João Paulo Guimarães
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João Paulo Guimarães
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Experimental Poetry & Science Studies scholar / New Book: American Experimental Poetry and the New Organic Form (Bloomsbury, 2025) / Extraterrestrial Posthumanism: the Search for Life in Astrobiology, Science Fiction and Bio Art (PI, University of Porto)
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During the next year, I will be leading, as Principal Investigator, an FCT-funded exploratory research project titled "Extraterrestrial Posthumanism: the Search for 'Alien' Life in Astrobiology, Science Fiction and Bio Art".

www.extraterrestrialposthumanism.com
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September 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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can't stop thinking about the bit in materialists when pedro pascal says he was treated more respectfully at the airport after surgically lengthening his legs
September 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Document 108: Global Poetics CFP. Proposal for a multi-session seminar at ACLA, Montréal, February 26–March 1, 2026 with link to portal; deadline October 2. Organized by Barrett Watten and Lauri Scheyer. Circulate widely! bit.ly/4mzKg4K
August 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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imagine millions of people getting push notifications about your personal life
August 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Our team member Ana Salvan will be giving a talk about the Extraterrestrial Posthumanism project tomorrow at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute in Sillicon Valley (8 pm GMT / 3 pm EST).

You can participate in the event via Zoom:

us02web.zoom.us/j/8501836682...
Passcode: 415270
August 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
On Friday, Lizzie Smith, Ana Salvan and I will be presenting our work on a panel dedicated to our "Extraterrestrial Posthumanism" project at this year's SLSA conference in Oregon. Also, check out some info about weird bacteria I've recently compiled at extraterrestrialposthumanism.com/insights/
August 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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🎧 So excited to launch our latest podcast episode, Capitalism Hates You, on horror film and Marxist theory, with the incredible @joshuagooch.bsky.social and Johanna Isaacson. Available on Spotify, Apple, the usual places, or right here: share.transistor.fm/s/535654e1
Capitalism Hates You: Horror film and Marxist theory. | University of Minnesota Press | Episode 114
From Get Out to The Babadook to Saint Maud: In his new book, Josh Gooch uses the horror film genre to expose the hostile conditions of life under capitalism, drawing connections between Marxist theory...
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August 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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I’m adding a new book to my module on Native and Indigenous health disparities this semester, brilliantly written by a fellow Australian! Highly recommend. uncpress.org/978146968041... Sovereign Bodies, Sovereign Spaces
August 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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In Sweden, every Saturday is effectively a national holiday, called lördagsgodis, which means “Saturday candy.”
How to Eat Candy Like a Swedish Person
Scandinavia, in general, is crazy for candy, but no one eats more than the Swedes.
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August 15, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Congratulations to Kimberly Cleveland, author of Africanfuturism, winner of the Science Fiction Research Association Book Award for the best first scholarly monograph in science fiction! www.ohioswallow.com/978082141148...

@sfrareview.bsky.social
#sciencefiction
#scifi
#africanfuturism
Africanfuturism
In the past few decades, Western studies of Afrofuturism have grown to encompass examples deriving from multiple sites across the diaspora, as well as from t...
www.ohioswallow.com
August 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Out today! The complete and annotated transcripts of Deleuze’s 1981 seminars on painting, available for the first time in English.

"The finest introduction to Gilles Deleuze’s reflections on visual media and aesthetics." —Tom Conley

www.upress.umn.edu/978151791840...
On Painting
Available for the first time in English: the complete and annotated transcripts of Deleuze’s 1981 seminars on painting From 1970 until 1987, Gilles Deleuze...
www.upress.umn.edu
August 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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This bad boy is finally out - and it is a beaut!

Fantastic collab with @lukotto.bsky.social & @cvargiu.bsky.social

Quick thread about some key findings in the book. Link to buy the book with 20% discount at the end of the thread
August 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Read Thu Pham's series of reflections on her family's heritage and her own conflicted identity in Process's latest issue, On Memory.

Read more:
www.processjmus.org/thu-pham-war...
August 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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August 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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My book, Off-Earth: Ethical Questions and Quandaries for Living in Outer Space, is now available as an audiobook! Narrated by April Doty, Off-Earth is available everywhere audiobooks are sold.
December 8, 2023 at 8:56 PM
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Check out our latest issue, vol. 8.2: On Memory!

www.processjmus.org/on-memory
July 30, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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New permanent page on my website about my durational, ongoing writing & performance project DIAL:
yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/p/dial.html
Christodoulos Makris
DIAL a durational writing, performance, recording and publication project (2021 - ongoing) About DIAL DIAL is a durational-procedural work o...
yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Amanhã começamos o grupo de leitura "Contra-Anatomias" (Leituras em Estudos Queer e Humanidades Médicas", presencialmente na Livraria Aberta e online, com o livro "Females", de Andrea Long Chu.
July 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Cinema’s First Epics in Focus: Silent Epic Film from Literary Adaptation to Contemporary Epic Narratives (Edited Volume CFP; Deadline: September 15th)

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July 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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New publication: Ambivalent Laughter: Conceptual Poetry’s Humor and Metamodernism (open access), included in a small collection edited by Bruno Ministro and João Paulo Guimarães

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January 23, 2025 at 1:15 PM
During the next year, I will be leading, as Principal Investigator, an FCT-funded exploratory research project titled "Extraterrestrial Posthumanism: the Search for 'Alien' Life in Astrobiology, Science Fiction and Bio Art".

www.extraterrestrialposthumanism.com
July 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM