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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 16h

I can recommend: share.google/zfc8MYmdwUe9... and the older book From Outlaw to Canon :)

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Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social · 6d

Baby’s got a pub date! And some juicy catalog copy. MIDDLEMEN coming your way on April 26!

(Cover reveal soon!)

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 9d

I thought this was well done and it provides some useful framing: www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wh...

Essay | What Hot Dragon-Riders and Fornicating Faeries Say About What Women Want Now

“Romantasy” novels are booming when romance in general is in decline.

www.wsj.com

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 9d

I did not agree with all of the analyses but I did enjoy this article a lot: mid-theory.com/2025/07/18/m...

Mid Medieval: Romantasy, Heteropessimism, and History

We can’t seem to get ahead, and we can’t get off either. Romantasy, a mash-up of romance and fantasy, is one of the hottest subgenres in romance today. If you have just woken from a years lon…

mid-theory.com

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 9d

and @nathankhensley.bsky.social shared it here if I recall correctly

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 20d

Academia dot edu licensing agreement says it can use your likeness and voice and publications in any manner they want, world wide.

Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 20d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 22d

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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 23d

Joshua Clover's recent passing is a tremendous loss for the communist cause. Not only was he a close friend and mentor to many in our collective, but he was also exemplary in his clarity, breadth, and dedication. We aspire to be like Joshua as we navigate this world on fire.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 25d

today in books received!

thanks to @andyhines.bsky.social for this indispensable resource for gen ed classrooms, how to be a freshman classrooms, critical university studies research, and labor education!

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 25d

participated in a great grant-writing workshops for grad students on campus yesterday

too bad I misspoke once and will only ever think of that

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madeline lane-mckinley @lalouverouge.bsky.social · 25d

Shame on the UC

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

www.theguardian.com

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 29d

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

green and yellow cover of University Keywords, ed by Andy Hines

Table of contents for University Keywords

University: An Introduction, Andy Hines

Academic Freedom, Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker
Adjunct, Heather Steffen
Admissions, Scott Gelber
Alternative Institutions, Andy Hines and Eli Meyerhoff
Athletics, Wayne L. Black
Board of Trustees, Asheesh Siddique Kapur
Budget, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Campus, Davarian Baldwin
Classroom, Richard Simpson
Critical University Studies, Rana M. Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, and Heather Steffen
Debt, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak
Degree, Christopher Newfield
Discipline, Vineeta Singh
Diversity, p.s. kehal
EdTech, Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune
Endowment, Dennis M. Hogan
Entrepreneurship, Jesse Goldstein

Table of contents for university keywords

Fiction, Jeffrey J. Williams
Legislation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Noncitizen Student, Abigail Boggs
Police, Yalile Suriel and Grace Watkins
Ranking, Jelena Brankovic and Stefan Wilbers
Revenue, Dan Nemser and Brian Whitener
Risk Management, Mattie Armstrong-Price
Sustainability, Kai Bosworth, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Hines, and Eli Meyerhoff
Title IX, Rana M. Jaleel
Union, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein

Appendix: Questions to Consider for Composing a Keywords Entry

Contributor Bios
Acknowledgments
Index

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · Aug 31

I can get this. Thank you!

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · Aug 31

cannot wait

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Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social · Aug 30

I have a book cover!

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · Aug 30

I need to read your work!!!

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · Aug 28

I'm thinking of teaching a class on "The Work of Art in the Age of Slop" and am wondering if anyone has ideas abut what to include?

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · Aug 26

on the one hand, no they cannot. on the other, we asked some dumb assholes for answers other than ‘no they cannot’

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 26

Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times

As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · Aug 26

CONSPIRACISM

paper proposals now welcome for the ACLA seminar I am co-organizing with @lkonstan.bsky.social and @lalouverouge.bsky.social

meets in Montreal in late Feb 2026

View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association

www.acla.org

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Aug 24

Strong agree.

Among other excellent contributions, the chapter by @anniemcc.bsky.social & Louis McCune is the best intro to Ed Tech I have yet read.

Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · Aug 24

This book is a godsend for academic workers! Read it, share it with folks who care about the fate of democracy and the planet, teach it, talk it up within organizing, union, and faculty governance spaces. It's gonna be indispensable to the struggle to build a political economy that works for all.

University Keywords

How American universities operate as social and economic engines that shape society beyond their traditional educational roles.University Keywords gathers, contextualizes, and develops original unders...

www.press.jhu.edu

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · Aug 24

just read this by @anniemcc.bsky.social whose work is always super clear and multiply useful www.academia.edu/143589959/Mc...

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Aug 21

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.

This is how AI is killing translation work:

AI Killed My Job: Translators

Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Aug 22

The bubble is popping. When we look back, I expect, we will say it has already popped.

open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...

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Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social · Aug 19

"The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are parallel formations...They are both formations that deliberately look away from material reality...and, instead, locate particular compulsions...in a woman’s traumatic back story, compromised morality, and history of intimate entanglements."🔥🔥🔥

Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · Aug 5

my pleasure to write this short piece about trauma plots, #metoo, mute compulsion of economic relations, what is love, et cetera

(h/t @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social & @sorenmau.bsky.social whose title I shamelessly copied)

Mute Compulsion - Public Books

The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are actually parallel formations, reveals “The Guest.”

www.publicbooks.org

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 20

"95% of organizations are getting zero return"

www.ft.com/content/3391...

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