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Claudia Rankine Plays Dead

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/claudia-rankine-plays-dead

Claudia Rankine Plays Dead

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/claudia-rankine-plays-dead

Adding to my Books of Interest list:

The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory by Emily Eakin

From Dayna Tortorici's write-up in the New Yorker:

"At last, representation for the theory-pilled girl! Part memoir, part biography, part philosophy primer, "The Frenchmen" interleaves Eakin's bildungsroman with careful close readings and details of her subjects' lives. Lacan, Althusser, Barthes, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Derrida, and de Man are all present as mononymic embodiments of their thought. But they are also present as themselves -- as Jacques, Louis, Roland, Michel, Gilles, Felix, Jacques, and Paul. [...] Along the way Eakin introduces their intellectual forefathers [...] and, at the edges, even some women: Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Luce Irigaray."

#Philosophy #Bookstodon #CriticalTheory #LiteraryTheory #EmilyEakin

Die Konferenz "Die Freiheit der Formen - literarisch, ästhetisch, politisch" wird am 18. und 19. Juni 2026 in Bonn stattfinden.

📌Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/fachinformationen/events/die-freiheit-der-formen-literarisch-asthetisch-politisch-bonn/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #Aesthetics #Poetics #LiteratureTheory #LiteraryTheory

HALPERN: "AUTHOR" CONCEPT UNDER SCRUTINY IN PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE

Armando Halpern questions the simple meaning of 'author' in a new philosophy article. He says texts are made by many, not just one person.

#Philosophy, #Author, #Writing, #Halpern, #LiteraryTheory

https://newsletter.tf/philosopher-halpern-questions-author-concept/

A philosopher says the idea of one 'author' for a book is old-fashioned. He explains that many people and ideas help make a text.

#Philosophy, #Author, #Writing, #Halpern, #LiteraryTheory
https://newsletter.tf/philosopher-halpern-questions-author-concept/

One of the lawyers noted that this radical rejection of 'bourgeois' conceptions of art was actually aligning #LiteraryTheory with the interests of #BigTech #AIFutures.

And of course the critique of #Copyright as essentially a tool for turning creative production into bourgeois #Capitalism is quite credible.

But we can question copyright and resist AI at the same time! Because they have the same fault: the capture of labour value by capital.

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https://www.ficklefutures.com/p/cyberpunk-shattered-reflections-of

#Cyberpunk #LiteraryTheory #Futurism #ScienceFiction #Postmodernism

#Masto

#CranfordTeague

STORYTELLING Part Two: The (Literal) Magic of Writing | 🔗 https://brennan.day/storytelling-part-two-the-literal-magic-of-writing/

#PersonalEssay #CreativeWriting #LiteraryTheory #CognitiveScience #Culture #History #WritingProcess #Spirituality

#CfP für das Jubiläumsheft „20 Jahre JLT (Journal of Literary Theory): Was bedeutet ‚Literaturtheorie‘ heute?".

🗓️Deadline für Artikel; 25. März 2026

📌Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/fachinformationen/call-for-papers/journal-of-literary-theory-bd-20-nr-2-2026-jubilaumsheft-20-jahre-jlt-was-bedeutet-literaturtheorie-heute/ #avldigitalnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #LiteraryTheory #LiteratureTheory

Poems take reader from rowing to Greece | Lifestyle https://www.byteseu.com/1753961/ #Arts #Greece #LiteraryTheory #literature #ManchesterByTheSea #Massachusetts #NarrativeForms #phonaesthetics #PoeticForms #poetics #Poetry #writing

Die Konferenz "Stil und Moral" wird vom 8. bis 10. Oktober 2025 am Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung in Berlin stattfinden.

📌Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/fachinformationen/events/stil-und-moral-2/ #fidavlnews #LiteraturePhilosophy #LiteratureSociology #Aestetics #Genre #LiteratureGenre #LiteratureTheory #LiteraryTheory #Rhetoric

#CfP for the issue "Lecture distante, lecture rapprochée et intermédiaires ? Big data, small data et entre-deux ? Repenser les méthodes de recherche dans les humanités" of the journal COnTEXTES.

🗓️Deadline for abstracts: November 15, 2025

📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/fachinformationen/call-for-papers/lecture-distante-lecture-rapprochee-et-intermediaires-big-data-small-data-et-entre-deux-repenser-les-methodes-de-recherche-dans-les-humanites-revue-contextes/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #DigitalHumanities #LiteraryTheory #Hermeneutics

#CfP for the issue "Cassandre, ou la parole dissidente" of the journal MuseMedusa – Revue de littérature et d'arts modernes.

🗓️Deadline for abstracts: November 15, 2025

📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/fachinformationen/call-for-papers/cassandre-ou-la-parole-dissidente-revue-musemedusa/ #fidavlnews @litstudies #LitertureGender #Classics #LiteratureClassics #LiteratureGender #LiteraryTheory #LiteratureTheory @germanistik @italianstudies

Upcoming Literary Events 2025 for Authors...
https://seharinsights.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/upcoming-literary-events-2025-for-authors/

Writing is more than just putting words on a page. Every Writer Should Know About in 2025

#writing #WritersCoffeeClub #mastoart #literature #literarytheory #books #author #Wordle

#WritersCoffeeClub 20 Aug - Name something unexpected you had to learn for a work.

