John Macintosh

UMD faculty rights group rebrands, pushes for collective bargaining The group aims to collaborate with campuses across Maryland in creating “united and powerful faculty” for public four-year colleges and universities.

some news dbknews.com/2024/11/18/u...

“Call the ambulance” meme with the guy holding a knife labeled as Fukuyama and the one with the gun as History

When Trump Was First Elected, College Leaders Wrote Statements About It. And Now? Dozens of campus leaders wrote directly to their communities in 2016. Only a handful have done so in the aftermath of President-Elect Trump’s Tuesday victory.

Don't count on your institutions to defend you in the coming onslaught on higher ed.

Only way to protect ourselves is to organize, organize, organize!

Find out how to do this with UAM-UMD, AAUP, & @aftunion.bsky.social here: uamumd.org/professors-a...

www.chronicle.com/article/when...

table of contents for polygraph 29: narrative and crisis

new essay on autofiction and circulation work in polygraph 29: narrative and crisis. humbled to share space with this line-up.
polygraphjournal.com/issue-29-nar...

article out today on catherine lacey's the answers and the subsumption and surveillance of care work.

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UUYAU...

the consulting company now setting up to shred American University uses the same report for every school and doesn't bother to change the filename on the pdfs

Please come out to our final event this semester! We'll have coffee, snacks, and good company at 4105 Hornbake (above the career center), 12-4 PM on Tuesday 12/12. We'll also have postcards you can fill out to tell the Maryland Senate why we deserve collective bargaining rights!

apparently it's page proofs season 😓

Looking forward to participating in this symposium today, where I’ll be presenting some new work on deskilling and intimate labor in Catherine Lacey’s The Answers.

if you're in the vicinity, i'll be at stony brook university next friday for what looks to be an excellent symposium

stayed at one of these in portland once. weird scene.

if a publisher contacts you directly about the release of one of their books with a few paragraphs of summary, suggests galleys are available, and invites you to pitch a review, do you take that as a targeted invitation based on your particular expertise or a just mass email? (asking for a friend)

happy birthday!

thanks!

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i get the impulse not to speak ill of the dead except that those who tend to follow this impulse are hesitant to speak ill of the dead when they are living, too, which is at the heart of the problem

she functioned as a democratic politician, that is, as democratic politics personified

these look great, wish i was going!

the pizza is as good as the vibes are fucked