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David Mittelman

@dmittelman.bsky.social
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Afro-Luso-Brazilian literary/cultural studies (still, somehow).

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 10h
This is what I am saying bsky.app/profile/carl...
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 14h
Sitting in the cinema lobby after watching the 20th anniversary restoration of Pan’s Labyrinth. I have mostly stopped weeping.
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Maybe I’m stupid, but I fundamentally don’t understand how it makes sense to say that these a.i. agents were “acting on their own.”
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
did 5.75 easy miles
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Maybe I’m stupid, but I fundamentally don’t understand how it makes sense to say that these a.i. agents were “acting on their own.”
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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just another Anne-Carson-changed-my-life appreciation post, that is all
Photo of a paperback book, Anne Carson’s IF NOT, THEN WINTER, sitting on a desktop Lines from Carson’s IF NOT, THEN WINTER: 

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]you will remember 
]for we in our youth 
     did these things 

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]we live
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]the opposite 
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]daring 
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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
become ungovernable
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I an taking the day off. Which means I will end up working for at least three hours. But I’m going for a run first.
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thinking of when I saw Anne Carson (allegedly) speak in a packed room from behind this projector stand.
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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anne Carson, SHORT TALKS.
On Shelter

You can write on a wall with a fish heart, it's because of the phosphorus. They eat it. There are shacks like that down along the river. I am writing this to be as wrong as possible to you. Replace the door when you leave, it says. Now you tell me how wrong that is, how long it glows. Tell me.
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It is taking all my will power this morning not to burst into the bedroom yelling “Babe, wake up, the Anne Carson Nobel Prize discourse needs you!”
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Stephanie Borges @stephieborges.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
eita que deram o Nobel a Carson! ainda bem!
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Listen up, folks, Rebecca has an update to the agenda:
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No doubt, no doubt. I am also always talking to students about the importance of PROFFEASTING.
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You had me at "Body/Farpaps".
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In 2012, I stood on a stage with Anne Carson as a volunteer grad student to help her perform BRACKO, an adaptation of Sappho, where my job was to say the word "bracket" every time there was a bracket, which was more than two hundred times
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anne Carson!
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What does that even mean
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I thought we, as a society, had moved permanently beyond the idea of Tuesday.
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
who did this to you I will come down there and fight them
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ugh what
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
you know what, this is actually so helpful. (to me, in coming to terms with part of the reality of what I have done and not done and will never do.)
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
well, I applied for a thing
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So apparently it's not August anymore (?)
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
psdb 📉
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I just…
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The situation is severe, but it is too early to make assumptions about the outcome of the runoff.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In other Bolsonaro family news: Carlos (Jair's son) was elected senator, Michelle (Jair's wife) was elected senator, and Jair Renan (Jair's son) was elected as federal deputy.
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
are you helping
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This month is going to be unbearable. Like all months.
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
oh buddy
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Não sei nem o que dizer.
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hoje e sempre desejo coisas boas para todos os meus amigos brasileiros e para o povo brasileiro inteiro.
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
muita força pra galera
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today and always wishing good things for all my Brazilian friends and for the Brazilian people.
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hoje e sempre desejo coisas boas para todos os meus amigos brasileiros e para o povo brasileiro inteiro.
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Treta Garbo @apoetaumaporta.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
É aquele poema do Drummond
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
hush
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
tomorrow will be tomorrow
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I said bear, arguing something like because a bear will fiercely defend its own, while also being, you know, fuzzy and not particularly aggressive. (I guess in retrospect I was imagining a black bear, rather than a grizzly or polar bear or whatever.) I was not offered the position.
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
oh good, I got worried haha
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Suddenly remembering the time I interviewed for a position in academic administration and one of the questions they asked was, "If you were an animal, what kind of animal would you be?"
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
is he ok? 🥺
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Jezebel Matadora de Profeta @julianamarques.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Produtivismo e ciência são antagonistas. Você precisa de tempo e liberdade, não de pressão e mais tarefas empilhadas
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I have been working too hard.
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Look, Brazilian politics are notoriously hard to synthesize, especially for a foreign audience, but it strikes me as pretty weird to call this race a “rematch.”
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This week is going to be a very long month.
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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This week is going to be a very long month.
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