James Reath
@jamesreath.bsky.social
Writer + Researcher /// C20 Culture /// Wellcome Early-Career Research Fellow //// University of Exeter /// modernism + post-modernism; human + more-than-human health
ANEXACT FORM & MODERNIST CULTURE (EUP: 2025)
WIP: MOLECULAR DREAMWORLDS
ANEXACT FORM & MODERNIST CULTURE (EUP: 2025)
WIP: MOLECULAR DREAMWORLDS
Pinned
To mark the publication of my first book, join us online (or in-person) on 3rd Dec 2025 at 16:30GMT / 11:30EST
Everyone is welcome 😊
Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social @becimay.bsky.social @emmywaldman.bsky.social
Info: bit.ly/3LZXc6w
Everyone is welcome 😊
Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social @becimay.bsky.social @emmywaldman.bsky.social
Info: bit.ly/3LZXc6w
To mark the publication of my first book, join us online (or in-person) on 3rd Dec 2025 at 16:30GMT / 11:30EST
Everyone is welcome 😊
Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social @becimay.bsky.social @emmywaldman.bsky.social
Info: bit.ly/3LZXc6w
Everyone is welcome 😊
Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social @becimay.bsky.social @emmywaldman.bsky.social
Info: bit.ly/3LZXc6w
November 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
To mark the publication of my first book, join us online (or in-person) on 3rd Dec 2025 at 16:30GMT / 11:30EST
Everyone is welcome 😊
Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social @becimay.bsky.social @emmywaldman.bsky.social
Info: bit.ly/3LZXc6w
Everyone is welcome 😊
Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social @becimay.bsky.social @emmywaldman.bsky.social
Info: bit.ly/3LZXc6w
Lee Miller’s Man and tar (c.1929-1931)
November 11, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Lee Miller’s Man and tar (c.1929-1931)
“a spectrum of chemical jams and jellies”
— Fran Ross, Oreo (1974)
— Fran Ross, Oreo (1974)
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“a spectrum of chemical jams and jellies”
— Fran Ross, Oreo (1974)
— Fran Ross, Oreo (1974)
Can’t wait to read this, Nicholas Shapiro’s inspiring “chemical ethnography” of formaldehyde in budget mobile homes…
Very excited for Homesick by Nick Shapiro.
It tells a story of formaldehyde exposure from prefab trailers, which does some heavy, complex lifting itself. But what I love most is how it chronicles multiple approaches to activist research & how to let the research lead you. @dukepress.bsky.social
It tells a story of formaldehyde exposure from prefab trailers, which does some heavy, complex lifting itself. But what I love most is how it chronicles multiple approaches to activist research & how to let the research lead you. @dukepress.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Can’t wait to read this, Nicholas Shapiro’s inspiring “chemical ethnography” of formaldehyde in budget mobile homes…
recent art photo dump w/ Paul Thek, Mike Kelley, Lee Seung Jio, Sophie Calle
October 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
recent art photo dump w/ Paul Thek, Mike Kelley, Lee Seung Jio, Sophie Calle
Some close ups of Ambera Wellmann’s Death Masks Eternity (2025)
October 7, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Some close ups of Ambera Wellmann’s Death Masks Eternity (2025)
"one of those giant shopping malls surrounded by a wall that you bounced off like a rubber ball—unless you had a credit card on you" -- PKD, A Scanner Darkly (1977)
September 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"one of those giant shopping malls surrounded by a wall that you bounced off like a rubber ball—unless you had a credit card on you" -- PKD, A Scanner Darkly (1977)
Hopefully there is already one in the works but Rosalyn Drexler's novel To Smithereens (1972) needs a UK publisher
September 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Hopefully there is already one in the works but Rosalyn Drexler's novel To Smithereens (1972) needs a UK publisher
strange days in Transnistria
“Transnistria is not a real country […] It is basically a big business corporation owned and run by two local oligarchs who’ve made their fortunes on free supplies of Russian gas”
on.ft.com/4gg2bew The secretive corporate empire that captured a breakaway state
“Transnistria is not a real country […] It is basically a big business corporation owned and run by two local oligarchs who’ve made their fortunes on free supplies of Russian gas”
on.ft.com/4gg2bew The secretive corporate empire that captured a breakaway state
The secretive corporate empire that captured a breakaway state
Sheriff dominates the economy of Transnistria and its pro-Russian government, but the war in Ukraine has thrown its future into doubt
on.ft.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
strange days in Transnistria
“Transnistria is not a real country […] It is basically a big business corporation owned and run by two local oligarchs who’ve made their fortunes on free supplies of Russian gas”
on.ft.com/4gg2bew The secretive corporate empire that captured a breakaway state
“Transnistria is not a real country […] It is basically a big business corporation owned and run by two local oligarchs who’ve made their fortunes on free supplies of Russian gas”
on.ft.com/4gg2bew The secretive corporate empire that captured a breakaway state
“bones fuss about in your hand
like spandex in a donut.”
-- Keston Sutherland, Neocosis (2005)
like spandex in a donut.”
-- Keston Sutherland, Neocosis (2005)
September 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM
“bones fuss about in your hand
like spandex in a donut.”
-- Keston Sutherland, Neocosis (2005)
like spandex in a donut.”
-- Keston Sutherland, Neocosis (2005)
“I gradually lost all fear of distortion. I perhaps oozed, rather than thought. What united and separated things? An imperceptible membrane, stretchy, spangled, gauzelike, of total vitality, which included laziness. A crystalline gel. An alphabet.”
- Lisa Robertson's novel The Baudelaire Fractal
- Lisa Robertson's novel The Baudelaire Fractal
August 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
“I gradually lost all fear of distortion. I perhaps oozed, rather than thought. What united and separated things? An imperceptible membrane, stretchy, spangled, gauzelike, of total vitality, which included laziness. A crystalline gel. An alphabet.”
- Lisa Robertson's novel The Baudelaire Fractal
- Lisa Robertson's novel The Baudelaire Fractal
I wrote about doodles, democracy, & everyday aesthetics for @aeon.co.
The essay is a spin-off from a chapter in my book Anexact Form & Modernist Culture!
The essay is a spin-off from a chapter in my book Anexact Form & Modernist Culture!
’The aesthetic experience of the doodle is never fixed, never singular.’ Why is doodling celebrated by modernists in the 20th century as a democratic and non-hierarchical art form?
Doodles are the freewheeling emanations of our pixillated minds | Aeon Essays
Doodles are the emanations of our pixillated minds, freewheeling into dissociation, graphology, and radical openness
buff.ly
August 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I wrote about doodles, democracy, & everyday aesthetics for @aeon.co.
The essay is a spin-off from a chapter in my book Anexact Form & Modernist Culture!
The essay is a spin-off from a chapter in my book Anexact Form & Modernist Culture!
Leigh Bowery at home in his London council flat (c 1980s) w/ Star Trek wallpaper, latex glue pour hair, kitsch Elvis Presley toy, psychedelic Dreamachine-style lamp, polyfoam shoulders, flowers, tele, etc.
August 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Leigh Bowery at home in his London council flat (c 1980s) w/ Star Trek wallpaper, latex glue pour hair, kitsch Elvis Presley toy, psychedelic Dreamachine-style lamp, polyfoam shoulders, flowers, tele, etc.
Brilliant review by Eugenie Brinkema on Deleuze’s seminar On Painting...
“Philosophy doesn’t work as TL;DR.”
“Philosophy doesn’t work as TL;DR.”
"Chaotic and utterly magnificent": Art in America reviews Deleuze's On Painting (new translation out next week!): www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
Deleuze’s Newly Translated Seminars on Painting Are Chaotic and Magnificent
A newly translated edition of seminars on painting by Gilles Deleuze are chaotic and magnificent.
www.artnews.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Brilliant review by Eugenie Brinkema on Deleuze’s seminar On Painting...
“Philosophy doesn’t work as TL;DR.”
“Philosophy doesn’t work as TL;DR.”
“Leap over silent forms”
- “Snow Line” (c 1928-1935) from Chika Sagawa’s Collected Poems
- “Snow Line” (c 1928-1935) from Chika Sagawa’s Collected Poems
August 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“Leap over silent forms”
- “Snow Line” (c 1928-1935) from Chika Sagawa’s Collected Poems
- “Snow Line” (c 1928-1935) from Chika Sagawa’s Collected Poems
Reposted by James Reath
We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year.
The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)
The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)
August 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year.
The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)
The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)
“Oil is sentient babbling underfoot / AI break my face”
new dark age "techno poetry" by Karina Bush ("I Wear My Tinfoil Hat as a Crown" from FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION SLUT)
youtu.be/r4K5jF7U41A?...
new dark age "techno poetry" by Karina Bush ("I Wear My Tinfoil Hat as a Crown" from FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION SLUT)
youtu.be/r4K5jF7U41A?...
DeepSNAKES Techno Poetry Mixtape
YouTube video by DeepSNAKES
www.youtube.com
August 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
“Oil is sentient babbling underfoot / AI break my face”
new dark age "techno poetry" by Karina Bush ("I Wear My Tinfoil Hat as a Crown" from FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION SLUT)
youtu.be/r4K5jF7U41A?...
new dark age "techno poetry" by Karina Bush ("I Wear My Tinfoil Hat as a Crown" from FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION SLUT)
youtu.be/r4K5jF7U41A?...
