Just Another Monday Morning, Just Another Set of Monday Morning Links

• Grad School Achebe #5 is up! This one is on “Chike’s School Days,” “The Sacrificial Egg,” and “Akueke,” two stories in which singularly nothing happens (and also “Akueke”). Check it out!
• Coming to Marquette in 2022: J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript! I’ll be teaching a course in relation to this exhibit.
• Fellowships at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) 2022-23.
• Fighting for the humanities at church-related colleges.
• We Asked, You Answered: Your 50 Favorite Sci-Fi And Fantasy Books Of The Past Decade.
• Cixin Liu novels coming to comic books.
• A Dazzling Octavia E. Butler Biography Explores the Sci-Fi Legend’s Early Life.
• In games, the environmental crisis is just another bedtime story. SimCity wasn’t built for the climate crisis. These games are. Kim Stanley Robinson: a climate plan for a world in flames. Activists Call It A ‘False Solution.’ But UN Scientists Say We Need To Suck Up CO2. Rewriting the Ecological Imagination. Imagining the climate-proof home in the US: using the least energy possible from the cleanest sources. In a First, U.S. Declares Shortage on Colorado River, Forcing Water Cuts. The best books about the post-human Earth. And we talk a lot around here about ideology at its purest, but folks…

Kim Stanley Robinson: ”We are in terrible trouble, and not everyone agrees that we are; never will everyone agree on this, even though droughts and fires, storms and floods, are coming faster than ever.” https://t.co/I3Nrqm1wFK

— Jonatan Hildén (@jhilden) August 23, 2021

• Athens Is Only Getting Hotter. Its New ‘Chief Heat Officer’ Hopes to Cool It Down.
• Everything You Need to Know About What’s Happening in Afghanistan. The Afghanistan Debacle: How Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden Bamboozled the American Public. The War in Afghanistan Was a Scam. Cable News Military Experts Are On the Defense Industry Dole. What percentage of your life the U.S. has been at war, by birth year. Meanwhile. The long durée. Here we go again!
• UWM clears 5 million dollars in student debt using stimulus funds. College sports injected with millions in federal COVID funds.

Universities used COVID relief funds to subsidize athletic department lost revenue aka pay the salaries of people not actually doing athletic work.https://t.co/TPffiist9V pic.twitter.com/RtjXE35htx

— Nathan Kalman-Lamb (@nkalamb) August 20, 2021

• Inside Mississippi’s 4th Covid wave: Younger patients, crying nurses and 7 ICU beds left. Alabama Hospitals Have Run Out Of ICU Beds As COVID-19 Cases Surge. Children hospitalized with COVID-19 in U.S. hits record number. “We Are Running a Giant Experiment on Children”: Covid Deniers Put Kids at Risk. Study suggests young children most likely to spread COVID at home to family members. Why Is It Taking So Long to Get Kids the Vaccine? Go Ahead, Vaccinate the Kids. The Deeply Unfair Question Parents Must Answer. New School Year, Same Old Covid Chaos. Parents are not okay. Here we go again.

In seven states, hospitalizations from Covid-19 have passed their previous peaks because of the surge in cases this summer.

There are few signs that the rise in hospitalizations is slowing nationally. https://t.co/XrFm7pJTky pic.twitter.com/2UUmKXrU4C

— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 17, 2021

• Your Pandemic Sadness Is Called ‘Ambiguous Loss’. The coronavirus is here forever.
• Those Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers Probably Don’t Help and May Make Things Worse.
• ‘No concept of how awful it was’: the forgotten world of pre-vaccine childhood in Australia.
• As evictions rise, people may have to give up their pets. Animal shelters are calling for help.
• ‘Like fire through dry grass’: Documenting the Cuomo administration’s cover-up of a nursing home nightmare.
• Superhuman workloads cannot become the new normal.

the blip remains a great metaphor for coronavirus and associated phenomena of denial and deliberate forgetting, and all completely by accident https://t.co/Z7M6MC6UAJ

— flglmn (@flglmn) August 21, 2021

• The reopening challenge. When to go remote. Where is the university? Public Education Is Set Up to Fail in the Pandemic.
• Feds Deliberately Targeted BLM Protesters To Disrupt The Movement, A Report Says.
• South Dakota DOE removed Indigenous topics from social studies standards before final draft.
• Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Here’s Why.
• How David Foster Wallace Used Compromise Aesthetics to Sell Infinite Jest.
• The Board Game Pandemic: Cooperative Sociotechnical Imaginaries Obscuring Power Relations.
• The meaning of the Paris Commune.
• “A Smile With Sharp Teeth”: Mike Richards’s Rise to ‘Jeopardy!’ Host Sparks Questions About His Past. Critic’s Notebook: A ‘Jeopardy!’ Host Search So Blundered It Almost Feels Intentional. Before Jeopardy! Can Choose Its Next Host, It Needs to Decide Who Its Audience Is.
• A Chair Reviews The Chair.
• 7 Thrillers About the Dark Side of Academia.
• How to Fix the Jobs Crisis. The Groves of Academe Are Always on Fire.

It's critical to the future of U.S. higher education that we put it this plainly: (1) The typical college professor is an adjunct. (2) The typical adjunct doesn't make a living wage. https://t.co/Dl9FncWfN2

— Jonathan Wilson (@jnthnwwlsn) August 7, 2021

I mean if I’m being *real* the Paw Patrol movie’s depiction of traumatized children trying to bring to justice the malignant politicians who have brought climate disaster to their city might have more relevance to the 21st century than anything on THE CHAIR.

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) August 22, 2021

• Teaching Classic Lit Helps Game Designers Make Better Stories. See? I’m HELPING.
• [98] Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty.

Say what you will about the discipline of English but my analysis of science fiction texts (they are about how socialism is good) is universally valid across all time and space

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) August 19, 2021

• Attack of the Superweeds.
• Tracing the Crisis of Desertification to Colonization.
• Why Transphobia Is at the Heart of the White Power Movement.
• Bill Aims To Change North Carolina’s Reputation As The Place For Adults To Marry Kids.
• The left eats itself, Current Affairs edition.

if it’s good enough for universities it should be good enough for journalists https://t.co/ywbDk4jJbg

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) August 18, 2021

• Stanley Aronowitz Knew That Freedom Begins Where Work Ends.
• Why I’m Ditching Grades This Semester: Saying goodbye to a 120-year-old failed technology.
• The Bob Dylan sex abuse lawsuit. His tour schedule is now at the core of this.
• The Fierce Legal Battle at the Heart of the Fight Over Reclining Airline Seats.
• Berlant v Jameson: Dawn of Justice.
• OnlyFans to shut down in November.
• The most thrilling film I’ve seen in years.
• It’s a bop.

sources confirm it is a bop pic.twitter.com/8NkGuaG6DV

— sara david (@SaraQDavid) August 16, 2021