Florian Mussgnug
@fmussgnug.bsky.social
Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies @UCL | Environmental Humanities | Utopia | Apocalypse | Anthropocene Studies | World Literature
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Many thanks to the Centre for Apocalyptic & Postapocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) @uniheidelberg.bsky.social for welcoming @fmussgnug.bsky.social, @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social & Emily Baker to talk about emergence and emergencies last week—we look forward to our discussions in Bloomsbury next spring!
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Many thanks to the Centre for Apocalyptic & Postapocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) @uniheidelberg.bsky.social for welcoming @fmussgnug.bsky.social, @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social & Emily Baker to talk about emergence and emergencies last week—we look forward to our discussions in Bloomsbury next spring!
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👏👏 to @fmussgnug.bsky.social for a 🎆 inaugural lecture on loving apocalypse too much @uclselcs.bsky.social last night!
Saul Bellow's Herzog, Frank Kermode, Loki & multiverse destruction, Mary Shelley's & apocalypses as a way of looking beyond & through them to something more sustaining.
Saul Bellow's Herzog, Frank Kermode, Loki & multiverse destruction, Mary Shelley's & apocalypses as a way of looking beyond & through them to something more sustaining.
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
👏👏 to @fmussgnug.bsky.social for a 🎆 inaugural lecture on loving apocalypse too much @uclselcs.bsky.social last night!
Saul Bellow's Herzog, Frank Kermode, Loki & multiverse destruction, Mary Shelley's & apocalypses as a way of looking beyond & through them to something more sustaining.
Saul Bellow's Herzog, Frank Kermode, Loki & multiverse destruction, Mary Shelley's & apocalypses as a way of looking beyond & through them to something more sustaining.
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Large red-letter day Tues 28 Oct @uclselcs.bsky.social + @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social when my wonderful colleague @fmussgnug.bsky.social will give his inaugural professorial lecture on why we love apocalypse so much (and maybe shouldn't…?). In person, 18:00.
#Anthropocene, #envhum, #literature
#Anthropocene, #envhum, #literature
Loving Apocalypse Too Much
The End of the World? Why would anybody wish to go there? And yet, if we do not want this world to end, why do we love Apocalypse so much?
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Large red-letter day Tues 28 Oct @uclselcs.bsky.social + @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social when my wonderful colleague @fmussgnug.bsky.social will give his inaugural professorial lecture on why we love apocalypse so much (and maybe shouldn't…?). In person, 18:00.
#Anthropocene, #envhum, #literature
#Anthropocene, #envhum, #literature
THE HERDS’ 20,000km journey has finally come to an end at one of the furthest reaches of the world. Since April, the animals’ route has led them through the Congo Jungle of Central Africa, the desert of the Sahel, and towns and cities across Europe.
@theherds.bsky.social
@theherds.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
THE HERDS’ 20,000km journey has finally come to an end at one of the furthest reaches of the world. Since April, the animals’ route has led them through the Congo Jungle of Central Africa, the desert of the Sahel, and towns and cities across Europe.
@theherds.bsky.social
@theherds.bsky.social
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On this day 48 years ago (July 15, 1977) the New York Times article ran a front page story "Scientists fear heavy use of coal may bring adverse shift in climate"
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July 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
On this day 48 years ago (July 15, 1977) the New York Times article ran a front page story "Scientists fear heavy use of coal may bring adverse shift in climate"
allouryesterdays.info/2023/07/14/j...
allouryesterdays.info/2023/07/14/j...
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Introducing a ✨ special issue✨ of Italica (Vol. 101, No. 3) on postsecular Italy, guest edited by Clodagh Brook, Monica Jansen @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social , and Maria Bonaria Urban. cc: @fmussgnug.bsky.social
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July 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Introducing a ✨ special issue✨ of Italica (Vol. 101, No. 3) on postsecular Italy, guest edited by Clodagh Brook, Monica Jansen @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social , and Maria Bonaria Urban. cc: @fmussgnug.bsky.social
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ital/art...
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ital/art...
THE HERDS in London: seeing the animals arrive at the far end of the street I was moved to tears
@theherds.bsky.social
www.theherds.org
@theherds.bsky.social
www.theherds.org
June 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
THE HERDS in London: seeing the animals arrive at the far end of the street I was moved to tears
@theherds.bsky.social
www.theherds.org
@theherds.bsky.social
www.theherds.org
The UCL Stampede for the Arts on a Heating Planet continues with Prof. Emma Bond’s Ravindranath Tagore Lecture in ComparativeLiterature @efbond.bsky.social “The Work of Literature in Times of Eco Crisis”.
www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...
www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...
June 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The UCL Stampede for the Arts on a Heating Planet continues with Prof. Emma Bond’s Ravindranath Tagore Lecture in ComparativeLiterature @efbond.bsky.social “The Work of Literature in Times of Eco Crisis”.
www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...
www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...
