Ela Kotkowska
@aileverte.bsky.social
Reader, translator, editor, art lover.
Some fabric in J-L David’s paintings (Louvre)
November 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Some fabric in J-L David’s paintings (Louvre)
19th c card catalogue at the Bibliothèque de l’Ecole de médecine in Paris
November 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
19th c card catalogue at the Bibliothèque de l’Ecole de médecine in Paris
Seems like a good moment to post Brion Gysin’s photo spread of Centre Pompidou being built. ‘77.
November 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Seems like a good moment to post Brion Gysin’s photo spread of Centre Pompidou being built. ‘77.
@sarahkendzior
She’s among my go-to commentators on the current state of madness… I was expecting to see her suspended from X… but @bsky.app ? C’mon! We migrated here for honest expression, uncluttered by clickbait and hate mongers. If you read her, @support.bsky.team you’ll realize she’s neither
She’s among my go-to commentators on the current state of madness… I was expecting to see her suspended from X… but @bsky.app ? C’mon! We migrated here for honest expression, uncluttered by clickbait and hate mongers. If you read her, @support.bsky.team you’ll realize she’s neither
November 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
@sarahkendzior
She’s among my go-to commentators on the current state of madness… I was expecting to see her suspended from X… but @bsky.app ? C’mon! We migrated here for honest expression, uncluttered by clickbait and hate mongers. If you read her, @support.bsky.team you’ll realize she’s neither
She’s among my go-to commentators on the current state of madness… I was expecting to see her suspended from X… but @bsky.app ? C’mon! We migrated here for honest expression, uncluttered by clickbait and hate mongers. If you read her, @support.bsky.team you’ll realize she’s neither
Fotoplastikon, or Kaiserpanorama in Poznań: stereoscopic images of turn-of-the-century Paris
October 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Fotoplastikon, or Kaiserpanorama in Poznań: stereoscopic images of turn-of-the-century Paris
The new Olga Ravn book from New Directions reminds me of a 1980s/90s series of books in translation by the Polish publishing house PWN.
![Magda Szabo, Staroswiecka historia [An Old-fashioned Story], PWN 1989 and Olga Ravn, The Wax Child, New Directions, 2025. Similar cover aesthetic—plain glossy black dust jackets with a simple image on the cover](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fntawhzn3befpddhzqinamaa/bafkreibtomdb5brqzicvt4mvs5zmosavturhv2iu22hbvik5lqi5wqouzy@jpeg)
October 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The new Olga Ravn book from New Directions reminds me of a 1980s/90s series of books in translation by the Polish publishing house PWN.
From The Arab Apocalypse by Etel Adnan, excerpted in The Serpent and the Fire, ed. Jerome Rothenberg and Javier Taboada
October 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
From The Arab Apocalypse by Etel Adnan, excerpted in The Serpent and the Fire, ed. Jerome Rothenberg and Javier Taboada
Read in March (M.A.) and currently reading (L.M.): two books from Éd. Minuit. The titles could almost be interchangeable: two houses haunted by the past, disappearances, the war(s), and buried secrets. Two beautiful writers taking the scraps of history and constructing a moving narrative.
September 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Read in March (M.A.) and currently reading (L.M.): two books from Éd. Minuit. The titles could almost be interchangeable: two houses haunted by the past, disappearances, the war(s), and buried secrets. Two beautiful writers taking the scraps of history and constructing a moving narrative.
skyward, Hampstead Heath
September 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
skyward, Hampstead Heath
Giuseppe Penone at the Serpentine Gallery, London
August 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Giuseppe Penone at the Serpentine Gallery, London
I am halfway through vol. ii of Solvej Balle’s Calculation of Volume. The book has an uncanny way of drawing the reader into its labyrinth. I went to @blackwells.bsky.social to see when vols. iii & iv were coming out. Of course, the only day possible: November 18.
August 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I am halfway through vol. ii of Solvej Balle’s Calculation of Volume. The book has an uncanny way of drawing the reader into its labyrinth. I went to @blackwells.bsky.social to see when vols. iii & iv were coming out. Of course, the only day possible: November 18.
The wars had their harvest—
What did you gain?
Only black trenches.
MOHAMMED DIB (Algeria, 1920 – France, 2003)
art by: RACHID KORAÏCHI (Algeria, 1947)
What did you gain?
Only black trenches.
MOHAMMED DIB (Algeria, 1920 – France, 2003)
art by: RACHID KORAÏCHI (Algeria, 1947)
July 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The wars had their harvest—
What did you gain?
Only black trenches.
MOHAMMED DIB (Algeria, 1920 – France, 2003)
art by: RACHID KORAÏCHI (Algeria, 1947)
What did you gain?
Only black trenches.
MOHAMMED DIB (Algeria, 1920 – France, 2003)
art by: RACHID KORAÏCHI (Algeria, 1947)
I recently had to get a new phone number. To my horror, not only is it a target of spoofed calls, but also GOP claims me as a member sending me crap like this. How do I remove my number from gop lists…?
