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Sarah Brouillette
@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social
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literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly

https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 28m
does a portmanteau count

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 29m
Getting off Twitter finally in 2026. I'll stick around here instead. Apologies in advance. Let's have some fun. ☺️

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 5h
I keep waiting for cultural objects to be stripped of their affective force by my knowledge of how capitalist social relations shape their form and value but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ jokes on me I guess

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 6h
it's apropos

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 6h
🥰

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 6h
thank you 😍

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 7h
as ever I saved my best writing for peer review reports and letters of recommendation :) jkjk

I also worked on my book which is forthcoming in 2026 from Duke UP. It's called Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era, unless the marketing department has a better idea.

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 7h
I'm so grateful to all the editors who worked with me on this stuff. I could never make it on substack because, after working with so many talented people, I will never have that confidence in my first drafts.

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 7h
and I wrote about how Emma Cline takes apart the weaponization of the trauma plot, in her polarizing novel The Guest (thanks @publicbooks.bsky.social)
Mute Compulsion - Public Books
The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are actually parallel formations, reveals “The Guest.”
www.publicbooks.org

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 7h
about the cursed fate of the white literary male (an ongoing discourse I am now woefully behind on!) -- this article inspired 178 comments that I will pay you to read and distill (and soften) for me
The Plight Of The White Male Novelist | Defector
In July of 2022, Joyce Carol Oates tweeted that her literary agent friend told her editors are no longer interested in reading first novels by young white male writers, “no matter how good.” She was s...
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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 7h
I also wrote about sex with aliens (thanks @brandyjensen.bsky.social @defector.com)
Alien Pleasures | Defector
Readers of young adult fiction, who have long been drawn to stories that combine relatable characters and fantastical elements (think Twilight or The Hunger Games), have been aging into new reading le...
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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 7h
Solidarity with Children by @lalouverouge.bsky.social (at @proteanmag.com)
Horizons of Youth Liberation • Protean Magazine
Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book Solidarity With Children, out this month from Haymarket Books.Sarah Brouillette reviews Madeline Lane-McKinley's new book Solidarity With Ch...
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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 7h
Endgame by @jamiemerchant.bsky.social
Conspiracism, Nationalism, Decline | Los Angeles Review of Books
Sarah Brouillette reviews Jamie Merchant’s “Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline.”
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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 7h
Ah, 2025. Not the greatest. TBQH what keeps me going are my little projects--the opportunity to read and write. I got to engage with some great and important books this year. On Immediacy (and being Very Online):
Autofiction Writers of the World, Unite! - Public Books
Immediacy, here, is an aesthetics of ambivalent aspiration, within a hierarchically ordered and immobilizing class- and race-based cultural system.
www.publicbooks.org

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 8h
Wrote about the state of sociology of literature and about Gisèle Sapiro’s The Sociology of Literature. I respond, salty, to my most vituperative critic and explain what the aesthete fears (true pleasure). My most self-indulgent piece of writing, I fear. DM 4 PDF read.dukeupress.edu/novel/articl...
True Pleasure
“To reduce aesthetics to the results of sales strategy is to equate the pleasure we take in reading to being duped by a marketing campaign,” one critic erringly wrote in response to Big Fiction, my Bo...
read.dukeupress.edu

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 7d
It's basically the program many feared: money to attract high profile Americans who want to leave, whose exit will be newsworthy. in a context of dwindling opportunities for academic work for people already in Canada. But here we are!

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 7d
while there is much great postcolonial lit scholarship touching on these areas, it is true that the definition of "impacts" will end up privileging non-humanities scholarship ... but we will be fighting and insisting, for sure

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 7d
2025 version incoming shortly (apologies)
cominsitu.bsky.social Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · Dec 27
publications 2024

1) The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel (Routledge)

though it came out last December, the copyright date is 2024 so it counts! affordable paperback should be available in spring 25. still waiting for a review/critique....
www.routledge.com/The-Concept-...
The Concept of Property in Kant, Fichte, and Hegel: Freedom, Right, and Recognition
This book provides a detailed account of the role of property in German Idealism. It puts the concept of property in the center of the philosophical systems of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel and shows how pr...
www.routledge.com

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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 7d
“The Robins deposited some groceries in a public square at the foot of a Christmas tree on Tuesday evening, adding that the rest would be distributed through community food banks.

