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Tremblay's Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press) provides crucial insight into how aesthetic expressions of respiratory variations evidence tension between morbidity & vitality within bodies whose ability to breathe is most endangered, writes @MccandlessTori csalateral.org/reviews/breath…

Ben Davis’ Art in the After-Culture (Haymarket Books) pushes against exploitative capitalist systems and ambitions towards decentralization, advocating for creative practitioners to strategically influence the direction of society csalateral.org/reviews/art-in…

Brave and powerful editors’ introduction in this issue of Lateral Journal, foregrounding a twin commitment to #abolition and anti-colonial praxis as the bedrock of the work of cultural studies. Take heart and breath! And read: "Cultural Studies toward a Free #Palestine”

Responding to Palestinian organizers’ calls to use our voice, continue to engage in conversations, and to speak out, this statement articulates what we see as the abolitionist and anti-colonial way forward—the only way we can commit to a #FreePalestine csalateral.org/issue/12-2/edi…

The CSA invites proposals on all topics relevant to cultural studies, with priority given to those that engage this year's theme of “Expansions" Deadline for Submissions: Sunday, February 11, 2024 11:59pm EST

In her second book, Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Social Media’s Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property (Duke University Press), Minh-ha T. Pham continues her examination of fashion’s digital labors, by analyzing crowdsourced intellectual property regulation csalateral.org/reviews/why-we…

In Passionate Work (Duke University Press), Renyi Hong argues that passion at work is an affective structure perpetuated by capitalism to maintain its injustices and discipline workers csalateral.org/reviews/passio…

Sampada Aranke’s Death’s Futurity (Duke University Press) centers generative politics of fugitivity & futurity while directing readers to “politicized looking,” turning state-sanctioned violence & repression into galvanizing moments of action, writes Jenna M Wilson csalateral.org/reviews/deaths…

In Feels Right (Duke University Press), Kemi Adeyemi shows how Black queer women’s moves on the dance floor reveal, navigate, bend, and upset entanglements that overdetermine their rights to feel, to belong, and to take place in the city, writes Naz Oktay csalateral.org/reviews/feels-…

Heather Davis's Plastic Matter (Duke University Press) sheds light on the implications of plastic's synthetic universality, inviting readers to reflect critically on their relationship with plastic material and also with matter more generally, writes Chayene Wild csalateral.org/reviews/plasti…

Really glad to share that my article "The Future Isn't Now"--on the affect of possibility, promises of action and the suspicious way that thinkers like Saidiya Hartman & José Esteban Muñoz are invoked--was published in Lateral Journal! Read it free: csalateral.org/section/aporia…

New #PositionsPodcast episode featuring Jonathan Pugh and David Chandler, “The World as Abyss,” is now live on Lateral Journal and Spotify and Apple Podcasts! #CSA2024 #EXPAND2024 Listen and read commentary by Richard T. Stafford: csalateral.org/podcasts/posit…

We're seeking book reviewers for a wide range of recent titles. If you're interested, please see the list and sign up at forms.gle/Emr4Umq2MfLwGa…

It’s no secret that I am pretty damn cringeworthy, but being perceived as “cringe” is a pretty common crip experience. In “Cringe Theory,” for Lateral Journal, I offer some language for why that is. As always, I spilled my heart for this one 🖤 csalateral.org/issue/13-1/cri…

Episode 3 of Lateral Journal #PositionsPodcast features The World as Abyss authors Jonathan Pugh and David Chandler. Listen now at csalateral.org/podcasts/posit… and on Spotify and Apple Podcasts! Cultural Studies Association #anthropocene #Caribbean #criticalthought