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UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Our #UCL200 'Emergence | Emergency' series @ucl.ac.uk starts next week—debates, lectures, screenings, workshops & more Wendy Brown! @po-dittmar.bsky.social! @eicathomefinn.bsky.social! Paul Gilroy! @fmussgnug.bsky.social! Eva von Redecker! @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social! Sasha Roseneil! Oxana Timofeeva!

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

5 June: a symposium on thinking with emergencies with Heidelberg's Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-apocalyptic Studies.

5 June, a symposium on thinking with emergencies in collaboration with Heidelberg's CAPAS. Details at ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene.

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

4 June: Oxana Timofeeva's Tagore lecture on 'The end(s) of the world(s): Apocalypse & infinity. @uclselcs.bsky.social, @fmussgnug.bsky.social

4 June, Oxana Timofeeva's Tagore lecture on 'The end(s) of the world(s): Apocalypse & infinity. Details at ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene.

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

5 June: a major roundtable panel with Wendy Brown (IAS Princeton), @eicathomefinn.bsky.social (UCL), Paul Gilroy (UCL), Eva von Redecker (H-U Berlin), & Sasha Roseneil (Sussex).

5 June roundtable panel with Wendy Brown (IAS Princeton), @eicathomefinn.bsky.social (UCL), Paul Gilroy (UCL), Eva von Redecker (H-U Berlin), & Sasha Roseneil (Sussex). Details at ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene.

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Big blow for Meloni. Orban’s biggest fan in the EU.

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Now can we please vote out the other one, too? 🇭🇺 🇪🇺

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Modern Languages Open @modlangopen.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

MOST READ | 'Planetary Figurations: Intensive Genre in World Literature' by @fmussgnug.bsky.social. Read it #OA for free online at MLO: bit.ly/MLO-Mussgnug @saraharens.bsky.social‬ @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social‬ @saramarzagora.bsky.social‬ @hpartzsch.bsky.social‬ @fmussgnug.bsky.social‬

'Planetary Figurations: Intensive Genre in World Literature' by Florian Mussgnug

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Just watched Stranger Things S5 E8 and I must admit I am impressed by the straight-faced and unapologetic neo-platonism of the ending. No tragedy. Just the purity of sacrifice (parousia) which restores everyone to their perfect, definitive form. Believe in Eleven and you shall be saved.

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UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Many thanks to the Centre for Apocalyptic & Postapocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) @uniheidelberg.bsky.social for welcoming @fmussgnug.bsky.social, @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social & Emily Baker to talk about emergence and emergencies last week—we look forward to our discussions in Bloomsbury next spring!

An apocalyptic bar of chocolate from CAPAS at the University of Heidelberg.

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UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

👏👏 to @fmussgnug.bsky.social for a 🎆 inaugural lecture on loving apocalypse too much @uclselcs.bsky.social last night! Saul Bellow's Herzog, Frank Kermode, Loki & multiverse destruction, Mary Shelley's & apocalypses as a way of looking beyond & through them to something more sustaining.

A photo of Florian Mussgnug giving his inaugural lecture with a slide titled 'is there anything in your daily lives that does /not/ feel apocalyptic?'

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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Large red-letter day Tues 28 Oct @uclselcs.bsky.social + @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social when my wonderful colleague @fmussgnug.bsky.social will give his inaugural professorial lecture on why we love apocalypse so much (and maybe shouldn't…?). In person, 18:00. #Anthropocene, #envhum, #literature

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Loving Apocalypse Too Much

The End of the World? Why would anybody wish to go there? And yet, if we do not want this world to end, why do we love Apocalypse so much?

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

THE HERDS’ 20,000km journey has finally come to an end at one of the furthest reaches of the world. Since April, the animals’ route has led them through the Congo Jungle of Central Africa, the desert of the Sahel, and towns and cities across Europe. @theherds.bsky.social

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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

On this day 48 years ago (July 15, 1977) the New York Times article ran a front page story "Scientists fear heavy use of coal may bring adverse shift in climate" allouryesterdays.info/2023/07/14/j...

Tile about New York Times article on July 15 1977 "Scientists fear heavy use of coal may bring adverse shift in climate"

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Introducing a ✨ special issue✨ of Italica (Vol. 101, No. 3) on postsecular Italy, guest edited by Clodagh Brook, Monica Jansen ‪@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social‬ , and Maria Bonaria Urban. cc: @fmussgnug.bsky.social‬ scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ital/art...

Cover of Italica, Volume 101, Number 3, Fall 2024
Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Italian
Blue background with lighter blue silhouette of the country of Italy.

