THE HUMORS by Kimberly Quiogue Andrews 1.  Today I am thinking about the difference between illness and predisposition, or personality. Or rather the dissolution of difference, the becoming-illness of the disposition. If, as Aristo…

Good morning; I have a piece of writing up in Four Way Review today if you would care to have a look at the way I think about sadness

fourwayreview.com/the-humors-b...

A Confederacy of Haters Substack describes its newsletters as solid “independent businesses.” The counter-public responds: we are gig workers excluded from most legacy media work.

Fascinating stuff from @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social: 'Like public spheres of the past, Substack has created its own proletarianized counter-public: under-employed writers.'

My brief contribution is about Substack. Many thanks to the incredible team at The Drift.

A Nicely Situated Ideal Dispatches on the Public Sphere

In Issue 17’s Dispatches section, @tarpley.bsky.social, Noelle Bodick, @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social, @edwardongwesojr.com, @erikmbaker.bsky.social, Ege Yumuşak, Ismail Ibrahim, @meganmarz.bsky.social, and @samadlerbell.bsky.social examine the public sphere.

www.thedriftmag.com/a-nicely-sit...

two headlines from The Bookseller this morning

sold

thanks -- I hadn't seen this

America’s True Fascist Architectural Legacy It’s not the kitschy White House ballroom—it’s logistics warehouses converted to ICE detention centers.

wrote about the most important architectural legacy of the Trump administration: the conversion of logistics warehouses into detention centers www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Relatability An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

game changer, lfg

it's officially out! :)

you get into a lot of what I've been working on and I think your post is super solid :) also I think these things--self-publishing model and AI--are increasingly going to converge (underlying tendencies are driving deprofessionalization AND automation)

Free Gifts, Service Work, and the Problem of Education: A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni, Annie McClanahan, and Matt Seybold April 17 at Noon Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall, Swarthmore College

Coming to @aydelottefound.bsky.social later this month.

Vandal Live with @alybatt.bsky.social & @anniemcc.bsky.social.

Lots of help from @andyhines.bsky.social

Currently reading this pair of new releases, both available from @princetonupress.bsky.social

aydelotte.swarthmore.edu/publications...

coming up at Carleton University on April 22 ❤️‍🔥

I will def. be using--related--Phil Neel's Hellworld

I am interested in the role of exhaustion in the history of capitalism (and of critique of capitalism) if you have any recs immediately at hand, buddies.

looking forward to the event tomorrow xo

I talked to the brilliant Kathi Weeks about her new book, Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures, about Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway, and about abolishing work, the prison, and the family

Control Science Whether on Caribbean plantations in the seven­teenth century or in Amazon warehouses today, the powerful have constantly developed new techniques to control workers—and new justifications for doing so...

just pre-ordered @henrysnow.bsky.social 's forthcoming book from @versobooks.bsky.social

www.versobooks.com/products/312...

it would be so cool to write a book where I don't figure out what the real argument was months after I've finished ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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In addition to @aarthivadde.bsky.social's WE THE PLATFORM, I'm excited about this forthcoming book f/ @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social CONTENT MACHINES (dropping around the same time Fall 2026), which with Vadde's is going to open up lit studies to a lot of cool new questions about culture & platforms.

ATMs too

I hope someone is writing something really good about AI and social reproduction / reproductive labour🙏

Habermas After Gaza — Parapraxis Mourning Germany’s Most Famous Philosopher Amelia Horgan

"Habermas’s statement of 2023, made over the corpses of thousands of Palestinians [...] can be understood plainly enough—as an expression of solidarity with the perpetrators of a genocide above its victims"

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/hab...

just helping Sarah Miller with it ... it's very rewarding!

you haven't lived until you've spent the first two hours of the day recording audio files of Hellworld by Phil Neel

Yeaaaah, let me know when one of the "AI" companies is owned by a glorious workers' collective