"I’m so lonely I befriended a cockroach" www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Japan’s PM: I’m so lonely I befriended a cockroach

Leader known for working long hours shares her sense of isolation in social media posts

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For those interested in presenting a paper on loneliness, submit your abstract to the virtual ACLA panel I'm organizing. Briefly, this seminar invites papers that explore depictions of loneliness in literature, film, television, and visual culture. (1/) +

TT job in Media Studies: www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

HUMS 250-115 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria

Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.

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Peter Toohey's "A History of Boredom" will soon be available in Turkish with a new translation.

New Nuri Bilge Ceylan just dropped - almost: thefilmstage.com/nuri-bilge-c...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan Sets Summer Shoot for New Film Pale Sun

Nuri Bilge Ceylan usually takes more than a few years between films as of late, and thus we've been waiting to hear what might be next. The Turkish filmmaker has now unveiled his latest feature, follo...

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New research from School of Humanities @uofgartshums.bsky.social shows 90% of Humanities alumni now work in mid–senior roles across 24 sectors, with 91.7% reporting high career fulfilment. Read More: gla.ac/3Nr1Ewf

Joan Didion uses Times New Roman for her notes. (From Notes to John)

there is an essay for and about everything @atpost45.bsky.social and @post45.bsky.social. Today, as I was looking for sources on blurb economy, I found this: post45.org/2018/11/the-...

Got your book through interlibrary loans today! The size is so cute!!! @seeshespeak.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... "Record numbers of Swedish retirees are enrolling in a university run “by pensioners for pensioners” amid increased loneliness and a growing appetite for learning and in-person interactions."

‘Keeps your mind alert’: older Swedes reap the benefits of learning for pleasure

Retirees with ‘fantastic hunger for education’ taking part in university organised events in record numbers

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just watched episode 7 of Pluribus - i think it's one of the best explorations of deep loneliness depicted in and through silence. i think anyone (or only those who have) who has experienced it that deeply in their everyday life would appreciate it.

Looking for recommendations while I have limited discount subscription: Any good Apple TV series? So far watched Severance, The Studio, Down Cemetery Road, Pluribus, Slow Horses, Silo and loved them.

AI and LLMs trend towards sameness of expression - it might just make us all more boring! www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-...

Is AI Making Us Boring?

AI works by predicting the most likely next thing, but in doing so, it risks becoming predictable and monotonous—and so do we if we rely too much on the tool.

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With Alex Dunst, I edited a special issue on the question of literary value. Silkworms, angels, utopias, Edouard Louis, Thomas Pynchon, and much more. www.boundary2.org/2025/12/alex...

Alexander Dunst and Pieter Vermeulen–The Question of Literary Value: An Introduction

This article is part of the b2o: an online journal special issue “The Question of Literary Value”, edited by Alexander Dunst and Pieter Vermeulen. The Question of Literary Value: An Introduction Alexa...

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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

TDK, 2024 yilinin kelimesi/kavrami: kalabalik yalnizlik. tdk.gov.tr/icerik/basin... 2024, word of the year in Turkish "kalabalik yalnizlik" - difficult to translate, but something that would mean loneliness in the crowd or crowded loneliness (not proud of my translation skills atm)

Important news: the deadline for the joint BAMS/MSA conference in Loughborough has been extended to December 29, 2025! You can review the CFP, and find links to the submission platform, here. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

💫 My book is finally in print! Immensely grateful to all my colleagues and to @emilysharp.bsky.social , @elizabethfr.bsky.social, and the whole team at @edinburghup.bsky.social for their support throughout the writing, revision, and publication process! 🚨 (For a 30% discount, use code NEW30)

just watched Oliver Laxe's SIRAT. It shakes you to the core, stays w/you, hypnotizes you. Profound sadness, hopeless pursuit of hope & helpless resignation to hopelessness masterfully combined. The political background is nicely inserted. Captivating ambiance. Intense, jarring, memorable.

Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.

FYI1: The superb webinar "Turning your Dissertation into a Book" is up! FYI2: It's the 1st for "Publishing with University Presses Webinar Series" co-sponsored by @aupresses.bsky.social (HT, Faculty Outreach Committee) and hosted by Rutgers CMSI. #ReadUP #PublishUP www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SST...

Turning Your Dissertation into a Book

YouTube video by The Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute (The Proctor Institute)

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I'll be taking a break from social media for a while (starting tomorrow) and I won't be checking my messages here often. But I have been using the messages function &would like to be able to keep in touch with people I have connected with here. So, if there is anything, please feel free to email me.

Comparative Literature - Assistant Professor (Theory, Modern French literature and Spanish-language literatures of Latin America) - Université de Montréal universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?... (I don't know Spanish 😭 someone get this and hire me for a different/similar position?)

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Unique opportunity for postdocs from the University Alliance Ruhr #UARuhr working in the social sciences and/or the humanities: with its #PostdocLab programme, the College for Social Sciences and Humanities offers funding for cross-university working groups. 🔔 Call: www.college-uaruhr.de/postdoclab

I have finished my PhD (with a diss titled "Bored As Hell: Reading Boredom in Modern Literature) a month ago & am now officially in my post-PhD stress era, currently gathering info & looking for PostDoc fellowships--and ofc, needless to say, ideally FT/TT positions. (1/)

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Associate professorship in German Literature and Culture at University of South Denmark. (someone get this and then hire me?) - fa-eosd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Latest Georges Didi-Huberman. This time as a curator of the exhibition, “In the Troubled Air… Image, emotion, utopia": "he questions the nature of human emotions and argues that emotions do not belong to us, but rather exist in space. www.cccb.org/en/exhibitio... www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tMD...

Georges Didi-Huberman: «Les emocions són inclassificables»

YouTube video by CCCB

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Would make a good AppleTV series. very interesting novel.