Baby’s got a pub date! And some juicy catalog copy. MIDDLEMEN coming your way on April 26! (Cover reveal soon!)

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Joshua Clover's recent passing is a tremendous loss for the communist cause. Not only was he a close friend and mentor to many in our collective, but he was also exemplary in his clarity, breadth, and dedication. We aspire to be like Joshua as we navigate this world on fire.

today in books received! thanks to @andyhines.bsky.social for this indispensable resource for gen ed classrooms, how to be a freshman classrooms, critical university studies research, and labor education!

participated in a great grant-writing workshops for grad students on campus yesterday too bad I misspoke once and will only ever think of that

Shame on the UC www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

I have a book cover!

I'm thinking of teaching a class on "The Work of Art in the Age of Slop" and am wondering if anyone has ideas abut what to include?

on the one hand, no they cannot. on the other, we asked some dumb assholes for answers other than ‘no they cannot’

CONSPIRACISM paper proposals now welcome for the ACLA seminar I am co-organizing with @lkonstan.bsky.social and @lalouverouge.bsky.social meets in Montreal in late Feb 2026

Strong agree. Among other excellent contributions, the chapter by @anniemcc.bsky.social & Louis McCune is the best intro to Ed Tech I have yet read.

just read this by @anniemcc.bsky.social whose work is always super clear and multiply useful www.academia.edu/143589959/Mc...

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality. This is how AI is killing translation work:

The bubble is popping. When we look back, I expect, we will say it has already popped. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

"The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are parallel formations...They are both formations that deliberately look away from material reality...and, instead, locate particular compulsions...in a woman’s traumatic back story, compromised morality, and history of intimate entanglements."🔥🔥🔥

"95% of organizations are getting zero return" www.ft.com/content/3391...

Rosa Press has collated a folio of tributes in memory of our friend Joshua Clover. Please read pieces by @lalouverouge.bsky.social @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social @charmainechua.bsky.social Oki Sogumi, Mark Steven, @andrew-brooks.bsky.social + @alorange.bsky.social here: rosapress.net/joshua-clove...

I just finished my last bit of work on this project that’s taken me three years (!!!). Can’t wait for you all to see it in print in a few months.

Admin want to be able to swoop in and take over the credentialing function of a course at will, undermining the power of faculty to strike.

my pleasure to write this short piece about trauma plots, #metoo, mute compulsion of economic relations, what is love, et cetera (h/t @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social & @sorenmau.bsky.social whose title I shamelessly copied)

New at PB, @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social reviews Emma Cline’s “The Guest” (Random House), arguing that the opacity of the central character is a resistance against the “trauma plot” that has come to popularity in contemporary fiction.

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring. Read it for yourself here: www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

Our press has joined forces with @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social & @genderhorizon.com to build PROJECT 2052: REVOLUTIONARY DISPATCHES FROM THE WORLD OF EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE! This will be a website of speculative short fiction, visual art, and poetry, set in the world of EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE.

Shoplifting From Brandy Melville, an essay from SLOPPY about, well, exactly what it says on the label, appears today in @thecut.com!

Do yourself a favor this summer and read this brilliant piece by @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social and the late Joshua Clover! A must-read for anyone trying to think about the question of "autonomy" in relation to the compulsions of late capitalist society academic.oup.com/fordham-scho...

The right wants us to think Britain is on the verge of ethnic conflict. The truth is worse than that | John Merrick

facts @kqandrews.bsky.social

Just read the proof of this remarkable book - chapeau, Madeline

The eight months of baited breath ends tomorrow. Dan Sinykin (@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social) responds to Brandon Taylor (and my) critique of "The Spreadsheet Men."

If you want to read deeply researched accounts of what happened to novels in the last fifty or so years, may I recommend Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier uipress.uiowa.edu/books/novel-...

Look, obviously it is contradictory for DHS to be celebrating literal "new" immigrants as the nation's "heritage" in order to justify deporting immigrants. But, this is some seriously mask-off white supremacist settler shit right here.

Trust no one. Also... submit an abstract to our ACLA panel on "Conspiracism" when the portal opens on August 1! (with @lalouverouge.bsky.social and @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social) www.acla.org/seminar/a770...

now in material form

sitting quietly alone with my thoughts

this was fun and cathartic thanks Andy Perluzzo, who helped with stats, and @brandyjensen.bsky.social‬ @defector.com mistakes all mine of course

have white men really been driven out of publishing by wokeness? a very smart and sensible corrective from @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social

I will be presenting at this rad symposium on Mitchell's Psychoanalysis & Feminism 50 years on with my dream-babe co-writer @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social - it's in-person at U Melb or online via Zoom: register at link below <3

it was such a pleasure to review this generative book by @jamiemerchant.bsky.social

wonderful review of Endgame by @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/cons...

“As Merchant makes so startlingly clear, there will be a tipping point, a reckoning, a break, an ultimate end, and it may not be that far off." @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social reviews “Endgame.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/conspiracism-nationalism-decline/

🎵 let's go girls 🎵

frankly if it frightens you to see waymos burning in the streets then you are simply a candy assed milk fed wuss

jesus christ lmao

excited to read this @goblemark.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

does a bear shit in the woods