Juan Meneses
@dissentum.bsky.social
Global + postcolonial + comp lit, theory; occasional translator. Assoc. prof. Not on xitter. Views/prons: his. Books: Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent/Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination (ed.) both @uminnpress.bsky.social
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Juan Meneses
@dissentum.bsky.social
· May 28
Table of contents for the (very!) forthcoming Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, coming out in June with @uminnpress.bsky.social!
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Enough about books in dialogue with other books, with traditions, with ideas. I want them sitting across the room furiously pretending to ignore each other. Books on non-speaking terms! Books that glare and point! Books storming out of the room crying!
February 2, 2026 at 3:07 PM
Enough about books in dialogue with other books, with traditions, with ideas. I want them sitting across the room furiously pretending to ignore each other. Books on non-speaking terms! Books that glare and point! Books storming out of the room crying!
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I continue to make the case to my students that, while connections + luck + having professor parents + academic pedigree + early professionalization are determining factors, your best bet is your own sweat.
Talent can give you a leg up. Work is the way to get a shot at getting where you want to be.
Talent can give you a leg up. Work is the way to get a shot at getting where you want to be.
I was not the smartest person in the room in college or grad school. Saw many of my peers effortlessly write brilliant seminar papers where I was still mastering those skills. Some of the brightest stars in grad school didn't finish, left @ ABD stage. There's something to the tortoise & hare story.
February 8, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I continue to make the case to my students that, while connections + luck + having professor parents + academic pedigree + early professionalization are determining factors, your best bet is your own sweat.
Talent can give you a leg up. Work is the way to get a shot at getting where you want to be.
Talent can give you a leg up. Work is the way to get a shot at getting where you want to be.
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Not responding to an email (esp. if you said you'd write back with an answer) should not be an option. It's common professionalism and, honestly, ethical behavior to write back. Don't keep people hanging. Your silence will eventually be interpreted as a "no" but the time it'll take may be precious
February 8, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Not responding to an email (esp. if you said you'd write back with an answer) should not be an option. It's common professionalism and, honestly, ethical behavior to write back. Don't keep people hanging. Your silence will eventually be interpreted as a "no" but the time it'll take may be precious
Not responding to an email (esp. if you said you'd write back with an answer) should not be an option. It's common professionalism and, honestly, ethical behavior to write back. Don't keep people hanging. Your silence will eventually be interpreted as a "no" but the time it'll take may be precious
February 8, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Not responding to an email (esp. if you said you'd write back with an answer) should not be an option. It's common professionalism and, honestly, ethical behavior to write back. Don't keep people hanging. Your silence will eventually be interpreted as a "no" but the time it'll take may be precious
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February 8, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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Who amongst us hasn't...
February 8, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Who amongst us hasn't...
I continue to make the case to my students that, while connections + luck + having professor parents + academic pedigree + early professionalization are determining factors, your best bet is your own sweat.
Talent can give you a leg up. Work is the way to get a shot at getting where you want to be.
Talent can give you a leg up. Work is the way to get a shot at getting where you want to be.
I was not the smartest person in the room in college or grad school. Saw many of my peers effortlessly write brilliant seminar papers where I was still mastering those skills. Some of the brightest stars in grad school didn't finish, left @ ABD stage. There's something to the tortoise & hare story.
February 8, 2026 at 3:12 PM
I continue to make the case to my students that, while connections + luck + having professor parents + academic pedigree + early professionalization are determining factors, your best bet is your own sweat.
Talent can give you a leg up. Work is the way to get a shot at getting where you want to be.
Talent can give you a leg up. Work is the way to get a shot at getting where you want to be.
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Una vez más, ruego a periodistas, editores, y periódicos que pongan un poco más de esmero en traducir expresiones, eslóganes, y nombres comunes. Estoy viendo cada barbaridad literal que me duelen los ojos... 😵💫
February 4, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Una vez más, ruego a periodistas, editores, y periódicos que pongan un poco más de esmero en traducir expresiones, eslóganes, y nombres comunes. Estoy viendo cada barbaridad literal que me duelen los ojos... 😵💫
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There's an advantage in not participating in the newest BS technological advancement (of any kind, not just digital) where you see it come around, flood the zone, and disappear because people think it's awful. You refuse to line someone's pockets, fund a pet project, and be a market guinea pig.
December 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
There's an advantage in not participating in the newest BS technological advancement (of any kind, not just digital) where you see it come around, flood the zone, and disappear because people think it's awful. You refuse to line someone's pockets, fund a pet project, and be a market guinea pig.
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Sometimes I think of my book's "classmates" (books published the same year) and I love the connection with some books I deeply admire.
I know it's prob a bit self-indulgent, and I am extremely privileged to be able to write as part of my job.
I know it's prob a bit self-indulgent, and I am extremely privileged to be able to write as part of my job.
February 7, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Sometimes I think of my book's "classmates" (books published the same year) and I love the connection with some books I deeply admire.
I know it's prob a bit self-indulgent, and I am extremely privileged to be able to write as part of my job.
I know it's prob a bit self-indulgent, and I am extremely privileged to be able to write as part of my job.
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I had APA interviews that felt like this
February 7, 2026 at 4:18 PM
I had APA interviews that felt like this
This is a moment when we readers must step up to the plate and demand better than this. Translation 100% done by humans, 100% of the time.
