Maria Farantouri sings 'Arnisi,' Seferis poem set to music by the great #Theodorakis youtu.be/B-GBPx_GXQw

.Christina Gilligan & I are proposing a seminar on theory and the novel to the 2022 ACLA in Taipei. We would love to hear about your work! CfP link: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/10/05…

Please check out this ACLA 2022 CfP on Speculative Fiction and Decolonial Thought by my wonderful colleague Smaran !

So pleased to see this marvelous monograph arrive at last in today's mail: Stefano Evangelista's Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English Fin de Siecle: Citizens of Nowhere.

Theory and the Novel abstract submissions due this Sunday! acla.org/theory-and-nov…

MONDAY 5pm UK time! Join Worcester College, Oxford's Marchella Ward Dr Marchella Ward (always 'Chella'), Cornell University's Mathura Umachandran, and MMLL Cambridge's Joanna Page, for #Decoloniality - week 6 of our online research seminar, Receptions and Comparatisms. #ClassicalReception #ClassicsTwitter

Our remaining hope now lies in mobilising the peculiar characteristics of complex systems, to trigger a cascading regime shift in both technology and politics. And that means millions of us, coming out to insist on the defence of our life support systems. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

" . . . the history of epistemology can be read as a series of imaginings of conditions that should pertain, disguised as descriptions of the ones that do" (Rei Terada ❤️)

In the new issue of Genre, I have a review essay that unpacks the debate framed by two fascinating recent books on literary character: Kunin's exactingly formalist *Character as Form* and Felski, Moi, and Anderson's avowedly nonformalist *Character*. doi.org/10.1215/001669…

A good day to donate (again) to the fund for striking graduate workers at Columbia, who face a scary deadline tomorrow imposed by the administration. Fighting it will require both courage (which they have) and material support (which they’ll need). opencollective.com/withheld-stipe…

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"Something that looks like a bad sentence can be the germ of a good one" (Wittgenstein)

Fascinating talk ACLA just now from @_louisklee on "Reading for Constellations" that discussed the Benjaminian formulation, Olga Tokarczuk's "constellation novel," and even featured the Dunhuang Star Chart. Great stuff!

& for those interested, I'll be giving a paper today about how Lukács's early ideal of the "sober" novel emerges from his critique of Kant... Excited to be (finally!!) presenting work from my dissertation!

"Here as elsewhere, Bewes teaches us how to read novelistically, where the lines between insight and experiment are blurred." New in review, Athanassia Williamson on Timothy Bewes's Free Indirect, from Columbia University Press: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/athanassia_wil…

Delighted to be part of this issue of the JHI, writing about Adorno's late reappraisal of Dewey's aesthetics, & the non-irreconcilability of crit theory & pragmatism: muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article…

In the summer issue of the journal, Athanassia Williamson writes on "Art as Critical Experience in Theodor W. Adorno and John Dewey": muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article… Read today, or download for later!