Anna Kornbluh
@annakornbluh.bsky.social
nerd, unionist, heist enthusiast
http://www.annakornbluh.com
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elated! and more than a little embarrassed! to be included on Art Review's @artreview.bsky.social Power 100 list for 2024! thank you to all the art inspirations, and everyone reading and teaching Immediacy.
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busy sunday lazy nicoisepasta
December 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
busy sunday lazy nicoisepasta
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The 19th century is so back, baby!
"Srinivasan himself has started a 'Network School' on an artificial island near Singapore, where techno-optimists can work their day jobs remotely while living in a hotel together and learning how to 'bootstrap'... a new society [ — ] 'society-as-a-service'"
Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities
They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?
www.ft.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The 19th century is so back, baby!
picks for best *hollywood* movie of the 2010s?
December 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
picks for best *hollywood* movie of the 2010s?
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One of the things I remember learning about in the college course I took on the French Revolution was how an important precondition for the anti-aristocratic terror was the culture of brutal public violence practiced by elites against the lower classes in the mid 18th century e.g.
December 7, 2025 at 6:23 PM
One of the things I remember learning about in the college course I took on the French Revolution was how an important precondition for the anti-aristocratic terror was the culture of brutal public violence practiced by elites against the lower classes in the mid 18th century e.g.
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Ending DEI practices in college admissions will expose an uncomfortable truth. Women now outperform men academically.
If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, they’ll reject men at higher rates than they do today.
If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, they’ll reject men at higher rates than they do today.
Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men
The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Ending DEI practices in college admissions will expose an uncomfortable truth. Women now outperform men academically.
If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, they’ll reject men at higher rates than they do today.
If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, they’ll reject men at higher rates than they do today.
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realizing it’s not just administrators’ salaries that are sucking the life out NSSR but that they spent 800k to get Busta Rhymes to play a failed fundraiser (a fact I learned from @kmunro-econ.bsky.social) is just too fucking much.
get me out of this badly written satirical novel.
get me out of this badly written satirical novel.
December 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
realizing it’s not just administrators’ salaries that are sucking the life out NSSR but that they spent 800k to get Busta Rhymes to play a failed fundraiser (a fact I learned from @kmunro-econ.bsky.social) is just too fucking much.
get me out of this badly written satirical novel.
get me out of this badly written satirical novel.
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Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What we get wrong about the Montgomery bus boycott – and what we can learn from it | Jeanne Theoharis
The movement’s success was never a given. It took much longer and required tremendous sacrifice without certainty it would work
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Something I’ve encountered a lot lately is misperception of Luddites as technophobic reactionaries motivated by ignorance & resentment, rather than what they were, part of a well-informed labor movement seeking to seize control of means of production.
THE MAKING OF A PARIAH: The Case of the Luddites on JSTOR
David Linton, THE MAKING OF A PARIAH: The Case of the Luddites, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Winter 1991-92), pp. 404-413
www.jstor.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Something I’ve encountered a lot lately is misperception of Luddites as technophobic reactionaries motivated by ignorance & resentment, rather than what they were, part of a well-informed labor movement seeking to seize control of means of production.
ok 325 is a start for a sunday #acadecawriteathon
December 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
ok 325 is a start for a sunday #acadecawriteathon
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Someone please pitch @contingent-mag.bsky.social on this. We need a mailbag that people can share with friends and family who believe the university spokesperson line that this is about costs or low student demand. It’s not true in this case and it hasn’t been true with the humanities either.
“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
December 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Someone please pitch @contingent-mag.bsky.social on this. We need a mailbag that people can share with friends and family who believe the university spokesperson line that this is about costs or low student demand. It’s not true in this case and it hasn’t been true with the humanities either.
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“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
December 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
alright i've slept on it after leader training and:
AFT radical caucus when
AFT radical caucus when
December 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
alright i've slept on it after leader training and:
AFT radical caucus when
AFT radical caucus when
multiple neofeudalism workshops over past few weeks, had to keep saying:
"The wealthiest are doing an outsized amount of consumer spending. Even tho majority of Americans feeling squeeze of inflation +unemployment, ultra-wealthy spending makes it look like everyone is.
prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
"The wealthiest are doing an outsized amount of consumer spending. Even tho majority of Americans feeling squeeze of inflation +unemployment, ultra-wealthy spending makes it look like everyone is.
prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
Selling the Poor on Spending Like They’re Rich - The American Prospect
How plutonomy, premiumization, and social media squeeze the middle class.
prospect.org
December 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
multiple neofeudalism workshops over past few weeks, had to keep saying:
"The wealthiest are doing an outsized amount of consumer spending. Even tho majority of Americans feeling squeeze of inflation +unemployment, ultra-wealthy spending makes it look like everyone is.
prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
"The wealthiest are doing an outsized amount of consumer spending. Even tho majority of Americans feeling squeeze of inflation +unemployment, ultra-wealthy spending makes it look like everyone is.
prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
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The university-surveillance component of this piece is !!! I had missed the Qualtrics shift and acquisition and wow.
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
December 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The university-surveillance component of this piece is !!! I had missed the Qualtrics shift and acquisition and wow.
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
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We do. This was something @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, & I discussed at the UIC UF event last week. (Forthcoming pod.)
Unions need power maps & conflicts audits of their schools, boards, etc. But we also need more info sharing between academic worker collectives.
Unions need power maps & conflicts audits of their schools, boards, etc. But we also need more info sharing between academic worker collectives.
The university-surveillance component of this piece is !!! I had missed the Qualtrics shift and acquisition and wow.
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
We really need an ed-tech key players power-map, does anyone know if this exists?
December 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We do. This was something @bakerdphd.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, & I discussed at the UIC UF event last week. (Forthcoming pod.)
Unions need power maps & conflicts audits of their schools, boards, etc. But we also need more info sharing between academic worker collectives.
Unions need power maps & conflicts audits of their schools, boards, etc. But we also need more info sharing between academic worker collectives.
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In a new @LaborNotes roundtable piece, @alexhan.bsky.social, explains why calls for a #generalstrike are resurfacing and what recent labor actions show about the path forward. From the “Day Without an Immigrant” to #RedforEd, the groundwork is already there.
labornotes.org/2025/12/mayb...
labornotes.org/2025/12/mayb...
December 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
In a new @LaborNotes roundtable piece, @alexhan.bsky.social, explains why calls for a #generalstrike are resurfacing and what recent labor actions show about the path forward. From the “Day Without an Immigrant” to #RedforEd, the groundwork is already there.
labornotes.org/2025/12/mayb...
labornotes.org/2025/12/mayb...
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Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
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On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights
Illinois becomes one of the few states to regulate employer use of AI. House Bill 3773 amends the Illinois Human Rights Act to make it a civil rights violation for employers to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on race, gender, age, or disability.
www.mystateline.com/news/local-n...
www.mystateline.com/news/local-n...
www.mystateline.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:49 PM
On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights
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Shout-out to @remapradio.bsky.social for the great discussions on the pod recently on the subject of genre! And of course to @annakornbluh.bsky.social for wading through the slush in the book "Immediacy."
December 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Shout-out to @remapradio.bsky.social for the great discussions on the pod recently on the subject of genre! And of course to @annakornbluh.bsky.social for wading through the slush in the book "Immediacy."
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NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
NEW — I put together a list of independent journalism subscriptions that would make great holiday gifts. From music to politics, astronomy to alcohol, tech to social justice, there’s something for [almost] everyone. Support indie media *and* surprise and delight your loved ones!
My guide:
My guide:
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They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
AFT is the fastest growing union in the AFL CIO, 2025 reached highest membership level ever, this is higher ed!
December 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
AFT is the fastest growing union in the AFL CIO, 2025 reached highest membership level ever, this is higher ed!
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Literary journals, small presses, zines, these are the gifts we need all year.
I need to go through and update this, but if you’re looking for great gift ideas and the like I bet there are some great options in here
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go.bsky.app/DYxWmk1
December 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Literary journals, small presses, zines, these are the gifts we need all year.
just over the line at 257 and no more cuz its now off to a very long day of AFT upper leader training
#acadecawriteathon
#acadecawriteathon
December 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
just over the line at 257 and no more cuz its now off to a very long day of AFT upper leader training
#acadecawriteathon
#acadecawriteathon