'Any inquiry into the generic modes and stylistic mannerisms of modern peripheral literatures...is inseparable from considering the distinctive experiences of modernity in spaces outside Western Europe and North America, but within an imperialist world-system.' Parry

Stephen Shapiro@stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 7d ago

for the record, Benita didn't "assist" WReC, she was a founding member of it! www.jstor.org/content/oa_c...

Combined and uneven modernism seminar for the upcoming ACLA. In person, U of Houston, 20-23 May, 2027. How do peripheral literatures register, model, and think the historical and material configurations of the world system? www.acla.org/seminar/f2f2...

'There is something eerie about being both the speaker and the watcher, performing one’s own identity for oneself, rather than simply living it. When we take on the roles of actor, audience and critic all at once, it’s going to cause some psychic strain.' www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...

Opinion | FaceTime, Zoom and Ring Cameras Are Warping Our Reality (Gift Article)

Staring at ourselves on screens, on video and on social media is taking us to a dark place.

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there's a *far* west texas

Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · 5d ago

Josh T Franco's "Marfa, Marfa" examines the minimalist frameworks and aesthetic paradigms that artist Donald Judd brought to Marfa, Texas, now a famous art-pilgrimage site, and their intersection with Marfa’s local Chicanx and Mexican American communities. Read the intro for free: buff.ly/qKNw6W4

'When we look solely at ourselves, we fail to encounter anything that resists us; there are no contradictions, no interruptions. We need the honest gaze: the gaze of others and the gaze toward others. To see ourselves clearly, we don’t use mirrors. We use relationships.'

Pavel Andrade@pavelandrade.com · 5d ago

'Dorian keeps his beautiful public image, while his portrait bears his inner corruption and ugliness. Under modern image culture, we attempt the reverse operation: We present a perfect digital double at the cost to our real selves, who are left to absorb the discomfort and tension between the two.'

'Dorian keeps his beautiful public image, while his portrait bears his inner corruption and ugliness. Under modern image culture, we attempt the reverse operation: We present a perfect digital double at the cost to our real selves, who are left to absorb the discomfort and tension between the two.'

Pavel Andrade@pavelandrade.com · 5d ago

'There is something eerie about being both the speaker and the watcher, performing one’s own identity for oneself, rather than simply living it. When we take on the roles of actor, audience and critic all at once, it’s going to cause some psychic strain.' www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...

'There is something eerie about being both the speaker and the watcher, performing one’s own identity for oneself, rather than simply living it. When we take on the roles of actor, audience and critic all at once, it’s going to cause some psychic strain.' www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...

Opinion | FaceTime, Zoom and Ring Cameras Are Warping Our Reality (Gift Article)

Staring at ourselves on screens, on video and on social media is taking us to a dark place.

nytimes.com

It’s been a hard week and I nearly missed that this was finally out. I wrote “Victorian Studies and the American State” 5 years ago and have been discussing it with some of you for a decade. Surreal to see, and grateful to be in the good company of @jakeromanow.bsky.social and brilliant respondents

Victorian Studies and the American State | PMLA | Cambridge Core

Victorian Studies and the American State - Volume 141 Issue 2

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'While Sembène is often called the father of African cinema, we can consider Faye, the first African woman “to dare to make a film,” to be its mother.' www.moma.org/artists/7405...

Safi Faye | MoMA

Senegalese, born 1943

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Feminist Media Histories@femmediahist.bsky.social · last wk.

In "Safi Faye with and against the United Nations: African Women, Development Filmmaking, and the Neoliberal Turn," Nikolaus Perneczky examines the development films of Senegalese filmmaker Safi Faye. Read for free now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

Moral Divide: Mujeres Públicas and the Formation of the U.S.-Mexico Border mexicanists.org/2026/07/31/m...

Moral Divide: Mujeres Públicas and the Formation of the U.S.-Mexico Border

by Catherine Christensen Gwin University of Nebraska Press The United States–Mexico border has been a contested space and a political and ideological apparatus since the early twentieth century. Wh…

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ACLA CFP!

Pavel Andrade@pavelandrade.com · 6d ago

Combined and uneven modernism seminar for the upcoming ACLA. In person, U of Houston, 20-23 May, 2027. How do peripheral literatures register, model, and think the historical and material configurations of the world system? www.acla.org/seminar/f2f2...

Combined and uneven modernism seminar for the upcoming ACLA. In person, U of Houston, 20-23 May, 2027. How do peripheral literatures register, model, and think the historical and material configurations of the world system? www.acla.org/seminar/f2f2...

The first truly global biography of a revolutionary thinker. How well do you know Eric Hobsbawm? Discover our conversation with biographer and historian Emile Chabal: bit.ly/3RZrUjK Coming August 18.

'Any inquiry into the generic modes and stylistic mannerisms of modern peripheral literatures...is inseparable from considering the distinctive experiences of modernity in spaces outside Western Europe and North America, but within an imperialist world-system.' Parry

Stephen Shapiro@stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 7d ago

for the record, Benita didn't "assist" WReC, she was a founding member of it! www.jstor.org/content/oa_c...

