Matthew Rana
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Poet and critic living in Stockholm.
https://matthewrana.com
Some new poems on Pamenar online.
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Matthew Rana
Matthew Rana is the author of Ardour: Poems from the Daud (Nion Editions, 2022). His critical writing has appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Tripwire, Jacket2, and The Poetry Project Newsletter,...
https://www.pamenarpress.com/post/matthew-rana
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A masterwork of feminine jouissance.
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LUX
https://open.spotify.com/album/3SUEJULSGgBDG1j4GQhfYY?si=8o69GwVcQ86eU4EzULGV5w
about 1 month ago
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Critical Inquiry
3 months ago
"With an emotional register ranging from petulance to narcissistic neediness, the book dissects the field of the minor affects with discomfiting precision." New in review, Tan Lin on Steven Zultanski's Help:
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/tan_lin_revi...
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from Samo TomĆĄiÄ, The Labour of Enjoyment
3 months ago
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âBörjelâs brilliance here is to extend this sense of personal tragedy to the collective and, most importantly, back again.â My review of Ida Börjelâs MA
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for Tripwire22
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A review of MA by Ida Börjel
reviewed by Matthew Rana in Tripwire 22 Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023 MA, by Swedish poet Ida Börjel, is a long abecedarian poem patterned after Inger Christensenâs Alphabet (1981). In twenty-nine secâŠ
https://tripwirejournal.com/2025/09/08/a-review-of-ma-by-ida-borjel/
3 months ago
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Matthew Rana
BDS movement
3 months ago
The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.
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Boston Review
6 months ago
Gradually, the outline of Modiâs plan to remake Kashmir has come into sight. Under the slogan of development and to âtransformâ the state into an âindustrialized territory,â the Indian government has sold land to Indian capitalists.
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Seizing Kashmir - Boston Review
For decades India has refused to acknowledge Kashmiri demands for self-determination. Now Modi has a new strategyâa settler project.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/seizing-kashmir/
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BDS movement
5 months ago
These are the
#BDS
consumer boycott targets named in the ground breaking report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Read more:
bdsmovement.net/news/naming-...
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âFor the communities of the [Indus River] delta⊠drawing a map for someone is a gesture of hospitality and generosity. Within the fleeting line of a river, someone opens up their world, their knowledge, their memories.â Shahana Rajani in conversation with Nick Axel
@eflux.bsky.social
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New Silk Roads - Shahana Rajani - The Fleeting Line of a River
Colonial maps and hydraulic technologies attempted to reorganize these mobile, water landscapes into a propertied and regulated geography. But in this soaking ecology, quite literally, the logic of th...
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/new-silk-roads/674804/the-fleeting-line-of-a-river/
6 months ago
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The new issue of Texte zur Kunst is now available, featuring my review of Dora Budorâs exhibition âFidelityâ at Beau Travail, Stockholm
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Issue No. 138 / June 2025 "Exhibition Politics"
https://www.textezurkunst.de/en/issues/exhibition-politics/
6 months ago
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Andreas Petrossiants
7 months ago
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Many Lives of Joshua Clover (1962â2025)
How the militant, poet, political theorist, organizer, and giver of gifts refused to die.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/joshua-clover-obituary-uc-davis/
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Amazing. Julius Eastman
@newamrecords.bsky.social
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Julius Eastman, Vol. 2: Joy Boy
Julius Eastman · Album · 2022 · 6 songs
https://open.spotify.com/album/4nTbxYMIHUWSa5VUNiwj6G?si=6Oz_mzXlQC-3SvyBP9aKkw
7 months ago
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âïž is finally here!
@mitpress.bsky.social
8 months ago
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âThis is more than a rushed centralization of resources by an efficiency-driven conservative government. It is a move to weaken both the independence and the forcefulness of Swedenâs cultural imagination.â Natasha Marie Llorens for
@eflux.bsky.social
on recent shifts in Swedish cultural policy.
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Political Capture of the Arts in Sweden - Notes - e-flux
Natasha Marie Llorens on the right-wing effort to control the arts sector in Sweden.
https://www.e-flux.com/notes/663013/at-arm-s-length-political-capture-of-the-arts-in-sweden
8 months ago
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âThe ambivalent meanings ascribed to the djinn make the djinn a vital material-symbolic object that can be read to represent the encounter with difference and impasse.â From Perwana Nazifâs fascinating piece
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Appearance of a Djinn â Parapraxis
Islam, outside and in psychoanalysis Perwana Nazif
https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/appearance-of-a-djinn
9 months ago
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âFor the most part, Painâs approach is intensely observational, in keeping with the idea of accueil, or welcome, a radical kind of listening practiced at La Borde.â Nicholas Gamso on the films of François Pain, now on view at JOAN gallery in LA.
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Nicholas Gamso on François Pain - Criticism - e-flux
In 1966, a young medical student named François Pain won an internship at the experimental Clinique de La Borde, outside the town of Cour-Cheverny
https://www.e-flux.com/criticism/661068/francois-pain-s-psychiatry-is-what-psychiatrists-do
9 months ago
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âFor Malkani, the sacred is political and resonates with the ways in which protest is inscribed within acts of veneration and prayer.â My review of Zahra Malkaniâs stunning exhibition âSada Sadaâ is now online at Frieze.
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Zahra Malkaniâs Hum of Ecological Reverence
At Konsthall C, Stockholm, the artistâs sound installation examines the environmental damage of regional river systems, calling for collective mourning and remembrance
https://www.frieze.com/article/zahra-malkani-sada-sada-2025-review
10 months ago
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Look out world, Bhanu Kapil has a new blogâŠ
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Was Jack Kerouac a Punjabi?
https://wasjackkerouacapunjabi.blogspot.com/?m=1
10 months ago
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âHere, the notes are much sweeter â what, to my untrained nose, seems like the overwhelmingly funereal scent of lilies or perhaps something like bubblegum.â My write-up of Bjarne Melgaardâs collaboration with Norwegian perfumier Malbrum at VI,VII Oslo is now online
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The Artworldâs Latest Fragrance, With Notes of Tragedy
In âAbuse Is the Beauty of the Working Classâ, Bjarne Melgaardâs olfactory experiments evidence an irrepressible artist at work
https://artreview.com/bjarne-melgaard-with-bjorn-kristian-hilberg-abuse-is-the-beauty-of-the-working-class-vi-vii-oslo-review-matthew-rana/
10 months ago
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London Review of Books
11 months ago
âTrump is an early warning signal. Heâs a phenomenon of transition, only half adjusted to emerging reality.â T.J. Clark on Trump and the society of the spectacle:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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T.J. Clark · A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle
The politics of an empire in decline are invariably a mixture of the cruel and the ludicrous. (Ask the Brits.)...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/t.j.-clark/a-brief-guide-to-trump-and-the-spectacle
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Excellent long read from 2002 on the disgraced psychoanalyst Masud Khan.
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Return of the Repressed - Boston Review
The strange case of Masud Khan.
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/robert-s-boynton-return-repressed/
11 months ago
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âIf the Beatlesâ cast a shadow over pop songwriting from the 1970s to the 1990s, every decade since has belonged to ABBAâ from Chal Ravensâs terrific piece in
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Chal Ravens · Twinge of Saudade: Abbamania
Abba became a vehicle for a kind of wholesome perversity, a nonconformist conformism: two picture-perfect couples...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n24/chal-ravens/twinge-of-saudade
12 months ago
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âItâs a novel, then, about sublimation, the conversion of the artistâs drive into form.â R.D. Hamiltonâs review of Renee Gladmanâs âMy Lesbian Novelâ
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Renee Gladman Fulfills Literary and Romantic Desires in âMy Lesbian Novelâ
The author's metafictional exploration of the romance genre is a satisfying act of sublimation for both narrator and reader
https://www.frieze.com/article/renee-gladman-my-lesbian-novel-2024-review
12 months ago
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âFor better or worse, it seems that there have been a flurry of misreadings of Chaâs work. I would argue [âŠ] that perhaps Chaâs text actually opens up to misreading or creative reading.â Soyoung Yoon in November magazineâs excellent round table on Theresa Cha.
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November: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
with Dawn Chan, Jennifer Gayoung Lee, Irene Hsu, Juwon Jun, Eunsong Kim, Lauren OâNeill-Butler, Rachel Valinsky, and Soyoung Yoon, "Her legacy isnât lost, but continuously with us in various shapes an...
https://www.novembermag.com/content/theresa-hak-kyung-cha
12 months ago
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So pleased to have my work included in Tydningen 53/54: Neutrality, edited by the incomparable Jen Hayashida!
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nr. 53/54: Neutralitet/en (gÀstred. Jennifer Hayashida)
Tydningen nr. 53/54: Neutralitet/enRed. Jennifer Hayashida116 sidor (170 x 240 mm) I detta nummer av Tydningen har de medverkande pĂ„ olika vis svarat mot neutralitet/ens obenĂ€genhet att kĂ€nnas vid âŠ
https://tydningen.com/2024/12/16/nr-53-54-neutralitet-en-gastred-jennifer-hayashida/
12 months ago
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Terrific conversation with Eunsong Kim
@hyperallergic.com
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Robber Barons, Marcel Duchamp, and Big Museumsâ Dirty Little Secrets
Poddavsnitt · Hyperallergic · 2024-11-19 · 58 min
https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/hyperallergic/id1112233641?i=1000677525017
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