Sarah Brouillette
@sarahbrouillette.bsky.social
literature prof, book historian, cultural sociologist, anti-work communist gadfly
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
https://carleton.ca/english/people/brouillette-sarah/
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Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
defector.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
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Critical support for demolishing the White House
Totally would not shock me if he just bulldozes the entire White House by the end of his term.
October 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Critical support for demolishing the White House
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Baby’s got a pub date! And some juicy catalog copy. MIDDLEMEN coming your way on April 26!
(Cover reveal soon!)
(Cover reveal soon!)
October 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Baby’s got a pub date! And some juicy catalog copy. MIDDLEMEN coming your way on April 26!
(Cover reveal soon!)
(Cover reveal soon!)
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Academia dot edu licensing agreement says it can use your likeness and voice and publications in any manner they want, world wide.
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Academia dot edu licensing agreement says it can use your likeness and voice and publications in any manner they want, world wide.
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Joshua Clover's recent passing is a tremendous loss for the communist cause. Not only was he a close friend and mentor to many in our collective, but he was also exemplary in his clarity, breadth, and dedication. We aspire to be like Joshua as we navigate this world on fire.
September 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Joshua Clover's recent passing is a tremendous loss for the communist cause. Not only was he a close friend and mentor to many in our collective, but he was also exemplary in his clarity, breadth, and dedication. We aspire to be like Joshua as we navigate this world on fire.
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today in books received!
thanks to @andyhines.bsky.social for this indispensable resource for gen ed classrooms, how to be a freshman classrooms, critical university studies research, and labor education!
thanks to @andyhines.bsky.social for this indispensable resource for gen ed classrooms, how to be a freshman classrooms, critical university studies research, and labor education!
September 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
today in books received!
thanks to @andyhines.bsky.social for this indispensable resource for gen ed classrooms, how to be a freshman classrooms, critical university studies research, and labor education!
thanks to @andyhines.bsky.social for this indispensable resource for gen ed classrooms, how to be a freshman classrooms, critical university studies research, and labor education!
participated in a great grant-writing workshops for grad students on campus yesterday
too bad I misspoke once and will only ever think of that
too bad I misspoke once and will only ever think of that
September 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
participated in a great grant-writing workshops for grad students on campus yesterday
too bad I misspoke once and will only ever think of that
too bad I misspoke once and will only ever think of that
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It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.
September 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.
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I have a book cover!
August 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I have a book cover!
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I'm thinking of teaching a class on "The Work of Art in the Age of Slop" and am wondering if anyone has ideas abut what to include?
August 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I'm thinking of teaching a class on "The Work of Art in the Age of Slop" and am wondering if anyone has ideas abut what to include?
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on the one hand, no they cannot. on the other, we asked some dumb assholes for answers other than ‘no they cannot’
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
on the one hand, no they cannot. on the other, we asked some dumb assholes for answers other than ‘no they cannot’
CONSPIRACISM
paper proposals now welcome for the ACLA seminar I am co-organizing with @lkonstan.bsky.social and @lalouverouge.bsky.social
meets in Montreal in late Feb 2026
paper proposals now welcome for the ACLA seminar I am co-organizing with @lkonstan.bsky.social and @lalouverouge.bsky.social
meets in Montreal in late Feb 2026
View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association
www.acla.org
August 26, 2025 at 4:31 PM
CONSPIRACISM
paper proposals now welcome for the ACLA seminar I am co-organizing with @lkonstan.bsky.social and @lalouverouge.bsky.social
meets in Montreal in late Feb 2026
paper proposals now welcome for the ACLA seminar I am co-organizing with @lkonstan.bsky.social and @lalouverouge.bsky.social
meets in Montreal in late Feb 2026
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Strong agree.
Among other excellent contributions, the chapter by @anniemcc.bsky.social & Louis McCune is the best intro to Ed Tech I have yet read.
Among other excellent contributions, the chapter by @anniemcc.bsky.social & Louis McCune is the best intro to Ed Tech I have yet read.
This book is a godsend for academic workers! Read it, share it with folks who care about the fate of democracy and the planet, teach it, talk it up within organizing, union, and faculty governance spaces. It's gonna be indispensable to the struggle to build a political economy that works for all.
University Keywords
How American universities operate as social and economic engines that shape society beyond their traditional educational roles.University Keywords gathers, contextualizes, and develops original unders...
www.press.jhu.edu
August 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Strong agree.
Among other excellent contributions, the chapter by @anniemcc.bsky.social & Louis McCune is the best intro to Ed Tech I have yet read.
Among other excellent contributions, the chapter by @anniemcc.bsky.social & Louis McCune is the best intro to Ed Tech I have yet read.
just read this by @anniemcc.bsky.social whose work is always super clear and multiply useful www.academia.edu/143589959/Mc...
August 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
just read this by @anniemcc.bsky.social whose work is always super clear and multiply useful www.academia.edu/143589959/Mc...
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Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
August 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality.
This is how AI is killing translation work:
This is how AI is killing translation work:
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The bubble is popping. When we look back, I expect, we will say it has already popped.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
August 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The bubble is popping. When we look back, I expect, we will say it has already popped.
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
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"The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are parallel formations...They are both formations that deliberately look away from material reality...and, instead, locate particular compulsions...in a woman’s traumatic back story, compromised morality, and history of intimate entanglements."🔥🔥🔥
my pleasure to write this short piece about trauma plots, #metoo, mute compulsion of economic relations, what is love, et cetera
(h/t @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social & @sorenmau.bsky.social whose title I shamelessly copied)
(h/t @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social & @sorenmau.bsky.social whose title I shamelessly copied)
Mute Compulsion - Public Books
The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are actually parallel formations, reveals “The Guest.”
www.publicbooks.org
August 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are parallel formations...They are both formations that deliberately look away from material reality...and, instead, locate particular compulsions...in a woman’s traumatic back story, compromised morality, and history of intimate entanglements."🔥🔥🔥
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August 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Rosa Press has collated a folio of tributes in memory of our friend Joshua Clover. Please read pieces by @lalouverouge.bsky.social @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social @charmainechua.bsky.social Oki Sogumi, Mark Steven, @andrew-brooks.bsky.social + @alorange.bsky.social here: rosapress.net/joshua-clove...
Joshua Clover, 1962–2025 – Rosa Press
rosapress.net
August 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Rosa Press has collated a folio of tributes in memory of our friend Joshua Clover. Please read pieces by @lalouverouge.bsky.social @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social @charmainechua.bsky.social Oki Sogumi, Mark Steven, @andrew-brooks.bsky.social + @alorange.bsky.social here: rosapress.net/joshua-clove...
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THIS IS EXTREMELY SLAVERY CODED
QAnon sympathizer will send armed agents to track down Texas "runaways"
FBI Grants Cornyn Request to Hold Fleeing Texas Legislators Accountable | Senator Cornyn
News August 7, 2025 AUSTIN – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) announced the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has granted his request for the federal government to assist Texas law enforcement in l...
www.cornyn.senate.gov
August 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
THIS IS EXTREMELY SLAVERY CODED
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I just finished my last bit of work on this project that’s taken me three years (!!!). Can’t wait for you all to see it in print in a few months.
Galleys for Lise Vogel’s The Contested Domain (edited by me and with a foreword by Paula Varela) are here! Out in November… Please consider preordering from Pluto Press!
August 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I just finished my last bit of work on this project that’s taken me three years (!!!). Can’t wait for you all to see it in print in a few months.
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Admin want to be able to swoop in and take over the credentialing function of a course at will, undermining the power of faculty to strike.
One of my biggest takeaways from today’s webinar is that administrators are asking for more & more granular surveillance privileges.
Instructure is only to happy to grant them.
As @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social has testified, such privileges are designed to reduce bargaining power of academic labor
Instructure is only to happy to grant them.
As @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social has testified, such privileges are designed to reduce bargaining power of academic labor
We are hearing more & more invasions into Canvas from admin & others that are not instructors on campus, but this whole black box that is being fed by student labor with no compensation while tuition goes up is coerced & reprehensible.
Accelerate the annihilation.
Accelerate the annihilation.
August 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Admin want to be able to swoop in and take over the credentialing function of a course at will, undermining the power of faculty to strike.