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phd candidate @ concordia 〰️ the novel, ecology, form 〰️ he/him 〰️ [email protected]
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"The suppression, erasure, and eradication of 'Palestine' and 'Palestinian' in the English language, through blatant and nefarious means, is a threat to the very idea of language itself."
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The End of Palestine in English • Protean Magazine
Rawad Wehbe writes with an extended critique of the shallow representationalism and tokenization that have marked the orientation of leading Western media spaces towards Palestinian poetry. Rather tha...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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When I read things like this, I'm reminded of how the play and poetry of language — even punctuation! —  are ABSENT from most of the purely functional discussions of "why + how we write" precipitated by LLMs. I wish students could see the fun, freedom + productive friction in the process
shannonmattern.bsky.social Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 10d
A Granta series on punctuation and grammar: lol's, transitive verbs, ellipses, quotation marks, line breaks, xox's... 🤗
Mark Up | Granta
For an online series, Mark Up, we invited writers to tell us their thoughts on...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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my colleague+comrade, M.A. King, and I are organizing a roundtable at ACCUTE 2026 on poetry, capital's abstractions and antagonism, and registers of political resistance -- come thru! submit! "abstracts" are due nov 21: accute.ca/accute-2026-...
November 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Good morning
Claire-Louise Bennett - Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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I'm happy to be organizing a panel for ACCUTE 2026 in Montreal titled "Literature and the geo-logics of conquest."

The submission deadline is Friday, November 21. Please share with anyone who may be interested!
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Geology and its figures are surfacing across the humanities: fields including political ecology, Black studies, critical Anthropocene studies, and the energy humanities have recently incorporated or interrogated geologic language and methods. Such breadth of engagement with this branch of earth science evinces a recognition of what Kathryn Yusoff names the “grammars of geology”—the figurative and formal techniques that subtend geology’s reproduction of racial capitalism. Meanwhile, geology also circulates through a popular rhetoric that calls upon textuality to make its objects meaningful: Colin N. Waters, chair of the Anthropocene Working Group, notably appealed to literary technique in his invitation to engage sites of geologic significance by “[reading] the stories that they tell you.” What is at stake in this figuration of geology as textual? How can literary studies contribute to a critical unearthing of geology’s grammars? And how might an attention to geology in literature reroute what Tiffany Lethabo King calls the “grammar of conquest” that grids modern relation to dispossession and death? This panel invites papers that address geology’s literary and theoretical figurations with particular attention to their imbrication with histories of racialization and conquest. Possible topics may include: the geologic grammars of postcolonial studies and Black studies; the poetics of ground, earth, or extraction; literature and the metabolic rift; literatures of geology and empire; or geology and deconstruction.
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Live Like the Sky is released. A sound track for all of those out fighting genocides, facism and colonialism. 💕🍉. On all the streamers. Cds & Vinyl on Bandcamp.
Live Like The Sky, by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
11 track album
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October 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
brenmccracken.bsky.social
Very excited that Malcom Ferdinand will be visiting Concordia next month to share work from his recent book S'aimer la terre: Défaire l'habiter colonial

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[Speculative Life Speaker Series] Malcom Ferdinand: Loving Ourselves the Earth: Undoing the Colonial Inhabitation - Milieux
Join us for the fourth talk in the 2025 Speculative Life Speaker Series! This new lecture series brings together five distinguished speakers to engage with a range of thought-provoking topics […]
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March 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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I'm happy to have a short review of Jordan Abel's remarkable novel Empty Spaces in the new issue of The Goose: scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol...
Review of Empty Spaces by Jordan Abel
A book review of Jordan Abel's Empty Spaces.
scholars.wlu.ca
February 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Very excited to be back at ACLA this year! I'll be presenting as part of this seminar on "relation" and its attendant logics—see you there?
March 14, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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The editors of O BOD magazine, supported by the Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia, have collected a reading list to share and celebrate the work of Wanda Nanibush:

"I choose to take the heat. I choose peaceful disobedience."
www.obodmag.com/issue-4/wand...
Wanda Nanibush Reading List — O BOD MAGAZINE
Sharing the ongoing visionary work of Anishinaabe-kwe image and word warrior, curator, and community organizer Wanda Nanibush
www.obodmag.com
December 11, 2023 at 6:18 PM
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"How can a person make up for seven decades of misrepresentation and willful distortion in the time allotted to a sound bite?"
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No Human Being Can Exist | Saree Makdisi
What we are not allowed to say, as Palestinians speaking to the Western media, is that all life is equally valuable. That no event takes place in a vacuum. That history didn’t start on October 7, 20...
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October 26, 2023 at 3:52 PM