Manuel Sousa Oliveira
@msousaoliveira.bsky.social
PhD candidate | lit | ethics | utopia | environment he/they https://up-pt.academia.edu/ManuelSOUSAOLIVEIRA
Volume 78 looks at Aboriginal music in four Wapikoni short films, an ecofeminist approach to Sauvagines by Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba, alongside critical approaches to intersectional feminism, with perspectives from Quebec & the Canadian Francophonie: bit.ly/QS78 @msousaoliveira.bsky.social
Recently had the pleasure of hosting Ted Toadvine ( #PennState ) for an online lecture based on his latest book THE MEMORY OF THE WORLD ( @uminnpress.bsky.social 2024) The recording is now online! Check it out! youtu.be/3E4XL242CEE?...
CETAPS+ Cultures of the Future Talks - Ted Toadvine
YouTube video by CETAPS FCSH/UNL
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Margaret Atwood sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/atwood... was born on this day, so here are some of her covers (Artist: Clifford Harper, Ken Steacy, [couldn't identify] and Stephanie Roeser):
I’m such a huge Atwood fan, I even have a Christmas tree ornament!
Where are the folx on bsky interested in Margaret Atwood studies, work, fiction…? So far I got @atwoodsociety.bsky.social @drkarmaw.bsky.social @gerrycanavan.bsky.social @utopiennerach.bsky.social @rb60.bsky.social @tpmoylan.bsky.social & Ms @margaretatwood.bsky.social herself! go.bsky.app/RKdNbHE
Help me grow our little utopian studies community on bsky! Which other utopian scholars do you know? Who else should I add? go.bsky.app/G8j8ZNQ
Scholar Ken Roemer carried on a lively on-again, off-again correspondence with Ursula over a few of decades that started with a request to submit to a study of utopian literature in the US. He reviews Library of America's Collected Poems in an upcoming issue of the journal Utopian Studies.
Slowly but steadily growing our network of utopians on bsky Recently added: @danhf.bsky.social @hlmurray.bsky.social @utopiennerach.bsky.social @tedilta.bsky.social @alirizataskale.bsky.social @ccakir.bsky.social @saramartin.bsky.social @cphiliphaines.bsky.social @markusschwarz.bsky.social …
Manuel Sousa Oliveira@msousaoliveira.bsky.social · 2y agogo.bsky.app/G8j8ZNQ @timwaterman.bsky.social @theblochian.bsky.social @thelitcritguy.bsky.social @gerrycanavan.bsky.social @kirstanneharris.bsky.social @sztockmann.bsky.social @matthewleggatt.bsky.social
That’s today!
Manuel Sousa Oliveira@msousaoliveira.bsky.social · 2y agoNext month on Tuesday 12 Nov 2024 join us in Lisbon (and online) for the 🇨🇦 LOOKING AT CANADA FROM PORTUGAL 🇵🇹 symposium. With special guests Eva Darias Beautell , Guy Laforest, Dan Malleck, and more! 🍁 Program and further information: lookingatcanadafromportugalsymposium.my.canva.site 🦫🌎🏒
Looking for people to follow? Find here a directory of almost 6500 starter packs & growing. Very useful, do share! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...
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A curated collection of all things relating to the Blue Sky social media platform.
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Art Deco’s Bad Girl, Still Ahead of Her Time Tamara de Lempicka’s first major U.S. survey invokes her as a trailblazing techno-feminist who borrowed freely from art history. But it also buries her erratic second act. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/a...
Art Deco’s Bad Girl, Still Ahead of Her Time
Tamara de Lempicka’s first major U.S. survey invokes her as a trailblazing techno-feminist who borrowed freely from art history. But it also buries her erratic second act.
nytimes.com
We made some quick explainers on Project 2025's impact on bookbans for Authors Against Book Bans-- please feel free to share with your own networks.
Posting book recs without context just covers until I forget Day 2 #BookSky #BookChallenge
Manuel Sousa Oliveira@msousaoliveira.bsky.social · 2y agoPosting book recs without context just covers until I forget Day 1
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 💙📚 #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge 11/20
Posting book recs without context just covers until I forget Day 1
Looking at Canada from Portugal Symposium 12 November 2024 – University of Lisbon and Online More info and program: niche-canada.org/2024/10/18/h... #cdnhist #cdnstudies #portugal
Hybrid Event - Looking at Canada from Portugal Symposium
12 November 2024 - Lisbon and Online - Join in Lisbon (and online) for the LOOKING AT CANADA FROM PORTUGAL symposium.
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Next month on Tuesday 12 Nov 2024 join us in Lisbon (and online) for the 🇨🇦 LOOKING AT CANADA FROM PORTUGAL 🇵🇹 symposium. With special guests Eva Darias Beautell , Guy Laforest, Dan Malleck, and more! 🍁 Program and further information: lookingatcanadafromportugalsymposium.my.canva.site 🦫🌎🏒
Prêmio Nobel de Literatura de 2024 vai para a sul-coreana Han Kang, autora dentre outros de A Vegetariana
“Harari is Silicon Valley’s ideal of what a chatbot should be. He raids libraries, detects the patterns, and boils all of history down to bullet points… He mines other writers for material… Harari doesn’t acknowledge any intellectual influences beyond his business relationships.”
Yuval Noah Harari’s Apocalyptic Vision
His warning of AI’s dangers is alarming, but does it help us avoid them?
theatlantic.com
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,720,600!
