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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · 12d

"While fully adhering to academic conventions and norms, the book incorporates the occasional anecdote or apposite quotation, in a gentle version of the Dadaist collage, montage, and bricolage techniques that it describes."

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · 12d

She writes: "One of the remarkable achievements of this volume is Harris’s ability to treat his material, which ranges from the rise of Fascism to Theodor Adorno’s dense philosophy, not only with great depth and theoretical insight but also with a fluent style and sense of humour."

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · 12d

I'm so pleased to see the Einat Adar's review of my book, 'Breaking the Limits: Flann O’Brien’s Avant-garde Aesthetics', appear in the esteemed Litteraria Pragensia!

The journal is publicly available and you can read the review here: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/u...

litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · 15d

It's very exciting to see our special issue of the Parish Review dedicated to Flann O'Brien and RADIO appear with its first article, broadcast by Zan Cammack!

Paul Fagan @pauleamonnfagan.bsky.social · 16d

I'm excited to read this special issue of the @theparishreview.bsky.social on "Flann O'Brien and the Radio", edited by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social and Joseph LaBine!

The first article is Zan Cammack's "Sonic Materiality in Brian O’Nolan’s Fiction"

Available to read here:🔗👉 doi.org/10.16995/pr....

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · Jun 24

It was amazing to say a few words on Friday at an absolutely packed launch for Joseph LaBine's first collection of Niall Montgomery's poetry, Terminal I: Arrivals, which is available now from Flat Singles Press! Truly a belated launch for a seminar Irish poet.

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · Jun 19

In collaboration with the Aldous Huxley Centre Zürich I have launched a new podcast! Check it out 👇

Themes and Variations: The Aldous Huxley Podcast @huxley-podcast.bsky.social · Jun 19

🎙️ New podcast just dropped!

*Themes and Variations* kicks off with a deep dive into Aldous Huxley — visionary, mystic, ecological thinker, and pacifist.

Why read Huxley today? Because he saw *this* future coming.

themesandvariations.substack.com/p/why-read-a...

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · Jun 12

I'm excited to share that I’ve been appointed as Research Fellow at the Aldous Huxley Centre Zürich!

I’ll be launching a new podcast on Huxley, produced in collaboration with Robin Hull entitled Themes and Variations Podcast launching soon! Full details here:

www.huxleycentre.ch/news/

News - Aldous Huxley Centre Zurich

This newly created post is intended to broaden academic and popular engagement with the ideas of Aldous Huxley through multiple channels, including: a new

www.huxleycentre.ch

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · Jun 10

Unfortunately I am not a basketball player. My apologies!

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · May 16

The second panel of our online follow-up conference on Huxley and O'Nolan features Eoin McGloin, Bryan Counter and Cristian Horgos.

The event is free, online via MS Teams, and happens next Monday 19 May - 1430 - 1830 GMT. Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · May 14

The first panel of our online follow-up conference on Huxley and O'Nolan features Patrick Armstrong and Harun Šiljak!

The event is free, online via MS Teams, and happens next Monday 19 May - 1430 - 1830 GMT. Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇

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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · May 11

We were so honoured to have the brilliant writers and scholars Konai Helu Thaman, Vanessa Griffen, and Akanisi Kedrayate speaking at our book launch at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. Such a privilege! @columbiaup.bsky.social

Book launch celebrates roots of Pacific Literature - The University of the South Pacific

A book documenting the emergence of Pacific writing at USP in the 1970s and 1980s...

www.usp.ac.fj

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · May 9

The keynote speaker on 19 May is the brilliant Joe LaBine!

His address is titled: "Newspaperist, Novelist: Aldous Huxley, Flann O’Brien and The Generative ‘column’" and I can't wait!