Very proud and happy to be hosting David Lan, producer of THE HERDS, and Maryam Pasha, London producer of THE HERDS at UCL.
@theherds.bsky.social
www.theherds.org
@theherds.bsky.social
www.theherds.org
June 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Very proud and happy to be hosting David Lan, producer of THE HERDS, and Maryam Pasha, London producer of THE HERDS at UCL.
@theherds.bsky.social
www.theherds.org
@theherds.bsky.social
www.theherds.org
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The Visual Arts on a Heating Planet 🌍
Join us for this roundtable event where artists & scholars explore the role of the arts in responding to the accelerating climate crisis.
📆26 June, 12noon - 1.45pm
📍IAS Common Ground
🔗 Book here! shorturl.at/gXFmr
Part of the UCL Stampede events & The Herds 🦁
Join us for this roundtable event where artists & scholars explore the role of the arts in responding to the accelerating climate crisis.
📆26 June, 12noon - 1.45pm
📍IAS Common Ground
🔗 Book here! shorturl.at/gXFmr
Part of the UCL Stampede events & The Herds 🦁
June 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The Visual Arts on a Heating Planet 🌍
Join us for this roundtable event where artists & scholars explore the role of the arts in responding to the accelerating climate crisis.
📆26 June, 12noon - 1.45pm
📍IAS Common Ground
🔗 Book here! shorturl.at/gXFmr
Part of the UCL Stampede events & The Herds 🦁
Join us for this roundtable event where artists & scholars explore the role of the arts in responding to the accelerating climate crisis.
📆26 June, 12noon - 1.45pm
📍IAS Common Ground
🔗 Book here! shorturl.at/gXFmr
Part of the UCL Stampede events & The Herds 🦁
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📣Next week!
The UCL Stampede for Arts on a Heating Planet🌍
Life-size puppet animals🦁 are travelling a 20,000km route to symbolise their flight from climate disaster as part of THE HERDS public art & climate initiative
Attend our event to mark the arrival in London👇
26-29 June
🔗 shorturl.at/T64aV
The UCL Stampede for Arts on a Heating Planet🌍
Life-size puppet animals🦁 are travelling a 20,000km route to symbolise their flight from climate disaster as part of THE HERDS public art & climate initiative
Attend our event to mark the arrival in London👇
26-29 June
🔗 shorturl.at/T64aV
June 17, 2025 at 3:30 PM
📣Next week!
The UCL Stampede for Arts on a Heating Planet🌍
Life-size puppet animals🦁 are travelling a 20,000km route to symbolise their flight from climate disaster as part of THE HERDS public art & climate initiative
Attend our event to mark the arrival in London👇
26-29 June
🔗 shorturl.at/T64aV
The UCL Stampede for Arts on a Heating Planet🌍
Life-size puppet animals🦁 are travelling a 20,000km route to symbolise their flight from climate disaster as part of THE HERDS public art & climate initiative
Attend our event to mark the arrival in London👇
26-29 June
🔗 shorturl.at/T64aV
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How might history help us understand the material and social significance of heat? In what ways do these histories connect with domestic structures, gender & patterns of consumption?
Join us for an Anthropocene Histories seminar on Histories of Heating🔥
📆4 June,3-5pm|
📍online
🔗 shorturl.at/a7VZD
Join us for an Anthropocene Histories seminar on Histories of Heating🔥
📆4 June,3-5pm|
📍online
🔗 shorturl.at/a7VZD
May 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
How might history help us understand the material and social significance of heat? In what ways do these histories connect with domestic structures, gender & patterns of consumption?
Join us for an Anthropocene Histories seminar on Histories of Heating🔥
📆4 June,3-5pm|
📍online
🔗 shorturl.at/a7VZD
Join us for an Anthropocene Histories seminar on Histories of Heating🔥
📆4 June,3-5pm|
📍online
🔗 shorturl.at/a7VZD
Lovely to hear so many different languages at Eurovision 2025. Is this the most polyglot Eurovision in history? Does anybody have stats? 🇪🇺
May 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Lovely to hear so many different languages at Eurovision 2025. Is this the most polyglot Eurovision in history? Does anybody have stats? 🇪🇺
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📣Join us for the first seminar in our Interdisciplinarity: new reconfigurations of the social and natural sciences seminar series!
Georgina Born and Andrew Barry will speak about AI, Environment and Art on 20 May from 5-6pm in the IAS Common Ground.
Sign up here👉 shorturl.at/fSi6c
Georgina Born and Andrew Barry will speak about AI, Environment and Art on 20 May from 5-6pm in the IAS Common Ground.
