Valentina Romanzi
@tinanovels.bsky.social
American, utopian, animal, video game & pop studies. EnvHum @UniTorino. Author of American Nightmares https://bit.ly/3euW4Ho. Editor at @Iperstoria. She/her
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Thrilled and delighted to say that my new book, Utopian Variations: Utopia in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, is now out! Thanks to the University of Essex's open access fund, it's available via open access too. You can download the full book for free here: www.peterlang.com/document/156...
Peter Lang Verlag - Utopian Variations
Utopian Variations is a comparative critical study of a variety of kinds of utopia and utopian discourse. Rather than focusing on more familiar forms ...
www.peterlang.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Thrilled and delighted to say that my new book, Utopian Variations: Utopia in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, is now out! Thanks to the University of Essex's open access fund, it's available via open access too. You can download the full book for free here: www.peterlang.com/document/156...
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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
June 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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📢Registrations are open for our upcoming event at the Italian Institute of Culture [IN ITALIANO]!
Marco Caracciolo, @tinanovels.bsky.social, and I will talk about imaginary games, speculative fiction, and climate imaginaries in the wake of my latest novel :)
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Marco Caracciolo, @tinanovels.bsky.social, and I will talk about imaginary games, speculative fiction, and climate imaginaries in the wake of my latest novel :)
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Scrivere fantascienza mentre fuori il mondo è in fiamme
In occasione della pubblicazione del suo secondo romanzo What We Owe the Dead (Set Margins’, 2025), Stefano Gualeni (Università di Malta) dialogherà con Marco Caracciolo (Università di Ghent, Belgio) ...
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June 18, 2025 at 7:23 AM
📢Registrations are open for our upcoming event at the Italian Institute of Culture [IN ITALIANO]!
Marco Caracciolo, @tinanovels.bsky.social, and I will talk about imaginary games, speculative fiction, and climate imaginaries in the wake of my latest novel :)
iicvalletta.esteri.it/it/gli_event...
Marco Caracciolo, @tinanovels.bsky.social, and I will talk about imaginary games, speculative fiction, and climate imaginaries in the wake of my latest novel :)
iicvalletta.esteri.it/it/gli_event...
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Had lots of fun last night at my book talk in Ghent #paardvantroje.
Next up: another book talk at NOI Libreria in Milan on Friday the 30th with @tinanovels.bsky.social
This one is going to be in Italian :) Join us at 19:00!
>> www.eventbrite.it/e/scrivere-f... <<
Next up: another book talk at NOI Libreria in Milan on Friday the 30th with @tinanovels.bsky.social
This one is going to be in Italian :) Join us at 19:00!
>> www.eventbrite.it/e/scrivere-f... <<
Scrivere fantascienza mentre il mondo è in fiamme
What We Owe the Dead, il secondo romanzo di Stefano Gualeni
www.eventbrite.it
May 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Had lots of fun last night at my book talk in Ghent #paardvantroje.
Next up: another book talk at NOI Libreria in Milan on Friday the 30th with @tinanovels.bsky.social
This one is going to be in Italian :) Join us at 19:00!
>> www.eventbrite.it/e/scrivere-f... <<
Next up: another book talk at NOI Libreria in Milan on Friday the 30th with @tinanovels.bsky.social
This one is going to be in Italian :) Join us at 19:00!
>> www.eventbrite.it/e/scrivere-f... <<
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Revoking admissions for a group that makes up 30% of the student body.
All because you dont want Black people to attend or Black history to be taught.
My God.
All because you dont want Black people to attend or Black history to be taught.
My God.
May 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Revoking admissions for a group that makes up 30% of the student body.
All because you dont want Black people to attend or Black history to be taught.
My God.
All because you dont want Black people to attend or Black history to be taught.
My God.
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon
theonion.com/woman-r...
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Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon
LOWELL, MA—Doing her best to follow her therapist’s advice for dealing with stressful situations, area woman Holly Debling reportedly reminded herself Tuesday not to catastrophize after she spotted four skeletal horsemen on the horizon. “Okay, Holly, remember: Just because a great trumpet has sounded at the arrival of four unearthly riders, that doesn’t necessarily mean […]
theonion.com
May 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon
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At this juncture I’d like to point out:
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
April 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
At this juncture I’d like to point out:
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
* we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing
* there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world
* a united approach could stop the climate crisis
But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.
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🤣😶
FROM THE ARCHIVES:
Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison
Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison
Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison
GREENBELT, MD—Decrying the deportation as “wholly lawless,” U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ruled Monday that the Trump administration had three days to return her to the United States from a Salvador...
theonion.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🤣😶
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Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing
Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing
WASHINGTON—Claiming that preservation efforts had impeded U.S. seafood production for far too long, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had opened up the nation’s aquariums to commercia...
theonion.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing
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Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.
April 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.
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My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com
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Look what I got in the mail! @gua-le-ni.com's latest book What We Owe the Dead - highly entertaining and equally thought-provoking! Stefano and I will be chatting about it in Milan at the end of May; in the meantime you can get your copy on @freeklomme.bsky.social's website!
March 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Look what I got in the mail! @gua-le-ni.com's latest book What We Owe the Dead - highly entertaining and equally thought-provoking! Stefano and I will be chatting about it in Milan at the end of May; in the meantime you can get your copy on @freeklomme.bsky.social's website!
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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The only piece of actual wisdom I have ever learned about US politics is "Never believe something is too stupid to happen."
March 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The only piece of actual wisdom I have ever learned about US politics is "Never believe something is too stupid to happen."
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lmao this made me cry real tears because it is legitimately what every day feels like right now
my work is like “hey can you make a slideshow to explain this bill?” and “oops looks like the EPA no longer exists”
my work is like “hey can you make a slideshow to explain this bill?” and “oops looks like the EPA no longer exists”
March 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
lmao this made me cry real tears because it is legitimately what every day feels like right now
my work is like “hey can you make a slideshow to explain this bill?” and “oops looks like the EPA no longer exists”
my work is like “hey can you make a slideshow to explain this bill?” and “oops looks like the EPA no longer exists”
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It is important that people understand and accept as fact that our government is compromised. I don't mean compromised in some cloak-and-dagger sense, I simply mean that this government no longer accepts core democratic principles and is angling toward an autocracy that's part of a New Axis of Evil.
Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats
Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’
www.theguardian.com
March 1, 2025 at 3:58 AM
It is important that people understand and accept as fact that our government is compromised. I don't mean compromised in some cloak-and-dagger sense, I simply mean that this government no longer accepts core democratic principles and is angling toward an autocracy that's part of a New Axis of Evil.
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Not since Prohibition have so many Americans wanted to commit the same crime at once
February 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Not since Prohibition have so many Americans wanted to commit the same crime at once
Had the pleasure to get an advance copy, and I very much recommend reading @gua-le-ni.com's dystopian detective novel What We Owe the Dead (rad title!) when it's available next month!
Preorders at www.setmargins.press/books/what-w...
Preorders at www.setmargins.press/books/what-w...
February 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Had the pleasure to get an advance copy, and I very much recommend reading @gua-le-ni.com's dystopian detective novel What We Owe the Dead (rad title!) when it's available next month!
Preorders at www.setmargins.press/books/what-w...
Preorders at www.setmargins.press/books/what-w...
The CfP for the AISNA conference is out!
Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West
11-13 Sept 2025, Bergamo (Italy)
Stefano Franceschini and I are co-chairing a panel on the Speculative Turn of the Frontier Myth. Send us your proposals by Feb 28!
www.aisna.net/call-for-pap...
Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West
11-13 Sept 2025, Bergamo (Italy)
Stefano Franceschini and I are co-chairing a panel on the Speculative Turn of the Frontier Myth. Send us your proposals by Feb 28!
www.aisna.net/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers
www.aisna.net
February 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
The CfP for the AISNA conference is out!
Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West
11-13 Sept 2025, Bergamo (Italy)
Stefano Franceschini and I are co-chairing a panel on the Speculative Turn of the Frontier Myth. Send us your proposals by Feb 28!
www.aisna.net/call-for-pap...
Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West
11-13 Sept 2025, Bergamo (Italy)
Stefano Franceschini and I are co-chairing a panel on the Speculative Turn of the Frontier Myth. Send us your proposals by Feb 28!
www.aisna.net/call-for-pap...
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l m a o
February 2, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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L’università in agitazione jacobinitalia.it/luniversita-...
L'università in agitazione - Jacobin Italia
Le prossime settimane saranno cruciali per dar vita a un movimento in cui far convergere tutti i settori universitari, per resistere alla riforma Bernini e imporre nel paese il tema del rifinanziament...
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January 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
L’università in agitazione jacobinitalia.it/luniversita-...