Patrick Whitmarsh
@whitmarshphd.bsky.social
Teaching and writing about environmental narratives, ecocriticism, modern fiction. Sci-fi, horror, heavy metal. Author of Writing Our Extinction https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/writing-our-extinction?tab=1
This is the classics version of the sci-fi meme “we have created the Death Star from the famous story DO NOT CREATE THE DEATH STAR.”
I think @jordanscarroll.bsky.social nailed it when he diagnosed a serious incapacity for reading among a certain instrumentally minded demographic.
I think @jordanscarroll.bsky.social nailed it when he diagnosed a serious incapacity for reading among a certain instrumentally minded demographic.
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 AM
This is the classics version of the sci-fi meme “we have created the Death Star from the famous story DO NOT CREATE THE DEATH STAR.”
I think @jordanscarroll.bsky.social nailed it when he diagnosed a serious incapacity for reading among a certain instrumentally minded demographic.
I think @jordanscarroll.bsky.social nailed it when he diagnosed a serious incapacity for reading among a certain instrumentally minded demographic.
This is one of the first songs I remember hearing as a child that has stuck with me—can’t wait to read! The taconite reference also reminds me of Springsteen’s “Youngstown.” We need more environmental histories via folk songs.
November 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This is one of the first songs I remember hearing as a child that has stuck with me—can’t wait to read! The taconite reference also reminds me of Springsteen’s “Youngstown.” We need more environmental histories via folk songs.
That’s bullshit
August 5, 2025 at 11:19 PM
That’s bullshit
Tobias, your book is the one we need
a cat is laying down in a dark room
ALT: a cat is laying down in a dark room
media.tenor.com
July 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Tobias, your book is the one we need
Of course, this requires a lot of cannibalizing those 37 false starts.
May 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Of course, this requires a lot of cannibalizing those 37 false starts.
1. 2005
2. Brick
3. Burrito bowls
2. Brick
3. Burrito bowls
May 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
1. 2005
2. Brick
3. Burrito bowls
2. Brick
3. Burrito bowls
This right here is why we study literature.
May 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This right here is why we study literature.
This is wild Nathan. Thank you for posting about it.
May 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This is wild Nathan. Thank you for posting about it.
The new clipping. has been my commute soundtrack for the last few weeks
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
Daveed Diggs’ sci-fi rap trio Clipping: ‘We are at war all the time. It’s one of the great tricks of capitalism’
Diggs’ harrowing music is a world away from his Hollywood films and a Tony-winning run in Hamilton. But his band’s world-building – setting resource wars in imagined cyberpunk clubs – is no less drama...
www.theguardian.com
April 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The new clipping. has been my commute soundtrack for the last few weeks
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
Michael was my undergrad thesis advisor. This really sucks to see.
February 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Michael was my undergrad thesis advisor. This really sucks to see.