The way AI affected translators' jobs shows that AI cannot replace humans, only degrade their work.
Translators are now hired to edit AI-made translations. Nevermind than editing a bad translation is harder than just translating it well!
That still gives the company an excuse to underpay them.
Translators are now hired to edit AI-made translations. Nevermind than editing a bad translation is harder than just translating it well!
That still gives the company an excuse to underpay them.
February 7, 2026 at 4:21 PM
This is a moment when we readers must step up to the plate and demand better than this. Translation 100% done by humans, 100% of the time.
Sometimes I think of my book's "classmates" (books published the same year) and I love the connection with some books I deeply admire.
I know it's prob a bit self-indulgent, and I am extremely privileged to be able to write as part of my job.
I know it's prob a bit self-indulgent, and I am extremely privileged to be able to write as part of my job.
February 7, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Sometimes I think of my book's "classmates" (books published the same year) and I love the connection with some books I deeply admire.
I know it's prob a bit self-indulgent, and I am extremely privileged to be able to write as part of my job.
I know it's prob a bit self-indulgent, and I am extremely privileged to be able to write as part of my job.
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Fabian Muniesa - 'Paranoid Finance' @ Sciences Po Paris (AxPo / CEE) 19.02.2026 www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
January 29, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Fabian Muniesa - 'Paranoid Finance' @ Sciences Po Paris (AxPo / CEE) 19.02.2026 www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
This is not Luddism, it's common sense. It's very often all there, if you care to look at it
There's an advantage in not participating in the newest BS technological advancement (of any kind, not just digital) where you see it come around, flood the zone, and disappear because people think it's awful. You refuse to line someone's pockets, fund a pet project, and be a market guinea pig.
February 4, 2026 at 2:39 PM
This is not Luddism, it's common sense. It's very often all there, if you care to look at it
Una vez más, ruego a periodistas, editores, y periódicos que pongan un poco más de esmero en traducir expresiones, eslóganes, y nombres comunes. Estoy viendo cada barbaridad literal que me duelen los ojos... 😵💫
February 4, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Una vez más, ruego a periodistas, editores, y periódicos que pongan un poco más de esmero en traducir expresiones, eslóganes, y nombres comunes. Estoy viendo cada barbaridad literal que me duelen los ojos... 😵💫
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For work adjacent reasons I am watching a Ted talk by a neuroscientist who could have taken one (1) undergraduate philosophy class.
“We assume that what our senses perceive is reality” no actually for thousands of years we have not assumed that.
“We assume that what our senses perceive is reality” no actually for thousands of years we have not assumed that.
February 3, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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February 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Lovely
In the '60s, an all-star team of Soviet artists assembled -- including Yuri Norstein. Together, they crafted a gentle, quiet gem called The Mitten.
It's lovely stop motion, and it laid the groundwork for the team's later Cheburashka. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/a-film-for...
It's lovely stop motion, and it laid the groundwork for the team's later Cheburashka. We explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/a-film-for...
February 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Lovely
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Like many, I also promote reflection of what boredom is, why we are bored and/or why we are no longer bored. I tell them it's good to be bored, and it's good to do nothing sometimes!
Re: "students no longer can sit through a whole movie," "students don't read full novels anymore," or whatever new anxiety, the best case I can make to them, when they admit they struggle, is to think about it as "these are not the movies/novels you would choose to read/watch, and that's not only +
January 31, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Like many, I also promote reflection of what boredom is, why we are bored and/or why we are no longer bored. I tell them it's good to be bored, and it's good to do nothing sometimes!
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Re: "students no longer can sit through a whole movie," "students don't read full novels anymore," or whatever new anxiety, the best case I can make to them, when they admit they struggle, is to think about it as "these are not the movies/novels you would choose to read/watch, and that's not only +
January 31, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Re: "students no longer can sit through a whole movie," "students don't read full novels anymore," or whatever new anxiety, the best case I can make to them, when they admit they struggle, is to think about it as "these are not the movies/novels you would choose to read/watch, and that's not only +
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💯 I sometimes contribute to a small program to prepare first-time teachers and I try to emphasize this as much as I can when I meet with them. You can't project your student self onto the audience you'll soon be teaching for
Some of my worst teaching resulted from assuming my students were the kind of student I'd been.
(Taking a college class once I was a faculty member and knowing from the start that I was probably going to get a B really helped me understand my students a bit better.)
(Taking a college class once I was a faculty member and knowing from the start that I was probably going to get a B really helped me understand my students a bit better.)
But perennially, a challenge of college teaching is that you can’t just rely on what would have reached you bc you by virtue of becoming a professor in your subject were an atypical student.
January 31, 2026 at 4:31 PM
💯 I sometimes contribute to a small program to prepare first-time teachers and I try to emphasize this as much as I can when I meet with them. You can't project your student self onto the audience you'll soon be teaching for
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It's been a while, so I am reposting this starter pack for Comparative and World/Global Literature👇
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go.bsky.app/DHK7Cwk
February 2, 2026 at 4:43 PM
It's been a while, so I am reposting this starter pack for Comparative and World/Global Literature👇
go.bsky.app/DHK7Cwk
go.bsky.app/DHK7Cwk