Joshua Clover 💔

not only have universities failed to make a persuasive case against AI, some of them (like my employer) are actively peddling proprietary MLMs to their students 🙃

Drawing upon the work of Sean Bonney and Joshua Clover, poet Joni Prince's "Clarification Letter, Nov 2023" illuminates the stakes of the present crisis from Sacramento to Bab Al-Mandab. proteanmag.com/2025/05/15/cla…

An actual visionary, spelunker of various hells, who knew as much about death and the dead as anyone, Alice Notley also leaves us with one of the finest elegies ever written:poetryfoundation.org/poems/50834/at…

I'm going to an event with colleagues Friday where we can all pick one beloved poem to read aloud and I did not have a hard time choosing. This one. wendy trevino

1. CA governor proposes cutting UC funding by 8% 2. in response to pressure from UC community, CA governor reduces cut to 3% (still bad, but a difference of $249M) 3. UC admin is still moving forward with 8% budget cut, as if nothing had changed utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/05/betray…

ICE is prioritizing workplace raids since they have quotas to hit and border detainments have plummeted. Expect more of this.

My book has a cover! Out from Haymarket Books in November:

A memorial to Joshua, written by some MIR faculty versobooks.com/blogs/news/jos…

ICE Mass Arrests Spark Chaos In South Loop As Activists Fight To Disrupt Operation blockclubchicago.org/2025/06/04/ice…

ICE is throwing a GFU uprising 5 year anniversary party and you are invited

So you’re telling me there’s a new Miley album out AND riots in LA with people throwing Lime scooters at cop cars from overpasses, BUT Joshua Clover isn’t alive to post about it. HOW is the world still turning?

In solidarity with the movements in Los Angeles and elsewhere across the US, our Riot Prime reading list is 30% off and we've made Joshua Clover's Riot. Strike. Riot free to download.

Its really too bad Joshua couldn't finish the book he was working on--it was this

My thoughts about Jamie Merchant's great book, Endgame Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org/article/conspi…

A perfect memorial: "I couldn’t help but hear Joshua this past week, his commentary, his theories, his hilarious quips and stupid puns, as brave, ingenious partisans in greater Los Angeles and across the country ran ICE agents out of neighborhoods..." versobooks.com/blogs/news/for…

Across many countries, we are witnessing an alarming crackdown: trade unionists being sacked or blacklisted, cultural workers are silenced, and campaigners being harassed or criminalised for their solidarity with Palestine.

More to say about this soon (hopefully in essay form!) but if you think AI writing is labor-saving, or polished, or a useful metric of intellectual or aesthetic judgment, you are a fucking idiot and you should give your job to one of the thousands of adjuncts who knows better

The fronts of this summer’s MIR (Everyone for Everyone) shirts.

MIR loves Adam's work and his shop--show him some comradely love by ordering something on sale!