“If we’ve learned anything from revolutionary history, it’s that we won’t know how it will look until it happens.” Brilliant review by Matt on recent works on history of the left.
MTC contributing writer Matthew Beeber reviews recent books that return Paris Commune of 1871 as way of thinking about contemporary leftist uprisings and the future of revolution.
Yay!! 🤯🎉
i’m teaching it this semester to impress upon my students the glorious absurdity of language but i fear it might instead kill their desire to be english majors
From our archive: Milad Odabaei's essay on reverberations of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
"Sickness of the Revolution: Loss, Fetishism, and the Impossibility of Politics"
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adaptation really IS everywhere!
good work, jeff! stay strong 💪
ben, i’m glad you’re getting out your straight male angst somehow!
every straight dude with an internet connection now has a substack. we gotta stop, you guys. please.
my students are really into talking about meditation and i couldn’t be prouder!!
today’s class.
Adaptation is everywhere! This spring MTC is running a new series called ADAPTATION ANXIETY, where new and returning writers consider literary adaptations from the last few years. To kick off our managing editor Martha Henzy takes on the unsexy absolution of the gothic monster.
i do sincerely believe there’s an emily dickinson poem for every one of life’s occasions and emotions.
MTC is running a series of reading & writing groups this spring & summer. Our first reading group on the recent English translation of Punjabi novella Keeru by Fauzia Rafique hosted by Nico Millman & the translator Haider Shabaz will meet on April 15 @ 6pm ET.
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it only took me 7 months of being on the job but i can finally print all on my own.
Pitch to @mid-theory.bsky.social we are almost exclusively interested in weird little books
prepping when teaching a truly extraordinary text is exhilarating because i can just be like ‘look, look here, look how a human being can be so meticulously and cruelly observed by another. what does the consciousness of another rendered in language do to you?’ the naivety is the point and pleasure.
Our monthly newsletter just went out. And because humans, committed and overcommitted humans do our homework the newsletter which goes out on February 23 can have "January" in its subject line. Check out what we have been up to and what is coming!
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100% sigh
I’m so excited for this! I recall when we first launched Sheri-Marie Harrison writing to me amd suggesting that MTC can be a place tha makes room for thinking about what we spend most of our time doing. And she was as always correct!
MTC is launching a pedagogy section, where we invite our colleagues to reflect on a question, an assignment, an activity, an experience, a challenge, or a joy they have had in the classroom. To kick off, Alec Abramson, a recent college graduate, discusses his adventures with "dramaturgy design."
Love this idea and encourage my HS pedagogy people to follow along!
when i resigned i got the most school-yard scolding email from paula krebbs that i was so stunned at how inconceivable she found that anybody would have a say about the their petty authoritarianism
seeing all of these cfp for MLA i’m left wondering about the hard-fought boycott? are people just moving on, in which case whats the point of belonging to an org that doesn’t listen to you? and what’s the point of standing up if we’re just gonna cave? or did paula krebbs apologize and resign?
Best host arsenal! I did this often in Ithaca 💜 i hope i can be a beneficiary of your cocktail skills someday
Oh yes! I love them. It’s one of the signature for my goodbye party when i was leaving ithaca
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Today at The Townsend Center For The Humanities. Coming soon to Vandal Live.
Modes of Reading - today and tomorrow at Berkeley's Townsend Center townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/events/close...
