iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Ex hale Pollen is the exhalation of the flower. The poem is the exhalation of the author. Death is the life of the flower deer. Cecilia Vicuña tr. Daniel Borzutzky

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Ritwij Mishra @ritwijmishra.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Birthdays are the eternal pause that mourn in welcome when I come home - fractals of my non-thetical consciousness of being cleaved to the diapente of the surrendered blend of age. #latebirthdaypost #library #author #writinglife #home

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Poets have swag! Brazilian poet Ana Cristina Cesar

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Yoon Kim @yoonkim.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

“Warum müssen fast alle Dinge mir als ihre eigene Parodie erscheinen? Warum muß es mir vorkommen, als ob fast alle, nein, alle Mittel und Konvenienzen der Kunst heute nur noch zur Parodie taugten?” — Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

This digital map and archive of Italian punk zines from the 1980s has been blowing my mind all day. Some of it is weird to load but it's worth the effort. Tons of energy! Some interesting art zines too. paolopalmacci.it/capitmundi/b...

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Elenco Alfabetico Fanzine Anni 80

Società per la Bonifica Multimediale delle Paludi Mentali

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Delighted to have some poems from SAYING YES IN RUSSIAN translated into Italian by Laura Corraducci for FARE VOCCI, edited by Giovanni Fierro (scroll down to find them): www.farevoci.it

Screen shot from the website:
Quote from poem in English and Italian
'That world was enough, you say
Quel mondo era
abbastanza, dici'
Photo of me in winter hat and coat

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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This is how to begin a novel

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Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

“I write that is to say I get on board a notebook to cross abysses and be reborn from the fires.”

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J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Poetry advertisement

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Ritwij Mishra @ritwijmishra.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Beautiful! Poetry and its seduction of the dust off the poet's debris feels like an affine involution of both, seducing away the orthographic for the light to settle on.

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 19/10/2025

In the footsteps of Anthropic: a new class action (not yet certified) against Salesforce for using pirated books for AI training. There will be more of these

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

If you are going to be raptured tomorrow, might I recommend some rapture-reading for you by Gherasim Luca, as translated by the Semilians and introduced by Andrei Codrescu? See "the objective consequence of an objective amorous rapture" for guidelines. drive.google.com/file/d/1zVF-...

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Gherasim Luca, THE INVENTOR OF LOVE AND OTHER WRITINGS.pdf

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Ritwij Mishra @ritwijmishra.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I photographed my gardens in their Monsoon plerosis on an evening when "Sobrevivir a un fusilamiento: ocho historias reales" and a Gazan preserving books cut an ontogenetic stentorian in my heart - my heart needed an epicanthic of green, a Nicht that really is a Weltinnenraum, to write that night.

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

We’re getting closer to bringing the new @subpresspoetry.bsky.social titles to press. They’re so good.

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

"Llechen" ar gyfer "tablet" (h.y. iPad etc) wir yn profi bod y Gymraeg yn medru troi popeth yn gartrefol. Gwbod bod "llechau Moses" ayyb yn gywir, ond dal yn swnio i mi fel rhywbeth i roi ar y to ym Mlaenau Ffestiniog.

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Brian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Jeremy Tiang really hits the nail on the head here (as would be expected). Translation is caught between two forms of capitalist exploitation: using a per-word freelance structure to provide a bare minimum fee, and playing on its artistic nature to compel free ancillary labor alongside

Tiang: As Maureen alluded to, when we sign a contract, we get paid for our translations. But, in fact, we’re also doing a lot of other labor that is expected but not compensated. This can start way before the contract is signed. Many of us are pitching books to publishers, and to do that, we have to be reading wisely. We have to be making contact with authors and publishers to make sure that the rights are available. We have to do sample translations and synopses, for free, and we have to email them to publishers that we have taken care to build relationships with. All of this is unpaid until a publisher accepts the book, at which point you are negotiating for money after having done a lot of labor. And then there is, as Adam has pointed out, a power differential where the only power the translator has is to say, “This is what I would like.”

Beyond that, all you can do is accept what you’re offered or walk away. In one sense, you’re being paid for the labor of your translation. But in another sense, you’re an all-around concierge who, in my case because many of my authors do not speak English, is expected to translate emails between the author and the publisher, to act as a kind of go-between: an agent, a rights agent, and a publicist all in one. We do what has to be done in order to get the translation to market, and often we are the only person in the equation with access to both languages and both cultures and both literary scenes, so we’re the only person who can do this work. But it’s not in our contracts, and we’re not getting paid for it. But it’s what has to happen to keep everything running.

Tiang: Honestly, any kind of disruptive solution would be great. I am someone who makes the majority of my income from literary translation, even though my language isn’t particularly in demand. I do this by pitching a lot, generating a lot of my own work, never taking a day off, not sleeping. And that’s not really sustainable. The question for someone like me, who is relatively established and working constantly translating three to four books a year, is: Should I not be making a living? The fact that I am not suggests a problem with sustainability in the industry. It can’t just be people with outside sources of income. But I will say that this conversation has been hugely generative, and I’m going to suggest we start a group chat and continue it.

