Issue #6 of Bureaucritics is out now!

Catch up with the latest in art, fiction, and scholarship about bureaucracy.

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#newsletter #bureaucracy #administration #officeliterature #bureaucraticfiction #parliaments

I answered some questions about my #research for @unibonn.bsky.social, so now this short #interview exists:
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(German version below)

Thanks, as always, to the @humboldt-foundation.de for the support!

#postdoc #complit #bureaucraticfiction #sciencecommunication

The international #symposium Files, Forms, Fictions is turning into a real thing!

Browse through the full program and learn more about the event at filesformsfictions.com.

Thank you, @humboldt-foundation.de & @unibonn.bsky.social, for all your support!
#bureaucraticfiction #comparativeliterature

The French fascination for the curious life and paper forms of bureaucracy endures.

Here, screenshots from Messieurs les ronds-de-cuir (Henri Diamant-Berger, 1959), one of 4 film adaptations of Georges Courteline's 1893 eponymous novel.

#bureaucraticfiction #officenovel #bureaucratcomedy

Fantastic panel on impersonality in literature and the arts yesterday, at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association.

A huge thanks to everyone involved!

#acla #acla2025 #impersonality #bureaucraticmodernism #bureaucraticfiction #comparativeliterature #complit