Jordan S. Carroll 🌹
@jordanscarroll.bsky.social
Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right
Hugo winner
Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, Post*45, American Literature, and the LARB
Opinions my own, tomorrow belongs to everyone
Hugo winner
Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, Post*45, American Literature, and the LARB
Opinions my own, tomorrow belongs to everyone
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Speculative Whiteness
Reveals the alt-right’s project to claim science fiction and—by extension—the future Fascists such as Richard Spencer interpret science fiction films a...
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you can purchase Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right directly from my publisher here
lol, the Penguin translation of Augustine's City of God recommends the book on the basis that it's a fave of... JD Vance
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
lol, the Penguin translation of Augustine's City of God recommends the book on the basis that it's a fave of... JD Vance
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oh hey — Speculative Whiteness has been reviewed in Science Fiction Film and Television!
Project MUSE - <i>Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right</i> by Jordan S. Carroll (review)
muse.jhu.edu
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
oh hey — Speculative Whiteness has been reviewed in Science Fiction Film and Television!
it's Hallmark holiday romance season and—why are both Riker and the Doctor from Star Trek in A Biltmore Christmas??
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
it's Hallmark holiday romance season and—why are both Riker and the Doctor from Star Trek in A Biltmore Christmas??
Oedipus has a clear message: if you work hard enough, if you obtain enough power and success, if you put everyone else's needs above your own, it's totally possible to bury your past trauma and shame. It's not like they're going to come out in outbursts of anger and distrust that ruin your life.
November 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Oedipus has a clear message: if you work hard enough, if you obtain enough power and success, if you put everyone else's needs above your own, it's totally possible to bury your past trauma and shame. It's not like they're going to come out in outbursts of anger and distrust that ruin your life.
oh hey — Speculative Whiteness has been reviewed in Science Fiction Film and Television!
Project MUSE - <i>Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right</i> by Jordan S. Carroll (review)
muse.jhu.edu
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
oh hey — Speculative Whiteness has been reviewed in Science Fiction Film and Television!
if you went to grad school during the Obama era, you have some of these bad boys on your shelf
November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
if you went to grad school during the Obama era, you have some of these bad boys on your shelf
I think if you could push a button that would force Elon Musk to start over from nothing today, he would never rise above the level of middle manager.
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I think if you could push a button that would force Elon Musk to start over from nothing today, he would never rise above the level of middle manager.
I think we underestimate the importance of low-rent philosophical idealism for fascism, which always claims that will or vision triumph over material conditions.
Many people are saying (that America has become dominated by New Thought as the new national epistemology, and this prefigures everything from the rise of fascism to the social-economics of the AI industry)
Someone on here (was it you @vaporlight.bsky.social?) said something along the lines of "all fascism is THE SECRET" and yeah, basically!
November 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I think we underestimate the importance of low-rent philosophical idealism for fascism, which always claims that will or vision triumph over material conditions.
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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Conservatives during the English Civil War were absolutely furious that Quakers wouldn’t stop using thee/thou pronouns for everyone.
November 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Conservatives during the English Civil War were absolutely furious that Quakers wouldn’t stop using thee/thou pronouns for everyone.
Sad to hear Paolo Virno has passed. A Grammar of the Multitude has always been a big influence on me.
November 8, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Sad to hear Paolo Virno has passed. A Grammar of the Multitude has always been a big influence on me.
Someday we’re going to talk about our electoral system the way historians talk about rotten boroughs and pocket boroughs in the UK
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Someday we’re going to talk about our electoral system the way historians talk about rotten boroughs and pocket boroughs in the UK
Anti-obscenity politics and antisemitism meet again as Candace Owens rails against pornographers Samuel Roth and Al Goldstein
There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
November 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Anti-obscenity politics and antisemitism meet again as Candace Owens rails against pornographers Samuel Roth and Al Goldstein
a lot of the canon debates have been bogus, but I do feel like we should be asking students to read more works written prior to the modern era.
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
a lot of the canon debates have been bogus, but I do feel like we should be asking students to read more works written prior to the modern era.
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I wonder if some day people are going to start literacy communes, intentional communities for people who still get their culture and information from long-form works created by human beings instead of AI slop
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I wonder if some day people are going to start literacy communes, intentional communities for people who still get their culture and information from long-form works created by human beings instead of AI slop
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This was a shitpost, but a dynamic which was what made Star Ward (plus Marvel Comics in the 70s and 80s, and Indiana Jones, and a lot of other similar things) great is that the sources they were drawing from *wasn’t the franchise itself*
Lucas and Spielberg drew from pulps and Flash Gordon
Lucas and Spielberg drew from pulps and Flash Gordon
Dear Bob Iger:
Please give me control of the Star Wars franchise.
My concept is to just remake old war and samurai movies, but Star Wars.
The Dirty Dozen but Star Wars.
The Great Escape but Star Wars.
Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman but Star Wars.
Please give me control of the Star Wars franchise.
My concept is to just remake old war and samurai movies, but Star Wars.
The Dirty Dozen but Star Wars.
The Great Escape but Star Wars.
Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman but Star Wars.
February 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This was a shitpost, but a dynamic which was what made Star Ward (plus Marvel Comics in the 70s and 80s, and Indiana Jones, and a lot of other similar things) great is that the sources they were drawing from *wasn’t the franchise itself*
Lucas and Spielberg drew from pulps and Flash Gordon
Lucas and Spielberg drew from pulps and Flash Gordon
oh hey, they wrote a book about your social media presence
November 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
oh hey, they wrote a book about your social media presence
sometimes a film or a novel is better recalled in retrospect than experienced at the moment
November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
sometimes a film or a novel is better recalled in retrospect than experienced at the moment
a story beat in which someone opens a Google doc only to discover—no!—how could this be??—someone sinister is also reading it
November 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
a story beat in which someone opens a Google doc only to discover—no!—how could this be??—someone sinister is also reading it
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One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
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I love how slow Wikipedia moves during controversy. For YEARS after the "GamerGate" harassment campaign, editors refused to give up the URL of the *original* meaning of the word: A gamergate is a kind of ant.
Without a consensus to the contrary, the ants keep it.
Without a consensus to the contrary, the ants keep it.
Gamergate - Wikipedia
web.archive.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I love how slow Wikipedia moves during controversy. For YEARS after the "GamerGate" harassment campaign, editors refused to give up the URL of the *original* meaning of the word: A gamergate is a kind of ant.
Without a consensus to the contrary, the ants keep it.
Without a consensus to the contrary, the ants keep it.
A Call of Cthulhu scenario in which someone has encoded eldritch secrets in old OOP roleplaying supplements, including facsimiles of them to hand out
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A Call of Cthulhu scenario in which someone has encoded eldritch secrets in old OOP roleplaying supplements, including facsimiles of them to hand out
a man with the social power to command untold lifetimes worth of other people's labor is talking pew-pew laser gun little boy nonsense and nobody here is telling him he's full of it
“My fundamental concern with regard to how much voting control I have at Tesla is, if I go ahead and build this enormous robot army, can I just be ousted at some point in the future?... I don't feel comfortable building that robot army unless I have a strong influence.” – Musk, arguing for $1T
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
a man with the social power to command untold lifetimes worth of other people's labor is talking pew-pew laser gun little boy nonsense and nobody here is telling him he's full of it