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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 19d

three retrospectives >> Steve Hanson manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/b...
>> David Vichnar www.erratumpress.com/ansgar-allen... >> Daniel Green www.unbeatenpaths.net/p/issue-five

Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 4h

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Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 4h

Erratum Translations (est. 2025) currently working with Yedinci Kat Yayınları
first translations forthcoming...
erratumpress.com/translations
yedincikatyayinlari.com/en/isbirlikl...

Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 5h

forthcoming in Angelaki (2027)
ansgarallen.substack.com/p/immediate-... #Bataille #excess #AI #generativeAI

Immediate Obsolescence

Bataille, excess and AI

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 2d

JONATHAN MARTIN launch in Prague later this month...
...meanwhile, the incendiary's filtering through to retailers online & can be ordered direct from #Lulu here:
www.lulu.com/shop/ansgar-...

Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 2d

just stumbled on this: "2025 Ivan Reid Prize for Best Paper in Research in Education is awarded to Ansgar Allen for their paper The death of thought: Reading Bataille in the ruins of a university" ... which means the paper is now open access for a year journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 4d

Procto Nation ansgarallen.substack.com/p/procto-nat...

Procto Nation

Check me your dimensions in the procto-department, was the slip that fell out the fortune-teller back-slot, procto-national proctology, they called it, the up-propping, what else, our great flag flung...

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 4d

JONATHAN MARTIN on #goodreads
[rate the book > quote a firestarter🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥]
www.goodreads.com/book/show/24...

Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 5d

JONATHAN MARTIN | *out 1 Nov* Equus Press

Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 6d

my novel JONATHAN MARTIN has arrived at the publishers in Prague (photo courtesy of Louis Armand) | *out later this month*
ansgarallen.com/jonathan-mar...

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Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social · 15d

BREAKING: Our members at the University of Sheffield have voted overwhelmingly for strike action against the University Executive Board’s ongoing campaign of job cuts, and the threat to staff workload and wellbeing that they represent.

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 15d

#Bernhard #interview

Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 16d

preview of an interview for a forthcoming exhibition at the Literature Museum of the Austrian National Library
ansgarallen.substack.com/p/global-ber... #UniversityofVienna #Bernhard

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 16d

cover reveal >> DRAG EDUCATION: RuPaul, Queer Theory, and the Politics of Teaching by Ryan Tracy

[---book #3 in the Risking Education series co-edited by Ansgar Allen & Emile Bojesen---]

punctumbooks.com/titles/drag-... @punctumbooks.bsky.social #RuPaul #queertheory

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 19d

three retrospectives >> Steve Hanson manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/b...
>> David Vichnar www.erratumpress.com/ansgar-allen... >> Daniel Green www.unbeatenpaths.net/p/issue-five

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Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 19d

An extended review by David Vichnar on some of Ansgar Allen's recents www.erratumpress.com/ansgar-allen...

Ansgar Allen’s Experimental Fiction as Meta-Critique

Notes on The Wake and the Manuscript (2022); Plague Theatre (2022); Midden Hill (2025); Jonathan Martin (2025)

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 19d

the Division grows...

Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 19d

HERMESLANG / book #3 in the Academic Division / *out now* [pdf/pbk] www.erratumpress.com/hermeslang / book #4 coming soon...

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Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 19d

HERMESLANG by Spyridon St. Kogkas
erratumpress.com/hermeslang

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Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 20d

HERMESLANG by Spyridon St. Kogkas | *out today*
w. an introduction by Andrew C. Wenaus
www.erratumpress.com/hermeslang

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 26d

vom

Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 26d

manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/b... @stevehanson.bsky.social

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Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 26d

in a day in a day in a day in a

Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 27d

Good plan.

Ansgar Allen @ansgarallen.bsky.social · 27d

Steve Hanson feels as though he's been there from the beginning, so to speak. Here he is on my forthcoming novel JONATHAN MARTIN (which he reads alongside The Sick List, Wretch, and Plague Theatre)
manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/b... @stevehanson.bsky.social