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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social
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A review of contemporary criticism

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Diacritics author Francesco Zucconi's forthcoming monograph "Border Mediascapes" examines 21st-century documentary films made along the borders of Europe, and takes a cinematic eye to the technologies employed in governing spatial movement. Read more: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791891...
Border Mediascapes
How the cinematic gaze reveals the hidden operations of border zones Examining a variety of documentary films made along the borders of Europe since the turn...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Diacritics author Rebecca Ruth Gould's essay on the Nasrallah family in Protean Magazine
In 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed saving the Nasrallah family's Gaza home.

In May, Rebecca Gould interviewed the Nasrallahs. Like many others, they fled via Rafah to Egypt. With an uncertain legal status under the Egyptian state, they remain unable to truly rebuild.

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A Cold Welcome in Egypt • Protean Magazine
Rebecca Ruth Gould interviewed the Nasrallah family—Rachel Corrie died in 2003 defending their house—and the al-Najjars to speak about both families' experience of fleeing to Egypt alongside many othe...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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a remarkable story here: Rebecca Ruth Gould was able to interview the Nasrallahs, a Gazan family, in Egypt. Rachel Corrie died to save their home in 2003—though Israel ultimately demolished it.

their second home was destroyed in 2023. they remain in legal limbo in Egypt, as do many other refugees.
In 2003, Rachel Corrie was killed saving the Nasrallah family's Gaza home.

In May, Rebecca Gould interviewed the Nasrallahs. Like many others, they fled via Rafah to Egypt. With an uncertain legal status under the Egyptian state, they remain unable to truly rebuild.

proteanmag.com/2025/10/15/a...
A Cold Welcome in Egypt • Protean Magazine
Rebecca Ruth Gould interviewed the Nasrallah family—Rachel Corrie died in 2003 defending their house—and the al-Najjars to speak about both families' experience of fleeing to Egypt alongside many othe...
proteanmag.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Diacritics contributor Alberto Toscano on the genocidal logic of Trump's "ceasefire plan" in Palestine.
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Diacritics author and board member Grant Farred writes about nostalgia for late industrial capitalism in his most recent publication "The Prettiest Woman," forthcoming with @uminnpress.bsky.social
For more information, see here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791832...
The Prettiest Woman
Uncovering Hollywood’s perpetual longing for a lost industrial America “We don’t make things in America anymore”: like clockwork, this refrain resurf...
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October 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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'Rethinking Literary Naturalism: Proust and Quignard After Life' by Ian James reads biosemiotics, Proust, and Quignard together to elaborate a theory of literary naturalism. Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/RethinkingLiteraryNaturalism 📚
July 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
New at Liverool University Press, the recent monograph "Rethinking Literary Naturalism" by Diacritics contributor Ian James
Recently published in our Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures series 📚
Explore both titles in more detail below ⬇️🔗
October 3, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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So happy to have my article on The Beatles lyrics in Japan functioning as what I term "world lyric" out in Diacritics!
A new issue of Diacritics (52.3) is out!
With contributions by William Stroebel, Alexander Diones, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Tobias Ertl, and Nina Farizova. Featuring art by Misha Wyllie, with an interview by Philip Glahn. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55662
October 1, 2025 at 5:50 AM
A new issue of Diacritics (52.3) is out!
With contributions by William Stroebel, Alexander Diones, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Tobias Ertl, and Nina Farizova. Featuring art by Misha Wyllie, with an interview by Philip Glahn. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55662
September 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
In the 2nd part of our "Documents" series, Juliane Rebentisch develops her theory of contemporary art through an engagement with Land Art. Translated & introduced by Mitchell Herrmann.

Read here on the Diacritics blog: www.diacriticsjournal.com/documents-2-...
Documents 2: Juliane Rebentisch on Land Art - Diacritics
September 17, 2025 What is a document? A lesson, a specimen, a fragment of evidence—perhaps even a warning. Our blog series “Documents” is dedicated to bringing texts from outside the Anglophone world...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Diacritics contributors David Marriott and Rizvana Bradley are presenting the book series "Inventions" at a free virtual event with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Join @citylightsbooks.bsky.social this Thursday (9/25) at 6PM PT for a free virtual event celebrating the series Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics – featuring: Series Editor David Marriott, joined by contributors Rizvana Bradley and Patrice Douglass

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September 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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🗓️ Our next Ask Me Anything is with University Presses on 30 Sept! Join us to learn how small publishers are making the most of ORCID membership. Got questions? Submit them when you register! Register: https://linktr.ee/orcid_org

#ORCIDevents #ScholarlyPublishing #UniversityPresses
September 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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New episode of the Cultures of Energy pod! We talk about wildfires ecologies, poetry and symbiosis, and the importance of walking slowly. Plus @cymene.bsky.social is back! cenhs.libsyn.com/237-the-cany...
Cultures of Energy: 237 - The Canyon (feat. Robert Savino Oventile)
Cymene returns to the pod at long last (yay!) and we discuss recent events and how climate science probably caused wildfires and bears to happen. Then (13:17) Robert Savino Oventile joins the podcast ...
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August 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Breaking with the received view of Marx's relation to German Idealism, True Materialism by @jensensuther.bsky.social argues that the materialist critique of capitalist production is inseparable from Hegel's idea that the demand for freedom is a demand for mutual recognition

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September 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
As of September 15, Diacritics is again open to general submissions. We look forward to reading your work! For further information, please see our author submission guidelines here: www.diacriticsjournal.com/portfolio/su...
September 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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"There is no map for this territory. We are incapable of comprehending what is happening or where we are headed."

I talked with @rsoventile.bsky.social about IMPASSE for @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social

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Embracing Pessimism amidst Collapse: An Interview with Roy Scranton - Diacritics
Embracing Pessimism amidst Collapse: An Interview with Roy Scranton Roy Scranton is Associate Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, where he is Director of the Notre Dame Environmental...
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August 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Diacritics 52.2 is out! Curated by Austin Lillywhite & Nicole Seymour, "Queer Environs" features Danielle Allor, Micah J. Goodrich, Alvin K. Wong, Natalia Cecire, John Kennedy, Davy Knittle, Jonathan Cane, André Prado Fernandes, Andil Gosine.
Read here on Project Muse (OA): muse.jhu.edu/issue/55098
July 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Diacritics' new blog series “Documents” translates non-English theoretical texts to bring them into scholarly circulation. The first entry features 2 excerpts by August Strindberg on natural photography, translated & introduced by Paulo A. Lorca. Read here: www.diacriticsjournal.com/documents-1-...
July 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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"As If!" by Chase Gregory explores the stylistically strategic, often campy, and productively fraught cross-identifications of early queer criticism. Read the introduction for free on our website! #LiteraryTheory #LGBTQBooks
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June 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Jean-Xavier Renaud, who has previously published his work in Diacritics, is presenting "Hauteville Digne," a new series of watercolor paintings and postcards, on his website: jxrenaud.com/portfolio/20...
April 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Four fab new releases:

-EXPLODED VIEWS: Speculative Form and the Labor of Inquiry by Jonathan P. Eburne

-QUIET METHODOLOGIES: Humility in the Humanities by Suzanne Bost

-EXPLOSIVITY: Following What Remains by Javier Arbona-Homar

-Humanities in the Time of AI by Laurent Dubreuil

#NewBooks
April 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Diacritics author and former faculty editor Laurent Dubreuil has published "Humanities in the Time of AI" with University of Minnesota Press
April 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM