student-run journal Soapbox about my solo and coauthored work. Topics include sex, negativity, ecology, and psychoanalysis. Full interview below. www.soapboxjournal.net/online-artic...

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.

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

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

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...

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!

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.

Low-key convinced nothing I post here matters, so doing a VERY SOFT LAUNCH of my next book, now on GoodReads and ready to be added to your Want to Read list 🐱 www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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. 🐄

It’s day 2 in the book exhibit at #mla25! Stop by and see us @uminnpress.bsky.social or check out our online exhibit at www.upress.umn.edu/mla25/

Two treasures from the @nupress.bsky.social table at MLA. Congrats, @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social!

Today at noon!

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

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

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

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...

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...

“A no vote must also be accompanied by taking steps to organize a strike.” Great essay by @oliviawood.bsky.social www.leftvoice.org/the-new-prop...

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...

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...

This—on radical environmentalism's necessary dissent from a liberal project of semantic repair—appears in the still-current issue of Critical Inquiry. DM me if you'd like a copy!

Thanks to Lindsay Jolivette and Alex Tischer for interviewing @jttremblay.bsky.social and me about our new book, Negative Life. Listen below on the ASLE EcoCast. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-8ggwq-... 🪸

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...

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!

Keep warm this winter with NEGATIVE LIFE 🔥, and get 50% off using discount code Mittens. @jttremblay.bsky.social nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014719...

First publication from my new Valerie Solanas projects, forthcoming with Critical Inquiry in early 2025 🖤 “Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind”

Thanks to the marvelous @julesod.bsky.social for interviewing @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social and me for the "New Books in Film" stream of the New Books Network. We discuss all things Negative Life, including the co-writing process, and we revisit some of the titles in our corpus.

Bay Area friends! Join @jttremblay.bsky.social and me tomorrow as we discuss our new book, NEGATIVE LIFE, with faculty and students at UC Berkeley. 3-5 PM. cici.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berk...

Back home after a stimulating Early Modern Trans Sexualities conference. Gus missed me.

Destroying, or making something new? "Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction" looks at twisted-nature films like ANNIHILATION about human identity crisis amid climate crisis. @nupress.bsky.social @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social @jttremblay.bsky.social #horror nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014719...

My new book, Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, coauthored with @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social, is out today. Author copies haven't crossed the US-Canada border yet, but, you know, coming out is a process. nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014719...

An excerpt from NEGATIVE LIFE, out August 15, is up on the @differences.bsky.social website! Many thanks to @scottjackshaw.bsky.social and the journal editors. #envhum #film

An excerpt from NEGATIVE LIFE's intro is now live! Many thanks to @scottjackshaw.bsky.social and the @differences.bsky.social editors. The full polemic, co-written with @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social, is out 8/15 from @nupress.bsky.social.

read more from Swarbrick and Tremblay in Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, forthcoming in August from @nupress.bsky.social: nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014719...

"We will not listen to the pastoral lesson. We will not remain at ecocriticism’s educative impasse" — read @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social and @jttremblay.bsky.social's "Ecocriticism against The Wall" on our online forum: differencesjournal.org/writing/ecoc...