"Some texts are born literary, some achieve literariness, and some have literariness thrust upon them.
There is no 'essence' of literature whatsoever.
Literature, in the sense of a set of works of assured and unalterable value, distinguished by certain shared inherent properties, does not exist."

#TerryEagleton #LiteraryTheory

#NewIssue
E' online l'ultimo numero di #Enthymema, International Journal of Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, and Philosophy of Literature.
Contiene, tra gli altri, articoli su #StephenKing, The #EnglishPatient di Michael #Ondaatje, #Lacan, #Calvino, #EliasCanetti, #AntonioStoppani

Qui in #OpenAccess
🔗 https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/enthymema/issue/view/2675

#LiteraryCriticism #LiteraryTheory #PhilosophyofLiterature #Literature #Philosophy

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I've just finished reading Herbert Marcuse's "The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics".

Marcuse makes a powerful case for the the autonomy of art, as neither an escapist refuge nor a simple tool or superstructural reflection of social forces, but as a radical emancipatory force in its own right.

Even though proponents of the orthodox Marxist aesthetics he criticizes must be as rare as hen's teeth today, his argument, mutatis mutandis, can still be read with profit today by all on the left.

I read it in hard copy, but it's short enough to read online as a PDF:

http://www.marginalutility.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/aesthetic-dimension-_-marcuse.pdf

The work was originally published in German under the title "Die Permanenz
der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte Marxistische Aesthetik" in 1977.

In that same year....

#Philosophy #Aesthetics #Marcuse #FrankfurtSchool #CriticalTheory #Marxism #PhilosophyOfArt #LiteraryTheory

Die Jahrestagung des Käte Hamburger Kollegs CURE wird sich vom 4. bis 6. Juni 2025 an der Universität des Saarlandes dem Thema "Reparation in an Era of Irreparability? Theoretical Approaches" widmen.

📌Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/event/reparation-in-an-era-of-irreparability-theoretical-approaches/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik #postcolonial @italianstudies #LiteraryTheory #LiteraturePolitics

My second pixel practice of the day is about the literary concept of "Locus Amoenus", an archetypical utopian place. The poet Ovid says that if there's a Locus Amoenus, there must be also a "Locus Terribilis", where gruesome and dreadful things happen. So I decided to represent my vision of both concepts. 160 × 144 pixels. #locus #literaryTheory #literature #illustration #diagram #volcano #LocusAmoenus #LocusHorribilis #utopia #dystopia #pixelart #ドット絵 @pixel_dailies

Die Bewerbungsfrist für die "Summer School iteratur und Religion: Religionskritik", die am 11. und 12. September 2025 an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg stattfinden wird, wurde verlängert.

🗓️Bewerbungsfrist: 31. Mai 2025

📌Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/cfp-verlangerung-summer-school-literatur-und-religion-religionskritik-hallewittenberg-3105/ #fidavlnews #LiteratureReligion @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #LiteraturePhilosophy #LiteraryTheory #LiteratureTheory

📖 Faculty-Endorsed Reads on Literary Theory, Sci-Fi & the Indian Canon

At PHI Learning, we believe that sci-fi isn’t just for the screen—it’s a critical tool in the classroom. Whether it’s Le Guin or the Indian literary canon, understanding begins with literary theory.

Explore our faculty-endorsed blog series that connects theory, criticism, and curriculum: www.phindia.com/blogs

#PHIBookClub #FacultyEndorsed #LiteraryTheory #SciFiInAcademia #IndianCanon

#CfP for the "Oxford English Graduate Conference (OEGC) 2025: Artifice", which will take place at the University of Oxford on June 4, 2025.

🗓️Deadline for abstracts: April 30, 2025

📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/oxford-english-graduate-conference-oegc-2025-artifice/ #fidavlnews @litstudies #DigitalHumanities #LiteraryTheory #Aesthetics

#CfP für das „Jubiläumsheft „20 Jahre JLT: Was bedeutet #Literaturtheorie heute?“ (Journal of #Literary Theory Bd. 20, Nr. 2 (2026)“: Jubiläumsheft „20 Jahre JLT“: Was bedeutet ‚Literaturtheorie‘ heute?“.

🗓️Deadline für Beiträge: 15. Januar 2026

📌Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/journal-of-literary-theory-bd-20-nr-2-2026-jubilaumsheft-20-jahre-jlt-was-bedeutet-literat/ #fidavlnews @germanistik @italianstudies @litstudies #LiteraryTheory #LiteratureTheory

#CfP for the workshop "#Posthuman Ecofeminism in #Art, #Literature, and #Aesthetics", which will take place at the University of Bonn on November 23-25, 2025.

🗓️Deadline for abstracts: May 5, 2025

📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/posthuman-ecofeminism-in-art-literature-and-aesthetics-23-24102025-university-of-bonn/ #ecocriticism #LiteratureArts #intermediality #Aesthetics #Poetics #LiteratureGender #LiteratureTheory #LiteraryTheory

#CfP für die "Nachwuchs-Konferenz 'Theorie-Tage Berlin – 5. Forum Literaturtheorie'“, das vom 6. bis 8. Oktober 2025 in Berlin stattfinden wird.

