Steven Swarbrick
@stevenswarbrick.bsky.social
Writer, professor. Currently writing a book about David Lynch and the politics of pleasure for Haymarket.
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🔥 New book under contract with @haymarketbooks.org!! 🚬
🔥 New book under contract with @haymarketbooks.org!! 🚬
September 14, 2026 at 9:43 PM
🔥 New book under contract with @haymarketbooks.org!! 🚬
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Excited for this to be in the world soon; my own contribution: the Family Foucault, my family, that is.
Excellent new issue coming soon, featuring @lclaberge.bsky.social, @cgvanderburg.bsky.social, Jack Norton, Mary Turfah, @dushkopetrovich.bsky.social, Chad Harbach, @walkercapl.bsky.social, @aaronjakes.bsky.social, and more! Subscribe now to read it as soon as it drops. www.nplusonemag.com/subscribe/
August 7, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Excited for this to be in the world soon; my own contribution: the Family Foucault, my family, that is.
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I'm organising (with Hunter Phillips) 2 sessions at @kzooicms.bsky.social on RETHINKING ECOTHEORY! (Sponsored by Medieval Ecocriticisms)
Please apply (by 11/15) for either DISENTANGLING ECOCRITICISMS (tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S1) or DISAPPOINTING ECOCRITICISMS (tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S2).
Please apply (by 11/15) for either DISENTANGLING ECOCRITICISMS (tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S1) or DISAPPOINTING ECOCRITICISMS (tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S2).
July 11, 2026 at 8:53 PM
I'm organising (with Hunter Phillips) 2 sessions at @kzooicms.bsky.social on RETHINKING ECOTHEORY! (Sponsored by Medieval Ecocriticisms)
Please apply (by 11/15) for either DISENTANGLING ECOCRITICISMS (tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S1) or DISAPPOINTING ECOCRITICISMS (tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S2).
Please apply (by 11/15) for either DISENTANGLING ECOCRITICISMS (tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S1) or DISAPPOINTING ECOCRITICISMS (tinyurl.com/ICMS2027-S2).
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I’m reading Paradise Lost for the first time and it’s just such a fuckin banger. Line after line of pure brilliance. It’s such a privilege to read this poem slowly.
June 19, 2026 at 1:39 PM
I’m reading Paradise Lost for the first time and it’s just such a fuckin banger. Line after line of pure brilliance. It’s such a privilege to read this poem slowly.
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Three new books out today!
-The 3rd book in Mary Logue's Brigid Reardon Mystery series is set in Salt Lake City, 1881.
-A visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation by Reid Gómez.
-A manifesto on political masochism by Steven Swarbrick in our Forerunners series.
-The 3rd book in Mary Logue's Brigid Reardon Mystery series is set in Salt Lake City, 1881.
-A visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation by Reid Gómez.
-A manifesto on political masochism by Steven Swarbrick in our Forerunners series.
May 19, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Three new books out today!
-The 3rd book in Mary Logue's Brigid Reardon Mystery series is set in Salt Lake City, 1881.
-A visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation by Reid Gómez.
-A manifesto on political masochism by Steven Swarbrick in our Forerunners series.
-The 3rd book in Mary Logue's Brigid Reardon Mystery series is set in Salt Lake City, 1881.
-A visionary reckoning with prophecy, possession, and the grammar of liberation by Reid Gómez.
-A manifesto on political masochism by Steven Swarbrick in our Forerunners series.
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Steven Swarbrick's @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social DIVEST is out today! Read up!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148...
Divest
A manifesto for liberating desire from the grip of capital and colonial violence in PalestineCould a psychoanalytic theory of masochism help us to understand...
www.upress.umn.edu
May 19, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Steven Swarbrick's @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social DIVEST is out today! Read up!
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148...
www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148...
A special issue of b2o just landed. “EXOCRITICISM.” Check it out! 👽 www.boundary2.org/exocriticism...
EXOCRITICISM | special issue
Volume 8, Issue 1 (May 2026) Special Issue: EXOCRITICISM Special Issue editors: Arne De Boever and Frédéric Neyrat Image: 978-0980544008 - Ferdinand Altenburg, 2024 b2o: an online journal is an online...
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May 2, 2026 at 2:15 PM
A special issue of b2o just landed. “EXOCRITICISM.” Check it out! 👽 www.boundary2.org/exocriticism...
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My forthcoming book, DIVEST, is available for preorder. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148... Get 30% off using the discount code below. That’s less than a cup of coffee in some places! @uminnpress.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 9:51 PM
My forthcoming book, DIVEST, is available for preorder. www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148... Get 30% off using the discount code below. That’s less than a cup of coffee in some places! @uminnpress.bsky.social
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"We might not win in the end, but even in the attempt to resist, we will salvage some of our humanity." Thomas Dekeyser's @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social TECHNO-NEGATIVE is a Lit Hub most anticipated book of 2026! lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...
Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2026
After the year we’ve had, there’s no predicting anything about the year that’s to come. But whatever else might be fated to happen (to us) in 2026, there will definitely be books,…
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January 7, 2026 at 3:16 PM
"We might not win in the end, but even in the attempt to resist, we will salvage some of our humanity." Thomas Dekeyser's @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social TECHNO-NEGATIVE is a Lit Hub most anticipated book of 2026! lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...
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THE EARTH IS EVIL by @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social examines the connection between subjectivity and lack, arguing for a destituent ecology that sees lack as the universalist core of social, political, and environmental struggles.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
THE EARTH IS EVIL by @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social examines the connection between subjectivity and lack, arguing for a destituent ecology that sees lack as the universalist core of social, political, and environmental struggles.
