Mike Classon Frangos
@mfrangos.bsky.social
Associate professor, English literature, based in Växjö and Stockholm, comics, speculative fiction, the Arctic, utopia/dystopia
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There is a graphical novel coming out about the DC bands Gray Matter and 3 by the bassist Steve Niles, who apparently has since gone on to have a career as a comic book writer. He wrote the original comic 30 Days of Night.
steveniles.net/news/f/gray-...
steveniles.net/news/f/gray-...
Gray Matter Comic Comes to Life
I’m very happy to announce that we are doing a book I wrote called TAKE IT BACK: Life Anxiety and Gray Matter. It’s a comic based on life and my time playing with Dante, Geoff, and Mark in the punk ba...
steveniles.net
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
There is a graphical novel coming out about the DC bands Gray Matter and 3 by the bassist Steve Niles, who apparently has since gone on to have a career as a comic book writer. He wrote the original comic 30 Days of Night.
steveniles.net/news/f/gray-...
steveniles.net/news/f/gray-...
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This racialised timeline cast the Sámi as premodern and even endangered - narratives that helped justify intensifying resource extraction and colonial settler claims in Sápmi. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The “Savage” Within: The Sámi People and the Archaeology of Whiteness | Isis: Vol 116, No 4
Abstract In this article, I will examine how the Swedish zoologist and archaeologist Sven Nilsson (1787–1883) constructed what I refer to here as the archaeology of whiteness. Whiteness denotes here a...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This racialised timeline cast the Sámi as premodern and even endangered - narratives that helped justify intensifying resource extraction and colonial settler claims in Sápmi. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
My daily writing goal has fallen to 300 words/day, but that must be enough. The chapters will still get written eventually!
November 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
My daily writing goal has fallen to 300 words/day, but that must be enough. The chapters will still get written eventually!
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My new book argues technology needs an ethos: In Africa and Ghana that ethos is Pan-African Futurism. The product of over 10 years of on-the-ground and digital research with tech developers and Ghana's digital diaspora — www.ucpress.edu/books/pan-af...
Pan-African Futurism by Reginold Royston - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
October 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
My new book argues technology needs an ethos: In Africa and Ghana that ethos is Pan-African Futurism. The product of over 10 years of on-the-ground and digital research with tech developers and Ghana's digital diaspora — www.ucpress.edu/books/pan-af...
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Call for inaugural issue of—Polyfora: A Journal of Speculative CoFutures—an interdisciplinary journal devoted to unearthing possible futures, accepting peer-reviewed articles, stories, artworks, and essays from many languages and perspectives:
journal.cofutures.org
journal.cofutures.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Call for inaugural issue of—Polyfora: A Journal of Speculative CoFutures—an interdisciplinary journal devoted to unearthing possible futures, accepting peer-reviewed articles, stories, artworks, and essays from many languages and perspectives:
journal.cofutures.org
journal.cofutures.org
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Halloween night is truly carnivalesque. All the values are inverted. People in the US give things away, walk from place to place, and interact with their neighbors.
November 1, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Halloween night is truly carnivalesque. All the values are inverted. People in the US give things away, walk from place to place, and interact with their neighbors.
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"Violence of Melt: Visual Infrastructures and Erasure in the Arctic" by Audrey Medaino-Tardif is the second post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/10/27/v...
#envhum
niche-canada.org/2025/10/27/v...
#envhum
Violence of Melt: Visual Infrastructures and Erasure in the Arctic
The Arctic is melting. In the visual culture of the Arctic and environmental research, melt is affective. It is treated as an object of aesthetic and study, a symbol of urgency. Most prevalent images ...
niche-canada.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"Violence of Melt: Visual Infrastructures and Erasure in the Arctic" by Audrey Medaino-Tardif is the second post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/10/27/v...
#envhum
niche-canada.org/2025/10/27/v...
#envhum
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Here is what I said. I am proud to be a Cape Bretoner, a Nova Scotian, a Canadian. And I am with the Mi’kmaw land defenders on Hunters Mountain. (1)
October 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Here is what I said. I am proud to be a Cape Bretoner, a Nova Scotian, a Canadian. And I am with the Mi’kmaw land defenders on Hunters Mountain. (1)
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Thrilled and delighted to say that my new book, Utopian Variations: Utopia in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, is now out! Thanks to the University of Essex's open access fund, it's available via open access too. You can download the full book for free here: www.peterlang.com/document/156...
Peter Lang Verlag - Utopian Variations
Utopian Variations is a comparative critical study of a variety of kinds of utopia and utopian discourse. Rather than focusing on more familiar forms ...
www.peterlang.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Thrilled and delighted to say that my new book, Utopian Variations: Utopia in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture, is now out! Thanks to the University of Essex's open access fund, it's available via open access too. You can download the full book for free here: www.peterlang.com/document/156...
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We don't need neo-dada in this moment, what we need is people exercising their "right to culture" to help us remember that we live in society, that fact is inescapable, and we shouldn't let anyone tell us otherwise
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/10/devo...
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/10/devo...
Devo and the possibility of dada in the era of personalized media
www.its-her-factory.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
We don't need neo-dada in this moment, what we need is people exercising their "right to culture" to help us remember that we live in society, that fact is inescapable, and we shouldn't let anyone tell us otherwise
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/10/devo...
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/10/devo...
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enlightenment ideas of the autonomy of art got it all wrong: it's not art's freedom from social reproduction that makes it great, it's that making and receiving art are collaborative experiences where we develop individually through the mutual support of others.
October 15, 2025 at 11:25 AM
enlightenment ideas of the autonomy of art got it all wrong: it's not art's freedom from social reproduction that makes it great, it's that making and receiving art are collaborative experiences where we develop individually through the mutual support of others.
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Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
contingentmagazine.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.
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[clears throat]...I have another book coming out in the near future
if you'd like to read a bit about LYRIC LOGIC, there are some very generous blurbs over at @columbiaup.bsky.social
(my thanks to Marjorie Levinson, Oren Izenberg, Theo Davis, Nan Z. Da, and also @philipleventhal.bsky.social)
if you'd like to read a bit about LYRIC LOGIC, there are some very generous blurbs over at @columbiaup.bsky.social
(my thanks to Marjorie Levinson, Oren Izenberg, Theo Davis, Nan Z. Da, and also @philipleventhal.bsky.social)
Lyric Logic | Columbia University Press
Between the Civil War and the Cold War, American literary modernism and philosophy both grappled with the challenge of novelty and the chance to make it new.... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
September 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
[clears throat]...I have another book coming out in the near future
if you'd like to read a bit about LYRIC LOGIC, there are some very generous blurbs over at @columbiaup.bsky.social
(my thanks to Marjorie Levinson, Oren Izenberg, Theo Davis, Nan Z. Da, and also @philipleventhal.bsky.social)
if you'd like to read a bit about LYRIC LOGIC, there are some very generous blurbs over at @columbiaup.bsky.social
(my thanks to Marjorie Levinson, Oren Izenberg, Theo Davis, Nan Z. Da, and also @philipleventhal.bsky.social)
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I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.
September 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I do a comic about ornithological vocabulary for every issue of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's wonderful Living Bird magazine. Here's the latest one, featuring the American Bittern.
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Today is publication day!
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
September 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Today is publication day!
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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OK, I started this related critical AI list too here: olivia.science/ai#allies with allies & resources — @jsanofranchini.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @ehayot.bsky.social (let me know if I failed to tag anybody)
and importantly, feel free to contact me to add more! 🤍
and importantly, feel free to contact me to add more! 🤍
September 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
OK, I started this related critical AI list too here: olivia.science/ai#allies with allies & resources — @jsanofranchini.bsky.social @annakornbluh.bsky.social @ehayot.bsky.social (let me know if I failed to tag anybody)
and importantly, feel free to contact me to add more! 🤍
and importantly, feel free to contact me to add more! 🤍
I admit I never gave up hope Robert Redford could have been US president as envisioned in Watchmen. What a missed opportunity!
