Que le service public, par la voix de Léa Salamé, confonde Dominique Bernard avec Samuel Paty est terrible mais logique. Elle confond car il y a non pas quelques meurtres mais une vague jamais été traitée comme telle par les médias : il faut parler d’un risque d’enseignanticide.

Robert Redford died this week. He marked my youth! All the tributes are so well deserved. But why do so many of them fail to mention his great political movie, The Candidate (1972), where he plays an idealist running for Senate, who almost unwittingly ends up selling out.

Jeg skriver om Hannah Arendts relevanse i @morgenbladet.no i dag. Hennes analyser av totalitarismens framvekst, sannhetens vilkår i politikken, og politisk frihet er imponerende. Hun hadde en utrolig evne til å gripe det filosofisk og politisk relevante i konkrete hendelser!

Jeg skriver om nærlesningens begrensinger i mitt svar til Ulrik Eriksen i Morgenbladet i dag. Er ikke veldig glad i dettte bildet, men slik er livet . www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/toril-...

#VigdisHjorth og jeg snakket med Ane Farsethås om liv, litteratur og filosofi på #Litteraturhuset i Oslo den 11. juni. Nå foreligger samtalen som podkast. Hør den her: shows.acast.com/litteraturhu...

Det ble en livlig prat med Vegard Larsen på NRKs #Drivkraft ! radio.nrk.no/podkast/driv...

I am glad to see this quote from Hannah Arendt in many places these days. Worth thinking about!

Åste Dokka laget en finpodkast med meg denne uken. Hør den her: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Kjempefin anmeldelse av På jakt etter Norge av Martha Norheim i @Morgenbladet.no. Jeg ble så glad! www.morgenbladet.no/boker/overra...

I morgen onsdag på Litteraturhuset i Oslo! Ane Farsethås samtaler med Vigdis Hjorth og meg. Om filosofi og det hverdagslige. Og min bok På jakt etter Norge, og Anes samtalebiografi om meg. www.litteraturhuset.no/nb/arrangeme...

Det er i dag! Lansering av min bok På jakt etter Norge, og Ane Farsethås' samtalebiografi med meg. I samtale med Wenche Mühleisen. På Gyldendal klokken 18 i dag! www.facebook.com/events/12085...

My friend and colleague Sarah Beckwith's stunning, moving, thoughtful reflections on how she was raped at knifepoint in London forty years ago is now out in @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

My short essay on why Simone de #Beauvoir's 1954 novel The Mandarins is more relevant than ever has been published online - in Slovenian! sociolosko-drustvo.si/med-vrsticami/

We're launching På jakt etter Norge [Searching for Norway], my book on the Norwegian 1950s in Oslo, at Gyldendal, on June 10, at 6 p.m. Alongside Ane Farsethås' book about me. Here's the gorgeous cover of my book, based on Nikolai Astrup's paintings.

It is our constitution day today, and celebrating Norway’s beauty this May 17th — with this beautiful Norwegian waterfall!🇳🇴 #nature #waterfall

Wittgenstein’s birthday yesterday. The one philosopher I wish everyone in the humanities would try to understand. Philosophical Investigations changed my intellectual world.

Remembering Fred #Jameson. Duke's Literature Program has now put up the video of the memorial gathering it hosted for Fred Jameson. Feel free to share the link: literature.duke.edu/news/literat...

Dag Solstad er død. En stor forfatter; et stort tap for norsk litteratur.

Nasjonalbibliotekets Hedda Gabler seanse går av stabelen i morgen torsdag klokken 13. Seminaret strømmes også live: www.nb.no/tv/litteraer...

I will be in Oslo next week! Contributing to a session on Ibsen's Hedda Gabler at the National Library - Thursday 13 March at 13:00. www.nb.no/hva-skjer/li...

My friend Robin Walz has launched a great blog on French Popular Crime! Check it out on shadydetectives.com

Siss Vik @sissvik.bsky.social skriver om litterære vandringer i Bergen! www.nrk.no/bokbrevet/bo...

