New collection from our very own Dr Sean O'Brien @seanobrien.bsky.social, edited with Dr Madeline Lane-McKinley, The Return of the 90s: A Cultural History of the Present, from @plutopress.bsky.social. Sure to be of interest to students and colleagues alike. Available for pre-order now!

Our book has a cover! Co-edited with @seanobrien.bsky.social , featuring many wonderful contributors, and an Afterword by Annie McClanahan. Comes out in June, available for preorder now from @plutopress.bsky.social www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...

🔊 Dear Colleagues & Comrades! We are pleased to announce a network dedicated to addressing the omission of Palestine and the ongoing genocide within UK-based American Studies. We are hosting a symposium in Central London on the 9th May 2026. Abstracts are due on 6th February 2026. Please circulate!

Tomorrow at East Bristol Books (tickets are pay what you can):

Chatting with Adam Hanieh about his book Crude Capitalism at East Bristol Books as part of their Climate Talks series later this month. Tickets are pay what you can: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

My book comes out next month and I have some tour dates in the Pacific Northwest lined up: Portland - 11/13 at Powell’s on Hawthorne at 7pm Eugene - 11/14 at ROAR Student Center at 4:30pm Olympia - 11/28 at Le Voyeur at 4:30pm Seattle - 11/29 at Left Bank Books at 7:30pm

Check out Sean O'Brien's @seanobrien.bsky.social full lecture on theHythe whether you'd like to read it or watch 🌿 Marx and the Climate Crisis: Marx and Environmentalism buff.ly/bPJFYLg

Fourth instalment in the lecture series on Marx and the Climate Crisis: Marx and Environmentalism available now from @the87press.bsky.social: www.the87press.co.uk/thehythe-ope...

This is out later today. Fourth and final lecture in the “Marx and the Climate Crisis” series, this one on Marx and environmentalism. Stay tuned!

Long, very interesting (and informative) interview with two members of the Endnotes collective about the history of the journal: chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...

An excerpt from my book Feeling at Home on the @versobooks.bsky.social blog! www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

We are very happy to publish this interview by @seanobrien.bsky.social with Beverly Best about her recent book: "The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital" (@versobooks.bsky.social 2024) endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...

“...the devilish outcome of a system of blindly asserted social averages and tipping points, is the nature of class domination under capital.” endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o... Interview with Beverly Best, author of The Automatic Fetish, by @seanobrien.bsky.social. via @endnotesjournal.bsky.social

A new episode of Future Histories! This time I talk to Jacob Blumenfeld (@cominsitu.bsky.social; @ktbberlin.bsky.social) about climate barbarism, managing decline, the subject of fossil capitalism and the implications of transitioning away from it. www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

I interviewed Bev Best about her book, The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Vale in Marx’s Capital. Up now at @endnotesjournal.bsky.social endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...

A hyper-carceral model of schooling has been championed by successive British governments as they've handed primary education over to the private sector with predictably horrifying results www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Here is the video of the BSA panel on The Frankfurt School Beyond Its Centenary: Exploring Contemporary Critical Social Theory and its Critique of Political Economy I participated in alongside Stephan Lessenich, Cecilia Sebastian, and Esteban Torres. m.youtube.com/watch?si=KIz...

Hi. My department is hiring two tenure-track assistant profs in American lit -- one pre-1900 and one post-1900. WVU is, to say the obvious, a complicated place. What isn't complicated is that our students are amazing and deserve so much more than they've received. More below.

The next Marxism in Culture seminar is this Friday at UCL Institute of Advanced Studies www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

I did a reading at Drop City Books in Stoke last month & it’s one of the finest & most worthwhile bookshops ever. A dodgy landlord has ruined their stock through flood damage so please get your book orders through them (online) for the foreseeable future t.co/kv1by7Y0r8

@seanobrien.bsky.social and I are editing a special issue of CLCWeb entitled 'Keywords for Value and Culture'. The aim is to bring together short essays that explore the dialogue between value-form theory and Marxist cultural studies. Details in the CFP below! docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb_cfp/1/

Listening to the latest episode of @deathpanel.bsky.social I learned that more 1,000 people in the US have been dying of COVID every week since August. I knew that rate had dropped below 1,000/week for a bit, but didn't realize it was that high again—and staying that high!

First instalment in the new series on Marx & the Climate Crisis now up at the 87. www.the87press.co.uk/thehythe-ope...

Is there a version of this for literary / cultural studies?

three poems from Safe Word in the Brooklyn Rail

this but not for writing

Looking for recommendations for scholars working on the LA Riots, the consolidation of Third Way Neoliberalism, 90s critical theory, the Gulf War, and the counter-globalization movement for an essay anthology edited by Madeline Lane-McKinley and me!

So on here posts are called skeets? 😵‍💫

Me when it’s humid:

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NEW POEMS BY WENDY TREVINO!!! One thing’s for sure: whether this poem is good Or not isn’t going to start a movement https://www.action-spectacle.com/summer-2023-part-ii/trevino