Exactly this. And I game, even. Just not that much.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Listen to Larry Grossberg discuss his recent book "On the Way to Theory" on KPFA's "Against the Grain": kpfa.org/episode/agai...

I’m so glad to see this collection of essays published in honor of Larry. I had intended to contribute, but the timing of its preparation didn’t allow me to finish. I regret not being able to participate, but I’m grateful to celebrate this book and the community it represents.

In our current context, there is no shared reality largely *by design* x.com/RoennReeds/s...

A little too on the nose, as far as falling empires go

Sharing my latest in CC/CS, a special forum on sexual politics, authoritarian desire, and the 2024 Trump election. Free download link of my intro essay here, and @e-bumps.bsky.social's is also open access www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TQVDQ... Many thanks to @marinalevina.bsky.social for her support!

I was honored to be a part of the volunteer collective that assembled this resource library, and I hope you (no matter who you are) find it useful; the immense power of education must be put to good collective use. Resource on Addressing Authoritarianism and Fascism: www.natcom.org/about-this-r...

The article itself is studiously balanced. (To a fault to my mind, but that's my perspective.) But this very dry paragraph in the middle is the whole deal. Why would an educational institution make this leap without any evidence of efficacy?

What Are We Doing x.com/specialrepor...

It's so so important to understand that these technologies are absolutely failing within a market context, they all lose a ton of money and are set to lose more, the only path to profit for these vultures is to attach themselves to educational and government institutions.

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support. You don’t have to go through with it. 877-447-4487

x.com/markgadala/s... Thankfully, there are still tells in each of these, but some I'm not sure I'd be able to identify if I wasn't suspicious to begin with.

It's the *breakneck speed* at which our country is hitting rock bottom that, I admit, caught me by surprise.

In "On the Way to Theory," Lawrence Grossberg introduces the major ways of thinking that provide the backstory for contemporary Western theory, including theorists Kant, Marx, and Heidegger to Foucault, Deleuze, and Hall. Read the intro for free now! assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...

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Someone send this man Gramsci's prison notebooks stat

We all live in this timeline

Season 4 of the brilliant "Conjuncture" podcast -- co-sponsored by the Antipode Foundation -- opens with feminist historian Catherine Hall talking about the history of racial capitalism, colonizing geographies, and social reproduction trinitysocialjustice.com/racial-capit...

MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here: archive.org/details/mit_...

Literally no one, especially no New Yorker, is gonna turn in John Q for some damn reward money. All the insurance companies execs will STAY shook. www.kxan.com/news/10000-r...

A NINETY PERCENT error rate, and United Healthcare knew it. futurism.com/neoscope/uni...

Grateful to WHYY's @whyythepulse.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about why ChatGPT et al don't understand (but seem like they do). >>

Why didn't they just put the photos inside a glass case that only the manager can open

Excellent thread 👇

"So in the end, you have tech moguls misleading their followers about a federal consumer protection agency that they don’t like for other, perhaps personal, reasons.....Some might call it a desire to defund the police." prospect.org/power/2024-1...

“Two years after capturing the public’s imagination, it seems ChatGPT’s main legacy has been in padding the finances of tech’s biggest players.”

TWO Cultural Studies starter packs for the price of one! A collaborative effort with @gil-rodman.bsky.social. These packs include folks committed to cultural studies as both an intellectual and political practice. go.bsky.app/VEpToCi go.bsky.app/LJvnwMj

no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees can make a better platform than Meta

The European Journal of Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary platform for charting new questions and new research – and we are very much looking forward to sharing and discussing #culturalstudies with you here ✨

Sometimes you come across PhD. opps like this and your intrusive do-over dreams ignite. Goddess speed, whoever lands it! 🫡

My book The Return of the Housewife is now available to pre-order, has an appropriately angry front cover and some lovely early endorsements @manchesterup.bsky.social

BOOK PROJECT. I posted this CFP in 300 character chunks earlier but here is the full pdf. Message w/ any questions. "Capacities To: Affect Up Against Fascism" - deadline for abstracts is 10 Dec, with complete submissions (100-1500 words) due Dec 31. Click the link for the pertinent details.

Followed the mass academic migration back over here to @bsky.app to see what's new... Follow and I'll follow back: time to build a more interesting feed!

Looking for some fresh reviewers to write about a couple of exciting new books! Check them out in the replies, and DM me (or email [email protected]) if you're interested in a review copy and starting the review writing process with me. Feel free to share with folks who might be interested!