Alexandra Irimia
@alexandrairim.bsky.social
Literary-minded researcher & border-crosser.
Pinned
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
Bureaucratic Modernism is curious to hear your ideas!
DL: Nov 15📩
Full call here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...
@moderniststudies.bsky.social @fimassociation.bsky.social @modernism-asia.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social
DL: Nov 15📩
Full call here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...
@moderniststudies.bsky.social @fimassociation.bsky.social @modernism-asia.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social
I answered some questions about my #research for @unibonn.bsky.social, so now this short #interview exists:
www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/in-t...
(German version below)
Thanks, as always, to the @humboldt-foundation.de for the support!
#postdoc #complit #bureaucraticfiction #sciencecommunication
www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/in-t...
(German version below)
Thanks, as always, to the @humboldt-foundation.de for the support!
#postdoc #complit #bureaucraticfiction #sciencecommunication
In the Maze of Forms: The Curious Allure of Bureaucracy
www.uni-bonn.de
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I answered some questions about my #research for @unibonn.bsky.social, so now this short #interview exists:
www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/in-t...
(German version below)
Thanks, as always, to the @humboldt-foundation.de for the support!
#postdoc #complit #bureaucraticfiction #sciencecommunication
www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/in-t...
(German version below)
Thanks, as always, to the @humboldt-foundation.de for the support!
#postdoc #complit #bureaucraticfiction #sciencecommunication
soon in Heidelberg, on the last talk for the project this conference season! 🍂
October 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
soon in Heidelberg, on the last talk for the project this conference season! 🍂
Reposted by Alexandra Irimia
#Conference
ARCHITECTURE AND BUREAUCRACY
As part of the FWF project ‘Invisible Agents’, the conference is convened by the IHB and the Institute of Art History at CAS and will take place on 6 and 7 November 2025 at the PSK-Building, 1010 Vienna.
See more ⬇️
www.oeaw.ac.at/ihb/detail/e...
ARCHITECTURE AND BUREAUCRACY
As part of the FWF project ‘Invisible Agents’, the conference is convened by the IHB and the Institute of Art History at CAS and will take place on 6 and 7 November 2025 at the PSK-Building, 1010 Vienna.
See more ⬇️
www.oeaw.ac.at/ihb/detail/e...
October 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
#Conference
ARCHITECTURE AND BUREAUCRACY
As part of the FWF project ‘Invisible Agents’, the conference is convened by the IHB and the Institute of Art History at CAS and will take place on 6 and 7 November 2025 at the PSK-Building, 1010 Vienna.
See more ⬇️
www.oeaw.ac.at/ihb/detail/e...
ARCHITECTURE AND BUREAUCRACY
As part of the FWF project ‘Invisible Agents’, the conference is convened by the IHB and the Institute of Art History at CAS and will take place on 6 and 7 November 2025 at the PSK-Building, 1010 Vienna.
See more ⬇️
www.oeaw.ac.at/ihb/detail/e...
Reposted by Alexandra Irimia
#KWIonTour: @schalkewins.bsky.social & @awierzock.bsky.social are giving presentations at the workshop “Temporary Intensities. Ephemeral Media, Practices, and Archives” @unituebingen.bsky.social. Also participating: our ex-fellows @alexandrairim.bsky.social & Ádám Havas. ✨
🔗 tinyurl.com/4kavv67d
🔗 tinyurl.com/4kavv67d
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI)
Das Kulturwissenschaftliche Institut Essen (KWI) ist ein interdisziplinäres Forschungskolleg für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften in der Tradition internationaler Institutes for Advanced Study. Als i...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:31 AM
#KWIonTour: @schalkewins.bsky.social & @awierzock.bsky.social are giving presentations at the workshop “Temporary Intensities. Ephemeral Media, Practices, and Archives” @unituebingen.bsky.social. Also participating: our ex-fellows @alexandrairim.bsky.social & Ádám Havas. ✨
🔗 tinyurl.com/4kavv67d
🔗 tinyurl.com/4kavv67d
next week in Tübingen, looking at ephemeral media, practices, and archives with @schalkewins.bsky.social, @awierzock.bsky.social, @takapp.bsky.social & her emerging research network on ephemeral epistemologies and encounters
www.ephemeralnetwork.com
www.ephemeralnetwork.com
2025 Workshop | Ephemeral Encounters
www.ephemeralnetwork.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
next week in Tübingen, looking at ephemeral media, practices, and archives with @schalkewins.bsky.social, @awierzock.bsky.social, @takapp.bsky.social & her emerging research network on ephemeral epistemologies and encounters
www.ephemeralnetwork.com
www.ephemeralnetwork.com
the fun begins tomorrow
— grateful to everyone involved, I couldn't have made it happen without you!
