Javier Padilla @javierpadillar

they jazzified frankenstein

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University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

My article on decolonization and temporality: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

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Feeling “Thrown” after teaching students about “Thrownness.”

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went off the rails so dramatically

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I can see that. Lends itself to all kinds of readings.

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In awe after rewatching Mulholland dr. Never has a film examined the violence and eroticism of artifice so effectively.

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Terrible attempt at explaining logocentrism:

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Michael Wood · At the Movies: ‘L’Histoire de Souleymane’ The title seems a little tame if you haven’t seen the movie. L’Histoire de Souleymane: Souleymane’s Story (or...

‘Who wrote this story for you?’

Boris Lojkine’s film ‘L’Histoire de Souleymane’ explores the role of truth and storytelling in a Guinean refugee’s search for asylum.

Michael Wood reviews:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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dialectic of enlightenment

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semiotics but make it marxist

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“The night sky: once proof of the existence of god, now evidence of his disappearance.”

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scared at the vet:

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Johanna (@johannawinant.bsky.social) and I believe that close reading is for everyone. So a few months ago I wrote this essay for @defector.com, in anticipation of our book, thanks to the incredible editor @brandyjensen.bsky.social, "Close Reading Is for Everyone" defector.com/close-readin...

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Grayness beckons:

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Poesía nicaragüense: Javier Padilla Leemos poesía nicaragüense. Leemos algunos poemas de Javier Padilla (1987). Valparaíso Ediciones ha publicado su primer colección de poemas. Dodecadencias. Actualmente enseña en la Universidad Colgate...

circulodepoesia.com/2024/07/poes...

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A forbidden book @semiotexte.bsky.social

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Pablo de Rokha:

Dromedary, dusty dromedary, great wandering animal, yellow with twilight truths,
you trot with my mount of loving sadness…

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Science Fiction as Theory Fiction | Modernism / Modernity Print+ Lyotard’s question is mostly rhetorical and yet shines a light on an issue that haunts the fraught space between theory and fiction. The issue is particularly salient when it comes to science fiction, a genre that is characterized by figuration, fabulation, and the production of concepts. The copula “science fiction” itself is oxymoronic: if theory offers us cognitive tools to

modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

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Nice, in good good company with Gregory Marks

on Theory Fiction

link.springer.com/chapter/10.100

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doodle art

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Pessoa

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More moon poems:

“I will rise to the heavens
place the trigger on the moon
and from above fusillade the world
slowly, softly
so that everything can change once and for all.”

(González Tuñón)

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