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An open letter to prison officials in response to the censorship of Tip of the Spear (1/2)

pure poetry from ramsey mcglazer in the new Parapraxis on pasolini, saltburn, the unanswered questions of desire, and crotch shots. “how can we know the dick-print from the pants?”

Gonna start referring to every UC campus as “DoD-funded” and “Raytheon-supported”

Reading a lot of threads on translations of the Odyssey. Would like to put in a good word for translations you hate.

"How can a movement that explicitly and consistently adheres to the principle of nonviolence...be understood to be, in effect, violent and therefore worthy of the full application of legal force?" Read David Lloyd on BDS and the critique of violence here: tinyurl.com/ye2ayrhz

My book on Sebastiano Timpanaro is now out! Timpanaro was one of the great intellectuals of the post-WWII European left. He made a host of expansive contributions on materialism, classical philology, Leopardi, Freud, and linguistics versobooks.com/en-gb/products…

NEW ISSUE! Issue 7:3 of Critical Times, a special issue titled "Solidarity's Challenge," edited by Robin Celikates and @SameraEsmeir, is out now: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times…

I wrote a short essay touching on autofiction, the real estate novel, class, and "immediacy" Public Books publicbooks.org/autofiction-wr…

the infrastructure of fascism has been being built for years. note how easy it is to use government workers to steal someone from their family & put them in one of (many such) cages across the country. the systems of incarceration & surveillance in the US are ready. are we?

Perhaps few would've predicted how there is not even a figleaf of legal proceduralism here--no charges, no due process, just untrammeled discretionary executive power. But this is the realization, not opposite, of what heavily lawyered drone strikes and renditions initiated.

El mejor resumen del plan de gobierno en dictadura y ahora

Palestinians in Gaza City are foraging for wild plants or finding food washed ashore, in a battle to survive amid Israel's total blockade—the longest closure since October 2023. Read this dispatch from Rasha abou jalal

i reviewed jonathan kramnick’s criticism and truth, which i take to be arguing, among other things, that close reading isn’t just for girls. unpaywalled link below

There's a top shortage in literary criticism

Students are harbingers of how future generations will view this historical moment and the role of universities in it. History will celebrate principled students like Logan Rozos, not the cogs in the machine of racist repression.

Using grad speeches is so tactical bc you have the highest density of wealthy zionists––parents, donors, administrators––trapped in a single, live-streamed venue while an ideal American youth disproves the illusion that being pro-Palestine is fringe, unreasonable

In their world, cities are battlespaces, civilians are latent threats, and humanitarianism is not a limit — but a tool of war, a way to kill the people, and the idea of the people.