Philly-area grad students (regardless of institution) -- I have 1-2 spots in my spring seminar, Readings in the History of Capitalism. We'll meet on Wednesdays from 2-4:20. Email or DM if you're interested.

Why is Palestine a Union Issue? Join us tomorrow, Wed., Dec. 3rd @ 5:30pm ET for the final event in our 5-part Mapping Anti-Palestinian Discrimination, Harassment, and Misinformation in U.S. Higher Education series. Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi... Co-sponsored by @jvp.bsky.social & CAHE.

Comprehensive deep dive into how Zionist reactionaries attacked the University of California. UC failed to anticipate an organized political attack and gave into pressure by violating the rights of all UC students, faculty, staff. Required reading for UC workers! jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...

The memo associated w/ this chart closes with what I am reading as a thinly veiled threat

Thanks comrades @scholarsforsj.bsky.social ! This Wed.!

As an administrative system this is impossible and designed to fail. The result will be replacement of the curriculum by administrative state fiat and a gross reconfiguration of what kind of education may be possible for 64,000 students.

TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things: 1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum. 2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.

Now it’s 50% off! Code HCYB25

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

HIRE ME AS YOUR WOKE CFB COACH (IM A WOMAN) I CAN LOSE GAMES JUST AS GOOD AS A MAN THEN YOU CAN FIRE ME AND THE BUYOUT ONLY HAS TO BE 70% OF WHAT YOUD PAY A MAN BC AGAIN IM A WOMAN IT'S SIMPLE LETS DO THIS

This 👇

been meaning to order and just did, pushed over the edge on the basis of these excerpts (and the HHOL25 discount code)

If you're looking for other material on AI, deskilling, and neoliberalism, you might find our book useful, too! www.commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-ai

Or @hsteffen.bsky.social, in “Adjunct,” giving a concise, bullet-pointed definition of neoliberalism that can go right onto a classroom handout or union meeting flyer — I’ll teach it next week 🙏

This book is so good and important. Currently reading “Ed-Tech” by Annie McClanahan & Louise McCune, who see in an anecdote of a dead professor’s course materials used for online teaching a symbol of the broad project of deskilling that’s only accelerated with AI 🔥 @anniemcc.bsky.social

don’t sleep on this incredible film!

For 4 more days, you can stream Louis Massiah's brilliant documentary "TCB: THE TONI CADE BAMBARA SCHOOL OF ORGANIZING" through the DocNYC film fest! www.docnyc.net/film/tcb-the...

OPEN LETTER FROM THE AAUP–TAMU CHAPTER to Interim President Tommy Williams “Reinstatement is the only just and appropriate remedy.”

We’re accepting applications for our (paid! remote!) summer internship! professors who follow me please share with any students interested in writing

American student borrowers owe more than $1.8 trillion. The system that made this possible demands a reckoning.

omg, @benchansfield.bsky.social made the list!! 😍😍😍 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/b...

"Inasmuch as slogans articulate a collective desire and name a collective project, they are forms of collective self representation, a way for a collective to recognize itself: we are a we because we all want this thing." Jonathan Flatley on the slogan+the map resolve.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I’ve been super excited to share this. The full TOC for TEACHING POETRY NOW, ed by Caroline Gelmi and Lizzy LeRud, is online & chock full of assignments, experiences, and resources from a range of college classrooms. Out in Feb, available for preorder now. sunypress.edu/Books/T/Teac...

Ordered! And so should you!

Just ordered! At $20.97 this works out to LESS THAN $1 AN ESSAY for, e.g. @asheeshksi.bsky.social on "Board of Trustees"; @cnewf.bsky.social on "Degree"; @dennismhogan.bsky.social on "Endowment": & (one I read in draft) @andyhines.bsky.social, @kaibosworth.bsky.social et al on "Sustainability" 💥

everyone is talking about getting copies of University Keywords (or other JHU Press books) for all their friends, students, and comrades for the holidays, especially when it is 40% off with the code HHOL25.

Well this is very bad.

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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

Some contributors have begun to receive their copies of our special issue!! Looks like it will become more widely available next week!

Highly recommend this essay that synthesizes the history of the wages for housework movement and grapples with the intensifying commodification of care work.

Lise Vogel’s The Contested Domain (edited by me) is officially released today!!! I hope it will be a resource for people interested in Lise’s rigorous approach to social thought (spanning 5 decades) that creates theoretical openings for an inclusive Marxist Feminism.

"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise" 🎁 link www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...

i hope you'll read this compelling survey from Sarah Brouillette of the newest work from the always-astute and incisive Madeline Lane-McKinley—it's a tautly reasoned case for affording children greater rights and autonomy, reimagining social institutions that produce suffering and dehumanization.

So glad to have been able to write about Solidarity with Children by @lalouverouge.bsky.social for @proteanmag.com. Special thanks to Tyler Walicek, an extraordinary editor.

What an honor to read @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social and her brilliant son Ben unpack some of the ideas of my book together for @proteanmag.com. This was precisely what I hoped to do: spark dialogue between kids and so-called grownups about what solidarity looks like. proteanmag.com/2025/11/19/h...

Free shovel to dig your own grave.

Hi! will you be at the ASA conference this weekend? I am packing for San Juan and getting excited to talk to @lalouverouge.bsky.social and @downevent.bsky.social and @lintax.bsky.social about the idea of the child in late stage empire. Join us on Friday at 4:45 pm!

worth noting that the $30.2 million deficit the school is facing can be traced to ballooning admin salaries, real estate, and admin benefits, according to the economics department's analysis. the salaries for the actual professors is in line with or *below* the school's revenue growth

I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social about @alybatt.bsky.social's new book—which, I argue, shows how the critique of political economy can allow us to clearly name the social cause of climate catastrophe: capital. lpeproject.org/blog/when-na...

So they can hear it in the back: $12 billion in profits generated by Elsevier, Springer, T&F, and Wiley between 2019-2024

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

People who care about higher education and institutional autonomy need to pay attention to CPHE and the undercutting of the regulatory triad. Professor Harrison is doing important work on CPHE and I encourage people to listen to her discuss the politicization of accreditation.

Sharing a practice of reading with children is also a practice of listening to children: “What are you thinking about? What are your questions?“ @lalouverouge.bsky.social

🇵🇸The fourth in our five-part series is coming up next week! Please register and share!🇵🇸

Most helpful for me, @kristingrogan.bsky.social casts poetry as work, but as work beyond the wage relation. Poetry is not an escape from capitalist forms but a way to intellectualize work as separate from it and as a way to theorize abstracted forms of gender and alienated labor under capitalism

I am full of gratitude for this conversation @redemmas.org on Saturday with @kristingrogan.bsky.social and Chris Nealon. It was such a wonderful way to launch Poetry in General. Thanks to all who came!!

Alright I'll list out what I've read and been reading in case anyone is interested. Given that I serve as Chair of the Faculty Budget Committee I started with that side of the ledger so: Dean Smith, University Finances and How University Budgets Work. Pretty dry, but very important. 1/

Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t. There’s some kind of lesson here

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