Today the 1928 annual of the German occult and paranormal magazine ‘Zeitschrift für Parapsychologie’ arrived. It was missing in my 1926-1933 row. Note how the volumes become smaller as the Nazis begin to take hold of Germany.

Submit your abstracts for an online symposium on Crime, Death and the Gothic Imagination with Prof Ruth Penfold-Mounce and me, 9 September 2024. Pls RT

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Each time Jenny Offill rereads Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway,” published on this day in 1925, “some forgotten facet of the story comes to light, and the feeling is always that of having blurred past something that was right in front of me,” she writes. nyer.cm/3PhCdse

#Yorkshire

A cinematic meditation on night flying in a Piper Cub over the darkened Canadian prairies, created by my younger son, the pilot.

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[New Blog 🖊️] Dr. Panchali brings her years long fieldwork on Bengal borderlands into focus with her review of 'A Thousand Tiny Cuts' by Sahana Ghosh . Discover her take on this rich ethnographic study uncovering slow erosion of borderland life: blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimino…

Solaris, 1972

If you happen to be in JST (or are staying up very late in EDT) and want to hear about what I learned doing ethnographic research on illicit practices, I'll be giving this informal talk at the University of Tokyo (live online) next week. Register here: gfd.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/events-archive…

Listen to our latest episode on The Goshawk with T. H. White's spiritual successor Helen Macdonald. We talk about ferocity, phantoms, and flying free.

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'Nothing is so terrible as a pretentious movie. A movie that aspires for something really terrific & doesn’t pull it off is sh!t, it’s scum.'

--- Francis Ford Coppola

The handwriting of famous authors - thread 🧵

1. Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov

💩Publication day! Underbelly is an ethnography of #globalhealth , exploring how global health—its actors, structures, and systems—perpetuates the challenges to health equity. 🧵mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547765/…

The first volume to bring together Stuart Hall’s engagements with art, film, and photography, “Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture” offers over two dozen essays, lectures, and reviews. Read the introduction today: ow.ly/IjyR50RG0Ib #StuartHall #MediaStudies

Founded in 1919, four years before Weird Tales, Der Orchideengarten is the world's first fantasy and supernatural horror magazine. This is a sample of its covers.

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My new article is an attempt to think through the decarceral potential latent within Bedouin ideas of mercy, beginning with an aphorism I often heard in Jordan that ‘Prison is loss” (As-sijin khasāra):

A senior Gazan doctor died during Israeli detention. Officials refuse to explain how haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

Carl Theodor Dreyer's masterpiece, 'Ordet' (1955) with a runtime of 125 minutes, contains only 114 shots, averaging 65 seconds each. Its spellbinding simplicity enabled it to be edited in just five days.

Last night was likely Europe’s biggest aurora display in modern history. The phenomenon was vividly visible to the naked eye even in major cities across the continent. This was truly a once-in-a-generation event. Sit back and enjoy these mesmerizing timelapses.

Remembering the legendary Spanish surrealist, Salvador Dalí on his 120th birthday!

The dream sequence from,

Spellbound (1945)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock