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@sonakshis11.bsky.social

https://www.sonakshisrivastava.com/ Reader, Writer, Translator, Zinester Senior Writing Fellow@Ashoka University/Translations Editor@Usawa/Educational Arm Assistant@Asymptote. 🔎 Discard Studies, Food, Ecocriticism, Reading Pedagogies, Critical Theory.

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Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10h ago

"the aesthetics of AI slop take the logic of quantification to its extreme form by embedding it in a technological system of increasingly automated production, circulation and consumption to which human signification appears ever more marginal." journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Doing the numbers: The operational aesthetics of AI slop - Jernej Markelj, Jakko Kemper, 2026

What to make of the bizarre imagery of AI slop? If AI slop feels meaningless to interpret, this is because it has little to do with meaning and representations....

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Wasafiri Magazine@wasafirimag.bsky.social · 2d ago

Multilingual poet Karessa Malaya Ramos Aguiñot reads 'Static on Sunday/Interferencias en el Domingo' – a poem structured around a long distance phone call – published in our latest issue. The poem is published bilingually in both Spanish and English, trans. by Ameerah Arjanee. buff.ly/qy8wTvz

Karessa Malaya Ramos Aguiñot reads 'Static on Sunday/Interferencias en el Domingo'

Multilingual poet Karessa Malaya Ramos Aguiñot reads 'Static on Sunday/Interferencias en el Domingo' – a poem structured around a long distance phone call – published in our Spain issue. The poem is…

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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt@jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 2d ago

Companion read - "The Past, Present and Future of Forest Fires" by @haydenlnelson.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/06/13/t... @nichecanada.bsky.social #envhist #wildfires

The Past, Present, and Future of Forest Fires

Upfront costs–in research, in personnel, and in deployment–are essential for fire prevention. Yet today, as in the early twentieth century, the federal government, despite possessing knowledge indicat...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d ago

CARTOON OF THE DAY (if you know who made this let us know)

Wasafiri Magazine@wasafirimag.bsky.social · last wk.

The book reviews in our summer special issue, Wasafiri 126: Impossible Returns — The Spain Issue, cover a range of recent work by writers working in English, Spanish, Catalan, and Galician. Read all these reviews and more in Wasafiri 126 — available to order now. buff.ly/9wBrqkr

Red background. Headline in pale yellow reads: REVIEW ESSAY Texts of Wrecking and Renewal by Alejandro Beas-Murillo. Underneath are photos of the three book covers which are reviewed in the essay. Below that is white text which is a quote from the review. It reads: ‘... all three of these texts, as well as their authors, are scrambling to capture a life, a world, and a mode of being in relation to the natural world – and to one another – that are about to disappear.’ Red background. At the top is a book cover, showing the book being reviewed. Underneath in yellow text is the title and author of the book: My Clavicle: And Other Massive Misalignments by Marta Sanz, trans. by Katie King. Below that is a quote from the review in white: ‘After three years of insisting, doctors finally examine her to find that a thread from an episiotomy has been left inside her, causing a potentially deadly infection.’ Red background. At the top are two book covers, showing the books being reviewed. Underneath in yellow text is the title and author of the books: What We Tried to Bury Grows Here by Julian Zabalbeascoa and What Remains by Brais Lamela, trans. by Jacob Rogers. Below that is a quote from the review in white: ‘As both titles suggest, there exist, in a post-war society, traces and echoes in the landscape, an invitation to remember. Perhaps this – fragile as it is – brings Basques and Galicians closer to justice.’ Red background. At the top are two book covers, showing the books being reviewed. Underneath in yellow text is the title and author of the books: I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness by Irene Solà, trans. by Mara Faye Lethem and Carnaval Fever by Yuliana Ortiz Ruano, trans. by Madeleine Arenivar. Below that is a quote from the review in white: ‘Set within the Afro-Ecuadorian community of Esmeraldas, our young narrator Ainhoa describes coming of age among the ‘ñañerío’, a term normally reserved for siblings – as her light-skinned cousins from Quito mockingly observe ...’
Will Tullett@willtullett.bsky.social · 4d ago

My new article on Jorvik Viking Centre and its use of smells over the last 40 years has just come out today in The Public Historian! online.ucpress.edu/tph/article-... if you can't access it and want to read it, let me know.

“It Smelt Real”Jorvik Viking Centre and the Experience of Museum Smellscapes

Despite the emergence of sensory history and the increasing use of smell at museums and heritage sites, little attention has been paid to how smell experiences and public perceptions of the past mutua...

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