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this isn't play acting and tough guy beat poetry and instagram workout vids anymore. you're fucking killing people. by the dozens. and at bottom you're just an alcoholic TV host with a double digit IQ and a track record of abject failure. high up on that wire, killing people by the dozens

Screenshot reading "It’s unclear what kind of investigation it needs to perform, given that Fulnecky’s 650-word essay is available for us to read and has all the textual depth of a discounted “He Is Risen” throw pillow at Hobby Lobby."

wrote about the recent national controversy at my alma mater johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/samantha-f...

The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Reposting for Simchat Torah

Parshat VeZot HaBerakhah Breaking news, analysis, art, and culture from a progressive Jewish perspective. Sign up for our newsletter!

I was honored to be invited to contribute the parshah commentary on VeZot HaBerakhah for Jewish Currents. I thought about the ethical implications of the death of Moses, with help from the rabbis, Gillian Rose, and Edward Said. Read the full commentary here:

jewishcurrents.org/newsletter/s...

An ideological purge coming from the feds will give excellent cover to employers looking to bust existing unions and crush nascent campaigns.

Episode 74: The Trustees (with Lauren Lassabe Shepherd) Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · 05/06/2025 · 50m

For the new episode of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, @moiradonegan.bsky.social and I spoke with the brilliant @llassabe.bsky.social about the trustees and their impact on US higher education podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

@adriandaub.bsky.social you seeing this?

Sam's essay on Berger and pedagogy is perfect, perfect, perfect—I couldn't stop thinking about it as I taught Berger and Mulvey last week!

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Seeing Without Guarantees What seemed to be intimidating the students was not the idea that I wanted something specific from them and they didn’t know what it was or how to give it to me, but rather, precisely, that I didn’…

I wrote about John Berger and feeling scared in the classroom for the Mid Theory Collective

mid-theory.com/2025/02/05/s...

Hi I wrote this! It came out online April 22, 2024 and then in print in the summer issue of Parapraxis

Accidentally got horny on main for this

Mixtape #3: A Sense of Scent For Mixtape #3, we asked some friends, writers, and readers: What do you look for in a fragrance? Do you have signature scent notes? What makes a fragrance “good”? Alexia Alkadi-Barbaro, PhD candid…

just in time for holiday gift-buying, check out our newest MTC Mixtape on fragrance, featuring the following collection of geniuses:
Alexia Alkadi-Barbaro
Annie Berke
Samuel Catlin
Faith S. Harden
Arah Ko
Sheila Liming
Rachel Tay
Bekah Waalkes
Korey Williams
and me 😉
mid-theory.com/2024/12/13/m...

A Call to the Modern Language Association to Let Members Decide About BDS In late October, the leadership of the Modern Language Association (MLA)—one of the largest and wealthiest US scholarly organizations in the humanities—refused to allow the organization’s Del…

Last week, I resigned from the MLA Executive Council in solidarity with members working to mobilize the org to take a stand against the scholasticide and genocide in Palestine.

Please read and share their powerful call to MLA leadership today in LitHub. lithub.com/the-modern-l...

How Cancel Culture Panics Ate the World A set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents.

The phenomenon of “cancel culture” has never really been submitted to rigorous analysis: We all already know about it, or at least we think we do, and we’re sick of hearing about it even though we cannot stop talking about it.

newrepublic.com/article/1883...

Thank you!

You are just one crucial step (reading) away from getting the point here

“You know what I’m talking about” doing an extraordinary amount of work here

not “we’re all on campus now”…

Incredibly smart and efficient. I keep making jokes about awkward Tgiving convos but, fml, I feel like I am actually going to end up quoting this at my uncle just to feel something.

How Cancel Culture Panics Ate the World A set of peculiarly American anxieties has spread across continents.

For the New Republic, I reviewed Adrian Daub’s immensely clarifying and grounding new book, THE CANCEL CULTURE PANIC: HOW AN AMERICAN OBSESSION WENT GLOBAL, a book which gets impressive analytical traction on a protean and contradictory mediatic phenomenon:

newrepublic.com/article/1883...

Meme of a black bear mournfully ruing the fact that he actually likes wokeness

Episode 20: Suspicion Pod45 · Episode

in case you missed it earlier today: a new episode of the @atpost45.bsky.social Pod45 podcast, featuring me, @lintax.bsky.social, @stalpaz.bsky.social, and @eleanoir.bsky.social discussing the cluster on "Suspicion" that Eleanor edited! open.spotify.com/episode/2fjP...

lord make me offline - but not yet