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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social
@diacriticsjournal.bsky.social
A review of contemporary criticism

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Diacritics author and board member Grant Farred writes about nostalgia for late industrial capitalism in his most recent publication "The Prettiest Woman," forthcoming with @uminnpress.bsky.social
For more information, see here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791832...
The Prettiest Woman
Uncovering Hollywood’s perpetual longing for a lost industrial America “We don’t make things in America anymore”: like clockwork, this refrain resurf...
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October 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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'Rethinking Literary Naturalism: Proust and Quignard After Life' by Ian James reads biosemiotics, Proust, and Quignard together to elaborate a theory of literary naturalism. Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/RethinkingLiteraryNaturalism 📚
July 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
New at Liverool University Press, the recent monograph "Rethinking Literary Naturalism" by Diacritics contributor Ian James
Recently published in our Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures series 📚
Explore both titles in more detail below ⬇️🔗
October 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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So happy to have my article on The Beatles lyrics in Japan functioning as what I term "world lyric" out in Diacritics!
A new issue of Diacritics (52.3) is out!
With contributions by William Stroebel, Alexander Diones, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Tobias Ertl, and Nina Farizova. Featuring art by Misha Wyllie, with an interview by Philip Glahn. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55662
October 1, 2025 at 5:50 AM
A new issue of Diacritics (52.3) is out!
With contributions by William Stroebel, Alexander Diones, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Tobias Ertl, and Nina Farizova. Featuring art by Misha Wyllie, with an interview by Philip Glahn. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55662
September 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
In the 2nd part of our "Documents" series, Juliane Rebentisch develops her theory of contemporary art through an engagement with Land Art. Translated & introduced by Mitchell Herrmann.

Read here on the Diacritics blog: www.diacriticsjournal.com/documents-2-...
Documents 2: Juliane Rebentisch on Land Art - Diacritics
September 17, 2025 What is a document? A lesson, a specimen, a fragment of evidence—perhaps even a warning. Our blog series “Documents” is dedicated to bringing texts from outside the Anglophone world...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Diacritics contributors David Marriott and Rizvana Bradley are presenting the book series "Inventions" at a free virtual event with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Join @citylightsbooks.bsky.social this Thursday (9/25) at 6PM PT for a free virtual event celebrating the series Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics – featuring: Series Editor David Marriott, joined by contributors Rizvana Bradley and Patrice Douglass

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September 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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🗓️ Our next Ask Me Anything is with University Presses on 30 Sept! Join us to learn how small publishers are making the most of ORCID membership. Got questions? Submit them when you register! Register: https://linktr.ee/orcid_org

#ORCIDevents #ScholarlyPublishing #UniversityPresses
September 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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New episode of the Cultures of Energy pod! We talk about wildfires ecologies, poetry and symbiosis, and the importance of walking slowly. Plus @cymene.bsky.social is back! cenhs.libsyn.com/237-the-cany...
Cultures of Energy: 237 - The Canyon (feat. Robert Savino Oventile)
Cymene returns to the pod at long last (yay!) and we discuss recent events and how climate science probably caused wildfires and bears to happen. Then (13:17) Robert Savino Oventile joins the podcast ...
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August 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Breaking with the received view of Marx's relation to German Idealism, True Materialism by @jensensuther.bsky.social argues that the materialist critique of capitalist production is inseparable from Hegel's idea that the demand for freedom is a demand for mutual recognition

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September 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
As of September 15, Diacritics is again open to general submissions. We look forward to reading your work! For further information, please see our author submission guidelines here: www.diacriticsjournal.com/portfolio/su...
September 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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"There is no map for this territory. We are incapable of comprehending what is happening or where we are headed."

I talked with @rsoventile.bsky.social about IMPASSE for @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social

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Embracing Pessimism amidst Collapse: An Interview with Roy Scranton - Diacritics
Embracing Pessimism amidst Collapse: An Interview with Roy Scranton Roy Scranton is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, where he is Director of the Notre Dame Environmental...
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August 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Diacritics 52.2 is out! Curated by Austin Lillywhite & Nicole Seymour, "Queer Environs" features Danielle Allor, Micah J. Goodrich, Alvin K. Wong, Natalia Cecire, John Kennedy, Davy Knittle, Jonathan Cane, André Prado Fernandes, Andil Gosine.
Read here on Project Muse (OA): muse.jhu.edu/issue/55098
July 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Diacritics' new blog series “Documents” translates non-English theoretical texts to bring them into scholarly circulation. The first entry features 2 excerpts by August Strindberg on natural photography, translated & introduced by Paulo A. Lorca. Read here: www.diacriticsjournal.com/documents-1-...
July 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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"As If!" by Chase Gregory explores the stylistically strategic, often campy, and productively fraught cross-identifications of early queer criticism. Read the introduction for free on our website! #LiteraryTheory #LGBTQBooks
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June 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Jean-Xavier Renaud, who has previously published his work in Diacritics, is presenting "Hauteville Digne," a new series of watercolor paintings and postcards, on his website: jxrenaud.com/portfolio/20...
April 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Four fab new releases:

-EXPLODED VIEWS: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry by Jonathan P. Eburne

-QUIET METHODOLOGIES: Humility in the Humanities by Suzanne Bost

-EXPLOSIVITY: Following What Remains by Javier Arbona-Homar

-Humanities in the Time of AI by Laurent Dubreuil

#NewBooks
April 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Diacritics author and former faculty editor Laurent Dubreuil has published "Humanities in the Time of AI" with University of Minnesota Press
April 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Thanks to the generous support of libraries and institutions worldwide, Project MUSE’s S2O initiative has reached a milestone of releasing the current issues of over 100 journals from 27 publishers!

#StepUP & Explore S2O on MUSE: bit.ly/MUSE_S2O
April 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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The forecast is looking hazy. What things are hiding in the fog? More discounts!

This week, answer the #CUPSpringSale daily riddle to earn a discount.

Which of our new books published in April will it be? Find a prize on the page of the winning book!

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April 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Diacritics (52.1) is out! "Encamped" features work by Eman Ghanayem, Theresa Rocha Beardall, Lily Wong, Liron Mor, Rebecca R. Gould, Mejdulene Bernard Shomali, Patty Keller, Imane Terhmina, Ervin Malakaj, César Domínguez, Farah Bakaari, et al.
Read it here on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54493
March 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM