Jean-Thomas Tremblay
@jttremblay.bsky.social
assoc. prof of english at york | coauthor of negative life: the cinema of extinction (northwestern) | author of breathing aesthetics (duke) | https://jeanthomastremblay.carrd.co/
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“It’s in the water!”The elemental exclamation identifies the aquatic and its associated processes (dissolution, saturation, flow) as the hitherto-undisclosed source of a clear and present danger. “It’...
online.ucpress.edu
In Representations' new issue on "Elementality," edited by Jim Porter and Mario Telò, I wrote about forever chemicals and the liberal melodrama of legal and symbolic containment they activate. Featuring Ibsen, Haynes, Nichols, Soderbergh, and a guest appearance by one Amy Jellicoe.
I really enjoyed reading and reviewing Negative Life by @jttremblay.bsky.social and @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social for Ecozon@. A wonderful book that conceptualizes art and extinction beyond pastoral narratives of interconnectedness and exalted (green) consciousness!
Book Review of "Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction"
| Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment
ecozona.eu
November 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Happy anniversary of the Sudden Departure to all who celebrate. For an @atpost45.bsky.social cluster edited by @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social, I wrote about the trauma of living to tell (and retell) the tale.
post45.org/2025/01/bein...
post45.org/2025/01/bein...
October 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Happy anniversary of the Sudden Departure to all who celebrate. For an @atpost45.bsky.social cluster edited by @ericafretwell.bsky.social and @annakrauthamer.bsky.social, I wrote about the trauma of living to tell (and retell) the tale.
post45.org/2025/01/bein...
post45.org/2025/01/bein...
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Congratulations to Jennifer Scappettone on the official publication day of her much-anticipated new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM. Use the code CUP20 and save 20%: tinyurl.com/4xatbnkd
@xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
@xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
Poetry After Barbarism | Columbia University Press
Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers a stateless, polyglot poetry of resista... | CUP
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October 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Congratulations to Jennifer Scappettone on the official publication day of her much-anticipated new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM: THE INVENTION OF MOTHERLESS TONGUES & RESISTANCE TO FASCISM. Use the code CUP20 and save 20%: tinyurl.com/4xatbnkd
@xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
@xenoglossic.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
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We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize!
Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.
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Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.
1/4
October 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize!
Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.
1/4
Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.
1/4
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Cinema & Media Arts at York is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Film & Media Industries with a focus on AI Practices. Please share widely--and don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions about the place!
www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult...
www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult...
September 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Cinema & Media Arts at York is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Film & Media Industries with a focus on AI Practices. Please share widely--and don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions about the place!
www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult...
www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult...
Cinema & Media Arts at York is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Film & Media Industries with a focus on AI Practices. Please share widely--and don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions about the place!
www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult...
www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult...
September 30, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Cinema & Media Arts at York is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Film & Media Industries with a focus on AI Practices. Please share widely--and don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions about the place!
www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult...
www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult...
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The sudden pervasiveness of AI is infuriating. I'm doing final proofs on my book and Acrobat is asking me if I want an AI summary because the document is long. So the ostensibly neutral "tool" has a built-in anti-literacy nudge?
September 23, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The sudden pervasiveness of AI is infuriating. I'm doing final proofs on my book and Acrobat is asking me if I want an AI summary because the document is long. So the ostensibly neutral "tool" has a built-in anti-literacy nudge?
Do you have brain worms?
By using reason to understand his emotions, the 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza “canceled his cancelers where it really mattered: in his own mind,” Arthur C. Brooks writes. His techniques reveal how to prevent emotional hijack:
https://theatln.tc/hfT0S2m2
https://theatln.tc/hfT0S2m2
September 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Do you have brain worms?
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Since ppl love campus anecdotes so much, here's one: I have colleagues who give students they know to be MAGA an A (in one case I'm aware of overlooking clear AI use), because the colleague is on a Green Card or H1B, and they know: one complaint like at Texas A&M, and they're on a flight home. (1/3)
September 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Since ppl love campus anecdotes so much, here's one: I have colleagues who give students they know to be MAGA an A (in one case I'm aware of overlooking clear AI use), because the colleague is on a Green Card or H1B, and they know: one complaint like at Texas A&M, and they're on a flight home. (1/3)
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I'm an alum of the University of Chicago, and I wrote Dean Deborah Nelson a letter today.
August 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I'm an alum of the University of Chicago, and I wrote Dean Deborah Nelson a letter today.
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GTA pals, I’m reading at Coach House tomorrow evening in their 5 à 7 series with Sam Creely. It’s planned for outside, but we’ll move indoors if it rains. Would be lovely to see you there!
July 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
GTA pals, I’m reading at Coach House tomorrow evening in their 5 à 7 series with Sam Creely. It’s planned for outside, but we’ll move indoors if it rains. Would be lovely to see you there!
Ah, yes, so... cheating.
Most students are using AI to write, but not necessarily to cheat. They’re brainstorming, revising and thinking critically with tools like ChatGPT.
A writing professor says this isn’t a threat – it’s an opportunity, rather than a loss.
A writing professor says this isn’t a threat – it’s an opportunity, rather than a loss.
AI isn’t replacing student writing – but it is reshaping it
If AI allows students to automate routine cognitive tasks, it doesn’t mean they’re thinking less. It means their thinking is changing.
theconversation.com
July 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Ah, yes, so... cheating.
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I’m thrilled that Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, coauthored with @jttremblay.bsky.social, is a finalist for the ASLE #ecocriticism book award 👀🔥 Congrats to the other finalists. @nupress.bsky.social
Judges have announced the finalists for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards in #ecocriticism and #environmental creative writing! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky
June 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I’m thrilled that Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, coauthored with @jttremblay.bsky.social, is a finalist for the ASLE #ecocriticism book award 👀🔥 Congrats to the other finalists. @nupress.bsky.social
I'm happy to share that Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, coauthored with @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social, has been nominated for the ASLE Ecocritical Book Award. The winner will be announced on July 9. @nupress.bsky.social
Judges have announced the finalists for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards in #ecocriticism and #environmental creative writing! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky
June 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I'm happy to share that Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, coauthored with @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social, has been nominated for the ASLE Ecocritical Book Award. The winner will be announced on July 9. @nupress.bsky.social
Great work from the graphic designers at CTV on yassifying the various party leaders.
April 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Great work from the graphic designers at CTV on yassifying the various party leaders.
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ICYMI: watch The Climate of Critique colloquium on our YouTube playlist. Featuring Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, Jean-Thomas Tremblay, Lynne Huffer, and Elizabeth A. Wilson. Organized by the journal differences. buff.ly/iKlFqFJ @jttremblay.bsky.social
@elizwilsonemory.bsky.social
@elizwilsonemory.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
ICYMI: watch The Climate of Critique colloquium on our YouTube playlist. Featuring Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, Jean-Thomas Tremblay, Lynne Huffer, and Elizabeth A. Wilson. Organized by the journal differences. buff.ly/iKlFqFJ @jttremblay.bsky.social
@elizwilsonemory.bsky.social
@elizwilsonemory.bsky.social
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Nowhere in North America or Europe is not currently actively destroying its universities; it's just usually through austerity. 10k UK university workers are losing their jobs *this year.* A "brain drain" would be an optimistic scenario.
The best scholars are not going to leave US universities. They can't. There aren't nearly enough academic jobs abroad. As per usual with how we talk about higher ed, the focus will be on elite institutions / actors, not on the many people and places that will suffer much more than the Yale faculty.
March 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Nowhere in North America or Europe is not currently actively destroying its universities; it's just usually through austerity. 10k UK university workers are losing their jobs *this year.* A "brain drain" would be an optimistic scenario.
Today! ↘️
Looking forward to UofT's Cinema Studies & Comparative Literature Grad Conference this weekend!
Keynote address, "Calamity as Defacement": March 14 at 16:00 in Innis Town Hall.
Roundtable on exits and extinctions: March 15 at 16:00 in the Centre for Culture & Technology Seminar Rm.
Keynote address, "Calamity as Defacement": March 14 at 16:00 in Innis Town Hall.
Roundtable on exits and extinctions: March 15 at 16:00 in the Centre for Culture & Technology Seminar Rm.
March 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today! ↘️
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Thanks to the panelists and moderator for the second differences colloquium: The Climate of Critique. Video coming soon! @jttremblay.bsky.social @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Thanks to the panelists and moderator for the second differences colloquium: The Climate of Critique. Video coming soon! @jttremblay.bsky.social @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social
Looking forward to UofT's Cinema Studies & Comparative Literature Grad Conference this weekend!
