And we're live at the Loyola Chicago @aaup.org chapter's event–Defending against assaults on Higher Ed

can anyone recommend a 2026 planner? thinking of moving schedule and lists off of computer as an experiment.

Against extractivism: critical infrastructure should not be externalized to Indigenous Nations @grist.org #Environment #JustEnergyFutures

Great Art History piece from Jonathan Malesic in America on images of Mary and the importance of attention

The American Revolution's Catholic inheritance. Words from Fr. Anthony D. Andreassi in America: The Jesuit Review

your moment of calm: huddled least sandpipers on a floating log

This line in today’s @theguardian.com hit hard: “They used the Lord’s Prayer in a propaganda video for the new Department of War… Every evangelical should’ve heard alarms. This is sacrilegious.” Faith isn’t meant to sanctify power. It is meant to restrain it. #PublicTheology

Wow, I didn't really expect Interpol to be such a hit with my (brilliant) Gen Z students. And yet...they're locating Antics as a critcal zone to apply and revise Barthes's "Death of the Author." Go go go

Mutual Aid Request 😮‍💨 Whew. Tired. Day 10 of begging for help to prepare for the SNAP shutdown. Standing at $345/$850. I have physical and mental health disabilities, I can't work. I would if I could. Please help. 💕💸 V: Annaleigh-Watts CA: $annaleighmaria PP: AnaleeWatts

Just finished one of my most amazing office hours conversations—mentoring a student on travel for an artistic project exploring religious imagery, and how such symbols can be metabolized into a connective, contemporary practice. 1/

Not enough sports commentators are speaking to the fact that even in the NIL professionalization of college football era— Both Vandy and Northwestern have an outside shot at the College Football Playoff.

To my mind, what #NoKings is revealing isn’t just dissent—it’s a problem of scale for any attempt at authoritarian control. Every regime that governs through fear runs on labor: officers, analysts, contractors, censors, and algorithms working nonstop to contain dissent. 1/

To treat the poor not just as equal but greater than ourselves: David Lantigua writing for Commonweal 🕯️

AAUP holds a day of action this Friday Oct 17 nationwide teach in against the loyalty oaths us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... the original 9 persecuted campuses have in-person events find your chapter www.aaup.org/chapters/fin...

Still vibing on Monday's conversation students from Art & Visual Culture had as part of the semester's virtual artist visit with the recording artist Theodore. Turns out: "Breathe into Me" from his new album FIRE is less about romantic ❤️ than an invocation of the 9 Muses. #VisualCulture #Pedagogy

Brilliant piece by @bernardharcourt.bsky.social this morning on Critique & Praxis. Throws down a gauntlet for an American progressive left that must reclaim revolutionary radicalism against the far right’s bourgeois counter-revolution. substack.com/home/post/p-...

New on the Loyola AAUP Blog: Loyola AAUP stands with SEIU Local 73 as negotiations stall. Faculty working without contracts deserve solidarity, not silence. #LoyolaChicago #AAUP #SEIULocal73 #AcademicFreedom #Solidarity

Don't write for Substack while it platforms Neo-Nazis; Write for the non-standard, instead. Two months after launch, it is still Instagram's only weekly gazette newspaper 💅 www.instagram.com/the.nonstand...

Critical exhibition opening Oct. 16 at Contemporary Art Vilnius www.e-flux.com/announcement... #ContemporaryArt #Militarization

Orca Whales 🤝 Me "Coho salmon fishes are a delicious autumn treat"

Doing good thinking & strong work today on how interdisciplinarity was absorbed into exchange value. Truly readymade for Adorno-driven critique of the language of (research) administration. The better way—interdisciplinarity as pure use value—is the only path forward for #HigherEd

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

New on the Loyola AAUP Blog: Suzanne Kaufman reflects on AAUP v. Rubio www.aaup-luc.org/blog/reflect...

First blog post for Loyola's AAUP chapter just dropped on our new website! 💅 www.aaup-luc.org/blog/luc-aau...

"Communion with one another is a pathway to communion with God. Particularly in a world so often at war, this gesture can be a radical, countercultural act." Anthony Russo in America Magazine, this morning.

This 👇

Thinking through the Shamanic Forms of Irish Catholicism today as part of the Fall Spiritual Exercise slate. Recognizing a significantly syncretic component of my Jesuit heritage on the Maryland side of my fam. Ancestry do be with us in key ways; abstract psychopompestry for dark times.

The Sublime Dreams of Piranesi, a new gallery + commentary at Romantic Circles, is up at romantic-circles.org/gallery/exhi...

It's not great when faculty ghost conversation threads that are critical of administration to move on to something more "positive." The chances of anyone not getting tenure or promoted are so unlikely to be diminished by clear-eyed honesty in direct conversation with peers. Stay with the trouble.

🤦, US #vueltaespana commentary Cycling is a historically left sport Supporters standing visibly with Palestine, especially when Peacock coverage amplifies, has a history This calls for more clear & direct commentary than this sentence👇 "Ongoing Mideast Crisis rearing its presence being known"

More of this.

I started reading the list of Bucknell English dept faculty. I don't think I know any irl or on here but every single bio lists a current book project or a/many published book/s--expected, presumably, for tenure. Will Bucknell--upon closing Bucknell UP--stop expecting their own fac to publish books?

the non-standard, issue 5 includes engagements with Palestine, opposing war, and resisting AI-driven audiovisual content. Pieces by Rebecca Gross, David Clark and Orrin Wang, and Hannah Markley

Catching up on Chris’s analysis of UChicago situation today & trying to wrap my head around this graph.

Terrific reflection by Jasmine Marshall Armstrong on what the Ignatian meditation does for poetry. #JesuitSky

Glasgow pals, check out my new exhibition at the Mitchell Library on c19 theatre, empire, and celebrity! On display thru October. I'm also giving a talk at the Mitchell on race and c19 theatre on October 4 😊 www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/exhi...

Protesters in Chicago (if Trump sends in troops for ridic reasons) should dress as leisured members of the brunch class Sporting mimosas and parasols to dramatize that there is actually no emergency 🥂🍹🥂

I’m a labor nerd so this is how I found out lol Congrats to union folks on building yet another union!

It is more than mildly hilarious when cycling commentators take a comparative analytic approach with other sports #LaVuelta25

Part of the beauty of this —and what makes it stand out from literally every other thing you see in official political communication, from any party—is that it shows someone appreciating without any shred of condescension the dignity of this person's life and the value of her work

Can ethical pessimism save us from narcissistic optimism? We talk with @royscranton.bsky.social about his provocative new book Impasse from @stanfordpress.bsky.social - plus a live tape of our first time in an automated vehicle. tinyurl.com/mr2j5say

JOB: TT Assistant Professor, 20th Century US History, SUNY Cortland Subfields open "but the dept invites applications from candidates with expertise in the history of social/political movements, the civil rights & labor movements, &/or the latter-20th century" www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

The Non-Standard issue 2, my new Sunday digital newspaper. Thinking with grace grace grace, Mira Pertillo, and myself about rainbows, word inflation and AI, and Laruelle. #CriticalTheory #ExperimentalHumanities

News alert: Every day being a Sunday in August now stacked with letter of rec szn beginning earlier and earlier.

@amishtrivedi.bsky.social doing a grand discourse on what Marx would have been like as an associate proffie

Sometimes, I like to play a little game where I imagine what Karl Marx would have been like as an associate professor.