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

THE HERDS in London: seeing the animals arrive at the far end of the street I was moved to tears @theherds.bsky.social www.theherds.org

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The UCL Stampede for the Arts on a Heating Planet continues with Prof. Emma Bond’s Ravindranath Tagore Lecture in ComparativeLiterature @efbond.bsky.social “The Work of Literature in Times of Eco Crisis”. www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Very proud and happy to be hosting David Lan, producer of THE HERDS, and Maryam Pasha, London producer of THE HERDS at UCL. @theherds.bsky.social www.theherds.org

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UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The Visual Arts on a Heating Planet 🌍 Join us for this roundtable event where artists & scholars explore the role of the arts in responding to the accelerating climate crisis. 📆26 June, 12noon - 1.45pm 📍IAS Common Ground 🔗 Book here! shorturl.at/gXFmr Part of the UCL Stampede events & The Herds 🦁

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UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

📣Next week! The UCL Stampede for Arts on a Heating Planet🌍 Life-size puppet animals🦁 are travelling a 20,000km route to symbolise their flight from climate disaster as part of THE HERDS public art & climate initiative Attend our event to mark the arrival in London👇 26-29 June 🔗 shorturl.at/T64aV

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UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

How might history help us understand the material and social significance of heat? In what ways do these histories connect with domestic structures, gender & patterns of consumption? Join us for an Anthropocene Histories seminar on Histories of Heating🔥 📆4 June,3-5pm| 📍online 🔗 shorturl.at/a7VZD

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Lovely to hear so many different languages at Eurovision 2025. Is this the most polyglot Eurovision in history? Does anybody have stats? 🇪🇺

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UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

📣Join us for the first seminar in our Interdisciplinarity: new reconfigurations of the social and natural sciences seminar series! Georgina Born and Andrew Barry will speak about AI, Environment and Art on 20 May from 5-6pm in the IAS Common Ground. Sign up here👉 shorturl.at/fSi6c

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UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Join us for this Anthropocene Histories seminar where Kristin Asdal & Tone Huse discuss how the ocean, in the years proceeding WWII, has been harnessed to become a space of ever-intensifying capital investment and innovation 🌊 📆14 May, 3-5pm 📍Online - zoom 🔗 shorturl.at/qQGsE

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

How long until it occurs to the US government to offer political asylum to members of the now-banned, far-right German Reichsbürger?

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Fredric Jameson’s early work on the fallacies of island thinking sheds light on Starmer’s gratuitous, pointless, hurtful remark about an “island of strangers”: island fantasies = nostalgia for feudalism where a coherent critique of capitalism appears impossible. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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UK risks becoming ‘island of strangers’ without more immigration curbs, Starmer says

PM unveils policies to ‘significantly’ drive down net migration including English tests and degree requirements

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Italy’s national holiday on 25 April 2025 will mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation from Fascism. This is how the City of Rome is marking the occasion:

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Poland’s underground “flying universities” of the 1970s and 1980s are a hard act to follow, but an interesting model. In the Humanities, this kind of education would not require summative assessment, I think, but could be entirely focused on Socratic dialogue.

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

How odd that Dino Buzzati’s wonderfully odd, satirical SF novel, “Il grande ritratto” (1960) is now available in A.M. Appel’s elegant English translation - reviewed below by the great Michael Wood - but that the Italian original remains out of print. Mondadori, please act!

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Great text by @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social: “The Rise of End Time Fascism”. Today’s far-right mimic what U. Eco called the “Armageddon Complex” of mid-century Fascism, but no longer trust their own “apartheid fantasies of bunkered salvation.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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The rise of end times fascism

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

News from Rome: we’re about to launch a new lecture series on The Politics of Literature at Roma Tre University. Our first speaker will be Ana Claudia Suriani da Silva, who is going to talk to us about writers’ diaries during the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985). All welcome.

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This week, I had the pleasure of discussing Sandra Newman’s @sannewman.bsky.social brilliant novel, “Julia”, with the students of my graduate seminar on Inhuman Worlds. Interestingly, I read it as a futuristic dystopia while they read it as counterfactual history. 1984 lies firmly in their past.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 01/04/2025

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker

YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

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Uta Staiger @ukstaiger.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Loved being at the Passa Porta Literature Festival, talking to authors David Nicholls & Peter Terrin about space, place & their writing. Wonderfully rich: Island fiction. Heterotopias. Beckett, Stevenson, Melville. Yorkshire, Monte Carlo & abandoned basements. And lots of maps. www.passaporta.be

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Good set of questions from @tjheffernan.bsky.social. Extremely relevant also beyond the Canadian context

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Good set of questions from @tjheffernan.bsky.social. Extremely relevant also beyond the Canadian context

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

@tommylynch.bsky.social and @stephenshapiro.bsky.social: here comes a list of twelve of my favourite British post-2000, post-apocalyptic novels:

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Two British novels with a post-apocalyptic setting that I would happily teach again and again, until the end of the world: Julia Armfield, “Private Rites” (2024) Jessie Greengrass, “The High House” (2021)

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

New genre for American academics: apology/shame clause in routine professional correspondence with Canadian and Mexican colleagues.

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Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Members of the European Council: now, if ever, is the time to suspend Hungary’s Voting Rights.

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