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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 9h
“My mom is both the main source for the early part of the book and the hero of the story…There is nothing she liked better than talking about the good old days in Iraq.” New at PB: Avi Shlaim on growing up in an Iraqi-Jewish family. www.publicbooks.org/the-hyphen-u...
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The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life - Public Books
Avi Shlaim, historian and influential scholar of Israel’s relationship with the Arab world, joins John Plotz and Yuval Evri to discuss class, caste differences, and destructive ethnonationalist…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 11h
“Beware to those who read ‘Adrift in the South’ solely as a cautionary tale about the Chinese state without considering the international flows of goods and power.” New at PB: Michelle Chan Schmidt reviews Xiao Hai’s “Adrift in the South.” www.publicbooks.org/the-life-of-...
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The Life of the Mind of a Factory Worker - Public Books
“Beware to those who read ‘Adrift in the South’ solely as a cautionary tale about the Chinese state without considering the international flows of goods and power.”
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 13h
“Ozon suggests that, for better or for worse, it is the French colonization of Algeria that creates the conditions for Meursault’s signature strangeness.” New at PB: Viviana Freyer on settler colonialism and estrangement in François Ozon’s The Stranger. www.publicbooks.org/pied-noir-ho...
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Pied Noir Homesick Blues - Public Books
Camus opens the book with Meursault’s life, but François Ozon opens the new film adaptation with Meursault’s specific moment in history: the brutal French colonization of Algeria.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 16h
New at PB: Viviana Freyer explores the inherent strangeness of settler colonialism in a review of François Ozon’s 2025 adaptation of Albert Camus’s The Stranger. www.publicbooks.org/pied-noir-ho...
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Pied Noir Homesick Blues - Public Books
Camus opens the book with Meursault’s life, but François Ozon opens the new film adaptation with Meursault’s specific moment in history: the brutal French colonization of Algeria.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 18h
New at PB: Janet Vertesi asks readers to “remember when playing a game was just playing a game, not imbibing ‘content’ or a franchise?” www.publicbooks.org/retro-gaming...
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Retro Gaming: It’s Not Nostalgia, It’s Resistance - Public Books
"If we want to resist the enshittified paradigms around us, we can’t just shake a fist at the sky: We have to show them a better way."
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A retired housekeeper. A rubber factory worker from New England. A meatpacker from the Midwest. New at PB: Ryan Boyd reviews Anne Trubek’s American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA. www.publicbooks.org/long-distanc...
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Long-Distance Talkers: The Great Depression Speaks - Public Books
During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Our move to Israel was not an ideological one… We were conscripted into the Zionist project.” New at PB: Avi Shlaim on his youth and experiences as an Iraqi-born Jew. www.publicbooks.org/the-hyphen-u...
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The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life - Public Books
Avi Shlaim, historian and influential scholar of Israel’s relationship with the Arab world, joins John Plotz and Yuval Evri to discuss class, caste differences, and destructive ethnonationalist…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“[It] is as much a narrative of new Chinese workers … as it is the emotional map of a young Henanese man’s coming-of-age, working for the Made in China stamp while learning how to be someone.” Michelle Chan Schmidt on Xiao Hai’s “Adrift in the South.” www.publicbooks.org/the-life-of-...
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The Life of the Mind of a Factory Worker - Public Books
“Beware to those who read ‘Adrift in the South’ solely as a cautionary tale about the Chinese state without considering the international flows of goods and power.”
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“It was a thrill to rediscover play as I was—as it was—in 1989.” New at PB: Janet Vertesi discusses the delights of retro gaming. www.publicbooks.org/retro-gaming...
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Retro Gaming: It’s Not Nostalgia, It’s Resistance - Public Books
"If we want to resist the enshittified paradigms around us, we can’t just shake a fist at the sky: We have to show them a better way."
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New at PB: Michelle Chan Schmidt examines poetry, consumerism, globalization, and capitalism in Xiao Hai’s “Adrift in the South.” www.publicbooks.org/the-life-of-...
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The Life of the Mind of a Factory Worker - Public Books
“Beware to those who read ‘Adrift in the South’ solely as a cautionary tale about the Chinese state without considering the international flows of goods and power.”
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In a new essay on retro gaming and tech nostalgia, Janet Vertesi suggests that “if we want to resist the enshittified paradigms around us, we can’t just shake a fist at the sky: We have to show [kids] a better way.” www.publicbooks.org/retro-gaming...
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Retro Gaming: It’s Not Nostalgia, It’s Resistance - Public Books
"If we want to resist the enshittified paradigms around us, we can’t just shake a fist at the sky: We have to show them a better way."
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“It’s an entirely self-replicating genre, increasingly absurd and unmoored from the original joke, expanding for its own sake.” Mahika Dhar on the politics of brain rot. www.publicbooks.org/if-we-rot-yo...
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If We Rot, You Rot with Us - Public Books
“Despite the enduring belief that literary nonsense is primarily directed toward children—an idea that has its roots in the popularity of Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss—literary nonsense has…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Today’s economic landscape has transformed us gamers from main characters into the NPCs populating someone else’s investment game.” New at PB: Janet Vertesi on what’s wrong with the videogame industry and the transformative potential of retro gaming. www.publicbooks.org/retro-gaming...
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Retro Gaming: It’s Not Nostalgia, It’s Resistance - Public Books
"If we want to resist the enshittified paradigms around us, we can’t just shake a fist at the sky: We have to show them a better way."
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“It’s not a conventional autobiography. It’s an attempt to tell a family history and, through it, to tell a bigger story of the Jewish community in Iraq in the first half of the 20th century.” New at PB: Avi Shlaim joins RTB to discuss Israeli politics in his memoir, “Three Worlds.”
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The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life - Public Books
Avi Shlaim, historian and influential scholar of Israel’s relationship with the Arab world, joins John Plotz and Yuval Evri to discuss class, caste differences, and destructive ethnonationalist…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“It’s like having beers with friendly strangers.” @ryanboyd.bsky.social on oral history and the Works Progress Administration archive. www.publicbooks.org/long-distanc...
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Long-Distance Talkers: The Great Depression Speaks - Public Books
During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Trubek takes an explicitly presentist stance, connecting the Writers Project and the red-baiting backlash against it to MAGA’s violent contempt for creativity, care, and diversity.” New at PB: @ryanboyd.bsky.social reviews Anne Trubek’s American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA.
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Long-Distance Talkers: The Great Depression Speaks - Public Books
During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"What started as a trip down memory lane revealed something deeper. Retro tech is not about nostalgia. It’s about resistance. Evading the technologies of capture, attention hacking, and dispossession.” New at PB: Janet Vertesi argues the radical possibilities of retro gaming.
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Retro Gaming: It’s Not Nostalgia, It’s Resistance - Public Books
"If we want to resist the enshittified paradigms around us, we can’t just shake a fist at the sky: We have to show them a better way."
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“That brain rot proliferates under the veneer of kid content to be consumed by Gen Z and Alpha makes it easy to dismiss as entirely meaningless. But even the most absurd brain rot examples contain a kernel of cultural analysis.” New at PB: Mahika Dhar on political frustration and brain rot.
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If We Rot, You Rot with Us - Public Books
“Despite the enduring belief that literary nonsense is primarily directed toward children—an idea that has its roots in the popularity of Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss—literary nonsense has…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“Physical toil, then, is mechanical drudgery, but the work of the mind lives poles apart from the work of the body.” New at PB: Michelle Chan Schmidt reviews Xiao Hai’s Adrift in the South. www.publicbooks.org/the-life-of-...
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The Life of the Mind of a Factory Worker - Public Books
“Beware to those who read ‘Adrift in the South’ solely as a cautionary tale about the Chinese state without considering the international flows of goods and power.”
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For over forty years, Avi Shlaim has produced crucial scholarship on Israel’s relationship with the Arab world. For Recall This Book, he joins John Plotz and Yuval Evri to discuss his incredible memoir, “Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew.” www.publicbooks.org/the-hyphen-u...
