Steven Swarbrick

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Ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026? Submit an abstract to Dan Reeve and I's CFP: "BEYOND TOUCH: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" We invite submissions for 15-20 minute papers that examine queer and trans temporalities from new and unexpected angles. #IMC2026. Full CFP below 👇

Is O-Zone alive again??

It’s good

there are some amazing books on this list!! 🌿

congrats to @snarlsdickens.bsky.social @jttremblay.bsky.social @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social @jamieljones.bsky.social

Thanks Sarah!

I’m thrilled that Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, coauthored with @jttremblay.bsky.social, is a finalist for the ASLE #ecocriticism book award 👀🔥 Congrats to the other finalists. @nupress.bsky.social

Stack of books with rock on top, photo by Robert Thorson

Judges have announced the finalists for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards in #ecocriticism and #environmental creative writing! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky

I'm happy to share that Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, coauthored with @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social, has been nominated for the ASLE Ecocritical Book Award. The winner will be announced on July 9. @nupress.bsky.social

I had a blast chatting with the grad student-run journal Soapbox about my solo and coauthored work. Topics include sex, negativity, ecology, and psychoanalysis. Full interview below. www.soapboxjournal.net/online-artic...

My first sighting of "Fake Work" out in the wild. I'll be doing my first Fake Event tomorrow, and then others throughout the month of June. I've been sitting with this book for 25 years, literally, and I'm so excited/anxious to see its reception.

Fun! This book isn’t medieval/early modern, but it does have some spicy things to say about nature/ecotheory

Thanks, Jared!

The shapes of a book to come. Out October 2025. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

The first essay from my Solanas project @criticalinquiry.bsky.social 🖤

"Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind"

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

bit.ly/valeriesolanas

🙌 great cover!!

Poster for a colloquium titled "Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique." White and yellow text on black background. Logos in the bottom corners indicate that the event is sponsored by differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies and the Pembroke Center at Brown University.

Poster for a colloquium titled "Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique." White and yellow text on black background. The description reads: "Ecocriticism has been seduced by metaphors of entanglement. Four critics challenge the increasingly dominant logic of relationality to think the climate crisis without displacing the social and racial antagonisms that found it." Below this description is a list of participants: Lynne Huffer (Emory), Axelle Karera (Emory), Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo (Brown), and Jean-Thomas Tremblay (York), with Elizabeth A. Wilson (Emory) moderating. The event will take place on March 7th from 2pm to 6pm at Brown University in Pembroke Hall 305.

join us in Providence on March 7th for Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique — a colloquium featuring Lynne Huffer, Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...

Very fun book!! I also really like their critique of “entanglement” tropes in ecocriticism—that word always makes me think of a sea turtle caught in a discarded net!

Thanks for reading, Karl!

For funsies I started reading @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social and @jttremblay.bsky.social NEGATIVE LIFE, and it scratches my itches, bc I too am irritated by the 'only connect' clichés of so much ecocriticism + I'm a fan of the movies they're doing, eg, FIRST COW, Pösler's THE WALL.

Ami.e.s à Montréal: this, with @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social, is happening Thursday and Friday at McGill. January 16 lecture open to all / January 17 workshop by registration only at www.sexintheory.org. 🐄

The Joint?

It’s day 2 in the book exhibit at #mla25! Stop by and see us @uminnpress.bsky.social or check out our online exhibit at www.upress.umn.edu/mla25/

Two treasures from the @nupress.bsky.social table at MLA. Congrats, @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social!

Today at noon!

I spy NEGATIVE LIFE along with other great @nupress.bsky.social titles. Get 30% off using discount code MLA30

Rethinking Institutions
CFP deadline tomorrow for the next Marxist Reading Group!
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...

NEW EPISODE: NEGATIVE LIFE

STEVEN SWARBRICK ( @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social ) and JEAN-THOMAS TREMBLAY ( @jttremblay.bsky.social ) name the misalignment of individual and species survival, as condition of thought and film.

hightheory.net/2025/01/08/n...

@nupress.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PodSky

MLA-goers, please mark your calendars for “Freud’s Ecology” on Jan 10 at noon! There will be spit, critters, and symptoms galore! 🐀 mla.confex.com/mla/2025/mee...