Anna Kornbluh

ahwoo werewolf

Serfs Up Is too-late capitalism evolving a new mode of production? A new mode of accumulation? Or just a new political and ideological dispensation of the main forces and relations that have defined moderni…

chicago! InterCcECT goes neofeudal on your ass interccect.com/2025/11/02/s...

The old world is dying and the new world (whisper whisper) oh, so it’s just the dying then?

Protesters hold lighted signs that say RESIST ICE on a elevated train platform in Chicago.

Atena Danner, a Black woman poet, speaks into a microphone in front of protesters holding lighted signs that spell the word "RESIST."

Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.

The news about Teen Vogue is terrible, the latest in the long list of corporate-owned media layoffs, closures, and shifting tone and coverage.
There are so many great independent outlets, a list too long but this is a fantastic starter pack. PLEASE pick a few & support them if you're able.

Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here

Please share!

hello darkness my old foe

Penn State president says university would not join Trump’s higher education compact Neeli Bendapudi addressed the topic during the “State of State” town hall last week.

“We have to realize that it matters that we take action nationally & locally. [W]e have to keep doing this. We have to keep going to defend higher ed right now, which is still under threat from within, from the federal government.”

—Michelle Rodino-Colocino, AAUP Penn State

@aaupsu.bsky.social

guest room awaits!

everyday is time to move to chicago!

"We must learn from scratch what it means to love others and our shared world."

editor's note

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/wer...

awful

Serfs Up Is too-late capitalism evolving a new mode of production? A new mode of accumulation? Or just a new political and ideological dispensation of the main forces and relations that have defined moderni…

As part of my visit to Chicago one month from now, I will be joining the InterCcECT community (greatest logo/acronym) to discuss readings in technofeudalism.

Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in West Town: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street. People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal agents are in the area — and witnesses said federal agents had arrested several landscaper workers presumed to be in the country without authorization. As Figuero tried to drive through the 1600 block of West Hubbard Street on Friday, Oct. 10, an unmarked vehicle driven by federal agents collided with Figueroa’s as it tried to speed away from a hostile crowd, multiple videos reviewed by the Tribune show. Seconds after the crash, agents abruptly stopped their vehicle and exited with weapons in hand pointing at Figueroa, a U.S citizen. Agents then forcibly opened her door and pulled her out of the vehicle by her legs without identifying themselves, presenting a warrant or informing her that she was under arrest. As bystanders yelled, “You hit her! We have it on video!” agents ignored the crowd and forced Figueroa into a red minivan and drove away. Her car was left behind in the middle of the road, her coffee still in the cup holder, and her keys in plain view.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

chicago! something good this way comes! join interCcECT!

Researchers see “an emerging societal consensus across labor, professional associations, and consumers that key functions such as education, health care, and government are vital for the public good and must be performed by a human.“ AI automation is not inevitable.

Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Parapraxis Issue 07: Romance — Parapraxis Now available for pre-order. Copies will ship in December It is a particularly unlovely time to be thinking about romance. The heart can be fickle, indulgent, its matters distracting, impractical. ...

now available for preorder!

PARAPRAXIS issue 7: ROMANCE

The heart can be fickle, indulgent. But in the heavy boots of our undesirable present, seized by colliding catastrophes, we ask: how do we get out of here? Can the math of desire break us free?

www.parapraxismagazine.com/store/p/para...

formal vs real subsumption is one way to answer, a process beginning versus a process totalizing is another

University Keywords: Study and Struggle Our session will put two keywords in relation that are essential to the fight ahead in higher education and beyond: study and struggle.

How can we turn discussions about what we read and think into discussion for action? How does action lead to new forms of critical analysis?

I’ll talk about this with @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social and Vineeta Singh this Friday at 8pm ET for @debtcollective.bsky.social’s Jubilee School. Join us!

Filming Capital

our issue of SAQ on "filming capital" is up! contributions from @lingzhang.bsky.social, @ernestpjl.bsky.social, @benjamincrais.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, patrick marshall, cassandra guan, alberto toscano

bad news for haters of the good!

www.dukeupress.edu/filming-capi...

More people need to post lore drops about public figures in slide format

Looking forward to this conversation with @danmcquillan.bsky.social later today. Registration link below.

Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap

And 12% of Americans are on federal food support. Seems like a smart way to run an economy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"What has happened is that aesthetic production today has become integrated into commodity production generally."

Fredric Jameson

1990

I recently watched Three Days of the Condor for the first time and loved that Robert Redford's character's superpower was that he read books.

excuse the yellow tone but bsky.app/profile/anna...

so fab! you're gonna be happy on Wednesday

stellar

pretty!