'Planetary Figurations: Intensive Genre in World Literature' by Florian Mussgnug
MOST READ | 'Planetary Figurations: Intensive Genre in World Literature' by @fmussgnug.bsky.social. Read it #OA for free online at MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Mussgnug @saraharens.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social @saramarzagora.bsky.social @hpartzsch.bsky.social @fmussgnug.bsky.social
06.01.2026 15:30 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Hmm. I’d say: wait until your children force you to watch it. Unless you need an urgent distraction from all the real horror, right now.
05.01.2026 17:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My teenage children, who have a more Aristotelian taste, accuse me of being heartless.
02.01.2026 20:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Just watched Stranger Things S5 E8 and I must admit I am impressed by the straight-faced and unapologetic neo-platonism of the ending. No tragedy. Just the purity of sacrifice (parousia) which restores everyone to their perfect, definitive form. Believe in Eleven and you shall be saved.
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A rare piece of good news…
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
An apocalyptic bar of chocolate from CAPAS at the University of Heidelberg.
Many thanks to the Centre for Apocalyptic & Postapocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) @uniheidelberg.bsky.social for welcoming @fmussgnug.bsky.social, @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social & Emily Baker to talk about emergence and emergencies last week—we look forward to our discussions in Bloomsbury next spring!
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Don‘t forget to mention that I spoke about your brilliant book!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/apocalypt...
A photo of Florian Mussgnug giving his inaugural lecture with a slide titled 'is there anything in your daily lives that does /not/ feel apocalyptic?'
👏👏 to @fmussgnug.bsky.social for a 🎆 inaugural lecture on loving apocalypse too much @uclselcs.bsky.social last night!
Saul Bellow's Herzog, Frank Kermode, Loki & multiverse destruction, Mary Shelley's & apocalypses as a way of looking beyond & through them to something more sustaining.
Hi Nomi, great to hear that you will be in London. How long are you staying? Would be good to catch up. Reg. the lecture: the Faculty does record these, I think, but I am not sure whether they are uploaded anywhere or just kept as a record. Will find out. Thank you for your interest!
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Large red-letter day Tues 28 Oct @uclselcs.bsky.social + @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social when my wonderful colleague @fmussgnug.bsky.social will give his inaugural professorial lecture on why we love apocalypse so much (and maybe shouldn't…?). In person, 18:00.
#Anthropocene, #envhum, #literature
THE HERDS’ 20,000km journey has finally come to an end at one of the furthest reaches of the world. Since April, the animals’ route has led them through the Congo Jungle of Central Africa, the desert of the Sahel, and towns and cities across Europe.
@theherds.bsky.social
Tile about New York Times article on July 15 1977 "Scientists fear heavy use of coal may bring adverse shift in climate"
On this day 48 years ago (July 15, 1977) the New York Times article ran a front page story "Scientists fear heavy use of coal may bring adverse shift in climate"
allouryesterdays.info/2023/07/14/j...
Cover of Italica, Volume 101, Number 3, Fall 2024 Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Italian Blue background with lighter blue silhouette of the country of Italy.
Introducing a ✨ special issue✨ of Italica (Vol. 101, No. 3) on postsecular Italy, guest edited by Clodagh Brook, Monica Jansen @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social , and Maria Bonaria Urban. cc: @fmussgnug.bsky.social
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ital/art...
THE HERDS in London: seeing the animals arrive at the far end of the street I was moved to tears
@theherds.bsky.social
www.theherds.org
The UCL Stampede for the Arts on a Heating Planet continues with Prof. Emma Bond’s Ravindranath Tagore Lecture in ComparativeLiterature @efbond.bsky.social “The Work of Literature in Times of Eco Crisis”.
www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...
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Very proud and happy to be hosting David Lan, producer of THE HERDS, and Maryam Pasha, London producer of THE HERDS at UCL.
@theherds.bsky.social
www.theherds.org
The Visual Arts on a Heating Planet 🌍
Join us for this roundtable event where artists & scholars explore the role of the arts in responding to the accelerating climate crisis.
📆26 June, 12noon - 1.45pm
📍IAS Common Ground
🔗 Book here! shorturl.at/gXFmr
Part of the UCL Stampede events & The Herds 🦁
📣Next week!
The UCL Stampede for Arts on a Heating Planet🌍
Life-size puppet animals🦁 are travelling a 20,000km route to symbolise their flight from climate disaster as part of THE HERDS public art & climate initiative
Attend our event to mark the arrival in London👇
26-29 June
🔗 shorturl.at/T64aV
How might history help us understand the material and social significance of heat? In what ways do these histories connect with domestic structures, gender & patterns of consumption?
Join us for an Anthropocene Histories seminar on Histories of Heating🔥
📆4 June,3-5pm|
📍online
🔗 shorturl.at/a7VZD
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Lovely to hear so many different languages at Eurovision 2025. Is this the most polyglot Eurovision in history? Does anybody have stats? 🇪🇺
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📣Join us for the first seminar in our Interdisciplinarity: new reconfigurations of the social and natural sciences seminar series!
Georgina Born and Andrew Barry will speak about AI, Environment and Art on 20 May from 5-6pm in the IAS Common Ground.
Sign up here👉 shorturl.at/fSi6c
Join us for this Anthropocene Histories seminar where Kristin Asdal & Tone Huse discuss how the ocean, in the years proceeding WWII, has been harnessed to become a space of ever-intensifying capital investment and innovation 🌊
📆14 May, 3-5pm
📍Online - zoom
🔗 shorturl.at/qQGsE
How long until it occurs to the US government to offer political asylum to members of the now-banned, far-right German Reichsbürger?
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Innenministerium verbietet "Königreich Deutschland" #Reichsbürger #KönigreichDeutschland #Vereinsverbot
13.05.2025 05:09 — 👍 150 🔁 35 💬 11 📌 18No Island is an Island
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