Call for inaugural issue of—Polyfora: A Journal of Speculative CoFutures—an interdisciplinary journal devoted to unearthing possible futures, accepting peer-reviewed articles, stories, artworks, and essays from many languages and perspectives: journal.cofutures.org

Halloween night is truly carnivalesque. All the values are inverted. People in the US give things away, walk from place to place, and interact with their neighbors.

"Violence of Melt: Visual Infrastructures and Erasure in the Arctic" by Audrey Medaino-Tardif is the second post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/10/27/v... #envhum

Here is what I said. I am proud to be a Cape Bretoner, a Nova Scotian, a Canadian. And I am with the Mi’kmaw land defenders on Hunters Mountain. (1)

Thrilled and delighted to say that my new book, Utopian Variations: Utopia in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, is now out! Thanks to the University of Essex's open access fund, it's available via open access too. You can download the full book for free here: www.peterlang.com/document/156...

We don't need neo-dada in this moment, what we need is people exercising their "right to culture" to help us remember that we live in society, that fact is inescapable, and we shouldn't let anyone tell us otherwise www.its-her-factory.com/2025/10/devo...

enlightenment ideas of the autonomy of art got it all wrong: it's not art's freedom from social reproduction that makes it great, it's that making and receiving art are collaborative experiences where we develop individually through the mutual support of others.

Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.

[clears throat]...I have another book coming out in the near future if you'd like to read a bit about LYRIC LOGIC, there are some very generous blurbs over at @columbiaup.bsky.social (my thanks to Marjorie Levinson, Oren Izenberg, Theo Davis, Nan Z. Da, and also @philipleventhal.bsky.social)

I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

OK, I started this related critical AI list too here: olivia.science/ai#allies with allies & resources — @jsanofranchini.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @ehayot.bsky.social (let me know if I failed to tag anybody) and importantly, feel free to contact me to add more! 🤍

I admit I never gave up hope Robert Redford could have been US president as envisioned in Watchmen. What a missed opportunity!

African Climate Fiction. To Rescue a Self Eketi tries to find her voice. #Africa #African #Nigeria #Ghana #Kenya #SouthAfrica #Ethiopia #Egypt #Congo #Tanzania #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction #Fiction grist.org/climate-fict...

And so I take on Gormenghast! Which is great. Just very good stuff. And I also look at James Gifford's excellent book A Modernist Fantasy (2018) and the anarchist reading of Gormenghast. This is the 6th essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy Reread series.

I wrote about how three events in 1996 - the Telecom Act, Welfare Reform Act, & "Changing Highbrow Taste" article - signal the beginning of the end of taste www.its-her-factory.com/2025/09/1996...

In his article on “Comics Anthropocenes,” Mike Classon Frangos argues that the unique nature of the Laila Starr story highlights a world view that moves away from “undifferentiated humanity” and into a more complex portrayal of intersecting timescales. #lailastarr #comicsstudies 1/9

My book The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy: Multi species Encounters in Extraction Zones is coming out this year 25th July: link.springer.com/book/9783031...

Nothing has made me feel like a time-traveler from the past when I visit the US after living abroad for 15 years like vacuum cleaner design. Who came up with these bizarre floor-cleaning space ships?

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

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

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

For our next unit, we’ll be looking at “The Many Deaths of Laila Starr”, written by Ram V and illustrated by Filipe Andrade. The series follows the complex journey of the Goddess of Death, as she navigates the messy world of human mortality. #lailastarr

Haunted by Hydrocarbons Essay Collection, Deadline Reminder! We're accepting abstracts until August 31st! See the CFP for details: drive.google.com/file/d/190Eh...

In a new series at PB, Systems & Futures section editor Matthew Wolf-Meyer (@mw-m.bsky.social) introduces “No Future”: A Lexicon. Throughout the week, contributors will explore the question: Can we reject the future?

We're delighted to announce publication of 'Nordic Climate Histories' (Dominik Collet et al. eds), an essay collection exploring how the people of the Nordic countries have confronted challenges from climatic variability down the centuries: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #climatehistory #

My book Teenage Time comes out August 21st from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teenage-t... Here it is!

My 6th dispatch from the SFF archive: A brief look at Charles R. Saunders's first to Imaro novels (1981, 1984), their covers, cover copy, blurbs, etc.

