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Florian Mussgnug
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Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies @UCL | Environmental Humanities | Utopia | Apocalypse | Anthropocene Studies | World Literature

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UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · 1d
Many thanks to the Centre for Apocalyptic & Postapocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) @uniheidelberg.bsky.social for welcoming @fmussgnug.bsky.social, @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social & Emily Baker to talk about emergence and emergencies last week—we look forward to our discussions in Bloomsbury next spring!
An apocalyptic bar of chocolate from CAPAS at the University of Heidelberg.

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 2d
Don‘t forget to mention that I spoke about your brilliant book!

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/apocalypt...
Apocalyptic Political Theology
Hegel's philosophy of religion contains an implicit political theology. When viewed in connection with his wider work on subjectivity, history and politics, thi…
www.bloomsbury.com

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UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · 13d
👏👏 to @fmussgnug.bsky.social for a 🎆 inaugural lecture on loving apocalypse too much @uclselcs.bsky.social last night!

Saul Bellow's Herzog, Frank Kermode, Loki & multiverse destruction, Mary Shelley's & apocalypses as a way of looking beyond & through them to something more sustaining.
A photo of Florian Mussgnug giving his inaugural lecture with a slide titled 'is there anything in your daily lives that does /not/ feel apocalyptic?'

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 17d
Hi Nomi, great to hear that you will be in London. How long are you staying? Would be good to catch up. Reg. the lecture: the Faculty does record these, I think, but I am not sure whether they are uploaded anywhere or just kept as a record. Will find out. Thank you for your interest!

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 18d
Large red-letter day Tues 28 Oct @uclselcs.bsky.social + @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social when my wonderful colleague @fmussgnug.bsky.social will give his inaugural professorial lecture on why we love apocalypse so much (and maybe shouldn't…?). In person, 18:00.

#Anthropocene, #envhum, #literature
Loving Apocalypse Too Much
The End of the World? Why would anybody wish to go there? And yet, if we do not want this world to end, why do we love Apocalypse so much?
www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · Aug 7
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THE HERDS reach the edge of the world
YouTube video by THE HERDS
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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · Aug 7
THE HERDS’ 20,000km journey has finally come to an end at one of the furthest reaches of the world. Since April, the animals’ route has led them through the Congo Jungle of Central Africa, the desert of the Sahel, and towns and cities across Europe.
@theherds.bsky.social

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · Aug 7
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THE HERDS scale the largest Glacier in mainland Europe
YouTube video by THE HERDS
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · Jul 14
On this day 48 years ago (July 15, 1977) the New York Times article ran a front page story "Scientists fear heavy use of coal may bring adverse shift in climate"

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Tile about New York Times article on July 15 1977 "Scientists fear heavy use of coal may bring adverse shift in climate"

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · Jul 10
Introducing a ✨ special issue✨ of Italica (Vol. 101, No. 3) on postsecular Italy, guest edited by Clodagh Brook, Monica Jansen ‪@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social‬ , and Maria Bonaria Urban. cc: @fmussgnug.bsky.social‬

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Cover of Italica, Volume 101, Number 3, Fall 2024 Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Italian Blue background with lighter blue silhouette of the country of Italy.

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · Jun 27
THE HERDS in London: seeing the animals arrive at the far end of the street I was moved to tears

@theherds.bsky.social
www.theherds.org

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · Jun 26
The UCL Stampede for the Arts on a Heating Planet continues with Prof. Emma Bond’s Ravindranath Tagore Lecture in ComparativeLiterature @efbond.bsky.social “The Work of Literature in Times of Eco Crisis”.

www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · Jun 26
Very proud and happy to be hosting David Lan, producer of THE HERDS, and Maryam Pasha, London producer of THE HERDS at UCL.
@theherds.bsky.social
www.theherds.org

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UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · Jun 23
The Visual Arts on a Heating Planet 🌍

Join us for this roundtable event where artists & scholars explore the role of the arts in responding to the accelerating climate crisis.

📆26 June, 12noon - 1.45pm
📍IAS Common Ground
🔗 Book here! shorturl.at/gXFmr

Part of the UCL Stampede events & The Herds 🦁

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UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · Jun 17
📣Next week!

The UCL Stampede for Arts on a Heating Planet🌍

Life-size puppet animals🦁 are travelling a 20,000km route to symbolise their flight from climate disaster as part of THE HERDS public art & climate initiative

Attend our event to mark the arrival in London👇
26-29 June
🔗 shorturl.at/T64aV

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UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · May 28
How might history help us understand the material and social significance of heat? In what ways do these histories connect with domestic structures, gender & patterns of consumption?

Join us for an Anthropocene Histories seminar on Histories of Heating🔥

📆4 June,3-5pm|
📍online
🔗 shorturl.at/a7VZD

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · May 18
répétitif?
ripetitivo?
sich wiederholend?
повторюваний?
përsëritës?
επαναλαμβανόμενος?

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · May 17
Lovely to hear so many different languages at Eurovision 2025. Is this the most polyglot Eurovision in history? Does anybody have stats? 🇪🇺

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UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · May 13
📣Join us for the first seminar in our Interdisciplinarity: new reconfigurations of the social and natural sciences seminar series!

Georgina Born and Andrew Barry will speak about AI, Environment and Art on 20 May from 5-6pm in the IAS Common Ground.

Sign up here👉 shorturl.at/fSi6c

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · May 13
How long until it occurs to the US government to offer political asylum to members of the now-banned, far-right German Reichsbürger?

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Tagesschau Bot @tagesschau.bsky.social · May 13
Innenministerium verbietet "Königreich Deutschland"#Reichsbürger#KönigreichDeutschland#Vereinsverbot
Innenministerium verbietet "Königreich Deutschland"
Das "Königreich Deutschland" ist eine der bekanntesten "Reichsbürger"-Vereinigungen. Nun wurde es verboten.
www.tagesschau.de

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · May 12
No Island is an Island

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · May 12
Fredric Jameson, “Of Islands and Trenches” (1977)

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · May 12
Fredric Jameson’s early work on the fallacies of island thinking sheds light on Starmer’s gratuitous, pointless, hurtful remark about an “island of strangers”: island fantasies = nostalgia for feudalism where a coherent critique of capitalism appears impossible.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
UK risks becoming ‘island of strangers’ without more immigration curbs, Starmer says
PM unveils policies to ‘significantly’ drive down net migration including English tests and degree requirements
www.theguardian.com

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UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · May 12
Join us for this Anthropocene Histories seminar where Kristin Asdal & Tone Huse discuss how the ocean, in the years proceeding WWII, has been harnessed to become a space of ever-intensifying capital investment and innovation 🌊

📆14 May, 3-5pm
📍Online - zoom
🔗 shorturl.at/qQGsE

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · May 12
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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · Apr 16
Super! Can I audit the module?

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · Apr 16
Note also how “Freedom” (“Libertà”) replaces “Liberation” (“Liberazione”)

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · Apr 16
By contrast, the national government has chosen omit any reference to Fascism.
This poster reads: “Freedom, a history that we defend every day”.

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · Apr 16
Italy’s national holiday on 25 April 2025 will mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation from Fascism. This is how the City of Rome is marking the occasion: