With only 3 days left until Christmas, Mike shares with us his favourite non-fiction book of this year! Here's what he had to say about 'America, América':
Our latest Full Stop Quarterly, "Literary Dis(-)appearances in (Post)colonial Cities," guest edited by @mcshkdk, is out TODAY! The full issue is available to our Patreon subscribers and for purchase on Gumroad.
👉 More info and the editor's intro here: https://t.co/w0We9PYpKr.
"Anxiety Culture" brings together a distinguished group of international scholars to examine the forces that increase anxiety and pervade global culture.
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If Biden actually wants to cancel student debt, he must do one thing: terminate the federal government’s contract with the student loan servicer MOHELA. https://t.co/Ehas33Rutu
Will the University Survive the Current Crisis? Read Michael Schapira on why a Kantian embrace of conflict might serve as a helpful re-framing for much ‘university in crisis’ discourse today. https://t.co/1qmQgdXivc
"For [my postgraduates], writing a true work of philosophy would be a revolution, a shattering of the world."
—@UtterlySpurious on the latest installment of his novel trilogy, MY WEIL (@melvillehouse), w/ Full Stop interviews ed. @mikeschapira: https://t.co/3xohraoZp2
“In the dark times, will there be philosophy? / There will be philosophy about the dark times.” New interview with me by @mikeschapira at @fullstopmag: https://t.co/IgWrDgIQ5T @melvillehouse
"I honestly believe that I write better first drafts now because I’ve gone through the crucible of translation."
This week in Interviews, @kesemmel and @ravi_mangla discuss Semmel's latest translation of Danish author Simon Fruelund (@SpuytenDyvil): https://t.co/9GZJOrfjy0
@LiteratiBkstore I know the person who typed this! A proud son of Ann Arbor who maybe deserves some sort of sponsorship deal or special privileges at the store.
Thank you @mikeschapira for conducting this interview with me for @fullstopmag. Hope you enjoy reading it. Happy new year from Prague!
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"What does it mean to translate architectural or structural principles into poetic form? And how might asking these two art forms to engage with each other transform them?"
—@toby_altman on his new book, DISCIPLINE PARK (@WendysSubway), w/ @joemilazzo94: https://t.co/7F6JJnoKeI.
Gaza’s most important archaeological site ruined forever: bombed from the air, then dug through and terraformed with bulldozers, then made to host a pumping station for flooding tunnels with seawater while ruining the coastal aquifers.
Who was Henry Kissinger?
Democracy Now! speaks with author and historian @GregGrandin about the diplomat celebrated by the U.S. establishment and condemned by human rights groups worldwide for overseeing massacres, coups and even genocide.
"One of the most problematic aspects of much of Antisemitism Studies scholarship is the reductive and inconsistent way the term antisemitism is applied." @shane_burley1 shares "An Antisemitism Studies Primer": https://t.co/xqEu3HWZKz.