Ela Kotkowska
@aileverte.bsky.social
Reader, translator, editor, art lover.
Some fabric in J-L David’s paintings (Louvre)
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Some fabric in J-L David’s paintings (Louvre)
19th c card catalogue at the Bibliothèque de l’Ecole de médecine in Paris
November 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
19th c card catalogue at the Bibliothèque de l’Ecole de médecine in Paris
Seems like a good moment to post Brion Gysin’s photo spread of Centre Pompidou being built. ‘77.
November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Seems like a good moment to post Brion Gysin’s photo spread of Centre Pompidou being built. ‘77.
You will be missed, Michèle Audin!
In addition to being a mathematician, she was an amazing writer who traced the fates of individuals lost in the interstices of history - from her own father in Une vie brève and Cent et vingt et un jours to Parisians under the Commune in Comme une rivière bleue.
In addition to being a mathematician, she was an amazing writer who traced the fates of individuals lost in the interstices of history - from her own father in Une vie brève and Cent et vingt et un jours to Parisians under the Commune in Comme une rivière bleue.
C'est avec une très grande tristesse que nous avons appris le décès Michèle Audin emportée cette nuit par la maladie à l’âge de 71 ans.
La SMF présente ses plus sincères condoléances à sa famille et à ses proches et ne manquera pas de lui rendre hommage prochainement.
smf.emath.fr/actualites-s...
La SMF présente ses plus sincères condoléances à sa famille et à ses proches et ne manquera pas de lui rendre hommage prochainement.
smf.emath.fr/actualites-s...
November 15, 2025 at 5:14 PM
You will be missed, Michèle Audin!
In addition to being a mathematician, she was an amazing writer who traced the fates of individuals lost in the interstices of history - from her own father in Une vie brève and Cent et vingt et un jours to Parisians under the Commune in Comme une rivière bleue.
In addition to being a mathematician, she was an amazing writer who traced the fates of individuals lost in the interstices of history - from her own father in Une vie brève and Cent et vingt et un jours to Parisians under the Commune in Comme une rivière bleue.
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Want a novel on the challenging side with an independent voice? Caleb Klaces, Mr. Outside (Prototype Press) or Rebecca Grandsen, Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group (Tangerine Press). Mr. Outside comes with photos. sebald.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/r...
November 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Want a novel on the challenging side with an independent voice? Caleb Klaces, Mr. Outside (Prototype Press) or Rebecca Grandsen, Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group (Tangerine Press). Mr. Outside comes with photos. sebald.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/r...
@sarahkendzior
She’s among my go-to commentators on the current state of madness… I was expecting to see her suspended from X… but @bsky.app ? C’mon! We migrated here for honest expression, uncluttered by clickbait and hate mongers. If you read her, @support.bsky.team you’ll realize she’s neither
She’s among my go-to commentators on the current state of madness… I was expecting to see her suspended from X… but @bsky.app ? C’mon! We migrated here for honest expression, uncluttered by clickbait and hate mongers. If you read her, @support.bsky.team you’ll realize she’s neither
November 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
@sarahkendzior
She’s among my go-to commentators on the current state of madness… I was expecting to see her suspended from X… but @bsky.app ? C’mon! We migrated here for honest expression, uncluttered by clickbait and hate mongers. If you read her, @support.bsky.team you’ll realize she’s neither
She’s among my go-to commentators on the current state of madness… I was expecting to see her suspended from X… but @bsky.app ? C’mon! We migrated here for honest expression, uncluttered by clickbait and hate mongers. If you read her, @support.bsky.team you’ll realize she’s neither
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska
@pfrazee.com why was Sarah Kendzior suspended?
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 AM
@pfrazee.com why was Sarah Kendzior suspended?
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska
PLAY IT BY TRUST aka WHITE CHESS SET (1966)
www.imaginepeace.com/archives/24764
Play it for as long as you can remember
who is your opponent and
who is your own self.
y.o. 1966
www.imaginepeace.com/archives/24764
Play it for as long as you can remember
who is your opponent and
who is your own self.
y.o. 1966
November 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
PLAY IT BY TRUST aka WHITE CHESS SET (1966)
www.imaginepeace.com/archives/24764
Play it for as long as you can remember
who is your opponent and
who is your own self.
y.o. 1966
www.imaginepeace.com/archives/24764
Play it for as long as you can remember
who is your opponent and
who is your own self.
y.o. 1966
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"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
frederickjoseph.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
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They were already living in one of Chicago's worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid.
They were already living in one of Chicago’s worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid.
In what appears to have been a warrantless operation, the federal government will not say how many people were detained, who remains in custody and what happened to the children.
www.chicagotribune.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
They were already living in one of Chicago's worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid.
Fotoplastikon, or Kaiserpanorama in Poznań: stereoscopic images of turn-of-the-century Paris
October 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Fotoplastikon, or Kaiserpanorama in Poznań: stereoscopic images of turn-of-the-century Paris
The new Olga Ravn book from New Directions reminds me of a 1980s/90s series of books in translation by the Polish publishing house PWN.
