We (faculty at USC) took on an institutional behemoth with all the money and clout on earth, and we WON. We won our union. We're the biggest private-university faculty union in US history. Trying to make people care about this, challenge level IMPOSSIBLE

If you’d read this in a sci-fi novel, it would be perfect. “July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the nation. The capital grounds are empty, the crumbling remains of a despot’s carnival baking under the heat and haze. The toxic air above is shifted by nothing save the passes of military jets.”

speaking of UNHINGED, I want to buy a paperback copy of Shy Girl -- DM or email me if you have this contraband #shygirl

out now, "Mythic Violence, Memes, and the Recursive Rhetorics of Resistance" -- incredible essay by my colleague @sjmurray.bsky.social (complete with critique of Judith Butler on nonviolence) muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Just belatedly read this excellent @rpanchasi.bsky.social essay at @publicbooks.bsky.social on Zoe Wallbrook's "History Lessons" and other academic / campus fictions that may or may not be in the "dark academia" orbit. (Looking forward to diving into "History Lessons" w/what's left of summer...)

if you are coming to SNS consider joining our keyword seminar :)

In the last three hours, Musk has posted that USAID “was central to the creation of COVID-19,” “funded coronavirus research in China that killed millions of people,” “was used for terrorism,” and “killed millions.”

Now available for preorder, arriving in warehouse 10/02/2026: dukeupress.edu/content-mach... Duke UP gave me a discount code for 30% off paperback preorders: it's E26CNTNT ♥️👍

two substantialisms is an incredibly important and insightful piece of writing that kind of unlocked my whole thesis so I'm very very glad it's published now

new issue of Mediations, "Total Sexual Difference" and damn mediationsjournal.org/toc/volume-3...

What Kyle Kubler and I argue in our piece on influencer aesthetics docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol27...

@seanobrien.bsky.social and I have edited a special issue of CLCWeb titled “Keywords for Value and Culture”. Across 34 essays, it explores the shared conceptual terrain between value-form theory and aesthetic theory. The full issue is available open access here: docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol27...

Some real bangers in this one - Keywords for Value and Culture - including one from me (no office, i'm not obliged to tell you which one) docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol27...

Much incredible stuff in here! "Keywords for Value and Culture" edited by @seanobrien.bsky.social and @thomaswaller.bsky.social ❤️‍🔥

Chilling tour from Ruth Fowler through dystopian world of AI “tasker” gigs www.wired.com/story/i-work...

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The incredible queer revolutionary magazine I help edit is raising money for printing our next, already completed issue. Please donate and circulate. I have an article in it! A wild one

I wrote an essay exploring how structuralism and deconstruction have informed recent theory around 'AI' and 'LLMs' including @leifw.bsky.social's Language Machines: olrsupplement.com/2026/06/01/w...

I have a new article out in Labor, I'd appreciate if you'd read it. Thank you! read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...

I took part in a discussion of @andrewhartman.bsky.social's Karl Marx in America, alongside the inimitable Cedric Johnson and @lclaberge.bsky.social. Come, listen to Gen X Marxists debate the relative significance of the Battle of Seattle, Occupy, and the movements against the wars on Iraq!

When writing an article first get your draft fleshed out then move your conclusion to your introduction where it actually belongs. Now rewrite the second half of your paper to create a new conclusion. Move that conclusion to your introduction, too. Now you have two intros and no conclusions so next

Exciting news! Too Little, Too Hard forthcoming from Peninsula Press in July (preorder✨) A collection of essays on writing & work, writing & value. We are proud of this book that looks at the conditions for writers & of book production under neoliberalism. peninsulapress.co.uk/products/too...

Today I reviewed @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com's excellent *Muskism*, in which I argue that situating Elon Musk within the dynamics of class struggle transforms our approach to the international capitalist crisis and the imperial strategies to contain it cosmonautmag.com/2026/05/capi...

ICYMI: @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social 's review of @anniemcc.bsky.social 's Beneath the Wage ( Zone Books, @princetonupress.bsky.social ) is still live on our website.

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

nice little run in the index for Sarah Brouillette's Content Machines

My friend and comrade Alex Colston has been violently detained again by the Israeli state. Please call to push for his release. Free them all, from the river to the sea.

Everyone read my fabulous colleague's brilliant book.

Like the development of machinery as such, AI is a "force antagonistic to the embodied source of human ingenuity that created it" (to use a phrase from Bev Best's The Automatic Fetish).

Some theses on #slop. A thread. Slop is automated ideology. It's content made of content, optimized for circulation, prompted, shaped, and refined through feedback loops of adaptation to platform conditions 1/

I am moved beyond words by this beautiful, generous, thoughtful review my my book by the amazing @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social.

Read @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social 's review of @anniemcc.bsky.social 's Beneath the Wage ( Zone Books , @princetonupress.bsky.social ). Brouilette highlights the book's focus on the new terrains of antagonism and solidarity afforded by service labor. spectrejournal.com/service-with...

Dreams do come true. I reviewed Annie McClanahan's Beneath the Wage in Spectre. My thanks to editors @grundrza.bsky.social and Camila Valle.

Far from being on path to a trillion-dollar IPO, some scholars (notably @luizajarovsky.bsky.social) forecast OpenAI won’t even make it through the year. New episode of Vandal shares my keynote at Wake Forest Humanities Institute, draws on @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social’s “Textpocalypse Now”…

I really thought American Vandal had maxed out its niche, but a LOT of new listeners finding us this week. Thanks, avaricious EdTech investors, I guess. If you’re new to AV, & you enjoyed “The Secret History of Canvas,” here are a few episodes you might want to check out next… 🧵

TEACHING TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LITERATURE: ESSAYS FROM THE CLASSROOM Officially under contract and coming in 2028! It's a monster volume: 33 teacher-scholars from around the world writing provocative, shortform essays in the service of pedagogy

Diagnosing Murder: How Addiction Became a Central Motif in Crime Fiction lithub.com/diagnosing-m...

Good morning; I have a piece of writing up in Four Way Review today if you would care to have a look at the way I think about sadness fourwayreview.com/the-humors-b...

Fascinating stuff from @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social: 'Like public spheres of the past, Substack has created its own proletarianized counter-public: under-employed writers.'

My brief contribution is about Substack. Many thanks to the incredible team at The Drift.

In Issue 17’s Dispatches section, @tarpley.bsky.social, Noelle Bodick, @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social, @edwardongwesojr.com, @erikmbaker.bsky.social, Ege Yumuşak, Ismail Ibrahim, @meganmarz.bsky.social, and @samadlerbell.bsky.social examine the public sphere. www.thedriftmag.com/a-nicely-sit...

two headlines from The Bookseller this morning

wrote about the most important architectural legacy of the Trump administration: the conversion of logistics warehouses into detention centers www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

it's officially out! :)

Coming to @aydelottefound.bsky.social later this month. Vandal Live with @alybatt.bsky.social & @anniemcc.bsky.social. Lots of help from @andyhines.bsky.social Currently reading this pair of new releases, both available from @princetonupress.bsky.social aydelotte.swarthmore.edu/publications...