Read @floridastate English Professor Andrew Epstein's new essay, out today, devoted to the late indie musician and poet David Berman. The essay focuses on Berman's mixed feelings about the aphorism as a form in both his music and his poetry. Find it here: post45.org/2023/01/david-…

This is a quilt panel my lovely mom made of my book The Years Work at the ZRC iupress.org/9780253013873/… Indiana University Press for an exhibition the moorestownlibrary.org. The book is part of the Year's Work, a book series I co-edit with Ed Comentale: iupress.org

Louisville Conference, Genealogy & History, Saturday, 2/25, @ 3:45 Room (Humanities 121), chairing a round-table on #LouisvilleConference on Lit and Cult after 1900 on its 50th anniversary - with Alan Golding, Thomas Byers, David Anderson, and Suzette Henke.

Damn. The English major died again. Seems like it dies at least once a year. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Not knowing what classes you are teaching is no excuse for not having already ordered your books for the fall semester. Please attend to this asap!

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Can we find a habitable zone for criticism? Aaron Jaffe discusses Vilém Flusser’s philosophy: "Rather than substances and essences […] Flusser’s paleofuturist communicology shifts attention to functions, relations of accidents and their inescapability." asapjournal.com/posthuman-scal…

A very happy 86th birthday to our Lord and Saviour Thomas Pynchon.

"I study the breakdown of democracy, and I don't know how to say this more clearly: We are sleepwalking towards authoritarianism." --Brian Klaas

Really pleased to get my copy of the excellent The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies Edited by Melissa Hardie, Meaghan Morris and Kane Race iupress.org/.../the-years-… in our book series!

Check out NODE 34. Materiology and variantology doi.org/10.7238/artnod… & my article "Art, as Risky Device" raco.cat/index.php/Artn…