![Magda Szabo, Staroswiecka historia [An Old-fashioned Story], PWN 1989 and Olga Ravn, The Wax Child, New Directions, 2025. Similar cover aesthetic—plain glossy black dust jackets with a simple image on the cover](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fntawhzn3befpddhzqinamaa/bafkreibtomdb5brqzicvt4mvs5zmosavturhv2iu22hbvik5lqi5wqouzy@jpeg)
October 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The new Olga Ravn book from New Directions reminds me of a 1980s/90s series of books in translation by the Polish publishing house PWN.
From The Arab Apocalypse by Etel Adnan, excerpted in The Serpent and the Fire, ed. Jerome Rothenberg and Javier Taboada
October 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
From The Arab Apocalypse by Etel Adnan, excerpted in The Serpent and the Fire, ed. Jerome Rothenberg and Javier Taboada
Read in March (M.A.) and currently reading (L.M.): two books from Éd. Minuit. The titles could almost be interchangeable: two houses haunted by the past, disappearances, the war(s), and buried secrets. Two beautiful writers taking the scraps of history and constructing a moving narrative.
September 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Read in March (M.A.) and currently reading (L.M.): two books from Éd. Minuit. The titles could almost be interchangeable: two houses haunted by the past, disappearances, the war(s), and buried secrets. Two beautiful writers taking the scraps of history and constructing a moving narrative.
skyward, Hampstead Heath
September 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
skyward, Hampstead Heath
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska
This is so important…
Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles.
In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected.
REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency.
@governor.ca.gov
🧵
Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles.
In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected.
REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency.
@governor.ca.gov
🧵
August 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is so important…
Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles.
In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected.
REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency.
@governor.ca.gov
🧵
Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles.
In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected.
REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency.
@governor.ca.gov
🧵
And let's not forget this crook got 8.1 billion dollar richer since grabbing power.
chng.it/FPdJR4WFc2
chng.it/FPdJR4WFc2
Have you seen this petition yet?
🚨🚨🚨 EPSTEIN SCANDAL // REMOVE TRUMP FROM POWER 🚨🚨🚨
chng.it
August 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
And let's not forget this crook got 8.1 billion dollar richer since grabbing power.
chng.it/FPdJR4WFc2
chng.it/FPdJR4WFc2
Giuseppe Penone at the Serpentine Gallery, London
August 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Giuseppe Penone at the Serpentine Gallery, London
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska
When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
August 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
When public media disappears, so do the stories that bring us together.
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
With federal funding eliminated, millions may lose their last trusted source of news and connection.
If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska
Rage Against The Regime in Orlando ✊
August 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Rage Against The Regime in Orlando ✊
I am halfway through vol. ii of Solvej Balle’s Calculation of Volume. The book has an uncanny way of drawing the reader into its labyrinth. I went to @blackwells.bsky.social to see when vols. iii & iv were coming out. Of course, the only day possible: November 18.
August 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I am halfway through vol. ii of Solvej Balle’s Calculation of Volume. The book has an uncanny way of drawing the reader into its labyrinth. I went to @blackwells.bsky.social to see when vols. iii & iv were coming out. Of course, the only day possible: November 18.
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska
Yesterday, July 31 -- Faculty & staff protested the firing of four @brooklyncollege.bsky.social faculty members in violation of their academic freedom & as retaliation for protected first amendment speech. #BCFired4 📸 by @paulfrangipane.bsky.social
Read more here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/...
Read more here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/...
August 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Yesterday, July 31 -- Faculty & staff protested the firing of four @brooklyncollege.bsky.social faculty members in violation of their academic freedom & as retaliation for protected first amendment speech. #BCFired4 📸 by @paulfrangipane.bsky.social
Read more here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/...
Read more here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/...
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska
Melitopol journalist Iryna Levchenko abducted in 2023 ‘found’ imprisoned in russian-occupied Donetsk
Although there is now talk of a ‘trial’, there is nothing to suggest that the russian FSB have even formally charged the #journalist despite having held her prisoner since May 2023
Although there is now talk of a ‘trial’, there is nothing to suggest that the russian FSB have even formally charged the #journalist despite having held her prisoner since May 2023
Melitopol journalist Iryna Levchenko abducted in 2023 ‘found’ imprisoned in Russian-occupied Donetsk
Although there is now talk of a ‘trial’, there is nothing to suggest that the Russian FSB have even formally charged the journalist despite having held her prisoner since May 2023
khpg.org
August 1, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Melitopol journalist Iryna Levchenko abducted in 2023 ‘found’ imprisoned in russian-occupied Donetsk
Although there is now talk of a ‘trial’, there is nothing to suggest that the russian FSB have even formally charged the #journalist despite having held her prisoner since May 2023
Although there is now talk of a ‘trial’, there is nothing to suggest that the russian FSB have even formally charged the #journalist despite having held her prisoner since May 2023
Steve McQueen in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist at Marian Goodman Gallery
www.mariangoodman.com/mgg-presents...
www.mariangoodman.com/mgg-presents...
Steve McQueen and Hans Ulrich Obrist
www.mariangoodman.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Steve McQueen in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist at Marian Goodman Gallery
www.mariangoodman.com/mgg-presents...
www.mariangoodman.com/mgg-presents...
Reposted by Ela Kotkowska
this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility
July 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility