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

"Dreaming Back: Debra Castillo's Reframing of Literary Studies": A talk by Ignacio Sánchez Prado in honor of the late Debra Castillo, former editor of Diacritics. Monday, October 5th, 2026, 4:45pm, AD White House, Cornell University.

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

A new issue of Diacritics (53.3) is out! With contributions by Henrik Enroth, Gitte du Plessis, Jenny Evang, Míša Stekl, Leo Temple, and Justin Raden. Featuring art by bonobo artist Kanzi, with a commentary by Laurent Dubreuil. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57685

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New on the blog: In "Making Heaven on Earth: Imperiality, Race, and the Secularocene," Kadir Filiz speaks with Mohamed Amer Meziane about his 2024 monograph" States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization." Read here: www.diacriticsjournal.com/making-heave...

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Save 30% on #NewBook "Reparative Craft" by Jason Edwards, which examines the textile art of theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. buff.ly/3hbAMdF

Cover of Reparative Craft: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Textile Artist by Jason Edwards. The cover features a black and white photograph of someone making textile art. At the bottom there are patches of fabric in red, yellow, and dark purple. They are stitched over with overlapping loops. Larger stitches loop across the whole cover. The title is written large in white across the bottom of the photograph. The subtitle appears across the fabrics. Below this and aligned left is the author’s name.

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Collaborative for Racial Justice @collabracialjust.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Research fellow Patrick Michael Teed has a new essay out in Diacritics, reexamining the presumed antagonism between Afropessimism and Black feminism. The article is open access and available for everyone to read. @patrickteed.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social tinyurl.com/37t3ffyb

$There is a cream-coloured background with an abstract acrylic painting. The header reads "diacritics: a review of contemporary criticism". Below, there is a textbox that reads: "This essay provides an immanent critique of the Afropessimist-Black feminist impasse through a close reading of Iyko Day's "Phobic Pessimism, Philic Feminism by Patrick Michael Teed. Afro-Feminism Before Afropessimism." Delineating how the assumption of an antagonism between Afropessimism and Black feminism necessarily flattens both while relationally constructing the two in a spectacularized field of enmity, this essay reads the demand for their non-coincidence as a staged violence refracting antiblack gendered fantasies. Through this antagonism, both Afropessimism and Black feminism are deployed from without to extend the interlocutory projects of civil society's antiblack discourse. And so, this essay argues, the inability to reckon with the conjuncture of Black feminist Afropessimism reveals how Black thought is scaled through the academy precisely by way of its disappearance in a gendered schema that both forecloses and fixes, indeed forecloses by way of fixing, the Black female imago."$

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Fifth edition of "Narratology," a seminal text by Diacritics author Mieke Bal, now out with University of Toronto Press. For more information, see here: utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

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

A new issue of Diacritics (53.2) is out! With contributions by Pedro Erber, Maxwell Woods, Patrick Teed, Alex Brostoff, and Trent Leinenbach. Also featuring art by Katherine Sherwood, accompanied by Paul Schneider's commentary. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57106

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

New on the Diacritics blog: "Postcolonial Literature’s Generative Capacities: A Conversation with Rose Casey and Ryan Topper" about their recent monographs, "Aesthetic Impropriety" & "Animist Poetics." Read here: www.diacriticsjournal.com/postcolonial...

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

New with SUNY Press in May 2026: "Breaking Light: Toward a Poetics of Opacity in Early Greek Thinking" by Diacritics author D. M. Spitzer reveals how opacity and relation in the thought of Thales, Anaximandros, and Anaximenes depart from the predominant understanding of philosophy as clarity.

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Diacritics is closed for general submissions throughout the summer. We will reopen submissions on September 1, 2026.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Forthcoming in July with University of Minnesota Press, "Jagged Ontologies" by Diacritics author and advisory board member Cary Wolfe. For more information: www.upress.umn.edu/978151792106...

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Jagged Ontologies

Rethinking life, justice, and the biosphere through the sharp edges of jagged ontologyIn this groundbreaking book, Cary Wolfe dismantles some of the most ent...

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Alain Badiou's "Nietzsche", introduced and translated by Diacritics author and former chief editor Bruno Bosteels (with Susan Spitzer), is forthcoming in May 2026 with Columbia University Press. For more info, see cup.columbia.edu/book/nietzsc...

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Call for Submissions (Deadline April 30, 2026): Diacritics special issue "Biopolitics 3.0", special issue editors: Judith Tauber & Sergio Ferrarese. For details on the issue and the submission process, please see: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

This issue has been in the works for a while, and now all of the sudden it's here! Many thanks to Patty Keller and Rhiannon Noel Welch for putting this together!

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Patty Keller and Rhiannon Noel Welch put this together! I have an essay on John Cage's ASLSP performance in Halberstadt and just a little on Sunn O))). The Cage will last another 600 years, but don't wait *that* long to read . . . @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/56651

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Project MUSE - Diacritics-Volume 53, Number 1, 2025

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Diacritics (53.1) "Deceleration" is out! This issue gathers approaches to deceleration across different media that share an orientation toward what it would mean to dwell in the immeasurability of time, against its regimented tempos. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56651

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

New on the Diacritics blog: Julia Laurel Mueller's "Starling Feathers; or, the Matter Near Words," a contemplation on birds, taxonomy, and language, inspired by a finding of bird feathers in a copy of John Ray and Francis Willughby’s 1678 Ornithology. Read: www.diacriticsjournal.com/acquaintance...

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Acquaintance 4: Starling Feathers; or, the Matter Near Words - Diacritics

March 17, 2026 Acquaintance: Loose Links and Fleeting Connections #4: The concept of “acquaintance” has historically been given much less attention than notions of “friendship” or “love,” the idea see...

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Forthcoming in June with University of Minnesota Press, a new monography by Diacritics author Branka Arsić: Ambient Life offers a bold reimagining of Herman Melville’s writing through the lens of ecology. For more information, go to: www.upress.umn.edu/978151792086...

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Ambient Life

Rethinking the human through Melville’s encounters with oceans, ecologies, and non-Western cosmologiesAmbient Life offers a bold reimagining of Herman Melv...

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Upcoming: "Murderous Feeling," a new monograph by Diacritics contributor Chad Benito Infante, forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press in April 2026. For more information, see: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791987...

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Karen Pinkus @karenpinkus.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

A powerful account of the imbrications of borders and media. The focus may be Europe but the effects of paranoia, surveillance, anxiety and, sometimes, small acts of piety, have global resonances. Highly recommended. Versione italiana da venire...University of Minnesota Press. Highly recommended.

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Tom Vandeputte @tomvandeputte.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

More information and the complete table of contents on the website of @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social: www.diacriticsjournal.com/portfolio/52-4/

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The introduction to our new special issue on Walter Benjamin's "Fate and Character" was among the 20 most-read essays in JHU journals in January 2026. Read here for the entire issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56198

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Diacritics (52.4) "Walter Benjamin's Fate and Character" is out! The editors invited a range of scholars from across the humanities to produce theory in a different register: free-wheeling, essayistic, associative, and digressive. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56198

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

As of January 23, 2026, Diacritics is open to general submissions.

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Diacritics is closed down for general submissions during a brief winter break and will re-open general submissions on January 25, 2026. Wishing everyone a peaceful and stress-free end of 2025!

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Praise for Christina Chalmers' "Free as a Bird: Nature as Freedom and Interval in Karl Marx's Capital" Read it in @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social at @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/908409

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Project MUSE - Free as A Bird: Nature as Freedom and Interval in Karl Marx’s <i>Capital</i>

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

An essay on the history of Diacritics and Critical Inquiry by Gregory Jones-Katz in this new issue of History of Humanities

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Co-edited by Diacritics board member Tracy McNulty, the new collection "A Psychoanalysis for a Reemergent Humanity", now out with SUNY Press.

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Diacritics author Francesco Zucconi's forthcoming monograph "Border Mediascapes" examines 21st-century documentary films made along the borders of Europe, and takes a cinematic eye to the technologies employed in governing spatial movement. Read more: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791891...

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Border Mediascapes

How the cinematic gaze reveals the hidden operations of border zones Examining a variety of documentary films made along the borders of Europe since the turn...

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Diacritics author Rebecca Ruth Gould's essay on the Nasrallah family in Protean Magazine

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tyler @walletcheck.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

a remarkable story here: Rebecca Ruth Gould was able to interview the Nasrallahs, a Gazan family, in Egypt. Rachel Corrie died to save their home in 2003—though Israel ultimately demolished it. their second home was destroyed in 2023. they remain in legal limbo in Egypt, as do many other refugees.

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Diacritics contributor Alberto Toscano on the genocidal logic of Trump's "ceasefire plan" in Palestine.

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Diacritics author and board member Grant Farred writes about nostalgia for late industrial capitalism in his most recent publication "The Prettiest Woman," forthcoming with @uminnpress.bsky.social For more information, see here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791832...

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The Prettiest Woman

Uncovering Hollywood’s perpetual longing for a lost industrial America “We don’t make things in America anymore”: like clockwork, this refrain resurf...

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

'Rethinking Literary Naturalism: Proust and Quignard After Life' by Ian James reads biosemiotics, Proust, and Quignard together to elaborate a theory of literary naturalism. Find out more ➡️ bit.ly/RethinkingLiteraryNaturalism 📚

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

New at Liverool University Press, the recent monograph "Rethinking Literary Naturalism" by Diacritics contributor Ian James

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Nina Farizova @ninafarizova.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

So happy to have my article on The Beatles lyrics in Japan functioning as what I term "world lyric" out in Diacritics!

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

A new issue of Diacritics (52.3) is out! With contributions by William Stroebel, Alexander Diones, Rebecca Ruth Gould, Tobias Ertl, and Nina Farizova. Featuring art by Misha Wyllie, with an interview by Philip Glahn. Read here in Open Access on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55662

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

In the 2nd part of our "Documents" series, Juliane Rebentisch develops her theory of contemporary art through an engagement with Land Art. Translated & introduced by Mitchell Herrmann. Read here on the Diacritics blog: www.diacriticsjournal.com/documents-2-...

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Documents 2: Juliane Rebentisch on Land Art - Diacritics

September 17, 2025 What is a document? A lesson, a specimen, a fragment of evidence—perhaps even a warning. Our blog series “Documents” is dedicated to bringing texts from outside the Anglophone world...

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Diacritics contributors David Marriott and Rizvana Bradley are presenting the book series "Inventions" at a free virtual event with @stanfordpress.bsky.social

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ORCID @orcid.org · 24/09/2025

🗓️ Our next Ask Me Anything is with University Presses on 30 Sept! Join us to learn how small publishers are making the most of ORCID membership. Got questions? Submit them when you register! Register: linktr.ee/orcid_org #ORCIDevents #ScholarlyPublishing #UniversityPresses

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Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Breaking with the received view of Marx's relation to German Idealism, True Materialism by @jensensuther.bsky.social argues that the materialist critique of capitalist production is inseparable from Hegel's idea that the demand for freedom is a demand for mutual recognition www.sup.org/books/th...

Book cover of True Materialism: Hegelian Marxism and the Modernist Struggle for Freedom by Jensen Suther

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

As of September 15, Diacritics is again open to general submissions. We look forward to reading your work! For further information, please see our author submission guidelines here: www.diacriticsjournal.com/portfolio/su...

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Diacritics 52.2 is out! Curated by Austin Lillywhite & Nicole Seymour, "Queer Environs" features Danielle Allor, Micah J. Goodrich, Alvin K. Wong, Natalia Cecire, John Kennedy, Davy Knittle, Jonathan Cane, André Prado Fernandes, Andil Gosine. Read here on Project Muse (OA): muse.jhu.edu/issue/55098

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

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diacriticsjournal.bsky.social @diacriticsjournal.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Diacritics' new blog series “Documents” translates non-English theoretical texts to bring them into scholarly circulation. The first entry features 2 excerpts by August Strindberg on natural photography, translated & introduced by Paulo A. Lorca. Read here: www.diacriticsjournal.com/documents-1-...

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