September 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I admit I never gave up hope Robert Redford could have been US president as envisioned in Watchmen. What a missed opportunity!
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African Climate Fiction.
To Rescue a Self
Eketi tries to find her voice.
#Africa #African #Nigeria #Ghana #Kenya #SouthAfrica
#Ethiopia #Egypt #Congo #Tanzania #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction #Fiction
grist.org/climate-fict...
To Rescue a Self
Eketi tries to find her voice.
#Africa #African #Nigeria #Ghana #Kenya #SouthAfrica
#Ethiopia #Egypt #Congo #Tanzania #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction #Fiction
grist.org/climate-fict...
To Rescue a Self
Climate fiction: At the Green Nigeria Youths Fellowship, Eketi tries to find her voice.
grist.org
September 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
African Climate Fiction.
To Rescue a Self
Eketi tries to find her voice.
#Africa #African #Nigeria #Ghana #Kenya #SouthAfrica
#Ethiopia #Egypt #Congo #Tanzania #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction #Fiction
grist.org/climate-fict...
To Rescue a Self
Eketi tries to find her voice.
#Africa #African #Nigeria #Ghana #Kenya #SouthAfrica
#Ethiopia #Egypt #Congo #Tanzania #Solarpunk #ClimateFiction #Fiction
grist.org/climate-fict...
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And so I take on Gormenghast! Which is great. Just very good stuff. And I also look at James Gifford's excellent book A Modernist Fantasy (2018) and the anarchist reading of Gormenghast. This is the 6th essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy Reread series.
Ballantine Adult Fantasy: Reading “Gormenghast” by Mervyn Peake (Gormenghast 2)
The sixth essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy reading series, which looks at Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast (1950), the powerful second novel in his Titus series.
seanguynes.com
September 6, 2025 at 4:43 AM
And so I take on Gormenghast! Which is great. Just very good stuff. And I also look at James Gifford's excellent book A Modernist Fantasy (2018) and the anarchist reading of Gormenghast. This is the 6th essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy Reread series.
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I wrote about how three events in 1996 - the Telecom Act, Welfare Reform Act, & "Changing Highbrow Taste" article - signal the beginning of the end of taste
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/09/1996...
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/09/1996...
1996, The Beginning of the End of Taste
www.its-her-factory.com
September 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I wrote about how three events in 1996 - the Telecom Act, Welfare Reform Act, & "Changing Highbrow Taste" article - signal the beginning of the end of taste
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/09/1996...
www.its-her-factory.com/2025/09/1996...
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In his article on “Comics Anthropocenes,” Mike Classon Frangos argues that the unique nature of the Laila Starr story highlights a world view that moves away from “undifferentiated humanity” and into a more complex portrayal of intersecting timescales. #lailastarr #comicsstudies 1/9
August 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
In his article on “Comics Anthropocenes,” Mike Classon Frangos argues that the unique nature of the Laila Starr story highlights a world view that moves away from “undifferentiated humanity” and into a more complex portrayal of intersecting timescales. #lailastarr #comicsstudies 1/9
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My book The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy: Multi species Encounters in Extraction Zones is coming out this year 25th July: link.springer.com/book/9783031...
The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy
This book brings the emerging field of petrocultures and energy humanities discourse into conversation with the field of animal studies.
link.springer.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My book The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy: Multi species Encounters in Extraction Zones is coming out this year 25th July: link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Nothing has made me feel like a time-traveler from the past when I visit the US after living abroad for 15 years like vacuum cleaner design. Who came up with these bizarre floor-cleaning space ships?
August 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Nothing has made me feel like a time-traveler from the past when I visit the US after living abroad for 15 years like vacuum cleaner design. Who came up with these bizarre floor-cleaning space ships?
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com