Beyond Jon Fosse: Brilliant LRB essay by @torilmoi.bsky.social on the Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth’s fourth novel in English. Read Moi; read Hjorth’s (Kierkegaardian) «If Only.» And don’t judge a book by its cover –   #books #philsky

These lines in Nietzsche struck me this morning: "It is possible to conceive of a society blessed with so great a consciousness of its own power as to indulge in the most aristocratic luxury of letting malefactors act with impunity. [. . .]

On the podcast, @torilmoi.bsky.social joins Malin Hay to discuss the Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth, master of the collapsing relationship. What does her early reputation as an ‘erotic’ novelist get wrong about her work? Listen wherever you get podcasts, or here: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

I loved @torilmoi.bsky.social on “women who write about women drinking and writing and sleeping around” — Hjorth is new to me (and so great) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

There are now more than fifty LRB writers on Bluesky - including @torilmoi.bsky.social, @jessiechilds.bsky.social, @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social and @bekadiski.bsky.social with writing in our new issue and on the blog this week. Read and follow them here: go.bsky.app/5CZWQgk

‘Women who write​ about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until recently been dismissed as less serious, less “universal”, than men who write about men drinking and writing and sleeping around.’ @torilmoi.bsky.social on Vigdis Hjorth: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

“Women who write about women drinking and writing and sleeping around have until recently been dismissed as less serious, less ‘universal’, than men who write about men drinking and writing and sleeping around.” from my essay on Vigdis Hjorth’s If Only in LRB. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Danish paper Information also has an interview with me, done by Thomas Thura, who also interviewed @ritafelski.bsky.social . Readers of Danish can click here for the pdf: torilmoi.com/latest/toril...

People looking for the pdf of my review essay on Guillory, Kramnick, and Robbins, can now find it here: torilmoi.com/wp-content/u...

There's a very nice interview with @ritafelski.bsky.social in the Danish newspaper Information, by Thomas Thura, published just before New Years. For those of you who read Danish, I have put the pdf up on my website (which I will try to revive this year). torilmoi.com/latest/rita-...

Does anyone know why "The Black Prince" by Iris Murdoch is unavailable as an audiobook (read by Anthony Howell) in the USA? #Murdoch It's available in Canada and in the UK. I would dearly like to listen to it (in addition to reading it, of course).

fascinating about languages as the backbones of cultures. thought provoking. reminded me of a fascinating essay about “learning Thangmi” which i can no longer find. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Thrilled to see New Directions bringing out the first two volumes of Solvej Balle’s extraordinary “On the calculation of volume”! www.ndbooks.com/author/solve...

Is "theoreticism" -- the belief that the right theory (the right concepts), guarantees the right politics -- still as widespread as it was? Example: if we disagree on what a woman is (essence, discourse, performativity, etc), it follows thatwe will necessarily also disagree on politics?

Fascinating detective work, revealing about Hume’s racism in @londonreview.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Good idea to revisit @ritafelski.bsky.social !

How can I find and join a feed or group or starter pack on philosophy and literature and on ordinary language philosophy and Wittgenstein? i am so new here i can’t find anything!

A great assessment of the current state of lit crit!❤️

My review essay "Crisis in the Profession, or the Failure to Imagine the New"on recent books by Bruce Robbins, Jonathan Kramnick, and John Guillory is out in ALH! Also discusses Robbins and Guillory's treatment of Rita Felski. Free link: tinyurl.com/mryk9bva .

The Literature Program at Duke invites all admirers of Fredric Jameson to a memorial gathering on Friday 22 November. A Jameson conference will take place in 2025. literature.duke.edu

does anyone have good ideas for how to deal with AI in humanities seminars (literature, philosophy) requiring weekly short postings and several essays?

Beauvoir teaches us that the Other is not a homogeneous concept, rather, there are many different kinds of otherness.

Well, I made a leap of faith! Away from x, at last!