BORG.DIEM is published (@InclDisability), and it is beautiful! Check it out and listen to @JillianWeise talk about the dictionary on Many Academies https://t.co/lOPDK8Aj40
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One of their fascinating arguments is that, for all three artists, their opacity is not a performance of the difficulty of their work so much as a refusal to play the authoritative role of ‘artist as one who reveals’.
Save 30% on #NewBook "Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World," which joins five thinkers from different geographies and disciplines—Phoebe Boswell, Saidiya Hartman, Janaína Oliveira, Joseph M. Pierce, Cristina Rivera Garza—who propose new ways of being.
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Nothing is more admirable than completely eviscerating a form at the outset, while staking meaning on the expectation of that form still holding meaning, which is to say postscripts should always be written on envelopes or skirts.
Foucault in a 1982 interview (in English):
“You see, I hate to say it, but it’s true that I am not a really good academic. For me intellectual work is related to what you could call aestheticism, meaning transforming yourself. … I know that knowledge can transform us, [+]
May his progeny grow up filled with loathing and disgust for him. May the planet’s curses bind together to destroy his empire. May we live to see it and laugh. Also, may he have 7 months of diarrhea! Just for kicks!
New on the blog: Gil Anidjar and Lette Bragg in dialogue about their new monographs and maternity at the limits in "Keeping the World: On the Maternal Conversation." Read it here on the Diacritics blog: https://t.co/UD7w7MD7uP
In "The Time beneath the Concrete," Nasser Abourahme argues that settler colonialism in #Palestine is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. Read the introduction for free now.
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Spread the word! @proffwolff and I have extended the deadline for submissions for our special issue on the American novel at the turn of the 20th century for Arizona Quarterly. New date is Jan. 2nd.
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The Empty Signification of Academy-Owned Publishing
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