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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

A German word for becoming so enamored of one prospective chess move that you stop seriously considering alternatives? Maybe Kandidatenzugverliebtheit.

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

When I say "Kafka," the voice recognition software on my phone hears "Costco."

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Philosophie ist das Allerernsteste, aber so ernst wieder auch nicht. –Adorno

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Balsam root on the Rowena Plateau in the Columbia River Gorge. #WildflowerHour

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Nur die ergangenen Gedanken haben Wert. (Only thoughts reached by walking have value.) –Nietzsche

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This is why you do the reading.

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Kant is never interested in the past; what interests him is the future of the species. –Hannah Arendt

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

A masterpiece of literature is never anything more than a dictionary in disorder. –Jean Cocteau

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Pleased to have a piece in this new volume.

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

"He thought that he had learned patience, but he had only lost impatience." –Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

What are students taught in high school such that they worry that the most basic exegetical move may constitute "overreading"?

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Don’t you know that "No" is the wildest word we consign to Language? –Emily Dickinson

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I dwell in Possibility - A fairer House than Prose - More numerous of Windows - Superior - for Doors -

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Furcht vor der Nacht, Furcht vor der Nicht-Nacht -Franz Kafka, 18 Okt. 1917

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

“Sound film as the limit for Kafka’s and Chaplin’s worlds.” –Walter Benjamin

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Read Jan Mieszkowski's "Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions: The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's Der Proceß" in @mlnjournal.bsky.social on @projectmuse.bsky.social! @janm.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/945087

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Project MUSE - Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions: The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's <i>Der Proceß</i>

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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

icymi: Jan Mieszkowski, @janm.bsky.social, Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions:The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's Der Proceß (via Proj Muse) muse.jhu.edu/article/945087 speech acts, rescission in contracts ... @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lpcprof.bsky.social

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Project MUSE - Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions: The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's <i>Der Proceß</i>

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

TFW you realize that the bookstore categories have passed you by.

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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I just bought the Virtual Sentence and I literally can’t wait for it to arrive!

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Nice to see that someone got up early to poster campus.

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

A review of The Virtual Sentence, eight writing exercises by Kyle Booten, D. Graham Burnett, Brian Dillon, Jeff Dolven, Jan Mieszkowski, Sally O’Reilly, Mónica de la Torre, and Elena Vogman.

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You Could Use the Exercise

In the face of AI, the time is right to practice our writing techniques for invention and surprise.

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Google's default description of WB is great.

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

"The quotations in my works are like robbers lying in ambush on the highway to attack the passerby and rob him of his conviction.” –Walter Benjamin "One should never trust what an author himself says about his work." –Walter Benjamin

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Schelling's inaugural lecture course in Berlin was attended by Friedrich Engels, Søren Kierkegaard, Mikhail Bakunin, Jacob Burckhardt and Leopold von Ranke. #respect

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

There's insouciance and there's languid Lukács insouciance.

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 03/09/2023

I was fantasizing about buying this property and turning it into a critical theory institute – residencies for all! Then I read that during The Great Coastal Gale of 2007 its roof was blown off and its occupants were trapped there for 20 hours as the winds gusted over 120 mph. Now I really want it!

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