Coming soon! I wrote the Foreword to the new edition of Lauren Berlant’s first book, The Anatomy of National Fantasy. Dig the killer new cover design, where Liberty is in a scaffold that looks a lot like a cage.

My essay in this latest issue of Theory&Event offers a new reading of Eichmann in Jerusalem — and the surrounding furor over Arendt’s read of the event — as symptomatic of the til now unnoted context of the McCarthyite moment to which Arendt was subtly responding in her book /1

In the new October, Josh Kline writes about how New York's real estate industry is killing its art world. No working artist can afford an apartment, much less a big studio to make ambitious work. direct.mit.edu/octo/article...

🚨NEW: Last year, the number of people incarcerated in the U.S. increased again. The driving factor? President Trump’s deportation agenda. Our annual report, The Whole Pie, gives the big picture of mass incarceration. Here are some key takeaways 🧵

New & Notable: A new take on a familiar classic: The lost Albini mixes of this Fugazi milestone are now available, with proceeds going to Letters Charity.

Coming soon from Princeton UP: new editions of 2 Jameson classics. The Prison-House of Language, Foreword by Paul North & me. Marxism & Form, Foreword by Sianne Ngai. The great early books where Jameson worked out his thinking about theory & form. Get some! press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Sentimentality is an underrated fash affect

Stephen Graham's Cities Under Siege is available as a free download. "Here’s urban geography as it looks like through the eye of a Predator at 25,000 feet. A fundamental and very scary report from the global red zone." - Mike Davis

Just watched the video of what looks to be another ICE murder in Minneapolis and thinking again of the incredible bravery of these protestors, facing out of control armed paramilitaries with only whistles and phone cameras.

M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"

Happy to have been part of this forum at @immanentframe.bsky.social on Latour, science, trads, punks, and the feeling of (being) discipline(d)! I focused on how leftism has increasingly been cast as the politics of "you can't" while "conservativism" has taken on the mantle of "do what thou wilt."

This book was incredible!!! Riveting, brilliant, funny, moving, relatable, all of it. I have rarely read a non-fiction book so fast and happily. Cannot recommend it enough to my humanist friends

“This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty and staff and students”—AAUP, one of the parties that brought the case against the Trump administration

"This section defines REASONS AND FEELINGS itself quite brilliantly: it’s a book working to avail itself of a different style of the “guide to writing” genre to attempt to know the world differently." Jon Hoel on Sarah Mesle, for #MassReviews: massreview.org/2025/10/28/w...

This book is officially out today. I feel pretty confident that everyone in my feed (academic and not) could use it — I certainly got a lot from reading it in process, and, also, hearing Sarah say these things to me live and in person over a period of many years. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

🚨🚨🚨 And THREE stood up! Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact. When we join together and fight back, WE WIN! No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent. LET’S GO! #DefendHigherEd @aaup-penn.bsky.social

Adding in some other LK pieces into the thread. A recent short interview with TYR bsky.app/profile/yale...

Good morning! If you'd like to read smart things instead of all the stupid things, the new ELH is out, with essays from The English Institute. New work by Quashie, Post, Orlemanski, Yousef, CW Smith, Tongson, and yours truly, introduced by Fleissner and Enelow. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

"Models of Ideological Analysis" by Fredric Jameson, Opening Lecture of 1977 Institute on Culture & Society (audio) theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/models-of-...

We're launching a new Tidewater Initiative at JHU. Our research group on working waterfronts and coastal infrastructures includes a new student research lab, courses, programming partnerships with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and more in the works. sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/

So happy with how this came out.

AND NOW the 2nd part! theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...

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...

Honored to be among the folks talking about Jameson on the new American Vandal podcast episode! theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...

Good to join The American Vandal for this conversation about Jameson, ideology, and methods of literary analysis!

A good, searching conversation with the hospitable August Baker of Philosophy Podcasts philosophypodcasts.org/thoreau2

With the rise of AI, I've begun to wonder if future graders of expository essays will even be able to grasp the sheer brilliance of Mandy Berry's famous Student Essay Unplugged? We many never see this kind of essay again, folks.

Temporary cure for the oozing polycrisis blues: spend a couple hours chatting with @annakornbluh.bsky.social & @c-also.bsky.social about Fred Jameson. Don’t forget to press record.

Today is Karl Marx's birthday. All books by and on Marx are on sale for up to 50% off as part of our Red May Sale.

I am so honored and FIRED UP to introduce the legendary Angela Davis on Yale’s campus tomorrow, for a two-day lecture series on Abolition. Let’s go!

A clarifying account of what is happening at Columbia and beyond. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

Here’s a smart essay about media, distraction, and who decides what’s worth paying attention to: What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Los Angeles, I love you! Some ways to help, via Mutual Aid LA: mutualaidla.org

Bound for New Orleans and the MLA. Catch me at the bar, or at one of these two killer sessions:

How Joe Brainard spent Christmas in 1961: played in the snow all morning, completely broke his glasses, worked on a self-portrait collage, went to a Chinese restaurant & had chow mein & 6 whiskey sours & then stayed up all night & wrote a 34-page story

"This relentless turning away from common sense, this flight from an ideologically ingrained worldview, is what Jameson means when he talks about theory as a liberation." @c-also.bsky.social on Jameson's "The Years of Theory" www.chronicle.com/article/good...

As the year comes to a close, we've gathered the 24 essays, reviews, forums, and interviews that readers turned to the most.

Well lookie there.

Here’s the AAUP statement on the insane full metal jacket crackdown on peaceful protestors asking for investment transparency and divestment from genocide in Gaza yesterday. I am one of the faculty members who was labeled persona non grata (PNG), banned from university buildings.

BREAKING: The AAUP condemns today’s faculty arrests at NYU. “This crackdown on NYU faculty is part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses nationwide.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson. ⬇️ www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

I own it now and so should you 🤩🔥🌿 @mltondre.bsky.social

‘Is there a death of theory, along with the death of the author, the end of art, & all the rest?’ Fredric Jameson wonders. I wrote about his fantastic master class, The Years of Theory, for The Chronicle Review. www.chronicle.com/article/good...

Don’t know when this will be unpaywalled but you should subscribe if you can—and anyway here is a brand-new interview I did for @parisreview with Fredric Jameson, based on several late 2023 Skype sessions www.theparisreview.org/interviews/8...

Yes! This is what it’s good for.

Thanks to the venerable Center for American Literary Studies for inviting me to talk about Thoreau’s Axe. We got into the method wars, the crisis of higher education, & how Arkansas skateboarders & underground musicians taught me to think about discipline. cals.la.psu.edu/beyond-the-b...

A student gave me this card, with a beautiful hand-made picture of my book 🐍❤️