Modernism/modernity seeks a Book Reviews Editor (3-year term, 2026–2029).
The role involves commissioning and editing reviews for both the print journal and Print+.
Deadline to apply: March 16, 2026
Please share widely.
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"These lines capture the book’s tension: mastery of grammar and syntax cannot guarantee belonging." Paisley Conrad reviews 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴
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26.11.2025 14:26 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
abstracts due end of the week ~~ anyone interested in chatting about marx, poetry, value, etc. is welcome!
19.11.2025 16:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"This poetry is urgent and alive, a work of observation and invention that bends the formal and the lyrical..." Paisley Conrad reviews 𝘈𝘯 𝘖𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦, 𝘈 𝘚𝘺𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦.
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14.11.2025 14:00 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
![Geology and its figures are surfacing across the humanities: fields including political ecology, Black studies, critical Anthropocene studies, and the energy humanities have recently incorporated or interrogated geologic language and methods. Such breadth of engagement with this branch of earth science evinces a recognition of what Kathryn Yusoff names the “grammars of geology”—the figurative and formal techniques that subtend geology’s reproduction of racial capitalism. Meanwhile, geology also circulates through a popular rhetoric that calls upon textuality to make its objects meaningful: Colin N. Waters, chair of the Anthropocene Working Group, notably appealed to literary technique in his invitation to engage sites of geologic significance by “[reading] the stories that they tell you.”
What is at stake in this figuration of geology as textual? How can literary studies contribute to a critical unearthing of geology’s grammars? And how might an attention to geology in literature reroute what Tiffany Lethabo King calls the “grammar of conquest” that grids modern relation to dispossession and death? This panel invites papers that address geology’s literary and theoretical figurations with particular attention to their imbrication with histories of racialization and conquest. Possible topics may include: the geologic grammars of postcolonial studies and Black studies; the poetics of ground, earth, or extraction; literature and the metabolic rift; literatures of geology and empire; or geology and deconstruction.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ibgrnntulywfrnaj3qnreu6c/bafkreihaukztqdp3am25qwfmm25zwxzew33s7kizmssdymzzpqihc5s6ly@jpeg)
Geology and its figures are surfacing across the humanities: fields including political ecology, Black studies, critical Anthropocene studies, and the energy humanities have recently incorporated or interrogated geologic language and methods. Such breadth of engagement with this branch of earth science evinces a recognition of what Kathryn Yusoff names the “grammars of geology”—the figurative and formal techniques that subtend geology’s reproduction of racial capitalism. Meanwhile, geology also circulates through a popular rhetoric that calls upon textuality to make its objects meaningful: Colin N. Waters, chair of the Anthropocene Working Group, notably appealed to literary technique in his invitation to engage sites of geologic significance by “[reading] the stories that they tell you.”
What is at stake in this figuration of geology as textual? How can literary studies contribute to a critical unearthing of geology’s grammars? And how might an attention to geology in literature reroute what Tiffany Lethabo King calls the “grammar of conquest” that grids modern relation to dispossession and death? This panel invites papers that address geology’s literary and theoretical figurations with particular attention to their imbrication with histories of racialization and conquest. Possible topics may include: the geologic grammars of postcolonial studies and Black studies; the poetics of ground, earth, or extraction; literature and the metabolic rift; literatures of geology and empire; or geology and deconstruction.
I'm happy to be organizing a panel for ACCUTE 2026 in Montreal titled "Literature and the geo-logics of conquest."
The submission deadline is Friday, November 21. Please share with anyone who may be interested!
accute.ca/2026-call-fo...
03.11.2025 22:03 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
my colleague+comrade, M.A. King, and I are organizing a roundtable at ACCUTE 2026 on poetry, capital's abstractions and antagonism, and registers of political resistance -- come thru! submit! "abstracts" are due nov 21: accute.ca/accute-2026-...
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