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@badaude.bsky.social
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does things with words writer/artist, books @ Verso, Semiotext(e), Bloomsbury, Tramp, Transit, Joan+++, writing @ Art Review, Spike Art, more @ joannawalsh.ie

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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What links the Paris Commune, Rem Koolhaus, Hodakova, Susan Sontag, Jacques Rancière and KFC... ? Find out in my first post from Paris Fashion Week… link: theoryofstyle.substack.com/p/everything...
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Everything’s in Order*
what links Paris Fashion Week, Koolhaus, Hodakova, Sontag, Rancière and KFC... ?
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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...
A photo of the Paris skyline at dawn
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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 · 28/08/2026
& yes not rhetorical... struggling to find something that means 'founding" + 'Influential'... I might like to use 'generative' but it now just means +AI...
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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
🤣 this is indeed a problem...
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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
nice, thx
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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
...especially when referencing ppl who don't produce semen
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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
my eternal question
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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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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🤣
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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 · 10/08/2026
😬
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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
go stay at @stomaselli.bsky.social & @junec.bsky.social's b&b!
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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...
bostonreview.net
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
cc @versobooks.bsky.social - this is a short version of an unwritten chapter of Amateurs! www.versobooks.com/products/286...
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Amateurs!
Since the nineties, platforms have invited users to create in return for connection. From blogs to vlogs, tweets to memes: for the first time in history, making art became the fundamental form of comm...
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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...
bostonreview.net
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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Isabellettriste @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 · 03/08/2026
I sometimes write "very vest"!
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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
this really conjures something
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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
though also and somtimes...
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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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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Book launch for my new @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social with the mighty @leeannequinn.bsky.social at Waterstone's, Cork on Tuesday www.waterstones.com/events/book-...
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Book Launch: Leeanne Quinn and Ellen Dillon | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Book Launch: Leeanne Quinn and Ellen Dillon today.
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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
i love this site www.worseonpurpose.com
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Worse on Purpose
The brands you trusted quietly gutted quality to protect margins. Investigative essays on corporate enshittification. Free newsletter.
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badaude @badaude.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
...and remember the piece made me think of all the girl names we were given, or gave ourselves, or rejected: lauren, sophie, diyar, amelia, tamsyn, anakana, isabella, deirdre, juliet, nadège, temmuz, margot, emma, sharon, allison, burcu, kimberley, karen, bridget, joanna
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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 · 08/07/2026
:(
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