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James Martell

@professeurmartell.bsky.social
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French Literature professor. He, his, him. (If you google me I’m going to find out through academiadotedu) lyon.academia.edu/JamesMartell

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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.acla.org/seminar/8360... two days for the deadline to submit to our ACLA virtual panel on "Transautography: self-writing, autotheory, and surviving (in) the academy" Come join us explore new ways to survive and thrive through this crisis of academic institutions.
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
just came back quickly to see what shenanigans is @jonathanbfine.bsky.social up to in here... and he did not disappoint...
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Martin Lawrence as Marcus Burnett: My Bad
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
@jonathanbfine.bsky.social I’m so mad at you
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
fascism is fun cause it is not and people are dying and society is collapsing and we have to fight for our lives and the lives of others until we die
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
phallogocentrism is dead, phallostultitiacentrism reigns
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
John Wayne was a (draft dodging) fake, Trump is a fraud (and draft dodger), Hegseth is a sad tv puppet who can't even do a pull up right... if Americans recognized real courage and bravery they would all love @ilhanmn.bsky.social
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Ilhan Omar is such a badass and that guy was lucky she didn’t get him @ilhanmn.bsky.social
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
as bleak as things are, I gotta say I am damned proud of all the Americans on the streets, prostesting, feeding and helping minorities, yelling at and fighting against nazis, and just generally caring about the other.... it warms my cold dry heart...
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
ok, everybody, if you know of a maga, libertarian, or any of those "there's two sides" guys, grab 'em and make them watch Haneke's The White Ribbon on a loop Alex in the Clockwork Orange style until they get it...
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
can you imagine if Americans listened to historians, sociologists, philosophers, and all types of experts instead of B celebrities, opportunistic pundits, and “influencers”? woah… bruh
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
There I fixed it
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
youtu.be/KG-pL7aZoeY?... while it has a silly title, this episode of Matt Bernstein’s podcast with former MAGA figure Ashley St. Clair is really good to understand the grifting and completely immoral ideology of the MAGA movement.
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She Had Elon’s Baby. Then, the Leopards Ate Her Face.
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
We didn’t want to do it but SINCE 2016 WE TOLD YOU SO
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
ok, meme ready… thank you @jonathanbfine.bsky.social as always for your service
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
kids, you want to be real punks, real rebels, stick it to the man? join the humanities! become French, English, German, philosophy majors, MAs and PhDs! (fuck these ignorant, ketamine drenched, technocratic assholes)
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
man, I love Minnesotans
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
coming soon
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Yoon Kim @yoonkim.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
“I do not know how to rid the world of evil, or whether one is simply supposed to endure it. But you are there and are having an effect, and the poems have an effect of their own and help to protect you—that is the answer and a counterbalance in this world.” — Ingeborg Bachmann to Paul Celan, 1958
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I think this admin should build statues of DT, gigantic ones, everywhere… It will give us something fun to do when this is over
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
best cover for a Lacan seminar ever bon travail, Seuil!
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Obama's and the dems full on STEM only, technical, career focused education helped to this mess, and I still have to see any of them proposing a strong humanities education as a defense against undemocratic ideologies and ignorance...
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
the fascists know that the humanities (gender studies, critical theory, etc) need to be suppressed, liberals & the left don’t know well how much they need to be expanded and supported
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Aleksandra Waliszewska is my shepherd I will lack nothing
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
omg, is twitter finally dead, you guys? are we free?!!
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
since we are all going back in time, I’m just embracing my anarchist look
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
waiting for American high schools and universities to acknowledge that they failed in teaching about fascism and authoritarianism and that they have a plan to address this pressing issue...
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
America clearly going through its Frank Booth era
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
tell me which David Bowie album embodies your soul, and I'll tell you how twisted you are. Mine is:
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/01/2026
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13/01/2026
gamergate ass government
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
ok, guys, we need to fix this place... no nazies here, good... but now we need some perfect combination of academic shitposting and quality academic jokes... at the count of 3, 2, 1... go!
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
With the new requirement to enter a number for the Duo app it’s like soon we are going to have to enter a password to be allowed to enter a password to be allowed to enter, etc…
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
academic shitposters, commies, antifas, queer and deviants, readers of Hegel and listeners of Björk and Xiu Xiu, are we all ready to take over this site and finish our self imposed exile from the bad place?!!
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
parents should not worry about what ideology profs are teaching their kids in college, but rather about what tools against deadly ideologies like fascism & christo-white supremacy are they not able to give them because of a focus on educating only for a job...
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
can't wait for all universities to double down on gender studies, fascist & authoritarianism studies, decolonialism, & in general in a critical humanistic education as the most important tool to fight the ideological rottenness from the right... any moment now...
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"rabid feminist" is such a funny term, because it really shows how terrified men are of women and truly of life in general.
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
and that is why (academic) shitposting ain't working here too well...
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
first us war and overthrowing of a foreign president done for likes & ratings
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I bet DT was like "I'm not in the news anymore... it's Mamdani here, Swiss fire there.... we need some headlines... drop the bombs"
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
and all of this for pete hegseth to make content...
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
the book of my: teens: Baudelaire, Les fleurs du mal 20s: Derrida, Marges de la philosophie 30s: Proust, A la recherche 40s: Musil, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften and yours?
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
we did it, we survived the first quarter of the 21st c., you guys...
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
"Wirf alles, was du hast, ins Feuer, bis zu den Schuhen; und wenn du nichts mehr hast, denk nicht einmal ans Leichentuch und wirf dich nackt ins Feuer!" happy 2026, tout le monde
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
time for new year's resolutions brought to you by Samuel Beckett: RESOLUTIONS COLON ZERO STOP PERIOD HOPES COLON ZERO STOP
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... told you if we do not go back to psychoanalysis we are cooked
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Amia Srinivasan · The Impossible Patient: Return of the Unconscious
What has returned of late is not the unconscious itself, but the felt need, in some quarters, for the unconscious and...
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
2025 recap
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James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
ok, peeping back in here to see if we are all ready for some serious academic shitposting or not yet?
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