forever devastated by the vast number of no-futures for scholars in this discipline

If, previously, minimalist narration was thought of as a trauma-response, I suggest minimalism has a new life, rendering ruminative thought processes in the wake of injury⬇️ Much gratitude to the P45 team, my fellow contributors and @michaeldango & @connorrbennett

“The comic or happy ending is precisely what’s tragic; the rich’s suffering along the way is the comedy.” Read Nathaniel Likert on “The White Lotus” and the long history of tragicomedy, a genre that emerged in renaissance Italy. buff.ly/3HHrqGJ

Never not relevant.

It was such a privilege to review Kornbluh’s Immediacy - a love letter to (and also an elegy for)✨mediation✨ To many more years of density, abstraction, and opacity🔥

It is impossible to impress on someone how psychically ruinous it is to receive some 30 rejections over the course of a few months, watching your employment prospects dwindle to ~zero, and see it happen to so many talented others at the same time. This profession feels over

Anyone in Cph wanna discuss Anna Kornbluh’s Immediacy? Me, Tina Lupton and Christina Fogarasi are organizing an informal reading session on May 22, from 10-12, at Uni of Cph - if interested, hit me up (DM or [email protected])! We will read the intro & the stuff on writing and theory

say what you want about sally rooney but "have i hurt you, do you love me, will you always" reverberates in my head constantly like the DVD logo bouncing around on the screen

This incredible labor of love is NOW ON SHELVES! Joanna Russ's "mainstream masterwork," ON STRIKE AGAINST GOD, is out today with Feminist Press. Buy it, read it, laugh, cry, rage, and demand the impossible. bit.ly/3VF0uNN

Academic jobs

love to be bad at sleeping, the involuntary activity

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really not into whatever wave of feminism this is where im supposed to over identify with my menstrual cycle

Welcome to Mid Theory Collective: a space by and for early career scholars in the humanities to think, learn, and write together. You are invited! mid-theory.com

I wish I had thought of this in time to make actual stickers.

a short piece on topics I care deeply about, including trauma plots, "romance," and the mute compulsion of economic relations thanks Christina Fogarasi for the theoretical touchstone thanks Public Books for working with me publicbooks.org/mute-compulsio…