ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people

It’s true: Pod45 is back after a brief hiatus! Here we have an episode based on our Samuel Delany cluster, ed. @blakestricklin.bsky.social . The podcast ft. Stricklin in conversation w @franciscondine.bsky.social, Y Howard, Christopher Breu, Rebekah Sheldon, & @kirinwgrene.bsky.social !

Today’s morning listen (and read!) is the Post45 Contemporaries @atpost45.bsky.social podcast + cluster, “Samuel Delany’s Improbable Communities”

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*please repost or forward* Here’s a sheet where arts orgs can record information about their NEA grant termination. Annie Dorsen is collecting this info as a first step towards coordinating a response docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

in love, always, with nonprofit lit org newsletter design in the late '70s and early '80s

Recently watched Leos Carax's It's Not Me and Carax said our world is flooded with so many images that we no longer have time to blink. But, "we need to blink; the beauty of the world demands it." David Lynch was an artist that made us blink.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nmm...

I ended my membership with the MLA a few months before the current controversy (about a resolution and the leadership's authoritarian tactics). It became clear to me that MLA has nothing to offer those of us who work at underfunded public schools.

matthewcheney.net/blog/against...

I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

So happy this essay and cluster are out! It is an honor to be able to pay tribute to the great Samuel Delany.

For @breu.bsky.social, in “Blueprints for a Red Sexual Revolution,” Delany’s non-nostalgic “sexual commons” of old Times Square offers a geography of contact and the an-arranging politics of sexual encounter.

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Y Howard takes up Delany’s work through his “graphic superfluity” of language and image—or “sexcess.” Delany’s mind, and work, perceives “erratic routes of an always in-process account of encounters, reproduced as sexually promiscuous forms of writing.”

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Reading Delany’s metafictional novella Phallos, Rebekah Sheldon offers an understanding of Delany’s speculative fiction and pornographic writing as it pertains to the literary history of the occult.

post45.org/2024/11/phal...

Next, in “Delany’s Complex Singularity or, the Astonishing Whole,” @kirinwgrene.bsky.social thinks through “Delany's representations of urban, interclass contact” in TSR,TSB and The Motion of Light in Water.

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This Friday the 29th, we bring you “Samuel R. Delany’s Improbably Communities,” on the author’s sex-worlds & the politics of (often) public sex in his essays and novels. Ed. by Blake Stricklin; ft. work by @kirinwgrene, Rebekah Sheldon, Y Howard, and Christopher Breu!

post45.org/contemporari...

🥳🫣 Surprise—there's a brand new CLUSTER COMING TO YOU Friday, on Samuel Delany's Sexual Politics & Paraliterary Style!

Ed. by @blakestricklin.bsky.social , ft. Y Howard, @kirinwgrene.bsky.social, @breu.bsky.social, & Rebekah Sheldon. (Photo: Y Howard)

Check post45.org/contemporari... tomorrow!