Out now! Read Tianren Luo's essay on Cai Guo-Qiang's *The Rising Dragon* (2025) and the project's "entanglements in the longue durée of extractivism under the settler-colonial regime in Tibet." asapjournal.com/feature/on-e...

Your 20 most-read Hopkins Press journal articles in January ask big questions: What are human rights? What is cancer? Why feminist bioethics? These questions, and much more, await you at the Newsroom Blog! Peruse the pieces you read most last month now: www.press.jhu.edu/ne...

“ … women-of-color liberation movements have always been, and always will be, disability justice movements.” Our newest review of Jina B. Kim's book, Care at the End of the World, by Augusta Funk is now out! asapjournal.com/review/liber...

Read Julia L Mueller's review of C Hovanec's *Notes on Vermin*: “The relational character that defines vermin as a category...is deeply tied to the visceral responses of 20/21st-century humans to verminous animals, to these literary vermin gnawing away...” asapjournal.com/review/revie...

"The Politics of Collecting promises no easy curative or reparative reading. Instead, it argues that the only just way forward might be wholesale abolition of the art museum and the art world as we know it." an exhilarating review of my book by Laura Vrana! @dukepress.bsky.social

Our newest Uncanny Juxtaposition piece by Kristen Lauritzen is out now: “Goodman [...] questions the divide between man and beast; Carrington’s art likewise contradicts the anthropocentric hierarchy, offering an alternative relationship between humankind and nature.” asapjournal.com/review/uncan...

"What Inner Feast and Group Lick represent is that art does not live in isolation from its site—and in these two cases, its communities." Written by shuang cai, our newest Uncanny Juxtaposition piece covers consumption, digestion, community—check it out! asapjournal.com/review/uncan...

This essay is featured in this week's edition of the Best of Arts & Culture: buff.ly/oGGfb7S

HBO’s "The Last of Us" lays bare humanity’s relationship with violence, but it succumbs to the limits of its genre. This piece argues that the show devolves into a binary Western where survival and revenge overwrite deeper questions. By Michael Autrey in @asapjournal.bsky.social buff.ly/kzOxVTz

this is interesting and opens up questions about what adaptation does with this settler fantasy of western expansion written by someone who grew up as a settler in the west bank

“The Last of Us is a show of force, literally and figuratively.” Read our newest Uncanny Juxtaposition piece by Michael Autrey on The Last of Us and adaptations, force and power, questions of genre, and who gets to be hailed—and who excluded—within the word 'us'. asapjournal.com/review/the-l...

"What Inner Feast and Group Lick represent is that art does not live in isolation from its site—and in these two cases, its communities." Written by shuang cai, our newest Uncanny Juxtaposition piece covers consumption, digestion, community—check it out! asapjournal.com/review/uncan...

Our newest Uncanny Juxtaposition piece by Kristen Lauritzen is out now: “Goodman [...] questions the divide between man and beast; Carrington’s art likewise contradicts the anthropocentric hierarchy, offering an alternative relationship between humankind and nature.” asapjournal.com/review/uncan...

In our newest review, @callmevrana.bsky.social reads Eunsong Kim’s *The Politics of Collecting*: “Kim emphasizes that these exception(s) prove(s) the rule—the ongoing, pervasive rule of settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, and racial capitalism in the art world.” asapjournal.com/review/disma...

What's that? ASAP/Review now has an Instagram??? It's true! Tell all your friends and follow us over there for exciting new updates from your favorite journal: www.instagram.com/asap_journal/

In our newest review, @callmevrana.bsky.social reads Eunsong Kim’s *The Politics of Collecting*: “Kim emphasizes that these exception(s) prove(s) the rule—the ongoing, pervasive rule of settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, and racial capitalism in the art world.” asapjournal.com/review/disma...

Excited that this review I wrote of Eunsong Kim's extraordinary book The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property is now live on ASAP/Reviews! asapjournal.com/review/disma...

"Monstruous Beauty advances a practice of relational grievance—a mode that exposes the buried histories of Asian labor sustaining global beauty & fashion, that weaves feminist solidarities across the uneven geographies of racialized desire..." — Yunning Zhang asapjournal.com/review/ornat...

