Mike Classon Frangos
@mfrangos.bsky.social
Associate professor, English literature, based in Växjö and Stockholm, comics, speculative fiction, the Arctic, utopia/dystopia
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I wasn’t sure they were going to publish this. So good for them.
The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
www.chronicle.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I wasn’t sure they were going to publish this. So good for them.
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OK wrote this up in longform: www.its-her-factory.com/2025/12/ai-h...
December 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
OK wrote this up in longform: www.its-her-factory.com/2025/12/ai-h...
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My book, Realism after the Individual: Women, Desire, and the Modern American Novel, is now out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social! Use discount code UCPNEW for 30% off. I'm so excited! 🥳
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Realism after the Individual
A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who adapted this quintessentially nineteenth-century genre to the conditions of their age. ...
press.uchicago.edu
December 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
My book, Realism after the Individual: Women, Desire, and the Modern American Novel, is now out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social! Use discount code UCPNEW for 30% off. I'm so excited! 🥳
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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"The nation once reliant on its own objectification is infinitely cast into this role: a self-devouring ouroboros, the paradoxical snake endlessly chasing its tail..." writes Chichi Ayalogu in our newest review on Biafran history, visual culture, conflict, & more!
asapjournal.com/review/digit...
asapjournal.com/review/digit...
Digital Exhibit: Propaganda, Africanfuturity, and the Spectral Resonance of the Biafran Gambit - ASAP/Review
In collaboration with the artist Emmanuel Nwogbo II, this digital exhibition deploys works of montage that pair seemingly disparate images in order to complicate and extend the legacy of the Biafran s...
asapjournal.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"The nation once reliant on its own objectification is infinitely cast into this role: a self-devouring ouroboros, the paradoxical snake endlessly chasing its tail..." writes Chichi Ayalogu in our newest review on Biafran history, visual culture, conflict, & more!
asapjournal.com/review/digit...
asapjournal.com/review/digit...
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Official pitch that I have joined the wonderful editorial group at Refugee History Blog. Please get in touch if you want to write for us! refugeehistory.org/about
About — Refugee History.
refugeehistory.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Official pitch that I have joined the wonderful editorial group at Refugee History Blog. Please get in touch if you want to write for us! refugeehistory.org/about
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As most things in manga owe a debt to Tezuka Sensei (Osamu Tezuka), it is not surprising that scholars have isolated Tezuka’s 1953 series “Princess Knight” as a deeply important touchstone for the evolution of trans representation in manga as a whole. #princessknight #tezuka 1/11
November 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM
As most things in manga owe a debt to Tezuka Sensei (Osamu Tezuka), it is not surprising that scholars have isolated Tezuka’s 1953 series “Princess Knight” as a deeply important touchstone for the evolution of trans representation in manga as a whole. #princessknight #tezuka 1/11
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There is a graphical novel coming out about the DC bands Gray Matter and 3 by the bassist Steve Niles, who apparently has since gone on to have a career as a comic book writer. He wrote the original comic 30 Days of Night.
steveniles.net/news/f/gray-...
steveniles.net/news/f/gray-...
Gray Matter Comic Comes to Life
I’m very happy to announce that we are doing a book I wrote called TAKE IT BACK: Life Anxiety and Gray Matter. It’s a comic based on life and my time playing with Dante, Geoff, and Mark in the punk ba...
steveniles.net
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
There is a graphical novel coming out about the DC bands Gray Matter and 3 by the bassist Steve Niles, who apparently has since gone on to have a career as a comic book writer. He wrote the original comic 30 Days of Night.
steveniles.net/news/f/gray-...
steveniles.net/news/f/gray-...
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This racialised timeline cast the Sámi as premodern and even endangered - narratives that helped justify intensifying resource extraction and colonial settler claims in Sápmi. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The “Savage” Within: The Sámi People and the Archaeology of Whiteness | Isis: Vol 116, No 4
Abstract In this article, I will examine how the Swedish zoologist and archaeologist Sven Nilsson (1787–1883) constructed what I refer to here as the archaeology of whiteness. Whiteness denotes here a...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This racialised timeline cast the Sámi as premodern and even endangered - narratives that helped justify intensifying resource extraction and colonial settler claims in Sápmi. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
My daily writing goal has fallen to 300 words/day, but that must be enough. The chapters will still get written eventually!
November 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
My daily writing goal has fallen to 300 words/day, but that must be enough. The chapters will still get written eventually!
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My new book argues technology needs an ethos: In Africa and Ghana that ethos is Pan-African Futurism. The product of over 10 years of on-the-ground and digital research with tech developers and Ghana's digital diaspora — www.ucpress.edu/books/pan-af...
Pan-African Futurism by Reginold Royston - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
October 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
My new book argues technology needs an ethos: In Africa and Ghana that ethos is Pan-African Futurism. The product of over 10 years of on-the-ground and digital research with tech developers and Ghana's digital diaspora — www.ucpress.edu/books/pan-af...
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Call for inaugural issue of—Polyfora: A Journal of Speculative CoFutures—an interdisciplinary journal devoted to unearthing possible futures, accepting peer-reviewed articles, stories, artworks, and essays from many languages and perspectives:
journal.cofutures.org
journal.cofutures.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Call for inaugural issue of—Polyfora: A Journal of Speculative CoFutures—an interdisciplinary journal devoted to unearthing possible futures, accepting peer-reviewed articles, stories, artworks, and essays from many languages and perspectives:
journal.cofutures.org
journal.cofutures.org
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Halloween night is truly carnivalesque. All the values are inverted. People in the US give things away, walk from place to place, and interact with their neighbors.
November 1, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Halloween night is truly carnivalesque. All the values are inverted. People in the US give things away, walk from place to place, and interact with their neighbors.
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"Violence of Melt: Visual Infrastructures and Erasure in the Arctic" by Audrey Medaino-Tardif is the second post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/10/27/v...
#envhum
niche-canada.org/2025/10/27/v...
#envhum
Violence of Melt: Visual Infrastructures and Erasure in the Arctic
The Arctic is melting. In the visual culture of the Arctic and environmental research, melt is affective. It is treated as an object of aesthetic and study, a symbol of urgency. Most prevalent images ...
niche-canada.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"Violence of Melt: Visual Infrastructures and Erasure in the Arctic" by Audrey Medaino-Tardif is the second post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/10/27/v...
#envhum
niche-canada.org/2025/10/27/v...
#envhum
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Here is what I said. I am proud to be a Cape Bretoner, a Nova Scotian, a Canadian. And I am with the Mi’kmaw land defenders on Hunters Mountain. (1)
October 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Here is what I said. I am proud to be a Cape Bretoner, a Nova Scotian, a Canadian. And I am with the Mi’kmaw land defenders on Hunters Mountain. (1)
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We don't need neo-dada in this moment, what we need is people exercising their "right to culture" to help us remember that we live in society, that fact is inescapable, and we shouldn't let anyone tell us otherwise
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/10/devo...
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/10/devo...
Devo and the possibility of dada in the era of personalized media
www.its-her-factory.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
We don't need neo-dada in this moment, what we need is people exercising their "right to culture" to help us remember that we live in society, that fact is inescapable, and we shouldn't let anyone tell us otherwise
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/10/devo...
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/10/devo...
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enlightenment ideas of the autonomy of art got it all wrong: it's not art's freedom from social reproduction that makes it great, it's that making and receiving art are collaborative experiences where we develop individually through the mutual support of others.
October 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
enlightenment ideas of the autonomy of art got it all wrong: it's not art's freedom from social reproduction that makes it great, it's that making and receiving art are collaborative experiences where we develop individually through the mutual support of others.
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Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
contingentmagazine.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.
