"Copjec believes that Islamic mysticism and the concept of the imaginal world get something deeply right about reality, contingency, and the nature of the image."
Henry Clements on Joan Copjec’s “Cloud”: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/joan-copjec-cloud-kiarostami-corbin-lacan-sufi-freud/
The handle is @etc.se
05.02.2026 14:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The headline reads something along the lines of: “the nuclear family is complete idiocy”
05.02.2026 14:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’s from an article on Fredrik Lindström in the Swedish newspaper Dagens Etc.
05.02.2026 14:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0So, it turns out that the co-host of Sweden’s most popular game show is a family abolitionist. @genderhorizon.com @reproutopia.bsky.social
05.02.2026 06:39 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0My review of Lutz Bacher’s first posthumous institutional solo show in Europe is now online at Texte zur Kunst 🔥✍️
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“Hejinian’s writing is an antidote, as it is ludic, full of love, released — offering us insight in a shimmering turning of the clock.”
From Sarah Riggs’s searching review of Lyn Hejinian’s Lola the Interpreter.
@weslpress.bsky.social
The new issue of the Swedish psychoanalytic journal Divan is now available, featuring my essay ’Knutar av Akut Materia’, a ”sinthomatic” reading of Bhanu Kapil’s 2011 book Schizophrene.
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"With an emotional register ranging from petulance to narcissistic neediness, the book dissects the field of the minor affects with discomfiting precision."
New in review, Tan Lin on Steven Zultanski's Help: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/tan_lin_revi...
from Samo Tomšič, The Labour of Enjoyment
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”Börjel’s brilliance here is to extend this sense of personal tragedy to the collective and, most importantly, back again.”
My review of Ida Börjel’s MA
@uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social for Tripwire22
The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.
02.09.2025 10:51 — 👍 3376 🔁 2853 💬 17 📌 77George, carnitas or al pastor?
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Gradually, the outline of Modi’s plan to remake Kashmir has come into sight. Under the slogan of development and to “transform” the state into an “industrialized territory,” the Indian government has sold land to Indian capitalists.
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These are the #BDS consumer boycott targets named in the ground breaking report "From economy of occupation to economy of genocide" by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.
Read more: bdsmovement.net/news/naming-...
“For the communities of the [Indus River] delta… drawing a map for someone is a gesture of hospitality and generosity. Within the fleeting line of a river, someone opens up their world, their knowledge, their memories.”
Shahana Rajani in conversation with Nick Axel @eflux.bsky.social
The new issue of Texte zur Kunst is now available, featuring my review of Dora Budor’s exhibition ‘Fidelity’ at Beau Travail, Stockholm
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☁️ is finally here!
@mitpress.bsky.social
“This is more than a rushed centralization of resources by an efficiency-driven conservative government. It is a move to weaken both the independence and the forcefulness of Sweden’s cultural imagination.”
Natasha Marie Llorens for @eflux.bsky.social on recent shifts in Swedish cultural policy.
”The ambivalent meanings ascribed to the djinn make the djinn a vital material-symbolic object that can be read to represent the encounter with difference and impasse.”
From Perwana Nazif’s fascinating piece @parapraxismag.bsky.social
“For the most part, Pain’s approach is intensely observational, in keeping with the idea of accueil, or welcome, a radical kind of listening practiced at La Borde.”
Nicholas Gamso on the films of François Pain, now on view at JOAN gallery in LA.
@eflux.bsky.social
“For Malkani, the sacred is political and resonates with the ways in which protest is inscribed within acts of veneration and prayer.”
My review of Zahra Malkani’s stunning exhibition ‘Sada Sada’ is now online at Frieze.
“Here, the notes are much sweeter – what, to my untrained nose, seems like the overwhelmingly funereal scent of lilies or perhaps something like bubblegum.”
My write-up of Bjarne Melgaard’s collaboration with Norwegian perfumier Malbrum at VI,VII Oslo is now online @artreview.bsky.social
‘Trump is an early warning signal. He’s a phenomenon of transition, only half adjusted to emerging reality.’
T.J. Clark on Trump and the society of the spectacle: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
