Anna Kornbluh
@annakornbluh.bsky.social
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nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
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elated! and more than a little embarrassed! to be included on Art Review's
@artreview.bsky.social
Power 100 list for 2024! thank you to all the art inspirations, and everyone reading and teaching Immediacy.
artreview.com/power-100/
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Power 100
https://artreview.com/power-100/
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Axios
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You might open up a memo, report, or email and "wonder if the sender simply used AI to generate large blocks of text instead of thinking it through." "If this sounds familiar, you have been workslopped."
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AI "workslop" is crushing workplace efficiency, study finds
Vacuous AI-generated deliverables just make more work for the humans who receive them.
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/24/ai-workslop-workplace-efficiency-study
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin
about 2 hours ago
act.aflcio.org/letters/tell...
Please sign this petition in support of free speech for professors and K-12 teachers
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Tell Greg Abbott: Hands Off Our Freedom of Speech, Support Texas Educators!
Greg Abbott is using the Office of the Governor against Texas educators in unprecedented ways, calling for the firing of professors, public school teachers, and staff for opinions shared on their pers...
https://act.aflcio.org/letters/tell-greg-abbott-hands-off-our-freedom-of-speech-support-texas-educators/?source=texasaaup
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Matt Seybold
about 3 hours ago
Heading to Albany tomorrow for a Friday talk. First public airing of material from my new work-in-progress. 😬
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saint louis! next week at Wash U, a workshop on periodization, aesthetics, and the neofeudal hypothesis, followed by a talk from Good Enough Art
english.wustl.edu/events
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https://english.wustl.edu/events
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Violet Miller
about 15 hours ago
Broadview Fire Department said the village was reaching out to the DHS “to demand the fence be removed immediately” because it was installed “illegally” without a permit. “In case of fire or other emergencies… Broadview fire apparatus would be unable to use the road to accesss these businesses.”
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Broadview orders removal of 'illegal' fencing erected outside ICE facility following protests
For weeks, protesters have tried to block the entrance to the compound used for processing detained immigrants. In turn, federal officers have often pushed demonstrators and fired rubber bullets and c...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/23/fence-blocks-access-to-broadview-ice-facility
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Kashana
about 16 hours ago
Well, at least we’re burning through water and poisoning the Black people of Memphis so we can get more positive representations of, uh
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Dave Levitan
about 18 hours ago
Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)
about 19 hours ago
Lmaooooooo
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Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources
Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/education-report-calling-for-ethical-ai-use-contains-over-15-fake-sources/
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Anna Bower
about 17 hours ago
noooooo not my emotional support jessica chastain political thriller 😭 😔
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Iris van Rooij 💭
about 19 hours ago
Heartening to see so many students sign our open letter
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e?limit=0
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fun to chat cultural studies with Toby Miller!
www.podbean.com/media/share/...
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Anna Kornbluh on the crisis, literature, artificial intelligence, and labor
Anna Kornbluh on the crisis, literature, artificial intelligence, and labor You can read about her work here: http://www.annakornbluh.com/
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-p6xfw-19735e5
about 19 hours ago
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Ashley Mowreader
1 day ago
Keeping tabs on international student enrollment for the fall, spoiler alert, it looks mostly bad for
@insidehighered.com
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a most useful+dialectical philosopher, on shame +decency "seeing this kind of basic social norm enforcement as fundamentally at odds with living in a free country is deeply delusional...shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to political violence."
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-can-we-live-together/?fbclid=IwY2xjawM_udNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFHdGhGbVhXTXRCaWM5eTc1AR7K3_VcxmVx5WSfrqEBC9Tq54WqcgUHAqCG8zRie_UG1WhwJdpNY0FQH1005Q_aem_w_rmd7QOa2jTFBNQabSvSA
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reminder at this anniversary that Jameson's 90th birthday was celebrated with short essays by many many nerds on his many many major books!
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/j...
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about 23 hours ago
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Thea Riofrancos
1 day ago
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...
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Hypervisible
1 day ago
“The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the ‘fear of missing out,’ few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better.”
