If you didn't catch the book launch that Paul Buhle and I did with @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in July, here is the video. Look for our book, "Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues" writings on popular culture by Franklin Rosemont from @pmpress.bsky.social maxe youtu.be/rRgl1CzOpBI?...

Register for this weekend's events celebrating new books: citylights.com/events/ Part 2: 🐰 Sat 7/19 12pm @abigailsusik.bsky.social & Paul Buhle @pmpress.bsky.social ✍️ Sun 7/20 1pm Roberto Tejada w/ Forrest Gander @fordhampress.bsky.social 📍 Kerouac Alley

finally got my beautiful copy of Surrealism and Animation, edited by @abigailsusik.bsky.social my essay looks at ideas of animacy as a motivating force in Salvador Dalí’s art: paintings, sculpture, installation, and of course film! order & enjoy!! www.bloomsbury.com/us/surrealis...

"That’s what form is: the changes in whatever material you observe." @abigailsusik.bsky.social speaks with Liliane Lijn about her new memoir. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/lady-of-the-wild-things/

Fascinating interview with the great artist @LilianeLijn.bsky.social by @abigailsusik.bsky.social about Lijn’s work and her remarkable memoir LIQUID REFLECTIONS in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social - do read. Lijn’s major show Arise Alive is at Tate St Ives until Nov lareviewofbooks.org/article/lady...

🚨 BOOK ALERT🚨 Surrealism and Animation is now out!! check out the TOC and a limited preview on Google Books and order this amazing volume, edited by @abigailsusik.bsky.social and featuring an essay on Dalí from yours truly books.google.com/books/about/...

Smoking, cursing, shooting, short-hair wearing be-panted women....that's my tack in this lecture next Tuesday at Weltmuseum Wein...7 pm Vienna time, in person or remote. www.weltmuseumwien.at/programm/eve...

have either seen or experienced most of these

Hybrid lecture on surrealism and androgyny, Friday at 3 pm Palermo time, join me www.accademiadipalermo.it/index.php/su...

The best thing about living in Portland was getting to see Michael Hurley all of the time both on stage and just around.

I'm heading to Palermo, Sicily on Wednesday for the first time-presenting a lecture at the Academia do Belle Arti on surrealism and androgyny via the important and overlooked work of my late friend, the surrealist, Giovanna, who died last year.

Killed this week by Israel

Endless grief and outrage for these atrocities

A week from today I'll be in Belgium for this lecture. I'll also be doing some research in the archives in Brussels. MDRN Lecture || Tuesday 25 March 2025, 16:30 ||

My research today on this 1957 issue of the Belgian post surrealist Journal ''Naked lips' feels pretty damn appropriate.

Columbia University is not just spineless in its response to Trump, it is complicit in the endorsement of genocide

Some Sunday reading for my new followers: a recent post about a surprising Irish connection to John Brown's 1859 Harper's Ferry Raid.

It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

Ben Morea's new book is just out from @detritusbooks.bsky.social !

What better time than right now to think about ultraleftist praxis? David Murrieta Flores (UNAM CDMX) and I just signed a contract with Manchester for this 10 chapter volume due out next year. Title: "Beyond the Counterculture: Ultraleftist Currents in International Postwar Art".

Current reading www.fordhampress.com/978153150958...

The feeling of pettiness that comes with the two sided joy of both ignoring my email and catching up with my email...

What's the best thing you've read lately any subject any genre any length any venue?

Wonderful old deck of cards from a Budapest flea market

Thanks @hamrahrama.bsky.social for making our weekend with this film... Cleo 5 to 7 for this current shit sphere that we live in

I'm in Belgrade to give a lecture at the Museum of contemporary art which has a fantastic Serbian surrealism show. I was thrilled to meet with some of the students about their involvement in the corruption protests and their current occupation of the campus buildings.

Vienna see you in April for this lecture I'm giving on Tuesday April 29th at 7:00 p.m. on the visual culture of women in pants in modernity @weltmuseumwein www.weltmuseumwien.at/programm/eve...

Thank you so much to @mbellasartes for releasing this beautiful video in the final days of our Alan glass exhibition at the incomparable Palacio des Bellas Artes in Mexico City. www.instagram.com/reel/DGPEmrR...

Are we really so surprised that our neoliberal capitalist US "democracy" is blatantly corrupt, murderous, and exploitative to the nth degree? I think our version of The State has always been this way just less obvious and more hidden under naturalizing ideologies.

Currently working on an edited volume about the concept and praxis of the ultraleft in post war International art and culture... With my friend David Murrieta Flores @captainfreakout.bsky.social Questions of revolutionary violence, direct action, sabotage, and cultural guerrilla are key.

Latest excitement www.versobooks.com/blogs/author...