A German word for becoming so enamored of one prospective chess move that you stop seriously considering alternatives? Maybe Kandidatenzugverliebtheit.
Jan Mieszkowski
@janm.bsky.social
Professor of German & Comparative Literature at Reed College. Recently finished a book about the languages of botany.
When I say "Kafka," the voice recognition software on my phone hears "Costco."
Philosophie ist das Allerernsteste, aber so ernst wieder auch nicht. –Adorno
Nur die ergangenen Gedanken haben Wert. (Only thoughts reached by walking have value.) –Nietzsche
Kant is never interested in the past; what interests him is the future of the species. –Hannah Arendt
A masterpiece of literature is never anything more than a dictionary in disorder. –Jean Cocteau
"He thought that he had learned patience, but he had only lost impatience." –Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion
What are students taught in high school such that they worry that the most basic exegetical move may constitute "overreading"?
Don’t you know that "No" is the wildest word we consign to Language? –Emily Dickinson
I dwell in Possibility - A fairer House than Prose - More numerous of Windows - Superior - for Doors -
Furcht vor der Nacht, Furcht vor der Nicht-Nacht -Franz Kafka, 18 Okt. 1917
“Sound film as the limit for Kafka’s and Chaplin’s worlds.” –Walter Benjamin
Read Jan Mieszkowski's "Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions: The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's Der Proceß" in @mlnjournal.bsky.social on @projectmuse.bsky.social! @janm.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/945087
Project MUSE - Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions: The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's <i>Der Proceß</i>
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SSimon Stern@simon8.bsky.social · 2y ago
icymi: Jan Mieszkowski, @janm.bsky.social, Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions:The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's Der Proceß (via Proj Muse) muse.jhu.edu/article/945087 speech acts, rescission in contracts ... @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lpcprof.bsky.social
icymi: Jan Mieszkowski, @janm.bsky.social, Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions:The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's Der Proceß (via Proj Muse) muse.jhu.edu/article/945087 speech acts, rescission in contracts ... @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lpcprof.bsky.social
Project MUSE - Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions: The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's <i>Der Proceß</i>
muse.jhu.edu
TFW you realize that the bookstore categories have passed you by.
I just bought the Virtual Sentence and I literally can’t wait for it to arrive!
Jan Mieszkowski@janm.bsky.social · 2y agoA review of The Virtual Sentence, eight writing exercises by Kyle Booten, D. Graham Burnett, Brian Dillon, Jeff Dolven, Jan Mieszkowski, Sally O’Reilly, Mónica de la Torre, and Elena Vogman.
A review of The Virtual Sentence, eight writing exercises by Kyle Booten, D. Graham Burnett, Brian Dillon, Jeff Dolven, Jan Mieszkowski, Sally O’Reilly, Mónica de la Torre, and Elena Vogman.
You Could Use the Exercise
In the face of AI, the time is right to practice our writing techniques for invention and surprise.
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