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America’s top companies keep talking about AI — but can’t explain the upsides
FT analysis of hundreds of filings suggest the S&P 500 businesses are clearer about the risks than benefits
https://www.ft.com/content/e93e56df-dd9b-40c1-b77a-dba1ca01e473
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"higher ed is an economic engine, health-care engine, technological-innovation engine. it should be a common public good for everyone. the vast majority of Americans of any political stripe need education for their kids, their families, in order to move forward."
www.chronicle.com/article/is-t...
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Is the AAUP Too Partisan? Its President Doesn’t Think So.
Todd Wolfson has taken heat for some of the organization’s political stances during his tenure. Here’s what he makes of the criticism.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-the-aaup-too-partisan-its-president-doesnt-think-so?sra=true
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Stephen Shapiro
1 day ago
as absurd as this is, it also means that any non-US citizen who has vaguely written on marxism, cultural materialism, or social justice issues even most broadly must now fear entering the US.
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Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor
1 day ago
📖❤️ NEWS: You can now pre-order my book! "Unlocking Justice confronts America’s unfair legal system with data—and humanity." It's accessible, optimistic, and in the spirit of Ida B. Wells, who said “the way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” I wrote it for each of you. Also, ⬇️
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Unlocking Justice: The Power of Data to Confront Inequity and Create Change|Hardcover
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unlocking-justice-chad-m-topaz/1148313126
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what's everybody wearing to the rapture
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may the new year bear schmaltzy apples to all, sweet freedom in palestine and in broadview, illinois - and in and for us all.
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Matt Seybold
1 day ago
I try to maintain healthy skepticism about the metrics, but stuff like this boggles my mind. I know I'm still making a niche academic humanities podcast, because I live that everyday. But, y'know, maybe the academic humanities aren't as niche as we've been lead to believe.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑
2 days ago
Broadview ICE Protesters Now Plan To Rally Daily, With Goal Of Shutting Down Facility
blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/22/b...
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Broadview ICE Protesters Now Plan To Rally Daily, With Goal Of Shutting Down Facility
Organizers are calling for people to resist ICE's immigration enforcement activity by hosting daily protests at the Broadview facility,
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/22/broadview-ice-protesters-now-plan-to-rally-daily-with-goal-of-shutting-down-facility/
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Joel S.
2 days ago
I'm in the "Guardian" writing about Judith Butler and the new McCarthyism:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson
What is happening to Judith Butler – a Jewish intellectual – in the name of fighting ‘antisemitism’ is outrageous
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/22/judith-butler-is-being-targeted-by-the-us-government-we-must-stand-up
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today in aesthetic correlations of neofeudal hypothesis
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Jodi Jacobson
2 days ago
We all said this would happen. We knew it would happen. And really no one in power gave a flying fuck. This is a feature, not a bug.
www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr...
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How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women
"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dressed-as-ice-agents-to-assault-immigrant-women-horrifying-trend
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Matt Seybold
2 days ago
Today's a good day for The Jameson Tapes.
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The Jameson Tapes, Side A
with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson
https://theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameson-tapes-side-a
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nico baumbach
2 days ago
fredric jameson died one year ago today. i wrote this about him earlier this year:
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
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The Last Good Dad — Parapraxis
On Fredric Jameson’s pedagogy Nico Baumbach
https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the-last-good-dad
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Joshua J. Friedman
2 days ago
NEW: A former Ball State University staff member is suing the university president after she was fired for a private Facebook post about the death of Charlie Kirk. She is being represented by ACLU of Indiana
@acluindiana.bsky.social
. READ THE COMPLAINT:
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"hegel's publications are more like films of thought than texts." chicago thursday
interccect.com/2025/08/19/d...
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dialectics do not rest
Even after a long, intense, Hot Adorno Summer, we still can’t let go. Hang on to Hegel with a session on Adorno’s Three Studies. We’ll tackle the third study, Skoteinos, or How to…
https://interccect.com/2025/08/19/dialectics-do-not-rest/
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ACLU
2 days ago
Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation. More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.
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"a stages theory incites us to imagine what a radically different social formation of the future might be like: an effort of the imagination I have tended to call, following Marcuse+Bloch, The Utopian Impulse, without which political action seems to me impossible." Jameson, one year gone, eternal
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Lois Weiner
2 days ago
Growing opposition to @AFT @UFT partnership to push
#AI
is apparent in this article. Context to consider is political role
@the74.bsky.social
plays - mouthpiece for neoliberal policy in education. Big money sees the project is contested:
www.the74million.org/article/will...
