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Margaux E
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phd student @princeton, previously @cambridge | french modern thought & lit | between 🇫🇷🇺🇸🇬🇧🇯🇵🇩🇰🇳🇴
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olrsupplement.com/2025/03/31/beckett-and-derrida-by-james-martell/ First review of Beckett and Derrida is out, and it is by the wonderful Margaux Manon and in the Oxford Literary Review blog. Go give it a read!
Beckett and Derrida, by James Martell - The OLR Supplement
Beckett and Derrida as two writers on the impossibility of origins. Martell brings together khora, Hegel, Husserl and several key works of Beckett's.
olrsupplement.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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“Hermeneutics” is great because every time you need to research the work to remind yourself of its meanings, you are doing it.
March 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.

This Friday, where will you be?

standupforscience2025.org
March 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
just came back from a week-long phd campus visit and interview(s) which means if i dont get in it is entirely personal
February 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
doing an intensive Japanese exchange and somehow my Japanese is getting progressively worse
February 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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When I was a teenager, I got bored and depressed and then acted out in class. Now as an adult, when I get bored and depressed I act out online. This is just one example of how I’ve grown and progressed as a human being.
February 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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www.bloomsbury.com/uk/understan... out today! (and way more relevant and topical than I'd like, with all the misogyny, sadism, & so on of our current "sovereigns")
Understanding Sade, Understanding Modernism
The most current multidisciplinary and multivocal engagement with Sade's enduring influences on modernism and the philosophical need for continued analysis of h…
www.bloomsbury.com
February 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno
- photographer unidentified (1986)
January 22, 2025 at 1:49 AM
after a long week of getting up at 4am for east coast interviews just got my first phd acceptance let's goooo #cornell #bigredbears (?)
February 1, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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David Lynch s'en est allé, une nouvelle aussi surréaliste que ses films… Cinéaste incontournable au col de chemise toujours boutonné jusqu'en haut, il aura emprunté des routes mystérieuses, à l'instar de celle sur laquelle il se trouve désormais 🖤
January 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Sometimes you just want to joke around with your buddies. And then the economists come.
January 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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refrained from checking the status of my manuscript
January 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
very grateful to have received a positive RnR but there are FIVE reviewers with conflicting opinions god help me
January 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
watched the phantom thread for the first time as a break from my kurosawa marathon. can't believe id never seen it before—masterful, just masterful.
January 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
i remember being introduced to david lodge when preparing for cambridge english interview — it was one of my first encounters with literary theory, and has marked me to this day — rip david lodge
January 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
nabokov jtm
January 2, 2025 at 6:23 PM
sign sin
January 1, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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“maybe I’ll do some writing between christmas and new year”

Between christmas and new year:
December 29, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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I did not make this image, but I would watch this movie.
December 26, 2024 at 9:36 PM
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My brother doesn’t like his job, so I might suggest that he gets a PhD in the humanities.
December 24, 2024 at 10:28 PM
i urge anyone to watch this short docu– terribly done, terrible, problematic questions by terry dixon but baldwin's reaction, the beauty and poignancy of his rhetoric is priceless
December 23, 2024 at 6:26 PM