I was so busy this fall I fell behind on pretty much everything, so I’m making up for it with a big two-season link post, roughly mid-May until the end of 2024.
Nuclear and Environmental
The Editorial Board of The New York Times, “The President’s Arsenal.”
Elizabeth Kolbert, “When the Arctic Melts” and “Why Hurricane Milton Is a Sign of the New Abnormal.”
Damian Carrington, “Earth’s ‘Vital Signs’ Show Humanity’s Future in Balance, Say Climate Experts” and “‘No Sign’ of Promised Fossil Fuel Transition as Emissions Hit New High.”
Patrick Greenfield, “Trees and Land Absorbed Almost no CO2 Last Year. Is Nature’s Carbon Sink Failing?”
Kathleen Kingsbury, W.J. Hennigan, and Spencer Cohen, “The Last Survivors [of Hiroshima] Speak. It’s Time to Listen.”
Megan Specia and Lynsey Chutel, “Nobel Updates: Peace Prize Is Awarded to Japanese Group of Atomic Bomb Survivors.”
Christopher Kempf, “Disaster Triumphant.”
David E. Sanger, “Biden Approved Secret Nuclear Strategy Refocusing on Chinese Threat.”
William Langewiesche, “The Secret Pentagon War Game That Offers a Stark Warning for Our Times.”
W. J. Hennigan, “The Price.”
Damian Carrington, “Hopeless and Broken: Why the World’s Top Climate Scientists Are in Despair.”
Brad Plumer and Mira Rojanasakul, “A Big Climate Goal Is Getting Farther Out of Reach.”
Raymond Zhong and Mira Rojanasakul, “How Close Are the Planet’s Tipping Points?”
William J. Ripple, et al., “The 2024 State of the Climate Report: Perilous Times on Planet Earth.”
Somini Sengupta, “Well Beyond the US, Heat and Climate Extremes Are Hitting Billions.”
Derrick Bryson Taylor, “Planet Sets Record for Hottest Day Twice in a Row.”
Patrick Greenfield, “Collapsing Wildlife Populations Near ‘Points of No Return,’ Report Warns.”
Victoria Gill and Helen Briggs, “Wildlife Numbers Fall by 73% in Fifty Years, Global Stocktake Finds.”
John Fritze, “Supreme Court Overturns 1984 Chevron Precedent, Curbing Power of Federal Government.”
Paul Krugman, “The Stench of Climate Change Denial.”
Chris Featherman, “Words Versus Words, Fire with Fire,” review of The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It, by Genevieve Guenther.
https://x.com/MGSchmelzer/status/1843752731519135970?t=7i1GwjAn42Vp-ubCLfM70A&s=03
Bryan Pietsch, “Chinese Pursuing ‘Significant Expansion of Nuclear Arsenal,’ Report Says.”
Lisandra Paraguassu, “Persistent Brazil Floods Raise Specter of Climate Migration.”
Julie Turkewitz, Ana Ionova, and José María León Cabrera, “An Alarming Glimpse into a Future of Historic Droughts.”
Raymond Zhong, “Three-Quarters of Earth’s Land Got Drier in Recent Decades, UN Says.”
Damian Carrington, “Microplastics Found in Every Human Testicle in Study” and “Climate Crisis Exposed People to Extra Six Weeks of Dangerous Heat in 2024.”
Douglas Main, “Microplastics Are Infiltrating Brain Tissue, Studies Show: ‘There’s Nowhere Left Untouched.’”
Karen Zraick and David Gelles, “California Sues Exxon over Plastics Pollution and Recycling ‘Myth.’”
Emma Bryce, “We Need to Talk About Plastic: Five Everyday Items Choking the Planet.”
Hiroko Tabuchi, “Saudi Arabia Leads Pushback Against Global Plastic Treaty.”
Tom Perkins, “Cotton-and-Squid-Bone Sponge Can Soak up 99.9% of Microplastics, Scientists Say.”
Austyn Gaffney and Mira Rojanasakul, “In a Record, All but Two US States Are in Drought.”
David Wallace-Wells, “Food as You Know It Is About to Change.”
Arielle Samuelson, “How Fossil Fuels Mutated Milton.”
Catrin Einhorn, “How a Crisis for Vultures Led to a Human Disaster: Half a Million Deaths.”
Somini Sengupta, “Can Dirt Clean the Climate?”
David Gelles, “Silicon Valley Renegades Pollute the Sky to Save the Planet.”
Stan Cox, “I Swore off Air-Conditioning, and You Can, Too.”
George Packer, “What Will Become of American Civilization?”
Pranshua Verma and Shelly Tan, “A Bottle of Water per Email: The Hidden Environmental Cost of AI Chatbots.”
Somini Sengupta, “Britain Shuts Down Last Coal Plant, ‘Turning Its Back on Coal Forever.'”
Jonathan Leake, “It’s Too Late to Save Britain from Overheating, Says UN Climate Chief.”
Ivan Penn and Karen Weise, “Hungry for Energy, Amazon, Google and Microsoft Turn to Nuclear Power.”
CJHandmer, “The Solar Industrial Revolution Is the Biggest Investment Opportunity in History.”
Dan Murtaugh and Shadab Nazmi, “China Slowdown Pushes Top Polluter Towards Emissions Peak.”
Dharna Noor, “New York Officials Call for Big Oil to Be Prosecuted for Fueling Climate Disasters.”
Catrin Einhorn, “How Are the World’s Trees Doing? A New Assessment Has Answers.”
Eric Lipton, “Changing the DNA of Living Things to Fight Climate Change.”
Matt McGrath, “Cheap Fix Floated for Plan Vapour’s Climate Damage.”
Nancy W. Stauffer, “Reality Check on Technologies to Remove Carbon Dioxide from the Air.”
David Gelles and Christopher Flavelle, “The New Climate Gold Rush: Scrubbing Carbon from the Sky.”
Hilary Howard, “Hochul Signs Law that Penalizes Companies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions.”
Leyland Cecco, “‘The Land Is Tearing Itself Apart’: Life on a Collapsing Arctic Isle.”
Charley Locke, “Growing up in Climate Chaos.”
Emily Harnett, “Bunker Down.”
