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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · 16d

Colleagues and fellow scholars, here’s info on a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies that I’m coediting with Matthew Gannon and @katemarshall.bsky.social: “Long Modernism, Altered Natures,” cfp below—send us your abstracts!

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/...

cfp | call for papers

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · Aug 16

I love Watertown

Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · Aug 5

That’s bullshit

Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · Jul 24

My newest piece on Peele’s NOPE and the McManus bros’ THE BLOCK ISLAND SOUND is out in SFF&TV, along with several other banger essays. Check it out here (if you don’t have access, dm me)

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/18...

Contents | Science Fiction Film & Television 18, 2

This paper focuses on the TRON duology – Steven Lisberger’s TRON (1982) and Joseph Kosinki’s TRON: Legacy (2010) – ahead of the release of Joachim Rønning’s TRON: Ares (2025) to situate the series in relation to the social dreaming of utopianism. As I’ll ...

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · Jul 19

Tobias, your book is the one we need

a cat is laying down in a dark room

ALT: a cat is laying down in a dark room

media.tenor.com

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · Jul 6

Let’s be real, LLM is just way too similar to MLM.

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · May 28

Of course, this requires a lot of cannibalizing those 37 false starts.

Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · May 28

Sometimes, the way a draft of something gets written is 37 false starts and aborted efforts and then BAM. 7500 words in two days.

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · May 19

1. 2005
2. Brick
3. Burrito bowls

Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · May 13

This right here is why we study literature.

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · May 5

This is wild Nathan. Thank you for posting about it.

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · May 5

The upshot of extractive capitalism is a house of mirrors where what’s below is above, as we’re crushed within centuries by what was buried over epochs.

Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · May 4

The plan is to blast a 600-foot deep chasm in the earth, inside the floodplain of the San Joaquin River, and to do it without running a single study on what would happen when water inevitably pours into the pit

Arambula’s bill protect San Joaquin River dies in committee

Arambula’s bill protecting the San Joaquin River from damage caused by blast mining gravel was killed in committee this week.

fresnoland.org

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · May 5

The frontier is alive and well in the world-ecology.

Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · May 4

Just another extractive project, at another frontier where cheap nature interfaces w the profit motive against the backdrop of a deliberately hollowed-out & (in this case) fully coopted regulatory apparatus.

@nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com, does anybody want to shine a national light on this

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · Apr 25

My review of Sarah Dimick’s tremendous new book, UNSEASONABLE, is out at ISLE. Academic friends and fellow environmentalists, check out Sarah’s awesome work!

academic.oup.com/isle/advance...

Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures. By Sarah Dimick

A deceptively simple question animates Sarah Dimick’s Unseasonable: what do literary and cultural depictions of seasonal regularity (or irregularity) revea

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · Apr 23

Stoked and stacked for IMAGINING CRISIS IN 21C AMERICAN LITERATURE in the fall!

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · Apr 12

The new clipping. has been my commute soundtrack for the last few weeks

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

Daveed Diggs’ sci-fi rap trio Clipping: ‘We are at war all the time. It’s one of the great tricks of capitalism’

Diggs’ harrowing music is a world away from his Hollywood films and a Tony-winning run in Hamilton. But his band’s world-building – setting resource wars in imagined cyberpunk clubs – is no less drama...

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · Apr 9

“Set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the Great Depression, Shadow Ticket follows Hicks McTaggart, a detective who is tasked with finding the heiress of a cheese fortune.”

I mean, that tracks.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Thomas Pynchon announces Shadow Ticket, his first novel in more than a decade

The elusive 87-year-old author’s new book is a noir caper set during the big band era following a detective in search of a cheese heiress

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · Mar 27

ngl it ain’t easy reading Karen Russell’s THE ANTIDOTE when I feel the urge to write down notes about every. single. page.

Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · Mar 20

I can vouch, this book is 🔥

Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · Mar 20

In Cartographies of Empire, Myka Tucker-Abramson draws from an archive of more than 140 global road novels from over twenty countries, challenging dominant conceptions of the road novel as primarily concerned with American experiences and subjectivities. #ReadUP

www.sup.org/books/cartog...

Book cover of Cartographies of Empire: The Road Novel and American Hegemony by Myka Tucker-Abramson

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · Mar 14

ummmmm clipping. dropping a Neuromancer concept album? I will inhale this shit

www.clashmusic.com/reviews/clip...

clipping. - Dead Channel Sky | Reviews | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews

Cyberpunk currently stands as the last great popular vision of the future. Since its emergence in the early 1980s, via novels by the likes of William

www.clashmusic.com

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · Feb 7

Michael was my undergrad thesis advisor. This really sucks to see.

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · Feb 1

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Book 20: Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · Jan 28

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Book 19: Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (Karen Tei Yamashita)

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Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · Jan 26

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Book 18: Blindsight (Peter Watts)

Patrick Whitmarsh @whitmarshphd.bsky.social · Jan 25

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Book 17: Sing, Unburied, Sing (Jesmyn Ward)