Jerry C. Lin

Assistant Professor, Department of Taiwanese Literature, National Cheng Kung Univery | media environment | modernism | comparative literature |

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"The oeuvre of every great poet is a canon unto itself, and Bloom’s ideal required an authoritative canon of canons."

Alex Lanz on Harold Bloom and the context of "The Man Who Read Everything": https://t.co/ZRSEiSGkKr

[Michal Schatz @miyyka9]

There is a book for this

[Yukel Aylee @kvo2021]

true of most of the greatest lyricists, and why I think the overwhelming modern focus on “relatable” or “confessional” lyricism is boring and often bad

[Mathias @bucephalus424]

Wrote about Anton Jäger's "Hyperpolitics" for the Los Angeles Review of Books

https://t.co/ZpggDcdz9L

[ちくま学芸文庫 @ChikumaGakugei]

【新刊情報】安藤宏『近代小説の表現機構』
小説はいかにしてみずから「小説」であることを騙りうるのか。小説が小説であろうとするための「よそおい」や「みぶり」を「表現機構」と名付けて考察。小説分析のための新概念を提示し、文学研究のあり方を実践的に問うた名著。解説：佐藤秀明

[nom @14JUN1995]

Romanticism rejected bourgeois society in two ways: 1) by saving ('romanticising') the lowly, ordinary, mundane aspects of life which modern society rejects & 2) a refusal of total reification by de-thingifying the world through spiritualisation (pantheism)

[katie kadue @kukukadoo]

i reviewed jonathan kramnick’s criticism and truth, which i take to be arguing, among other things, that close reading isn’t just for girls. unpaywalled link below

[Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni]

A reminder that Hannah Arendt was a racist

[Sarah Brouillette @brouillettese]

with @jamacintosh on "work"
Joshua Clover and @anniemcclanahan on "organization"
our dear late friend Marina Vishmidt on "debt"
Bev Best and Richard Dienst! Tom McCarthy! Ida Börjel! @marxforcats!
I wrote about "disruption"!
🚨🚨🚨 wowow okay bye

[Elliott Green @ElliottDGreen]

This is a great list of books on nationalism - with one exception. A brief thread on why Imagined Communities is one of the most overrated books in the field - and what other books should replace it on any reading list on the subject. 1/

[jon repetti @pourfairelevide]

I wrote a critical response to Ted Chiang’s New Yorker piece, which I hope will be taken as the heartfelt contribution of a comrade and not the ramblings of a pedant. Link in bio, etc.

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

In "Secularlism As Misdirection," Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hypervisualizes women and religion while obscuring other related issues. Read the intro for free now! #PoliticalTheory
https://t.co/OUqLV9WobC

[moeko fujii @moekofujii]

getting ready to talk about the translation of hasumi’s ozu book, which is monumental and moving and the translation/film event of the decade

[katie kadue @kukukadoo]

i'm in the new @Parapraxis_Mag on barbara johnson, that thing where people loudly complain about being silenced, lyric poetry, and my love-hate relationship with undecidability https://t.co/VX9M9RYHrz

[Media Theory @meejatheory]

Media Theory 7.2 – Out Now!

Featuring the Bernard Stiegler Memorial Lecture and a special section on ‘Lauren Berlant and Media Theory’, edited by Carolyn Pedwell & Simon Dawes.

https://t.co/QF0F9dAs7N

[katie kadue @kukukadoo]

i wrote for @chireview about brian dillon's vibes-based criticism and the gender of style https://t.co/pGL9otuo4Q

[Agon Hamza @Agonhamza]

Forthcoming by @politybooks

Alenka Zupančič: Disavowal

[Media Theory @meejatheory]

Review: Matteo Pasquinelli’s The Eye of the Master. Reviewed by Alex Levant

https://t.co/bYY8Si7a0b