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:
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:
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."
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)
Wordsworth somehow tastes like winter:
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Wordsworth somehow tastes like winter:
We have a book description 👀
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
We have a book description 👀
the go to diagram to explain Kant
November 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
the go to diagram to explain Kant
I hear you like allegories, so I put an allegory in your allegory
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I hear you like allegories, so I put an allegory in your allegory
A Hunger Artist
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
A Hunger Artist
800 pgs of autofiction
November 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
800 pgs of autofiction
'The possibility that language may be sourceless, baseless, not modelled on any mind divine or human, but rather coercively modelling them, appears when two different coherent languages struggle for domination within a single mind' (Miller)
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
'The possibility that language may be sourceless, baseless, not modelled on any mind divine or human, but rather coercively modelling them, appears when two different coherent languages struggle for domination within a single mind' (Miller)
close-reading close reading
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
close-reading close reading
Terrible attempt at explaining logocentrism:
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Terrible attempt at explaining logocentrism:
scared at the vet:
October 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
scared at the vet:
Grayness beckons:
October 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Grayness beckons:
A forbidden book @semiotexte.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 2:12 AM
A forbidden book @semiotexte.bsky.social
November 30, 2024 at 2:04 AM