Sarah Brouillette
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writing about publishing, social media, YA fiction, romance, couple form, art, capitalism
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what could possibly be achieved by saying this
As a reviewer, it is obvious when something is written by a brand new grad student and very obvious when it is their first paper submission ever. Really heavy on the jargon and misuse of GRE words. The writing is floral without fragrance. (1/2)
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it's part of a broader emergence of writing not as a craft-based prestige career but as a genre-based form of self-expression & community belonging; this is inseparable from the cheapening of "content" and publishing work
Where did the idea come from that everyone has the right to be a writer? Regardless of the ability to write?
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successful blockade stopped the convoy at Bank and Riverside this morning
guess what happened?
police forced the blockade to move to let the trucks through
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Karl Marx's Capital draws specific details from my own life. I’ve spent the years since it was published wondering: How did he know?
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three yrs ago I said something to a colleague that was meant to be teasing but came out slightly mean and so, since then I have attended every event he's organized or been involved in and I will continue to do so until one of us retires
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It matters, I think, how you explain literature's decline. Bad critics & profs? Wrong objects of analysis? Hot new media? Or is it: poverty, debt, tuition, worklessness, and the anxiety of being shouldered with the whole burden of trying to "make a living"?
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did not expect her to solve the digital labour problem and yet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I read The Political Unconscious for a PhD field exam in 2002-3 & just dug through my files to find my study notes. So glad I kept these--flaws and all!--as a trace of that formative encounter. Symptomatic reading forever. Jameson forever.
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I'm writing a book about this (why people might think of themselves as writers without using the language of craft mastery)
the craft-based approach from tradition of literary writing is entirely residual
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when I decided to do a PhD I couldn't "imagine doing anything else" but I also couldn't imagine being 30 yrs old, so
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my favourite thing today is people saying "this poem sucks" not realizing that's the point and they have now made themselves a target of its satire 🤷♂️
This brief lyric from poet and translator Noah Mazer serves as the quintessential "Liberal Poem for Palestine."
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if you shoplift you are bringing jobs back 🤷♂️
BREAKING: Target has officially shut down all self-checkout registers after years of rampant shoplifting in Emeryville, California
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the rise of YA is inseparable from the decline of the culture of literary prestige
they have the same underlying causes
this is what the argument always comes down to: adult readers of ya want respect and ya authors want prestige. in the latter case i’m sorry to say both lit journals and tenure are dying so you’re too late anyways it’s moot
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when you get an academic rejection it's because of structural conditions
when I get an academic rejection it's because I suck and they figured it out
hope this helps 🫶
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the rise of public writing runs parallel to the decline of universities humanities
striking about this is the normative change in 10 years. when i first went on the academic job market in 2014, public writing was seen as risky, potentially unserious, something to engage in with caution, discretion.
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My mom died yesterday. She struggled for a long time with depression and addiction. Not sure what else to say at the moment. Here for hugs.
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blocked all lanes again!
police trying to get people to move though
bet they start arresting *the blockade* with convoy looking on from warm idling vehicles!!!
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counterpoint: my first-year students, who survived pandemic high school, are the best most exciting most piercing young intellects I've ever encountered
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everyone i know in their late 40s is having an existential crisis because we skipped our mid 40s in the pandemic. relationships fast-tracked, careers faltered, we lost those core identity-building years and now we feel like 43-year-old brains in bodies approaching 50
everyone i know in their late 20s is having an existential crisis because we skipped our mid 20s in the pandemic. relationships fast-tracked, careers faltered, we lost those core identity-building years and now we feel like 23-year-old brains in bodies approaching 30
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Next on The Life-Changing Magic Of Dialectical Materialism
MARX: Take each object in your home. Ask yourself as you hold it, “what is the peculiar social character of the labour that produced this commodity? by what processes has it been made to appear here, as if by magic?”
Next on The Life-Changing Magic Of Dialectical Materialism
MARX: Take each object in your home. Ask yourself as you hold it, “Does this spark a sense of its market value relative to other objects?”
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me: we're comrades; fuck the system that put you into debt and now tells you you need this degree to get some crap job
also me: do the readings!
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now available for pre-order 🎉 After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century, eds. Colleen Lye & Christopher Nealon 🎉
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Humanities professors: If you could stay in academe without worrying about money, what would you do?
Humanities professors: If you could leave academe without worrying about money, what would you do?
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I read this book and now I can't stop critiquing phallogocentrism and making art about art
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something that stays with me from talking to students about contingent work in academia and the fate of the humanities and so on--and this discussion is built into every level of our graduate program--is them responding "yes, and? it's like that everywhere"
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"identity is not an option but a doom"
reading Jameson's Late Marxism on this over-hot summer's day
h/t
@jmakr
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this blew up so here is a nutshell update:
- blockade refusing to move
- police (naturally!) totally fine with letting the convoy through to go do their thing (they are all pals)
- convoy now sending folks to help unstuck people, whatever that means
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my take on literature is that it is bad but also good
you're welcome
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bless my first-year student who said Prufrock is just neurodivergent
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see also Melinda Cooper, Family Values: the "traditional" nuclear family is *NOT* the opposite of "bourgeois individualism"--instead it is the primary (embattled) instantiation of it in. our. times
Familism *is* individualism. Marx talked of elevating people out of the family, religion, and the state, into a properly "human, i.e., social, existence." In contrast, today, some people who call themselves Marxists imagine that the family is a bulwark against individualism. Sad.
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dominant forms of reading and writing now are mediated by platforms and based in quite new dispositions and affects
- writing is a way to assert/affirm identity (therapeutic)
- writing is social media content (network effects and pleasures)
- writing is about finding a community
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Mastodon *is* unhinged if you mean full profs sharing all their real feelings about ever being challenged on anything
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new piece by Andy Hines, on John Guillory's Professing Criticism and the whole bruhaha it occasioned
@hinesaj
it is rather long, but let him cook
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"The film’s real subject is bourgeois domesticity, the mundane concerns of child-rearing, household management, class striving; it is about the way the private family becomes its own fortress and how its insularity, atomization, and privatization enable horrific violence."
"The Zone of Interest can be better understood in the context of recent scholarship on family abolition, white supremacy, and household work" -
@NotSorrySari
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the day I had been dreading is here: kid asked me what is neoliberalism
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I was delighted to learn from Melinda Cooper's new book and pose a few queries about it. It has already shaped my thinking and will continue to.
@LAReviewofBooks
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teaching a YA fiction course for the first time starting Jan 2023 & can now report w/ horrified confidence that I do not enjoy reading YA fiction
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from "Abolition of the family: the most infamous feminist proposal," by Kathi Weeks (happy to share whole pdf if interested)
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I'm 45 today but it has also been 10 years since last July
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from Jameson's Late Marxism
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@GurdinChristian
"here's a bad thing all people do at this one stage in their life as researchers" -- okay let them, you just said it's common, who gives a shit
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rare that we (scholars of literature) get to see this sort of correspondence showing how directly authors are being coerced into being Very Online before they can get published and earn some money
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the best short story is "The Overcoat" by Nikolai Gogol
thank you
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City of Quartz blew my whole fucking mind and made me want to do research for real. RIP Mike Davis 💔❤️
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with
@jamacintosh
on "work"
Joshua Clover and
@anniemcclanahan
on "organization"
our dear late friend Marina Vishmidt on "debt"
Bev Best and Richard Dienst! Tom McCarthy! Ida Börjel!
@marxforcats
!
I wrote about "disruption"!
🚨🚨🚨 wowow okay bye
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the drip
ICSI is thrilled to have DAVID HARVEY on faculty in 2024, who will convene the seminar, "READING MARX'S GRUNDRISSE TODAY." For more information and to apply for our Summer Seminars, please visit our website:
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I needed to share this fun little moment from Melinda Cooper's new book
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exciting! alarming! this is now available for preorder ($25 for the paperback)
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notice that all of these easily coordinate with low or no pay
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hello, here is a further bit of my recent research on current conditions of production of literary culture (and other kinds of reading/writing)
@LAReviewofBooks
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it's not just that there are no jobs but that good scholars are competing for opportunities against a bunch of rich snobs 🤷♂️
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Related: people writing about the recent fate of English departments might be interested in the university as property owner and landlord, & the history of what Abigail Boggs and Nick Mitchell call "accumulation-by-education"
It matters, I think, how you explain literature's decline. Bad critics & profs? Wrong objects of analysis? Hot new media? Or is it: poverty, debt, tuition, worklessness, and the anxiety of being shouldered with the whole burden of trying to "make a living"?
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Never felt much at home in an English department. Until now, as my colleagues' children become communist teenagers and come to me for suggested readings.
