Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination
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Global + postcolonial + comp lit, theory; occasional translator. Assoc. prof. Not on xitter. Views/prons: his. Books: Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent/Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination (ed.) both @uminnpress.bsky.social
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Table of contents for the (very!) forthcoming Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, coming out in June with @uminnpress.bsky.social!
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When COP30 is declared another failure because it continues to serve the same interests and provides no recourse against global environmental destruction, it may be a good idea to rethink the concept of climate talks and how, at its core, dialogue continues to be weaponized #COP30 #dialogue #climate
The Failure of Climate Dialogue: Why Global South Voices Must Be Climate Talk Leaders | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
The Failure of Climate Dialogue: Why Global South Voices Must Be Climate Talk Leaders - Volume 1
www.cambridge.org
November 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
When COP30 is declared another failure because it continues to serve the same interests and provides no recourse against global environmental destruction, it may be a good idea to rethink the concept of climate talks and how, at its core, dialogue continues to be weaponized #COP30 #dialogue #climate
Important read
My article on toxic ecologies post-9/11 now available open access in the latest issue of Environmental Humanities @dukepress.bsky.social Dust as both sacred and toxic. Inspired by Elena del Rivero's art, situated between exposure and containment
#STS #envhum #envhist #histstm
#STS #envhum #envhist #histstm
Gathering Dust | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press
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November 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Important read
Some reading due! 👇
@lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social is out now. Such a joy to work with one of my best friends on this amazing set of articles muse.jhu.edu/issue/55993
Project MUSE - Studies in the Novel-Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2025
muse.jhu.edu
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Some reading due! 👇
Shortest way from A to B ever recorded. Blink and you missed it.
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Shortest way from A to B ever recorded. Blink and you missed it.
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if your press asks for names, give 6 to 8--NOT the biggest, most senior stars in your field. None of them will do it. part of the problem is that the ppl best poised are "mid-career"--i.e. have a book, tenure. TWIST: the mid-career folx, IF THEY EXIST, are so fucking overloaded I can't even tell you
November 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
if your press asks for names, give 6 to 8--NOT the biggest, most senior stars in your field. None of them will do it. part of the problem is that the ppl best poised are "mid-career"--i.e. have a book, tenure. TWIST: the mid-career folx, IF THEY EXIST, are so fucking overloaded I can't even tell you
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Dialogue as social glue is celebrated because it helps us agree with each other. While a nice idea, the strength of dialogue is in fact in enabling us to disagree with each other. When dialogue is corrupted by the powerful to force specific responses out of the weak, it is no longer a dialogue...
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Dialogue as social glue is celebrated because it helps us agree with each other. While a nice idea, the strength of dialogue is in fact in enabling us to disagree with each other. When dialogue is corrupted by the powerful to force specific responses out of the weak, it is no longer a dialogue...
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Finally, dialogue should be, emphatically and without reservations, not restricted to a way to "come together" and "find common ground" (which we do often need) but also the medium in which we can simply say "no."
The end.
The end.
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Finally, dialogue should be, emphatically and without reservations, not restricted to a way to "come together" and "find common ground" (which we do often need) but also the medium in which we can simply say "no."
The end.
The end.
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Chatbots are, by definition, anti-dialogical. Without a creative, dissenting human voice on the other end of the interaction who speaks in good faith, you're either hearing your own echo, or a pre-packaged response, even when it's produced in real-time.
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Chatbots are, by definition, anti-dialogical. Without a creative, dissenting human voice on the other end of the interaction who speaks in good faith, you're either hearing your own echo, or a pre-packaged response, even when it's produced in real-time.
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Did you write a book/article *not* primarily about close reading but in which you discuss it for the purpose of your argument? Post a pic of the passage here👇!
Seeking to collect instances of theories, framings, working definitions, etc. of close reading as they apply to your specific argument.
Seeking to collect instances of theories, framings, working definitions, etc. of close reading as they apply to your specific argument.
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Did you write a book/article *not* primarily about close reading but in which you discuss it for the purpose of your argument? Post a pic of the passage here👇!
Seeking to collect instances of theories, framings, working definitions, etc. of close reading as they apply to your specific argument.
Seeking to collect instances of theories, framings, working definitions, etc. of close reading as they apply to your specific argument.
Postdoc opportunity! 👇
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November 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Postdoc opportunity! 👇
Adorno should have called "negative dialectics" a secret third thing
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Adorno should have called "negative dialectics" a secret third thing
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That's hardly a dialogue anymore. Pre-established frameworks, restriction of certain voices, tone policing, power moves to control timing and space, etc. are common strategies.
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
That's hardly a dialogue anymore. Pre-established frameworks, restriction of certain voices, tone policing, power moves to control timing and space, etc. are common strategies.
