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Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse (Chicago, 2025) • The Barbara Johnson Collective (Northwestern, 2026)
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@hypervisible.blacksky.appReposted by @nathankhensley.bsky.social🤷🏿♂️
@nathankhensley.bsky.sociali'm so glad things straightened out S -- sounds like it was scary 💙
@nathankhensley.bsky.socialOh wow this is coming directly to my class— thanks you two! Also: yikes
@annakornbluh.bsky.socialReposted by @nathankhensley.bsky.socialno and no some more
@nathankhensley.bsky.socialhappy nobel prize to anne carson, who read emily brontë so hard & well that her poem about that encounter opens up your whole body
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@sjjphd.bsky.socialReposted by @nathankhensley.bsky.socialI’m sure I’m not the only one that saw the video of this man putting himself between French national police and student protestors circulating yesterday.
@walletcheck.bsky.socialReposted by @nathankhensley.bsky.socialholy hell this is so fuckin cool—it's like a dream come true to see Stuart Hall's mind at work
@nathankhensley.bsky.social🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read???
@mariabustillos.comReposted by @nathankhensley.bsky.socialThere's no such thing as 'creatives' and also it is not a noun! Art and culture = human beings making and sharing things, that is all it is
@nathankhensley.bsky.social[“kids don’t read books anymore!” Well try *this* on for size: a 300+ pp monograph densely packed w verrry long close readings!!!]
@nathankhensley.bsky.socialReading is compulsory! 😂🌿🙏
@nathankhensley.bsky.socialThanks so much Matthew— wd love to know what you think if you get a chance to get into it 🌿
@nathankhensley.bsky.socialIt’s true and I loved it!! 💙🎉
@nathankhensley.bsky.socialno but looking it up now-- thank you! I see that my citation of your great post about Canvas didn't become a link, sorry! [I have so appreciated & learned from your work on this topic over the years, Dan, online and in print 🙏]
@nathankhensley.bsky.socialAll of the above will seem quaint & hilariously outdated (it already does!) under the corporate consolidation of information we're embarking on now: total algorithmic control of worldviews, ideological shaping of mass culture on a scale we've never known, & for which we have no theoretical roadmap.
@nathankhensley.bsky.socialAO Scott: "The audience necessary to sustain original and ambitious work is narcotized by algorithms or distracted by doomscrolling." // The horror film eyeball [end]
![A.O. Scott, on retiring as film critic for the NYT, 3/17/2023: “The current apocalypse [in the film industry] is that streaming and Covid anxiety are conspiring to kill off moviegoing as we have known it, leaving a handful of I.P.-driven blockbusters and horror movies to keep theaters in business while we mostly sit at home bingeing docuseries, dystopias and the occasional art-film guilt trip. Am I worried? Of course I’m worried. The cultural space in which the movies I care most about have flourished seems to be shrinking. The audience necessary to sustain original and ambitious work is narcotized by algorithms or distracted by doomscrolling. The state of the movies is very bad.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:m52czdgn43hqqylkdhrwxs5e/bafkreif3axhfusmucmxjpu6xljdzuflckjtwksexlbescxuutcpz7hflxu@jpeg)
@nathankhensley.bsky.social"In addition to owning Canvas, KKR also owns Simon & Schuster, OverDrive, bankrupted Toys R Us, and bought nursing homes that became sites of abuse & neglect" —@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social // Christmas Under the Stars
@nathankhensley.bsky.socialUltra-Concentrated Media / "The routine translation of everything...into the schema of mechanical reproducability." +
@nathankhensley.bsky.socialdelighted to share with you a few slides from my powerpoint on the culture industry, which I first made in 2015 (?), pre-AI, and have added to, little by little, over the years, as the processes of homogenization have intensified & the smothering sameness of mainstream ideas become more choking: +