Christopher Flavelle, “The US Is Building an Early Warning System to Detect Geoengineering.”
Alex Marshall, “A Reluctant Satirist Takes on the Bomb.”
Nathan K. Hensley, Action Without Hope: Victorian Literature After Climate Collapse.
Maya Salam, “Extra Extra! The End Times, Onscreen.”
And Aimee Ortiz, “Dragons and Sharks on a Beach Near You: The Story of the Great Lego Spill.”
Gaza and Campus Protests
Naomi Klein, “How Israel Has Made Trauma a Weapon of War.”
Ryan Spaeth, “The Return of Ta-Nehisi Coates.”
Rasha Khatiba, Martin McKeec, and Salim Yusufd, “Counting the Dead in Gaza: Difficult but Essential.”
Steve Salaita, “Literary Criticism in a Time of Genocide.”
Christa Dutton, “‘A Lot of Anguish’: Why the MLA Put an Anti-Israel Resolution on Ice.”
Saree Makdisi, “How Israel Lost America.”
“Israel Strikes Iran in Retaliatory Attack.”
Arwa Mahdawi, “We Are Witnessing the Final Stage of Genocide in Gaza.”
Nesrine Malik, “From Beirut to Khartoum, the Arab World Is Changing Beyond Our Recognition.”
Mary Turfah, “The Most Moral Army.”
Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti, “The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel.”
Aryn Baker and Abu Bakr Bashir, “As Hopes Rise for Gaza Cease-Fire, Conditions There Have Worsened.”
Saree Makdisi, “For Whom Is Campus to Be Safe?”
Zeynep Tufekci, “I Was Once a Student Protester. The Old Hyperbole Is Now Reality.”
Osita Nwanevu, “US Students, Once Again, Have Led the Way. Now We Must All Stand Up for Palestinians.”
Adrienne Lu, “Union Will Strike at U. of California at Santa Cruz over Protest Response and Divestment Demand.”
J. Brian Charles, “The Tipping Point: Why One College Decided to Call the Cops on Protesters.”
Marina Magloire, “Moving Towards Life.”
Michael S. Roth, “I’m a College President, and I Hope My Campus Is Even More Political This Year.”
Haidar Eid, “Teaching Edward Said in Gaza.”
Nida Khan, “Trump Won’t Bring Peace in the Middle East–or Anywhere Else.”
Avi Steinberg, “Israeli Citizenship Has Always Been a Tool of Genocide—so I’m Renouncing Mine.”
2024 Election
Paul Krugman, “What if This Is Our Last Real Election?,” “Don’t Lose Sight of Project 2025. That’s the Real Trump,” “J. D. Vance Puts the Con in Conservatism,” “Trump on the Civil War, in His Own Words,” “Leopards Are Telling You That They Will Eat YOUR Face,” “Crony Capitalism Is Coming to America,” and “My Last Column: Finding Hope in an Age of Resentment.”
Ezra Klein, “Democratic Elites Were Slow to See What Voters Already Knew,” “What’s Wrong with Donald Trump?,” and “There’s Something Very Different About Harris vs. Trump.”
Chris Cameron, “Trump Posts, Then Takes Down, Video Online with Headlines About a ‘Unified Reich.’”
Ed Pilkington and Dharna Noor, “Top US Ethics Watchdog Investigating Trump over Dinner with Oil Bosses.”
Peter Baker, “A Felon in the Oval Office Would Test the American System.”
Laura Bassett, “The Catharsis of Stormy Daniels Taking Down Trump.”
Lisa Kashinsky, Adam Cancryn and Eugene Daniels, “Dems Freak Out over Biden’s Debate Performance: ‘Biden Is Toast.’”
Nate Silver, “Joe Biden Should Drop Out,” “Doing Nothing About Biden Is the Riskiest Plan of All,” and “The Story of Trump’s Win Was Foretold in New York City.”
Peter Baker, David E. Sanger, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, and Katie Rogers, “Biden’s Lapses Are Said to Be Increasingly Common and Worrisome.”
A. O. Scott, “For Joe Biden, What Seems Like Age Might Instead Be Style.”
Jeet Heer, “In a Democracy, No Leader Is Indispensable.”
Bret Stephens, “The Abyss Stares Back at Joe Biden.”
George Clooney, “I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee.”
The Editorial Board of The New York Times, “Donald Trump Is Unfit to Lead,” “The Attack on Donald Trump Is Antithetical to America,” “Biden Made a Courageous Choice. Democrats Must Seize the Opportunity,” “The Only Patriotic Choice for President,” “This Election Will Need More Heroes,” “Believe Him,” and “The Dangers of Donald Trump, from Those Who Know Him.”
https://x.com/spectatorindex/status/1812254572951584892?t=zLKN_bwxPqxmOkrsw1t89Q&s=03
Shawn McCreesh, “Amid the Mayhem, Trump Pumped His Fist and Revealed His Instincts.”
Campbell Robertson, Jack Healy, Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, and Glenn Thrush, “Here’s What Is Known About the Suspect Who Tried to Assassinate Trump.”
David Frum, “The Gunman and the Would-Be Dictator.”
Alan Feuer, “Judge Dismisses Classified Documents Case Against Trump.”
Ross Douthat, “Donald Trump, Man of Destiny.”
New York Times Opinion, “Donald Trump’s First Term Is a Warning.”
Michael D. Shear, “Biden Drops out of Presidential Race and Endorses Harris.”
Joseph R. Biden Jr., letter withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race.
Jeffrey Kuhlman, “I Was a White House Doctor. Presidents Should Have to Take Cognitive Tests.”
Aaron Sorkin, “How I Would Script This Moment for Biden and the Democrats.”
Barack Obama, “My Statement on President Biden’s Announcement.”
Tressie McMillan Cottom, “Kamala Harris or Bust.”
Michelle Goldberg, “Kamala Harris and the Political Power of Joy,” “What I Truly Expect if an Unconstrained Trump Retakes Power,” and “The Great Capitulation.”
Ian Bogost, “J. D. Vance Has a Point About Mountain Dew.”
Shane Goldmacher, “How Kamala Harris Took Command of the Democratic Party in Forty-Eight Hours.”
Michael Ian Black, “Yes, the Assassination Attempt Changed Trump. It Made Him even Worse.”