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...but what I call an "illusory dialogue." Insisting dialogue is good because it lets us agree and understand one another runs the risk of playing into the hands of those who want to twist dialogue into a covert form of coercion. Two current examples where these mechanics are at work: ...
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
...but what I call an "illusory dialogue." Insisting dialogue is good because it lets us agree and understand one another runs the risk of playing into the hands of those who want to twist dialogue into a covert form of coercion. Two current examples where these mechanics are at work: ...
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Dialogue is a cornerstone of social life, and a democratic society cannot guarantee a good life for all if dialogue is corrupted. I wrote Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent because I saw literature offers both a warning and a corrective.
A short 🧵with two current examples:
A short 🧵with two current examples:
Resisting Dialogue
A bold new critique of dialogue as a method of eliminating dissent Is dialogue always the productive political and communicative tool it is widely conceived ...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Dialogue is a cornerstone of social life, and a democratic society cannot guarantee a good life for all if dialogue is corrupted. I wrote Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent because I saw literature offers both a warning and a corrective.
A short 🧵with two current examples:
A short 🧵with two current examples:
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Dispatches from the Avant-Garage
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In this long-awaited book, Rebecca Kos...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Now until January 6: 45% off sale on all WSUP titles, including preorders of Dispatches from the Avant-Garage with code RHOLIDAY. Only like $23 for all that research and over 100 (!!) full-color images, truly a steal wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814350249/
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2) When it comes to dialogue, so-called artificial intelligence is similarly based on the principle of establishing an illusory dialogue, especially in the form of chatbot interaction. In the best of cases, it has been widely reported that chatbots tell you what you want to hear 👇 They also are ...
‘Sycophantic’ AI chatbots tell users what they want to hear, study shows
Scientists warn of ‘insidious risks’ of increasingly popular technology that affirms even harmful behaviour
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
2) When it comes to dialogue, so-called artificial intelligence is similarly based on the principle of establishing an illusory dialogue, especially in the form of chatbot interaction. In the best of cases, it has been widely reported that chatbots tell you what you want to hear 👇 They also are ...
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You can get Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination with a 30% discount (also, see entire post below for more!) here: www.upress.umn.edu/amst/
November 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
You can get Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination with a 30% discount (also, see entire post below for more!) here: www.upress.umn.edu/amst/
Only Canada knows how to do it right...
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Only Canada knows how to do it right...
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COP30 is, as many COP meetings before, starting to look like a framework for an illusory dialogue on the global environmental crisis. Global South negotiators are already signaling that this time around 👇. A powerful voice can create an illusory dialogue by restricting the terms of discussion in ...
‘It’s like arguing with robots’: negotiators on the state of Cop30 talks
Three representatives of developing countries speak candidly about meetings behind closed doors in Belém
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
COP30 is, as many COP meetings before, starting to look like a framework for an illusory dialogue on the global environmental crisis. Global South negotiators are already signaling that this time around 👇. A powerful voice can create an illusory dialogue by restricting the terms of discussion in ...
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Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
November 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Impossible how good reading is. You mean I just point my face at the paper for a bit and it does a whole update on my brain?
You can get Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination with a 30% discount (also, see entire post below for more!) here: www.upress.umn.edu/amst/
November 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
You can get Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination with a 30% discount (also, see entire post below for more!) here: www.upress.umn.edu/amst/
Spotted! Right in the middle of the top shelf is our Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination!
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November 23, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Spotted! Right in the middle of the top shelf is our Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination!
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“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
- Doris Lessing
- Doris Lessing
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
- Doris Lessing
- Doris Lessing
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We wrote a book about AI, Class, and Capitalism!
*Why We Fear AI* argues that, fundamentally, AI is a tool of class war from above, a tool for surveillance, labor control, and wage depression. Get it from your local bookstore if you can!
A quick 🧵1/4
*Why We Fear AI* argues that, fundamentally, AI is a tool of class war from above, a tool for surveillance, labor control, and wage depression. Get it from your local bookstore if you can!
A quick 🧵1/4
Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares
On the Interpretation of Nightmares
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July 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
We wrote a book about AI, Class, and Capitalism!
*Why We Fear AI* argues that, fundamentally, AI is a tool of class war from above, a tool for surveillance, labor control, and wage depression. Get it from your local bookstore if you can!
A quick 🧵1/4
*Why We Fear AI* argues that, fundamentally, AI is a tool of class war from above, a tool for surveillance, labor control, and wage depression. Get it from your local bookstore if you can!
A quick 🧵1/4
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Normalize what a challenging endeavor it is to write *one* book
my own feeling is that getting an academic book published is like getting your script on screen - just once is a major achievement!
March 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Normalize what a challenging endeavor it is to write *one* book