Geoff Hattersley’s Collected Poems brings together over three decades of work, mapping a singular voice grounded in working-class experience, dark wit, and sharply observed detail.

They really do great reviews.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

A year ago: a series of essays in honor of Fred Jameson turning 90.
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Cover art is in! Wastelands and Wonderlands coming in April. Massive thanks to the creative team at SUNY for another brilliant cover! This has some amazing contribs and I can't wait for you to read their work!

Thousands of protesters marched in Chicago on Saturday against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and President Donald Trump’s plan to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to the city.

Worker's Planet this wkend in Brighton has an amazing line-up. If you're coming, I'll be talking on this session - come say hi!

Pay Up: Who should pay for the crisis and how can we make them?

⏰ Time: 5pm - 6:30pm

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40% off Verso's Critical Theory back to school list!
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🎧 New Critical Friends for your listening devices!

This month, Sneha Pathak and @tansyg.bsky.social talk to me about texts often dismissed as too slight to review - books, films, genres with which we might be accused of merely passing time.

How should critics approach this sort of work? And why?

I have a book cover!

Clear and incisive, though I wish it didn't need to be said. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines.

The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible.

Vaccines save lives. Period.

Been thinking about playing this or Metaphor ReFantazio. Looking forward to your posts about playing!

Great choices! Are there secondary or supplementary sources, too? Would love to know if you have any favorite essays on the topic that you're assigning.

In case you missed it, you can now catch @kathunfeld.bsky.social and Andreas Malm discussing *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature* with author Alyssa Battistoni on the Historical Materialism YouTube channel.

Yep, every day.

K Pop Demon Hunters has a killer soundtrack for running(and I assume high intensity workouts). My actual knowledge of the film is limited, as it's mostly just by osmosis from my kid watching it. But it seems fun and funny!

Very excited for this-i hope games journalists, as well as game studies and indigenous studies folks, read it! #gamestudies

"The disciplining of Ben Robinson is a violation of his academic freedom that sends a chilling message to all faculty members."
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Scholar and author @aarontram.bsky.social spoke to us about play's blurry other side -- where it isn't always fun or consensual -- and what we risk by ignoring it.

FWIW, I'm speaking of LLMs in particular, though I think there's much one could say about the irresponsibility of framing AI as a substitute for human activity.

AI is theft. AI is environmental destruction. AI is anti-labor. AI concentrates power in tech capital. AI atrophies intellectual capacities. Here's something useful for struggling against its effects in education, courtesy of Anna Kornbluh, Eric Hayot, and Krista Muratore.
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This is good @dicebreaker.com.web.brid.gy www.dicebreaker.com/categories/r... (via @fionawh.im )

It would only be possible to describe @bradleyfest.bsky.social's Postrock as "epic," both in its scope but also our modern sense of GREAT. I've gotten to spend some good time with the poem/ms this summer and am very excited to see the poem out in the world!

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