madeline lane-mckinley

Call to boycott

Solidarity with this call to boycott SCMS next year

Mute Compulsion - Public Books The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are actually parallel formations, reveals “The Guest.”

my pleasure to write this short piece about trauma plots, #metoo, mute compulsion of economic relations, what is love, et cetera

(h/t @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social & @sorenmau.bsky.social whose title I shamelessly copied)

Crossing my fingers too! Hope you like it

Do any of you know a ‘90s icon who might owe you a favor?

earlier this month at a talk, I mentioned the 186,000 death toll in Gaza that was estimated in June 2024 in the medical journal the Lancet. watching people who were complicit or supportive of the war on Gaza, particularly under Biden, suddenly horrified 13 months later... is really something to see

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On Artistic Autonomy as a Bourgeois Fetish Abstract. This contribution from Sarah Brouillette and Joshua Clover demonstrates how the separation of class from identity has become foundational to a pa

Do yourself a favor this summer and read this brilliant piece by @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social and the late Joshua Clover!

A must-read for anyone trying to think about the question of "autonomy" in relation to the compulsions of late capitalist society

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Have been sitting with this beautiful thread by @reallandsend.bsky.social No one should have to care for children alone. If we are to speak of family abolition, let it be towards the possibility of collective care, based in the everyday practice of sharing life with children.

Jo Isaacson appreciation post ❤️

Which is to say there is no writing that isn’t haunted. And there’s a magic in the way their words will always be there.

Began the summer writing a eulogy. Today I find myself writing an introduction for the book of a friend, to be published posthumously, thinking of the pain of editing another friend I lost long ago. Writing with the dead is its own kind of writing, it brings out the truth of what it means to write.

Project 2052 — Common Notions Press Project 2052 is a website of revolutionary speculative short fiction, visual art and poetry, set in the world of Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072.

We’re launching a website of revolutionary speculative fiction, art and poetry set in the world of Everything for Everyone! We’re calling it Project 2052. To support author honoraria, subscribe as a sustainer, make a one-time donation, or pitch a story here: www.commonnotions.org/project2052.

Abolition. Family abolition. Health communism. These aren’t fringe fever dreams of an anti-child too-radical left. They’re traditions specifically rooted in care, survival & futurity. They ask: what would it take for everyone (especially kids) to actually live a good secure life, not just scrape by?

Just read the proof of this remarkable book - chapeau, Madeline

Means a great deal coming from a writer I admire so much - thank you 💜

Trust no one. Also... submit an abstract to our ACLA panel on "Conspiracism" when the portal opens on August 1! (with @lalouverouge.bsky.social and @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social) www.acla.org/seminar/a770...

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With Poetry in General, Keegan Cook Finberg advances a notion of the public as a practical fiction enacted in and through social forms that exist not despite the atomized and bureaucratized forms of daily life, but through the extensive paper trails those forms generate. Poetry becomes a way of bearing witness to and living with changing social forms. With wit and verve, Finberg conceptually remaps postwar US poetry. Anthony Reed, author of Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production

What a generous and generative study of contemporary American poetry. This is a serious work of materialist criticism in which "poetry in general" is imagined through and with our most important economic and discursive formations, from infrastructure to accumulation to the public sphere itself. Finberg demonstrates throughout an ability to locate in poetry a social archive of our present, and this book will be of interest to all scholars concerned with twenty-first century literary form and philosophical aesthetics. Leigh Claire La Berge, author ofWages Against Artwork: Socially Engaged Art and the Claims of Decommodified Labor

Poetry rarely gets to be general, but Keegan Cook Finberg blasts past misconceptions of marginality, framing it as a vibrant, interdisciplinary, public practice. What a relief to see this truth so clearly stated: poetry -when at its weirdest! — is uniquely positioned to contest the state's facilitation of capital. Sarah Dowling, author of Here Is a Figure: Grounding Literary Form

Keegan Cook Finberg takes poems seriously enough to see their claims on expanding the very genre of Poetry itself. Recognizing ambitions beyond individual expression, Poetry in General reads poems not as private refuges from social politics but as urgent interlocutors in a world of increasing privatization and politically managed bodies. Craig Dworkin, author of Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography

I am excited to share that four scholars that I deeply admire have written beautiful endorsements for my forthcoming book, Poetry In General. cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...

Information for how to support Arturo

@htwvmag.bsky.social is a very promising new project to support if you can.

The Souls of White Jokes | Stanford University Press A rigorous study of the social meaning and consequences of racist humor, and a damning argument for when the joke is not just a joke.

A better version of their argument is in Raul Perez’s book www.sup.org/books/sociol...

I am also suspicious of any discussion of “alt right” that does not engage with fascism

It’s framed as an us/them dynamic, in which I don’t want to be either 🤷‍♀️ But I am impressed by how deep they went. My book was also named one of the best comedy books of 2022 by Vulture - surprisingly its explicit communist perspective didn’t sell hardly as many copies 🤣

tbh Sienkiewicz and Marx write from an explicitly liberal perspective, which I found frustrating in terms of the book’s political scope. Their research is obviously indispensable though.

Haymarket Books Fall 2025 Catalog! Check out Haymarket’s Fall/Winter 2025 Catalog, featuring books by authors including: Brian Jones, Rebecca Solnit, Vicky Osterweil, Hamid Dabashi, Alfred W. McCoy, Madeline Lane-McKinley, Keeanga-Yama...

Our Fall 2025 catalog is here!

Featuring new books from @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, @vickyacab.bsky.social, Hamid Dabashi, @lalouverouge.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, @mikaelaloach.bsky.social and many more!

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An essay against adult supremacy, yes please!!💜

Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy

My book now has a cover! Out from @haymarketbooks.org in November

Happening tomorrow in Portland:

Hackman in birdcage

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