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Ritwij Mishra @ritwijmishra.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

This does read like a riveting speculative piece. Textual interpretation used to have inexorable possibilities for discovery - all those allographic imports and transformational adjuncts - when the media for composition and typesetting were analogue, as opposed to self-effacing digital emendations.

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Ritwij Mishra @ritwijmishra.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Tiene razón en cuanto a que las bibliotecas personifican una cinta de Möbius de la proleptic. La vanidad de la enantiodromía aún no correspondida, mi biblioteca entusiasma; el Scaliger de la vanidad no puede quejarse del Pontano de la redundancia! www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Tu...

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Arturo Pérez-Reverte: "Tengo 32.000 libros en casa. Mi biblioteca es mi Wikipedia" | EL PAÍS

YouTube video by EL PAÍS

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Ritwij Mishra @ritwijmishra.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

My writing setup for quite a few nights now with platitude and hopelessness both a bilateral protomatter - a trefoil heeding both the "pure will" of Schopenhauer and the vigalitavedyantara of words and amphibrachs across a trefoil heeding Berezovsky's legatos for Medtner. #litsky

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Jen Wilshaw 🌻 @wilshaw755.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Organ concert coming up at 18:55 BST with Arjen Leistra on the Maarschalkerweerd organ, Havenkerk, Schiedam www.youtube.com/live/aZDooUm...

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Orgelconcert Havenkerk Schiedam door Arjen Leistra 15 juli 2025

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Jan Cockx' portrait of the writer Roger Avermaete,' (1919) can be seen as the ushering in of a new era of hope and light for painting and literature for Begium after WW1. Avermaete wrote and illustrated a book on Frans Masereel, considered to be the creator of the woodcut novel.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/07/2025

Thread. There's also the issue that good, intensive journalism costs money and takes an editing/publishing infrastructure - more than many individual writers can afford and manage on their own. Single-writer newsletters can't and won't save journalism.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Mosab Abu Toha’s Substack has been reinstated

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Ritwij Mishra @ritwijmishra.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Wonderfully edifying, this! @alinaetc.bsky.social's piece makes me feel compelled to take Giacometti's sketches and oneiric substrata for an undulating lambrequin, a tastraum - a tactical space - for an involuted hodiernal rather than - or, the hodiernal as a crutch for the oneiric - the lived one.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 11/04/2025

Yep. I saved hundreds or even thousands of dollars a month just from switching from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. I pay a roughly flat $85/month now (~$75 for mailsending, $10 for hosting), vs. 10% of all my subscription income.

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Former Substack creators say they’re earning more on new platforms that offer larger shares of subscription revenue

Former Substack writers who exited the platform in early 2024 are making more money on Beehiiv and Ghost thanks to their fixed pricing models.

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Ritwij Mishra @ritwijmishra.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

My Dum Biryani! Hofmannsthal considered désoeuvrement as inertia of being as being dichotomous: writing - and the library - evokes a certain apotropaic response, while the garden and a solo-cooked meal quietens it enough to allow feeling and thought to supersede response.

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Arturo Pérez-Reverte: "Tengo 32.000 libros en casa. Mi biblioteca es mi Wikipedia" | EL PAÍS

YouTube video by EL PAÍS

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Ritwij Mishra @ritwijmishra.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

A poet since my boyhood, I have always thought of suffering of any living, sustained pis aller sort - to any however deserving - as a primordial anomaly, but I do hope now for fundamentalists - including our own Hindu hegemonic regime - that some supralapsarian justice subsumes their kraterocracy.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Glas en rose.

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Ritwij Mishra @ritwijmishra.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

While in medieval illuminated books far less strokes for forms far more axonometric and reliquary motifs were used than the later art forms would entail, the cogitando inteuri of their pareidolia was unique to them, not to the illuminators of later centuries. www.youtube.com/shorts/ZX8_g...

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This Bookseller’s Description DESTROYED my Morning!! #history #christianbooks #rarebooks #books

YouTube video by Adam Weinberger Rare Book Buyer

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Juan Ramón Jiménez, tr. Robert Bly

“COBRE LA RIENDA”

Cobré la rienda,
di la vuelta al caballo
del alba;
me entré, blanco, en la vida.

¡Oh, cómo me miraban,
locas,
las flores de mi sueño,
levantando los brazos a la luna!

“I PULLED ON THE REINS”

I pulled on the reins,
I turned the horse
of the dawn,
and I came in to life, pale.

Oh how they looked at me,
the flowers of my dream,
insane,
lifting their arms to the moon!

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Chris Satoor @nieaufgehenderrest.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Forthcoming February 25th, 2025. The Philosophy of Wilhelm Schapp From Phenomenology to Jurisprudence and the Hermeneutics of Stories Daniele De Santis (Anthology Editor) , Daniele Nuccilli (Anthology Editor)

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Ritwij Mishra @ritwijmishra.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

This tastes like a rather warm fictio iuris aside of that Other Place - one of the more dissonant Hobbesian paradoxes for many among us writers - but I am hopeful that, blue or otherwise, this may yet be a Campanella of a literary arete for us.

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