Steven Swarbrick
Author of The Environmental Unconscious (2023) & The Earth Is Evil (2025) | coauthor of Negative Life (2024) | forthcoming book: Divest (2026)
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- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickDIVEST
- 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
- 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
- Reposted by Steven Swarbrick"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...
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickTHE 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
- 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.”
- 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!
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickThere'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
- Reposted by Steven Swarbrick🦉whooooooo would like to buy Here Is a Figure for 40% off?? 🦇🦇🦇
- 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
- A truly forward thinking editor, generous mind and interlocutor. Thanks for everything, @noctambulate.bsky.social.
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickFourth 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!
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickWe 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. 1/4
- 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...
- Pls message me about reviewing / review copies 🙏
- Get 40% off my forthcoming book, The Earth Is Evil, with discount code 6AF25 www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... Out in October
- Blurbs and details etc
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickReady 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 👇
- Reposted by Steven Swarbrickthere are some amazing books on this list!! 🌿 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
- 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
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickJudges have announced the finalists for the 2025 ASLE Book Awards in #ecocriticism and #environmental creative writing! www.asle.org/stay-informe... #booksky
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickI'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
- I had a blast chatting with the grad student-run journal Soapbox about my solo and coauthored work. Topics include sex, negativity, ecology, and psychoanalysis. Full interview below. www.soapboxjournal.net/online-artic...
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickMy first sighting of "Fake Work" out in the wild. I'll be doing my first Fake Event tomorrow, and then others throughout the month of June. I've been sitting with this book for 25 years, literally, and I'm so excited/anxious to see its reception.
- The shapes of a book to come. Out October 2025. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickThe first essay from my Solanas project @criticalinquiry.bsky.social 🖤 "Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind" www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... bit.ly/valeriesolanas
- Reposted by Steven Swarbrickjoin us in Providence on March 7th for Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique — a colloquium featuring Lynne Huffer, Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickVery fun book!! I also really like their critique of “entanglement” tropes in ecocriticism—that word always makes me think of a sea turtle caught in a discarded net!
- For funsies I started reading @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social and @jttremblay.bsky.social NEGATIVE LIFE, and it scratches my itches, bc I too am irritated by the 'only connect' clichés of so much ecocriticism + I'm a fan of the movies they're doing, eg, FIRST COW, Pösler's THE WALL.
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickFor funsies I started reading @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social and @jttremblay.bsky.social NEGATIVE LIFE, and it scratches my itches, bc I too am irritated by the 'only connect' clichés of so much ecocriticism + I'm a fan of the movies they're doing, eg, FIRST COW, Pösler's THE WALL.
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickLow-key convinced nothing I post here matters, so doing a VERY SOFT LAUNCH of my next book, now on GoodReads and ready to be added to your Want to Read list 🐱 www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickAmi.e.s à Montréal: this, with @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social, is happening Thursday and Friday at McGill. January 16 lecture open to all / January 17 workshop by registration only at www.sexintheory.org. 🐄
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickIt’s day 2 in the book exhibit at #mla25! Stop by and see us @uminnpress.bsky.social or check out our online exhibit at www.upress.umn.edu/mla25/
- Two treasures from the @nupress.bsky.social table at MLA. Congrats, @sarahmdowling1.bsky.social!
- Today at noon!
- I spy NEGATIVE LIFE along with other great @nupress.bsky.social titles. Get 30% off using discount code MLA30
- As you can see, we're ready and on the ground at #MLA25. Stop by booth 112A to browse our books and chat with Faith Wilson Stein. All books are 30% off with code MLA30 through February 10. nupress.northwestern.edu
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickRethinking Institutions CFP deadline tomorrow for the next Marxist Reading Group! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickNEW EPISODE: NEGATIVE LIFE STEVEN SWARBRICK ( @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social ) and JEAN-THOMAS TREMBLAY ( @jttremblay.bsky.social ) name the misalignment of individual and species survival, as condition of thought and film. hightheory.net/2025/01/08/n... @nupress.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PodSky
- MLA-goers, please mark your calendars for “Freud’s Ecology” on Jan 10 at noon! There will be spit, critters, and symptoms galore! 🐀 mla.confex.com/mla/2025/mee...
- “A no vote must also be accompanied by taking steps to organize a strike.” Great essay by @oliviawood.bsky.social www.leftvoice.org/the-new-prop...
- Thrilled to be joining Sex in Theory at McGill in January! @jttremblay.bsky.social and I will be discussing our new book Negative Life and sharing works in progress. Should be fun! @nupress.bsky.social nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014719...
- excited for @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social’s and @jttremblay.bsky.social’s lecture (01/16) and workshop (01/17) with sex in theory next month 🔥 if you’re in the mtl area, it’s open to all. and registration required for the workshop on the 17th. for more info www.sexintheory.org
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickHAPPY PUB DAY TO MY BOOK!!!! If you’d like to join me for a celebratory reading at 12:30 EST, please DM for a link! I started thinking about this project in 2013-2014, and I’m very excited for it to finally spread its book wings and fly away. nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014790...
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickThis—on radical environmentalism's necessary dissent from a liberal project of semantic repair—appears in the still-current issue of Critical Inquiry. DM me if you'd like a copy!
- Thanks to Lindsay Jolivette and Alex Tischer for interviewing @jttremblay.bsky.social and me about our new book, Negative Life. Listen below on the ASLE EcoCast. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-8ggwq-... 🪸
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickMy book HERE IS A FIGURE, which will be published in a mere 19 days, is currently on sale! 50% off with the code MITTENS at checkout!! nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014790...
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickWith the many absurd #SCMS2025 rejections today, seems apt to mention the SLSA CFP is out here: litsciarts.org/2024/11/09/s... SLSA interprets its annual themes extremely capaciously, and chooses venues with the aim to accommodate the vast majority of apps—consider repurposing your panels for it!
- Keep warm this winter with NEGATIVE LIFE 🔥, and get 50% off using discount code Mittens. @jttremblay.bsky.social nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014719...
- It's winter sale season! Now through Dec. 3, get 50% off all Northwestern, Curbstone, and TriQuarterly books! Just use code MITTENS at checkout. Whether it's a cozy novel, a nihilistic philosophical mediation, or a deep dive into media studies, you're sure to find something to love. ❄️ #ReadUP
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickFirst publication from my new Valerie Solanas projects, forthcoming with Critical Inquiry in early 2025 🖤 “Corroded with SCUM: Valerie Solanas’s Theories of Mind”
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickThanks to the marvelous @julesod.bsky.social for interviewing @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social and me for the "New Books in Film" stream of the New Books Network. We discuss all things Negative Life, including the co-writing process, and we revisit some of the titles in our corpus.
- Bay Area friends! Join @jttremblay.bsky.social and me tomorrow as we discuss our new book, NEGATIVE LIFE, with faculty and students at UC Berkeley. 3-5 PM. cici.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berk...
- Back home after a stimulating Early Modern Trans Sexualities conference. Gus missed me.
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickDestroying, or making something new? "Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction" looks at twisted-nature films like ANNIHILATION about human identity crisis amid climate crisis. @nupress.bsky.social @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social @jttremblay.bsky.social #horror nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014719...
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickMy new book, Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, coauthored with @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social, is out today. Author copies haven't crossed the US-Canada border yet, but, you know, coming out is a process. nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014719...
- An excerpt from NEGATIVE LIFE, out August 15, is up on the @differences.bsky.social website! Many thanks to @scottjackshaw.bsky.social and the journal editors. #envhum #film
- "We will not listen to the pastoral lesson. We will not remain at ecocriticism’s educative impasse" — read @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social and @jttremblay.bsky.social's "Ecocriticism against The Wall" on our online forum: differencesjournal.org/writing/ecoc...
- Our book is available for preorder through @nupress.bsky.social nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014719...
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickAn excerpt from NEGATIVE LIFE's intro is now live! Many thanks to @scottjackshaw.bsky.social and the @differences.bsky.social editors. The full polemic, co-written with @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social, is out 8/15 from @nupress.bsky.social.
- "We will not listen to the pastoral lesson. We will not remain at ecocriticism’s educative impasse" — read @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social and @jttremblay.bsky.social's "Ecocriticism against The Wall" on our online forum: differencesjournal.org/writing/ecoc...