It's online and free! Sign up right now to secure your spot 👇

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · May 8

Thank-you to the @flannobriensoc.bsky.social for sharing this podcast - it's certainly unmissable if you want to learn new and surprising things about #flannobrien

The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · May 8

📻 Wind up the phonograph, warm up the gramophone, tune in your radio, the next instalment of Radio Myles is here! 📻 Listen to Oisín Ó Nualláin share fascinating insights about his uncle, Flann O’Brien himself, as well as his father, Micheál Ó Nualláin. Hosted by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social

9. Oisín Ó Nualláin: Eccentric state builders (6 May 2025) – Radio Myles

radiomyles.com

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · May 8

Thank-you Maebh! I love this idea too - it's perhaps quite a powerful development of Berkeley and Wilde's thinking! Fascinating.

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · May 6

Listen on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/24ef...

Listen on Apple Music here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

YouTube: youtu.be/ddCzVbR6bU4?...

Full transcript here: radiomyles.com/9-oisin-o-nu...

Oisín Ó Nualláin: Eccentric state builders

Radio Myles: the Flann O'Brien Podcast · Episode

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · May 6

New podcast episode! Join me and Oisín Ó Nualláin, Flann O’Brien’s nephew, to explore the the writer as a paternal figure, an accomplished joiner (!) and member of a formidable Northern family: the Ó Nualláins as voracious intellectuals, inventors and ‘ex-centros’ builders of the Irish republic.

Oisín Ó Nualláin: Eccentric state builders

Radio Myles: the Flann O'Brien Podcast · Episode

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · May 2

Very excited to be shortlisted!

The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · Apr 29

Next in our shortlist for the book-length Flann O’Brien Society award is💥Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45: Dublin’s Dadaist💥 by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social. Harris reveals links between O’Brien and English comic magazines, Dadaist photomontage, Expressionism, Borges & Kafka.

Flann O’Brien and the European Avant-Garde, 1934–45

Crossing the boundaries of a single-author study, this book uncovers Flann O'Brien's attempt to forge a commercially successful Irish literary project from inte…

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The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social · Apr 17

💥'The weak heads of the dead’, a free, online conference on Flann O’Brien and Aldous Huxley, 14.30 - 18.30 GMT, 19 May 2025.💥

Organised by @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social, the programme features a keynote lecture by Joseph Labine. More information and sign up below:

MInd, style, technics in Huxley and O'Nolan

Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/sdABz0YNwL ‘The weak heads of the dead’: mind, style and technics in Huxley and O’Nolan All times given in GMT / UTC Day: Monday 19 May 2025 Time: 1430 - 183...

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · Apr 17

Announcing 'The weak heads of the dead', 1430 - 1830 GMT, 19 May 2025

We'll be looking at newspapers, technology, theories of mind and the work of art Aldous Huxley and Brian O'Nolan! Joseph LaBine keynotes.

Attendance is free. Just sign-up using this form: forms.office.com/e/sdABz0YNwL

Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · Feb 20

Today is the day that my book is FINALLY AVAILABLE! Please order for your libraries and reach out to me if you'd like to review it!

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · Feb 20

Today is the day that my book is FINALLY AVAILABLE! Please order for your libraries and reach out to me if you'd like to review it!

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · Feb 5

The final session of the #BraveNewWorlds colloquium will bring us together for papers by two huge figures, chaired by Dr. Eleni Loukopoulou, author of Up to Maughty London: Joyce's Cultural Capital in the Imperial Metropolis (2017)!

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · Feb 5

The final session of the #BraveNewWorlds colloquium will bring us together for papers by two huge figures, chaired by Dr. Eleni Loukopoulou, author of Up to Maughty London: Joyce's Cultural Capital in the Imperial Metropolis (2017)!

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · Feb 3

On Saturday morning at #BraveNewWorlds we'll witness a panel with some truly remarkable material on the ties that connect O'Nolan and Huxley in an era of mass media and censorship 🗞️

#zurichevents #aldoushuxley #flannobrien

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Tobias W. Harris @tobias-w-harris.bsky.social · Jan 31

Eek! I am extremely excited to share the first panel for #BraveNewWorlds. Friday morning will see us explore intoxication, sedation and the experience of time across the work of Huxley and O'Nolan in this most pharmacologically exciting set of papers! 💊

#aldoushuxley #zurichevents #flannobrien

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