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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 2d

recent paragraph factory productions by excellent people

Holding copies of two kickass books in front of more books.

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Elizabeth Barnett @elizabarnett.bsky.social · 2d

It was the great “as though,” the how the day went,
The excursions of the police
As I pursued my bodily functions, wanting
Neither fire nor water,
Vibrating to the distant pinch
And turning out the way I am, turning out to greet you.

John Ashbery, "The Chateau Hardware”

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 2d

Truly the best feeling!

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · 3d

My author copies have not arrived but folks are sending me pictures of my book arriving in their homes. I am so grateful for these readers!

The book “Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public” by Keegan Cook Finberg next to a vase of matching orange, white, and yellow dahlias and daisies.

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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 20d

This was such a great convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social! Please check it out!

Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 20d

New ep: Trump’s intense police, ICE, military repression w/ Alberto Toscano and @stschrader1.bsky.social. What does this reveal about MAGA’s fascist authoritarian project—and about the illiberalism immanent in carceral and imperialist state? FIRST in 2-part series www.thedigradio.com/podcast/fasc...

Fascist Police State w/ Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader

Featuring Alberto Toscano and Stuart Schrader on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, and military repression. What does this all reveal about MAGA’s fascist and authoritarian project—and about the...

www.thedigradio.com

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Aug 21

I’d be curious how that goes also! A lot to discuss there

Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Aug 21

Sounds like a fun class! I have wondered how Ben Lerner’s Hatred of Poetry would teach in a context like this.

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Aug 15

I have some things to contribute as well!

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Aug 15

This whole website is making me feel less alone in my resistance to AI in my classroom. This page in particular is legitimizing what was previously feeling like a personal rant I was going to make my students sit through…

against-a-i.com/first-day-sp...

“O Captain! My Captain!” Speeches

(awake in bed trying to compose riveting first day of school remarks, prefatory to deeper conversations as the term proceeds? here’s a template to adapt!) Gen AI is marketed as a tool of effi…

against-a-i.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 15

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

AGAINST AI

against-a-i.com

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Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social · Aug 8

We do not have the deep pockets of the Sun or the Banner but we’re still committed to providing FREE news for all of Baltimore. Please support and spread the word ❤️ www.cllctivgive.com/organization...

Support Baltimore Beat | CLLCTIVGIVE 2025

I’m ready to support Baltimore Beat on August 8, 2025 during CLLCTIVGIVE 2025. Learn more about Baltimore Beat and all the other organizations participating in CLLCTIVGIVE 2025.

www.cllctivgive.com

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Aug 8

How do we privilege the site of thinking, muddling through, etc, in our course materials in a way that students really see that’s what we are after?

Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · Aug 8

Exs. of affective/social goals: normalizing intellectual struggle and tolerance for it, creating rapport with me as someone who supports & believes in students (that seems to be a big one: they're turning to AI as a mentor/tutor)...

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Aug 8

This thread about AI 💯

Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · Aug 8

If I’m feeling nostalgic about assignments I’m losing, then I think twice about what those assignments were achieving. Were they achieving as much as I wanted? Were they achieving exactly what I want? Do the goals still make sense?

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 2

theory nerds! propose fall events! we host mini seminars, field trips, book talks, works-in-progress sessions, and reading groups. guest suite for out-of-towners! booktour bringing you to chicago? add us to your list! wedding weekend? fill it out with research!

to propose: interccect at gmail

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 1

HOT ADORNO SUMMER cools down! join us weds 13 aug for the final session on Negative Dialectics, and a little festivity! interccect.com/2025/08/01/h...

Hot Adorno Summer cools down

It’s been a long hot humid haul, and the cool kids triumphantly conclude on Wednesday, 13 August, 4pm, in full festivity at Moody’s. Finish the book! RSVP to interccect at gmail for PDF…

interccect.com

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Jul 31

thank you!

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Jul 31

That makes me so happy to hear! thank you!

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Jul 30

My book Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public is available for pre-order! I am excited to share it with the world. Find it on the Columbia UP site with endorsements from Anthony Reed, Leigh Claire La Berge, Sarah Dowling and Craig Dworkin cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...

Poetry in General | Columbia University Press

In the second half of the twentieth century, poetry leapt out of books and became an interdisciplinary public form. Poetry entered bureaucratic systems of or... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thanks so much!

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thank you!

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Jul 30

This double sense of “general” characterizes the aesthetic and political stakes of my argument: as some public forms degraded, poetry spilled into ever more areas of public life and into multiple media and disciplines.

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Jul 30

My phrase “poetry in general” serves a twofold purpose: it refers to the interdisciplinary turn in poetry as art reached a phase of dematerialization, and it pertains to the common, as constitutive of a public, where a public is in flux and shaped by state power.

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Jul 30

It argues that in the second half of the 20th C, poetry becomes general as it works through a series of changing tactics to resist, respond to, and interpret shifts in the state’s facilitation of capitalism.

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Jul 30

My book Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public is available for pre-order! I am excited to share it with the world. Find it on the Columbia UP site with endorsements from Anthony Reed, Leigh Claire La Berge, Sarah Dowling and Craig Dworkin cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...

Poetry in General | Columbia University Press

In the second half of the twentieth century, poetry leapt out of books and became an interdisciplinary public form. Poetry entered bureaucratic systems of or... | CUP

cup.columbia.edu

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Keegan Cook Finberg @keegancf.bsky.social · Jul 27

Very excited for this!!

andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · Jul 26

This mighty book has arrived and I’m eager for it to be in your hands! It can orient us term by term to past struggles in higher education and the ones ahead.

www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

a hand holding a copy of a green and yellow book: University Keywords, edited by Andy Hines

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madeline lane-mckinley @lalouverouge.bsky.social · Jul 19

Have been sitting with this beautiful thread by @reallandsend.bsky.social No one should have to care for children alone. If we are to speak of family abolition, let it be towards the possibility of collective care, based in the everyday practice of sharing life with children.

Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · Jul 18

Raising a child throws you headfirst into the contradiction between what is & what should be. That tension between love & systemic abandonment is where abolitionist politics start and keeps us going towards a shared horizon. You feel it conceptually & materially: no one should have to do this alone.

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