Emily Ogden
@emily-ogden.bsky.social
Essayist and English professor. Books: On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays (Peninsula Press / U of Chicago Press); Credulity: A Cultural History of US Mesmerism (U of Chicago Press)
I wrote about the new Chris Kraus for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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Chris Kraus’s autofictional crimes
Is the American writer’s new book, The Four Spent the Day Together, a true-crime novel or a description of her own struggles?
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October 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote about the new Chris Kraus for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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as of today, direct from Verso pre-orders available! paperback is $14.97 right now www.versobooks.com/products/303...
Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for ...
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September 27, 2023 at 11:57 PM
as of today, direct from Verso pre-orders available! paperback is $14.97 right now www.versobooks.com/products/303...
Can anyone help me decipher the last word here? It reads, ‘Désagréable, mais pas _____’ ?
September 25, 2023 at 7:24 PM
Can anyone help me decipher the last word here? It reads, ‘Désagréable, mais pas _____’ ?
How psychoanalyst and princess Marie Bonaparte conducted her analyses:
September 12, 2023 at 3:21 PM
How psychoanalyst and princess Marie Bonaparte conducted her analyses:
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Brilliant op ed from incredibly brave teachers whose own jobs are on the chopping block & who have been pressured to remain silent. Please read & share widely. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/an-open-letter-from-faculty-at-west-virginia-university/
September 8, 2023 at 2:39 AM
Brilliant op ed from incredibly brave teachers whose own jobs are on the chopping block & who have been pressured to remain silent. Please read & share widely. https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/an-open-letter-from-faculty-at-west-virginia-university/
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Please read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.
An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University - Boston Review
The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.
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September 7, 2023 at 2:30 PM
Please read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.
The start of Marcel Schwob's Life of Empedocles:
September 6, 2023 at 7:28 PM
The start of Marcel Schwob's Life of Empedocles:
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If you've been following the crisis at WVU, where I'm an assistant prof of English, you may know that
1. I, along with many colleagues, will find out next month if we'll be laid off in May
2. WVU's lawyer said they're reading profs' social media. Hi.
1. I, along with many colleagues, will find out next month if we'll be laid off in May
2. WVU's lawyer said they're reading profs' social media. Hi.
September 1, 2023 at 11:45 PM
If you've been following the crisis at WVU, where I'm an assistant prof of English, you may know that
1. I, along with many colleagues, will find out next month if we'll be laid off in May
2. WVU's lawyer said they're reading profs' social media. Hi.
1. I, along with many colleagues, will find out next month if we'll be laid off in May
2. WVU's lawyer said they're reading profs' social media. Hi.
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August 28, 2023 at 1:14 PM
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Folks are sharing this on another site, so here it is. It’s a photo of a pdf; we don’t have it up on the website yet. Letter from the MLA to president of WVU, where languages are on the chopping block.
August 12, 2023 at 10:06 PM
Folks are sharing this on another site, so here it is. It’s a photo of a pdf; we don’t have it up on the website yet. Letter from the MLA to president of WVU, where languages are on the chopping block.
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I was told there would be appetizers
July 6, 2023 at 6:24 AM
I was told there would be appetizers
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I talked with the brilliant Kristin Grogan about Lorine Niedecker, condensed milk, and “Poet’s Work.” Find us here or (most) anywhere you get your podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-readings/id1657024670?i=1000619109055
Close Readings: Kristin Grogan on Lorine Niedecker ("Poet's Work") on Apple Podcasts
Show Close Readings, Ep Kristin Grogan on Lorine Niedecker ("Poet's Work") - Jul 3, 2023
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July 3, 2023 at 3:27 PM
I talked with the brilliant Kristin Grogan about Lorine Niedecker, condensed milk, and “Poet’s Work.” Find us here or (most) anywhere you get your podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/close-readings/id1657024670?i=1000619109055
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What will my Internet personality be if I can't tell everyone about how I have a Twitter-famous hedgehog?
July 3, 2023 at 4:00 PM
What will my Internet personality be if I can't tell everyone about how I have a Twitter-famous hedgehog?
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Client: Can we have cornices on the house
Giuseppe Brega: Of course you can have shrimp cornices on the house
Client: What
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Giuseppe Brega: Of course you can have shrimp cornices on the house
Client: What
Giuseppe Brega: What
July 3, 2023 at 2:49 PM
Client: Can we have cornices on the house
Giuseppe Brega: Of course you can have shrimp cornices on the house
Client: What
Giuseppe Brega: What
Giuseppe Brega: Of course you can have shrimp cornices on the house
Client: What
Giuseppe Brega: What
Already this place is going to the dogs
Is it possible I’m still one of the few literature profs onhere?
Woo hoo! Middlemarch >> that whale book! The Pit > McTeague! Ahaha 🤣🤓 nerd alert 🚨
Woo hoo! Middlemarch >> that whale book! The Pit > McTeague! Ahaha 🤣🤓 nerd alert 🚨
July 3, 2023 at 2:32 PM
Already this place is going to the dogs
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Yay! A new place! Hi, friends, from the other virtual places where we hang out! *waves*
July 3, 2023 at 1:50 PM
Yay! A new place! Hi, friends, from the other virtual places where we hang out! *waves*
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Hello blueskis, this is my dog and also much of my personality
July 2, 2023 at 2:27 PM
Hello blueskis, this is my dog and also much of my personality
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no one on this platform has observed that moby-dick, or the whale is the great american novel.
July 3, 2023 at 10:58 AM
no one on this platform has observed that moby-dick, or the whale is the great american novel.
Me finding my twitter mutuals
July 2, 2023 at 11:24 PM
Me finding my twitter mutuals
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Justice Jackson's dissent: "With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces 'colorblindness for all' by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life...ultimately, ignoring race just makes it matter more."
June 29, 2023 at 2:25 PM
Justice Jackson's dissent: "With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces 'colorblindness for all' by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life...ultimately, ignoring race just makes it matter more."