Alexandra Irimia
@alexandrairim.bsky.social
Literary-minded researcher & border-crosser.
soon in Heidelberg, on the last talk for the project this conference season! 🍂
October 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
soon in Heidelberg, on the last talk for the project this conference season! 🍂
the fun begins tomorrow
— grateful to everyone involved, I couldn't have made it happen without you!
— grateful to everyone involved, I couldn't have made it happen without you!
October 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
the fun begins tomorrow
— grateful to everyone involved, I couldn't have made it happen without you!
— grateful to everyone involved, I couldn't have made it happen without you!
next week at the University of Cologne we're looking at how literature engages with Niklas Luhmann's concept of organizational "boundary roles"
October 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
next week at the University of Cologne we're looking at how literature engages with Niklas Luhmann's concept of organizational "boundary roles"
The international #symposium Files, Forms, Fictions is turning into a real thing!
Browse through the full program and learn more about the event at filesformsfictions.com.
Thank you, @humboldt-foundation.de & @unibonn.bsky.social, for all your support!
#bureaucraticfiction #comparativeliterature
Browse through the full program and learn more about the event at filesformsfictions.com.
Thank you, @humboldt-foundation.de & @unibonn.bsky.social, for all your support!
#bureaucraticfiction #comparativeliterature
September 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The international #symposium Files, Forms, Fictions is turning into a real thing!
Browse through the full program and learn more about the event at filesformsfictions.com.
Thank you, @humboldt-foundation.de & @unibonn.bsky.social, for all your support!
#bureaucraticfiction #comparativeliterature
Browse through the full program and learn more about the event at filesformsfictions.com.
Thank you, @humboldt-foundation.de & @unibonn.bsky.social, for all your support!
#bureaucraticfiction #comparativeliterature
Snippets of West German bureaucracy from the 1970s.
[gelatin silver prints from the exhibition Jupp Darchinger: The Eye of the Republic [Das Auge der Republik], LVR-Landesmuseum, open June 12 - September 14, 2025]
[gelatin silver prints from the exhibition Jupp Darchinger: The Eye of the Republic [Das Auge der Republik], LVR-Landesmuseum, open June 12 - September 14, 2025]
August 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Snippets of West German bureaucracy from the 1970s.
[gelatin silver prints from the exhibition Jupp Darchinger: The Eye of the Republic [Das Auge der Republik], LVR-Landesmuseum, open June 12 - September 14, 2025]
[gelatin silver prints from the exhibition Jupp Darchinger: The Eye of the Republic [Das Auge der Republik], LVR-Landesmuseum, open June 12 - September 14, 2025]
The French fascination for the curious life and paper forms of bureaucracy endures.
Here, screenshots from Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir (Henri Diamant-Berger, 1959), one of 4 film adaptations of Georges Courteline's 1893 eponymous novel.
#bureaucraticfiction #officenovel #bureaucratcomedy
Here, screenshots from Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir (Henri Diamant-Berger, 1959), one of 4 film adaptations of Georges Courteline's 1893 eponymous novel.
#bureaucraticfiction #officenovel #bureaucratcomedy
July 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The French fascination for the curious life and paper forms of bureaucracy endures.
Here, screenshots from Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir (Henri Diamant-Berger, 1959), one of 4 film adaptations of Georges Courteline's 1893 eponymous novel.
#bureaucraticfiction #officenovel #bureaucratcomedy
Here, screenshots from Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir (Henri Diamant-Berger, 1959), one of 4 film adaptations of Georges Courteline's 1893 eponymous novel.
#bureaucraticfiction #officenovel #bureaucratcomedy
I finished my guest lecture at Uni Konstanz and walked away with an unexpected gift. It will stay on my desk for a while.
Plus: a sharp audience, good conversations, most useful feedback. Thanks to all involved, it's truly been a pleasure!
Plus: a sharp audience, good conversations, most useful feedback. Thanks to all involved, it's truly been a pleasure!
July 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I finished my guest lecture at Uni Konstanz and walked away with an unexpected gift. It will stay on my desk for a while.
Plus: a sharp audience, good conversations, most useful feedback. Thanks to all involved, it's truly been a pleasure!
Plus: a sharp audience, good conversations, most useful feedback. Thanks to all involved, it's truly been a pleasure!
Thank you, GCSC - International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture @jlugiessen.bsky.social, for a fantastic on conference on Acts of Writing: Cultural Practices, Knowledge Construction, Authorship!
It was nice meeting you and hearing about so many fascinating research projects in the making.
It was nice meeting you and hearing about so many fascinating research projects in the making.
June 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Thank you, GCSC - International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture @jlugiessen.bsky.social, for a fantastic on conference on Acts of Writing: Cultural Practices, Knowledge Construction, Authorship!
It was nice meeting you and hearing about so many fascinating research projects in the making.
It was nice meeting you and hearing about so many fascinating research projects in the making.
#Italian #bureaucratic #fiction
Dr. Ciro Amendola (a pun on "Mr. Amendment") is no ordinary civil servant. As director of Italy’s Gazzetta Ufficiale—the nation’s official law journal—he stands at the critical junction where legislation becomes reality.
Dr. Ciro Amendola (a pun on "Mr. Amendment") is no ordinary civil servant. As director of Italy’s Gazzetta Ufficiale—the nation’s official law journal—he stands at the critical junction where legislation becomes reality.
June 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
#Italian #bureaucratic #fiction
Dr. Ciro Amendola (a pun on "Mr. Amendment") is no ordinary civil servant. As director of Italy’s Gazzetta Ufficiale—the nation’s official law journal—he stands at the critical junction where legislation becomes reality.
Dr. Ciro Amendola (a pun on "Mr. Amendment") is no ordinary civil servant. As director of Italy’s Gazzetta Ufficiale—the nation’s official law journal—he stands at the critical junction where legislation becomes reality.
Fantastic panel on impersonality in literature and the arts yesterday, at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association.
A huge thanks to everyone involved!
#acla #acla2025 #impersonality #bureaucraticmodernism #bureaucraticfiction #comparativeliterature #complit
A huge thanks to everyone involved!
#acla #acla2025 #impersonality #bureaucraticmodernism #bureaucraticfiction #comparativeliterature #complit
June 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Fantastic panel on impersonality in literature and the arts yesterday, at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association.
A huge thanks to everyone involved!
#acla #acla2025 #impersonality #bureaucraticmodernism #bureaucraticfiction #comparativeliterature #complit
A huge thanks to everyone involved!
#acla #acla2025 #impersonality #bureaucraticmodernism #bureaucraticfiction #comparativeliterature #complit
Had a great time last week in Vienna, at the Bureaugraphies workshop on cultures of protocol. I talked about Habsburg protocols and wartime bureaucracy records in "Forest of the Hanged".
More about the project, here: bureaugraphies.univie.ac.at?page_id=22
More about the project, here: bureaugraphies.univie.ac.at?page_id=22
May 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Had a great time last week in Vienna, at the Bureaugraphies workshop on cultures of protocol. I talked about Habsburg protocols and wartime bureaucracy records in "Forest of the Hanged".
More about the project, here: bureaugraphies.univie.ac.at?page_id=22
More about the project, here: bureaugraphies.univie.ac.at?page_id=22
happy to be part of this colorful lecture series on pop culture and pop literature, coming up in the summer semester at the University of Bonn ✨
April 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
happy to be part of this colorful lecture series on pop culture and pop literature, coming up in the summer semester at the University of Bonn ✨
Advanced international scholars in the #socialsciences and #humanities with an excellent #research profile are invited to apply until 25 May 2025 for a research #fellowship starting in 2026.
Learn more about the application: www.college-uaruhr.de/.../call-for...
Learn more about the application: www.college-uaruhr.de/.../call-for...
March 13, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Advanced international scholars in the #socialsciences and #humanities with an excellent #research profile are invited to apply until 25 May 2025 for a research #fellowship starting in 2026.
Learn more about the application: www.college-uaruhr.de/.../call-for...
Learn more about the application: www.college-uaruhr.de/.../call-for...
"[...] one
follows the others stick in
hand triumphant to disaster"
— William Carlos Williams, "Parable of the Blind", Pictures from Brueghel (1962)
[Pieter Brueghel, The Parable of the Blind (1568), Museo e Gallerie Nazionali de Capodimonte, Naples]
follows the others stick in
hand triumphant to disaster"
— William Carlos Williams, "Parable of the Blind", Pictures from Brueghel (1962)
[Pieter Brueghel, The Parable of the Blind (1568), Museo e Gallerie Nazionali de Capodimonte, Naples]
March 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"[...] one
follows the others stick in
hand triumphant to disaster"
— William Carlos Williams, "Parable of the Blind", Pictures from Brueghel (1962)
[Pieter Brueghel, The Parable of the Blind (1568), Museo e Gallerie Nazionali de Capodimonte, Naples]
follows the others stick in
hand triumphant to disaster"
— William Carlos Williams, "Parable of the Blind", Pictures from Brueghel (1962)
[Pieter Brueghel, The Parable of the Blind (1568), Museo e Gallerie Nazionali de Capodimonte, Naples]
“Consider, Milena, that the office is not just some arbitrary, stupid institution (although it is and very much so, but that’s not the point; as a matter of fact it’s more fantastic than stupid)”
Prague, July 31, 1920
[Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena, translated by Philip Boehm]
Prague, July 31, 1920
[Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena, translated by Philip Boehm]
May 16, 2024 at 6:48 PM
“Consider, Milena, that the office is not just some arbitrary, stupid institution (although it is and very much so, but that’s not the point; as a matter of fact it’s more fantastic than stupid)”
Prague, July 31, 1920
[Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena, translated by Philip Boehm]
Prague, July 31, 1920
[Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena, translated by Philip Boehm]
Thanks for the surprise welcome package, Humboldt Foundation! It's nice to be on board.
March 26, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Thanks for the surprise welcome package, Humboldt Foundation! It's nice to be on board.
"Landscape with scholars" - China, Ming dynasty, 17th century, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst
— the scholar, this strange animal in the wild
— the scholar, this strange animal in the wild
March 24, 2024 at 6:00 PM
"Landscape with scholars" - China, Ming dynasty, 17th century, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst
— the scholar, this strange animal in the wild
— the scholar, this strange animal in the wild
the gift economy meets the market economy
December 23, 2023 at 12:17 PM
the gift economy meets the market economy
Hot off the press from the KWI blog, courtesy of a wonderful team of editors!
Find the entire collection of articles here:
blog.kulturwissenschaften.de
Find the entire collection of articles here:
blog.kulturwissenschaften.de
December 15, 2023 at 9:40 AM
Hot off the press from the KWI blog, courtesy of a wonderful team of editors!
Find the entire collection of articles here:
blog.kulturwissenschaften.de
Find the entire collection of articles here:
blog.kulturwissenschaften.de
corporate niceties
December 8, 2023 at 9:43 PM
corporate niceties
there's this new guy at work
November 6, 2023 at 10:21 AM
there's this new guy at work
rambling prose for maddening times.
it's run-on sentence season.
it's run-on sentence season.
October 28, 2023 at 5:11 PM
rambling prose for maddening times.
it's run-on sentence season.
it's run-on sentence season.