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Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · 6d

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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Sarah Dimick- Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (Columbia UP)

Kency Cornejo- Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America (Duke UP)

Brooke Belisle- Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation (University of California Press)

Steven Swarbrick & Jean-Thomas Tremblay- Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP)

Amber Jamilla Musser- Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke UP)

Christopher T. Fan- Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP)

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thanks! x

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · Aug 22

Pls message me about reviewing / review copies 🙏

Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · Aug 22

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...

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · Aug 16

Blurbs and details etc

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · Aug 16

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, ...

www.nebraskapress.unl.edu

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · Jul 29

Ooo!

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

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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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · Jul 29

Is O-Zone alive again??

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · Jun 16

It’s good

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Jun 10

there are some amazing books on this list!! 🌿

congrats to @snarlsdickens.bsky.social @jttremblay.bsky.social @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social @jamieljones.bsky.social

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · Jun 9

Judges have announced the finalists for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards in #ecocriticism and #environmental creative writing! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky

Stack of books with rock on top, photo by Robert Thorson

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thanks Sarah!

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · Jun 9

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

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · Jun 9

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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Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · Jun 9

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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Jean-Thomas Tremblay @jttremblay.bsky.social · Jun 9

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

Association for the Study of Literature and Environment @asle-us.bsky.social · Jun 9

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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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · Jun 8

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...

www.soapboxjournal.net

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Leigh Claire La Berge @lclaberge.bsky.social · May 27

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.

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · May 5

Fun! This book isn’t medieval/early modern, but it does have some spicy things to say about nature/ecotheory

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · May 5

Thanks, Jared!

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · May 5

The shapes of a book to come. Out October 2025. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

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Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · Feb 25

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

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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · Feb 7

🙌 great cover!!

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differences @differences.bsky.social · Feb 3

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...

Poster for a colloquium titled "Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique." White and yellow text on black background. Logos in the bottom corners indicate that the event is sponsored by differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies and the Pembroke Center at Brown University.

Poster for a colloquium titled "Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique." White and yellow text on black background. The description reads: "Ecocriticism has been seduced by metaphors of entanglement. Four critics challenge the increasingly dominant logic of relationality to think the climate crisis without displacing the social and racial antagonisms that found it." Below this description is a list of participants: Lynne Huffer (Emory), Axelle Karera (Emory), Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo (Brown), and Jean-Thomas Tremblay (York), with Elizabeth A. Wilson (Emory) moderating. The event will take place on March 7th from 2pm to 6pm at Brown University in Pembroke Hall 305.

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Sarah Dowling @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social · Feb 2

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!

Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · Feb 2

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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Steven Swarbrick @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social · Feb 2

Thanks for reading, Karl!

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