I was not surprised that Santa Ono was moving to the "less prestigious" UFlorida because Ono's vision of campus has always been as police state. This was on display last year at UMichigan with the most aggressive strikebreaking against grad students, but it goes back to his time at UCincinnati. 🧵

Maybe we need an aesthetic/media/political economic theory of hype? 🤔 futurism.com/ai-tinkerbell

My review of @joshshepperd.bsky.social's important and ever-so-timely book, Shadow of the New Deal, on the history of American public media has finally been published. I posted it online here:

We’re nice. We extended the deadline. Friday, January 17. 🙂

If hanging with the UF MRG isn’t your thing (see last post), you could instead write an essay interrogating AppleTV+’s investments in the sci-fi genre for this special issue that I’m co-editing with two great colleagues: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...

For those interested, the deadline to submit abstracts for the UF Marxist Reading Group conference is tomorrow. Check/share the link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...