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[clears throat]...I have another book coming out in the near future
if you'd like to read a bit about LYRIC LOGIC, there are some very generous blurbs over at @columbiaup.bsky.social
(my thanks to Marjorie Levinson, Oren Izenberg, Theo Davis, Nan Z. Da, and also @philipleventhal.bsky.social)
if you'd like to read a bit about LYRIC LOGIC, there are some very generous blurbs over at @columbiaup.bsky.social
(my thanks to Marjorie Levinson, Oren Izenberg, Theo Davis, Nan Z. Da, and also @philipleventhal.bsky.social)
Lyric Logic | Columbia University Press
Between the Civil War and the Cold War, American literary modernism and philosophy both grappled with the challenge of novelty and the chance to make it new.... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
September 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
[clears throat]...I have another book coming out in the near future
if you'd like to read a bit about LYRIC LOGIC, there are some very generous blurbs over at @columbiaup.bsky.social
(my thanks to Marjorie Levinson, Oren Izenberg, Theo Davis, Nan Z. Da, and also @philipleventhal.bsky.social)
if you'd like to read a bit about LYRIC LOGIC, there are some very generous blurbs over at @columbiaup.bsky.social
(my thanks to Marjorie Levinson, Oren Izenberg, Theo Davis, Nan Z. Da, and also @philipleventhal.bsky.social)
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I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.
September 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.
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Today is publication day!
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
September 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Today is publication day!
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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OK, I started this related critical AI list too here: olivia.science/ai#allies with allies & resources — @jsanofranchini.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @ehayot.bsky.social (let me know if I failed to tag anybody)
and importantly, feel free to contact me to add more! 🤍
and importantly, feel free to contact me to add more! 🤍
September 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
OK, I started this related critical AI list too here: olivia.science/ai#allies with allies & resources — @jsanofranchini.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @ehayot.bsky.social (let me know if I failed to tag anybody)
and importantly, feel free to contact me to add more! 🤍
and importantly, feel free to contact me to add more! 🤍
I admit I never gave up hope Robert Redford could have been US president as envisioned in Watchmen. What a missed opportunity!
September 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I admit I never gave up hope Robert Redford could have been US president as envisioned in Watchmen. What a missed opportunity!
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African Climate Fiction.
To Rescue a Self
Eketi tries to find her voice.
#Africa #African #Nigeria #Ghana #Kenya #SouthAfrica
#Ethiopia #Egypt #Congo #Tanzania #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction #Fiction
grist.org/climate-fict...
To Rescue a Self
Eketi tries to find her voice.
#Africa #African #Nigeria #Ghana #Kenya #SouthAfrica
#Ethiopia #Egypt #Congo #Tanzania #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction #Fiction
grist.org/climate-fict...
To Rescue a Self
Climate fiction: At the Green Nigeria Youths Fellowship, Eketi tries to find her voice.
grist.org
September 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
African Climate Fiction.
To Rescue a Self
Eketi tries to find her voice.
#Africa #African #Nigeria #Ghana #Kenya #SouthAfrica
#Ethiopia #Egypt #Congo #Tanzania #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction #Fiction
grist.org/climate-fict...
To Rescue a Self
Eketi tries to find her voice.
#Africa #African #Nigeria #Ghana #Kenya #SouthAfrica
#Ethiopia #Egypt #Congo #Tanzania #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction #Fiction
grist.org/climate-fict...
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And so I take on Gormenghast! Which is great. Just very good stuff. And I also look at James Gifford's excellent book A Modernist Fantasy (2018) and the anarchist reading of Gormenghast. This is the 6th essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy Reread series.
Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Reading “Gormenghast” by Mervyn Peake (Gormenghast 2)
The sixth essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy reading series, which looks at Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast (1950), the powerful second novel in his Titus series.
seanguynes.com
September 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
And so I take on Gormenghast! Which is great. Just very good stuff. And I also look at James Gifford's excellent book A Modernist Fantasy (2018) and the anarchist reading of Gormenghast. This is the 6th essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy Reread series.