Keynote address, "Calamity as Defacement": March 14 at 16:00 in Innis Town Hall.
Roundtable on exits and extinctions: March 15 at 16:00 in the Centre for Culture & Technology Seminar Rm.
Keynote address, "Calamity as Defacement": March 14 at 16:00 in Innis Town Hall.
Roundtable on exits and extinctions: March 15 at 16:00 in the Centre for Culture & Technology Seminar Rm.
March 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Looking forward to UofT's Cinema Studies & Comparative Literature Grad Conference this weekend!
Keynote address, "Calamity as Defacement": March 14 at 16:00 in Innis Town Hall.
Roundtable on exits and extinctions: March 15 at 16:00 in the Centre for Culture & Technology Seminar Rm.
Keynote address, "Calamity as Defacement": March 14 at 16:00 in Innis Town Hall.
Roundtable on exits and extinctions: March 15 at 16:00 in the Centre for Culture & Technology Seminar Rm.
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The first essay from my Solanas project @criticalinquiry.bsky.social 🖤
"Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind"
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
bit.ly/valeriesolanas
"Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind"
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
bit.ly/valeriesolanas
February 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The first essay from my Solanas project @criticalinquiry.bsky.social 🖤
"Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind"
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
bit.ly/valeriesolanas
"Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind"
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....
bit.ly/valeriesolanas
Karla Sofía Gascón's racist tweets perfectly espouse the logic of Emilia Pérez. So do the other cast and crew members' claims that she, a trans woman, is desecrating the film, and thus extraneous to it. Apologies for the light deconstruction, but all of this lives within Emilia Pérez, the text.
Emilia Pérez is perfectly symptomatic of wretchedly racist, French colonial fantasies of sexual variance and deviance, criminalization, and cosmopolitanism--but, in its defense, the songs are also terrible.
February 5, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Karla Sofía Gascón's racist tweets perfectly espouse the logic of Emilia Pérez. So do the other cast and crew members' claims that she, a trans woman, is desecrating the film, and thus extraneous to it. Apologies for the light deconstruction, but all of this lives within Emilia Pérez, the text.
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Interesting essay on “toxic melodrama” & the overwrought aesthetics that mediate the felt impossibility of containing industrial chemicals in late capitalism
(communicated, in part, by way of "flaunting a commitment" to the "rank interpretative pathology" of paranoid criticism)
(communicated, in part, by way of "flaunting a commitment" to the "rank interpretative pathology" of paranoid criticism)
In Representations' new issue on "Elementality," edited by Jim Porter and Mario Telò, I wrote about forever chemicals and the liberal melodrama of legal and symbolic containment they activate. Featuring Ibsen, Haynes, Nichols, Soderbergh, and a guest appearance by one Amy Jellicoe.
Enemies of the People
“It’s in the water!”The elemental exclamation identifies the aquatic and its associated processes (dissolution, saturation, flow) as the hitherto-undisclosed source of a clear and present danger. “It’...
online.ucpress.edu
February 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Interesting essay on “toxic melodrama” & the overwrought aesthetics that mediate the felt impossibility of containing industrial chemicals in late capitalism
(communicated, in part, by way of "flaunting a commitment" to the "rank interpretative pathology" of paranoid criticism)
(communicated, in part, by way of "flaunting a commitment" to the "rank interpretative pathology" of paranoid criticism)
In Representations' new issue on "Elementality," edited by Jim Porter and Mario Telò, I wrote about forever chemicals and the liberal melodrama of legal and symbolic containment they activate. Featuring Ibsen, Haynes, Nichols, Soderbergh, and a guest appearance by one Amy Jellicoe.
Enemies of the People
“It’s in the water!”The elemental exclamation identifies the aquatic and its associated processes (dissolution, saturation, flow) as the hitherto-undisclosed source of a clear and present danger. “It’...
online.ucpress.edu
February 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
In Representations' new issue on "Elementality," edited by Jim Porter and Mario Telò, I wrote about forever chemicals and the liberal melodrama of legal and symbolic containment they activate. Featuring Ibsen, Haynes, Nichols, Soderbergh, and a guest appearance by one Amy Jellicoe.
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join us in Providence on March 7th for Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique — a colloquium featuring Lynne Huffer, Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...
February 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
join us in Providence on March 7th for Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique — a colloquium featuring Lynne Huffer, Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...