Steph Brown
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Steph Brown
@stephjayb.bsky.social
Author | Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State | U Toronto Press, 2024

Assoc Prof of English in Tucson | Surveillance | C20/21 Caribbean and British Lit | GWS

rock scrambler | hawk enthusiast | she/her
More recently, @bcmerchant.bsky.social's Blood in the Machine is an history of the Luddites that's also a strong argument for Ludditism, written in a way that would be extremely engaging for an audience of people who, um, don't already know what Enoch's hammer is:

bookshop.org/p/books/bloo...
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
bookshop.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will" is a lot of words when you could just say "kill people."
November 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Certainly, I wouldn't inflict myself as a guide on any would-be Miltonist
November 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
*described
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It was a direct quote of something someone said to me, in a specific situation which was descried in the same sentence.
November 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
All advice is culture specific?
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Cannot imagine your advisor transgressing this fundamental rule, bc he is good people
November 21, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Reposted by Steph Brown
the reason you don’t chase reactionaries is they’ll demand you make your platform worse and then vote for someone even worse than that anyway, the best you can ask is that they stay home

the people who want to leave the cult, those you can give a cookie and a trans rights manifesto
November 16, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Disagree with her deprecation of Arizona, tho.
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
To be fair, I did three of these and the other two were suites w/o visible bed and the (mixed-gender) cmtes behaved very professionally. Still weird though.
November 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM