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JOB: Senior Researcher in modernist genetic criticism and Joyce studies. – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
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Postdoc research opportunity in modernist & Joyce studies: www.iasil.org/2025/10/job-...
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I have an essay contrasting theory camps and communist ones in the latest issue PMLA, which reflects on the 1983 Illinois Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture conference. I sketch a material history of the perilous assumption that professional actions necessarily constitute political activity.
Theory Camp versus Commie Camp | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Theory Camp versus Commie Camp - Volume 140 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I have an essay contrasting theory camps and communist ones in the latest issue PMLA, which reflects on the 1983 Illinois Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture conference. I sketch a material history of the perilous assumption that professional actions necessarily constitute political activity.
Postdoc research opportunity in modernist & Joyce studies: www.iasil.org/2025/10/job-...
JOB: Senior Researcher in modernist genetic criticism and Joyce studies. – International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
www.iasil.org
October 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Postdoc research opportunity in modernist & Joyce studies: www.iasil.org/2025/10/job-...
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@moneyontheleft.bsky.social gave me the privilege + pleasure of reading an earlier draft; I'm excited to see it made public.
May this vision help generate thousands of curious convos, a robust counterculture on public finance...
....and, one day, radical financial action at a scale of millions.
May this vision help generate thousands of curious convos, a robust counterculture on public finance...
....and, one day, radical financial action at a scale of millions.
✨ New! ✨
"Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City"
Grab your favorite beverage ☕ and settle in for a deep long-read.👩💻
"Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City"
Grab your favorite beverage ☕ and settle in for a deep long-read.👩💻
Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City
Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …
moneyontheleft.org
October 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
@moneyontheleft.bsky.social gave me the privilege + pleasure of reading an earlier draft; I'm excited to see it made public.
May this vision help generate thousands of curious convos, a robust counterculture on public finance...
....and, one day, radical financial action at a scale of millions.
May this vision help generate thousands of curious convos, a robust counterculture on public finance...
....and, one day, radical financial action at a scale of millions.
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Now out in paperback with @haymarketbooks.org, Jairus Banaji, *A Marxist Mosaic: Selected Writings 1968–2022*. Currently 20% off from the Haymarket Books website.
A Marxist Mosaic
www.haymarketbooks.org
September 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Now out in paperback with @haymarketbooks.org, Jairus Banaji, *A Marxist Mosaic: Selected Writings 1968–2022*. Currently 20% off from the Haymarket Books website.
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A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time
After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
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On the Rural is the first English collection to translate Lefebvre’s crucial but lesser-known writings on rural sociology and political economy
📚 buff.ly/w3mL7nL
Visit us at #RGS2025 or online: buff.ly/QVZnPGz
@rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social
📚 buff.ly/w3mL7nL
Visit us at #RGS2025 or online: buff.ly/QVZnPGz
@rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
On the Rural is the first English collection to translate Lefebvre’s crucial but lesser-known writings on rural sociology and political economy
📚 buff.ly/w3mL7nL
Visit us at #RGS2025 or online: buff.ly/QVZnPGz
@rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social
📚 buff.ly/w3mL7nL
Visit us at #RGS2025 or online: buff.ly/QVZnPGz
@rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social
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The MSA offers a limited number of $500 travel grants for conference participants in the Boston conference this Oct. The deadline is this Friday, August 15! Apply here: www.moderniststudies.org/members/trav...
Don't forget to register for the conference by Aug. 31 for reduced registration rates!
Don't forget to register for the conference by Aug. 31 for reduced registration rates!
Grants
The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
www.moderniststudies.org
August 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The MSA offers a limited number of $500 travel grants for conference participants in the Boston conference this Oct. The deadline is this Friday, August 15! Apply here: www.moderniststudies.org/members/trav...
Don't forget to register for the conference by Aug. 31 for reduced registration rates!
Don't forget to register for the conference by Aug. 31 for reduced registration rates!
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In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.
August 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.
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Final installment of The Jameson Tapes. Your guide to becoming an “ideological lexicologist”!
"Ideology: Marx & Lukacs" by Fredric Jameson
1977 Institute On Culture & Society
theamericanvandal.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Final installment of The Jameson Tapes. Your guide to becoming an “ideological lexicologist”!
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NEW!
