Matthew Rana
@mdrana.bsky.social
Some new poems on Pamenar online.
Matthew Rana
Matthew Rana is the author of Ardour: Poems from the Daud (Nion Editions, 2022). His critical writing has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Tripwire, Jacket2, and The Poetry Project Newsletter,...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Some new poems on Pamenar online.
A masterwork of feminine jouissance.
LUX
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November 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
A masterwork of feminine jouissance.
Reposted by Matthew Rana
"With an emotional register ranging from petulance to narcissistic neediness, the book dissects the field of the minor affects with discomfiting precision."
New in review, Tan Lin on Steven Zultanski's Help: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/tan_lin_revi...
New in review, Tan Lin on Steven Zultanski's Help: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/tan_lin_revi...
September 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"With an emotional register ranging from petulance to narcissistic neediness, the book dissects the field of the minor affects with discomfiting precision."
New in review, Tan Lin on Steven Zultanski's Help: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/tan_lin_revi...
New in review, Tan Lin on Steven Zultanski's Help: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/tan_lin_revi...
from Samo Tomšič, The Labour of Enjoyment
September 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
from Samo Tomšič, The Labour of Enjoyment
”Börjel’s brilliance here is to extend this sense of personal tragedy to the collective and, most importantly, back again.”
My review of Ida Börjel’s MA
@uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social for Tripwire22
My review of Ida Börjel’s MA
@uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social for Tripwire22
A review of MA by Ida Börjel
reviewed by Matthew Rana in Tripwire 22 Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023 MA, by Swedish poet Ida Börjel, is a long abecedarian poem patterned after Inger Christensen’s Alphabet (1981). In twenty-nine sec…
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September 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
”Börjel’s brilliance here is to extend this sense of personal tragedy to the collective and, most importantly, back again.”
My review of Ida Börjel’s MA
@uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social for Tripwire22
My review of Ida Börjel’s MA
@uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social for Tripwire22
Reposted by Matthew Rana
The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.
September 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.
Reposted by Matthew Rana
Gradually, the outline of Modi’s plan to remake Kashmir has come into sight. Under the slogan of development and to “transform” the state into an “industrialized territory,” the Indian government has sold land to Indian capitalists.
Seizing Kashmir - Boston Review
For decades India has refused to acknowledge Kashmiri demands for self-determination. Now Modi has a new strategy—a settler project.
www.bostonreview.net
June 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Gradually, the outline of Modi’s plan to remake Kashmir has come into sight. Under the slogan of development and to “transform” the state into an “industrialized territory,” the Indian government has sold land to Indian capitalists.
Reposted by Matthew Rana
These are the #BDS consumer boycott targets named in the ground breaking report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
Read more: bdsmovement.net/news/naming-...
Read more: bdsmovement.net/news/naming-...
July 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
These are the #BDS consumer boycott targets named in the ground breaking report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
Read more: bdsmovement.net/news/naming-...
Read more: bdsmovement.net/news/naming-...
“For the communities of the [Indus River] delta… drawing a map for someone is a gesture of hospitality and generosity. Within the fleeting line of a river, someone opens up their world, their knowledge, their memories.”
Shahana Rajani in conversation with Nick Axel @eflux.bsky.social
Shahana Rajani in conversation with Nick Axel @eflux.bsky.social
New Silk Roads - Shahana Rajani - The Fleeting Line of a River
Colonial maps and hydraulic technologies attempted to reorganize these mobile, water landscapes into a propertied and regulated geography. But in this soaking ecology, quite literally, the logic of th...
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June 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
“For the communities of the [Indus River] delta… drawing a map for someone is a gesture of hospitality and generosity. Within the fleeting line of a river, someone opens up their world, their knowledge, their memories.”
Shahana Rajani in conversation with Nick Axel @eflux.bsky.social
Shahana Rajani in conversation with Nick Axel @eflux.bsky.social
The new issue of Texte zur Kunst is now available, featuring my review of Dora Budor’s exhibition ‘Fidelity’ at Beau Travail, Stockholm
Issue No. 138 / June 2025 "Exhibition Politics"
www.textezurkunst.de
June 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The new issue of Texte zur Kunst is now available, featuring my review of Dora Budor’s exhibition ‘Fidelity’ at Beau Travail, Stockholm
Reposted by Matthew Rana
Amazing. Julius Eastman @newamrecords.bsky.social
Julius Eastman, Vol. 2: Joy Boy
Julius Eastman · Album · 2022 · 6 songs
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May 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Amazing. Julius Eastman @newamrecords.bsky.social
☁️ is finally here!
@mitpress.bsky.social
@mitpress.bsky.social
April 12, 2025 at 4:53 AM
☁️ is finally here!
@mitpress.bsky.social
@mitpress.bsky.social
“This is more than a rushed centralization of resources by an efficiency-driven conservative government. It is a move to weaken both the independence and the forcefulness of Sweden’s cultural imagination.”
Natasha Marie Llorens for @eflux.bsky.social on recent shifts in Swedish cultural policy.
Natasha Marie Llorens for @eflux.bsky.social on recent shifts in Swedish cultural policy.
Political Capture of the Arts in Sweden - Notes - e-flux
Natasha Marie Llorens on the right-wing effort to control the arts sector in Sweden.
www.e-flux.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
“This is more than a rushed centralization of resources by an efficiency-driven conservative government. It is a move to weaken both the independence and the forcefulness of Sweden’s cultural imagination.”
Natasha Marie Llorens for @eflux.bsky.social on recent shifts in Swedish cultural policy.
Natasha Marie Llorens for @eflux.bsky.social on recent shifts in Swedish cultural policy.
”The ambivalent meanings ascribed to the djinn make the djinn a vital material-symbolic object that can be read to represent the encounter with difference and impasse.”
From Perwana Nazif’s fascinating piece @parapraxismag.bsky.social
From Perwana Nazif’s fascinating piece @parapraxismag.bsky.social
Appearance of a Djinn — Parapraxis
Islam, outside and in psychoanalysis Perwana Nazif
www.parapraxismagazine.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM
”The ambivalent meanings ascribed to the djinn make the djinn a vital material-symbolic object that can be read to represent the encounter with difference and impasse.”
From Perwana Nazif’s fascinating piece @parapraxismag.bsky.social
From Perwana Nazif’s fascinating piece @parapraxismag.bsky.social
“For the most part, Pain’s approach is intensely observational, in keeping with the idea of accueil, or welcome, a radical kind of listening practiced at La Borde.”
Nicholas Gamso on the films of François Pain, now on view at JOAN gallery in LA.
@eflux.bsky.social
Nicholas Gamso on the films of François Pain, now on view at JOAN gallery in LA.
@eflux.bsky.social
Nicholas Gamso on François Pain - Criticism - e-flux
In 1966, a young medical student named François Pain won an internship at the experimental Clinique de La Borde, outside the town of Cour-Cheverny
www.e-flux.com
March 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
“For the most part, Pain’s approach is intensely observational, in keeping with the idea of accueil, or welcome, a radical kind of listening practiced at La Borde.”
Nicholas Gamso on the films of François Pain, now on view at JOAN gallery in LA.
@eflux.bsky.social
Nicholas Gamso on the films of François Pain, now on view at JOAN gallery in LA.
@eflux.bsky.social
“For Malkani, the sacred is political and resonates with the ways in which protest is inscribed within acts of veneration and prayer.”
My review of Zahra Malkani’s stunning exhibition ‘Sada Sada’ is now online at Frieze.
My review of Zahra Malkani’s stunning exhibition ‘Sada Sada’ is now online at Frieze.
Zahra Malkani’s Hum of Ecological Reverence
At Konsthall C, Stockholm, the artist’s sound installation examines the environmental damage of regional river systems, calling for collective mourning and remembrance
www.frieze.com
February 20, 2025 at 4:35 AM
“For Malkani, the sacred is political and resonates with the ways in which protest is inscribed within acts of veneration and prayer.”
My review of Zahra Malkani’s stunning exhibition ‘Sada Sada’ is now online at Frieze.
My review of Zahra Malkani’s stunning exhibition ‘Sada Sada’ is now online at Frieze.
Look out world, Bhanu Kapil has a new blog…
Was Jack Kerouac a Punjabi?
wasjackkerouacapunjabi.blogspot.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Look out world, Bhanu Kapil has a new blog…
“Here, the notes are much sweeter – what, to my untrained nose, seems like the overwhelmingly funereal scent of lilies or perhaps something like bubblegum.”
My write-up of Bjarne Melgaard’s collaboration with Norwegian perfumier Malbrum at VI,VII Oslo is now online @artreview.bsky.social
My write-up of Bjarne Melgaard’s collaboration with Norwegian perfumier Malbrum at VI,VII Oslo is now online @artreview.bsky.social
The Artworld’s Latest Fragrance, With Notes of Tragedy
In ‘Abuse Is the Beauty of the Working Class’, Bjarne Melgaard’s olfactory experiments evidence an irrepressible artist at work
artreview.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“Here, the notes are much sweeter – what, to my untrained nose, seems like the overwhelmingly funereal scent of lilies or perhaps something like bubblegum.”
