Javier Padilla
@javierpadillar.bsky.social
writer, professor — Books: *Dodecadencias* (@Valparaisoed, 2023) *Revolutionary Poetics: Decolonial Poetry and the Time of Liberation* (forthcoming, @SUNYpress)
Jameson with the best analysis of Pluribus:
“This is a good anonymity, which can be opposed with some ethical satisfaction to the bourgeois individualism whose disappearance we have hitherto greeted with such mixed feelings.”
“This is a good anonymity, which can be opposed with some ethical satisfaction to the bourgeois individualism whose disappearance we have hitherto greeted with such mixed feelings.”
December 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Jameson with the best analysis of Pluribus:
“This is a good anonymity, which can be opposed with some ethical satisfaction to the bourgeois individualism whose disappearance we have hitherto greeted with such mixed feelings.”
“This is a good anonymity, which can be opposed with some ethical satisfaction to the bourgeois individualism whose disappearance we have hitherto greeted with such mixed feelings.”
Slightly edited version of the cover!
December 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Slightly edited version of the cover!
first @criterion.bsky.social I ever watched:
December 6, 2025 at 8:56 PM
first @criterion.bsky.social I ever watched:
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differences 36.2–3 is out now — edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, "Lyric beyond Containment" features essays from Jacques Khalip, David Marriott, Andrea Brady, Amy De'Ath, Whitney DeVos, Jan Mieszkowski, Ren Ellis Neyra, Susan Briante, more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
December 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
differences 36.2–3 is out now — edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, "Lyric beyond Containment" features essays from Jacques Khalip, David Marriott, Andrea Brady, Amy De'Ath, Whitney DeVos, Jan Mieszkowski, Ren Ellis Neyra, Susan Briante, more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
New book on evil by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh. Jason's books are always interesting and explore areas rich in darkness and opacities. See my review of his Omnicide II: jpadilla.hcommons.org/2024/05/12/60/
On Literature and Mania – Javier Padilla
jpadilla.hcommons.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
New book on evil by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh. Jason's books are always interesting and explore areas rich in darkness and opacities. See my review of his Omnicide II: jpadilla.hcommons.org/2024/05/12/60/
Pluribus is a mediocre, vaguely racist, show about America's anxieties about the prospect of a post-unilateral world.
December 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Pluribus is a mediocre, vaguely racist, show about America's anxieties about the prospect of a post-unilateral world.
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We have a cover. Book will be out Summer ‘26.
December 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We have a cover. Book will be out Summer ‘26.
We have a cover. Book will be out Summer ‘26.
December 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
We have a cover. Book will be out Summer ‘26.
The Universe is deaf and blind, we can only love
it and assist it. Man is the being who assists the
Universe.
The Earth, the World, the Universe have to do
with man: the Earth a little, the World a lot, the
Universe passionately. The Universe is the inner
passion for the Remote.
it and assist it. Man is the being who assists the
Universe.
The Earth, the World, the Universe have to do
with man: the Earth a little, the World a lot, the
Universe passionately. The Universe is the inner
passion for the Remote.
December 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The Universe is deaf and blind, we can only love
it and assist it. Man is the being who assists the
Universe.
The Earth, the World, the Universe have to do
with man: the Earth a little, the World a lot, the
Universe passionately. The Universe is the inner
passion for the Remote.
it and assist it. Man is the being who assists the
Universe.
The Earth, the World, the Universe have to do
with man: the Earth a little, the World a lot, the
Universe passionately. The Universe is the inner
passion for the Remote.
Marx with a devastating reading of Edmund Burke:
December 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Marx with a devastating reading of Edmund Burke:
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‘Everyone in the movie agrees that the real monster is the monster’s father. Or his boss, or his dictator. There are many roles in life that involve making others disappear.’
Michael Wood watches Guillermo del Toro's 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood watches Guillermo del Toro's 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood · At the Movies: ‘Frankenstein’
In all versions of the story a human competes with God by creating a living being. The difference in Guillermo del Toro...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
‘Everyone in the movie agrees that the real monster is the monster’s father. Or his boss, or his dictator. There are many roles in life that involve making others disappear.’
