Join a live silent reading this evening in collaboration with @anakanaschofield.bsky.social I"ll be !!!PROUSTMAXXXING!!!, following Anne Carson's Albertine Workout. Details here theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/proustmaxx... Please spread the word
badaude
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does things with words writer/artist, books @ Verso, Semiotext(e), Bloomsbury, Tramp, Transit, Joan+++, writing @ Art Review, Spike Art, more @ joannawalsh.ie
I surprised myself by writing an impromptu #theoryofstyle post on Proust’s pleated styles, YSL’s Bal Proust designs, Simone Weil’s butter fixation, & Jane Birkin’s dress… but, did I discover the ACTUAL gown Albertine wore in Proust’s La Prisonnière??? theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/proustmaxx...
‘The classic garment…has a glitching visibility held in tension with the viewer’s visibility.’ 👗 Loving today’s style analysis courtesy of @badaude.bsky.social (with a nod to @minxmarple.bsky.social) 🤩
The Style Analyst will see you now... (apologies to Julia Kristeva) New at #theoryofstyle, your style problems a-dressed. theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/style-anal... PLUS ! Do you need style analysis? Subscribe for a free session (see post)...
“A classic has the reputation of foregrounding the owner, but also of being visible enough to be “read” by authority. It is a password that allows the wearer to pass.” @badaude.bsky.social The Style Analyst answers my question about both my outfit AND my manuscript. 👇 get your style qs on
The Style Analyst will see you now... (apologies to Julia Kristeva) New at #theoryofstyle, your style problems a-dressed. theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/style-anal... PLUS ! Do you need style analysis? Subscribe for a free session (see post)...
The Style Analyst will see you now... (apologies to Julia Kristeva) New at #theoryofstyle, your style problems a-dressed. theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/style-anal... PLUS ! Do you need style analysis? Subscribe for a free session (see post)...
Style Analysis
Theory of Style answers your pressing questions on style, "dans tous les sens..."
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Very happy to have a piece in Autotheory and its Others, out now from @punctumbooks.bsky.social punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...
Book launch for my new @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social with the mighty @leeannequinn.bsky.social at Waterstone's, Cork on Tuesday www.waterstones.com/events/book-...
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Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Book Launch: Leeanne Quinn and Ellen Dillon today.
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Joyce Kozloff on her time in the Guerrilla Girls at the Feminist Interview Project artjournal.collegeart.org?p=19775
I mentor emerging writers + practitioners from all disciplines who want to use writing in their work. I've mentored Doireann Ní Ghríofa (Ghost in the Throat), K. Patrick (Mrs. S) and many others. I have spaces for new mentees from September. More info here www.joannawalsh.ie/copy-of-writ...
If you can get past the two terrible opening puns, I’ve written for #TheoryofStyle on Ghost London in the 90s, #feminism, #hauntology #MarkFisher #CulturalStudies, #Derrida, #OssieClark, #AngleaMcRobbie and the pursuit of a phantom dress… theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/ghost-of-m...
Ghost of my Life
(or, spectres of Marks & Spencer...)
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I'm currently looking for a venue that would like to host a new, live version of #theoryplushouseworktheory - if you are/know a curator who might be interested, pls lmk!
...in an interview last saturday I was talking about #theoryplushouseworktheory, a piece I made in 2023 for @phiofficiel.bsky.social... think of it as the cleaners who came in after Judy Chicago's Dinner Party... the whole 12h piece is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTdy...
...in an interview last saturday I was talking about #theoryplushouseworktheory, a piece I made in 2023 for @phiofficiel.bsky.social... think of it as the cleaners who came in after Judy Chicago's Dinner Party... the whole 12h piece is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTdy...
can streetstyle exist without photos? can Roland Barthes' 'written garment' expand into a written outfit? read more #EkFASHsis at #theoryofstyle... theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/ekfashsis
new post at #theoryofstyle... towards a poetics of style writing.. my 2nd post, so reposts/free subscriptions v welcome... theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/ekfashsis
My 1st Theory of Style essay: Paris Fashion Week! Menswear ! Canicule ! Queer gaze ! Celine ! Normcore! Dior ! Dena Yago! Lemaire ! @after8books.bsky.social Bedwyr Williams ! Philip Larkin ! Please take a look, subscribe if you like it, reposts very welcome... theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/canicool
Canicool
...how to be cool at Paris menswear week
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first essay post tomorrow!
For a while I've wanted to revive/expand the column I wrote for 2 years at @spikeart.bsky.social (www.spikeartmagazine.com/categories/t...) Theory of Style is a substack on art, fashion, theory & writing-style dans tous les sens... Please subscribe Reposts very welcome theoryofstyle.substack.com
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
For a while I've wanted to revive/expand the column I wrote for 2 years at @spikeart.bsky.social (www.spikeartmagazine.com/categories/t...) Theory of Style is a substack on art, fashion, theory & writing-style dans tous les sens... Please subscribe Reposts very welcome theoryofstyle.substack.com
for anyone who saw the backrooms this week, I wrote about its original net iterations in a chapter on digital nostalgia in Amateurs! photo c/o @thebackroomsonline.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/products/286...
model of a shortform essay - a really good one
New Substack Essay: Blue Period-- on being the target of cruelty between women, and on making a life in art as a woman outside of the clinic and the asylum as aspirational gazes: avmarraccini.substack.com/p/blue-period
on 11/12 June I'll be happily spiraling at the 14th Organ Vida Festial at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. Thx to Lea Vene for curating! www.e-flux.com/announcement...
14th Organ Vida Festival: Happy Spiraling - Announcements - e-flux
14th Organ Vida Festival: Happy Spiraling at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb.
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Does anyone/any institution in Dublin have a copy of the documentary Women Art Revolution by Lynn Hershman Leeson, which I need for research? It seems impossible to find/stream outside the US. Pls repost & message me if you have one - v grateful for any leads.
I'm very happy to be part of re:verb, curated by @cmakris.bsky.social and featuring @zanbreathnach.bsky.social @kitfryatt.bsky.social and other great writers - a celebration of poetry and experimental writing on 5/6 June at Kirkos in Dublin - weekend pass here www.citizenticket.com/events/kirko...
re:verb 2026 - FESTIVAL PASS - Buy tickets
re:verb 2026 - a festival of contemporary poetry & the verbal arts (Director: Christodoulos Makris)
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TOMORROW! A few tix still available for queer poetry & great chat!
Woop woop it's nearly here! CATFLAPS & CIPHERS: Why We Need Radical Queer & Trans Spaces Now panel + reading by Keith Jarrett @burleyfisher.bsky.social Thurs 7th May 6.30 doors for 7 Book now!! burleyfisherbooks.com/products/cat...
great news-my Markievicz-award-winning digital narrative Miss-Communication is back online. She's not back making predictions yet but you can read my choose-your-own-adventure critical theory essay on gender/language/computing/Barthes/Enigma/Oedipus/the Dublin Belles & more! miss-communication.ie