“Don’t forget – the hunger justifies the means, Merry Christmas!”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
Santas and elves rob Montreal grocery store to ‘give food to the needy’
Group called Robins des Ruelles later said in statement stunt was intended to highlight cost of living crisis
www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 7d
arriving better late than never at this fabulous essay olrsupplement.com/2025/05/19/g...

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 9d
due to a new federal initiative Carleton is hiring 5 to 10 "Canada Impact+ Research Chairs" at the rank of Associate or Full Professor

if you work in any of the strategic priority areas listed, and long for Canada, consider applying (&feel free to reach out)

carleton.ca/deputyprovos...

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 9d
'The “Crisis of Masculinity” Crisis' by @weakanalogy.bsky.social

🔥 🔥🔥

www.e-flux.com/journal/159/...

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 11d
This Publishers Weekly article about protests at the Poetry Foundation, including layoffs & changes in PF programming, is so strange. Because this shift is so important to poets, to readers, & to the field, here's a 🧵 about how we got here:

tinyurl.com/326xy2tm
Poetry Foundation Staff Protest Program Cuts, Job Loss
Employees at the foundation say the decision of senior leadership to eliminate public programs, announced earlier this month, goes against the organization’s mission, and are circulating a petition to...
www.publishersweekly.com

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Disjunctions Magazine @disjunctionsmag.bsky.social · 13d
Happy to finally launch Disjunctions with an article from the editorial team! Stay tuned for our first issue, which we will start publishing in the new year.
Disjunctions Magazine
Disjunctions is a magazine dedicated to analysis and critique of contemporary developments in science and technology.
disjunctionsmag.com

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 15d
this is a really good discussion, and I'm so pleased there is a whole podcast dedicated to bad art
nicksturm.bsky.social Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 18d
If you enjoyed my "Good Riddance to The Best American Poetry" article, you'll dig the podcast "Bad Art"--about the politics of art in the 21st century--where I discuss more about BAP's genre management & canonization practices. Thanks to @jt24.bsky.social!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Reactionary Politics of “The Best American Poetry” – with guest Nick Sturm
Podcast Episode · Bad Art · 11/25/2025 · 1h 29m
podcasts.apple.com

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Sarah Brouillette @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social · 15d
I struggled to get past "the clash between feminists and incels" 🙃

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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 16d
So grateful for the amazing graduate students who wrote this 'Open Letter on The New School’s “Restructuring” Plans', published on @eflux.bsky.social (including link with petition to condemn admin!) @newschoolaaup.bsky.social www.e-flux.com/notes/678343...
Open Letter on The New School’s “Restructuring” Plans - Notes - e-flux
Signed by hundreds of faculty, students, and supporters, this letter refutes the claim that a radical “restructuring” of the The New School for Social Research is financially necessary.
www.e-flux.com

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Neel Gupta @neel2112.bsky.social · 17d
Excited to be in Luxembourg at CHR 2025 to hear about everyone’s amazing work and to share my project with @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and our team. We tracked canonical authors and texts in Seattle Public Library circulation data.
Graphs showing authors from the Norton Anthology receiving checkout spikes after their death.

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · 18d
If you enjoyed my "Good Riddance to The Best American Poetry" article, you'll dig the podcast "Bad Art"--about the politics of art in the 21st century--where I discuss more about BAP's genre management & canonization practices. Thanks to @jt24.bsky.social!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Reactionary Politics of “The Best American Poetry” – with guest Nick Sturm
Podcast Episode · Bad Art · 11/25/2025 · 1h 29m
podcasts.apple.com

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ASAP/Journal @asapjournal.bsky.social · 20d
"The nation once reliant on its own objectification is infinitely cast into this role: a self-devouring ouroboros, the paradoxical snake endlessly chasing its tail..." writes Chichi Ayalogu in our newest review on Biafran history, visual culture, conflict, & more!

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Digital Exhibit: Propaganda, Africanfuturity, and the Spectral Resonance of the Biafran Gambit - ASAP/Review
In collaboration with the artist Emmanuel Nwogbo II, this digital exhibition deploys works of montage that pair seemingly disparate images in order to complicate and extend the legacy of the Biafran s...
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