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
The Jameson Tapes, Side A
with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson
theamericanvandal.substack.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
NEW!
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
1st of 2 installments contextualizing Jameson's lectures at the 1977 Institute On Culture & Society, discusses "Marxism & Historicism," historicizing the lectures, recovering them, the commodity as its own ideology, long arc of Jameson's influence
theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/the-jameso...
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lol. someone edited David Damrosch's wiki page to mention WReC
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D...
August 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
lol. someone edited David Damrosch's wiki page to mention WReC
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D...
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🎉 New Benchmark Alert: KRISTEVA – Close‑Reading for LLMs📚
I’m excited to announce a new paper accepted to ACL 2025, in collaboration with Patrick Sui, Philippe Laban, and others!
I’m excited to announce a new paper accepted to ACL 2025, in collaboration with Patrick Sui, Philippe Laban, and others!
July 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
🎉 New Benchmark Alert: KRISTEVA – Close‑Reading for LLMs📚
I’m excited to announce a new paper accepted to ACL 2025, in collaboration with Patrick Sui, Philippe Laban, and others!
I’m excited to announce a new paper accepted to ACL 2025, in collaboration with Patrick Sui, Philippe Laban, and others!
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Now published: 'Prose Style and Politics: Marx as Dialectical Writer' by Jim Kincaid.
brill.com
July 26, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Now published: 'Prose Style and Politics: Marx as Dialectical Writer' by Jim Kincaid.
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reminder that the Frederic Jameson reading group is up and running over on Patreon. Aiming to make this one interesting for folks with a background in philosophy/theory while also accessible for those without one.
www.patreon.com/posts/jameso...
www.patreon.com/posts/jameso...
Jameson Session 1 Full Video | Michael Burns
Get more from Michael Burns on Patreon
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July 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
reminder that the Frederic Jameson reading group is up and running over on Patreon. Aiming to make this one interesting for folks with a background in philosophy/theory while also accessible for those without one.
www.patreon.com/posts/jameso...
www.patreon.com/posts/jameso...
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If you want to read deeply researched accounts of what happened to novels in the last fifty or so years, may I recommend Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier uipress.uiowa.edu/books/novel-...
July 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
If you want to read deeply researched accounts of what happened to novels in the last fifty or so years, may I recommend Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier uipress.uiowa.edu/books/novel-...
Reposted by Raunak Kumar
Reposted by Raunak Kumar
Reposted by Raunak Kumar
My book Teenage Time comes out August 21st from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teenage-t... Here it is!
July 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
My book Teenage Time comes out August 21st from Bloomsbury: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teenage-t... Here it is!
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‘Any account of Plath’s life must also hurtle, trudge or wander towards her death, and we will always have that wrong.’
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Patricia Lockwood · Arrayed in Shining Scales: Solving Sylvia Plath
I was under no illusion that The Collected Prose would solve the mystery, or lay to rest the lie, of how Plath was...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
‘Any account of Plath’s life must also hurtle, trudge or wander towards her death, and we will always have that wrong.’
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@tricialockwood.bsky.social on Sylvia Plath: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Next, we have @raunak.bsky.social's article on ‘The Irish Novel of History in History,’ a theoretical analysis of historical narrativity, performed through a deconstructionist reading of Joyce's 'Ulysses'.
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/t...
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/t...
The Irish Novel of History in History
13 June 2025 Raunak Kumar, IIT Roorkee, Roorkee, India How does a national tale become a world text? That is the question which Franco Moretti approaches in Modern Epic, by proposing a very differe…
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com
June 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Next, we have @raunak.bsky.social's article on ‘The Irish Novel of History in History,’ a theoretical analysis of historical narrativity, performed through a deconstructionist reading of Joyce's 'Ulysses'.
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/t...
modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2025/06/13/t...
Susan Buck-Morss’s ‘Hegel, Haiti and Universal History’ written in 2009 speaks for this moment as well while a history of violence turns over again… (p. 149)
October 26, 2023 at 3:31 PM
Susan Buck-Morss’s ‘Hegel, Haiti and Universal History’ written in 2009 speaks for this moment as well while a history of violence turns over again… (p. 149)
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René Char, tr. Tony Montague
September 17, 2023 at 3:04 PM
René Char, tr. Tony Montague
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My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.
September 9, 2023 at 8:31 AM
My cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.