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James Martell

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French Literature professor. He, his, him. (If you google me I’m going to find out through academiadotedu) https://lyon.academia.edu/JamesMartell

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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 1d

James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 2d

I mean it’s just not tasty

Escargots on the other hand… 🤤

James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 2d

long live Frogespierre!

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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 4d

some of you (in America) would not recognize a snake oil administration even if it swindle you out of all your wealth, health, and community ties, and it shows.

James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 6d

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My last review on Plastic Theory for The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory has come out, it reviews texts on plasticity and concrete, the life sciences, historicity in Malabou & Tagore, and includes a serendipitious digression on Kafka's Verwandlung.

Plastic Theory/Studies

Abstract. This, my last year as reviewer of this section, included some of the most complex and promising texts of plastic theory/studies that I have read

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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 7d

the new assistant dean of X / me, French prof, at faculty assembly

James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 11d

sept 30 / oct 1

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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 12d

I wonder how those generals, admirals, etc., feel about reality TV-3AM infomercial quality d celebrities talking to them about standards and moral values....

James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 21d

This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

Opinion | This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well.

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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 29d

people (the nyt) are confusing the free informed debate that happens in a classroom with the opportunistic and hostile demagoguery of grifters and Bible peddlers undermining such free spaces

James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · Sep 12

mailchi.mp/bloomsbury/w... "Resisting Big Tech" Bloomsbury News Letter includes our recently published Beckett & Nature volume

Resisting Big Tech

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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · Aug 22

and my life would have been a series of beautiful and mysterious moments interrupted here and there by me saying: "wait... wait... my foot is asleep... ow.. ow... can't stand up too fast..."

James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · Aug 14

3 years later, I’m finally going to crack that one open

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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · Aug 11

I think the reason why, while always close to philosophy and its writing, I've never identified as a philosopher, is that, ultimately, I do not want to be anything close to a cop.

those micro/macro fascistic tendencies in phil (particularly analytic), ooph...

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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · Aug 7

www.bloomsbury.com/us/beckett-a... out today!

Beckett and Nature

New analyses on the insightful ways in which Beckett's work actively engages with contested notions of Nature and the natural, developing a radical version of m…

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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · Aug 5

There’s a reason Dante put fraud in the last circle of Hell www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders

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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · Aug 3

at what point we just find a way to switch all the male comedian podcasts men are listening to for audiobooks of V. Woolf, C. Lispector, H. Cixous, M. Duras, E. Jelinek, etc?

drastic times call for drastic measures

James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · Aug 2

when are we talking about the real Sydney S. scandal?!: not reading Lacan in French

gross

James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · Aug 2

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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · Jul 28

www.acla.org/seminar/1c86...

ACLA Seminar: Doppelgänger, Mirror Worlds, Twins, and Doubles

View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association

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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · Jul 27

Ah, thank you for reminding me of Char! C'est parti!

James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · Jul 27

I love The Flanders Road! and Exupery is outstanding. At least we will read Le petit prince, for sure.

James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · Jul 27

great suggestions, thank you!

James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · Jul 27

preparing my WWI & WWII French lit & cinema syllabus.
Colleagues, what are your *must* texts and films for such a course?

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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · Jul 26

could we also have humanities, scientific literacy, and ethics exams, please?

And no monolingual representatives allowed either.

If you can’t handle two+ languages you should not be representing anybody else