Chapter 1, Volume 1, as an anatomy of commodity lust.
crucial coverage from The Guardian that features our collaborative, movement-building website
against-a-i.com
Ah--can't wait! You're amazing!
Back on twitter, if only for a bit: x.com/involocution
Thrilled (and a bit surprised) to have just signed a contract with Forlaget Grønningen 1 for a new Danish climate book for readers aged ≈ 11–16. Part non-fiction (letters), part fiction (a crime story). I can’t share the title or details yet, but it will be wild & cute & involve a kidnapping!
Theory and novels and both!
Syllabus suggestions for a "Theory of the Novel" course? Graduate level. I want to blow them away.
I see ‘postcolonial literature’ didn’t make the cut
Wonderful & thanks! I'll get that information for you right away. The talk is from 14:15 to 16:00 on Tuesday Dec 16. I'll get back to you about the room!
So pleased to be presenting at a few Scandinavian universities next week, including Copenhagen, Linnaeus and U of Southern Denmark. Thanks to @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social & @lnuccon.bsky.social for hosting!
artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/calendar/202...
Yes! You rock, Brent. I'll DM you :)
I ask bc Toronto was not this Marxy when I was around. Glad to see things have changed!
Dec 2: rocked the baby / wrote a page / finished a chapter #acadecawriteathon
awesome! Who at Toronto organized this??
This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
If your institution would be willing to host a free talk from my book project, I'd love to swing by. In most cases, I can pay for accommodation and travel myself.
Hi folks! Are you at a Canadian or Danish university? I will be traveling between Dec 8 and Jan 7 to Denmark, and between Jan 8 and Jan 20 to Toronto. And I am on research leave next semester.
TOMORROW! Join HELU's Contingency Task Force on Zoom for a wall-to-wall, coast-to-coast screening of ADJUNCT & a post-screening discussion with filmmaker Ron Najor! Saturday, October 25 at 2:30 ET / 1:30 CT / 12:30 MT / 11:30 PT. Register at bit.ly/watch_adjunct
Global Cold War by Odd Arne Westad
Academia is where you learn to commodify knowledge, argument, and yourself as you write a dissertation that despairs over the commodification of everything.
Academia is where you find robust structures for the development of job materials at the same time that you find zero jobs in your field.
Good news is that there is no need to workshop your cover letter when there are no jobs and no universities.
When your toddler is experiencing a developmentally appropriate interest in four-wheeled vehicles, but you tend to take a dark view on things.
A major philosopher says yes to a 1.5 hour discussion with a group of critical theory enthusiasts: good things happen sometimes.
Loving the badass opening of the ACLA newsletter by the current President, Karyn Ball.
Something unworked in us but all-determining, a terrible negativity. (Freud on melancholia.)
Returning to Bluesky, with hesitation.
I get whole body hives when I hear robots read to me.
Harder and harder, darker and darker.
Today toddler said a complete sentence, the second of his whole life. "I ate it," pointing to a window sill, when I asked him how he made himself bleed.
