Join us on December 5 at 2:00 p.m. EST for a conversation featuring scholarship from the Peitho Cluster Conversation titled, "Talking back through Rhetorical Surveillance Studies: Intersectional Feminist and Queer Approaches." REGISTER HERE: HTTPS//TINYURL.COM/34PUKDRY

Take a minute to sign, and help save Toronto's bike lanes. Stop Bill 212! nwmd.social/s/twitter/4gKG…

Happening right as polls close in NC. You can watch online to distract yourself!

badass

experiment replicated the US hates women

"The Human Mind" aimed to translate psychiatric knowledge for non-experts and legitimize psychiatry's role in treating mental disorders. Today, PhD candidate Matthew McLaughing will present his research on the second session of the Fall 2024 HAPSAT workshops 📚

comfort reading Spinoza

"The Anti-Zionist Idea: History, Theory & Politics" — today at the University of Toronto. Registration is now closed. No livestream, I'm afraid, but the proceedings will be recorded and shared.

US politics are class politics. This is the correct take.

And we’re off! #EmoTrans #EmoSex

Save the date and stay tuned for the CfP Historical Materialism Journal

This afternoon 2pm! fightforbikes.org

ICCIT Director Sarah Sharma will talk with Chase Joynt, director and writer, about his most recent book, Vantage Points: on Media as Trans Memoir this coming Sunday at Another Story Bookshop. eventbrite.ca/e/save-the-dat…

The ICCIT is hiring Sessional instructional assistants (SIA) (CUPE 3902 – Unit 3) for three courses: CCT285H5S Immersive Environment Design (1) CCT335H5S Technology and the City (1) CCT461H5S Speculative Design III (2) utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/work-us

Oh look, everybody all ready to talk about class, all of a sudden. Does this one get smiley illustrations, too? (subtweet context: David Brooks in The Atlantic )

Yesssssssssssssss Adorno just in time for Buying Plastic Shit season and the holiday "break."

The ICCIT is hiring an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream - Design and Production. Details about the position can be found in the formal job call: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississaug…

The long-awaited new issue of POROI is out from ARSTM.bsky.social, including my article about psychotropic drugs in wellness discourses! The article is timely because it critiques a certain kind of masculine subjectivity that's, um, in the news rn: pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/article/…

"Instead of smart drugs, perhaps ['mind-maximizing' supplements] should be called pharmaceutical weaponry. The line between maximal and violent is a thin one." I write about the rhetorical relationship(s) between psychotropic drugs and militant lib-bro-tarian politics:

In the article ““Smart drugs,” Gender, and the Rhetorical Turning” Kate Maddalena (Kate M Maddalena) examines nootropic discourses, particularly their gendered dimensions and implications. pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/article/… 5/8