An ideological purge coming from the feds will give excellent cover to employers looking to bust existing unions and crush nascent campaigns.

If you're an academic, the very least you can do right now is join a union.

For the new episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, @moiradonegan.bsky.social and I spoke with the brilliant @llassabe.bsky.social about the trustees and their impact on US higher education podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

@adriandaub.bsky.social you seeing this?

Sam's essay on Berger and pedagogy is perfect, perfect, perfect—I couldn't stop thinking about it as I taught Berger and Mulvey last week!

I wrote about John Berger and feeling scared in the classroom for the Mid Theory Collective mid-theory.com/2025/02/05/s...

Accidentally got horny on main for this

just in time for holiday gift-buying, check out our newest MTC Mixtape on fragrance, featuring the following collection of geniuses: Alexia Alkadi-Barbaro Annie Berke Samuel Catlin Faith S. Harden Arah Ko Sheila Liming Rachel Tay Bekah Waalkes Korey Williams and me 😉 mid-theory.com/2024/12/13/m...

Last week, I resigned from the MLA Executive Council in solidarity with members working to mobilize the org to take a stand against the scholasticide and genocide in Palestine. Please read and share their powerful call to MLA leadership today in LitHub. lithub.com/the-modern-l...

The phenomenon of “cancel culture” has never really been submitted to rigorous analysis: We all already know about it, or at least we think we do, and we’re sick of hearing about it even though we cannot stop talking about it. newrepublic.com/article/1883...

not “we’re all on campus now”…

Incredibly smart and efficient. I keep making jokes about awkward Tgiving convos but, fml, I feel like I am actually going to end up quoting this at my uncle just to feel something.

For the New Republic, I reviewed Adrian Daub’s immensely clarifying and grounding new book, THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC: HOW AN AMERICAN OBSESSION WENT GLOBAL, a book which gets impressive analytical traction on a protean and contradictory mediatic phenomenon: newrepublic.com/article/1883...

in case you missed it earlier today: a new episode of the @atpost45.bsky.social Pod45 podcast, featuring me, @lintax.bsky.social, @stalpaz.bsky.social, and @eleanoir.bsky.social discussing the cluster on "Suspicion" that Eleanor edited! open.spotify.com/episode/2fjP...

lord make me offline - but not yet

in the latest @unhappinesspod.bsky.social we talked with the brilliant @adriandaub.bsky.social, author of the new book, The Cancel Culture Panic, about what's really at stake in talk of "cancellation" both in the US and abroad - as a trope, as a fantasy, as a symptom, and more!

Looking for 5000 of my closest followers

Twitter is for goo goo. Bluesky is for gaa gaa. It’s that simple

Are there any real women? Reading Roald Dahl’s THE WITCHES as an allegory of the relation between corporate publishing incentives and the libidinal economy of the family, for Post45’s “Suspicion” cluster I theorized transphobia as panicked hermeneutics: post45.org/2024/07/real...

Good morrow. I wrote about Lee Edelman (good), Florida (bad), and the place of education in the American political imaginary (complicated) for Parapraxis www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/lee...

Against the “Israel is just so complicated” industrial complex, by me politicaltheology.com/sibboleth-a-...

It’s a very special weekend episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social : @moiradonegan.bsky.social and I talked with @lintax.bsky.social about the phantasm of “the campus” and why yelling about it reliably brings out the worst in American politics podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

For Parapraxis I wrote about what you’ve all been thinking about—the campus www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

if i had a cat i'd name it binch

Extra timely new episode with Jed Esty, Chris Newfield, & @annakornbluh.bsky.social

future studies of jacqueline rose will focus heavily on how a white British feminist in her 70s managed not to be a TERF in 2023

one of my greatest Eric Adams discoveries thus far. truly a rich text

I wrote a little something about Tenet, Christopher Nolan's previous film and, like Oppenheimer, one that critics rather prejudicially dismissed on arrival because they had no interest in recognizing how strange it is

sorry my posting has not been up to par. the reason is i am more insane than usual

Perfect post

making me say words like "venti" and "grande" when i order is a form of psychosexual humiliation

Might rewatch TÁR to calm my nerves

I know that’s right

My first writing published in the Bluesky era https://politicaltheology.com/death-of-an-author/