A small press publishing short books with big arguments. Discover our pamphlets at pricklyparadigm.com. Subscribe to our newsletter at pricklyparadigmpress.beehiiv.com.https://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3muzcpjkocm27"The ghosts of 9/11 still haunt the streets of America." Roberto J. González reflects on September 11 and his 2009 Prickly Paradigm pamphlet American Counterinsurgency. https://bit.ly/4A33as308 Sep 2026 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3muzcpjkocm27https://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3msdryy4li52tThe Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning by James Chandler is out in print today! Drawing on Swift, Barthes, and the WWE, Chandler explores an American tradition of hostility to intellectual life that goes back to the 1850s—and threatens democracy today. Order now! https://bit.ly/4w4jtBD05 Aug 2026 14:57 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3msdryy4li52thttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mrwp2ixsjo2yOpenAI’s rogue AI model reminds us of the pressing dangers that AI poses — as Paul Kockelman does in, “Last Words: Large Language Models and the AI Apocalypse.” The full text is online here: https://bit.ly/4pQ84UD31 Jul 2026 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrwp2ixsjo2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mr3zv37psx2uIn 2005, Susan McKinnon made mincemeat of evolutionary psychology in the Neo-Liberal Genetics. But ideas debunked decades ago still run rampant in the manosphere. See how McKinnon teaches us to confront bogus science on Prickly Dispatches. https://bit.ly/4wj9QA020 Jul 2026 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr3zv37psx2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mqrhsugikh2mJames Ferguson's Presence and Social Obligation (2021) is a must-read response to Trump. Learn more about why from our editors here: https://bit.ly/4yiEMBK16 Jul 2026 14:42 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqrhsugikh2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mqpf263hrb2mHere's your periodic reminder to keep an eye out for one of our upcoming titles: 'How Do We Think About Population in the Anthropocene?' Here's a sneak peek of what to expect: https://bit.ly/4eYVoag15 Jul 2026 18:47 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqpf263hrb2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mqpbl7eutw2aDelayed fireworks, a broken Ferris Wheel, and the watchful eyes of the National Guard—PPP's Smrithi Senthilnathan recaps her surreal and disturbing July 4th in DC on Prickly Dispatches. https://bit.ly/44vdcUs15 Jul 2026 17:45 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqpbl7eutw2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mqowhzwku32bJames Chandler, author of the newest PPP title The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning, has a new article in History Ireland detailing the link between the Trump administration and Scorsese's Gangs of New York. Read more here.15 Jul 2026 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqowhzwku32bhttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mqmqyn6l3s2jBefore you go to your next museum, consider checking out our pamphlet 'Museum, Inc: Inside the Global Art World' for a critical analysis of the role museums serve in the modern-day society. Read the pamphlet here: https://bit.ly/4faTvWz14 Jul 2026 17:43 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqmqyn6l3s2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mqkdf2bmks2sPopes and emperors have fought over authority for 800 years. Now the emperor has traded his throne for Silicon Valley, and the battleground is AI. Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical asks a bigger question than AI safety: who gets to claim divine legitimacy? https://bit.ly/4vsWPmi13 Jul 2026 18:34 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqkdf2bmks2shttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mqf3znej7d2sThinking today about Subaltern Studies and the second wave of anti-colonial revolutions. This week, we invite you to explore struggles for independence around the world through a series of essays in pamphlet form! Read the pamphlet here: https://bit.ly/4gswMb711 Jul 2026 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqf3znej7d2shttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mq7eseppsp2jWill AI eat us alive like the bear in Grizzly Man? It might if we're not careful. Terra Edwards comments on Paul Kockelman's Last Words and Werner Herzog at Prickly Dispatches. https://bit.ly/44Tl5TA09 Jul 2026 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq7eseppsp2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mq5k6gdcwr22Joined or considering joining a summer book club recently? Check out a 2025 book from Katarzyna Bartoszyńska exploring how book clubs change the way we read! Read the book here: https://bit.ly/4feeIjK08 Jul 2026 16:31 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq5k6gdcwr22https://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mpravinbsq2eTomorrow Keith Hart, founder of Prickly Pear Pamphlets, will be memorialized at Cambridge. Read about his life and legacy at Prickly Dispatches. https://bit.ly/4bqks7E03 Jul 2026 19:13 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpravinbsq2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mpoh25l2to26This July, celebrate independence — and Independent Retailer Month. In "New Consensus for Old," Thomas Frank examines what independence means when consumption becomes politics. How independent are our choices? Support independent thought. Support independent retailers. https://bit.ly/4axkNoR02 Jul 2026 16:25 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpoh25l2to26https://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mph2xhjpei26Our latest Prickly Dispatch connects the current geopolitical struggle in Iran to Bruno Latour's pamphlet War of the Worlds: What About Peace? How can Latour help us understand the current quagmire of negotiations? Find out here. https://bit.ly/4eC2hy529 Jun 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mph2xhjpei26https://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3movhp3vat22yOur Fall 2026 season is bound to be a good one. We can't wait for "The Know Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning" by James Chandler and "How Do We Think About Population in the Anthropocene?" by Alison Bashford, Duncan Kelly, and David Nally to hit the shelves. Keep track on our website.22 Jun 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3movhp3vat22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3modugt6d3h22If you missed it, our last Prickly Dispatch explored our history. Much has changed, but we remain tied to our mission — revitalizing the pamphlet tradition through big ideas, brief writings. Read our latest Dispatch, explore our prior Dispatches, and sign up to receive Dispatches to your inbox!15 Jun 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3modugt6d3h22https://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mo5yod4fjh2vToday's “From the Archives" revisits two early titles: the “Conversations with Anthropological Film-Makers” from 1995. Surprisingly contemporary, these pamphlets cover aspects of documentary filmmaking that resonate. Revisit the conversation with MacDougall here and with Llewelyn-Davies here.13 Jun 2026 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo5yod4fjh2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mo3i7uq5oe2pToday we are spotlighting "On Becoming Authentic" from 1996. Dive into an interview with artist Jimmie Durham that feels all the more urgent in the digital age: https://bit.ly/4utJ3ze12 Jun 2026 10:00 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo3i7uq5oe2phttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mnzbntkqwc2tToday we’re spotlighting "The Relation" by Marilyn Strathern. Strathern rethinks how knowledge is made, showing that what we accept as truth depends on relationships — what is connected, how, and what is left out. Her work reminds us that documentation is never neutral. http://bit.ly/3RRP8YO11 Jun 2026 12:57 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnzbntkqwc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mnrki5jcsm2gToday kicks off International Archives Week, a celebration of preservation, memory, and public knowledge. This week, we'll feature pamphlets from our archives, spotlighting older that are no less relevant today. Start by reading about our history on Prickly Dispatches: https://bit.ly/3RW4dIL08 Jun 2026 11:14 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnrki5jcsm2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mmtmijamqq2nThe first papal encyclical on AI quotes... Gandalf? Paul Kockelman, author of PPP's Last Words, looks at Leo XIV and Tolkien—a little lembas bread for the mind. https://bit.ly/4dJlxI327 May 2026 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmtmijamqq2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mlnjwzmkwc23In 2002 Richard Rorty gave a rare, comprehensive overview of his politics to PPP. The Left, he argued, was losing sight of the real enemy: bosses, oligarchies. 20 years later, our publisher rereads Rorty to see if that argument still holds water. https://bit.ly/4tusPW612 May 2026 10:03 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnjwzmkwc23https://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mkd6xgofmj2oA book recommendation for Independent Bookstore Day: Reading the Room by Paul Yamazaki. Paul has worked at City Lights Bookstore in SF for over 50 years—he's had a front row seat to literary history. Reading the Room is his love letter to books, bookstores, and booksellers. https://bit.ly/4u0UbDR25 Apr 2026 13:55 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkd6xgofmj2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mkad2qzdos2tIs Trump losing his touch? For Dispatches, James Chandler writes about that weird Trump-as-Christ post, Epstein, Iran, and Trump's losing war against satire. https://pricklyparadigmpress.beehiiv.com/p/is-trump-losing-his-touch24 Apr 2026 10:30 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkad2qzdos2thttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mk6bojqgag2oWhat better for World Book Day than books about books? Ode Books is our imprint dedicated to the book industry, booksellers, and the intellectual and emotional life that books sustain. Check out our titles from Katarzyna Bartoszyńska, Donna Seaman, and Paul Yamazaki. https://bit.ly/4vJdVh523 Apr 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6bojqgag2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mjzebuw2n223From Dispatches: Prayer at the Pengagon, holy wars—Pete Hegseth's language isn't just religious, it's medieval. It's the kind of rhetoric Bruce Holsinger wrote about in Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism & the War on Terror, a book that's more relevant than ever. Read subscribe here: bit.ly/4u2OS72 https://bit.ly/4u2OS7221 Apr 2026 16:03 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjzebuw2n223https://bsky.app/profile/pricklyparadigm.bsky.social/post/3mjtvzh5rm22pWe’re expanding beyond the world of print, too. Our authors, editors, and guest contributors write about our pamphlets and the wider world over on PPP Dispatches. See for yourself and subscribe to our freshest thinking over at pricklyparadigmpress.beehiiv.com https://pricklyparadigmpress.beehiiv.com19 Apr 2026 12:05 +0000at://did:plc:mervb4dzbybohhf4avazsdio/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjtvzh5rm22p