Adin E. Lears

"This book . . . asks how the invisible immanence of whiteness is '"recognised or misrecognised"' and how it shapes social and political power."

Adin E. Lears on Wan-Chuan Kao's White before whiteness in the late Middle Ages: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/adin_e_lears...

13.02.2026 00:09 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

CFP for MLA roundtable on “Chaucerian Animacies”! Feel free to disseminate!

11.02.2026 13:18 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

What a guy!

18.01.2026 03:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cover of Journal of English and Germanic Philology (JEGP), Volume 124, Number 3 Brown, red, and white background with medieval illustration of a man and an intricate floral border on the left, featuring the Table of Contents.

In Journal of English and Germanic Philology Vol. 124 No. 3 @adinlears.bsky.social reviews "Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture" (@ohiostatepress.bsky.social). Read the review on @projectmuse.bsky.social. cc: @ndiscenza1.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

25.11.2025 16:02 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Colin Kidd · Lumps of Cram: University English What is the missing noun to which English refers: literature, language or both? If both, does English belong with the...

‘The gradual ebbing of classics – once synonymous with education as a whole – opened up ground for the emergence of English. But the relationship also involved an awkward, smothering paternalism.’

Colin Kidd on the history of university English studies: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

14.08.2025 17:20 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

He might be the most embarrassing man in existence, and that's saying a lot given the current administration.

08.08.2025 22:38 — 👍 30    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0

“Card carrying communists become Carhartt economists.”

youtu.be/clWfzcrXGv4

31.07.2025 22:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

hmmm. feels like shovel violence is lower than it should be.

30.07.2025 21:03 — 👍 155    🔁 9    💬 11    📌 0

“It was a long and firm hug, as the Comet Man wept tears of flame.” 😭❤️

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social #APeculiarPeril 📚💙

31.07.2025 04:02 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Very different musically but similar sensibility to William Basinski’s “Disintegration loops,” which I sometimes use to sleep.

31.07.2025 16:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Adin Lears–Bitcoin Vitalism and the Elixir of Life This text is published as part of a special b2o issue titled “Critique as Care”, edited by Norberto Gomez, Frankie Mastrangelo, Jonathan Nichols, and Paul Robertson, and published in honor of our b2o ...

Very happy this essay in memory and honor of my friend David Golumbia has come to fruition: www.boundary2.org/2025/04/adin...

31.07.2025 15:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0