Drew Strombeck
@drew-strombeck.bsky.social
DIY on the Lower East Side SUNY Press 2020; Co-ed Avant-Gardes in Crisis SUNY 2021; he/him/his
August 8, 2025 at 12:25 PM
This is incredible. These fumbling, foolish, god-seeming things have masters who would prefer that we forget their existence.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o... (xAI more or less confirmed this account.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o... (xAI more or less confirmed this account.)
May 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This is incredible. These fumbling, foolish, god-seeming things have masters who would prefer that we forget their existence.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o... (xAI more or less confirmed this account.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o... (xAI more or less confirmed this account.)
Wrenching, excellent piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/u...
May 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Wrenching, excellent piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/u...
One of those uncanny coincidences: I've been reading Kim Stanley Robinson's *The Ministry for the Future*, and had just encountered one of KSR's scattered references to Joshua Clover's wonderful *Riot Strike Riot* when I learned of Joshua's death. What a body of work to leave with us.
April 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
One of those uncanny coincidences: I've been reading Kim Stanley Robinson's *The Ministry for the Future*, and had just encountered one of KSR's scattered references to Joshua Clover's wonderful *Riot Strike Riot* when I learned of Joshua's death. What a body of work to leave with us.
John Roberts, *Revolutionary Time and the Avant Garde*, on the (early Hardt/Negri style) illusions around immaterial labor, wherein “immaterial workers” are imagined to be “the most radical or revolutionary.”
February 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
John Roberts, *Revolutionary Time and the Avant Garde*, on the (early Hardt/Negri style) illusions around immaterial labor, wherein “immaterial workers” are imagined to be “the most radical or revolutionary.”
Marxist minstrels
February 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Marxist minstrels
The design on this Freddie Hubbard album (from 1967)is so simple but stunning. The colors and font feel like they shouldn’t work together—there’s an uneasy tension that makes it beautiful.
January 30, 2025 at 11:46 PM
The design on this Freddie Hubbard album (from 1967)is so simple but stunning. The colors and font feel like they shouldn’t work together—there’s an uneasy tension that makes it beautiful.
The number of these dudes who dress like 80s movie villains...like they're engaging in sartorial trolling.
January 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The number of these dudes who dress like 80s movie villains...like they're engaging in sartorial trolling.
Words for these times: themillions.com/2024/10/jeff...
November 13, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Words for these times: themillions.com/2024/10/jeff...
RIP “cool.” You made it almost 100 years, but like so much else, could not survive this moment.
November 5, 2024 at 11:13 PM
RIP “cool.” You made it almost 100 years, but like so much else, could not survive this moment.
Why do I subscribe to the Times? I could do shit analysis on my own.
June 21, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Why do I subscribe to the Times? I could do shit analysis on my own.
May 19, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Love the hidden message in today’s NY Times Connections.
December 7, 2023 at 9:58 PM
Love the hidden message in today’s NY Times Connections.
Lauren Groff is going to be Cormac McCarthy before she’s done. (From The Vaster Wild; Groff gets better with each novel.)
October 10, 2023 at 6:47 PM
Lauren Groff is going to be Cormac McCarthy before she’s done. (From The Vaster Wild; Groff gets better with each novel.)
Our clock has been doing this, and it feels exactly right.
September 27, 2023 at 10:42 PM
Our clock has been doing this, and it feels exactly right.
You may think your students are not listening, but you are not Margaret Fuller lecturing at Brook Farm, whose audience not only yawned and left, but threw themselves on the floor to register their boredom.
July 10, 2023 at 3:44 PM
You may think your students are not listening, but you are not Margaret Fuller lecturing at Brook Farm, whose audience not only yawned and left, but threw themselves on the floor to register their boredom.