Erin Brockovich, “What’s at Stake in November.”
Eugene Daniels, Elena Schneider, Holly Otterbein, and Christopher Cadelago, “Why Kamala Harris Chose Tim Walz.”
https://x.com/davidfrum/status/1826597385532817913?t=FpH52K5bFMlZ0tepjxUL5w&s=03
Jamelle Bouie, “The Real Reason Trump and Vance Hate Being Called ‘Weird.'”
Know Your Enemy, “What’s Wrong with J. D. Vance.”
Elizabeth Warren, “What Donald Trump Isn’t Telling Us.”
Ezra Klein, “The MAGA Movement Has Become a Problem for Trump.” (Yeah, about that.)
Mark Leibovich, “Hypocrisy, Spinelessness, and the Triumph of Donald Trump.”
Jordy Meiselas, “New York Times Report Shows Coordination Between Twitter and Trump Campaign.”
Peter Baker, “Inside Donald Trump’s Shadow Presidency.”
Henry A. Giroux, “Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Fearmongering Exposes Extent of Fascism’s Rise in 2024.”
Liz Dye, “Elon Musk: MAGA Money Man.”
Michael S. Schmidt, “As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator.”
Nate Silver, “Here’s What My Gut Says About the Election, but Don’t Trust Anyone’s Gut, Even Mine.”
Reid J. Epstein and Lisa Lerer, “Harris Calls Trump a Fascist: Six Takeaways from Her CNN Town Hall.”
Elisabeth Zerofsky, “Is It Fascism? A Leading Historian Changes His Mind.”
Katie Robertson, “LA Times Editorial Chief Quits After Owner Blocks Harris Endorsement.”
Oliver Darcy, “Turbulence at the Times.”
Thomas Grove et al., “Elon Musk’s Secret Conversations with Vladimir Putin.”
Rebecca Davis O’Brien and Nicholas Nehamas, “Michelle Obama Makes a Searing Appeal to Men: ‘Take Our Lives Seriously.'”
Maggie Hennefeld, “On Cat Memes, Cannibalism, and Election Lead-Up Laughter.”
Katie Robertson and Benjamin Mullin, “Jeff Bezos Defends Decision to End Washington Post Endorsements.”
Jeff Bezos, “The Hard Truth: Americans Don’t Trust the News Media.”
Jonathan V. Last, “What More Do You People Want from Kamala Harris? (Part Deux).”
Michael D. Shear and June Kim, “Once Top Advisers to Trump, They Now Call Him ‘Liar,’ ‘Fascist,’ and ‘Unfit.’”
Know Your Enemy, “Voting: What Is it Good For? (w/ Astra Taylor, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, & Malcolm Harris).”
Adam Tooze, “Great Power Politics.”
Jamelle Bouie, “Don’t Let Trump Make America Into an Image of Himself.”
David Corn, “America Meets Its Judgment Day.”
Francine Prose, “The Thought of a Trump Presidency Is Eating Me Alive.”
Lisa Lerer, “America Hires a Strongman.”
Zephyr Teachout, “Chuck Schumer Should Resign.”
Rebecca Solnit, “Our Mistake Was to Think We Lived in a Better Country Than We Do.”
Gabriel Winant, “Exit Right.”
Jennifer A. Dlouhy, “Trump Stranglehold Adds to Growing Doubts at Climate Talks.”
Reid J. Epstein, “Pelosi Laments Biden’s Late Exit and the Lack of an ‘Open Primary.'”
Isaac Chotiner, “Donald Trump’s Second Term Is Joe Biden’s Real Legacy.”
Robert Tait, “Kamala Harris Denounces Trump as Fascist Who Wants ‘Unchecked Power.'”
Michael D. Shear and Eric Lipton, “Trump Taps Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to Slash Government.”
Reid J. Epstein, “Democratic Governors Form a Group to Oppose the Trump Administration.”
Grace Byron, “Perfect Little Baby.”
Nesrine Malik, “Behind Trump’s Victory Lies a Cold Reality: Liberals Have No Answers for a Modern Age in Crisis.”
Tressie McMillan Cottom, “How an Empty Internet Gave Us Tradwives and Trump.”
Michael Schaffer, “Trump Won Less than Fifty Percent. Why Is Everyone Calling It a Landslide?”
Tara Suter, “Biden’s Pardon of His Son Hunter Rattles the Political World.”
Regina Rini, “The Wisdom of Crowds?”
Joseph Feldblum and Sammy Feldblum, “Academics Are Not to Blame for Trump’s Election.”
And Amanda Lehr, “Don’t Worry–This Is Exactly How the Founding Fathers Intended You to Feel on Election Day.”
Politics, Economics, and International
Norman L. Eisen, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Siven Watt, Joshua Kolb, Andrew Warren, Jacob Kovacs-Goodman, and Francois Barrilleaux, American Autocracy Threat Tracker.
Media Matters Staff, “Heritage Foundation President Celebrates Supreme Court Immunity Decision: ‘We Are in the Process of the Second American Revolution.'”
Michael Podhorzer, “In Any Other Country.”
Catherine Porter, “The Left United to Keep the Far Right From Power. Its Strategy Appeared to Work.”
Sophie Kemp, “New Tyrannies.”
Paweł Wargan, “The Cradle of Internationalism.”
Antoine Guironnet, “Asset Managers (Against) Society.”
Annie Lowrey, “The War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won.”
Azam Ahmed and Matthieu Aikins, “America’s Monster: How the US Backed Kidnapping, Torture and Murder in Afghanistan.”
Aishvarya Kavi, “Nearly One Thousand Native Children Died at Boarding Schools, Interior Dept. Finds.”
Hannah Beech, “The Poet Who Commands a Rebel Army.”
Alan Feuer and Natalie Kitroeff, “El Chapo’s Son Abducted Fellow Cartel Leader to the US, Officials Now Say.”
David Leonhardt, “A New Centrism Is Rising in Washington.”
Abbie VanSickle and Adam Liptak, “Corruption Law Allows Gifts to State and Local Officials, Supreme Court Rules.”
Johnny Diaz, “Disneyland Character Workers at California Park Vote to Unionize.”