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I'm happy to share my review of Bev Best's remarkable book, The Automatic Fetish
It will soon be in print
@JournalSpectre
- subscribe if you can
🙏
@grundrza
for editing this🙏 the reading group organized by
@jamacintosh
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the fact that most academics aren't paid directly for their research has an interesting (IMO) intellectual and institutional history
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This is so nice! I'm flattered and aghast! Thank you to the committee reading the books and, wow, to the media person who selected this amazing photo of me as a baby.
We’re pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2020 Book Prize. In alphabetical order, we begin with Sarah Brouillette, UNESCO AND THE FATE OF THE LITERARY (Stanford, 2019).
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it's just so funny to see this put forward as a controversial opinion when it is constitutive of the whole modern conception of what The Literary is ... it has been part of the self-understanding of people who exist at the heart of that world for more than a century!
Reasonable people may differ with me, but I'd argue the greatest writers of fiction & poetry have been apolitical--provided we define "political" as meaning "partisan." I don't think Joyce, Beckett, Faulkner, O'Connor, McCarthy, Stevens, Melville, et al had any use for politics.
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platforms don't care where the content comes from and learning the craft of writing is incidental ... they want it in volumes and telling people that traditional publishing is exclusionary is (1) correct and (2) a great way to extract content
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"Enjoy!!! Ha ha ha."
-- email to a student, attaching Bourdieu essay on the field of cultural production
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if you think your pre-recorded lectures are awkward take comfort, I just -- unbidden -- started one with "ummm ... hey ... back with another banger"
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listen I'm pretty sure I'd desperately shout "I'm a professor" if I thought it might stop someone from brutalizing a student and/or pushing me to the ground. 🤷
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I returned to some classic studies to write these reflections on the history of escapist reading. The people
@Parapraxis_Mag
helped a great deal. I'm grateful for their work.
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this essay I am grading, on capitalist urbanism in Richard Scarry's Busy, Busy Town, argues that the pickle car presents "the personal car as a statement of style rather than a growing urban problem" AND I AM DYING 🤣💘
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keeps happening ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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notes for what I just talked about in class w/ my students, in case helpful to anyone (& because no one ever gave me tips on how to do this)
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got divorced ✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️
BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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if you are still reading a lot in high school it is probably because you are outcast from this particular order of "success" and maybe not headed for a "top" school (this is a compliment--don't get it twisted)
The reason kids aren't reading as much is that we've made a social determination that we'd rather they do other things, such as become ignorant and thoughtless enough to major in "Business"
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@dee_bee_h
maybe the grad students, who are also working, charge in turn, so it just cancels out 🤔
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The last time I spoke to my mom was on Mother's Day two years ago.
I hardly knew her really, but I think about her life & death every day.
I wrote a bit about her in this piece.
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in the spirit of conciliation, I will say that I know first hand just how hard it is to be hot *and* smart
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discussing what a particular representation is symptomatic of *is* my way of enjoying it, sorry
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It is possible to note the changed social status of literature and the English department w/o concluding that there is nothing to be done, that elites are gonna elite, and activities against all this are futile or pious or childish. I'm proof!
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writing a book longer than 300 pages is just rude now
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there is a good primer on how the idea of terrorism is deployed that helps explain why this sort of police presentation might happen ... by Charles Townshend in that Oxford series ... it's called Terrorism: A Very Short .... oh, oh!
did……did the NYPD just present an Oxford Very Short Introduction book as contraband?
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So many haters out here today so I'm just gonna say it: I love Jon Fosse sorry sorry. His Septology absorbed me completely and is among the best depictions I've encountered of the inner life of the alcoholic.
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The case against travel was made by Jamaica Kincaid in A Small Place. You're welcome.
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hi friends I "finished" writing this book and it is forthcoming from Stanford UP in the Post45 series (had lots of help from friends here, thank you)
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Love Actually
What are some examples of truly evil movies? Not necessarily in terms of depicting it, or thematizing it (or ideology/politics) but that truly feel like they’re channeling something awful into the world?(This was prompted by preparing a lecture on SPOORLOS).
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crave the media limelight too hard & eventually you'll be trotted out *precisely* when they need someone to say shit like this
New piece from me, written with love for everyone in grief right now.
It has a simple message:
"Side with the child over the gun every single time, no matter whose gun and no matter whose child."
Moral consistency ≠ Moral equivalency. 💔
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a year later, still in it
My mom died yesterday. She struggled for a long time with depression and addiction. Not sure what else to say at the moment. Here for hugs.
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told kid the story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight over dinner and HE IS LOSING HIS FUCKING MIND
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