Writer, teacher, person in New Hampshire Books from Black Lawrence, Bloomsbury Academic, punctum, Third Man, Lethe. Horror fiction, modernism, pedagogy, Open Access, general weirdness... https://matthewcheney.net
AAUP can't be neutral when the forces destroying American higher education are not neutral. They have names, districts, and super-PACs.
Ryan QuinnNational AAUP Starts Endorsing Political Candidates The group says the move is a first in its over-100-year existence, and part of countering government threats. Critics say AAUP has lost its neutrality. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
“We ask the public to treat this film as they would a movie made in occupied Ukraine with Putin’s permits, or in the illegal settlements in Palestine with Netanyahu’s blessing.” —María Carrión, executive director of The Western Sahara International Film Festival
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò"Covering an area the size of Britain, Western Sahara is designated as a “non-self-governing territory” by the United Nations and remains on its official list of territories still awaiting decolonization." Eoghan Gilmartin for @africaisacountry1.bsky.social africasacountry.com/2026/07/odys...
This is a fun series of posts. (Trying to wrap your brain around The Prisoner is more satisfying than arguing about The Odyssey...)
Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)Prisoner rewatch: DO NOT FORSAKE ME OH MY DARLING (me 14, KTEH 12). The deconstruction of the show continues---now the lead actor is removed, replaced by a charismatic nullity in "The Colonel". It becomes a bargain-rate, lifeless version of "The Prisoner" that would've been cancelled after 4 eps
I enjoyed the heck out of this conversation. It's Matt Seybold & McKenzie Wark! It's got Marx and vulgarism, tech and pragmatics, joy and queerness. Be still, my heart! (Had to lie down on my fainting couch to listen.)
Chica MarxI'm on @mattseybold.bsky.social's American Vandal podcast. This was a fun one: www.theamericanvandal.com/p/vectoralis...
Wonderful thread here of vintage paperbacks, but I'm especially taken with "When Men Meet" (Kozy Books, 1963) — its motto: "Realism traps the homosexual in the blind alley of an in-between world".
Rebecca BaumannThis is horrifying for reasons of ICE, but also because it enables stalking more generally.
Joseph CoxYou opened a credit card. ICE now knows where you live. Here's how when you open a credit card your address leaves your bank, goes through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE. ICE plans to use this data for immigration and 'voter fraud'. No warrant More: www.404media.co/you-opened-a...