Eva Barbarossa
@ekbarbarossa.bsky.social
Languages of place. Geog at RHUL. The Adelphi Project. Object Lessons: Magnet. Researcher, writer, creator. Possessor of oversized map archive and far too many books. akathesia.com
The problem with books is that I like to read them in one sitting and in my current life this is disruptive.
Still very curious if I could stop reading books for a year, and what impact this would have on my life.
Still very curious if I could stop reading books for a year, and what impact this would have on my life.
December 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The problem with books is that I like to read them in one sitting and in my current life this is disruptive.
Still very curious if I could stop reading books for a year, and what impact this would have on my life.
Still very curious if I could stop reading books for a year, and what impact this would have on my life.
4pm espresso, regardless of how incredibly good it was, may not have been the wisest choice for this non-caffeine drinker. House is very clean. Books have been read.
December 19, 2025 at 3:13 AM
4pm espresso, regardless of how incredibly good it was, may not have been the wisest choice for this non-caffeine drinker. House is very clean. Books have been read.
The majority of my friends hold dual citizenship (or more) with the US. This is going to get weird.
December 19, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The majority of my friends hold dual citizenship (or more) with the US. This is going to get weird.
Finally getting to Wayne Pilgrim. I was wary considering I live with Wayne Poet, but so far, perhaps the most beautiful of Macfarlane's prose, and the question of language overlap everything in my life, and my thesis.
December 19, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Finally getting to Wayne Pilgrim. I was wary considering I live with Wayne Poet, but so far, perhaps the most beautiful of Macfarlane's prose, and the question of language overlap everything in my life, and my thesis.
Reading other people's PhDs makes me realize I am making this much harder on myself than necessary.
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Reading other people's PhDs makes me realize I am making this much harder on myself than necessary.
If you could go back in time and start from there anew, what year would you choose? Me, 2008.
November 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
If you could go back in time and start from there anew, what year would you choose? Me, 2008.
I would like to return to the usual Florent for xmas dinner. Usually averse to time travel, I may be willing for this.
November 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I would like to return to the usual Florent for xmas dinner. Usually averse to time travel, I may be willing for this.
I never fail to be surprised by how bad the criterion channel interface is. Why is this?
November 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I never fail to be surprised by how bad the criterion channel interface is. Why is this?
Having read all the books I need for my phd thesis and deep in writing mode, I have finally returned to reading books for pleasure. Four in this past week. The first Godwin holding space while I awaited my turn for the new Godwin. All excellent.
November 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Having read all the books I need for my phd thesis and deep in writing mode, I have finally returned to reading books for pleasure. Four in this past week. The first Godwin holding space while I awaited my turn for the new Godwin. All excellent.
Even my teabag is about my phd thesis. Everywhere, everything, reminding me to work work work finish finish finish. (Three more months to go.)
November 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Even my teabag is about my phd thesis. Everywhere, everything, reminding me to work work work finish finish finish. (Three more months to go.)
Thanksgiving poetry?
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Thanksgiving poetry?
Co-star continues to be Very Weird.
November 27, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Co-star continues to be Very Weird.
More about this here: akathesia.com/2025/11/26/a...
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
More about this here: akathesia.com/2025/11/26/a...
I've made it 7 out of 52 weeks without buying a book and so far it has been way easier than expected.
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I've made it 7 out of 52 weeks without buying a book and so far it has been way easier than expected.
This feels like peak Texas, but it is probably far from peak. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Church employee in Texas allegedly posed as ICE agent to extort woman
Man arrested in Houston is alleged to have used fake ID to demand $400 from woman who had given him massage
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
This feels like peak Texas, but it is probably far from peak. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Today's thesis writing adventure seems to be clock-checking until it is champagne-o'clock.
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Today's thesis writing adventure seems to be clock-checking until it is champagne-o'clock.
How are we 25 years into the 21st century?
November 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
How are we 25 years into the 21st century?
I strangely seem to think a lot more people are dead than are. Gleick isn't even that old! I am glad he is still with us and writing.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
How the Web Was Lost | James Gleick
The Internet was not meant to suck.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I strangely seem to think a lot more people are dead than are. Gleick isn't even that old! I am glad he is still with us and writing.
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
"Once, there was a raging fight over whether salt was a taste or a flavor. “It literally ended with people shouting ‘Fuck you’ at each other and storming out," (which is it?)
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Rian Johnson Is an Agatha Christie for the Netflix Age
The director revived the cozy mystery with “Knives Out.” In a new sequel, can he find his way to the end of the maze?
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November 18, 2025 at 2:22 AM
"Once, there was a raging fight over whether salt was a taste or a flavor. “It literally ended with people shouting ‘Fuck you’ at each other and storming out," (which is it?)
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
I went and saw Peter Hujar's Day and now I have a hankering to ask everyone I know to explain their yesterday to me, in detail.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
This May Have Been Life | Andrew Durbin
There are only a few surviving recordings of the photographer Peter Hujar’s voice. In the portion of his archive at the Morgan Library in New York, a
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November 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I went and saw Peter Hujar's Day and now I have a hankering to ask everyone I know to explain their yesterday to me, in detail.
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
I need more Remedios Varo in my life. Both her works and to better embrace the Varo-city in me.
November 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I need more Remedios Varo in my life. Both her works and to better embrace the Varo-city in me.
From the Paris Review, A Visit with Patrick Leigh Fermor, whose writing I've read for decades and is one of those authors whose books I gift quite often. I recently re-read him as I traveled through Vienna and Prague, and much of what was, still is.
November 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
From the Paris Review, A Visit with Patrick Leigh Fermor, whose writing I've read for decades and is one of those authors whose books I gift quite often. I recently re-read him as I traveled through Vienna and Prague, and much of what was, still is.
Reposted by Eva Barbarossa
‘For Greeks of a certain vintage, to be a seer was, specifically, to see (and think) ahead in time. Blindness – either of the occipital lobe, or in the dark of the adyton/cave – may not have been a prerequisite for oracular vision, but it didn't hurt.’
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Notes on Tiresias
1. Consider Tiresias: the blind seer (see-er). What can he see? The future. For Greeks of a certain vintage, to be a seer was, specifically, to see (and think, therefore) ahead in time. Blindness –…
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October 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
‘For Greeks of a certain vintage, to be a seer was, specifically, to see (and think) ahead in time. Blindness – either of the occipital lobe, or in the dark of the adyton/cave – may not have been a prerequisite for oracular vision, but it didn't hurt.’
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I think Wayne has described some of my early experiences better than I have. But then, he has more freedom to do so.
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October 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I think Wayne has described some of my early experiences better than I have. But then, he has more freedom to do so.
wchambliss.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/w...
wchambliss.wordpress.com/2025/09/28/w...