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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm at Paris Fashion Week (don't ask how) where I managed to get sat right in the sights of the photographers and now I'm in all the official Paris Fashion Week photos for the HODAKOVA SS27 show forever...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

How should a protestor dress? #theoryofstyle theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/fuzzy-feel...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On quiet luxury vs ‘quite luxury’, PETA’s COSplay at New York Fashion Week, Lauren Berlant, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, the Feel Tank Chicago and Fuzzy Feelings… theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/fuzzy-feel...

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In just over two weeks, I'll be at the Hundred Years Gallery in London with one of my favourite writers, Daniela Cascella. We'll be reading from and talking about our latest books. Tickets free from Eventbrite, link in comments Bígi linn ❤ hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/little-books...

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Little Books, Long Titles : Daniela Cascella + Ellen Dillon. Friday 9th October 19:00 | Hundred Years Gallery

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i won't listen to a podcast that doesn't allow x2 speed playback

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"having written something or other on the screen, the letters remaining as if suspended and floating yet at the surface of a liquid element, I pushed a certain key to "save" a text undamaged, in a hard and lasting way, to protect marks from being erased" Derrida's first laptop (from Archive Fever)

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

At just under 1/2 a Douglas Gordon 24 Hour Psycho, or Christian Marclay Clock, my #theoryplushouseworktheory, made for PHI Montreal, is now number 19 in Wikipedia's longest art/experimental films, beating Andy Warhol's Empire and Sleep... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... phi.ca/en/events/di...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Your Sunday essay at #theoryofstyle: Doppeldressing; what does it have to do with AI, WB Yeats, John Donne, girl groups, & that basic bitch of style, the pun? theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/ekfashsis-...

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EkFashsis 3: Doppeldressing

punning on style...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

August things, material and immaterial, at #theoryofstyle theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/august-thi...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

shows the state of the world when, any time anyone gets in touch to commission me for a decent fee, I feel the need to check whether they're fascist-funded...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“Chic is (kinda) the modality through which class is lived” Here’s your Saturday essay on clothes, virality, deferral and language, featuring #StuartHall, #JoolsLebron @laurenelkin.bsky.social and the beef between #JohnSearle & #JacquesDerrida read here: theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/kinda-mind...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

copyedits: same postpublication: i hate this and never want to look at it again 2 years postpublication: actually this is... quite good

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

an EkFASHsis/Poetics of Style post on #TheoryofStyle. Pride in dressing down, Renu Bora’s texxtures via Eve Kosovsky Sedgwick + a little grammar lesson ‘as Gaeilge’… theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/ekfashsis-2

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EkFASHsis 2:

Pride camera roll...

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Ruby Dimples | Boston @rubydimples.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

i’ll let you know what i learn :)

A picture of a book entitled “hotel” by joanna walsh. it’s part of a series called object lessons.

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

in the heatwave, please feel free to try out my Galway simulator...

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Max Dunbar @maxdunbar1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

'The narrower the social source of stories told in any medium, the more people are excluded from our political and social imaginary—the right to 'main character energy.'' @badaude.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

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What Was the Internet?

As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

the @bostonreview.bsky.social asked me, What Was the Internet? One thing it was (is!) is a space for literary experimentation that bypassed offline gatekeepers, now under threat. featuring 3am Magazine @minorlits.bsky.social @tobiasvryan.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

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What Was the Internet?

As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

❤️❤️❤️ so happy with this assessment of Amateurs!' relevance in the academy ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) ❤️❤️❤️ www.northeastpca.org/post/book-re...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Join a live silent reading this evening in collaboration with @anakanaschofield.bsky.social I"ll be !!!PROUSTMAXXXING!!!, following Anne Carson's Albertine Workout. Details here theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/proustmaxx... Please spread the word

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I surprised myself by writing an impromptu #theoryofstyle post on Proust’s pleated styles, YSL’s Bal Proust designs, Simone Weil’s butter fixation, & Jane Birkin’s dress… but, did I discover the ACTUAL gown Albertine wore in Proust’s La Prisonnière??? theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/proustmaxx...

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Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

‘The classic garment…has a glitching visibility held in tension with the viewer’s visibility.’ 👗 Loving today’s style analysis courtesy of @badaude.bsky.social (with a nod to @minxmarple.bsky.social) 🤩

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Minx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

“A classic has the reputation of foregrounding the owner, but also of being visible enough to be “read” by authority. It is a password that allows the wearer to pass.” @badaude.bsky.social The Style Analyst answers my question about both my outfit AND my manuscript. 👇 get your style qs on

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

habitually typo-ing 'postdoc' as 'postcod'...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

The Style Analyst will see you now... (apologies to Julia Kristeva) New at #theoryofstyle, your style problems a-dressed. theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/style-anal... PLUS ! Do you need style analysis? Subscribe for a free session (see post)...

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Style Analysis

Theory of Style answers your pressing questions on style, "dans tous les sens..."

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Very happy to have a piece in Autotheory and its Others, out now from @punctumbooks.bsky.social punctumbooks.com/catalog/10.5...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Joyce Kozloff on her time in the Guerrilla Girls at the Feminist Interview Project artjournal.collegeart.org?p=19775

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I mentor emerging writers + practitioners from all disciplines who want to use writing in their work. I've mentored Doireann Ní Ghríofa (Ghost in the Throat), K. Patrick (Mrs. S) and many others. I have spaces for new mentees from September. More info here www.joannawalsh.ie/copy-of-writ...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

If you can get past the two terrible opening puns, I’ve written for #TheoryofStyle on Ghost London in the 90s, #feminism, #hauntology #MarkFisher #CulturalStudies, #Derrida, #OssieClark, #AngleaMcRobbie and the pursuit of a phantom dress… theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/ghost-of-m...

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Ghost of my Life

(or, spectres of Marks & Spencer...)

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I'm currently looking for a venue that would like to host a new, live version of #theoryplushouseworktheory - if you are/know a curator who might be interested, pls lmk!

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

...in an interview last saturday I was talking about #theoryplushouseworktheory, a piece I made in 2023 for @phiofficiel.bsky.social... think of it as the cleaners who came in after Judy Chicago's Dinner Party... the whole 12h piece is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTdy...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

just discovered I'm a 3-year old filly...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

can streetstyle exist without photos? can Roland Barthes' 'written garment' expand into a written outfit? read more #EkFASHsis at #theoryofstyle... theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/ekfashsis

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

new post at #theoryofstyle... towards a poetics of style writing.. my 2nd post, so reposts/free subscriptions v welcome... theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/ekfashsis

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/canicool

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My 1st Theory of Style essay: Paris Fashion Week! Menswear ! Canicule ! Queer gaze ! Celine ! Normcore! Dior ! Dena Yago! Lemaire ! @after8books.bsky.social Bedwyr Williams ! Philip Larkin ! Please take a look, subscribe if you like it, reposts very welcome... theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/canicool

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Canicool

...how to be cool at Paris menswear week

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

first essay post tomorrow!

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

For a while I've wanted to revive/expand the column I wrote for 2 years at @spikeart.bsky.social (www.spikeartmagazine.com/categories/t...) Theory of Style is a substack on art, fashion, theory & writing-style dans tous les sens... Please subscribe Reposts very welcome theoryofstyle.substack.com

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

for anyone who saw the backrooms this week, I wrote about its original net iterations in a chapter on digital nostalgia in Amateurs! photo c/o @thebackroomsonline.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/products/286...

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

model of a shortform essay - a really good one

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

on 11/12 June I'll be happily spiraling at the 14th Organ Vida Festial at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. Thx to Lea Vene for curating! www.e-flux.com/announcement...

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14th Organ Vida Festival: Happy Spiraling - Announcements - e-flux

14th Organ Vida Festival: Happy Spiraling at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb.

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Does anyone/any institution in Dublin have a copy of the documentary Women Art Revolution by Lynn Hershman Leeson, which I need for research? It seems impossible to find/stream outside the US. Pls repost & message me if you have one - v grateful for any leads.

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

nice to be cited... from the forthcoming Autotheory and its Others ( @punctumbooks.bsky.social )

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I'm very happy to be part of re:verb, curated by @cmakris.bsky.social and featuring @zanbreathnach.bsky.social @kitfryatt.bsky.social and other great writers - a celebration of poetry and experimental writing on 5/6 June at Kirkos in Dublin - weekend pass here www.citizenticket.com/events/kirko...

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re:verb 2026 - FESTIVAL PASS - Buy tickets

re:verb 2026 - a festival of contemporary poetry & the verbal arts (Director: Christodoulos Makris)

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So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 06/05/2026

TOMORROW! A few tix still available for queer poetry & great chat!

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

great news-my Markievicz-award-winning digital narrative Miss-Communication is back online. She's not back making predictions yet but you can read my choose-your-own-adventure critical theory essay on gender/language/computing/Barthes/Enigma/Oedipus/the Dublin Belles & more! miss-communication.ie

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

was advised to do this with street book finds by someone who got bedbugs from a found art book... a.k.a. philsophie dans le frigo...

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