On Andrea Arnold’s latest film, by @harmlessfires.bsky.social

For MTC, Daniel Fraser thinks about boredom's potential both narratologically and politically. "Boredom is a universal motor and product of social being in capitalism, yet its formal make-up contains a (negatively felt) kernel of the future." mid-theory.com/2025/07/24/s...

My piece on the dynamics of contemporary boredom for the excellent @mid-theory.bsky.social:

this essay is one of my absolute favorites we published this summer’ come for the white lotus recap, stay for the walter benjamin reference, leave with historical materialist defense of staying in board and feeling time. after all. “boredom returns as communal rhythm” mid-theory.com/2025/07/24/s...

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Hanging out with the angels 🪽

Listen again: Camera Obscura / 25th June 2025 #Electronica #CinematicAtmospheres #Alternative #HipHop #Drone www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/came...

These are very good 🎥🎬

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My ballot for the best films of the 21st century NYT poll 🎥🎬

New poem 'Plot 44a' published in The Marrow. www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-four/p... ✒️🪏

Lowell, from Lord Weary's Castle 🏰

London haul 📚📚

Delighted to have this little poem selected by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin for the new issue of Cyphers. 🦠👨‍💻

This month's #Mondettes picked by @bdiggswrites.bsky.social ⚡️Ten wonderful flash fictions 🔍Ten splashes of analysis as to why Barbara made these brilliant picks 🪴Three fantastic prompts to get you writing **Plus details on some FREEEE writing events** mondettes.substack.com/p/april-2025

'My heart will only, leaping, kiss / June's woven scarf that strangled me.' —Richard Eberhart, 'The Scarf of June'

Early birthday present 🎁

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN

Saturday night with friends.

1986 short film of Harun Farocki and Vilém Flusser analysing the front page of a German tabloid [BILD]. vimeo.com/490235099

The sea today. #polaroid

Exciting piece of Duras-iana from my research: this issue of L'Avant-Scène that prints side-by-side an outline of the images in India Song & Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert with their shared audio track in between:

'not simply a bad example of the genre, but a film that is ontologically dispiriting'. Some thoughts on Pablo Larraín's 'Maria': oubliette-mag.medium.com/a-problem-li...

'Werckmeister Harmonies', Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky, 2000.

'The Wild One', László Benedek, 1953.

Nick Laird 'American Poem'.

It’s not every day that a TLS review tells me I have “the playful energy and talent of Lydia Davis or Diane Williams, Eley Williams or Nicola Barker”, and I’m not sure it’s true, but I’d like to shift a few of these dogs: www.cbeditions.com/boyle4.html

Worth sitting through Superman 3 just for this

Reading critiques of Adorno

Trying to approach 2025 the way St. Margaret is approaching Beelzebub

Finally finishing a poem that's been muddling about for 30 f*cking drafts >>>

Christmas present 🎁

"The letters to Lestrange are scattered with poems, and being able to see the context, the everyday murmur, from which lines like the following emerge is reason enough alone to make Letters to Gisèle a vital volume." chireviewofbooks.com/2024/12/12/l...

“the letters between Celan and Lestrange show intimacy as an extraordinary force, working towards dialogue without ceding the irreducible complexity of the encounter”

'Against the Darkness' my review of Paul Celan’s “Letters to Gisèle for @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social: chireviewofbooks.com/2024/12/12/l...

Now reading. 📚🌨️

'Freedom encloses my mind like a suit of armour.'

Letizia Battaglia at The Photographer's Gallery, London.

Got a new short fiction piece over @cincinnatireview.bsky.social: www.cincinnatireview.com/micro/micro-... 🎄📚

Goodbye, Jürgen Becker (1932-2024)

Review appearing soon 🍁📚

A few poems that were published earlier this year in Iterant— for those who like Beckett, Canetti, or asterisks. 🖤 iterant.org/issue13/alin...

There's still time to sign up to Daniel Fraser's (@harmlessfires.bsky.social) Personal Anthology, his pick of and introduction to a dozen short stories. Hitting inboxes 2pm today. Sign up here if you don't already subscribe. RT if you do! apersonalanthology.substack.com/about

And I can now announce that this week's Personal Anthology guest editor is Daniel Fraser (@harmlessfires.bsky.social) who'll be sharing his pick of and introduction to a dozen favourite short stories on Friday. Sign up here if you don't already. apersonalanthology.substack.com/about

'Everything Just Goes Black', my article on time, melodrama and narrative in The Sopranos, has been published by Jump Cut. Just the thing to put a blue moon in your eye: www.ejumpcut.org/currentissue...

Love Sciascia

'The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; from the prayer is drawn the strength for the striving.' —Kafka ✒️

Watched the sunset with this lovely bald eagle