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jordanscarroll.bsky.social

Author of Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right (Hugo & Locus finalist) Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of US Literature Words in Kaleidotrope, Polygon, The Nation, and the LARB Opinions my own

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I bet they did

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

NASA Goddard is pushing through a 48% staff reduction!!! This could impact the upcoming Roman Space Telescope and many other future Astro missions. News coverage seems not sensational enough. Are we really going to let NASA (as we know it) die quietly? www.space.com/space-explor...

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Calling Trump a TACO about starting WWIII seems… counterproductive.

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last year, everyone was locking in. this year, everyone is crashing out.

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seems like every 1-2 years Marx and Engels wrote new prefaces to all their works that were like, "ok, one more thing has come up since then." they were so real for that.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

a phrase from Engels that can be easily employed as a commonplace for many different apparent rivals in the present: "the two standpoints fought so bitterly simply because they were the opposite poles of the same stupidity."

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it's remarkable how the neoconservative rhetoric of spreading democracy has entirely vanished and yet we're closer than ever of realizing the neocon dream of war with Iran

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Excellent piece by @jordanscarroll.bsky.social on a core ideology that drives the alt-right -- the manufactured belief that their promised futures have been snatched away -- feeding their malignant/tech-fash efforts to claw back the future for the chosen (white, male, elite) people. Worth a read!

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whenever someone asks, "how is it possible that this myth has returned repeatedly in different forms over two thousand years?" the answer is usually, "people read about it."

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the more reviews a book has, the more unhinged they become

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I'm open to speaking on this topic, as well.

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I wish more people would stop talking like paid consultants for a campaign that doesn't exist and start stating what they actually believe based on their own principles.

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Heavy is the head that wears the crown in J.S. Carroll’s new story “Quest-Giver.” kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...

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These are the kinds of Ticketmaster review that I love

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A lot of the discussion I have seen about this is (understandably!) romance-specific, but I would like to put it in conversation with this piece by @jordanscarroll.bsky.social I read yesterday about the intersection of the SFF side of pop culture (which overlaps with romantasy), gender, and big tech

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oh, I've already achieved this one, Thich Nhat Hanh

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This is a fascinating read. One annoying thing about our present moment is knowing exactly which SFF novels the technofascists read.

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I think the big question is going to be how AI is going to interface with MOOCs, the edutech trend that as predicted replaced classrooms as we knew them ten years ago

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the Dems, they're not going to organize an anti-war movement to stop Trump from starting WWIII, are they?

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“Reactionary futurism can therefore be understood as a form of hype, a self-fulfilling prophecy that pulls in money for speculative projects by promising a bold future of innovation and superprofits.” 🔥

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“A more utopian world will be realized through a process of inclusive, democratic, and egalitarian imagination—or it will not be realized at all.” Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social

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it bears repeating: no war but class war

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote a retrospective on futurism and the far right from 2024 for the Los Angeles Review of Books. This includes not only a review of recent scholarship but also new directions in my own work on this subject.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

submitted 3 days ago • 752 comments

theonion.com/this-war-wil...

submitted 3 days ago • 119 comments

The MLA has all the correct interpretations recorded in a special database only literary scholars can see. We’re not allowed to tell you if you have it right, but we can nod vigorously and say, “interesting,” if you’re getting warmer.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

you can tell that some BlueSky users block a lot of people as part of a weird little angry power trip. they think of themselves as gatekeepers for posts that nobody is clamoring to read.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Thanks to NPR for explaining that due to the ancient, mysterious culture of Persia, Iranians "don't like to be attacked" npr.org/2025/06/16/n...

submitted 4 days ago • 193 comments

I wrote a retrospective on futurism and the far right from 2024 for the Los Angeles Review of Books. This includes not only a review of recent scholarship but also new directions in my own work on this subject.

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"What unites these people together is their belief that radical subversives and racialized outsiders have robbed them of a future." @jordanscarroll.bsky.social on recent scholarship on the alt-right. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/reactionary-futurism-2025/

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ok I just got the NICEST note from someone about my most recent column/columns. your periodic reminder to tell that person whose thing you read and liked how much you liked it. it’s nice! it means a lot! we write to be read etc etc but really!

