Steven Swarbrick
@stevenswarbrick.bsky.social
Author of The Environmental Unconscious (Minn, 2023) | coauthor of Negative Life (NUP, 2024) | forthcoming book: The Earth Is Evil (Nebraska, 2025)
https://www.stevenswarbrick.com/
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THE EARTH IS EVIL by @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social examines the connection between subjectivity and lack, arguing for a destituent ecology that sees lack as the universalist core of social, political, and environmental struggles.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
THE EARTH IS EVIL by @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social examines the connection between subjectivity and lack, arguing for a destituent ecology that sees lack as the universalist core of social, political, and environmental struggles.
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New book, Divest, coming out in spring 2026 with @uminnpress.bsky.social 🍉 www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148...
Divest
A manifesto for liberating desire from the grip of capital and colonial violence in PalestineCould a psychoanalytic theory of masochism help us to understand...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New book, Divest, coming out in spring 2026 with @uminnpress.bsky.social 🍉 www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148...
Read below for an excellent review/ distillation of Negative Life. Many thanks, Anda!
“Negative Life is an insightful critical work, in tune with the contemporary aesthetic and conceptual landscape. It might just be the horror-inflected revitalizing read we all need.”
“Negative Life is an insightful critical work, in tune with the contemporary aesthetic and conceptual landscape. It might just be the horror-inflected revitalizing read we all need.”
I really enjoyed reading and reviewing Negative Life by @jttremblay.bsky.social and @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social for Ecozon@. A wonderful book that conceptualizes art and extinction beyond pastoral narratives of interconnectedness and exalted (green) consciousness!
Book Review of "Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction"
| Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
ecozona.eu
November 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Read below for an excellent review/ distillation of Negative Life. Many thanks, Anda!
“Negative Life is an insightful critical work, in tune with the contemporary aesthetic and conceptual landscape. It might just be the horror-inflected revitalizing read we all need.”
“Negative Life is an insightful critical work, in tune with the contemporary aesthetic and conceptual landscape. It might just be the horror-inflected revitalizing read we all need.”
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There's a shadow in the doorway and something keeps rattling the window. We fear we might be....HAUNTED.
What better way to soothe restless spirits than offer them our books? From now through Nov 1, they (and you) can get 40% off using discount code HAUNTED at checkout.
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What better way to soothe restless spirits than offer them our books? From now through Nov 1, they (and you) can get 40% off using discount code HAUNTED at checkout.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
There's a shadow in the doorway and something keeps rattling the window. We fear we might be....HAUNTED.
What better way to soothe restless spirits than offer them our books? From now through Nov 1, they (and you) can get 40% off using discount code HAUNTED at checkout.
nupress.northwestern.edu
What better way to soothe restless spirits than offer them our books? From now through Nov 1, they (and you) can get 40% off using discount code HAUNTED at checkout.
nupress.northwestern.edu
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🦉whooooooo would like to buy Here Is a Figure for 40% off??
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There's a shadow in the doorway and something keeps rattling the window. We fear we might be....HAUNTED.
What better way to soothe restless spirits than offer them our books? From now through Nov 1, they (and you) can get 40% off using discount code HAUNTED at checkout.
nupress.northwestern.edu
What better way to soothe restless spirits than offer them our books? From now through Nov 1, they (and you) can get 40% off using discount code HAUNTED at checkout.
nupress.northwestern.edu
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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A truly forward thinking editor, generous mind and interlocutor. Thanks for everything, @noctambulate.bsky.social.
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, trade, and regional publishing programs.
University of Minnesota Press Director Retires
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies,…
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October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A truly forward thinking editor, generous mind and interlocutor. Thanks for everything, @noctambulate.bsky.social.
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Fourth in the ASAP/16 Book Prize shortlist is Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s NEGATIVE LIFE: THE CINEMA OF EXTINCTION from @nupress. The winner of the prize will be announced at our conference in Houston in a few weeks. Please join us!
October 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Fourth in the ASAP/16 Book Prize shortlist is Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s NEGATIVE LIFE: THE CINEMA OF EXTINCTION from @nupress. The winner of the prize will be announced at our conference in Houston in a few weeks. Please join us!
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We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize!
Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.
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Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.
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October 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize!
Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.
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Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.
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New book! The Earth Is Evil is short and punchy ecocriticism, featured in the Provocations series @univnebpress.bsky.social, and available Oct 1. Pre-orders are hitting mailboxes now. 40% off with code 6AF25. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
August 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
New book! The Earth Is Evil is short and punchy ecocriticism, featured in the Provocations series @univnebpress.bsky.social, and available Oct 1. Pre-orders are hitting mailboxes now. 40% off with code 6AF25. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
Get 40% off my forthcoming book, The Earth Is Evil, with discount code 6AF25 www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... Out in October
The Earth Is Evil - Nebraska Press
The Earth Is Evil examines the connection between subjectivity and lack, arguing for a destituent ecology that sees lack as the universalist core of social, ...
