elese

yummy

i think it's ok to want more from Literature but most reviews reveal more about the author than the text itself... but that's my review of the review lol

it's possible to hate both america and poetry without throwing ocean vuong under the bus... bitterness is not the same as literary criticism

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

Transsexualism is a Humanism In Worthy of the Event, Australian trans elder Vivian Blaxell has no easy answers.

Amelia C. Winter's review of Worthy of the Event. She is not too hot on VII the practice. She's troubled by the shit and the meta. Who is not?

The Politics of Apoliticism | Los Angeles Review of Books Kieran Setiya reviews Christoph Schuringa’s “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy.”

IS THE FORM of philosophy dominant in English-speaking universities covertly resistant to radical thought? Does it present as the work of pure reason what is in fact the function of an ideology complicit in oppression?

lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

the world was full of shitty stuff five years ago too, but I'm starting to miss the way every hack used to be idiosyncratic

MIT researchers confirming what we are finding in classrooms - using LLMs for essay tasks compromises skill development: arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

actually we still recognise her as pm given the gross incompetence of all the chrises who have followed her... the great contemporary chris crisis of nz politics

parasitic ass economy. wonder if anyone wrote about this

i think that's just plain old american imperialism unforch

see: hams.gratis ✨

my latest, 'we' love poem, in @universityofotago.bsky.social press' landfall 249 arrived in the mail today 😎

colin vandenburg in the latest @nplusonemag.com... 🔥🔥🔥

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/rev...

dwight macdonald has a take on byron as the first cult author in his masscult midcult essay

(the blaxell obvi!!)

🥰🥰 have u read it yet?

rip mtv before tinder

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Pacific History Full time, fixed term for 3 years Opportunity for research in Pacific history in the Discipline of History First Nations and Pacific Nations candidates strongly encouraged to apply Academic Level A6-8...

Good to see @usyd-humanities.bsky.social returning to Pacific history, which it pioneered some 100 years ago... Closing date June 15

may 2025 anti-hegemony reading list ✨

"do not buy this book it's the best thing i've read in ages & will ruin books for you forever" I mean there's a truth-bomb for the ages (ignore any foresight btw BUY WORTHY OF THE EVENT") (and ty @elese.bsky.social!!)

🥰😘😘

YES: Vivian Blaxell’s Worthy of the Event - Overland literary journal Does Vivian Blaxell’s Worthy of the Event take things beyond the ambient Yes? The answer, reader, is of course, Yes. It would be an insult to call this extraordinary essay a work of autofiction or phi...

it is true... i have reviewed @vivianblaxell.bsky.social's OUTRAGEOUSLY GOOD book WORTHY OF THE EVENT published w @littlepuss.net... TL;DR do not buy this book it's the best thing i've read in ages & will ruin books for you forever: overland.org.au/2025/05/yes-...

YES: Vivian Blaxell’s Worthy of the Event - Overland literary journal Does Vivian Blaxell’s Worthy of the Event take things beyond the ambient Yes? The answer, reader, is of course, Yes. It would be an insult to call this extraordinary essay a work of autofiction or phi...

“Whether you’re a fervent nihilist or a Victorian Socialist, WORTHY OF THE EVENT will strike you as the work of a lifetime.”

Elese Dowden reviews Vivian Blaxell’s new book. Generously supported by @copyright.com.au

a chart showing power consumption of big tech companies

hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice)

ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

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They don’t want you to ask what the #RSB means for #women.

But we’re asking because the impact on wāhine Māori & #Pacific women will be brutal.

You’ve heard what it does to Te Tiriti. Now let’s talk about #wahine.

Here’s what this Bill really means through the eyes of wāhine: ⬇️⬇️

#NZPol

The Structure of a Slavoj Zizek Essay Remember this Looney Tunes bit? It's a bit like this obscure event from revolutionary history, isn't it? 3. It's all because of this thing out of Freud (Lacan). 4. But not the stupid, obvious interpretation, which stupid left-wing activists believe because they are stupid children. 5. You can also see the same thing at work in this current event that everybody's talking about. 6. Surprisingly, the most revolutionary position to take vis-a-vis this current event is basically the same as the mainstream liberal position. This is because of dialectics.

seen on insta 😂

but have u considered: disco elysium & mandarins or yakuza 2 & smoked almonds?

Very pleased to announce that I will be presenting a lecture series with the MSCP on Hegel's speculative thought -- including introductory forays into the Phenomenology, Logic, and Lectures on Fine Art. Starting on June 20th, in-person and online!
mscp.org.au/courses/wint...

a beautiful day in naarm to walk FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA 🍉