Jan Mieszkowski
@janm.bsky.social
Professor of German & Comparative Literature at Reed College. Recently finished a book about the languages of botany.
This is why you do the reading.
October 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This is why you do the reading.
Kant is never interested in the past; what interests him is the future of the species.
–Hannah Arendt
–Hannah Arendt
October 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Kant is never interested in the past; what interests him is the future of the species.
–Hannah Arendt
–Hannah Arendt
A masterpiece of literature is never anything more than a dictionary in disorder.
–Jean Cocteau
–Jean Cocteau
October 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
A masterpiece of literature is never anything more than a dictionary in disorder.
–Jean Cocteau
–Jean Cocteau
Pleased to have a piece in this new volume.
June 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Pleased to have a piece in this new volume.
"He thought that he had learned patience, but he had only lost impatience."
–Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion
–Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion
June 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
"He thought that he had learned patience, but he had only lost impatience."
–Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion
–Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion
What are students taught in high school such that they worry that the most basic exegetical move may constitute "overreading"?
February 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
What are students taught in high school such that they worry that the most basic exegetical move may constitute "overreading"?
Don’t you know that "No" is the wildest word we consign to Language?
–Emily Dickinson
–Emily Dickinson
February 12, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Don’t you know that "No" is the wildest word we consign to Language?
–Emily Dickinson
–Emily Dickinson
I dwell in Possibility -
A fairer House than Prose -
More numerous of Windows -
Superior - for Doors -
A fairer House than Prose -
More numerous of Windows -
Superior - for Doors -
January 30, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I dwell in Possibility -
A fairer House than Prose -
More numerous of Windows -
Superior - for Doors -
A fairer House than Prose -
More numerous of Windows -
Superior - for Doors -
Furcht vor der Nacht, Furcht vor der Nicht-Nacht
-Franz Kafka, 18 Okt. 1917
-Franz Kafka, 18 Okt. 1917
January 8, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Furcht vor der Nacht, Furcht vor der Nicht-Nacht
-Franz Kafka, 18 Okt. 1917
-Franz Kafka, 18 Okt. 1917
“Sound film as the limit for Kafka’s and Chaplin’s worlds.”
–Walter Benjamin
–Walter Benjamin
December 15, 2024 at 2:20 AM
“Sound film as the limit for Kafka’s and Chaplin’s worlds.”
–Walter Benjamin
–Walter Benjamin
Reposted by Jan Mieszkowski
Read Jan Mieszkowski's "Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions: The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's Der Proceß" in @mlnjournal.bsky.social on @projectmuse.bsky.social!
@janm.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/article/945087
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muse.jhu.edu/article/945087
December 9, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Read Jan Mieszkowski's "Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions: The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's Der Proceß" in @mlnjournal.bsky.social on @projectmuse.bsky.social!
@janm.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/article/945087
@janm.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/article/945087
Reposted by Jan Mieszkowski
icymi: Jan Mieszkowski, @janm.bsky.social, Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions:The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's Der Proceß (via Proj Muse) muse.jhu.edu/article/945087 speech acts, rescission in contracts ... @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lpcprof.bsky.social
Project MUSE - Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions: The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's <i>Der Proceß</i>
muse.jhu.edu
December 7, 2024 at 8:49 PM
icymi: Jan Mieszkowski, @janm.bsky.social, Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions:The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's Der Proceß (via Proj Muse) muse.jhu.edu/article/945087 speech acts, rescission in contracts ... @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lpcprof.bsky.social
TFW you realize that the bookstore categories have passed you by.
November 24, 2024 at 12:24 AM
TFW you realize that the bookstore categories have passed you by.
Required seminar wear.
November 19, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Required seminar wear.
Reading between the lines.
November 18, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Reading between the lines.
Reposted by Jan Mieszkowski
I just bought the Virtual Sentence and I literally can’t wait for it to arrive!
A review of The Virtual Sentence, eight writing exercises by Kyle Booten, D. Graham Burnett, Brian Dillon, Jeff Dolven, Jan Mieszkowski, Sally O’Reilly, Mónica de la Torre, and Elena Vogman.
You Could Use the Exercise
In the face of AI, the time is right to practice our writing techniques for invention and surprise.
www.publicbooks.org
November 15, 2024 at 1:56 AM
I just bought the Virtual Sentence and I literally can’t wait for it to arrive!
Nice to see that someone got up early to poster campus.
November 7, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Nice to see that someone got up early to poster campus.
A review of The Virtual Sentence, eight writing exercises by Kyle Booten, D. Graham Burnett, Brian Dillon, Jeff Dolven, Jan Mieszkowski, Sally O’Reilly, Mónica de la Torre, and Elena Vogman.
You Could Use the Exercise
In the face of AI, the time is right to practice our writing techniques for invention and surprise.
www.publicbooks.org
September 24, 2024 at 3:11 PM
A review of The Virtual Sentence, eight writing exercises by Kyle Booten, D. Graham Burnett, Brian Dillon, Jeff Dolven, Jan Mieszkowski, Sally O’Reilly, Mónica de la Torre, and Elena Vogman.