- Reposted by Steven Swarbrickread more from Swarbrick and Tremblay in Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, forthcoming in August from @nupress.bsky.social: nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014719...
- Reposted by Steven Swarbrick"We will not listen to the pastoral lesson. We will not remain at ecocriticism’s educative impasse" — read @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social and @jttremblay.bsky.social's "Ecocriticism against The Wall" on our online forum: differencesjournal.org/writing/ecoc...
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickJoin us tomorrow to learn about 🧐philosophy, the 💥apocalypse, and the 🌎environment! Ted Toadvine "The Memory of the World: Unraveling the Allure of Eco-Apocalypse" CETAPS+ Cultures of the Future Talks Wed, May 29, 2024 Online Register here: videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickThe @UMinnPress book display is ready for browsing at ACLA 2024 in Montreal, or shop online using the 40% conference discount at at www.upress.umn.edu/book-divisio...
- Reposted by Steven Swarbrick. @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social and I are hoping to tour our double act and give a couple of talks around NEGATIVE LIFE this autumn, following the book's mid-August release. Please get in touch at jtt[at]yorku[dot]ca if this might be of interest. Pictured are the object and its generous blurbs.
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickCSU Faculty strike - first ever - 1 day in. Got new terms! Notified 10mins ago of the terms. - WOAH! Also, our students are so incredible....
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickI get that the CUNY schools are being strangled by an incompetent city admin and a police department that hoovers up money on a gargantuan scale. But slashing instructional budgets to the bone like this puts you in a death spiral institutionally. "Bold, creative leaders" should find another way.
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickIt’s #JournalJanuary. Here is this morning’s thrill (🙏 @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social)
- Obligatory author and book photo! Say hi if you see me #MLA24
- Psychoanalysis squad assemble! #MLA24
- Reposted by Steven Swarbrick"require private universities to start paying property taxes, redistributed to CUNY, the largest urban public uni in the country...address unis that have blatantly gone beyond primarily operating as institutions of higher education+are instead acting as landlords.” www.nytimes.com/2023/12/10/n...
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickWho needs (or wants!) a roommate for MLA in Philly?? I would be happy to split the cost of a hotel room! Also pls put *Return of the Repressed: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Early Modern Literature* Fri 1/5 5:15pm, and *Re-Reading Marlowe!* Sun 1/7 10:15am, on your MLA dance card!
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickRESISTANCE & RESPIRATION, curated by Amanda Cachia, opens today at Contemporary Calgary. "How is breathing ... a feat of endurance, a political horizon? This exhibition is inspired by the scholarship of Jean-Thomas Tremblay, and his new book Breathing Aesthetics (@dukepress.bsky.social, 2022)."
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickIf you're enjoying the return to Freud, and the new idioms for a psychoanalysis for the 21st century, please consider donating to Parapraxis Magazine. We need your help: Subscribe: parapraxismagazine.com/store/p/subs... tax-deductible donation: thepsychosocialfoundation.org/donate
- Reposted by Steven Swarbrick"Asexuality and psychoanalysis prove strange bedfellows. Strange, because they rarely speak. Stranger still because when they do speak, they seem to speak at cross purposes" — read @stevenswarbrick.bsky.social's "Epicures in Kissing: Asexuality in Venus & Adonis": read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
- My @differences.bsky.social article “epicures in kissing” is live and free to download, thanks to the good people at Duke UP: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
- Reposted by Steven Swarbrickthis is absolutely remarkable, organized by @jvp.bsky.social they shut down NYC's Grand Central Station demanding #CeasefireNOW
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickParapraxis still hasn't moved over here, but Issue 03: The Wish is now available for pre-order. Essays by Amber Jamilla Musser, Samo Tomšič, Eugenie Brinkema, Jyoti M. Rao, Anna Kornbluh, Grace Byron, and more: www.parapraxismagazine.com/store/p/para...
- Reposted by Steven SwarbrickDetails of this year’s World Picture conference at the ICI, Berlin are now out here: www.ici-berlin.org/events/model... registration opens 1 November. Hope to see you there!
- It’s here, and it’s purrfect. Congrats @lclaberge.bsky.social on this fabulous feline book! #envhum www.dukeupress.edu/marx-for-cats