🗓️Deadline für Abstracts: 16. Mai 2025

📌Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/nachwuchs-konferenz-theorie-tage-berlin-5-forum-literaturtheorie-berlin-16-mai-2025/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik #LiteraryTheory #LiteratureTheory #Aesthetics @italianstudies

Beginning of a blog series on Criticism. Starts with a bit of an autobiographical account of how I actually became critic.
#sff #literarycriticism #literarytheory #sociologyofliterature #academia #queertheory #criticism
https://prospectiveculture.wordpress.com/2025/03/24/criticism-for-interesting-times-1-introduction-how-i-became-a-critic/

#CfP für "'"Je est un(e) auteur' - Studierendenkongress zum Thema Autobiographisches Schreiben und Autofiktion", der vom 7. bis 9. August 2025 an der Universität Osnabrück stattfinden wird.

🗓️Deadline für Abstracts: 20. Mai 2025

📌Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/je-est-une-auteur-studierendenkongress-zum-thema-autobiographisches-schreiben-und-autofiktion/ #fidavlnews @litstudies #LiteratureGenre #Poetics #intermediality #LiteratureTheory #LiteraryTheory

Der Workshop "Joyce das Symptom der Psychoanalyse" wird am 28. und 29. März 2025 in Berlin stattfinden.

📌Weitere Informationen + Programm:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/event/joyce-das-symptom-der-psychoanalyse/ #fidavlnews @litstudies #LiteraryTheory #LiteratureTheory #LiteraturePsychoanalysis

#CfP for the conference "Limits of #Narrative", which will take place at the 8th European #Narratology Network (ENN) conference at the University of Wuppertal on September 29 to October 2, 2025.

🗓️Deadline for abstracts: March 10, 2025

📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/limits-of-narrative/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #LiteraryTheory #Poetics

#CfP for the seminar "Adaptation Studies - Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy", which will take place at the 49th German Studies Association (GSA) meeting on September 25-28, 2025 in Arlington, VA.

Deadline for abstracts: February 19, 2025

Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/gsa-2025-seminar-adaptation-studies-theory-practice-and-pedagogy-arlington-va/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik #intermediality #LiteraryTheory #Poetics

#CfP für die Konferenz "Zerbrochene Linsen … Der female gaze (und die Macht-Konfigurationen von Blickbeziehungen)", die am 12. und 13. Juni 2025 an der FernUniversität in Hagen stattfinden wird.

🗓️Deadline für Abstracts: 15. März 2025

📌Weitere Informationen:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/zerbrochene-linsen-der-female-gaze-und-die-macht-konfigurationen-von-blickbeziehungen-hagen/ #avldigitalnews @litstudies #LiteratureGender #LiteraryTheory @germanistik @italianstudies #intermediality

#CfP for the topical issue "Realism, #Psychoanalysis, and Critique in a #Metamodern Key" of the journal Open Philosophy.

🗓️Deadline for articles: October 31, 2025

📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/realism-psychoanalysis-and-critique-in-a-metamodern-key/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #LiteraturePhilosophy #LiteraturePsychology #LiteraryTheory #LiteratureTheory

The Université du Québec (Montreal) is offering a "POSTE DE PROFESSEURE, PROFESSEUR THÉORIES #LITTÉRAIRES : ÉTUDES NOIRES" starting June 1, 2025.

🗓️Deadline for applications: January 15, 2025

📌Further information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/job/poste-en-theories-litteraires-etudes-noires-montreal/ #fidavlnews @germanistik @italianstudies @litstudies #LiteratureTheory #LiteraryTheory

Die Konferenz "Große Formen im Anthropozän" wird am 5. und 6. Dezember 2024 an der Universität Wien stattfinden.

📌Weitere Informationen: https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/event/grosse-formen-im-anthropozan-universitat-wien-05-0612-2024/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #Poetics #LiteraryTheory #ecocriticism #aesthetics

Die Vortragsreihe "Erzählen - Erleben - Erkennen. Aktuelle Positionen der #Erzählforschung" wird vom 4. November 2024 bis 20. Januar 2025 an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf stattfinden:

📌Weitere Informationen + Programm:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/event/erzahlen-erleben-erkennen-aktuelle-positionen-der-erzahlforschung-kleine-geistes-und-kulturwi/ #fidavlnews @germanistik @litstudies @italianstudies #Poetics #Narratology #LiteraryTheory #LiteratureTheory

The "2nd International Conference on #Lyric Theory and Comparative #Poetics" will take place at the University of Salamanca on July 2-4, 2025.

🗓️Deadline for Abstracts: February 1, 2025

📌Further Information:
https://www.avldigital.de/de/vernetzen/details/callforpapers/2nd-international-conference-on-lyric-theory-and-comparative-poetics/ #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik @italianstudies #Poetics #Poetry #LiteraryTheory #LiteratureGenre #LiteraryGenre