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Abigail Susik

@abigailsusik.bsky.social
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2025 Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University / 2023-2024 Fellow, National Humanities Center / Joint Editor, Bloomsbury Transnational Surrealism Book Series/ author, "Surrealist Sabotage and the War on Work" 2021 + 6 vols

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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
If you didn't catch the book launch that Paul Buhle and I did with @citylightsbooks.bsky.social in July, here is the video. Look for our book, "Surrealism, Bugs Bunny, and the Blues" writings on popular culture by Franklin Rosemont from @pmpress.bsky.social maxe youtu.be/rRgl1CzOpBI?...
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CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Abigail Susik and Paul Buhle discussing the life and work of Franklin Rosemont
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City Lights Booksellers & Publishers @citylightsbooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Register for this weekend's events celebrating new books: citylights.com/events/ Part 2: 🐰 Sat 7/19 12pm @abigailsusik.bsky.social & Paul Buhle @pmpress.bsky.social ✍️ Sun 7/20 1pm Roberto Tejada w/ Forrest Gander @fordhampress.bsky.social 📍 Kerouac Alley
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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
finally got my beautiful copy of Surrealism and Animation, edited by @abigailsusik.bsky.social my essay looks at ideas of animacy as a motivating force in Salvador Dalí’s art: paintings, sculpture, installation, and of course film! order & enjoy!! www.bloomsbury.com/us/surrealis...
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
"That’s what form is: the changes in whatever material you observe." @abigailsusik.bsky.social speaks with Liliane Lijn about her new memoir. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lady-of…
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Sarah Such @sarahsuch.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Fascinating interview with the great artist @LilianeLijn.bsky.social by @abigailsusik.bsky.social about Lijn’s work and her remarkable memoir LIQUID REFLECTIONS in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social - do read. Lijn’s major show Arise Alive is at Tate St Ives until Nov lareviewofbooks.org/article/lady...
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Lady of the Wild Things | Los Angeles Review of Books
Abigail Susik speaks with visual artist Liliane Lijn about her new memoir and her major international exhibition.
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Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
🚨 BOOK ALERT🚨 Surrealism and Animation is now out!! check out the TOC and a limited preview on Google Books and order this amazing volume, edited by @abigailsusik.bsky.social and featuring an essay on Dalí from yours truly books.google.com/books/about/...
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Surrealism and Animation
From Betty Boop to Donald Duck, Tex Avery to Walt Disney, collage animation to Japanese anime, and Claymation to 3D animation, Surrealism and Animation is the first book to identify correspondences be...
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/m...
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Gaza edges closer to famine as Israel’s total blockade nears its third month | CNN
Sitting inside her fly-infested tent in Gaza City, Iman Rajab sifts clumps of flour through a sieve, over and over again.
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
www.juedisch-antizionistisch.at/en
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Smoking, cursing, shooting, short-hair wearing be-panted women....that's my tack in this lecture next Tuesday at Weltmuseum Wein...7 pm Vienna time, in person or remote. www.weltmuseumwien.at/programm/eve...
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
have either seen or experienced most of these
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Hybrid lecture on surrealism and androgyny, Friday at 3 pm Palermo time, join me www.accademiadipalermo.it/index.php/su...
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Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo
Sito ufficiale dell'Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The best thing about living in Portland was getting to see Michael Hurley all of the time both on stage and just around.
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I'm heading to Palermo, Sicily on Wednesday for the first time-presenting a lecture at the Academia do Belle Arti on surrealism and androgyny via the important and overlooked work of my late friend, the surrealist, Giovanna, who died last year.
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Killed this week by Israel
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Endless grief and outrage for these atrocities
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A week from today I'll be in Belgium for this lecture. I'll also be doing some research in the archives in Brussels. MDRN Lecture || Tuesday 25 March 2025, 16:30 ||
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
My research today on this 1957 issue of the Belgian post surrealist Journal ''Naked lips' feels pretty damn appropriate.
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Columbia University is not just spineless in its response to Trump, it is complicit in the endorsement of genocide
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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 09/03/2025
Some Sunday reading for my new followers: a recent post about a surprising Irish connection to John Brown's 1859 Harper's Ferry Raid.
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An African American Irish Abolitionist?
Lewis Sheridan Leary and the militant fight against slavery
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/03/2025
It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!
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Farritor	Luke	Farritor, Luke E.	Luke.E.Farritor@doge.eop.gov
Fox	Joshua	Fox, Joshua	Joshua.Fox@doge.eop.gov
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Holmes	Stephanie	Holmes, Stephanie M.	Stephanie.M.Holmes@doge.eop.gov
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Ben Morea's new book is just out from @detritusbooks.bsky.social !
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What better time than right now to think about ultraleftist praxis? David Murrieta Flores (UNAM CDMX) and I just signed a contract with Manchester for this 10 chapter volume due out next year. Title: "Beyond the Counterculture: Ultraleftist Currents in International Postwar Art".
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Current reading www.fordhampress.com/978153150958...
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An Ordinary White
A prize-winning historian details his intellectual and political evolution Written by the author of the landmark book The Wages of Whiteness and one of the k...
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The feeling of pettiness that comes with the two sided joy of both ignoring my email and catching up with my email...
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
What's the best thing you've read lately any subject any genre any length any venue?
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Wonderful old deck of cards from a Budapest flea market
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Thanks @hamrahrama.bsky.social for making our weekend with this film... Cleo 5 to 7 for this current shit sphere that we live in
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I'm in Belgrade to give a lecture at the Museum of contemporary art which has a fantastic Serbian surrealism show. I was thrilled to meet with some of the students about their involvement in the corruption protests and their current occupation of the campus buildings.
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Vienna see you in April for this lecture I'm giving on Tuesday April 29th at 7:00 p.m. on the visual culture of women in pants in modernity @weltmuseumwein www.weltmuseumwien.at/programm/eve...
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Weltmuseum Wien: Permitted to Pant: Modernity and the Visual Culture of Women in Trousers - Fun Lecture mit Abigail Susik – Wer hat die Hosen an? (auf Englisch)
Kreative Frauen in Frankreich wie George Sand und Rosa Bonheur mussten sich bekanntlich um eine Erlaubnis bemühen, um in der Öffentlichkeit Hosen tragen zu dürfen, aber ihre Forderung nach Hosen ging ...
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Thank you so much to @mbellasartes for releasing this beautiful video in the final days of our Alan glass exhibition at the incomparable Palacio des Bellas Artes in Mexico City. www.instagram.com/reel/DGPEmrR...
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Are we really so surprised that our neoliberal capitalist US "democracy" is blatantly corrupt, murderous, and exploitative to the nth degree? I think our version of The State has always been this way just less obvious and more hidden under naturalizing ideologies.
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Currently working on an edited volume about the concept and praxis of the ultraleft in post war International art and culture... With my friend David Murrieta Flores @captainfreakout.bsky.social Questions of revolutionary violence, direct action, sabotage, and cultural guerrilla are key.
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Abigail Susik @abigailsusik.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Latest excitement www.versobooks.com/blogs/author...
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Fortunati, Leopoldina
Leopoldina Fortunati was a core member of Lotta Femminsta and the Wages for Housework Movement internationally. Along with Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Selma James and Silvia Federici, she composed many of ...
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