— grateful to everyone involved, I couldn't have made it happen without you!
October 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
the fun begins tomorrow
— grateful to everyone involved, I couldn't have made it happen without you!
— grateful to everyone involved, I couldn't have made it happen without you!
I guess now's as good a time as there will ever be to unearth an article I wrote about Krazsnahorkai's and Tarr's Sátántangó before it was cool.
Then again, it's always been cool.
#Nobel #Krasznahorkai #Satantango
www.ekphrasisjournal.ro/docs/R1/20E1...
Then again, it's always been cool.
#Nobel #Krasznahorkai #Satantango
www.ekphrasisjournal.ro/docs/R1/20E1...
www.ekphrasisjournal.ro
October 9, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I guess now's as good a time as there will ever be to unearth an article I wrote about Krazsnahorkai's and Tarr's Sátántangó before it was cool.
Then again, it's always been cool.
#Nobel #Krasznahorkai #Satantango
www.ekphrasisjournal.ro/docs/R1/20E1...
Then again, it's always been cool.
#Nobel #Krasznahorkai #Satantango
www.ekphrasisjournal.ro/docs/R1/20E1...
Jonathan and I wrote about the fantasy of total efficiency, algorithmic governance, and the bureaucratic horror story as a recurring fictional trope — thank you, KWI Blog team, for hosting the piece!
The #KWIBlog is back! The 1st post of the new semester by @alexandrairim.bsky.social & Jonathan Foster contextualises recent developments in US public administration, examining the rise of AI governance in light of literary & visual depictions of administrative technology.
🏢 tinyurl.com/2zdzpjme
🏢 tinyurl.com/2zdzpjme
October 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Jonathan and I wrote about the fantasy of total efficiency, algorithmic governance, and the bureaucratic horror story as a recurring fictional trope — thank you, KWI Blog team, for hosting the piece!
next week at the University of Cologne we're looking at how literature engages with Niklas Luhmann's concept of organizational "boundary roles"
October 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
next week at the University of Cologne we're looking at how literature engages with Niklas Luhmann's concept of organizational "boundary roles"
Bureaucritics #5 is now online!
It brings along a busy stretch of new publications, from the just-printed to the just-planned, plus fresh calls for papers and events.
It brings along a busy stretch of new publications, from the just-printed to the just-planned, plus fresh calls for papers and events.
Back in Office
We’re back!
bureaucritics.substack.com
September 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Bureaucritics #5 is now online!
It brings along a busy stretch of new publications, from the just-printed to the just-planned, plus fresh calls for papers and events.
It brings along a busy stretch of new publications, from the just-printed to the just-planned, plus fresh calls for papers and events.
The international #symposium Files, Forms, Fictions is turning into a real thing!
Browse through the full program and learn more about the event at filesformsfictions.com.
Thank you, @humboldt-foundation.de & @unibonn.bsky.social, for all your support!
#bureaucraticfiction #comparativeliterature
Browse through the full program and learn more about the event at filesformsfictions.com.
Thank you, @humboldt-foundation.de & @unibonn.bsky.social, for all your support!
#bureaucraticfiction #comparativeliterature
September 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The international #symposium Files, Forms, Fictions is turning into a real thing!