Sign up here👉 shorturl.at/fSi6c
May 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
📣Join us for the first seminar in our Interdisciplinarity: new reconfigurations of the social and natural sciences seminar series!
Georgina Born and Andrew Barry will speak about AI, Environment and Art on 20 May from 5-6pm in the IAS Common Ground.
Sign up here👉 shorturl.at/fSi6c
Georgina Born and Andrew Barry will speak about AI, Environment and Art on 20 May from 5-6pm in the IAS Common Ground.
Sign up here👉 shorturl.at/fSi6c
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Join us for this Anthropocene Histories seminar where Kristin Asdal & Tone Huse discuss how the ocean, in the years proceeding WWII, has been harnessed to become a space of ever-intensifying capital investment and innovation 🌊
📆14 May, 3-5pm
📍Online - zoom
🔗 shorturl.at/qQGsE
📆14 May, 3-5pm
📍Online - zoom
🔗 shorturl.at/qQGsE
May 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Join us for this Anthropocene Histories seminar where Kristin Asdal & Tone Huse discuss how the ocean, in the years proceeding WWII, has been harnessed to become a space of ever-intensifying capital investment and innovation 🌊
📆14 May, 3-5pm
📍Online - zoom
🔗 shorturl.at/qQGsE
📆14 May, 3-5pm
📍Online - zoom
🔗 shorturl.at/qQGsE
How long until it occurs to the US government to offer political asylum to members of the now-banned, far-right German Reichsbürger?
May 13, 2025 at 6:46 AM
How long until it occurs to the US government to offer political asylum to members of the now-banned, far-right German Reichsbürger?
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Innenministerium verbietet "Königreich Deutschland"#Reichsbürger#KönigreichDeutschland#Vereinsverbot
Innenministerium verbietet "Königreich Deutschland"
Das "Königreich Deutschland" ist eine der bekanntesten "Reichsbürger"-Vereinigungen. Nun wurde es verboten.
www.tagesschau.de
May 13, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Innenministerium verbietet "Königreich Deutschland"#Reichsbürger#KönigreichDeutschland#Vereinsverbot
Fredric Jameson’s early work on the fallacies of island thinking sheds light on Starmer’s gratuitous, pointless, hurtful remark about an “island of strangers”: island fantasies = nostalgia for feudalism where a coherent critique of capitalism appears impossible.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
UK risks becoming ‘island of strangers’ without more immigration curbs, Starmer says
PM unveils policies to ‘significantly’ drive down net migration including English tests and degree requirements
www.theguardian.com
May 12, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Fredric Jameson’s early work on the fallacies of island thinking sheds light on Starmer’s gratuitous, pointless, hurtful remark about an “island of strangers”: island fantasies = nostalgia for feudalism where a coherent critique of capitalism appears impossible.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
May 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Italy’s national holiday on 25 April 2025 will mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation from Fascism. This is how the City of Rome is marking the occasion:
April 16, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Italy’s national holiday on 25 April 2025 will mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation from Fascism. This is how the City of Rome is marking the occasion:
Poland’s underground “flying universities” of the 1970s and 1980s are a hard act to
follow, but an interesting model. In the Humanities, this kind of education would not require summative assessment, I think, but could be entirely focused on Socratic dialogue.
follow, but an interesting model. In the Humanities, this kind of education would not require summative assessment, I think, but could be entirely focused on Socratic dialogue.
M. Gessen makes the essential case here for colleges and universities to meet the Trumpist attack by recommitting to their core mission of education rather than attempting to safeguard their prestige & pocketbooks—and cites, for example, Bard & @bpi-bard.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...
Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, if They Dare
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Poland’s underground “flying universities” of the 1970s and 1980s are a hard act to
follow, but an interesting model. In the Humanities, this kind of education would not require summative assessment, I think, but could be entirely focused on Socratic dialogue.
follow, but an interesting model. In the Humanities, this kind of education would not require summative assessment, I think, but could be entirely focused on Socratic dialogue.
How odd that Dino Buzzati’s wonderfully odd, satirical SF novel, “Il grande ritratto” (1960) is now available in A.M. Appel’s elegant English translation - reviewed below by the great Michael Wood - but that the Italian original remains out of print. Mondadori, please act!
‘“The Singularity” shows us what happens when we don’t wait, and it takes us back to original sin.’
Michael Wood on Dino Buzzati’s weird fiction: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood on Dino Buzzati’s weird fiction: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood · Clean Machine: On Dino Buzzati
In a late interview Dino Buzzati offered his theory of a secular form of original sin. ‘The human being is a...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
How odd that Dino Buzzati’s wonderfully odd, satirical SF novel, “Il grande ritratto” (1960) is now available in A.M. Appel’s elegant English translation - reviewed below by the great Michael Wood - but that the Italian original remains out of print. Mondadori, please act!
