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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 · 07/01/2026

Bizarre. A few hours ago, I referenced this show for the first time in a decade. I cited it as evidence that I have actually seen some good tv. 😂

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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 · 19/07/2025

I taught this about 10 years ago. I think it went over quite well, as I recall.

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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 · 12/04/2025

Spent most of the day in an online symposium – 6 excellent papers and a cool roundtable discussion of texts by Hemingway and Hans Christian Andersen.

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

Exactly. I tell them: "Overreading? We aren't even close to getting out of the realm of underreading!"

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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 · 14/01/2025

I was going to try to guess what sort of software it might be, but then you gave it away.

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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 · 26/10/2024

Has anyone said L'Avventura?

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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 · 18/09/2024

One of my favorite spots anywhere.

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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 · 30/07/2024

I saw that headline and just started laughing. Right on cue!

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

Fresh peaches? Coffee milkshakes?

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

I guess I don't perceive clear trends in any particular direction, but of course, one tends to recall the strongest and weakest work, making it hard to know what is or isn't changing with the B students.

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

My view about college writing is that we have to unteach what they learn in AP English w/ its timed tests. Nevertheless, I think that today's 1st-year college student comes with more formal training in close reading than 10 or 15 years ago, albeit w/ little sense of what to do with such skills.

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Jan Mieszkowski @janm.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

Interesting. This is really not my experience. If anything, my students are better at constructing arguments today than they were 10 years ago, although one could certainly say that their essays are more prone to follow fixed patterns and hence are on balance less creative.

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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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