Browse through the full program and learn more about the event at filesformsfictions.com.
Thank you, @humboldt-foundation.de & @unibonn.bsky.social, for all your support!
#bureaucraticfiction #comparativeliterature
Browse through the full program and learn more about the event at filesformsfictions.com.
Thank you, @humboldt-foundation.de & @unibonn.bsky.social, for all your support!
#bureaucraticfiction #comparativeliterature
Reposted by Alexandra Irimia
"Jenkin-Smith brings to his readers’ attention authors and periodicals that literary histories have meanwhile discarded or longtime ignored."
Alexandra Irimia on Daniel Jenkin-Smith's The Rise of Office Literature, from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/alexandra_ir...
Alexandra Irimia on Daniel Jenkin-Smith's The Rise of Office Literature, from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/alexandra_ir...
August 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
"Jenkin-Smith brings to his readers’ attention authors and periodicals that literary histories have meanwhile discarded or longtime ignored."
Alexandra Irimia on Daniel Jenkin-Smith's The Rise of Office Literature, from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/alexandra_ir...
Alexandra Irimia on Daniel Jenkin-Smith's The Rise of Office Literature, from @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/alexandra_ir...
ACLA Seminar on the Objectification of Office Workers, co-organized with Karolin Schäfer
Feb 26 - Mar 1, 2026, Montreal
Submissions (abstracts max. 1500 characters, bios max. 500) are open on the ACLA platform by Oct 2. Accepted seminars notified by Dec. 2.
www.acla.org/seminar/3ebf...
Feb 26 - Mar 1, 2026, Montreal
Submissions (abstracts max. 1500 characters, bios max. 500) are open on the ACLA platform by Oct 2. Accepted seminars notified by Dec. 2.
www.acla.org/seminar/3ebf...
View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association
www.acla.org
September 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
ACLA Seminar on the Objectification of Office Workers, co-organized with Karolin Schäfer
Feb 26 - Mar 1, 2026, Montreal
Submissions (abstracts max. 1500 characters, bios max. 500) are open on the ACLA platform by Oct 2. Accepted seminars notified by Dec. 2.
www.acla.org/seminar/3ebf...
Feb 26 - Mar 1, 2026, Montreal
Submissions (abstracts max. 1500 characters, bios max. 500) are open on the ACLA platform by Oct 2. Accepted seminars notified by Dec. 2.
www.acla.org/seminar/3ebf...
Just published in Critical Inquiry: my review of @dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social’s book "The Rise of Office Literature"—a most pleasant read that gave me a lot to think with.
Thanks for the review copy, @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social!
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/alexandra_ir...
Thanks for the review copy, @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social!
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/alexandra_ir...
Critical Inquiry
A journal of Art, Culture and Politics, Published by the University of Chicago
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu
August 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Just published in Critical Inquiry: my review of @dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social’s book "The Rise of Office Literature"—a most pleasant read that gave me a lot to think with.
Thanks for the review copy, @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social!
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/alexandra_ir...
Thanks for the review copy, @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social!
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/alexandra_ir...
Bureaucratic Modernism is curious to hear your ideas!
DL: Nov 15📩
Full call here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...
@moderniststudies.bsky.social @fimassociation.bsky.social @modernism-asia.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social
DL: Nov 15📩
Full call here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...
@moderniststudies.bsky.social @fimassociation.bsky.social @modernism-asia.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
August 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Bureaucratic Modernism is curious to hear your ideas!
DL: Nov 15📩
Full call here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...
@moderniststudies.bsky.social @fimassociation.bsky.social @modernism-asia.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social
DL: Nov 15📩
Full call here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...
@moderniststudies.bsky.social @fimassociation.bsky.social @modernism-asia.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social
We've just hit "Publish" on Bureaucritics #4!📬
Check out our summer dispatch on the latest in bureaucracy studies, and don't forget to subscribe if you're so inclined.
Check out our summer dispatch on the latest in bureaucracy studies, and don't forget to subscribe if you're so inclined.
