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Alina Stefanescu
@alinaetc.bsky.social
poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting. www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
Writing for @thebaffler.com, @nimabassiri.bsky.social examines the MAHA effort to reform psychiatric diagnosis - I loved this piece, both as a MAHA critic myself, and having had the chance to work with Nima on his terrific book, Madness and Enterprise: thebaffler.com/latest/overm...
Overmedicalization and Its Discontents | Nima Bassiri
The MAHA camp turns to psychiatric reform and the alleged problem of overmedicalization.
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I would like to move with the teens to a land that lacks GLP-pressure. What I am seeing locally is 💯 nuts. Like a religion. Everybody constantly yapping about their weight and protein shakes. Am I a zombie? Is this pseudo-hell? The gods are starving themselves.
The American neo-con is the greatest heist since Heidegger tried to locate the German geist in ancient Greece. 🥹
Ah yes. Just as soppy and narcissism-laden as it was 20 years ago, when I first read it and thought “this is how the American uses of self-esteem and self-aggrandizing positivity will cultivate the worst in us”. Narcissists love a big national narcissism that guises their own sense of superiority.
"I have no idea whether it will turn out and, above all, when I will be finished with it. Perhaps never. But if it does work out— may I dedicate it to you?" - Hannah to Martin, 20 March 1971
I do wish you’d stop retracing your journey through old books though. - Radu, huffily
Years after she escaped the internment camp and left Europe, Hannah Arendt told her old friend from Berlin, Kurt Blumenfeld, that she had considered dying by suicide while she was locked up at Gurs.
And when the sweetness is adjusted, why, we’ll know more than some do now. - John Ashbery, "Strange Cinema"
“Narrative, far from being merely a form of discourse that can be filled with different contents, real or imaginary as the case may be, already possesses a content prior to any given actualization of it in speech or writing.” - H. White, THE CONTENT OF THE FORM
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I remember taking that “are you living in a bubble” quiz all those years ago, and the result was yes—because I had gone to college & grad school and had lived overseas for several years. Guess I would’ve been more well rounded had I stayed on my family farm in rural Texas.
This week in the poetry blogs with @alinaetc.bsky.social @grimalkingerry.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @encyclopaediac.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social @samrasnake.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/08/poet...
Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 31
A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.
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Life is who puts me on my feet. And thirst. And saliva. The tongue looks for that taste - Hilda Hilst, from "Alcohologues" (t. by Julia Powers)
"Art is motion. Music is presence. Words are love from the volcano that ... Walter Benjamin" "Satie [...] quotes Mozart [...] no one but the Black Cat would notice." "Small flurries of yellow and dashes of red ... first movement" @alinaetc.bsky.social
Thank you for the heartfelt postcard, the collage, the different shades of red and the words. "The best jokes are the ones we play with ourselves and the enemies we imagine in order to create the necessary tension" @alinaetc.bsky.social
I do not want peace nor beauty nor even freedom from pain. I want to fight and to feel new gods in the flesh. —D.H. Lawrence, 1922
Playing fan girl for the teen bands, as momsters must. ✌️
I would give my right arm never to have had to write it, but there it is. @houmanbarekat.bsky.social @martindoyle.bsky.social @dwightgarner.bsky.social @tobylichtig.bsky.social @michaelcaines.bsky.social www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-litera...
A Literary Action – 3:AM Magazine
My ‘novel’, The Coast of Everything, was published on June 16th (Bloomsday, cheekily enough) and in fairly short order had accumulated a number of lengthy reviews in prominent places that exhibited a ...
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Paul Sweeney@paulsweeneypoet.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is some explication!
The godmother of punk Patti Smith met Pope Leo XIV this morning.
A @4thstreetfantasy.bsky.social panel & a moment in the June 19 episode of The American Vandal where @mattseybold.bsky.social shares an email from John Guillory on immersive reading led me to examine reading modes & esp. how I read (scroll down to the second subhed): buttondown.com/wmhenrymorri...
11 bookmarks cover reveal and modes of reading
WHM reveals the cover to his upcoming novella 11 bookmarks, discusses his superpower when it comes to reading, and the joy of reading minor works by major authors
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Eddington said Albert Einstein had banished ‘the demon of gravitation’. Although agnostic on demons, Einstein believed that his theory of relativity had scared off the ‘ghosts’ of absolute time and space. www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2026/7/30/the-metaphysics-of-others-in-metaphysical-others
The metaphysics of others in metaphysical Others. — alina Ştefănescu
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