'While Sembène is often called the father of African cinema, we can consider Faye, the first African woman “to dare to make a film,” to be its mother.' www.moma.org/artists/7405...

Safi Faye | MoMA

Senegalese, born 1943

moma.org

Feminist Media Histories@femmediahist.bsky.social · last wk.

In "Safi Faye with and against the United Nations: African Women, Development Filmmaking, and the Neoliberal Turn," Nikolaus Perneczky examines the development films of Senegalese filmmaker Safi Faye. Read for free now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

'What we need, then, is "real utopias": utopian ideals that are grounded in the real potentials of humanity, utopian destinations that have accessible waystations, utopian designs of institutions that can inform our practical tasks of navigating a world of imperfect conditions for social change'

Envisioning Real Utopias

Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting ...

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on tipping m.youtube.com/watch?v=89R9...

Tipping: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 7d ago

Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%.  In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets.  This is only the beginning.

most rewarding job

Hammer and Hope@hammerandhope.bsky.social · last wk.

“Riley sees part of his job as bringing coalition-building ideas to the forefront, with his films serving as a kind of instruction manual for society,” writes Sarah Hagi in our Summer issue. hammerandhope.org/article/boot...

'What we need, then, is "real utopias": utopian ideals that are grounded in the real potentials of humanity, utopian destinations that have accessible waystations, utopian designs of institutions that can inform our practical tasks of navigating a world of imperfect conditions for social change'

Envisioning Real Utopias

Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting ...

versobooks.com

'Some of those detained had no criminal history and held valid work authorization or advance parole documents at the time. No single triggering policy or rule change has been identified behind this emerging pattern of airport detentions.' www.klaskolaw.com/domestic-tra...

Domestic Travel Advisory: Risk of Airport Detentions - Klasko Immigration Law Partners, LLP

U.S. employers and foreign nationals should be aware of a new risk of airport detentions during domestic air travel.

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much welcomed arrivals! @roberttally.bsky.social's geocritical cosmopolitanism & @immanentfields.bsky.social the immanent fields are out in the world!

I'd love to see a study of the effects on faculty, students, and staff when they see their university as hypocritical, especially around issues of social justice. I imagine these are pretty common sentiments that have measurably negative effects. It'd be useful to have evidence of that.

specialization ≠ privatization, scholarly expertise and disciplinary specialization are public goods!

Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · last wk.

on one hand, it's important (but also basic, and so presumably forgotten on purpose) that scholarship is specialized as any professional expertise is specialized on the other, the empirical claim that academics don't produce work for public consumption is palpably, observably, demonstrably false

Is the world a place? As its inhabitants, we belong to the world, with its increasingly interconnected systems and cultures, but the cosmopolitanism of our daily lives is often hidden from view. www.routledge.com/Geocritical-...

Geocritical Cosmopolitanism: Space, Literature, and the Sense of the Global

Is the world a place? As its inhabitants, we belong to the world, with its increasingly interconnected systems and cultures, but the cosmopolitanism of our daily lives is often hidden from view. In th...

routledge.com

'Long stretches of wordlessness—as when the two children are trailed by a trotting dog, their mini-convoy reflected upside down in a river—create an environment in which the characters are not contriving anything. They live. They do. They are.' www.criterion.com/current/post...

Pavel Andrade@pavelandrade.com · 3w ago

Pather Panchali, dir. Satyajit Ray (India, 1955) This naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of a Bengali family introduces us to both little Apu and, just as essentially, the women who will help shape him. www.criterion.com/films/28021-... (13/13)

most rewarding job

Hammer and Hope@hammerandhope.bsky.social · last wk.

“Riley sees part of his job as bringing coalition-building ideas to the forefront, with his films serving as a kind of instruction manual for society,” writes Sarah Hagi in our Summer issue. hammerandhope.org/article/boot...

scale + global/long sixties anyone? snsnovelgeographies.arts.ubc.ca

Home - Society for Novel Studies Conference

NOVEL GEOGRAPHIES  MAY 13-16 2027 Hosted by the University of British Columbia  On the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ speaking Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) people. Organ...

snsnovelgeographies.arts.ubc.ca

'Long stretches of wordlessness—as when the two children are trailed by a trotting dog, their mini-convoy reflected upside down in a river—create an environment in which the characters are not contriving anything. They live. They do. They are.' www.criterion.com/current/post...

Pavel Andrade@pavelandrade.com · 3w ago

Pather Panchali, dir. Satyajit Ray (India, 1955) This naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of a Bengali family introduces us to both little Apu and, just as essentially, the women who will help shape him. www.criterion.com/films/28021-... (13/13)

much welcomed arrivals! @roberttally.bsky.social's geocritical cosmopolitanism & @immanentfields.bsky.social the immanent fields are out in the world!

BOOK GIVEAWAY! The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite This book is available for free download as an Ebook, but I've got a couple extra hard copies that I can mail within the US. DM me if you want one! Book published by @ucpress.bsky.social, written by me!