hemmed and hawed with shobhana xavier about the book newbooksnetwork.com/the-dread-he...

I'm honored to be the editorial director of Feminist Studies and I hope you'll follow us: @feministstudies.bsky.social. We're newly committed to making our work public-facing and visible, and renewing our investment in championing feminist scholarship. Check us out!

AAA and AAR panels on THE DREAD HEIGHTS coming up next week, organized by milad and ali

For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

ROSALÍA - La Yugular youtube.com/watch?v=V9VM... "من أجلك أدمر السماء، من أجلك أهدم الجحيم، فلا وعود ولا وعيد" Rābiʼa al-'Adawiyya al-Qaysiyya Tú que estás lejos Y a la vez más cerca Que mi propia vena yugular A million doors aren't enough Patti Smith 🖤Rosalia, what did you do girl ? oh my...

I wrote this essay in the current Sudan issue of Transition Magazine titled "The Politics of Hunger" which argues that the current hunger crisis has been decades in the making. It begins with Nimeiri and looks at US engagement over the decades. transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...

"Filming Capital," a special issue of SAQ, examines how Marxism can be used to illuminate the problem of the visual representation of contemporary global capitalism. View the TOC and read the introduction, freely available: buff.ly/am3ZXVx

Your Sunday read: "Marx's Ethical Vision" Vanessa Wills explores the moral heart of Marxism to reveal a deep ethical vision gounded in freedom, creativity and collective self-determination. Revolution is an effort to shape a just society. #Philosophy #Marx www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/marx-s-...

With her 2022 album “MOTOMAMI,” Rosalía took her place among the Spanish-language artists who have lately transformed popular music. But on “Lux,” her intense and expansive new album, she transgresses the limits of pop music, Kelefa Sanneh writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/0EOFWi

The Spanish singer Rosalía talks about her new album 'Lux,' a head-spinning, epic album that features classical music, opera and the artist singing in 13 languages. n.pr/4oiypZN

‘This is Zerán’s true subject: the psychological effect of being treated as an implement rather than a person.’ @jordankisner.bsky.social reads 𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯 by Alia Trabucco Zerán: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Interesting that none of the past few years’ discussions of close reading really circled back to this banger: raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/E...

maybe don't talk to the NYT about zohran mamdani lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

A civil society group in Gaza on Thursday appealed for international assistance to help recover the bodies of more than 10,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces who remain buried beneath the rubble of the flattened strip.

Ladelle McWhorter, Unbecoming Persons: The Rise and Demise of the Modern Moral Self - @uchicagopress.bsky.social, November 2025 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Interview with Ladelle McWhorter on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Thanks to @foucault-news.bsky.social for the links.

There is a @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Books discussion of the Deleuze book with Charles Stivale, Dan Smith and Nathan Smith; and a review by Claire Colebrook at NDPR. newbooksnetwork.com/on-painting ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/on-p...

Ira Sachs's Peter Hujar's Day, starring Ben Whishaw as Hujar and Rebecca Hall as Linda Rosenkrantz, is out in cinemas today. Congrats to all involved! and to Rosenkrantz, the author of PHD and also Talk, one of our favorites.

🎧 Is aggression inevitable? John Protevi (Regimes of Violence) and Andrew Culp (Dark Deleuze) on our podcast: share.transistor.fm/s/f0f5eb7f

about violence Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration | John Protevi: Towards rhizomatic acts of mutual empowerment share.transistor.fm/s/5c4d3bdd

We have a great lineup of new titles this month, such as "After Transformation" by @maiakotro.bsky.social. All are included in our 50%-off fall sale, running through Nov 9! buff.ly/KsghzeM

My book, Torn, is available for pre-order 🌪️ If you place an order before Nov 9, you can take advantage of the @dukepress.bsky.social fall sale (use code FALL25 to get 50% off). Torn drops March 2026! dukeupress.edu/torn

our issue of SAQ on "filming capital" is up! contributions from @lingzhang.bsky.social, @ernestpjl.bsky.social, @benjamincrais.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social, patrick marshall, cassandra guan, alberto toscano bad news for haters of the good! www.dukeupress.edu/filming-capi...

so damn impressive to be so careful with sources that you fundamentally disagree with

paired prince with jacques derrida on “the question of the animal” and the students saw a different dimension of striking animals

"We must cultivate deeper bonds of mutual support and interdependence that can serve as alternative sites of a collective life not mediated through the coercive power of the state or the exploitation of the capitalist market." —Zaid Adhami

Dilemmas of Authenticity: The American Muslim Crisis of Faith Zaid Adhami uncpress.org/978146968556...

becoming numb is a saturday morning thing youtu.be/_FrOQC-zEog

"Reason would be powerless if it did not have an ally in the unconscious, and its [dim] voice seems to be precisely the pivotal point which links the formality of intellect to the powers of the id, and welds them together." Mladen Dolar

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

Martyrs, Dreams, and Past Lives: Insurgent Immortality and the Expansive Logic of Debt Marlene Schäfers and Maria Kastrinou Comparative Studies in Society and History www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Friday with the real bard. As the Mist Leaves no Scar Leonard Cohen As the mist leaves no scar On the dark green hill, So my body leaves no scar On you, nor ever will.

immersive youtu.be/JEPvK6hHWV8

superb youtu.be/yTa-ZuuWgt4

“The Tristan which rises in the middle of the nineteenth century as an obelisk of modernity is at the same time a soaring monument to the compulsion to repeat. The new is ambivalent in its enthronement.” Adorno, Minima Moralia, 237

“in the interstices of primordial matter is the line of mystery and fire that is the breathing of the world, and the continual breathing of the world is what we hear and call silence” Clarice Lispector, _The Passion According to G.H._

Programmatology: deconstruction, canonicity, antisemitism Samuel Catlin academic.oup.com/litthe/artic...

tour de force edited by Dominik Finkelde www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbur...

Lizzy Ansingh

"[FROM THE HEART] opens doors for further exploration, and in a deceptively effortless way." Read the full review of Jeffrey L. Kosky's book in the LA REVIEW OF BOOKS. buff.ly/1eFgHSt @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social #religiousstudies #philosophy

Hybrid Conference: “Poetry and Knowledge: The Production and Transmission of Knowledge in Arabic Verse (1100–1800)” Nov 20–22, 2025 | Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Münster Program & registration: uni.ms/poetry-and-knowledge You are warmly welcome to join us - on site or online!

'The Clock and The Making of Americans are two radical efforts to foreground, formally, the experience of time passing. One is a mammoth stream of prose, the other a film which never ends' In Adjacencies, Francesca Wade on The Making of Americans and The Clock www.draughtjournal.com/article/pres...

this entire album is 🔥

Like a current. Carrying a twig. The sobbing made me. Audible to you. - Anne Carson, "Town of Finding Out About the Love of God"

After Government: Implications of Foucault’s On the Government of the Living for a Genealogy of Obedience Gideon Baker www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I've got a new article out in Political Theology. There are 50 free e-copies if anyone wants to read about Mystical Counter-Conducts and Post-anarchism Today: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UKBN2...

farhang - death of the gharib: a window towards a regional understanding of displacement in the middle east www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Greco-Arabic Belles Lettres: Reinterpreting the Baghdad Translation Movement | Speculum: Vol 100, No 4 Teddy Fassberg [and this issue of Speculum in general looks good] www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The restless musician, sporting less electronic gear than usual, spotlights the acoustic warmth of her instrument in pieces stimulated by Bach's cello suites. n.pr/3WGLrEb

preparing them for the next two weeks, the part of each semester most exciting for me

"the gift appears when it begins to be lost, and it is lost so long as it continues to be recovered." jean-luc marion, _being given_, p. 83 [this without the revival of descartes]