Publication day for my first book! Thank you @edinburghup.bsky.social & everyone that has helped over the years.
The book cover image is 'The Metaphysics of Mr Lucky' by the wonderful Jonathan Lasker.
Please consider reviewing and/or ordering for your university libraries! (link: bit.ly/4lp8yxj)
The book cover image is 'The Metaphysics of Mr Lucky' by the wonderful Jonathan Lasker.
Please consider reviewing and/or ordering for your university libraries! (link: bit.ly/4lp8yxj)
July 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Publication day for my first book! Thank you @edinburghup.bsky.social & everyone that has helped over the years.
The book cover image is 'The Metaphysics of Mr Lucky' by the wonderful Jonathan Lasker.
Please consider reviewing and/or ordering for your university libraries! (link: bit.ly/4lp8yxj)
The book cover image is 'The Metaphysics of Mr Lucky' by the wonderful Jonathan Lasker.
Please consider reviewing and/or ordering for your university libraries! (link: bit.ly/4lp8yxj)
"Kafka’s animals, crossbreeds, and uncanny nonhumans emerge at a precise point. They are the spokescreatures of a precarious borderland where the human-ness of the human being comes undone. They speak from and embody a crisis in the human self-image" (Aaron Schuster)
www.e-flux.com/notes/675817...
www.e-flux.com/notes/675817...
How to Research Like a Dog - Notes - e-flux
Aaron Schuster on Kafka’s short story “Investigations of a Dog.”
www.e-flux.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"Kafka’s animals, crossbreeds, and uncanny nonhumans emerge at a precise point. They are the spokescreatures of a precarious borderland where the human-ness of the human being comes undone. They speak from and embody a crisis in the human self-image" (Aaron Schuster)
www.e-flux.com/notes/675817...
www.e-flux.com/notes/675817...
Kids in smalltown 1950s MA were given perks for joining “Science Club”: baseball tickets, Mickey Mouse watches, free breakfasts
Only, the cereal was laced w/ radioactive iron + the milk radioactive calcium - part of a secret experiment by the Atomic Energy Commission, MIT scientists, + Quaker Oats
Only, the cereal was laced w/ radioactive iron + the milk radioactive calcium - part of a secret experiment by the Atomic Energy Commission, MIT scientists, + Quaker Oats
July 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Kids in smalltown 1950s MA were given perks for joining “Science Club”: baseball tickets, Mickey Mouse watches, free breakfasts
Only, the cereal was laced w/ radioactive iron + the milk radioactive calcium - part of a secret experiment by the Atomic Energy Commission, MIT scientists, + Quaker Oats
Only, the cereal was laced w/ radioactive iron + the milk radioactive calcium - part of a secret experiment by the Atomic Energy Commission, MIT scientists, + Quaker Oats
It seems Federer, Sampras, Djokovic all hit the ball with polyester laced with cow intestines.
It takes about two cows to string a pro tennis racket & often "natural gut" strings are mixed with polyester. There are also nylon filament "synthetic gut" strings that mimic the spring of cow intestines.
It takes about two cows to string a pro tennis racket & often "natural gut" strings are mixed with polyester. There are also nylon filament "synthetic gut" strings that mimic the spring of cow intestines.
July 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
It seems Federer, Sampras, Djokovic all hit the ball with polyester laced with cow intestines.
It takes about two cows to string a pro tennis racket & often "natural gut" strings are mixed with polyester. There are also nylon filament "synthetic gut" strings that mimic the spring of cow intestines.
It takes about two cows to string a pro tennis racket & often "natural gut" strings are mixed with polyester. There are also nylon filament "synthetic gut" strings that mimic the spring of cow intestines.
“to be made pure mucous membrane” (Sartre)
July 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“to be made pure mucous membrane” (Sartre)
My first book ANEXACT FORM & MODERNIST CULTURE is published July 2025! I'm very excited for this to be out in the world + feeling grateful to everyone at Edinburgh University Press - especially series editors Georgina Colby & Eric White!!
🎉 ꩜
@edinburghup.bsky.social /// tinyurl.com/3sf7yj8d
🎉 ꩜
@edinburghup.bsky.social /// tinyurl.com/3sf7yj8d
June 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
My first book ANEXACT FORM & MODERNIST CULTURE is published July 2025! I'm very excited for this to be out in the world + feeling grateful to everyone at Edinburgh University Press - especially series editors Georgina Colby & Eric White!!
🎉 ꩜
@edinburghup.bsky.social /// tinyurl.com/3sf7yj8d
🎉 ꩜
@edinburghup.bsky.social /// tinyurl.com/3sf7yj8d