"Monstruous Beauty advances a practice of relational grievance—a mode that exposes the buried histories of Asian labor sustaining global beauty & fashion, that weaves feminist solidarities across the uneven geographies of racialized desire..." — Yunning Zhang asapjournal.com/review/ornat...

Finally, Christine Prevas writes on All of Us Strangers: “Haunting distorts the way time and space are meant to be lived—and, in this process, throws into relief the ways in which these same normative temporalities and spatialities organize...[a] life.” asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...

M. Stang explores the dubious origins of Halloween's most recognizable figure: “The white sheet persists as one of the most common decorative motifs for sale on box store shelves and displayed on front porches across the United States..." asapjournal.com/node/through...

On Saidiya Hartman and archives, A Banerjee writes: “To be in the archive is to be up against it, with dangerously little room to maneuver. Debilitation in the pursuit of archival discovery appears to itself be the primary discovery afforded by [it].” asapjournal.com/node/the-arc...

George Kowalik writes of Percival Everett's The Trees and the haunting of "Till’s body [as] an amalgamation of undead zombie, ghost, alien, and theistic possibility" as "Everett’s large cast of characters describes it as each of these..." asapjournal.com/node/past-an...

“Landscapes and objects can exude, even scream, violent hauntings by class, race, gender, sexuality, ableism, colonialism. For whom, then, is the peaceful violence of normative landscapes peaceful?” writes Dorinne Kondo on haunting and atmospheres. asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...

Irina Troconis writes of the animal, the animalistic, and—particularly—the reptilian occupation within a narrative: "It makes sense that animals are there, among the exiled and the displaced evoked in these fictions." asapjournal.com/node/of-frog...

@jshelat1.bsky.social and @keeblearin.bsky.social look at Jamil Jan Kochai's fiction as it "moves away from event-based narratives of 9/11 and the war on terror, and their depictions of psychological trauma," while various "forms of haunting pervade these stories..." asapjournal.com/node/jamil-j...

“In terms of the present, Native Hawai’i has fought back against the specter of attempted disappearance via hostile takeover and continued land occupation..." writes Nicole Dib, looking at the ways that people and the land write back. asapjournal.com/node/of-haun...

Editors @emmywaldman.bsky.social & David Hering beckon us into the world of hauntings and haunted worlds through the figure of the ghost: “Ghosts waver between substance and ether, visibility and invisibility, presence and absence, anticipation and retrospection." asapjournal.com/node/hauntin...

Our newest cluster is here... and it's (a-)LIVE!!! HAUNTINGS Edited by Emmy Waldman (@emmywaldman.bsky.social) & David Hering Feat: Nicole Dib Arin Keeble Jay Shelat Irina Troconis Dorinne Kondo George Kowalik A. Banerjee M. Stang Christine Prevas asapjournal.com/cluster/haun...

"The nation once reliant on its own objectification is infinitely cast into this role: a self-devouring ouroboros, the paradoxical snake endlessly chasing its tail..." writes Chichi Ayalogu in our newest review on Biafran history, visual culture, conflict, & more! asapjournal.com/review/digit...

Happy hauntings, all! This cluster has been a long time coming, and I bet its rich and suggestive essays will stick around for a long time to come!

Friends, @keeblearin.bsky.social and I have a new essay out at ASAP/Review about @jamiljankochai.bsky.social's "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak." It was a pleasure to work with Arin and with @davidhering.bsky.social and @emmywaldman.bsky.social! asapjournal.com/node/jamil-j...

Our newest cluster is here... and it's (a-)LIVE!!! HAUNTINGS Edited by Emmy Waldman (@emmywaldman.bsky.social) & David Hering Feat: Nicole Dib Arin Keeble Jay Shelat Irina Troconis Dorinne Kondo George Kowalik A. Banerjee M. Stang Christine Prevas asapjournal.com/cluster/haun...

Kicking off the month of December, we’ve got a brand new Feature for y’all: Robert Volpicelli interviews Craig Santos Perez on his poetry, poetics, and the project of “recycling modernism." Check it out now! asapjournal.com/feature/recy...

"In a foreseeable future of worldwide economic downturns, far-right growth, diminishing geo-social mobilities, and higher education crises, how do we sustain spaces of deep humanistic inquiry?" — Shiqi Lin, in our newest Uncanny Juxtapositions asapjournal.com/review/uncan...

In our newest review, Ella Gonzalez reads Marlene Dumas' exhibition, Cycladic Blues, which bridges the old & new: “...it is bodies that unite us as people and challenge us as viewers through our shared fleshiness and shared humanity—ancient and modern.” asapjournal.com/review/marle...

"The works look at the Great Migration and mirror the reverse-migration from North to South happening more frequently today. Taken together, they unexpectedly create a continuum exploring past and present Black movement across the US." — Ifeanyi Awachie asapjournal.com/review/uncan...

This month marks the one-year publication anniversary of SURVIVING THE LONG WARS. A labor of love in the commons. Grateful to see this 1st book review in @asapjournal.bsky.social; give it a read and buy a copy of the book for the holidays (linked in the comments): asapjournal.com/review/revie...

In our newest review, Julian O'Brien looks at the exhibition and book project, *Surviving the Long Wars: Creative Rebellion at the Ends of Empire* and analyzes the interplay between social movements, art, witnessing, aesthetics, and the artworld proper: asapjournal.com/review/revie...

New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen. vimeo.com/1116289621 🧵

The collection is awesome, algorithms are a lot like an occult practice. Hexing white supremacists, casting spells, tarot, astrology and more featuring @emmaquilty.bsky.social @aketchum22.bsky.social @xrw.bsky.social @drs.bsky.social @thechristinet.bsky.social @jessrauchberg.bsky.social

Seance and Technology Studies is for real, read the intro published by @asapjournal.bsky.social as part of "Algorithms and the Occult, or Chatbots are the New Psychic Friends Network" edited by @tamigraph.bsky.social @briana-v.bsky.social @jeffreymoro.com 🔮 asapjournal.com/node/seance-...

I reviewed Ben Mangrum’s new book, on the surprising range of American comedies about computers, for ASAP:

Check out our newest review by sselisker.bsky.social on Ben Mangrum's newest book about comedy, GenAI, phenomenology, slop, and more: "The Comedy of Computation offers a toolkit for understanding a load-bearing portion of the discourse about new technologies." asapjournal.com/review/revie...

Out now on @asapjournal.bsky.social : “No Rape Involved. Racial Fantasies and State Violence in One Battle After Another.” Many thanks, Michael and Tyler. Version française (légèrement modifiée) à paraître prochainement sur Zone Critique. asapjournal.com/review/no-ra...

📄 New Institute publication: Algorithms and the Occult asapjournal.com/cluster/algo... ASAP Review @asapjournal.bsky.social, cluster edited by @tamigraph.bsky.social @jeffreymoro.com @briana-v.bsky.social feat. Sigil Séance Against Space Billionaires w/ @lucileolympe.bsky.social

🔮Just in time for spooky season: A new cluster of essays in @asapjournal.bsky.social, edited by D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social and @briana-v.bsky.social, and @jeffreymoro.com, considers the relationships between algorithms and divination. 🔮 asapjournal.com/cluster/algo...

What does it mean for a film to be flagged as non-political? What counts as politics, and what is determined to be something else? Our newest review by @faniamakaya.bsky.social explores the racial & sexual vocabulary of PT Anderson's film, One Battle After Another. asapjournal.com/review/no-ra...

Thank you 🙏🏽 to @tamigraph.bsky.social, Jeffrey Moro, and Briana Vecchione for editing this cluster on Algorithms and the Occult for @asapjournal.bsky.social 🧙🏾 Always grateful to @xrw.bsky.social and AX Mina for, well, everything 🖤

<<click!>> Hexing the Patriarchy: The Feminist Politics of Everyday Resistance by @emmaquilty.bsky.social