Alessandro Giammei
@giammei.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Yale University. Fairy Godfather, (It)Alien on the fence, working on Renaissance and Avant-Garde stuff, mostly in the context of ducal courts and fascist regimes. he/him lui/tu
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Teoria e pratica del femminismo ci offrono tre strumenti per liberare i maschi del patriarcato senza odiare la maschilità in sé: l'autocoscienza, la collettivizzazione, la sorellanza. Ci ho scritto un libro. Esce a marzo ma si preordina adesso. www.einaudi.it/catalogo-lib...
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"nada hay más monstruoso que los hombres con traje", Jacob Elordi. Al leer al bello Elordi en Venecia, he recordado este sugerente libro en que el autor desmonta 25 objetos vinculados con la masculinidad y nos ofrece vías para escapar de sus máscaras. @giammei.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"nada hay más monstruoso que los hombres con traje", Jacob Elordi. Al leer al bello Elordi en Venecia, he recordado este sugerente libro en que el autor desmonta 25 objetos vinculados con la masculinidad y nos ofrece vías para escapar de sus máscaras. @giammei.bsky.social
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The Met's spring exhibition presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style over 300 years through the concept of dandyism.
A look at the Met Museum's exhibition on Black dandyism
The Met's spring exhibition presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style over 300 years through the concept of dandyism.
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June 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The Met's spring exhibition presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style over 300 years through the concept of dandyism.
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"Le differenze di genere rimarranno sempre ingiuste e oppressive finché penseremo di colmarle allargando progressivamente la capienza dei correnti modelli bacati di successo, potere e libertà, invece di ripensarle su modelli alternativi a quelli del maschio spavaldo, volitivo e irrefrenabile."
April 7, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"Le differenze di genere rimarranno sempre ingiuste e oppressive finché penseremo di colmarle allargando progressivamente la capienza dei correnti modelli bacati di successo, potere e libertà, invece di ripensarle su modelli alternativi a quelli del maschio spavaldo, volitivo e irrefrenabile."
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It’s a heist movie but just with a bunch of humanities scholars trying to get their grant money back.
April 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It’s a heist movie but just with a bunch of humanities scholars trying to get their grant money back.
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LISTEN no one talks about this enough but the weird little monkey part of our brain really needs us to sit around in small groups, with no particular end goal or plan in mind, and just talk
Like a fundamental need for us to be healthy
Like a fundamental need for us to be healthy
March 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
LISTEN no one talks about this enough but the weird little monkey part of our brain really needs us to sit around in small groups, with no particular end goal or plan in mind, and just talk
Like a fundamental need for us to be healthy
Like a fundamental need for us to be healthy
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Trends are always opportunities.
The *trend* of anticipatory obedience to unconstitutional, anti-intellectual commands from the White House is an *opportunity* for higher education institutions to show their integrity and differentiate themselves in the conflict of ideologies.
The *trend* of anticipatory obedience to unconstitutional, anti-intellectual commands from the White House is an *opportunity* for higher education institutions to show their integrity and differentiate themselves in the conflict of ideologies.
March 18, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Trends are always opportunities.
The *trend* of anticipatory obedience to unconstitutional, anti-intellectual commands from the White House is an *opportunity* for higher education institutions to show their integrity and differentiate themselves in the conflict of ideologies.
The *trend* of anticipatory obedience to unconstitutional, anti-intellectual commands from the White House is an *opportunity* for higher education institutions to show their integrity and differentiate themselves in the conflict of ideologies.
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Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires:
uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com
uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com
March 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires:
uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com
uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com
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“Autonomy from men is autonomy from capital that uses men’s power to discipline us.” —Silvia Federici
Happy International Women’s Day!
www.bostonreview.net/articles/eve...
Happy International Women’s Day!
www.bostonreview.net/articles/eve...
Every Woman Is a Working Woman - Boston Review
Silvia Federici interviewed by Jill Richards.
www.bostonreview.net
March 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“Autonomy from men is autonomy from capital that uses men’s power to discipline us.” —Silvia Federici
Happy International Women’s Day!
www.bostonreview.net/articles/eve...
Happy International Women’s Day!
www.bostonreview.net/articles/eve...
Waking up in this place reminds me that beauty may indeed save us, in the end. It's remarkable how scholars of the Renaissance (the good ones at least) were invariably antifascists
March 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Waking up in this place reminds me that beauty may indeed save us, in the end. It's remarkable how scholars of the Renaissance (the good ones at least) were invariably antifascists
Bluesky academics, let’s get to know each other — quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea you aren’t working on but keep thinking about
1. Shakespeare's ghost manifests manuscript in Italian to fascist mediums in 1926
2. Orlando Furioso and Star Wars are the same
1. Shakespeare's ghost manifests manuscript in Italian to fascist mediums in 1926
2. Orlando Furioso and Star Wars are the same
Bluesky academics, let’s get to know each other — quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea you aren’t working on but keep thinking about
1. enemas in Aretino’s 1525 Cortigiana
2. early modern practical jokes
1. enemas in Aretino’s 1525 Cortigiana
2. early modern practical jokes
Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea you aren't working on but keep thinking about
1. decolonizing visualities & Latinx art
2. pigeons photographers
1. decolonizing visualities & Latinx art
2. pigeons photographers
February 7, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Bluesky academics, let’s get to know each other — quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea you aren’t working on but keep thinking about
1. Shakespeare's ghost manifests manuscript in Italian to fascist mediums in 1926
2. Orlando Furioso and Star Wars are the same
1. Shakespeare's ghost manifests manuscript in Italian to fascist mediums in 1926
2. Orlando Furioso and Star Wars are the same
Just bumped into this gem on the English Wikipedia entry about Pasolini's Una vita violenta and I absolutely applaud the anonymous editor 👏
February 7, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Just bumped into this gem on the English Wikipedia entry about Pasolini's Una vita violenta and I absolutely applaud the anonymous editor 👏
Teoria e pratica del femminismo ci offrono tre strumenti per liberare i maschi del patriarcato senza odiare la maschilità in sé: l'autocoscienza, la collettivizzazione, la sorellanza. Ci ho scritto un libro. Esce a marzo ma si preordina adesso. www.einaudi.it/catalogo-lib...
February 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Teoria e pratica del femminismo ci offrono tre strumenti per liberare i maschi del patriarcato senza odiare la maschilità in sé: l'autocoscienza, la collettivizzazione, la sorellanza. Ci ho scritto un libro. Esce a marzo ma si preordina adesso. www.einaudi.it/catalogo-lib...
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trump is unique in that his depravity creates the very cynicism he feeds on. it is necessary to uphold the idea that we are capable of better even if that belief is counterfactual. which is why we need to tell the bureaucracy that their work is valued and that they are holding the line for us.
Taking the President's symbolic roles as essentially being the central rituals of American civic religion, Trump's inability to perform them- to actually be presidential- signals that the civic religion is hollow and without power, that there are no consequences for blaspheming it.
January 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
trump is unique in that his depravity creates the very cynicism he feeds on. it is necessary to uphold the idea that we are capable of better even if that belief is counterfactual. which is why we need to tell the bureaucracy that their work is valued and that they are holding the line for us.
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La nuova intelligenza artificiale cinese mette in crisi la narrazione trionfale della Silicon valley. E potrebbe annientare il vantaggio competitivo che le aziende statunitensi millantavano di avere. L'opinione di Paris Marx.
DeepSeek mette a nudo il fallimento tecnologico statunitense
La nuova intelligenza artificiale cinese mette in crisi la narrazione trionfale della Silicon valley. E potrebbe annientare il vantaggio competitivo che le aziende statunitensi millantavano di avere. ...
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January 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
La nuova intelligenza artificiale cinese mette in crisi la narrazione trionfale della Silicon valley. E potrebbe annientare il vantaggio competitivo che le aziende statunitensi millantavano di avere. L'opinione di Paris Marx.
Kudos to @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ! If "platforms" refuse to admit any editorial responsibility we must be responsible ourselves in the choice of the media we use!
Significant news on the academic social media front: as previously announced, @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social sent out notification this morning that today is the last day it will post on X/Twitter, and adds, "We hope you will join us on Bluesky, where an active & lively community...has gathered."
January 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Kudos to @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ! If "platforms" refuse to admit any editorial responsibility we must be responsible ourselves in the choice of the media we use!
I don't really agree much with him on Pinocchio, but damn can Agamben write (and read!) anything...
January 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I don't really agree much with him on Pinocchio, but damn can Agamben write (and read!) anything...
My partner and I bought an excellent blueray player because it feels like it's time to revert to analog. Please recommend awesome 4k hd editions of awesome films! 📽️🎞️📀
January 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
My partner and I bought an excellent blueray player because it feels like it's time to revert to analog. Please recommend awesome 4k hd editions of awesome films! 📽️🎞️📀
This is an excellent time to re-discover Guzzanti's brilliant and prophetic show (and then film) about a bunch of hilariously incompetent fascists colonizing the red planet. Fascists are always bombastic and incompetent. #ItalianStudies
January 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This is an excellent time to re-discover Guzzanti's brilliant and prophetic show (and then film) about a bunch of hilariously incompetent fascists colonizing the red planet. Fascists are always bombastic and incompetent. #ItalianStudies
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NYC—come out tonight to discover your new favorite writer of surreal and strange short stories: Dino Buzzati.
Translator Lawrence Venuti will be speaking with Michael Wood at McNally Jackson Seaport at 6:30pm.
DB was also an artist (below) and wrote some pretty fine novels.
Translator Lawrence Venuti will be speaking with Michael Wood at McNally Jackson Seaport at 6:30pm.
DB was also an artist (below) and wrote some pretty fine novels.
January 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
NYC—come out tonight to discover your new favorite writer of surreal and strange short stories: Dino Buzzati.
Translator Lawrence Venuti will be speaking with Michael Wood at McNally Jackson Seaport at 6:30pm.
DB was also an artist (below) and wrote some pretty fine novels.
Translator Lawrence Venuti will be speaking with Michael Wood at McNally Jackson Seaport at 6:30pm.
DB was also an artist (below) and wrote some pretty fine novels.
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Join us Thursday (6:30) at McNally Jackson Seaport to celebrate the release of Dino Buzzati's The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories. There will be a short reading and discussion between the translator Lawrence Venuti and Michael Wood.
Buzzati was a master of the short story form. Don't miss.
Buzzati was a master of the short story form. Don't miss.
January 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Join us Thursday (6:30) at McNally Jackson Seaport to celebrate the release of Dino Buzzati's The Bewitched Bourgeois: Fifty Stories. There will be a short reading and discussion between the translator Lawrence Venuti and Michael Wood.
Buzzati was a master of the short story form. Don't miss.
Buzzati was a master of the short story form. Don't miss.
Every major broadway musical is about being queer. Except Hamilton?
January 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Every major broadway musical is about being queer. Except Hamilton?