some of you (in America) would not recognize a snake oil administration even if it swindle you out of all your wealth, health, and community ties, and it shows.

academic.oup.com/ywcct/advanc... My last review on Plastic Theory for The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory has come out, it reviews texts on plasticity and concrete, the life sciences, historicity in Malabou & Tagore, and includes a serendipitious digression on Kafka's Verwandlung.

the new assistant dean of X / me, French prof, at faculty assembly

sept 30 / oct 1

I wonder how those generals, admirals, etc., feel about reality TV-3AM infomercial quality d celebrities talking to them about standards and moral values....

This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

people (the nyt) are confusing the free informed debate that happens in a classroom with the opportunistic and hostile demagoguery of grifters and Bible peddlers undermining such free spaces

mailchi.mp/bloomsbury/w... "Resisting Big Tech" Bloomsbury News Letter includes our recently published Beckett & Nature volume

and my life would have been a series of beautiful and mysterious moments interrupted here and there by me saying: "wait... wait... my foot is asleep... ow.. ow... can't stand up too fast..."

3 years later, I’m finally going to crack that one open

I think the reason why, while always close to philosophy and its writing, I've never identified as a philosopher, is that, ultimately, I do not want to be anything close to a cop. those micro/macro fascistic tendencies in phil (particularly analytic), ooph...

www.bloomsbury.com/us/beckett-a... out today!

There’s a reason Dante put fraud in the last circle of Hell www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

at what point we just find a way to switch all the male comedian podcasts men are listening to for audiobooks of V. Woolf, C. Lispector, H. Cixous, M. Duras, E. Jelinek, etc? drastic times call for drastic measures

when are we talking about the real Sydney S. scandal?!: not reading Lacan in French gross

www.acla.org/seminar/1c86... ACLA Seminar: Doppelgänger, Mirror Worlds, Twins, and Doubles

preparing my WWI & WWII French lit & cinema syllabus. Colleagues, what are your *must* texts and films for such a course?

could we also have humanities, scientific literacy, and ethics exams, please? And no monolingual representatives allowed either. If you can’t handle two+ languages you should not be representing anybody else

free education centered on the humanities you mean

Hulk Hogan (1953-2025) Rest in Piss

James R. Martel and I are co-organizing an ACLA panel on Doppelgänger, Mirror Worlds, Twins, and Doubles next year in Montreal. That's two James Martel(l)s, talking about doppelgänger, doubles, and twins. Let me know if you and your dead ringer are interested.

Honestly an abomination that the current austerity model of education is fundamentally allergic to the idea of small seminar-style learning, the form that spent several thousand years as the holy grail of educating learners in complex subjects.

And Claire Denis, my favorite living director, does it again. Devastates me. 5 stars

Such a pleasure to review Ian's newest book and to do it for the wonderful OLR Supplement. Proust, Quignard, and Lit & Science fans, this book is a must!

never saw a nation self destroy its future that hard

to be that future grad student writing the comparative diss on the end of the Handmaid’s Tale and of the one of MAGA in the US…

NYT: the level of public discourse is at its lowest, should we combat this by engaging with experts and academics as a way to combat fascism and rampant ignorance? … or we normalize Nazis and the manosphere while giving good summer recipes and Prime deals… that’s it!

I dunno, man, but I feel that part of any democrat's campaign points should be "we will institute mandatory history and philosophy classes and seminars on WWII, nazism, fascist masculinities, and techno-incel-oligarchies" at all highschools, colleges and universities.

the finding out is probably gonna be proportional to the amount of f-ing around this sad excuse for a human being is doing

damn you Musk & Thiel for making me interrupt my argument juxtapoxing Sadean's libertines' absolutist and totalitarian desires and Hegel's Spirit's devastation to add a footnote to your spoiled children's shenanigans...

like Prospero, I'll drown with my books

anyone has a pdf of Irigaray's "Marine Lover" hanging around that they might share....

the only conclusion of the @nytimes.com Thiel interview is the dangers of pseudo-intellectualism and of the lack of a strong humanities education (history, philosophy, religion, literature) at all levels. STEM only education is destroying the world

NW (with an oz of Caol Ila 12y)

NW (with an oz of Caol Ila 12y)

time to show your office selfie!

come at me (only Tarr gets two)

youtu.be/iQVsVNPkPmE?... 🎉🙌🏼🍾

Dear friends, please find below the link to the recording of our Lent term workshop at the University of Cambridge on "Surfaces and Neo-Hylomorphism," with wonderful presentations by Adam Rosenthal, Cecile Malaspina, Ian James, and one by yours truly. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ybh...

note to self: I should tattoo the full Beckett's 1937 German letter to Axel Kaun on my back

The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America newrepublic.com/article/1970... that people praise fraudsters that sell them the auto-immune ideology of gods, guns, & country, instead of looking to expand access to the institutions that will teach them critical thinking is baffling to me.

I don't know, man, but that naive rejection of psychoanalysis and Americans' easy embrace of the incel, manosphere, and tradwives cultures might be related...

you know you’re in the writing stage when this starts happening

writing on Gisèle Pelicot, chôra, and (in)justice

knowing my love of Joyce and particularly of Ulysses, my father decided to use Bloomsday 5 years ago as the perfect day to bid us farewell, tying the knots that literature, art, music, & traveling always had in our relations as well as in my writing and reading. happy Bloomsday!

"how does one build upon that field of ruins that is masculine sexuality?" Manon Garcia, Living with Men: Thoughts on the Pelicot Trial