There is no reason at all ever to even mention AI in a commencement speech! Hope this helps

Bro bro bro, AI is going to revolutionize everything. We’ve almost unlocked its potential to read names, bro, we’re almost there

If you’re looking for a new pod for this weekend, I’ve got you covered! The first episode of Less Worse, feat. April Anson and Will Callison, is available now

As April Anson puts it so clearly, the ecofascism of the far right “isn’t far, and it isn’t right.” It seeps into our common sense. open.spotify.com/episode/11Ps...

I can now share that I've been awarded an @acls1919.bsky.social Project Development Grant to research the beginnings of US speculative fiction publishing! tinyurl.com/ACLSprojectd...

Happy to say that I am one of these grantees!

Ever been stuck shopping in Target and thought, "Am I an ecofascist?" How can we undo the ecofascist creep that invades the full political spectrum? Find out, with April Anson and William Callison on the inaugural episode of Less Worse: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

LESS WORSE is now on Spotify! Check out the inaugural episode on eco- and fossil fascism with April Anson and William Callison open.spotify.com/show/033dexA...

LMS hacked at the end of semester? I got you: the first episode of LESS WORSE is available now! Listen to April Anson and William Callison explain the quotidian perniciousness of eco- and fossil fascism podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Unironically yes

LESS WORSE is now live! It's an academic podcast about why the future sucks and how the humanities can help make it better. In this first episode, I interview April Anson and William Callison about the insidiousness of eco- and fossil fascism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

I'm starting a podcast called LESS WORSE. It's about why the future sucks and how the humanities can help make it better. For the first episode, I interviewed @aprilanson.bsky.social and @williamcallison.bsky.social about their work on eco- and fossil fascism. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Best part of parents visiting is they drop off your old Pokémon cards

TEACHING TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LITERATURE: ESSAYS FROM THE CLASSROOM Officially under contract and coming in 2028! It's a monster volume: 33 teacher-scholars from around the world writing provocative, shortform essays in the service of pedagogy

Yesterday, I recorded the first episode of Less Worse, an academic podcast about why the future sucks and how it could be better. Featuring @aprilanson.bsky.social and @williamcallison.bsky.social and dropping… soon (still have a lot to learn about editing)

Happening today at 5:30 - 7:00 PM: "After Sustainability: Climate Change and Authoritarianism" w/ @aprilanson.bsky.social and @williamcallison.bsky.social. Use link or QR code for live stream: mediasite.mms.rpi.edu/mediasite/Pl...

Happening in Troy, NY next month! If you are in the NY capital region, this event on climate change and ecofascism at Rensselaer Polytechnic is open to the public. RSVP here: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/1z8jiVQmjq

What kind of fake ass phd do you complete in 3.5 years??

Where my Laxness-heads at?

Ah that feeling when you read something that says everything you're currently trying to write, but better. Love this piece on progressive education by @annieabrams.bsky.social: thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

Mowale pwummeting because of mean whetowic

Man, why don't you shut up and get to work on letting me attach a file that's still open to a fucking email www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

It is really just that easy to say

YEESSS

Today in medievalcore technofeudalist hypothesis

Yeah, but do some people have bad politics that make them suck though?

Love how these "Mamdani will have to learn the grownup reality of compromise" pieces still (though inadvertently) just make him look cool and sick as fuck nymag.com/intelligence...

New years eve 1999. (Finally got this on DVD. How is this banger not more widely available!?)

"Other billionaires who appear to be making moves to decrease their presence in California include" literally just one guy. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...

Brb, hiring eight CERCs in A.I. and Entrepreneurialism

I need to know what is up with this genre of spine on books lately!

Grading got me ready to ban the word "complexities" next year

Broke: Thanksgiving Woke: Boeuf Bourginon just cuz

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

"This film could have been good I guess--if only I didn't, personally, hate it for reasons I won't explain." jacobin.com/2025/11/del-...

And is this sandwich in the courtroom here today?

Sick.

Formatting a forthcoming essay on how its bad for higher ed out here, which I wrote in, uh, 2023

Doesn't Harvard already have a Center for Conservative Scholarship? I think it's called "Harvard"

Deadline extended! TEACHING 21st CENTURY LITERATURE calls for short essays of avid, teching-oriented criticism. CFP: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...

Gave a talk at Siena College the other day on 1930s sci-fi fandom's anti-fascism, tech broligarchs, and the salience of Marxism to contemporary science fiction. This gave me a chance to form some thoughts on recent archival work, and I'm happy to share it here: www.mitchrmurray.com/blog-2-1/sci...

Before the eldritch terrors of our current moment, I reviewed @katemarshall.bsky.social's Novels by Aliens on how eldritch terror is, uh, realism. Up now at ALH: academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

Even though it was a forgone conclusion, turns out it still sucks to receive the NEH rejection!

If you ever wanted to read about Donald Glover's "Atlanta," trap, and the Hollywood Dystopia that is Atlanta, then have I got the essay for you: asapjournal.com/feature/disn...

Men, what's stopping you from speaking to God in AI form and tapping into the ancient archive of the creation of the universe?

Open call for chapters for edited collection TEACHING TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LITERATURE: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...

CFP in brief: I'm editing a book titled TEACHING TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LITERATURE. It features 3000-word essays of avid, teaching-focused criticism. Each contrib. selects one key C21 text that, in their institutional context, teaches exceedingly well. Email or DM for details/to pitch!

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