Out of Office
Summer may be the season of automated email replies and empty cubicles, but the machinery of bureaucracy never truly takes a holiday.
bureaucritics.substack.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
We've just hit "Publish" on Bureaucritics #4!📬
Check out our summer dispatch on the latest in bureaucracy studies, and don't forget to subscribe if you're so inclined.
Check out our summer dispatch on the latest in bureaucracy studies, and don't forget to subscribe if you're so inclined.
Snippets of West German bureaucracy from the 1970s.
[gelatin silver prints from the exhibition Jupp Darchinger: The Eye of the Republic [Das Auge der Republik], LVR-Landesmuseum, open June 12 - September 14, 2025]
[gelatin silver prints from the exhibition Jupp Darchinger: The Eye of the Republic [Das Auge der Republik], LVR-Landesmuseum, open June 12 - September 14, 2025]
August 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Snippets of West German bureaucracy from the 1970s.
[gelatin silver prints from the exhibition Jupp Darchinger: The Eye of the Republic [Das Auge der Republik], LVR-Landesmuseum, open June 12 - September 14, 2025]
[gelatin silver prints from the exhibition Jupp Darchinger: The Eye of the Republic [Das Auge der Republik], LVR-Landesmuseum, open June 12 - September 14, 2025]
The French fascination for the curious life and paper forms of bureaucracy endures.
Here, screenshots from Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir (Henri Diamant-Berger, 1959), one of 4 film adaptations of Georges Courteline's 1893 eponymous novel.
#bureaucraticfiction #officenovel #bureaucratcomedy
Here, screenshots from Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir (Henri Diamant-Berger, 1959), one of 4 film adaptations of Georges Courteline's 1893 eponymous novel.
#bureaucraticfiction #officenovel #bureaucratcomedy
July 23, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The French fascination for the curious life and paper forms of bureaucracy endures.
Here, screenshots from Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir (Henri Diamant-Berger, 1959), one of 4 film adaptations of Georges Courteline's 1893 eponymous novel.
#bureaucraticfiction #officenovel #bureaucratcomedy
Here, screenshots from Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir (Henri Diamant-Berger, 1959), one of 4 film adaptations of Georges Courteline's 1893 eponymous novel.
#bureaucraticfiction #officenovel #bureaucratcomedy
It's only fitting that a special issue about administrative aesthetics comes out with some delay. Vol. 8 of Administory - co-edited with Jonathan Foster, Burkhardt Wolf, and Stefan Nellen is now published in Open Access! Find our intro and 17 fantastic contributions here: sciendo.com/issue/ADHI/8/1
Administory
Volume 8 (2023): Issue 1 (December 2023)
sciendo.com
July 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
It's only fitting that a special issue about administrative aesthetics comes out with some delay. Vol. 8 of Administory - co-edited with Jonathan Foster, Burkhardt Wolf, and Stefan Nellen is now published in Open Access! Find our intro and 17 fantastic contributions here: sciendo.com/issue/ADHI/8/1
I finished my guest lecture at Uni Konstanz and walked away with an unexpected gift. It will stay on my desk for a while.
Plus: a sharp audience, good conversations, most useful feedback. Thanks to all involved, it's truly been a pleasure!
Plus: a sharp audience, good conversations, most useful feedback. Thanks to all involved, it's truly been a pleasure!
July 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I finished my guest lecture at Uni Konstanz and walked away with an unexpected gift. It will stay on my desk for a while.
Plus: a sharp audience, good conversations, most useful feedback. Thanks to all involved, it's truly been a pleasure!
Plus: a sharp audience, good conversations, most useful feedback. Thanks to all involved, it's truly been a pleasure!
Reposted by Alexandra Irimia
Stellenausschreibung:
Für das Archiv des Fritz-Hüser-Instituts für Literatur und Kunst der Arbeitswelt suchen wir eine:n Archivar:in in Vollzeit, unbefristet, TVöD 11.
Bitte teilen und an Interessierte weiterleiten, die gern in einem tollen im Team arbeiten wollen.
#Stellenausschreibung #Archiv
Für das Archiv des Fritz-Hüser-Instituts für Literatur und Kunst der Arbeitswelt suchen wir eine:n Archivar:in in Vollzeit, unbefristet, TVöD 11.
Bitte teilen und an Interessierte weiterleiten, die gern in einem tollen im Team arbeiten wollen.
#Stellenausschreibung #Archiv
Archivar*in (m/w/d) | dortmund.de
Archivar*in (m/w/d)
https://www.dortmund.de/rathaus-und-verwaltung/karriere/aktuelle-stellenangebote/stellenangebote-im-überblick/archivar-in-m-w-d-2.html
June 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Stellenausschreibung:
Für das Archiv des Fritz-Hüser-Instituts für Literatur und Kunst der Arbeitswelt suchen wir eine:n Archivar:in in Vollzeit, unbefristet, TVöD 11.
Bitte teilen und an Interessierte weiterleiten, die gern in einem tollen im Team arbeiten wollen.
#Stellenausschreibung #Archiv
Für das Archiv des Fritz-Hüser-Instituts für Literatur und Kunst der Arbeitswelt suchen wir eine:n Archivar:in in Vollzeit, unbefristet, TVöD 11.
Bitte teilen und an Interessierte weiterleiten, die gern in einem tollen im Team arbeiten wollen.
#Stellenausschreibung #Archiv
Thank you, GCSC - International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture @jlugiessen.bsky.social, for a fantastic on conference on Acts of Writing: Cultural Practices, Knowledge Construction, Authorship!
It was nice meeting you and hearing about so many fascinating research projects in the making.
It was nice meeting you and hearing about so many fascinating research projects in the making.
June 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Thank you, GCSC - International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture @jlugiessen.bsky.social, for a fantastic on conference on Acts of Writing: Cultural Practices, Knowledge Construction, Authorship!
It was nice meeting you and hearing about so many fascinating research projects in the making.
It was nice meeting you and hearing about so many fascinating research projects in the making.
Reposted by Alexandra Irimia
Die Akte/n.
Hg. v. Peter Plener & Burkhardt Wolf. Heidelberg, Berlin: Metzler (Print) & Springer Nature (online, Open Access) 2025.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Hg. v. Peter Plener & Burkhardt Wolf. Heidelberg, Berlin: Metzler (Print) & Springer Nature (online, Open Access) 2025.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Die Akte/n
Der Open Access-Band befasst sich mit der Mediengeschichte von Akten in allen denkbaren Bereichen von Verwaltung über Medizin bis hin zur Literatur.
link.springer.com
June 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Die Akte/n.
Hg. v. Peter Plener & Burkhardt Wolf. Heidelberg, Berlin: Metzler (Print) & Springer Nature (online, Open Access) 2025.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Hg. v. Peter Plener & Burkhardt Wolf. Heidelberg, Berlin: Metzler (Print) & Springer Nature (online, Open Access) 2025.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#Italian #bureaucratic #fiction
Dr. Ciro Amendola (a pun on "Mr. Amendment") is no ordinary civil servant. As director of Italy’s Gazzetta Ufficiale—the nation’s official law journal—he stands at the critical junction where legislation becomes reality.
Dr. Ciro Amendola (a pun on "Mr. Amendment") is no ordinary civil servant. As director of Italy’s Gazzetta Ufficiale—the nation’s official law journal—he stands at the critical junction where legislation becomes reality.
June 10, 2025 at 9:14 AM
#Italian #bureaucratic #fiction
Dr. Ciro Amendola (a pun on "Mr. Amendment") is no ordinary civil servant. As director of Italy’s Gazzetta Ufficiale—the nation’s official law journal—he stands at the critical junction where legislation becomes reality.
Dr. Ciro Amendola (a pun on "Mr. Amendment") is no ordinary civil servant. As director of Italy’s Gazzetta Ufficiale—the nation’s official law journal—he stands at the critical junction where legislation becomes reality.