My write-up of Bjarne Melgaard’s collaboration with Norwegian perfumier Malbrum at VI,VII Oslo is now online @artreview.bsky.social
My write-up of Bjarne Melgaard’s collaboration with Norwegian perfumier Malbrum at VI,VII Oslo is now online @artreview.bsky.social
Reposted by Matthew Rana
‘Trump is an early warning signal. He’s a phenomenon of transition, only half adjusted to emerging reality.’
T.J. Clark on Trump and the society of the spectacle: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark on Trump and the society of the spectacle: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark · A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle
The politics of an empire in decline are invariably a mixture of the cruel and the ludicrous. (Ask the Brits.)...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
‘Trump is an early warning signal. He’s a phenomenon of transition, only half adjusted to emerging reality.’
T.J. Clark on Trump and the society of the spectacle: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
T.J. Clark on Trump and the society of the spectacle: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Excellent long read from 2002 on the disgraced psychoanalyst Masud Khan.
Return of the Repressed - Boston Review
The strange case of Masud Khan.
www.bostonreview.net
January 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Excellent long read from 2002 on the disgraced psychoanalyst Masud Khan.
“If the Beatles cast a shadow over pop songwriting from the 1970s to the 1990s, every decade since has belonged to ABBA”
from Chal Ravens’s terrific piece in @londonreview.bsky.social
from Chal Ravens’s terrific piece in @londonreview.bsky.social
Chal Ravens · Twinge of Saudade: Abbamania
Abba became a vehicle for a kind of wholesome perversity, a nonconformist conformism: two picture-perfect couples...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 22, 2024 at 4:23 AM
“If the Beatles cast a shadow over pop songwriting from the 1970s to the 1990s, every decade since has belonged to ABBA”
from Chal Ravens’s terrific piece in @londonreview.bsky.social
from Chal Ravens’s terrific piece in @londonreview.bsky.social
“It’s a novel, then, about sublimation, the conversion of the artist’s drive into form.”
R.D. Hamilton’s review of Renee Gladman’s ‘My Lesbian Novel’ @friezeofficial.bsky.social
R.D. Hamilton’s review of Renee Gladman’s ‘My Lesbian Novel’ @friezeofficial.bsky.social
Renee Gladman Fulfills Literary and Romantic Desires in ‘My Lesbian Novel’
The author's metafictional exploration of the romance genre is a satisfying act of sublimation for both narrator and reader
www.frieze.com
December 20, 2024 at 6:29 PM
“It’s a novel, then, about sublimation, the conversion of the artist’s drive into form.”
R.D. Hamilton’s review of Renee Gladman’s ‘My Lesbian Novel’ @friezeofficial.bsky.social
R.D. Hamilton’s review of Renee Gladman’s ‘My Lesbian Novel’ @friezeofficial.bsky.social
“For better or worse, it seems that there have been a flurry of misreadings of Cha’s work. I would argue […] that perhaps Cha’s text actually opens up to misreading or creative reading.”
Soyoung Yoon in November magazine’s excellent round table on Theresa Cha.
Soyoung Yoon in November magazine’s excellent round table on Theresa Cha.
November: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
with Dawn Chan, Jennifer Gayoung Lee, Irene Hsu, Juwon Jun, Eunsong Kim, Lauren O’Neill-Butler, Rachel Valinsky, and Soyoung Yoon, "Her legacy isn’t lost, but continuously with us in various shapes an...
www.novembermag.com
December 20, 2024 at 5:20 PM
“For better or worse, it seems that there have been a flurry of misreadings of Cha’s work. I would argue […] that perhaps Cha’s text actually opens up to misreading or creative reading.”
Soyoung Yoon in November magazine’s excellent round table on Theresa Cha.
Soyoung Yoon in November magazine’s excellent round table on Theresa Cha.
So pleased to have my work included in Tydningen 53/54: Neutrality, edited by the incomparable Jen Hayashida!
nr. 53/54: Neutralitet/en (gästred. Jennifer Hayashida)
Tydningen nr. 53/54: Neutralitet/enRed. Jennifer Hayashida116 sidor (170 x 240 mm) I detta nummer av Tydningen har de medverkande på olika vis svarat mot neutralitet/ens obenägenhet att kännas vid …
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December 20, 2024 at 8:09 AM
So pleased to have my work included in Tydningen 53/54: Neutrality, edited by the incomparable Jen Hayashida!