Save 40% when you order now: bit.ly/48bvDjr
Save 40% when you order now: bit.ly/48bvDjr
New book, Divest, coming out in spring 2026 with @uminnpress.bsky.social 🍉 www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148...
Divest
A manifesto for liberating desire from the grip of capital and colonial violence in PalestineCould a psychoanalytic theory of masochism help us to understand...
www.upress.umn.edu
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New book, Divest, coming out in spring 2026 with @uminnpress.bsky.social 🍉 www.upress.umn.edu/978151792148...
Read below for an excellent review/ distillation of Negative Life. Many thanks, Anda!
“Negative Life is an insightful critical work, in tune with the contemporary aesthetic and conceptual landscape. It might just be the horror-inflected revitalizing read we all need.”
“Negative Life is an insightful critical work, in tune with the contemporary aesthetic and conceptual landscape. It might just be the horror-inflected revitalizing read we all need.”
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 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Read below for an excellent review/ distillation of Negative Life. Many thanks, Anda!
“Negative Life is an insightful critical work, in tune with the contemporary aesthetic and conceptual landscape. It might just be the horror-inflected revitalizing read we all need.”
“Negative Life is an insightful critical work, in tune with the contemporary aesthetic and conceptual landscape. It might just be the horror-inflected revitalizing read we all need.”
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There's a shadow in the doorway and something keeps rattling the window. We fear we might be....HAUNTED.
What better way to soothe restless spirits than offer them our books? From now through Nov 1, they (and you) can get 40% off using discount code HAUNTED at checkout.
nupress.northwestern.edu
What better way to soothe restless spirits than offer them our books? From now through Nov 1, they (and you) can get 40% off using discount code HAUNTED at checkout.
nupress.northwestern.edu
October 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
There's a shadow in the doorway and something keeps rattling the window. We fear we might be....HAUNTED.
What better way to soothe restless spirits than offer them our books? From now through Nov 1, they (and you) can get 40% off using discount code HAUNTED at checkout.
nupress.northwestern.edu
What better way to soothe restless spirits than offer them our books? From now through Nov 1, they (and you) can get 40% off using discount code HAUNTED at checkout.
nupress.northwestern.edu
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🦉whooooooo would like to buy Here Is a Figure for 40% off??
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There's a shadow in the doorway and something keeps rattling the window. We fear we might be....HAUNTED.
What better way to soothe restless spirits than offer them our books? From now through Nov 1, they (and you) can get 40% off using discount code HAUNTED at checkout.
nupress.northwestern.edu
What better way to soothe restless spirits than offer them our books? From now through Nov 1, they (and you) can get 40% off using discount code HAUNTED at checkout.
nupress.northwestern.edu
October 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🦉whooooooo would like to buy Here Is a Figure for 40% off??
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A truly forward thinking editor, generous mind and interlocutor. Thanks for everything, @noctambulate.bsky.social.
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies, trade, and regional publishing programs.
University of Minnesota Press Director Retires
Doug Armato, who has helmed the 100-year-old press for 27 years, is retiring at the end of December. His tenure saw the expansion of the press’s list and the development of strong Indigenous studies,…
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October 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A truly forward thinking editor, generous mind and interlocutor. Thanks for everything, @noctambulate.bsky.social.
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Fourth in the ASAP/16 Book Prize shortlist is Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s NEGATIVE LIFE: THE CINEMA OF EXTINCTION from @nupress. The winner of the prize will be announced at our conference in Houston in a few weeks. Please join us!
October 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Fourth in the ASAP/16 Book Prize shortlist is Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay’s NEGATIVE LIFE: THE CINEMA OF EXTINCTION from @nupress. The winner of the prize will be announced at our conference in Houston in a few weeks. Please join us!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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New book! The Earth Is Evil is short and punchy ecocriticism, featured in the Provocations series @univnebpress.bsky.social, and available Oct 1. Pre-orders are hitting mailboxes now. 40% off with code 6AF25. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
August 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
New book! The Earth Is Evil is short and punchy ecocriticism, featured in the Provocations series @univnebpress.bsky.social, and available Oct 1. Pre-orders are hitting mailboxes now. 40% off with code 6AF25. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
Get 40% off my forthcoming book, The Earth Is Evil, with discount code 6AF25 www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... Out in October
The Earth Is Evil - Nebraska Press
The Earth Is Evil examines the connection between subjectivity and lack, arguing for a destituent ecology that sees lack as the universalist core of social, ...
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu
August 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Get 40% off my forthcoming book, The Earth Is Evil, with discount code 6AF25 www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... Out in October
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Ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026? Submit an abstract to Dan Reeve and I's CFP: "BEYOND TOUCH: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" We invite submissions for 15-20 minute papers that examine queer and trans temporalities from new and unexpected angles. #IMC2026. Full CFP below 👇
July 29, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Ready for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026? Submit an abstract to Dan Reeve and I's CFP: "BEYOND TOUCH: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" We invite submissions for 15-20 minute papers that examine queer and trans temporalities from new and unexpected angles. #IMC2026. Full CFP below 👇
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there are some amazing books on this list!! 🌿
congrats to @snarlsdickens.bsky.social @jttremblay.bsky.social @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social @jamieljones.bsky.social
congrats to @snarlsdickens.bsky.social @jttremblay.bsky.social @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social @jamieljones.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 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
there are some amazing books on this list!! 🌿
congrats to @snarlsdickens.bsky.social @jttremblay.bsky.social @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social @jamieljones.bsky.social
congrats to @snarlsdickens.bsky.social @jttremblay.bsky.social @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social @jamieljones.bsky.social
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
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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 6:16 PM
Judges have announced the finalists for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards in #ecocriticism and #environmental creative writing! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky
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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