Blake Stricklin
@blakestricklin.bsky.social
Assistant Professor. American Paraliterature and other Theories to Hijack Communication.
Crimes of the Future
July 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Crimes of the Future
In the horror genre: Jordan Peele, Damien Leone, Oz Perkins, Robert Eggers, Mike Flanagan (?), and maybe Ari Aster
July 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
In the horror genre: Jordan Peele, Damien Leone, Oz Perkins, Robert Eggers, Mike Flanagan (?), and maybe Ari Aster
“Tomorrow you die”
May 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
“Tomorrow you die”
Reposted by Blake Stricklin
*please repost or forward* Here’s a sheet where arts orgs can record information about their NEA grant termination. Annie Dorsen is collecting this info as a first step towards coordinating a response docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
NEA GRANT TERMINATION TRACKER
docs.google.com
May 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
*please repost or forward* Here’s a sheet where arts orgs can record information about their NEA grant termination. Annie Dorsen is collecting this info as a first step towards coordinating a response docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe
April 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe
For journalism/scholarship, Tobi Haslett’s “Magic Actions”
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-40/pol...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-40/pol...
Magic Actions | Tobi Haslett
To the scattered victories of abolitionists toward the tail end of last year — the weakening of police unions, the severance of several law enforcement contracts with universities and public schools, ...
www.nplusonemag.com
January 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
For journalism/scholarship, Tobi Haslett’s “Magic Actions”
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-40/pol...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-40/pol...
Reposted by Blake Stricklin
So happy this essay and cluster are out! It is an honor to be able to pay tribute to the great Samuel Delany.
November 29, 2024 at 3:48 PM
So happy this essay and cluster are out! It is an honor to be able to pay tribute to the great Samuel Delany.
Reposted by Blake Stricklin
For @breu.bsky.social, in “Blueprints for a Red Sexual Revolution,” Delany’s non-nostalgic “sexual commons” of old Times Square offers a geography of contact and the an-arranging politics of sexual encounter.
post45.org/2024/11/blue...
post45.org/2024/11/blue...
Blueprints for a Red Sexual Revolution: Samuel Delany’s Sexual Commons - Post45
For Earl Jackson Jr. who introduced me to Samuel R. Delany's brilliance. Willfully Confusing Sex and Revolution Early in my professional career, when I had just moved back from California to take a jo...
post45.org
November 29, 2024 at 3:46 PM
For @breu.bsky.social, in “Blueprints for a Red Sexual Revolution,” Delany’s non-nostalgic “sexual commons” of old Times Square offers a geography of contact and the an-arranging politics of sexual encounter.
post45.org/2024/11/blue...
post45.org/2024/11/blue...
Reposted by Blake Stricklin
Y Howard takes up Delany’s work through his “graphic superfluity” of language and image—or “sexcess.” Delany’s mind, and work, perceives “erratic routes of an always in-process account of encounters, reproduced as sexually promiscuous forms of writing.”
post45.org/2024/11/dysl...
post45.org/2024/11/dysl...
Dyslexical Sexcess, Photo-Textual Rhythms - Post45
“I’m promiscuously autobiographical.” – Samuel R. Delany((Quoted in Julian Lucas, “Galaxy Brain,” The New Yorker (10 and 17 July 2023), 34.)) “Improvisation, in whatever possible excess of representat...
post45.org
November 29, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Y Howard takes up Delany’s work through his “graphic superfluity” of language and image—or “sexcess.” Delany’s mind, and work, perceives “erratic routes of an always in-process account of encounters, reproduced as sexually promiscuous forms of writing.”
post45.org/2024/11/dysl...
post45.org/2024/11/dysl...
Reposted by Blake Stricklin
Reading Delany’s metafictional novella Phallos, Rebekah Sheldon offers an understanding of Delany’s speculative fiction and pornographic writing as it pertains to the literary history of the occult.
post45.org/2024/11/phal...
post45.org/2024/11/phal...
Phallos: Queer Sex Magick - Post45
Author’s note #1: On the cover of Samuel R. Delany’s metafictional novella Phallos is a drawing of a winged Minotaur: head and tail of a bull, beclawed hands and foot, muscular human torso. Kneeling, ...
post45.org
November 29, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Reading Delany’s metafictional novella Phallos, Rebekah Sheldon offers an understanding of Delany’s speculative fiction and pornographic writing as it pertains to the literary history of the occult.
post45.org/2024/11/phal...
post45.org/2024/11/phal...
Reposted by Blake Stricklin
Next, in “Delany’s Complex Singularity or, the Astonishing Whole,” @kirinwgrene.bsky.social thinks through “Delany's representations of urban, interclass contact” in TSR,TSB and The Motion of Light in Water.
post45.org/2024/11/dela...
post45.org/2024/11/dela...
Delany’s Complex Singularity or, the Astonishing Whole - Post45
Twenty-five years ago, Lauren Berlant’s and Michael Warner’s essay “Sex in Public” traced how the privatization of sex devastated public sex cultures in New York City at the turn of the millennium. Th...
post45.org
November 29, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Next, in “Delany’s Complex Singularity or, the Astonishing Whole,” @kirinwgrene.bsky.social thinks through “Delany's representations of urban, interclass contact” in TSR,TSB and The Motion of Light in Water.
post45.org/2024/11/dela...
post45.org/2024/11/dela...