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Don’t Let Them Know What You’re Against or What You’re For
* Saturn devours his young: President Trump. * So weird to see Donald Trump going through all the traditional rituals of assuming the presidency, like the ceremonial settling of your $25 million fraud...
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Christmas and/or Fascism Megapost Forever and Ever Links – Part Two!
(here’s part one) * The story behind the Christmas Truce of 1914, simultaneously the most and least utopian thing that’s ever happened. * Now that’s running it like a sandwich: College Can’t Prove It...
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Christmas and/or Fascism Megapost Forever and Ever Links – The Morning After!
* Two especially good stories from Wired‘s SF issue: N.K. Jemisin’s “The Evaluators” and Charles Yu’s “Subtext®.” * Three ways of looking at the arc of history. Martin Luther King, Jr., famously said,...
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Christmas Hangover Links!
* An excerpt from the conversation between Tim Morton and Jeff VanderMeer from my and Andy Hageman’s issue of Paradoxa is up at LARB. You can read our introduction too! The issue has been printed and...
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New Year’s Links!
* A nice endorsement of Octavia E. Butler from Steve Shaviro. Some bonus Shaviro content: his favorite SF of 2016. I think Death’s End was the best SF I read this year too, though I really liked New...
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It’s Week One of Year Zero and I’m Declaring Total Tab Bankruptcy
* CFP: SFRA 2017. CFP: 14th Annual Tolkien at UVM Conference. CFP: Toxic Fans. CFP: Whiteness and the American Superhero. CFP: The Gibson Critics Don’t See. Call for Applications: R.D. Mullen...
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Fritrump Links!
* Trump’s America Conference at University College Dublin. * Midwest area research opportunity: Horatio Alger Fellowship for the Study of American Popular Culture, Northern Illinois University. * See...
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Thursday Links!
* Deadline extended: Special Issue: Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Narrative, Characters, Media, and Event. * CFP: Speculative Vegetation: Plants in Science Fiction. * After humanity spent thousands of...
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February 28 Links! All the Links You Need for February 28
* Science Fiction Film and Television 10.1 is out, with articles on the suburban fantastic, the work of art in the age of the superhero, utopian film, review essays on The Martian and Terminator:...
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Tuesday Morning Links!
* The course descriptions for Marquette’s Fall 2017 English classes are up at the department website. Check them out! I’m teaching Tolkien and a grad seminar on utopia. * Also in Marquette news!...
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Sunday Night Closing All My Tabs
* My review of Kim Stanley Robinson’s (excellent!) New York 2140 is finally up at the Los Angeles Review of Books: Utopia in the Time of Trump. Where most contemporary histories of the future imagine...
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Tuesday Links!
* FiveThirtyEight has been doing a great series on Mars colonization. Today’s entries are all about space sex. Also: Everything About Mars Is The Worst. * Also at FiveThirtyEight: The Odds You’ll Fill...
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Weekend Links!
* Star Trek and Lovecraft. Via r/daystrominstitute. * The worst threat to higher education is its administration. * Judge Rules Against Marquette Professor Over Public Rebuke of TA. * Police Officer...
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Mother’s Day Links!
* Happy Mother’s Day! You Will Hate Your Husband After Your Kid Is Born. * Humbled to be a finalist for a 2017 Locus Award. * I’d like to apologize in advance, but after consulting with my colleagues...
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Tuesday Morning Links!
* Dragons Are for White Kids with Money: On the Friction of Geekdom and Race. Posted in a Facebook thread about this snippet of a review I finished today (which references this immortal Pictures for...
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Sunday’d Reading!
* Presenting the International Journal of James Bond Studies. * On graduate labor and the Yale commencement protest. * A shadowy international mercenary and security firm known as TigerSwan targeted...
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Memorial Day Links!
The worst part of my late thirties is the terrible recognition that somewhere deep down I *do* take pride in a mowed lawn. — Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 28, 2017 * This weekend I got a chance to...
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Midday Monday Links!
* ICYMI from earlier this morning: SFFTV is once again looking for reviewers of DVDs and TV series. And of course I posted about a million links yesterday too. * Scandal as performance of Julius Caesar...
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Saturday Night Links!
* Writing Advice to My Students That Would Also Have Been Good Sex Advice for My High School Boyfriends. * CFP: The Handmaid’s Tale: Gender, Genre Adaptation – a one-day symposium. Race and The...
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Tuesday Links!
* I should have realized the Nevada Medicaid for All bill was just a ratfuck. Let my guard down. * On television, in journals, in the halls of Congress, none of the old methods by which American...
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