Jan Mieszkowski
@janm.bsky.social
Professor of German & Comparative Literature at Reed College. Recently finished a book about the languages of botany.
This is why you do the reading.
October 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This is why you do the reading.
Pleased to have a piece in this new volume.
June 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Pleased to have a piece in this new volume.
“Sound film as the limit for Kafka’s and Chaplin’s worlds.”
–Walter Benjamin
–Walter Benjamin
December 15, 2024 at 2:20 AM
“Sound film as the limit for Kafka’s and Chaplin’s worlds.”
–Walter Benjamin
–Walter Benjamin
TFW you realize that the bookstore categories have passed you by.
November 24, 2024 at 12:24 AM
TFW you realize that the bookstore categories have passed you by.
Required seminar wear.
November 19, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Required seminar wear.
Reading between the lines.
November 18, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Reading between the lines.
Nice to see that someone got up early to poster campus.
November 7, 2024 at 4:17 PM
Nice to see that someone got up early to poster campus.
Google's default description of WB is great.
August 7, 2024 at 4:07 PM
Google's default description of WB is great.
There's insouciance and there's languid Lukács insouciance.
September 30, 2023 at 5:56 AM
There's insouciance and there's languid Lukács insouciance.
Decisions, decisions...
September 13, 2023 at 3:55 PM
Decisions, decisions...
I was fantasizing about buying this property and turning it into a critical theory institute – residencies for all! Then I read that during The Great Coastal Gale of 2007 its roof was blown off and its occupants were trapped there for 20 hours as the winds gusted over 120 mph. Now I really want it!
September 3, 2023 at 5:56 PM
I was fantasizing about buying this property and turning it into a critical theory institute – residencies for all! Then I read that during The Great Coastal Gale of 2007 its roof was blown off and its occupants were trapped there for 20 hours as the winds gusted over 120 mph. Now I really want it!