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Iris Bencsik
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MA student at Heidelberg University and part of https://uebercringe.de/ research project
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Cringe is forever, aber dieses Projekt kommt heute zum Ende der aktiven Förderphase. Letztes Arbeitstreffen unserer Projektgruppe mit Rückblick, Ausblick und (Publikations-)Plänen für die Zukunft 🙏
September 30, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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in the words of Taylor Swift: cringe is unavoidable ☝️
July 9, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Next week: conference time! We look forward to an interdisciplinary exploration of ambivalent affects and everyday aesthetics:
July 7 to 9 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social as well as online!
Keynote: Teresa Pratt (SFSU), Language and affect in interaction and performance
July 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Come and join us for the 7th annual Graduate Student Conference at the end of this week! 📣🎓👩🏻‍💻

🗓 27. — 28 June, 2025

📍English Department @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Qué lengua noble el alemán que nos da palabras tan buenas y necesarias como "Spaßgetränk" 🙏
June 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This was genuinely the most fun I've had in a while 😍
A big big thank you to all the students who participated in the workshop yesterday! 🤗✨
June 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Endlich wieder Cringe!

In unserem heutigen Arbeitstreffen:
Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen, Maren Ades grandioses Erstlingswerk aus dem Jahr 2003. Ein Film, der Cringe thematisch auslotet und als Stilprinzip einsetzt, lange bevor das Diskursphänomen einen Namen hatte.
June 5, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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We are the English Linguistics team at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social. Located in the heart of Heidelberg, we are passionate about everything linguistics, from historical pragmatics to digital discourse analysis, from impoliteness in children's fiction to queer sociophonetics. Follow us for updates!
June 4, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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We had the honor of hosting Lauren Hall-Lew @lhlew.bsky.social (Edinburgh) in our Lunch Lecture series. Lauren's compelling talk on Sociophonetics and Mental Health ended with a call for Mad Linguistics as a new paradigm for theorizing language and mental health. Insightful and inspiring!
June 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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RESOLVED: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is so much more expressive and therefore preferable than 🤷

Discuss
February 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Putting “Trump declares Pluto a planet again” on my bingo card.
February 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Cringe-Arbeitstreffen, heute mit einem Klassiker!
February 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.
Just filed an article about the upcoming German elections (out on Sunday) and what strikes me is how timid much of the institutional pushback against the far-right has been. Some people have distinguished themselves but for the most part it’s just been really complacent - really disappointing.
February 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
And I miss watching them 🥲
I miss doing my pandemic twitch streams.
February 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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What will I do when Tik Tok gets banned and I can no longer cheer on the countless dancing men that I support?
January 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Das neue Jahr beginnt mit Cringe!

Zur Geschichte und Gegenwart eines ambivalenten Affekts: Beitrag in @g-d-gegenwart.bsky.social von @theresaheyd.bsky.social und @heidevolkening.bsky.social
#Cringe
Cringe hat Konjunktur und ist mehr als Jugendslang. Ob in Comedy, Social Media oder Literatur – Cringe enthüllt die ambivalenten Grenzen zwischen Humor, Peinlichkeit und gesellschaftlichen Normen.
geschichtedergegenwart.ch
January 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Endlich wieder Cringe!

Heute findet unser nächstes Arbeitstreffen statt und es wird ugly: Wir diskutieren The Internet Ugly Aesthetic (Douglas 2014) und einen Ausschnitt aus Ugly Feelings (Ngai 2005)
December 4, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Eine tolle Auslegung meiner favorite billionaire barbie (🥴) und was ihre Kunst bedeutet: geschichtedergegenwart.ch/autofiktion-...
November 19, 2024 at 10:20 AM
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Mit dabei unter anderem @irisbencsik.bsky.social, @sanssouciii.bsky.social, @ancaleth.bsky.social, @sofiaruediger.bsky.social und andere. Teilnahme vor Ort ist nach Anmeldung möglich, das Programm im Link:
Workshop: Cringe. Ästhetik und diskursive Praxis der Schamlust
Forschungsprojekt der Volkswagen Stiftung, in Kooperation mit dem IZfG
izfg.uni-greifswald.de
October 15, 2024 at 9:32 AM