HELLO, BLUESKY! In 2021, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social published our fantastic symposium, ANTIRACISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY UNIVERSITY. It's worth a re-read. (Also I am sharing for the updated urls, as they've redesigned their site.) READ/SHARE/READ AGAIN! lareviewofbooks.org/feature/anti... 🙌🙌🙌 1/8

Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND, and what her riff on the heist film has to say about labor, art, and entitlement lareviewofbooks.org/article/rebe...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Incredible this book doesn't exist yet, must have press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, trade, and regional publishing programs.

A truly legendary run, transformative contributions to letters & humanities, and a wonderfully supportive and insightful editor on a personal level. Congrats and thanks for everything @noctambulate.bsky.social !

not to brag but i can generate slop with natural intelligence

Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/

#Fellowships: Academy in Exile invites 5 international scholars at risk for a 12-month fellowship. The fellowship opens up the opportunity to pursue a career in the humanities, social sciences, or law in a secure environment. @mellon.org 📍KWI Essen/ TU Dortmund ⏱️15 Nov 25 🔗 tinyurl.com/mwv3amzb

Oh I am cry

TFW an essay says exactly what you've been compiling as a rant in your head? And does it super well with a bunch of careful research + shoutout to other excellent scholars? For me, that's Sarah Pett's "Rash Reading: Rethinking Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill"

Creating this festschrift reminded me of a basic truth: you can do something nice for someone whenever you want. Don't wait until people are dead to praise them. Don't hold out for someone else to do it. Nominate people for prizes. Write someone a note of appreciation. Today's the day.

Useful explainer on toxic wealth as the root of internet manosphere and the digital labour of fascism: www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Again for the morning crowd. These two new chapters of our book are made available in draft because we’re experimenting with Open Review. Please share your thoughts! These chapters are about methods for assessing data representativeness, and ….

Reading the Northanger Abbey chapter of @devoney.bsky.social’s latest book and this “turn a Romance into a novel!” table is killing me 😂

Late night Watergate crimeposting

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Very cool piece from Jed Kudrick and @sdileonardi.bsky.social on the history of translation in the US literary scene!

An unsatisfying term I’ve been thinking through to make sense of this is “postpolitical.” The right looks for that one signifier to prove the shooter was a leftist, the left hopes for proof he was a right winger, and so on. But for these kids don’t use signifiers that way (1/)

Literature student: Hey, chat, will you please summarize ULYSSES for me and identify its themes? Notebook LM: yes I said yes I will Yes.

Carnegie Mellon English proudly supports Ed Simon's launch of the Pittsburgh Review of Books. I like to say that @cmuenglish.bsky.social is where readers find refuge and leaders find language. It's tremendous to see Ed and ProB offering that same spirit to our city and to our world. pghrev.com

Read this book!

if i can't get one i'm gonna be so fuckin mad

Are you teaching a rare MS or out of print book? Why not make a digital edition of it, or even better, ask your students to collaborate! Our training course is free and the edition can be published #OA in the digital editions platform #PRISMS: www.prisms.digital/training/ #DSE #DH #TEI #XML

Just to up the ante further, both di Leo volumes have a controversial take: that we are firmly in a post-disciplinary "studies era" in which the energies of theory are directed towards objects and subjects, not methods, discourses, or intellectual histories. +

Oyeyemi is incredible, find this one!

Loving Helen Oyeyemi’s newest novel A NEW NEW ME. I’m an Oyeyemi evangelist because of her ability to play with form, but this newest book goes to new heights with its polyphonic (yet at the same time monophonic) voice. Seven personalities, one person—one for each day of the week. Her funniest too!

This book is deeply impressive and very useful

It's gorgeous, recommend!

This is really good! "I was perpetuating a system built on what I’d come to call “indefinite future reward,” essentially that what students were doing in my class wasn’t for the sake of anything other than how they were going to perform in some future class. +

Here’s my bottom line on the firehose of AI higher ed discourse: for the vast majority for us it’s over. “It” here is not “college” or “teaching”’per se; rather, “it” is the transactional underpinning of those endeavors. Let me explain: 🧵

Sure, these series aired earlier this year, but what could be more timely than the specter of DECLINE? For LARB I wrote about TV's recent interest in imagining Hollywood's decline, and maybe allegorizing its own @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/tele...

They asked me about spark notes. I proceed to go off on learning theory and cognition.

Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans put 338 rural hospitals at risk so they could fund tax giveaways for billionaires and billionaire corporations.

Diderot and d'Alembert, 1752

very grim. as the article notes, some relevant context is that the university expanded its debt exposure by 260 percent in two decades & set up a scenario where 68 percent of total assets are tied up in leveraged debt

Book submitted, finally -- time for some genre reading / writing.

What a list. On the syllabus for next semester: survival

Sobering indeed. A complication that I wonder about is how different US state governments will respond to the new situation and what that will mean in a decade.

Shouldn’t have started my day by reading that NYTimes article. None of these shallow pieces covering the DOJ’s take down of President Ryan has deigned to research the history of DEI at UVA. In 2005, former president John Casteen established the ODE 1/ news.virginia.edu/content/will...

Philosophy and literature friends: I am pleased to announce that this book has finally entered the world! Intro and purchase information below!

new issue of Parapraxis drops this week! order and subscribe, for all your psychoanalysis discoursin' needs! www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...

This was a great episode, despite the misgendering up front! I loved the clarification of the Jamesonian / Bourdeusian stakes of contemporary literary sociology, of the history of post45, and especially the role of Mannheim in the '77 lecture, such a great deep cut.

The cult of cruelty www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/c...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Indiana Jones and the scene of dialogue he didn't finish because his fixed term contract ended and everyone else in the film started pretending he didn't exist.