olrsupplement.com/2025/03/31/beckett-and-derrida-by-james-martell/ First review of Beckett and Derrida is out, and it is by the wonderful Margaux Manon and in the Oxford Literary Review blog. Go give it a read!
please go check out my new review of @professeurmartell.bsky.social 's new book, Beckett and Derrida! edited by @jonothingeb.bsky.social
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“Hermeneutics” is great because every time you need to research the work to remind yourself of its meanings, you are doing it.
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
just came back from a week-long phd campus visit and interview(s) which means if i dont get in it is entirely personal
doing an intensive Japanese exchange and somehow my Japanese is getting progressively worse
When I was a teenager, I got bored and depressed and then acted out in class. Now as an adult, when I get bored and depressed I act out online. This is just one example of how I’ve grown and progressed as a human being.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/understan... out today! (and way more relevant and topical than I'd like, with all the misogyny, sadism, & so on of our current "sovereigns")
An elderly male Japanese dancer in heavy make-up and 'drag' in a theatrical pose
Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno
- photographer unidentified (1986)
after a long week of getting up at 4am for east coast interviews just got my first phd acceptance let's goooo #cornell #bigredbears (?)
Photo du cinéaste David Lynch en interview - issue d'un documentaire ARTE
David Lynch s'en est allé, une nouvelle aussi surréaliste que ses films… Cinéaste incontournable au col de chemise toujours boutonné jusqu'en haut, il aura emprunté des routes mystérieuses, à l'instar de celle sur laquelle il se trouve désormais 🖤
Sometimes you just want to joke around with your buddies. And then the economists come.
refrained from checking the status of my manuscript
very grateful to have received a positive RnR but there are FIVE reviewers with conflicting opinions god help me
watched the phantom thread for the first time as a break from my kurosawa marathon. can't believe id never seen it before—masterful, just masterful.
i remember being introduced to david lodge when preparing for cambridge english interview — it was one of my first encounters with literary theory, and has marked me to this day — rip david lodge
nabokov jtm
this is crazy--do most profs have to fill these out for recommendation letters?
love your research! so cool
sign sin
“maybe I’ll do some writing between christmas and new year”
Between christmas and new year:
I did not make this image, but I would watch this movie.
My brother doesn’t like his job, so I might suggest that he gets a PhD in the humanities.
i urge anyone to watch this short docu– terribly done, terrible, problematic questions by terry dixon but baldwin's reaction, the beauty and poignancy of his rhetoric is priceless
absolutely stunning waiting for godot production dir. by james macdonald at the haymarket theatre in ldn. feat. ben whishaw aka paddington as didi which meant when you closed your eyes it sounded like paddington was on crack
deleuze burn book
miam
