Javier Padilla
@javierpadillar.bsky.social
writer, professor — Books: *Dodecadencias* (@Valparaisoed, 2023) *Revolutionary Poetics: Decolonial Poetry and the Time of Liberation* (forthcoming, @SUNYpress)
A Hunger Artist
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
A Hunger Artist
800 pgs of autofiction
November 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
800 pgs of autofiction
'The possibility that language may be sourceless, baseless, not modelled on any mind divine or human, but rather coercively modelling them, appears when two different coherent languages struggle for domination within a single mind' (Miller)
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
'The possibility that language may be sourceless, baseless, not modelled on any mind divine or human, but rather coercively modelling them, appears when two different coherent languages struggle for domination within a single mind' (Miller)
close-reading close reading
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
close-reading close reading
Rorty describing Stanley Fish’s ‘cracker-barrel” style.
November 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Rorty describing Stanley Fish’s ‘cracker-barrel” style.
they jazzified frankenstein
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
they jazzified frankenstein
My article on decolonization and temporality: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
My article on decolonization and temporality: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Feeling “Thrown” after teaching students about “Thrownness.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Feeling “Thrown” after teaching students about “Thrownness.”
In awe after rewatching Mulholland dr. Never has a film examined the violence and eroticism of artifice so effectively.
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
In awe after rewatching Mulholland dr. Never has a film examined the violence and eroticism of artifice so effectively.
Terrible attempt at explaining logocentrism:
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Terrible attempt at explaining logocentrism:
Reposted by Javier Padilla
‘Who wrote this story for you?’
Boris Lojkine’s film ‘L’Histoire de Souleymane’ explores the role of truth and storytelling in a Guinean refugee’s search for asylum.
Michael Wood reviews:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Boris Lojkine’s film ‘L’Histoire de Souleymane’ explores the role of truth and storytelling in a Guinean refugee’s search for asylum.
Michael Wood reviews:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood · At the Movies: ‘L’Histoire de Souleymane’
The title seems a little tame if you haven’t seen the movie. L’Histoire de Souleymane: Souleymane’s Story (or...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
‘Who wrote this story for you?’
Boris Lojkine’s film ‘L’Histoire de Souleymane’ explores the role of truth and storytelling in a Guinean refugee’s search for asylum.
Michael Wood reviews:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Boris Lojkine’s film ‘L’Histoire de Souleymane’ explores the role of truth and storytelling in a Guinean refugee’s search for asylum.
Michael Wood reviews:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
semiotics but make it marxist
October 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
semiotics but make it marxist
“The night sky: once proof of the existence of god, now evidence of his disappearance.”
October 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
“The night sky: once proof of the existence of god, now evidence of his disappearance.”
scared at the vet:
October 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
scared at the vet:
Reposted by Javier Padilla
Johanna (@johannawinant.bsky.social) and I believe that close reading is for everyone. So a few months ago I wrote this essay for @defector.com, in anticipation of our book, thanks to the incredible editor @brandyjensen.bsky.social, "Close Reading Is for Everyone" defector.com/close-readin...
October 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Johanna (@johannawinant.bsky.social) and I believe that close reading is for everyone. So a few months ago I wrote this essay for @defector.com, in anticipation of our book, thanks to the incredible editor @brandyjensen.bsky.social, "Close Reading Is for Everyone" defector.com/close-readin...
Grayness beckons:
October 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Grayness beckons:
Reposted by Javier Padilla
A forbidden book @semiotexte.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 2:12 AM
A forbidden book @semiotexte.bsky.social
Pablo de Rokha:
Dromedary, dusty dromedary, great wandering animal, yellow with twilight truths,
you trot with my mount of loving sadness…
Dromedary, dusty dromedary, great wandering animal, yellow with twilight truths,
you trot with my mount of loving sadness…
November 30, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Pablo de Rokha:
Dromedary, dusty dromedary, great wandering animal, yellow with twilight truths,
you trot with my mount of loving sadness…
Dromedary, dusty dromedary, great wandering animal, yellow with twilight truths,
you trot with my mount of loving sadness…
November 30, 2024 at 2:04 AM
More moon poems:
“I will rise to the heavens
place the trigger on the moon
and from above fusillade the world
slowly, softly
so that everything can change once and for all.”
(González Tuñón)
“I will rise to the heavens
place the trigger on the moon
and from above fusillade the world
slowly, softly
so that everything can change once and for all.”
(González Tuñón)
November 28, 2024 at 9:40 AM
More moon poems:
“I will rise to the heavens
place the trigger on the moon
and from above fusillade the world
slowly, softly
so that everything can change once and for all.”
(González Tuñón)
“I will rise to the heavens
place the trigger on the moon
and from above fusillade the world
slowly, softly
so that everything can change once and for all.”
(González Tuñón)
ravages of time
November 21, 2024 at 9:58 AM
ravages of time