Amil Niazi, “Welcome to the Millennial Midlife Crisis.”
Adam Kotsko, “What Is the Economy Even For?”
Allen Rappeport, “IRS Crackdown on Delinquent Millionaires Yields $1 Billion.”
Mia Jankowicz, “Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites Could Burn Up the Ozone Layer, Scientists Warn.”
Jenna Russell, “Jury Near Boston Deadlocks in Murder Case Against Karen Read.”
Patrick McGeehan and James Glanz, “Why Amtrak’s System Keeps Breaking Down: It’s 100 Years Old.”
Ben Ryder Howe, “How Costco Hacked the American Shopping Psyche.”
Kirsten Grind, Ryan Mac, and Sheera Frenkel, “Elon Musk Wants Big Families. He Bought a Secret Compound for His.”
David Pierson, Keith Bradsher, and Ana Swanson, “China Bans Rare Mineral Exports to the US.”
And Benjamin Mullin and Elizabeth Williamson, “The Onion Wins Bid to Buy Infowars, Alex Jones’s Site, out of Bankruptcy.”
Health and COVID-19
Christina Caron, “Narcissism Is a Trait That’s Hard to Shake, Study Says” and “How to ‘Gray Rock’ Conversations with Difficult People.”
Alina Chan, “Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Points.”
Zeynep Tufekci, “An Object Lesson from Covid on How to Destroy Public Trust.”
Megan Twohey, Danielle Ivory, and Carson Kessler, “As America’s Marijuana Use Grows, So Do the Harms.”
Dorcas Wangira, “Unknown Flu-Like Disease Kills at Least 79 People in DR Congo.”
And Isobel Whitcomb, “How Healthy Are Apples?”
Science
Victoria Gill, “Reservoir of Liquid Water Found Deep in Martian Rocks.”
NASA Webb Telescope Team, “Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18 b.”
Katie Mack, “Here’s How the Sun Will End All Life on Earth.”
https://x.com/DukePress/status/1838237505067405685?t=g9bYU_ltuR4OmeVIExotAA&s=03
Fredric Jameson (1934–2024)
Clay Risen, “Fredric Jameson, Critic Who Linked Literature to Capitalism, Dies at 90.”
Fredric Jameson, “Agon: The Iliad,” “Why Socialists Need Utopias,” “Radical Fantasy,” and “Fredric Jameson and the Adventure of French Theory.”
Mark Greif, “Glimmers of Totality: Fredric Jameson at Ninety.”
Benjamin Kunkel, “Into the Big Tent,” review of Valences of the Dialectic, by Fredric Jameson, and “Singularity.”
Leo Robson, “Jameson After Postcritique.”
Sianne Ngai, “Jameson’s Complex Chord.”
Anna Kornbluh, “Marxist Interpretation as a Vocation.”
Robert T. Tally, “Historicizing the Present,” “How Fredric Jameson Remade Literary Criticism,” “The Fredric Jameson I Knew,” and “The Generosity of Fredric Jameson.”
Christian P. Haines, “Utopia Hurts.”
Alberto Toscano, “Orienting Toward the Social Totality.”
Gerry Canavan, “Imagining Utopia.”
https://x.com/LAReviewofBooks/status/1838301261659279595?t=Kzvzu8hxR8CBiKcz-kcO-w&s=03
Andrew Cole, “The Rebus in Fredric Jameson’s The Hegel Variations.”
Brian Willems, “More Clash, Less Discontinuity.”
Ian Balfour, “Utopian Impulses and the Pursuit of Totality.”
Carolyn Lesjak, “Symptoms of the Present.”
Oded Nir, “Uncompromising Dialectics.”
And more Jameson at Ninety and “Jameson at Ninety: A Celebration of Theory,” online virtual symposium: day 1, day 2, day 3, and day 4.
Michael Chanan, “Fredric Jameson on Lacan: A Short Seminar.”
Sally Hicks and Geoffrey Mock, “Memorial Service for Fredric Jameson to Be Held Friday.”
The Editors of London Review of Books, “Fredric Jameson 1934–2024.”
A. O. Scott, “For Fredric Jameson, Marxist Criticism Was a Labor of Love.”
Bill Brown, “The Years of Jameson” and “Jameson’s Years of Theory.”
Marxist Literary Group mourning loss of Fredric Jameson.
Jacob Brogan, “Fredric Jameson Was a Generous Intellectual Giant.”
“Read Some Effing Jameson! w/ Sianne Ngai and Matthew Beaumont,” Novara FM.
Terry Eagleton, “Fredric Jameson, 1934–2024” and “The Excitement of the Stuff,” review of The Years of Theory, by Fredric Jameson.
Alex Callinicos, “Remember Fredric Jameson, 1934–2024.”
Kate Wagner, “The Gifts of Fredric Jameson (1934–2024).”
Slavoj Žižek, “Larger Than Life: A Note on the Death of Fredric Jameson.”
Owen Hatherley, “Fredric Jameson’s Capitalist Horror Show.”
Boris Kagarlitsky, “Obituary for Fredric Jameson (1934–2024).”
Nicholas Brown and Maria Elisa Cevasco, eds., “Fredric Jameson, 1934–2024,” Mediations.
Caleb Smith, “The Marxist Critic Who Remained Open to Mystery” and “Goodbye to the Greatest Marxist Critic of Our Time.”
Jeet Heer, “Fredric Jameson Named the System We Are Still Fighting.”
Thomas J. Millay, review of Inventions of a Present, by Fredric Jameson.
Kenneth Surin, “Fredric Jameson, Sui Generis.”
Jonathan Culler, “Jameson Stands Alone.”
John Brenkman, “Reflections on Fredric Jameson.”
Frank Ruda, “Always Jamesonize!”
Bruce Robbins, “Jameson’s Never-Ending Story.”
Christian Thorne, “After Jameson.”
Cornell University Authors, “In Memoriam: Fredric Jameson.”
Alex Callnicos, “Remembering Fredric Jameson, 1934–2024.”
Criticism and Theory
Penelope Green, “Sandra M. Gilbert, Co-Author of The Madwoman in the Attic, Dies at 87.”
Gayle Rogers, “Profile: Paul Bové, Distinguished Professor Emeritus.”
Polygraph, no. 29 (with contributions by Sianne Ngai, Fredric Jameson, Anna Kornbluh, and others.)
J Wortham, “The Afterlives of Audre Lorde.”
Christian Thorne, on Theodor Adorno’s Jargon of Authenticity.
Jason Read, “Why We Write: Or, Blogging as a Philosophical Practice,” Unemployed Negativity.
Bruce Robbins, “Reflections on Greatness.”
McKenzie Wark, “The Politics of Cuteness.”
Steven Shaviro, “Anarchism and Principle of Play.”
Nicholas Carr, “Theory on Theory.”
Gabriel Winant, “The Baby and the Bathwater: Class Analysis and Class Formation After Deindustrialization.”
Kate Marshall, “Weird Century.”
Erica Fretwell, “The Affective Bind.”
Madhav Tr, “Knowledge for the Present Moment,” review of The Populist Moment, by Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, If We Burn, by Vincent Bevins, and Immediacy, by Anna Kornbluh.
Jensen Suther, “The Theory of Immediacy or the Immediacy of Theory?”
Hari Kunzru, “Be Here Now.”
Cinque Henderson, “The Commonsense Critic: A Personal Tribute to Helen Vendler.”
Mitchell Abidor, “A World Literature Begins to Take Shape.”
Timothy Aubry, “The Rise and Fall—and Rise?—of Close Reading.”
Robert Tally, “Critique.”
Dan Hartland, “Snap! Criticism: Lynch and Tally.”
Aswin Prasanth and Krishnaja T. S., “An Interview with Robert T. Tally Jr.”
“Finance and Fiction” dossier at The b2o Review and b2o: An Online Journal.
Tim Christiaens, “Why Do People Fight For Their Exploitation As If It Was Liberation?,” review of The Double Shift, by Jason Read.
Gillian Rose, “How the Frankfurt School Used Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud.”
Scott Veale, “Frederick Crews, Withering Critic of Freud’s Legacy, Dies at 91.”
Caleb Smith, “Michel Foucault, the Bogeyman of the Culture Wars.”
Paul North and Paul Reitter, “Is Marx’s Capital a Revolutionary Text? Yes and No.”
Henry Ivry, “What Is the Infrastructure of Critique?”
Leigh Claire La Berge, “The Contingency Contingent.”
Mitch Therieu, “Vibe, Mood, Energy | Or, Bust-Time Reenchantment,” “Adventures in Style,” and “The Problem of Mid for Contemporary Criticism.”
Len Gutkin, “Curricular Trauma.”
Esther Leslie, “Walter Benjamin Warned Us Against the Illusions of Capitalist Progress.”
Julianne Werlin, “The Dysfunction of Criticism at the Present Time.”
Juno Richards, “Trans Panic Otherwise: On Jules Gill-Peterson’s A Short History of Trans Misogyny.”
Schuyler J. Chapman, “The Forest Cannot Hide It: The Maritime and the Revolutionary in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.”
Ben Wurgaft, “Kidding, Not Kidding.”
Cass Sunstein, “In Praise of Jargon.”
“The Best Scholarly Books of 2024.”
And Jasmine Johnson and Alice May Williams, “A Glossary of Gestures for Critical Discussion.”
https://x.com/summacontra/status/1810701307021291739?t=rVdUgrwsM5CwEeXnF_yxuw&s=03
Hyperarchival
Nagham Mohanna, “‘Systematic Targeting’: Israel War Ravages Gaza’s Archives and Manuscripts.”
Alexander R. Galloway, “The Uses of Disorder,” review of Cyberlibertarianism, by David Golumbia.
Peter B. Kaufman, “A Venerable and Time-Tested Guide,” review of The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed.
Charlie Warzel, “I’m Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is.”
Gary Hustwit, dir., Eno.
Rob Tannenbaum, “This Documentary About Brian Eno Is Never the Same Twice.”
David McCabe, “US Proposes Breakup of Google to Fix Search Monopoly.”
Ian Bogost, “The Bluesky Bubble.”
Mickey Carroll, “The X Exodus – Could Bluesky Spike Spark End of Elon Musk’s Social Media Platform?”
Kevin Munger, “Universities Should Abandon X.”
Victoria Kim, “Australia Has Barred Everyone Under 16 From Social Media. Will It Work?”
“The One Hundred Best Books of the Twenty-First Century.”
Tim McKeough, “A Home Library Can Tell Your Life Story.”
Rebekah Barber, “How Black Literary Organizations Are Continuing the Work of Liberation.”
David McCabe, “‘Google Is a Monopolist,’ Judge Rules in Landmark Antitrust Case.”
Peter Salmon, “Paper Trails,” on philosopher’s archives.
Shannon Mattern, “Library as Infrastructure.”
Adrienne Lu, “‘A Luxury That We Can’t Afford.’”
Matthew J. Shaw, “Libraries and the Academic Book.”
Maris Kreizman, “It’s Time We Added Full Credit Pages to Books.”
Josh Moody, “A Second Academic Exodus from X?”
Alan Jacobs, “Yesterday’s Men.”
Joshua Tyler, “I Attended Google’s Creator Conversation Event, and It Turned into a Funeral.”
Tory Shepherd, “‘What Many of Us Feel’: Why ‘Enshittification’ Is Macquarie Dictionary’s Word of the Wear.”
Jennifer Schuessler, “Oxford’s Word of the Year Is . . . Brain Rot.”
Meredith Whittaker, “The Beginning of the End of Big Tech.”
Edward Zitron, “Bubble Trouble.”
Lauren M. E. Goodland and Matthew Stone, “Beyond Chatbot-K: On Large Language Models, ‘Generative AI,’ and Rise of Chatbots,” Critical AI.
Annette Vee, “The Moral Hazard of AI.”
Ted Chiang, “Why AI Isn’t Going to Make Art.”
Jon Repetti, “Escaping a Hostage Situation.”
Michael Townsen Hicks, James Humphries, and Joe Slater, “ChatGPT Is Bullshit.”
Bryan Robinson, “77% of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads and Hampered Productivity, Study Finds.”
Cam Wilson, “AI Worse than Humans in Every Way at Summarising Information, Government Trial Finds.”
Khari Johnson, “California Teachers Are Using AI to Grade Papers. Who’s Grading the AI?”
Tripp Mickle, “Will AI Be a Bust? A Wall-Street Skeptic Rings the Alarm.”
Casey Newton, “The Phony Comforts of AI Skepticism.”
Rob Horning, “The Thought Doesn’t Count.”
Hannah Ziegler, “Nvidia Surpasses Apple to Become World’s Most Valuable Company.”
Carissa Wong, “Is the Internet Bad for You? Huge Study Reveals Surprise Effect on Well-Being.”
“Scarlett Johansson’s Statement About Her Interactions with Sam Altman.”
Charlie Warzel, “OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game.”
Kevin Roose, “OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance.”
Justin Smith-Ruiu, “A Series of Small Apocalypses: On the Real Threats of AI.”
Kevin Roose, “Can AI Be Blamed for a Teen’s Suicide?”
Jeffrey A. Tucker and Debbie Lerman, “They Are Scrubbing the Internet Right Now.”
Andrew R. Chow, “‘We’re Living in a Nightmare’: Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town.”
Eileen G’Sell, “Algorithms and the Problem of Intellectual Passivity.”
Megan Specia, “Amateur Historians Heard Tales of a Lost Tudor Palace. Then, They Dug It Up.”
Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500.
Amanda Friedman, “New College’s Book Dumping Went Viral. A Beloved Student-Led Center Was the Biggest Loss.”
Sumana Roy, “How Does the Writer Say Etcetera?”
Caity Weaver, “America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny.”
Maia Coleman, “The Bands and the Fans Were Fake. The $10 Million Was Real.”
Sarah Kendzior, “The Red, White, and Blue Screen of Death.”
Devindra Hardawar, “Meta Connect 2024: Cheaper Quest 3S, AI, AR, and Everything Else You Can Expect at the Metaverse Event.”
Ellie Pithers, “A Derelict Townhouse Becomes a DIY Wonderland.”
And Matt Growcoot, “Photographer Disqualified from AI Image Contest After Winning with Real Photo.”
Cade Metz, “Quantum Computing Inches Closer to Reality After Another Google Breakthrough.”
John McWhorter, “Who Are You Calling ‘You Guys’? Everyone, Actually.”
S. E. Smith, “How to Disappear Completely.”
Alexandra Alter, “The Hottest Trend in Publishing: Books You Can Judge by Their Cover.”
https://x.com/itseieio/status/1805986839058079896
Literature and Culture
Alex Marshall and Alexandra Alter, “Han Kang Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature.”
Scott Retberg et al., “Remembering Robert Coover.”
Alexander Nazaryan, “The Novel About US Politics so Outrageous It Nearly Wasn’t Published.”
Grayson Haver Currin, “Steve Alibini Did the Work.”
Christopher R. Weingarten, “Steve Albini’s Ten Essential Recordings.”
Alexandra E. Petri, “David Lynch Says He Has Emphysema.”
Merve Emre, “Loving the Limitations of the Novel: A Conversation Between Sally Rooney and Merve Emre.”
Ryan Ruby, “Like a Prayer,” review of Intermezzo, by Sally Rooney.
Emmeline Clein, “A Trapdoor of Her Own,” review of Intermezzo, by Sally Rooney.
Dwight Garner, “Sally Rooney, Heart on Her Sleeve, Writes a Weeper.”
Jessi Jezewska Stevens, “Intermezzo.”
Alexandra Alter, “Percival Everett, Author of James, Wins National Book Award for Fiction.”
Evan Grillon, “Tell and Tell Again: On Percival Everett’s James.”
Shehryar Fazli, “The Energy to Imagine Him: On Salman Rushdie’s Knife.”
Brooks Barnes, “Coppola’s Megalopolis Plays to Near-Empty Theaters.”
Zoë Hitzi, “The Poet Is Present: A Conversation with Ryan Ruby.”
Henry Gould, review of Context Collapse, by Ryan Ruby.
Kim Young, “Leaving Cormac: Life Lessons from My Correspondence with Lee McCarthy.”
“Power 100: The Annual Ranking of the Most Influential People in Art.”
Zachary Small, “Who’s Laughing Now? Banana-as-Art Sells for $6.2 Million at Sotheby’s.”
Quentin Meillassoux, “Mallarmé’s Poetry of the Void.”
Racheal Fest, review of The Singularity, by Balsam Karam.
James Poniewozik, “The Comfortable Problem of Mid TV.”
Olivia Stowell, “Let Down by Television.”
Hillary Kelly, “Welcome to Stucktopia.”
Constant Méheut and Daria Mitiuk, “Battle-Hardened Poets Fuel a Literary Revival in Ukraine.”
Marion Thain, “Bella Baxter and the Machine: On Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things and Julie Wosk’s Artificial Women.”
Dylan Adamson, “Continuity Errors: On the New Old Films of Francis Ford Coppola.”
Anna Kornbluh, review of Big Fiction, by Dan Sinykin.
Zach Gibson, “A Cloth Woven of Stories Told: John Barth and the Literature of Rectification.”
Anthony DePalma, “Alice Munro, Nobel Laureate and Master of the Short Story, Dies at 92.”
Rachel Aviv, “Alice Munro’s Passive Voice.”
Andrea Skinner, “My Stepfather Sexually Abused Me When I Was a Child. My Mother, Alice Munro, Chose to Stay with Him.”
Elizabeth A. Harris, “Weeks After Alice Munro’s Death, Daughter Tells of Dark Family Secret.”
Jennessa Abrams, “When a Woman Turns into a Wife.”
Frank Falisi, “The Hegemony of What Was Real.”
Victor LaValle, “Jeff VanderMeer Tells Victor LaValle Why He Returned to Area X.”
Christian P. Haines, review of Absolution, by Jeff Vendermeer.
Jesse Green, “Robert Downey Jr. Is a Novelist with a Novel Muse in McNeal.”
Kevin Gonzales, “Fools Rush In: On Kenneth Anger’s Scorpio Rising.”
Michael Rubenstein, “Chinatown at Fifty, or Seeing Oil Through Cinema.”
https://x.com/gagasyuyi/status/1791650284206243868?t=TdvJa4fOK5GYNogFpx_arQ&s=03&mx=2
Manohla Dargis, “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Review: A Lonely Avenger.”
Joshua Rothkopf, “Cannes: Fury Road Prequel Furiosa Forgets What Makes the Mad Max Movies Great.”
Samuel Hine, “The End of Merch.”
Nicolas Rapold, “Fahrenheit 9/11 at Twenty: Revisiting the Fear and Anger.”
Christian P. Haines, “Reimagining What It Means to be Human: Adrian Tchaikovsky, Alien Ecologist.”
Jacob Fuzetti, “Brat Explained by a Veteran Journalist Who Has to Accept Whatever Assignment We Give Him.”
Manohla Dargis, “Joker: Folie à Deux Review: Make ’Em Laugh (and Yawn).”
Chris Heath, “Four Friends, Two Marriages, One Affair—and a Shelf of Books Dissecting It.”
Lauren Eriks Cline, “Seriality and Slow Grief.”
Rebecca Bodenheimer, “Lost Bullied Its Unlikeliest Hero.”
Michael O’Connell, “What We Hope to Pass On.”
K. Austin Collins, “The Tom Hanks Movie That Critics Hated—and I Kind of Loved.”
Francesca Segal, “‘It Will Renew Your Faith in Humanity’: Books to Bring Comfort in Dark Times.”
Luke Buckmaster, “Edge of Tomorrow at Ten: Tom Cruise’s Sci-Fi Spectacle Gets Better Every Time.”
Don DeLillo, “Human Moments in World War III.”
And Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift, ed. Kristie Frederick Daugherty.
Music
Stuart Berman, review of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, No Title as of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead.
Jon Caramanica, “Kendrick Lamar Heads Back to His Comfort Zone on GNX.”
A. J. Urquidi, “We Lived to Tell.”
Victor Mather and Sarah Berman, “For Taylor Swift, It’s the End of the Eras.”
Sadie Sartini Garner, “True Believer” (on a Nine Inch Nails concert from 2000).
Alan Siegel, “Three Feet from God: An Oral History of Nirvana Unplugged.”
Javier C. Hernández, “Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years.”
The Organizing Committee, Communication in the Presence of Noise.
Taylar Dawn Stagner, “Loud, Angry, and Indigenous: Heavy Metal Takes on Colonialism and Climate Change.”
Poetry
“Bernadette Mayer on Her Influences.”
Richard Siken, “Three Poems” and “Cover Story.”
Z. L. Nickels interviews Richard Siken.
https://x.com/richardsiken/status/1788675733927363003
Richard Siken, Crush, twentieth-anniversary edition.
Elisa Gabbert, “The Best Poetry Books of 2024.”
Chistian Bök, umlautmachine.
Jorie Graham, “Time Frame.”
Lauren Russell, “Variants: A Box of Poems .”
Veronica Chambers, “When Nikki Giovanni Was Young, Brilliant, and Unafraid.”
Kristie Frederick Daugherty, Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift.
Joshua Zelesnick, Insert Coin, and a poem from Insert Coin.
Sten Carlson, 2024 chapbook subscription.
Sam Cohen, “No Thank You.”
Alex Skopic, “How to Write a Good Political Poem.”
Nathan Anderson, On the Globe Movement Moment.
Robert Sheppard, “How Twitter Developed My Poetry and Why I’m Leaving X.”
Creative Writing
Eric Bennett, “The War over Creative Nonfiction.”
John Warner, “Stanford Creative Writing Determined to Do the Wrong Thing.”
Christa Dutton, “At Stanford, a Change to Creative Writing Feels Personal.”
Comics, X-Men ’97, and the End of Krakoa
Marc Tracy and George Gene Gustines, “Comics Artist Dies After Sexual Misconduct Accusations.”
Katie Skelly, “Ed Piskor, 1982-2024.”
“T. S. Eliot’s Classic Modernist Poem The Waste Land Gets Adapted into Comic-Book Form.”
Armaan Babu and Jake Murray, “Rise of the Powers of X #5: Krakoa Ends, but Data Pages Are Forever.”
Rise of the Powers of X finale.
Chris Hassan, “X-Men Monday #255 – The Jordan D. White X-It Interview.”
“Si Spurrier, Tini Howard, Benjamin Percy, on Saying Goodbye to X-Men.”
Al Ewing, “Krakoa, A-Ok Ark.”
Casey Donahue, “I Am so Mad About Marvel’s Big X-Men Reboot, and I’m Not Sure I’ll Ever Get Over It.”
Rosie Knight, “The X-Men ’97 Trailer Takes Us Back to a Time When X-Men Was the Biggest Comic on Earth.”
Maya Phillips, “X-Men ’97 Revisits the Franchise’s Roots and Finds Them More Timely Than Ever.”
Alissa Wilkinson, “Deadpool and Wolverine Review: Nothing ever Ends.”
Ben Child, “Deadpool and Wolverine Sneak Preview Hints at a Snarky Satire on Marvel’s Multiverse.”
Ran across this again, so I figured I'd post it. It's an early critique of the Claremont X-MEN from the Comics Journal, by future pros Carol Kalish and Richard Howell, and it has some terrific craft analysis on effective character presentation. [1/3]
— Kurt Busiek (@kurtbusiek.bsky.social) 2024-12-11T23:35:14.544Z
Sports
Joshua Mendelsohn, “Pay Caitlin Clark What She’s Worth.”
Richard Sandomir, “Bill Walton, NBA Hall of Famer and Broadcasting Star, Dies at 71.”
Wilson Wong, “Hanif Abdurraqib Just Misses His Dog.”
Eli Diner, “What Steve Ballmer Can’t Buy.”
Dave McMenamin, “An Eye on the Court: Chronicling Forty Years on NBA Photography.”
And TribeHasSpoke on r/billsimmons, “[Column] Page 2 Simmons Takes Down Ringer Bill.”
Video Games
Grace Benfell, “Essay Anthology Critical Hits Is a Dull Rehash That Fails to Engage with Games Criticism.”
Will Freudenheim and William Morgan, eds., Interplay.
Harold Goldberg, “Astro Bot Review: All History Lessons Should Be This Fun.”
Annie Aguiar, “Astro Bot Wins Top Honor at the Game Awards.”
Zachary Small, “Best Video Games of 2024.”
Rollo Romig, “Exuberant Video Game Menus Designed with da Vinci in Mind.”
Geoffrey Bunting, “A Gun-Toting Crab Confronts a Fiendishly Tough Video Game Genre,” review of Another Crab’s Treasure.
Annie Aguiar, Jason M. Bailey, Aurelien Breeden, and Zachary Small, “Twenty Years of Orcs, Guilds, and Memes in World of Warcraft.”
Alex Seedhouse, “The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom Announced.”
“A Suspiciously Straightforward Treasure Hunt,” Outside Podcast (with Jason Rohrer).
Arthur Gies and Haley Perry, “The Best Video Games of 2024.”
Emmett Linder, “‘Skibidi Toilet’ Has Come to Fortnite. What the Heck Is It?”
Humanities and Higher Education
Heather Hewett and Stacy M. Hartman, “Rejecting the Siege Mentality in Higher Education.”
Adrienne Lu, “Faculty and Staff Are Feeling Anxious, Depressed, and Burnt Out, Study Says.”
Steven Brint, “If Trump Wins. . . .”
Brendan Cantwell, “A Second Trump Term Could Devastate Higher Ed.”
Ian Bogost, “AI Cheating Is Getting Worse.”
https://x.com/oliviastowell/status/1802364994123657533
Matthew Kirschenbaum and Rita Raley, “AI May Ruin the University as We Know It.”
Beth McMurtrie, “Professors Ask: Are We Just Grading Robots?” and “Cheating Has Become Normal.”
Lisa Lieberman, “AI and the Death of Student Writing.”
Katie Notopoulos, “Yup, AI Is Basically Just a Homework Cheating Machine.”
Arik Levinson, “Cheaters Usually Do Win in the Classroom.”
Christa Dutton, “Two Major Academic Publishers Signed Deals with AI Companies. Some Professors Are Outraged.”
Lee Gardner, “Is It Time to Regulate AI Use on Campus?”
Sean Brenner, “Comparative Lit Class Will Be First in Humanities Division to Use UCLA-Developed AI System.”
Christa Dutton, “The Course Is About Literature. Its Textbook Was Generated by AI.”
Arthur Perret, “A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT.”
Leonard Cassuto, “Will Graduate-Student Unions Change Everything?” and “Why Has Boston University Stopped Accepting Grad Students?”
Megan Zahneis, “Is Boston U Blaming a New Contract for Its Freeze on Ph.D. Admissions?”
Alexander C. Kafka, “Fighting the Mental-Health Crisis.”
Beth McMurtie, “Is This the End of Reading?”
Marie-Rose Sheinerman, “College Students Not Reading Is an Issue, So Teachers Are Adjusting How Classes Look.”
The Guardian, “View on Humanities in Universities: Closing English Literature Courses Signals a Crisis.”
Jonathan Malesic, “There’s a Very Good Reason College Students Don’t Read Anymore.”
Greg Barnhisel, “A Spy at Yale.”
Julia Cho, “My Secret to Creative Rejuvenation? Conferences.”
Scott Carlson and Ned Laff, “It’s Not All About the Money.”
Leonard Cassuto, “What Will Graduate Education Look Like in 2035?”
Robert Kelchen, “Can Small, Struggling Colleges Survive?”
Scott Carlson, “The Endangered Small College.”
Robert Kelchen, “Is Your College About to Close?”
Brittany Carlson, “My University Closed. Now What?”
Karin Fischer, “When Gown Leaves Town.”
John T. McGreevy, “The Great Disappearing Teaching Load.”
Jamie Bolker, “Life as a Disposable Academic.”
Kevin R. McClure, “Colleges Are Still Failing Their Employees.”
Leif Weatherby, “The Real Crisis in Higher Education.”
Billy Witz, “Decades in the Making, a New Era Dawns for the NCAA: Paying Athletes Directly.”
Joe Gow, “I Made Porn. That Shouldn’t Cost Me Tenure.”
Rachel Mesch, “What Do We Do with Monstrous Mentors?”
Joseph M. Keegin, “The Life of the Mind in the Hinterlands.”
Jacquelyn Elias, “Who Does Your College Think Its Peers Are?”
Rebecca Colesworthy, “How to Publish a ‘Timely’ Scholarly Book.”
Anne Helen Peterson, “Ten Years out of Academia.”
Lee Papa, “A Case of Fraud.”
Emma Pettit, “When a Department Self-Destructs.”
Maria LaMonaca Wisdom, “Department Culture: Learning to Play Well With Others.”
Brian O’Leary and Julia Piper, “What Are the Graduation Outcomes for Four-Year and Two-Year Degree-Seeking Students?”
Jacquelyn Elias, “How Far Does Your Pay Go?”
Cal Newport, “Is Email Making Professors Stupid?”
And Joseph Bernstein, “The Man Who Couldn’t Stop Going to College.”
Parenting
Aaron Bady, “The Parenting Panic.”
Alyson Krueger, “Sign Right Here: The Parents Pledging to Keep Kids Phone-Free.”
Jonathan Haidt, “End the Phone-Based Childhood Now.”
Darby Saxbe, “Parents Should Ignore Their Children More Often.”
Claire Cain Miller, “Today’s Parents: ‘Exhausted, Burned Out and Perpetually Behind.'”
Claire Cain Miller and Sarah Mervosh, “The Youngest Pandemic Children Are Now in School, and Struggling.”
Abigail Covington, “The Broad Appeal of the Elsa Dress.”
Oneonta and Hartwick College
5/20/24 RT Panel (including Laurel Elder).
Casandra Miller, “Baseball Families as Royal Vampires.”
Laura Spitalniak, “Hartwick College to Slash Sticker Price to $22,000.”
The State Times, “Oneonta Literature Festival Presents: Ross Gay,” “Poetic Feminism with Dr. DuPlessis,” and “B Side Ballroom Presents: A Poetry Slam.”
“Campuses Team Up to Launch Oneonta Literary Festival.”
Pittsburgh
April Johnston, “This Popular Pitt Class Reveals the City’s Secrets.”
And Molly Nichols
The Hyperarchival Parallax 