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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 1h

László Krasznahorkai has won the Nobel Prize in Literature!

Read his interview with Hari Kunzru in The Yale Reviewon apocalypse, art, and the urgency of the present—and his short story “An Angel Passed Above Us,” also published in TYR.

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László Krasznahorkai on hope, apocalypse, and his new short story

Hari Kunzru interviews the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai.

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Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 11h

The 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium will be hosted by Duke University's Department of English, February 20-21, 2026! Check out the CFP (post45.org/graduate/202...) and please share with anyone who might be interested.

Abstracts are due November 14.

Abstract submission form QR code for the Post45 graduate symposium at Duke, February 20-21, 2026. The form is also accessible at https://tinyurl.com/2e2dr4wv.

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 13h

🙏🏼

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 16h

I wish

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 18h

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 22h

beautiful writing from @calflyn.bsky.social

"Wild flowers freed from their rocky ledges could grow wild in meadows and sunlit clearings – globe flowers, sow milk whistle, yellow bird’s-nest, toothwort. The strains of songbirds on the air. What ecologists call ‘structural diversity’."

ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 23h

"Around 100,000 deer are killed in Scotland every year, the vast majority of them red deer. Some are killed on traditional sporting estates, where for generations southerners and City types have flooded, keen to shoot a monarch of the glen"

this "solution" only increases the rich's aggression drive

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 23h

teaching today in "ethics in the public sphere"

the ethics and politics of the annual cull in scotland

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

morning moon

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

Shattered Remains: Richard Wright and Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism and the Destiny of the Common

Mikko Tuhkanen

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Shattered Remains: Richard Wright and Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism and the Destiny of the Common

Abstract. Demonstrating that Richard Wright anticipates the theory of totalitarianism famously outlined by Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), this article argues that, for both th...

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

Entextualizing Thanatopolitics: About Self-Immolation, Images, and the Enunciation of Negation

Mariem Guellouz

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Entextualizing Thanatopolitics: About Self-Immolation, Images, and the Enunciation of Negation | Semiotic Review

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 2d

liked this sentence a lot: “a recognition of the complex entanglements of activity and passivity calls for a certain level of vigilance and self-reflection when creating/performing indeterminate art, and for a recognition that any attempt to escape intentionality is always a partial, ongoing task.”

ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 2d

yesterday, i followed this suggestion and deleted my academia dot edu page

these websites are machines bent on the destruction of singularity

Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 4d

“Silence Becomes Something Else”: Cage, Al-Saji, and a Phenomenology of (Sonic) Hesitation

Molly Kelly

[fascinating]

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“Silence Becomes Something Else”Cage, Al-Saji, and a Phenomenology of (Sonic) Hesitation

Adopting a critically phenomenological approach, this article explores how John Cage’s famed 4’33” (1952) lends itself to a politics of hesitation. Reading Cage together with philosopher Alia Al-Saji,...

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Farah Bakaari @bakaari.bsky.social · 4d

“I am no less committed to resisting, but without the belief that history is on my side. It’s a form of stubborn resistance that is the legacy of my father.” I cried several times reading this. Who you’re now is who you will be on the other side of this.

www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

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Chris H. Lynn @chrishlynn.bsky.social · 19d

Very excited to announce the premiere of Frequency in Motion in the United States at the historic Black Mountain College Museum in Asheville, NC on 10/30/25 Info is here-
www.blackmountaincollege.org/events/butoh...

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 5d

marvelous creations

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 5d

poignant

youtu.be/wt7U7b-xAPU

El Far3i X Rola Azar - Wallada | الفرعي و رلى عازر - ولّادة [Official Video 2025]

YouTube video by El Far3i | الفرعي

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 5d

Nocturne, by Mexican poet Rosario Castellanos.
Latino poetry Friday!

Time is too long for life;
for knowledge not enough

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 5d

Did the Arabic Lexicographers Invent Majāz?

Avigail Noy

Journal of the American Oriental Society

doi.org/10.7817/jame...

Did the Arabic Lexicographers Invent Majāz? on JSTOR

Avigail Noy, Did the Arabic Lexicographers Invent Majāz?, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 141, No. 4 (October-December 2021), pp. 803-822

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 5d

the link doesn’t seem to work

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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 5d

19th (!) annual Feminist Theory Workshop
@dukegsfs.bsky.social
Registration is free. The line-up is amazing: Anne Cheng, Jane Ward, Erica Edwards, Sarah Haley, Hortense Spillers, Sharon Holland. Sign up! See you in Durham in March.
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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 5d

see her editor's note for more on this themed focus

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Editor’s Note

One day when my children were still smaller than me, I walked into our dining room to find them standing proudly, delightfully defiant grins across their f

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 5d

The editor of JAAR has asked us to share on our social media pages that she encourages article submissions devoted to a study of "banned words."

To submit, visit academic.oup.com/jaar or, with questions, email Prof. Andrea Jain directly at:

[email protected]

Journal of the American Academy of Religion | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the American Academy of Religion. Publishes research that covers the full range of world religious traditions together with provocative studies of the methodologies by which th...

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