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The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life - Public Books
Avi Shlaim, historian and influential scholar of Israel’s relationship with the Arab world, joins John Plotz and Yuval Evri to discuss class, caste differences, and destructive ethnonationalist…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In a new episode of Recall This Book, Avi Shlaim joins John Plotz and Yuval Evri to discuss how class and caste differences shape ethno-nationalist ideologies in Israeli politics. www.publicbooks.org/the-hyphen-u...
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The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life - Public Books
Avi Shlaim, historian and influential scholar of Israel’s relationship with the Arab world, joins John Plotz and Yuval Evri to discuss class, caste differences, and destructive ethnonationalist…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Immediately after its 1935 founding, the WPA attracted the attention of conservatives, red-baiters, anti-intellectuals, and other bigots who saw a communist plot behind the effort to record the lives of working people.” New at PB: @ryanboyd.bsky.social on the Works Progress Administration.
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Long-Distance Talkers: The Great Depression Speaks - Public Books
During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From Bob Dylan to Dada to Dr. Seuss, Mahika Dhar considers the rebellious possibilities of brain rot. www.publicbooks.org/if-we-rot-yo...
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If We Rot, You Rot with Us - Public Books
“Despite the enduring belief that literary nonsense is primarily directed toward children—an idea that has its roots in the popularity of Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss—literary nonsense has…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New at PB: Avi Shlaim, historian and influential scholar of Israel’s relationship with the Arab world, joins John Plotz and Yuval Evri to discuss class, caste differences, and destructive ethno-nationalist ideologies in mainstream Israeli politics. www.publicbooks.org/the-hyphen-u...
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The Hyphen Unites: Avi Shlaim on Arab-Jewish Life - Public Books
Avi Shlaim, historian and influential scholar of Israel’s relationship with the Arab world, joins John Plotz and Yuval Evri to discuss class, caste differences, and destructive ethnonationalist…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What does factory life do to the creative mind? Michelle Chan Schmidt explores this question in a review of Xiao Hai’s Adrift in the South. www.publicbooks.org/the-life-of-...
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The Life of the Mind of a Factory Worker - Public Books
“Beware to those who read ‘Adrift in the South’ solely as a cautionary tale about the Chinese state without considering the international flows of goods and power.”
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“For Xiao Hai … sublimity is not about making ends meet on 2000 yuan per month. Instead, it means poetry, nature, beauty.” Michelle Chan Schmidt on Xiao Hai’s new book, Adrift in the South. www.publicbooks.org/the-life-of-...
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The Life of the Mind of a Factory Worker - Public Books
“Beware to those who read ‘Adrift in the South’ solely as a cautionary tale about the Chinese state without considering the international flows of goods and power.”
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New at PB: Mahika Dhar celebrates the new wave of literary nonsense. www.publicbooks.org/if-we-rot-yo...
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If We Rot, You Rot with Us - Public Books
“Despite the enduring belief that literary nonsense is primarily directed toward children—an idea that has its roots in the popularity of Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss—literary nonsense has…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Adrift in the South centers less on the physical and psychic violence of the Chinese production line—and by extension, of global consumer capitalism—than Xiao Hai’s pursuit of sublimity from within the factory campus’s ‘stench of burnt plastic.’” New at PB: Michelle Chan Schmidt on Xiao Hai.
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The Life of the Mind of a Factory Worker - Public Books
“Beware to those who read ‘Adrift in the South’ solely as a cautionary tale about the Chinese state without considering the international flows of goods and power.”
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Whatever the color of one’s skin, if you can do good work, you’re an equal. Work makes Americans.” New at PB: @ryanboyd.bsky.social on oral history and the WPA archives. www.publicbooks.org/long-distanc...
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Long-Distance Talkers: The Great Depression Speaks - Public Books
During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New at PB: Ryan Boyd channels artists and writers from a bygone era in a review of American Made: Stories of Work from the WPA. www.publicbooks.org/long-distanc...
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Long-Distance Talkers: The Great Depression Speaks - Public Books
During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Part of making one’s work responsible to the present entails recognizing its value as work.” @cole-adams.bsky.social on continuing to work as the university crumbles: www.publicbooks.org/the-last-gra...
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The Last Graduate Students? - Public Books
“I began writing this as a record of what it felt like to be a student then, as collective attachments to values—long recognized as fraying, with the knell of the next scapegoat, or horrifying…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“What emerges is a longform rejoinder to the idea that the working class is any less sensitive or articulate than the educated, and a correction to the conceit that something called ‘unskilled labor’ exists.” New at PB: @ryanboyd.bsky.social on the Works Progress Administration archives.
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Long-Distance Talkers: The Great Depression Speaks - Public Books
During the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Despite the enduring belief that literary nonsense is primarily directed toward children—an idea that has its roots in the popularity of Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss—literary nonsense has historically been weaponized by the masses...to effect change.” New at PB: Mahika Dhar on brain rot.
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If We Rot, You Rot with Us - Public Books
“Despite the enduring belief that literary nonsense is primarily directed toward children—an idea that has its roots in the popularity of Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss—literary nonsense has…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The siege is ubiquitous, the barrage is endless.” New at PB: @cole-adams.bsky.social discusses higher education today. www.publicbooks.org/the-last-gra...
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The Last Graduate Students? - Public Books
“I began writing this as a record of what it felt like to be a student then, as collective attachments to values—long recognized as fraying, with the knell of the next scapegoat, or horrifying…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Fredric Jameson’s work embodied an intellectual vocation, originality, political courage, and style that will remain an inspiration, an endless source of intellectual stimulation.” www.publicbooks.org/the-poetics-...
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“The Poetics of Social Forms”: Remembering Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) - Public Books
“No other thinker, Hegelian Marxist or otherwise, has lived up to this modernist vocation with the originality, intellectual élan, aesthetic intelligence, and political trenchancy of Fredric Jameson.”
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“In a mediascape of neural activation and invisible images, however, indexicality becomes nothing more than an aesthetic to be borrowed from.” @versobooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/the-treacher...
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The Treachery of Machine Realism - Public Books
“The bombed elementary school in Iran appears to have become a target thanks to satellite imaging. In this case, what the image represented — and to who — was a matter of life and death.”
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What happens when “all logic has evaporated into server clouds, the institutions of education are dying, and the ‘news’ doesn’t mean much?” For Mahika Dhar, the answer is brain rot. www.publicbooks.org/if-we-rot-yo...
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If We Rot, You Rot with Us - Public Books
“Despite the enduring belief that literary nonsense is primarily directed toward children—an idea that has its roots in the popularity of Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss—literary nonsense has…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Misshapen faces. Subway-surfing cockroaches. Toilets with human heads. New at PB: Mahika Dhar discusses the politics of brain rot. www.publicbooks.org/if-we-rot-yo...
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If We Rot, You Rot with Us - Public Books
“Despite the enduring belief that literary nonsense is primarily directed toward children—an idea that has its roots in the popularity of Lewis Carroll and Dr. Seuss—literary nonsense has…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“How can perception be sutured to belief in a society of unparalleled undecidability?” New at PB: Machine images make it hard to make sense of the world. Where do we go from here? @versobooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/the-treacher...
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The Treachery of Machine Realism - Public Books
“The bombed elementary school in Iran appears to have become a target thanks to satellite imaging. In this case, what the image represented — and to who — was a matter of life and death.”
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Some readers of his work have confessed to only having read Jameson’s theoretical texts, or those with an explicitly political bent, and not his literary criticism. This I have always considered a mistake.” www.publicbooks.org/the-poetics-...
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“The Poetics of Social Forms”: Remembering Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) - Public Books
“No other thinker, Hegelian Marxist or otherwise, has lived up to this modernist vocation with the originality, intellectual élan, aesthetic intelligence, and political trenchancy of Fredric Jameson.”
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Abductions of international students and interference with visas emerged as companion tactics to bring universities to heel and obstruct their functions.” @cole-adams.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/the-last-gra...
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The Last Graduate Students? - Public Books
“I began writing this as a record of what it felt like to be a student then, as collective attachments to values—long recognized as fraying, with the knell of the next scapegoat, or horrifying…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“For me, the best way to summarize Jameson’s work is to understand the modernist impulse at work in his writings.” New at PB: Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo remembers Fredric Jameson. www.publicbooks.org/the-poetics-...
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“The Poetics of Social Forms”: Remembering Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) - Public Books
“No other thinker, Hegelian Marxist or otherwise, has lived up to this modernist vocation with the originality, intellectual élan, aesthetic intelligence, and political trenchancy of Fredric Jameson.”
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“I wanted to make my work responsible to the present but didn’t know how.” New at PB: @cole-adams.bsky.social on being a student in the 2020s. www.publicbooks.org/the-last-gra...
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The Last Graduate Students? - Public Books
“I began writing this as a record of what it felt like to be a student then, as collective attachments to values—long recognized as fraying, with the knell of the next scapegoat, or horrifying…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Instead of a strategy for combat, all we have is a map of the territory. And that may not be enough.” New at PB: Kyle Sossamon on living in a world of machine images. @versobooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/the-treacher...
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The Treachery of Machine Realism - Public Books
“The bombed elementary school in Iran appears to have become a target thanks to satellite imaging. In this case, what the image represented — and to who — was a matter of life and death.”
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Machine images, argues Kyle Sossamon, are no longer meant to mean anything. The antagonisms of representation, engagement, and resistance have been smoothed out. And they call on us to act, not interpret. @versobooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/the-treacher...
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The Treachery of Machine Realism - Public Books
“The bombed elementary school in Iran appears to have become a target thanks to satellite imaging. In this case, what the image represented — and to who — was a matter of life and death.”
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Such images are burned into the brains of anyone who cares about education.” @cole-adams.bsky.social on the Palestine solidarity movement: www.publicbooks.org/the-last-gra...
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The Last Graduate Students? - Public Books
“I began writing this as a record of what it felt like to be a student then, as collective attachments to values—long recognized as fraying, with the knell of the next scapegoat, or horrifying…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“One summer afternoon, 10 years ago, I received an email that I initially thought was a prank from a friend.” New at PB: Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo on an email he received from Fredric Jameson—and the fruitful intellectual conversation that followed.
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“The Poetics of Social Forms”: Remembering Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) - Public Books
“No other thinker, Hegelian Marxist or otherwise, has lived up to this modernist vocation with the originality, intellectual élan, aesthetic intelligence, and political trenchancy of Fredric Jameson.”
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Planning a life was coming to feel impossible, or silly; writing a dissertation more impossible, and much, much sillier.” New at PB: As universities are brought to their knees by the Trump administration, @cole-adams.bsky.social asks how scholars can make their work responsible to the world.
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The Last Graduate Students? - Public Books
“I began writing this as a record of what it felt like to be a student then, as collective attachments to values—long recognized as fraying, with the knell of the next scapegoat, or horrifying…
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Over the decades, Jameson showed great intellectual independence and courage in going against the grain of anti-Marxism.” www.publicbooks.org/the-poetics-...
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“The Poetics of Social Forms”: Remembering Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) - Public Books
“No other thinker, Hegelian Marxist or otherwise, has lived up to this modernist vocation with the originality, intellectual élan, aesthetic intelligence, and political trenchancy of Fredric Jameson.”
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New at PB: @cole-adams.bsky.social reflects on what it’s like to be a grad student in the 2020s, when public good, responsibility to others, and democracy itself face the final chopping block. www.publicbooks.org/the-last-gra...
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The Last Graduate Students? - Public Books
“I began writing this as a record of what it felt like to be a student then, as collective attachments to values—long recognized as fraying, with the knell of the next scapegoat, or horrifying…
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