Marissa Fenley

The first meeting of Praiseworthy Reading Group will take place TODAY @5pm. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Today is day two of the Jewish Voice for Peace hunger strike to stop starving Gaza and stop arming Israel. We are hosting a full day of People’s education on Federal Plaza in solidarity. Join us, Chicago!

The people are crying out for an unalienated relationship to the world, to work, to our animal brethren!!

Unfortunately they are expressing that desire by destroying food safety systems rather than destroying capitalism, industrial agriculture, the wage...

The editorial board of Mid Theory Collective is sponsoring a seminar at ASAP/16 on our working conditions. Please share and consider submitting to it!
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My brilliant friend, @bakaari.bsky.social, on the differences between looking at and looking after (and mysterious parcels on her doorstep)

What a coup for the good folks at Mid Theory! I’ve been eagerly awaiting Martin’s book for quite some time, and this is a fantastic interview.

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Screening Stanley Each clip-on addition is a talisman of got-my-shit-together-ness —these fragments I have shored against my ruins—with the fully dressed cup acting as a stand-in for an aesthetically organized life.…

For MTC, @kellypendergrast.bsky.social writes about the aesthetics of the Stanley cups and the bodies that coalesce around it.

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Mixtape #4: Winter Comforts For Mixtape #4, we asked some of our writers: What arts, writing, or culture help get you through the winter months? Matthew Beeber, Chicagoan: While it may not get me through all the winter months…

a new @mid-theory.bsky.social mixtape for your friday afternoon! in this mixtape, we asked our december writers for their favorite winter comforts. i got a lot of good recs from these writers, and would love more 👀 what gets you through the winter?
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AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

New evidence shows AI's thirst for power may be distorting the flow of power to US consumers (gift link):
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Thanks to @americanstudier.bsky.social for featuring my essay in #ScholarSunday! (perfectly timed with the shirtless Luigi lookalike contests in Brazil)

The look-alike contest trend is a whole problem! So I wrote about it for @mid-theory.bsky.social (shepherded by remarkable editors @ Martha Henzy and @bakaari.bsky.social)

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The Look-Alike Contest and the Search for a Public Unlike a Proud Boy rally, the look-alike contests provided a non-threatening way for white men to celebrate the fact that they all look alike. It seems that to be exceptionally neutral, remarkably …

have you, like me, wondered what is going on with these celeb lookalike contests? my dear friend @marissafenley.bsky.social (who is truly a genius) has answers at @mid-theory.bsky.social about what these events signal about the American public, race, and power
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Can't wait to read Brice!

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Pledge to Not Renew MLA Membership As a direct response to the MLA Executive Director and Executive Council's refusal to forward members’ resolution calling for an endorsement of BDS, I pledge to not renew my MLA membership and to resi...

If the MLA is going to suppress our ability to discuss important issues and take collective action, we can withhold our dues & stop doing service for them. Join me in pledging to not renew your membership & to resign from any governance/leadership position you hold: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#ScholarSunday Thread 203 Shared on December 15, 2024

Over at the newsletter I just shared my super-sized 203rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Featuring + 🗃️

americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

Please take a moment to repost our Truthout folks starter pack and help us grow our community on Bluesky!

Let Down By Television In contradistinction to prestige TV’s much discussed fixation on ‘antiheroes’ and the ‘morally gray,’ mid TV operates more by subjecting these kinds of morally ambiguous characters to rituals…

You will like this essay by @oliviastowell.bsky.social! mid-theory.com/2024/10/05/l...

A Call to the Modern Language Association to Let Members Decide About BDS In late October, the leadership of the Modern Language Association (MLA)—one of the largest and wealthiest US scholarly organizations in the humanities—refused to allow the organization’s Del…

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Quimby's Bookstore, Wicker Park's Indie Publishing Paradise, For Sale After More Than 3 Decades Quimby's, known for its wide variety of books, comics and zines, opened in Wicker Park in 1991. Its current owner has been at the helm since 1996, and is looking for a buyer to take the store into the...

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A brief glance at Quincy’s webstore reveals titles like “The Anarchist Review of Books,” “Let’s Make Bread! A Comic Book Cookbook,” the latest issue of “Butt” magazine and “Bubbles,” described as an “Independent Fanzine About Comics And Manga.”

blockclubchicago.org/2024/12/10/q...

Thinking with Sensation: An Interview with Amber Jamilla Musser To think with noise is to think with what makes one uncomfortable. Amber Jamilla Musser is a professor of English and Africana Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Across her numerous books, she co…

NBCC member @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social interviewed Amber Jamilla Musser about her book "Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined" for @mid-theory.bsky.social:

My article "Ventriloquism's Faulty Mechanics" is out in TDR! Thanks so much for careful editing by Mariellen Sandford, Sara Brady, and Richard Schechner. doi.org/10.1017/S105...