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YouTube video by sdeslimbes John Berger and Michael Silverblatt - part 1

RIP to the legendary Michael Silverblatt. Here he is talking to John Berger in 2002 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLiv...

The Bookworm's Rules | Reading advice from Michael Silverblatt biblioklept.org/2026/02/16/t...

Michael Silverblatt, 'genius' host of KCRW literary show 'Bookworm,' dies at 73 Silverblatt’s 30-minute show, which ran from 1989 to 2022, included interviews with celebrated authors including Gore Vidal, Kazuo Ishiguro, David Foster Wallace, Susan Orlean, Joan Didion and Zadie Smith.

Michael Silverblatt, 'genius' host of KCRW literary show 'Bookworm,' dies at 73

FYI for anyone who would like to no longer be on the academia dot edu site 👇

Before you are allowed to use social media, please indicate where you stand on the following French theorists: Althusser, Barthes, Baudrillard, Blanchot, Bourdieu, Cixous, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Guattari, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan, Lacoue-Labarthe, Lyotard, Mouffe, Nancy, Ranciere, Ricoeur

I’ll be honest. I have a sick feeling in my stomach about this. About ICE’s new budget. About the citizenship database. I just have a really sick feeling. The only way we survive this is together. We need to work together. In ways we never have before. Collective action is the way.

The Jameson Reading Group Each month this reading group selects a key text or problematic from Fredric Jameson’s work and reads about 100 pages together. We meet in a large Zoom meeting to hear from a scholar, writer, or think...

big Jameson reading group! www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...

The Humanities must firmly reject AI taking over our classrooms, our pedagogy. It’s the only way.

AI Syllabi Policies - A Look at the Collection Over 140 submissions to the crowd-source document and so much to learn from!

Interesting resource: aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/ai-syllabi... I’m curious what high school teachers’ policies are? #EduSky

i haven’t left the other website, but i’m also on this one. im posting on both. it’s like there’s twice as much twitter now. my brain is loving this rn.

This could be you if you RSVP to the next Jameson Reading Group meeting on UTOPIA!! January 26! forms.gle/EQhhXg8WxEDa...

BU suspends admissions to humanities, other Ph.D. programs The university didn’t announce its decision in a news release and hasn’t fully explained it, but two deans blamed a new grad workers’ union contract for the cutbacks to a dozen programs including Engl...

Wow: Boston University suspends PhD admissions in the humanities and some social sciences: www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...

Statement by the 2021-23 cohort of MA English at Ambedkar University Delhi in solidarity with the AUD Faculty Association and students, condemning the unjust termination of Prof Salil Misra and Prof Asmita Kabra. Long live student-faculty unity!

comrade at AUD solidarity meeting

Medieval Death Bot shows the various terrible and horrible ways people died in the Middle Ages The slogan of the Medieval Death Bot is “real deaths from medieval coroner’s rolls,” and that’s precisely what the deliciously informative Twitter feed has been serving up for several years now. It’...

miss u medieval death bot

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where’s all the poetry bots

happy to find @weirdmedieval.bsky.social here!

Word of the Day is a true favourite, as some of you will know.

Apricity (17th century) is the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.

Happy 85th birthday Wendy Carlos, who revolutionised the synth with Bob Moog, made electronic music before Eno & Kraftwerk, & composed scores for Tron, Clockwork Orange and The Shining. A trans icon, Carlos gave few interviews but this BBC one features her beloved cat www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ca...

MTC Reading Groups Read With Us: Below you will find our upcoming and ongoing reading series. If you’d like to lead a reading group for MTC, please get in touch with us at editorial@mid-theory.com MTC November Readin…

in case you missed tonight's meeting: PART TWO of our James reading group discussion will be at 7:30pm EST on November 26 (two weeks from today). all are welcome even if you missed today's! details here: mid-theory.com/reading/

forgot i had an account on here…is this thing working?