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August 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Get 40% off my forthcoming book, The Earth Is Evil, with discount code 6AF25 www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... Out in October
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Ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026? Submit an abstract to Dan Reeve and I's CFP: "BEYOND TOUCH: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" We invite submissions for 15-20 minute papers that examine queer and trans temporalities from new and unexpected angles. #IMC2026. Full CFP below 👇
July 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026? Submit an abstract to Dan Reeve and I's CFP: "BEYOND TOUCH: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" We invite submissions for 15-20 minute papers that examine queer and trans temporalities from new and unexpected angles. #IMC2026. Full CFP below 👇
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there are some amazing books on this list!! 🌿
congrats to @snarlsdickens.bsky.social @jttremblay.bsky.social @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social @jamieljones.bsky.social
congrats to @snarlsdickens.bsky.social @jttremblay.bsky.social @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social @jamieljones.bsky.social
Judges have announced the finalists for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards in #ecocriticism and #environmental creative writing! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky
June 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
there are some amazing books on this list!! 🌿
congrats to @snarlsdickens.bsky.social @jttremblay.bsky.social @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social @jamieljones.bsky.social
congrats to @snarlsdickens.bsky.social @jttremblay.bsky.social @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social @jamieljones.bsky.social
I’m thrilled that Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, coauthored with @jttremblay.bsky.social, is a finalist for the ASLE #ecocriticism book award 👀🔥 Congrats to the other finalists. @nupress.bsky.social
Judges have announced the finalists for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards in #ecocriticism and #environmental creative writing! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky
June 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I’m thrilled that Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, coauthored with @jttremblay.bsky.social, is a finalist for the ASLE #ecocriticism book award 👀🔥 Congrats to the other finalists. @nupress.bsky.social
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Judges have announced the finalists for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards in #ecocriticism and #environmental creative writing! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky
June 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Judges have announced the finalists for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards in #ecocriticism and #environmental creative writing! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky
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I'm happy to share that Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, coauthored with @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social, has been nominated for the ASLE Ecocritical Book Award. The winner will be announced on July 9. @nupress.bsky.social
Judges have announced the finalists for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards in #ecocriticism and #environmental creative writing! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky
June 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I'm happy to share that Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, coauthored with @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social, has been nominated for the ASLE Ecocritical Book Award. The winner will be announced on July 9. @nupress.bsky.social
I had a blast chatting with the grad student-run journal Soapbox about my solo and coauthored work. Topics include sex, negativity, ecology, and psychoanalysis. Full interview below. www.soapboxjournal.net/online-artic...
Queer Ecologies: An Interview with Professor Steven Swarbrick
This interview emerges from the Queer Ecology Tutorial Group's early 2025 gathering, which set out to interrogate the relationship between queerness and our ungoing ecological turmoil. Rejecting the c...
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June 8, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I had a blast chatting with the grad student-run journal Soapbox about my solo and coauthored work. Topics include sex, negativity, ecology, and psychoanalysis. Full interview below. www.soapboxjournal.net/online-artic...
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My first sighting of "Fake Work" out in the wild. I'll be doing my first Fake Event tomorrow, and then others throughout the month of June. I've been sitting with this book for 25 years, literally, and I'm so excited/anxious to see its reception.
May 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
My first sighting of "Fake Work" out in the wild. I'll be doing my first Fake Event tomorrow, and then others throughout the month of June. I've been sitting with this book for 25 years, literally, and I'm so excited/anxious to see its reception.
The shapes of a book to come. Out October 2025. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
May 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The shapes of a book to come. Out October 2025. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
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The first essay from my Solanas project @criticalinquiry.bsky.social 🖤
"Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind"
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
bit.ly/valeriesolanas
"Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind"
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
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February 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The first essay from my Solanas project @criticalinquiry.bsky.social 🖤
"Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind"
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
bit.ly/valeriesolanas
"Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind"
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
bit.ly/valeriesolanas
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join us in Providence on March 7th for Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique — a colloquium featuring Lynne Huffer, Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...
February 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
join us in Providence on March 7th for Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique — a colloquium featuring Lynne Huffer, Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...
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Very fun book!! I also really like their critique of “entanglement” tropes in ecocriticism—that word always makes me think of a sea turtle caught in a discarded net!
For funsies I started reading @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social and @jttremblay.bsky.social NEGATIVE LIFE, and it scratches my itches, bc I too am irritated by the 'only connect' clichés of so much ecocriticism + I'm a fan of the movies they're doing, eg, FIRST COW, Pösler's THE WALL.
February 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Very fun book!! I also really like their critique of “entanglement” tropes in ecocriticism—that word always makes me think of a sea turtle caught in a discarded net!
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For funsies I started reading @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social and @jttremblay.bsky.social NEGATIVE LIFE, and it scratches my itches, bc I too am irritated by the 'only connect' clichés of so much ecocriticism + I'm a fan of the movies they're doing, eg, FIRST COW, Pösler's THE WALL.
February 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
For funsies I started reading @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social and @jttremblay.bsky.social NEGATIVE LIFE, and it scratches my itches, bc I too am irritated by the 'only connect' clichés of so much ecocriticism + I'm a fan of the movies they're doing, eg, FIRST COW, Pösler's THE WALL.
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Low-key convinced nothing I post here matters, so doing a VERY SOFT LAUNCH of my next book, now on GoodReads and ready to be added to your Want to Read list 🐱
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www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
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January 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Low-key convinced nothing I post here matters, so doing a VERY SOFT LAUNCH of my next book, now on GoodReads and ready to be added to your Want to Read list 🐱
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
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Ami.e.s à Montréal: this, with @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social, is happening Thursday and Friday at McGill. January 16 lecture open to all / January 17 workshop by registration only at www.sexintheory.org. 🐄
January 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Ami.e.s à Montréal: this, with @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social, is happening Thursday and Friday at McGill. January 16 lecture open to all / January 17 workshop by registration only at www.sexintheory.org. 🐄
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It’s day 2 in the book exhibit at #mla25! Stop by and see us @uminnpress.bsky.social or check out our online exhibit at www.upress.umn.edu/mla25/
Conference sale: Modern Language Association 2025 - University of Minnesota Press
Books on sale during the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association in New Orleans. Books featured in this collection are 30% off when you
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January 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It’s day 2 in the book exhibit at #mla25! Stop by and see us @uminnpress.bsky.social or check out our online exhibit at www.upress.umn.edu/mla25/