Gerry Canavan

@gerrycanavan.bsky.social

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Doomsayer, Utopologist. Minor but representative. Professor of 20th- and 21st-Century Literature at Marquette University.

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 9h

statement of teaching philosophy

Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 4d

I’m quoted in this in ways that intersect with the Critical Star Trek Studies project. codepink.substack.com/p/the-milita...

The Military’s AI Strategy Threatens Everything We Love

Chris Jeske, CODEPINK Milwaukee

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 5d

So Be It! See To It! A Conversation with Butler's Biographers
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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 7d

"A Pedagogy of the Inevitable"

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A Pedagogy of the Inevitable | Critical AI | Duke University Press

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 11d

The "Oversights" special issue of SFFTV is currently open access!
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/sfftv/16...

Contents | Science Fiction Film & Television 16, 1-2

This article covers the ontologico-theoretical groundwork of Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Solaris, articulating the meanings behind the assignment of specific states of being. Following – and ultimately, upending – the philosophical questions of Martin ...

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 13d

when you accidentally become important at work and it ruins your life

Comics Outta Context 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @comiccontext.bsky.social · 13d

Image - as if he's posing for a portrait - it's the Ringmaster. He looks angry, giving side eye, and basically discusted. Narration: "Time has not been kind to the Ringmaster. Still, the show must go on...."

Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 13d

I've got another one on the history and form of the redshirt in the chamber, as soon as I find the time.

Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 13d

Adam Kotsko roped me into becoming a poster on his Star Trek blog. First post: "Trek and/as Boomerslop."

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Trek and/as Boomerslop

And the children shall lead.

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DLC+ @dlcplus.org · 14d

🤖 "SLOP" and "NOSTALGIA" 📀 – DLC+ mini-conference: Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture. May 14th

CFP out now. See link for details and submission. Deadline: Mar. 13th.

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Please share widely! #nostalgia #slop #digitalhumanities #digitalculture

CFP: DLC+ Presents Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture Mini-Conference: "Slop" and "Nostalgia"

We are excited to announce the second installment of our Current Keywords in Digital Literary Culture series, mini-conferences devoted to studying the most pressing and emerging concepts actively shap...

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 16d

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 17d

Book 2 is liftoff I think -- hopefully you feel the same way! I've read it six times in ten years so I may just have Stockholm Syndrome at this point.

Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 18d

Can I ask what chapter you're on? The composition of Book 1 can be a bit grating on a reread.

Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 20d

Coming this April, the second book in the Mass Markets series: FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: HOW THE SERIALIZED BLOCKBUSTER REMADE HOLLOYWOOD by the great @danhf.bsky.social!

Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 26d

Here's the link, and thanks! academic.mu.edu/canavan/Game...

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 26d

Here's the link, and thanks! academic.mu.edu/canavan/Game...

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 26d

Behold, my syllabi for Spring 2026: a revised version of my Game Studies course (still centered on Disco Elysium) and a grad literature course called “Genre, Utopia, Theory.” gerrycanavan.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/s...

Spring 2026 Syllabi

Behold, my syllabi for Spring 2026: a revised version of my Game Studies course (still centered on Disco Elysium) and a grad literature course called “Genre, Utopia, Theory.”

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 26d

Some good political theology from Adam Kotsko (or, why it's not going to get any better): adamkotsko.substack.com/p/neutral-gr...

Neutral Ground

On politicization and the decay of legitimacy

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 28d

😬 fortune.com/2026/01/09/g...

Gen Z are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence—professors warn it could lead to a generation of anxious and lonely graduates | Fortune

With Gen Z students struggling to read, academics have been forced to adapt—a move critics describe as “coddling” the next generation of workers.

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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · Jan 7

Making a Life: Catholic Social Teaching and the Meaning of Work is available for pre-order (and 10% off at the moment!) If something about your work life is troublesome, you hate jargon and you aren't sure about Catholic teaching, I wrote it for you. www.bloomsbury.com/us/making-a-...

Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · Jan 7

Extended Call for Nominations: 2026 SFRA Innovative Research Award sfra.org/extended-cal...

extended call: 2026 SFRA Innovative Research Award | Science Fiction Research Association

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · Jan 5

it’s a bad system

Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · Jan 5

VP is a cursed chalice

Bad Carl Rodgers @xcarlxrogersx.bsky.social · Jan 5

Walz dropping out of the MN governor's race is some incredibly depressing shit

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Bad Carl Rodgers @xcarlxrogersx.bsky.social · Jan 5

Walz dropping out of the MN governor's race is some incredibly depressing shit

Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · Jan 4

(Jan 3) 🎵 🎶 I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me 🎶 🎵

Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · Jan 3

The media using "captured" to describe what happened to Maduro is really strange. He is the sitting president of the country, not a fugitive!

Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · Jan 3

(guy running for president in 2035 on Trump nostalgia)

guy: And what did Trump used to say, folks?
crowd (absolutely rabid): THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!!

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Ranged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · Jan 2

With a knock on your door, a kindly wizard invites you to join us on Shelved By Genre's LORD OF THE YEAR, in which we will consider the popular but contested works of JRR Tolkien, kicking things off with a long rumination upon the first four chapters of THE HOBBIT: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/t...

Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, Gerry Canavan, Henrik Skaug Sætra

Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · Dec 30

I coedited a collection titled "Reactionary Worldbuilding: From Speculative Imagination to Political Practice" with Anindita Banerjee, Sherryl Vint, and David M. Higgins. It's forthcoming from MIT Press, and you can preorder at a discount here.