Alex Colston reviews Anton Jäger's "Hyperpolitics," filling in gaps in the book's short argument and arguing for the importance of political formations and activities independent of official political society.
proteanmag.com/2026/03/26/h...
Short note to say that crimes of class by Nick and I is in the world as a book, published by the excellent friends at @rosa-collective.bsky.social, available here rosapress.net/product/crimes…
the best part about close reading (in this case a painting) is that you genuinely don't know what you will end up finding, saying, arguing; it's a revelation when you finally get there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Book cover: THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE, edited by Devin M. Garofalo & Nathan K. Hensley — in black font, against a Barbie pink background, design inspired by 80s literary theory book series.
Promotional flyer for THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE. Includes image of cover, description of book, editor bios, and brief promotional blurb by Heather K. Love: “This book makes clear why language, thought, and writing matter, now more than ever.” Discount code: NUP2026. All information included in the flyer, plus more, can be found at the linked website.
THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE has a cover, a website, and is available for preorder! (Use code NUP2026 for a discount.) See the full contents at the link below — lucky to be part of this extraordinary project and excited to see it in print this fall! ✨🔥 nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948066...
The Long Nineteenth Century 1785-2026
obsessed with this article
Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT
The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.
Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone
A poster of a crying baby that says "stop this?" and there's more context over to the left but isolated and with a structural beam splitting the image in two making the baby look demented and crazed and immediately funny and off putting
Waking up every day like
The Return of the '90s (edited by me &
@seanobrien.bsky.social ) will be out in June & can now be pre-ordered from @plutopress.bsky.social! Featuring work from many wonderful contributors, with an afterword from Annie McClanahan (@anniemcc.bsky.social):
www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...
Has anyone else noticed shit is just happening constantly and you can’t stop near any of it
absolutely adored listening to this
I wanted to take a moment to let folks know that Ted Martin's extraordinary book _American Literature's War on Crime_ is out! The book surveys almost 100 novels to explore how the War on Crime was waged on the page & how fiction made the policies & ideologies of crime control legible. It's amazing!
Holding up well
Crimes of Class by Mark Gawne and Nick Southall is now available on the Rosa website! $25 plus shipping. Get your hands on this glorious book, typeset by Dennis Grauel and featuring a Preface by Chelsea Hart. One for the ages! rosapress.net/product/crim...
Yes, that’s the issue. I’ve been trying to find a way to articulate this: to the extent that LLMs serve a purpose in education, it’s an indictment of the education system, not a praiseworthy feature of LLMs.
"Birth rate problems are technocratic problems that emerge primarily out of the failure of neoliberal biopolitics to adequately organize reproduction for the needs of capital; pronatalism is an attempt to impose an ideology that will do so..."
So much useful framing in this from @lesja.bsky.social
Even if AI could write a novel what problem has been solved? The problem of knowing what you’re reading was written by another person? Who loves reading novels but hates the part where your mind briefly and mysteriously touched another?
yes! I co-teach a course on art, gender and sexuality at UNSW and would love to use it in that context!
‘The Islamic Republic is likely to emerge transformed or weakened in ways not yet visible. But the notion that it would simply dissolve under pressure was always fanciful.’
@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on the US’s war on Iran, from the blog.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
a picture of a huge, low, heavy cloud of black oil over Tehran
This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2
y'all !!!!
I love that the blurbs are basically like, "listen, she is never not telling you about some bleak shit" 😍❤️🔥 (thank you @aarthivadde.bsky.social and @markmcgurl.bsky.social)
Dropsite reports “Black rain” + “nuclear winter” caused by Israeli strikes on oil depots in Tehran
- chemicals are producing acidic precipitation that causes skin burns + severe lung damage on contact
- the rain is corrosive + could damage structures
- heavy metals leaking into soil/water systems
Was Claude/AI selecting a girl school and a hospital as targets?
A hand holds two copies of a book against a white wall. The book is soft cover, matte baby blue and is titled Crimes of Class by Mark Gawne and Nick Southall
Fresh from the printers - boxes and boxes of this glorious new book by @furiousaffects.bsky.social and Nick Southall. Coming to the Rosa site soon!
Do not let the Western media manufacture consent. Hold the anti-imperialist line. You can be against the oppression of Iranian people by their own regime and not use that as excuse to support a US & Israeli act of aggression.
Western bombs do not bring freedom or liberation to the SWANA region.
Book cover of Behind Our Backs: Feminized Poetry and Capitalist Abstraction by Amy De'Ath
Behind Our Backs is out!
"In this brilliant study of social forms, De'Ath shows how a surprisingly speculative strain of contemporary poetry explores unseen connections between the domination of value and the process of feminization."
—Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago
https://ow.ly/IJRh50YgW1o
attn American history comrades, who has written on the Homestead Act?
The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.
I find this so fucking sad actually
it's from a great article by @bildoperationen.bsky.social
journals.openedition.org/transbordeur...