The first long interview with the mysterious Clair Noto, one of the 1st women comics writers, who wrote the cult fave Red Sonja series in the late 1970s, and about whom little is known. She tees off on Roy Thomas, who she accuses of stealing credit, & Frank Thorne, who she detested. Juicy stuff!

Climate necropolitics: thoughts from the middle of the heatwave. jksteinberger.medium.com/climate-necr...

Our series marking the 50th anniversary of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry continues this week with "What I Teach about When I Teach about the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry" by Jane Griffith niche-canada.org/2025/07/01/w... #envhist #cdnhist #teaching #indigenoushistory

Strange Horizons is delighted to present our special issue on AfroSurreal SF, edited by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu and Shingai Njeri Kagunda. Read the entire issue - with stories, poetry, essays, and reviews - here: strangehorizons.com/wordpress/is...

in CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I wrote a 36 page three-part introduction: What Close Reading Is, What Close Reading Does, and What Close Reading Has Been 30 pages of it is now online at @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Join us at the Human Ecology division in Lund! Position as senior lecturer out. Last application date August 31st . I am happy to answer if you have any questions. #envhum #envhist #envpol @cssn.org and more!

My “Data Science and the Post-Liberal Arts University” is just out in Critical Inquiry, www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/.... Thanks to the CI editors for acute feedback pushing me to enrichen the argument of this essay significantly.

In “The Fascination of Manga: Cross-dressing and Gender Performativity in Japanese Media Performativity in Japanese Media” Sheena Marie Woods uses the concept of camp to define the irony that both complicates and empowers “Ouran High School Host Club.” #ouran 1/7

And we're back! My latest in the Chronicle is now live: "How to Promote Your Scholarly Book," ft Libra-coded advice such as "use social media" & "or don't use social media." No doubt other publishers will have lots of tidbits to add. Pls share/reach out for a PDF. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

We thought we knew tired when we wrote this. Exhausted with @jennifercnash.bsky.social @differences.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/1040...

Superman’s Girl Friend, Lois Lane Meets The Baby of Steel, by @annapeppard.bsky.social: shelfdust.com/2022/04/13/b...

Thrilled to contribute a short essay to the My So-Called Life cluster in @atpost45.bsky.social! My piece reflects on Rickie Vasquez's iconic dance scene, the affective politics of Brownness, and the persistence of racial and sexual hierarchies. Check it out! #MySoCalledLife #Post45

New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!

Hi! Now that my book, Making World Literature, has been out for 6 months, I'm going to do a quick thread. Let me know if you're interested in reviewing it, and I'll put you in touch to get a review copy! www.umasspress.com/978162534840...

Very excited to announce the publication of this special issue at Orbit, on Indigenous Speculative Fiction! Guest edited by Jim Donahue and internally shepherded by Sascha Pohlmann. orbit.openlibhums.org/issue/1426/i...

I wrote about Tove Jansson and queer modernism in comics for this cluster, super excited it’s finally out!

"We are still finding modernism where we had least expected it," writes @matthewlevay.bsky.social in his introduction to the latest Modernism/modernity cluster, which looks at "one of the period’s most vibrant yet critically derided art forms—comics": modernismmodernity.org/forums/moder...

Excited to share that our TSQ issue on trans speculation is live! Please share/check it out: Both intros and River Pruitt's piece are currently free to dl at the link! read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/issue/12...

Save 30% on #NewBook "Abolitionist Intimacies" by Eithne Luibhéid, which examines writings by & about queer- & trans-identified migrants & allies who contest US immigration practices and work toward a future without detention, deportation, and border controls. #Activism #TransStudies buff.ly/Bz5ImSO

Apparently it is book release day for this edited volume I did with Lori and Francisco Gallegos on philosophical issues concerned with Latina/o/x/es. www.routledge.com/The-Latinx-P...

New article in the journal! Moebius and Digital Tools: From Experimentation to Remediation, by @labarren.cpesr.fr doi.org/10.16995/cg.... - merci @openlibhums.bsky.social @janewayolh.bsky.social @siliconchips.bsky.social #ComicsStudies #OpenAccess

‘Horror and Comics’, edited by Barbara Chamberlin, Kom Kunyosying and Julia Round is out now! This collection investigates the evolution of comics and horror by analysing a range of approaches and traditions. 📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/horror-...