I bet they did

NASA Goddard is pushing through a 48% staff reduction!!! This could impact the upcoming Roman Space Telescope and many other future Astro missions. News coverage seems not sensational enough. Are we really going to let NASA (as we know it) die quietly? www.space.com/space-explor...

Calling Trump a TACO about starting WWIII seems… counterproductive.

last year, everyone was locking in. this year, everyone is crashing out.

seems like every 1-2 years Marx and Engels wrote new prefaces to all their works that were like, "ok, one more thing has come up since then." they were so real for that.

a phrase from Engels that can be easily employed as a commonplace for many different apparent rivals in the present: "the two standpoints fought so bitterly simply because they were the opposite poles of the same stupidity."

it's remarkable how the neoconservative rhetoric of spreading democracy has entirely vanished and yet we're closer than ever of realizing the neocon dream of war with Iran

Excellent piece by @jordanscarroll.bsky.social on a core ideology that drives the alt-right -- the manufactured belief that their promised futures have been snatched away -- feeding their malignant/tech-fash efforts to claw back the future for the chosen (white, male, elite) people. Worth a read!

whenever someone asks, "how is it possible that this myth has returned repeatedly in different forms over two thousand years?" the answer is usually, "people read about it."

the more reviews a book has, the more unhinged they become

I'm open to speaking on this topic, as well.

I wish more people would stop talking like paid consultants for a campaign that doesn't exist and start stating what they actually believe based on their own principles.

Heavy is the head that wears the crown in J.S. Carroll’s new story “Quest-Giver.” kaleidotrope.net/spring-2025/...

These are the kinds of Ticketmaster review that I love

A lot of the discussion I have seen about this is (understandably!) romance-specific, but I would like to put it in conversation with this piece by @jordanscarroll.bsky.social I read yesterday about the intersection of the SFF side of pop culture (which overlaps with romantasy), gender, and big tech

oh, I've already achieved this one, Thich Nhat Hanh

This is a fascinating read. One annoying thing about our present moment is knowing exactly which SFF novels the technofascists read.

I think the big question is going to be how AI is going to interface with MOOCs, the edutech trend that as predicted replaced classrooms as we knew them ten years ago

the Dems, they're not going to organize an anti-war movement to stop Trump from starting WWIII, are they?

“Reactionary futurism can therefore be understood as a form of hype, a self-fulfilling prophecy that pulls in money for speculative projects by promising a bold future of innovation and superprofits.” 🔥

“A more utopian world will be realized through a process of inclusive, democratic, and egalitarian imagination—or it will not be realized at all.” Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social

it bears repeating: no war but class war

I wrote a retrospective on futurism and the far right from 2024 for the Los Angeles Review of Books. This includes not only a review of recent scholarship but also new directions in my own work on this subject.

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

theonion.com/this-war-wil...

The MLA has all the correct interpretations recorded in a special database only literary scholars can see. We’re not allowed to tell you if you have it right, but we can nod vigorously and say, “interesting,” if you’re getting warmer.

you can tell that some BlueSky users block a lot of people as part of a weird little angry power trip. they think of themselves as gatekeepers for posts that nobody is clamoring to read.

Thanks to NPR for explaining that due to the ancient, mysterious culture of Persia, Iranians "don't like to be attacked" npr.org/2025/06/16/n...

I wrote a retrospective on futurism and the far right from 2024 for the Los Angeles Review of Books. This includes not only a review of recent scholarship but also new directions in my own work on this subject.

"What unites these people together is their belief that radical subversives and racialized outsiders have robbed them of a future." @jordanscarroll.bsky.social on recent scholarship on the alt-right. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/reactionary-futurism-2025/

ok I just got the NICEST note from someone about my most recent column/columns. your periodic reminder to tell that person whose thing you read and liked how much you liked it. it’s nice! it means a lot! we write to be read etc etc but really!

I don’t know about you, but I’m gassing up my car right about now

if you see this post something pink