Michael Wood watches Guillermo del Toro's 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood watches Guillermo del Toro's 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Queer Edmund Burke wasn’t in my cards:
December 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Queer Edmund Burke wasn’t in my cards:
Snowy af upstate
Cortázar: "Por eso el agua elige delicadamente la nieve, que la alienta en su más secreta esperanza, la de fijar para sí misma las formas de todo lo que no es agua, las casas, los prados, las montañas, los árboles."
Cortázar: "Por eso el agua elige delicadamente la nieve, que la alienta en su más secreta esperanza, la de fijar para sí misma las formas de todo lo que no es agua, las casas, los prados, las montañas, los árboles."
December 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Snowy af upstate
Cortázar: "Por eso el agua elige delicadamente la nieve, que la alienta en su más secreta esperanza, la de fijar para sí misma las formas de todo lo que no es agua, las casas, los prados, las montañas, los árboles."
Cortázar: "Por eso el agua elige delicadamente la nieve, que la alienta en su más secreta esperanza, la de fijar para sí misma las formas de todo lo que no es agua, las casas, los prados, las montañas, los árboles."
Best quote I came across from Lyotard, one that is applicable to Cronenberg’s Crash:
Beauty gives a positive pleasure. But there is another kind of pleasure that is bound to a passion stronger than satisfaction, and that is pain and impending death.
Beauty gives a positive pleasure. But there is another kind of pleasure that is bound to a passion stronger than satisfaction, and that is pain and impending death.
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Best quote I came across from Lyotard, one that is applicable to Cronenberg’s Crash:
Beauty gives a positive pleasure. But there is another kind of pleasure that is bound to a passion stronger than satisfaction, and that is pain and impending death.
Beauty gives a positive pleasure. But there is another kind of pleasure that is bound to a passion stronger than satisfaction, and that is pain and impending death.
Nice summary of one of the chapters of my upcoming book (by Sonia Posmentier)
December 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Nice summary of one of the chapters of my upcoming book (by Sonia Posmentier)
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Today! All old and new books in @columbiaup.bsky.social's Modernist Latitudes series are 50% off, including REORIENTALISM by Nariman Skakov; STATIC FORMS by Shir Alon; STITCH, UNSTITCH by @kristingrogan.bsky.social; and MODERNISM & THE MIDDLE PASSAGE by Laura Winkiel bit.ly/4rupQx9
December 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Today! All old and new books in @columbiaup.bsky.social's Modernist Latitudes series are 50% off, including REORIENTALISM by Nariman Skakov; STATIC FORMS by Shir Alon; STITCH, UNSTITCH by @kristingrogan.bsky.social; and MODERNISM & THE MIDDLE PASSAGE by Laura Winkiel bit.ly/4rupQx9
Wordsworth somehow tastes like winter:
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Wordsworth somehow tastes like winter:
Eyes Wide Shut: a movie about how paganism never died, and continues to thrive in a Christian garb.
December 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Eyes Wide Shut: a movie about how paganism never died, and continues to thrive in a Christian garb.
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‘The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned against both.’
Hal Foster on the Surrealists and anti-fascism.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster on the Surrealists and anti-fascism.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster · Tightrope of Hope: Surrealism v. Fascism
The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
‘The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned against both.’
Hal Foster on the Surrealists and anti-fascism.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster on the Surrealists and anti-fascism.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Went to the library to pick up a book, ended up checking out 10 books.
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Went to the library to pick up a book, ended up checking out 10 books.
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STATIC FORMS: WRITING THE PRESENT IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST, by Shir Alon, is one of many amazing new books in Middle East studies from @columbiaup.bsky.social. Use the discount code MESA and save 30%. buff.ly/RMtSmQ9 #MESA2025 #ModernistLatitudes
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
STATIC FORMS: WRITING THE PRESENT IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST, by Shir Alon, is one of many amazing new books in Middle East studies from @columbiaup.bsky.social. Use the discount code MESA and save 30%. buff.ly/RMtSmQ9 #MESA2025 #ModernistLatitudes
We have a book description 👀
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
We have a book description 👀