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Will New AI Academy Help Teachers or Just Improve Tech’s Bottom Line?
AFT says its AI training initiative will modernize teaching, while critics say it’s ‘a gigantic public experiment that no one has asked for.’
https://www.the74million.org/article/will-new-ai-academy-help-teachers-or-just-improve-techs-bottom-line/
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Eleanor Courtemanche
2 days ago
This is very moving, and then you get to the last paragraph 😭 which is THAT paragraph
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teaching today: greatest neckbeard to ever do it
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Carl Quintanilla
2 days ago
“.. US Attorneys around the country must ask themselves whether they are willing to become just another instrument of political power. .. Each must be prepared to resign rather than baselessly punishing the president’s enemies ..”
@opinion.bloomberg.com
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"constitutional conventions have been abandoned. What if we decided to take tools out of toolbox on the 250th anniversary for 1 purpose: addressing challenges AI poses to fundamental law, consent of the governed, equal rights, life, liberty+the pursuit of happiness?"
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/o...
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Opinion | How We the People Lost Control of Our Lives, and How We Can Get It Back
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/opinion/altman-ai-constiutional-convention.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nk8.ZSHK.L_tLKxLgBkRd&smid=url-share
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in education, creative industries, caring professions, and LABOR ORGANIZING, people are doing things, there's a movement
against-a-i.com
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...
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The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing
This fall, the new luddites are rising
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddite-renaissance-is-in-full
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Jess Calarco
3 days ago
As I show in the book, once women are pushed into stay-at-home motherhood, they become easy targets for conservative messaging that valorizes their unpaid labor--telling them they're better morally than other women and that their kids will be better off.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
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Holding It Together by Jessica Calarco: 9780593538128 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society...
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130/holding-it-together-by-jessica-calarco/
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Chicago Thursday! "Philosophy is supposed to pay in cash, and on the spot. But philosophy is a protest against the principle of equivalence, and in that regard it is unbourgeois even as bourgeois philosophy."
interccect.com/2025/08/19/d...
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dialectics do not rest
Even after a long, intense, Hot Adorno Summer, we still can’t let go. Hang on to Hegel with a session on Adorno’s Three Studies. We’ll tackle the third study, Skoteinos, or How to…
https://interccect.com/2025/08/19/dialectics-do-not-rest/
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin
3 days ago
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Many employers have decided that it’s worth violating principles of academic freedom & contractual obligation, rather than “displease the president…And that’s a political calculation, it’s a legal calculation. But it’s dangerous.”—AAUP general counsel
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The US right claimed free speech was sacred – until the Charlie Kirk killing
Rightwingers had long complained of a censorious leftwing ‘cancel culture’ but seem happy to now reframe that as ‘consequence culture’
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/21/us-right-free-speech-charlie-kirk
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shawn
3 days ago
the
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condemns the “violent actions” of ice/border patrol on friday outside the broadview detention center. in a statement, nlg says feds targeted protesters w/o provocation & sent 2 people to the hospital. 10 people arrested. some were let go miles away behind a gas station.
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Marrianne McMullen
3 days ago
The first Chicago River swim in 98 years! The water is now clean enough. Congratulations to the hundreds of swimmers completing the swim this morning!
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart
3 days ago
My weekly must-reads list and my thoughts on witnessing care and courage amid clouds of tear gas Friday night. "Almost 550 people across Chicagoland have been arrested by ICE during Operation Midway Blitz. It is a campaign of terror focused on a city that our president feels profound contempt for."
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Must-Reads and Some Thoughts on Care and Courage Amid Clouds of Tear Gas
We can embody our refusal and fiercely declare that our love and empathy will not be destroyed.
https://organizingmythoughts.org/must-reads-and-some-thoughts-on-care-and-courage-amid-clouds-of-tear-gas/
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the birthdays keep coming in spite of it all; recs for chocolate chocolate chocolate they really love chocolate cake concepts?
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"the time has passed when you can turn your back on the fundamental needs of the people."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
4 days ago
NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link:
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today in books received! go
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