Kim Adams, one half of High Theory, has written about @eramalam.bsky.social's new book, "The Care of Foreigners", for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social . Check out our episode with Eram here: hightheory.net/2023/07/07/s... #academicsky #booksky #HealthCare #medicalhumanities

could this work? for one, i'd eat at regular hours, and get about 300% more sleep than i currently do

Three Cheers for Tosh! But also for Ashley Jensen who can do both Agatha Raisin and Ruth Calder, what range!

I’m gonna do the same and I’ll also change my horses at Bromley

Look who’s back in the New Year!

put Carol Kane and Richard Kind together on Actors on Actors you cowards!

It was, by every measure, a banner year for The American Vandal. Every episode is my favorite episode, but here were 2025's top 5 by downloads, starting where you would guess. The episode cited in Slate, Defector, etc. It coined a slogan. The first of 3 appearances by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social

MTC New Year's Letter from our editor-in-chief plus our editors' picks of 2025. Thank you everyone for helping us have a great year! See you next year and happy holidays ✨ tinyurl.com/bddh3y4r

went to fancy restaurant, debated with friendsa whether person at far table was Sam Rockwell. person probably overheard discussion because they looked at us with amusement. person was indeed Sam Rockwell.

One of my favorite places on the internets is the Public Domain Image Archive and here are four images, sans explanation, that represent my 2025. #happynewyear #artsky

Romancing the Worm

I wasn’t sure they were going to publish this. So good for them.

Gorgeous work from a book designer I had always wondered about; delighted to see this contribution to graphic design and #bookhistory! Tanya George, Sylvie Vodáková’s Book Covers for Květy Poezie (@letterformarchive.org; #skystorians): letterformarchive.org/news/sylvie-...

Additionally, let’s not add -ness and -y to make nouns and adjectives. Let’s do the hard and beautiful work of description.

I wouldn’t kick “The Matchmaker Matched With Her Brother-in-Law” off the bookshelf

Oh Christmas Shrimp Oh Christmas Shrimp Thy eyes are so unblinking! #Caturday

Ok one thing I really am proud about this year is the multimodal writing class I designed around the concept of ~core aesthetics. We discussed a TONNE of art, and figured out a vocabulary for ‘vibes’

Our Christmas movie tradition for the last three years.

a bit of a do (every year around this time I rediscover that fruitcakes are apparently an acquired taste)

a festive feline

in combination with this, i am also increasing the portion of in-class writing in my courses and reducing 'homework'. they write things, we discuss it right after. I have to say in general they don't hate it, I imagine not being in a position where using AI to write could be an option, is freeing

this is true, but many a passable turkish delight has been ruined by c.s. lewis

Why does Agamemnon's armor look like a Marvel superhero suit?

I've been teaching Bong Joon Ho's Parasite and Suh's incredible Seoul Home series together for the last couple of years. Living for the day I see it in person in LA!

Hate that my nightmares have become so inventive in my 30s. What’s wrong with ordinary monsters?

thank god roses aren’t toxic to floofs

If you like ums & sort-ofs, this could be the podcast for you! 🌿 (Grateful to @saronikbosu.bsky.social & @hightheorypodcast.bsky.social for this chance. I promise the core point of the book is that history can be changed: no disastrous process, however apparently total, is ever set in stone.)

NEW EPISODE: ACTION WITHOUT HOPE NATHAN K. HENSLEY (@nathankhensley.bsky.social) reveals the prehistory of the contemporary feeling of powerlessness while inhabiting a world omnivorously captured by capital. hightheory.net/2025/03/17/a... @uchicagopress.bsky.social #BookSky #PodSky #AcademicSky

Where I’m at in life is buying (with overnight shipping) electric snot suckers for one sick cat

No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet.

SNL last night went and did an Orientalism from the 19th century: equating the worship of Kali with Satanism

I recently got the chance to talk to Kim Adams, from @hightheorypodcast.bsky.social, to talk about the history of alcohol and my book "The Hour of Absinthe". The episode is now out: hightheory.net/2025/03/03/a... #DrinkingStudies #Colonialism #History #NorthAfrica 🗃️🍸

NEW EPISODE: ALCOHOL NINA STUDER (@drninastuder.bsky.social) tells us what discourses surrounding alcohol reveal about a society in a historical moment, like colonial North Africa. hightheory.net/2025/03/03/a... @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social #booksky #podsky #alcoholsky #historysky #academicsky

I’m craving something at the intersection of Trollope and Barbara Pym, with a dash of E F Benson What should I read?

Can’t wait!

One of my favorite American experiences was that we went to the Big E and went to a store to have soft serve. The owner asked would you like to meet Misty, the cow whose milk made that soft serve? We said yes and went around to the back of the tent and there was Misty chewing hay in all her glory.

the Oscars are today!! awards culture is very silly, but it’s a great occasion to think and write about film, which is exactly why we ran our Oscars series at Mid Theory! read members of the Mid Theory Collective on some of the nominated films here: mid-theory.com/category/cha...

If you see this, post a horse. (Recently taught José Martí and his iconography, and the horse from the Central Park equestrian statue by Anna Hyatt Huntington a top horse)

Affect theory has taught me how to decode different types of meows

Loved this conversation and feel inspired to try to read poetry every day 🌹

NEW EPISODE: POETRY RYAN RUBY (@ryanruby.bsky.social) argues that this indefinable thing humans have been doing well nigh forever is better understood as a medium than a form. hightheory.net/2025/02/20/p... @sevenstories.bsky.social #booksky #academicsky #podsky #poetrysky #books #podcasts

One month into the new semester, based on sample size of 91, I'll tell you what works (even if for the duration of a single class session) in the face of fatigue and enshittification all around - looking at art with your students, that basic-ass humanist activity still delivers

NEW EPISODE: FAILED PASSING IAN FLEISHMAN (@ianfleishman.bsky.social), talking about his new book Flamboyant Fictions, reimagines free will in queer literature and film. hightheory.net/2025/02/12/f... @nupress.bsky.social #BookSky #AcademicSky #FilmSky #MovieSky #QueerLiterature #QueerTheory

NEW EPISODE: CHANDIGARH VIKRAMADITYA PRAKASH talks about the #modernist and #brutalist #architect #LeCorbusier, the city #Chandigarh, emblematic of the #postcolonial Indian state. hightheory.net/2025/02/04/c... #AcademicSky #BookSky #ArchitectureSky #Modernism #Brutalism #midcentury #modernart

Will you comment or quote with your favorite illustrators/artists who create immersive worlds? Reality isn’t doing it for me these days.

Before and after ‘Are you a baby?” Note that he didn’t answer directly, he’s thinking about it

the outré factor of A24 is getting visibly standardized

Reddit is where sanity is right now

After years of whining about the loss of my reading stamina, dare I say that it seems to be back? Completed by this day in January ⬇️