Eckard Smuts

I teach literature at @StellenboschUni. Don't feed the algorithms.

[Eckard Smuts @eckardsmuts]

I have a new short story in the latest issue of the Johannesburg Review of Books. It involves surfing, fog, and bad financial decisions. https://t.co/QdTcEcGwaH

[Eckard Smuts @eckardsmuts]

A timely and well-informed piece by Cherryl Walker. https://t.co/haeDHjiSi1

[The JRB @JoburgReview]

Welcome to Vol. 8, Issue 4 of The Johannesburg Review of Books—the Stranger than Fiction Issue! Dive in here: https://t.co/MgnTS4gBjZ

[Thando Njovane @thandorasbox]

Come work with me!

Successful candidates will be expected to begin full-time study in February 2025.

[Eckard Smuts @eckardsmuts]

@WamuwiM Great review.

[Eckard Smuts @eckardsmuts]

Graham K. Riach is a remarkably perceptive reader of South African short fiction. I learned a great deal from his excellent monograph, "The Short Story after Apartheid: Thinking with Form in South African Literature." Here's my review for Safundi: https://t.co/KJwL0CtPGn

[Donna Rainey @donnarainey4]

Some breath taking scenes in old woodland today. This kind of thing is irreplaceable & yet when it comes up for sale it's advertised as potentially suitable for development. Makes my blood boil. Old woodland should all be protected.

[Deedy @deedydas]

Gymnastics is the Turing test of video generation models

[Eckard Smuts @eckardsmuts]

Incredible.

[Eckard Smuts @eckardsmuts]

I built myself a blog! Here's the first post. https://t.co/YUlZMd4jnh

[Eckard Smuts @eckardsmuts]

@WamuwiM Oh no!

[Nedine Moonsamy @NedineMoonsamy]

Please see, and share, our CFP for a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies on “Planetary Fiction: African Literature and Climate Change.”
Guest Editors: Nedine Moonsamy (Johannesburg) and David Shackleton (Cardiff)
https://t.co/Cuj5xubXRE

[David Hering @hering_david]

Blood Meridian-ass headline

[Eckard Smuts @eckardsmuts]

It is no longer possible to drive anywhere in Stellenbosch.

[Eckard Smuts @eckardsmuts]

@WamuwiM Weirdly, I had a similar experience with 3rd years yesterday.

[Zeke Hausfather @hausfath]

There is increasing evidence that the world has warmed faster over the past 15 years than it has since the 1970s. Surface records, ocean heat content, and the Earth's energy imbalance all support an acceleration of warming, as I argue in today's @nytimes: https://t.co/RYHn89PGGj

[Eckard Smuts @eckardsmuts]

I know COP doesn’t have much credibility as it is but come on. If you’d made this up for a movie it would be bad satire.

[Elizabeth Kolbert @ElizKolbert]

Seven out of eight planetary boundaries passed. One to go: https://t.co/CRPXAJv8Z0

[Eckard Smuts @eckardsmuts]

This is an incredible achievement by one of our third-year students in the English Department at @StellenboschUni . Well done Hana Gammon!

[Commonwealth Foundation Creatives @cwfcreatives]

@HanaGammon is the youngest #CWPrize regional winner in the history of the prize! Congratulations Hana! ✨

👇 via @voertaal
https://t.co/AmKWxTXopJ

[Eckard Smuts @eckardsmuts]

“Perhaps in a few years the academy will be overrun with anarchists. But I’m not holding my breath.” — David Graeber