July 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I recently had to get a new phone number. To my horror, not only is it a target of spoofed calls, but also GOP claims me as a member sending me crap like this. How do I remove my number from gop lists…?
To every dictator their TP.
July 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
To every dictator their TP.
is why i’ve never believed in afterlife 🙂↔️
July 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
is why i’ve never believed in afterlife 🙂↔️
I have not seen such a narrative "story board" from Louise Bourgeois before. She continues to surprise!
"The View from the Bottom of the Well," 1996 via Mutual Art @ www.mutualart.com/Artwork/The-...
"The View from the Bottom of the Well," 1996 via Mutual Art @ www.mutualart.com/Artwork/The-...
June 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I have not seen such a narrative "story board" from Louise Bourgeois before. She continues to surprise!
"The View from the Bottom of the Well," 1996 via Mutual Art @ www.mutualart.com/Artwork/The-...
"The View from the Bottom of the Well," 1996 via Mutual Art @ www.mutualart.com/Artwork/The-...
Found in a free library: a couple volumes from an “Ibero-American” literature series much of which is yet to appear into English, while some titles have only recently been translated (NYRB etc.) - published by Polish Wydawnictwo Literackie in the 1970s!
June 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Found in a free library: a couple volumes from an “Ibero-American” literature series much of which is yet to appear into English, while some titles have only recently been translated (NYRB etc.) - published by Polish Wydawnictwo Literackie in the 1970s!
“… boundaries between propagandist and victim of propaganda, gradually dissolve, and suggestion becomes a suggestion.”
Charlotte Beradt, The Third Reich of Dreams
Charlotte Beradt, The Third Reich of Dreams
![Charlotte Beradt, Third Reich of Dreams, trans Damion Searls, Princeton UP 2025 [1966]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fntawhzn3befpddhzqinamaa/bafkreiggzlso34tgppzofxdhk7kkc2wx2yapjg34on56g5o7bp44rk7j3m@jpeg)
June 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“… boundaries between propagandist and victim of propaganda, gradually dissolve, and suggestion becomes a suggestion.”
Charlotte Beradt, The Third Reich of Dreams
Charlotte Beradt, The Third Reich of Dreams
"It's easy to make your life into a story but it's hard to sustain real memories. The difference [...] is that real experience has a smell, and it's dirty, and it's not wrapped up in a simple ending."
~Nan Goldin (in All the Beauty and all the Bloodshed, streaming on Kanopy)
~Nan Goldin (in All the Beauty and all the Bloodshed, streaming on Kanopy)
June 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"It's easy to make your life into a story but it's hard to sustain real memories. The difference [...] is that real experience has a smell, and it's dirty, and it's not wrapped up in a simple ending."
~Nan Goldin (in All the Beauty and all the Bloodshed, streaming on Kanopy)
~Nan Goldin (in All the Beauty and all the Bloodshed, streaming on Kanopy)
Watched All the Beauty and All the Bloodshed (dir. Laura Poitras) on Nan Goldin's campaign to hold the Sackler family accountable for the opioid crisis. A stunning film, featuring excerpts from several of Nan Goldin's slide shows.
(Streaming on Kanopy)
(Streaming on Kanopy)
June 3, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Watched All the Beauty and All the Bloodshed (dir. Laura Poitras) on Nan Goldin's campaign to hold the Sackler family accountable for the opioid crisis. A stunning film, featuring excerpts from several of Nan Goldin's slide shows.
(Streaming on Kanopy)
(Streaming on Kanopy)
Just watched Alexis Bloom's The Bibi Files @ Docs Against Gravity film fest (En&Pl subs). The parallels Netanyahu : Trump are chilling & foreshadow our future: lies, bribes, legislative takeover, ... grooming even more radical offspring, advocating a "total war"
mdag.pl/en/watch-onl...
mdag.pl/en/watch-onl...
June 1, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Just watched Alexis Bloom's The Bibi Files @ Docs Against Gravity film fest (En&Pl subs). The parallels Netanyahu : Trump are chilling & foreshadow our future: lies, bribes, legislative takeover, ... grooming even more radical offspring, advocating a "total war"
mdag.pl/en/watch-onl...
mdag.pl/en/watch-onl...
Loving the library on wheels–themed cover of Literary Review of Canada.
May 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Loving the library on wheels–themed cover of Literary Review of Canada.
In answering Proust’s Questionnaire, Borges says that among military actions, he admires most “The defeats of those who fought with no hope of winning”
J.L.Borges, Textes retrouvés, @gallimard.bsky.social , 2024, p.321
J.L.Borges, Textes retrouvés, @gallimard.bsky.social , 2024, p.321
May 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
In answering Proust’s Questionnaire, Borges says that among military actions, he admires most “The defeats of those who fought with no hope of winning”
J.L.Borges, Textes retrouvés, @gallimard.bsky.social , 2024, p.321
J.L.Borges, Textes retrouvés, @gallimard.bsky.social , 2024, p.321
A lot has changed since 1979!
May 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
A lot has changed since 1979!
