Alberto Andrés
@aandres.bsky.social
AHRC-funded PhD candidate, University of Leeds' School of English (attention in the contemporary stream of consciousness novel) | EN-ES/ES-EN translator.
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In my experience, Iris Murdoch is the only novelist who allows their characters to say "Oh goodie!"
Selling a few Iris Murdoch novels. What fun!
me: "The wrong person dies in this one, that's all I'm saying"
IYKYK
me: "The wrong person dies in this one, that's all I'm saying"
IYKYK
November 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
In my experience, Iris Murdoch is the only novelist who allows their characters to say "Oh goodie!"
Best thing I've read so far on the new Pynchon (imo a good-not-great, astonishingly addictive novel, which to be fair is a lot more than I expect to contribute to society at age 88) + just an extremely lucid career retrospective
“We’re back in pulp fiction wonderland, the fleeting apocalyptic allusions having been yoinked offstage by a vaudeville hook from the wings.” New online: Mark Iosifescu (@iosifescu.biz) on Thomas Pynchon’s SHADOW TICKET.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Using the Night | Mark Iosifescu
Maybe you know the drill: metahistorical intrigue and antiauthoritarian politics; several deep benches’ worth of quirky characters toting loudly emblematic affectations and not-strictly-probable names...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Best thing I've read so far on the new Pynchon (imo a good-not-great, astonishingly addictive novel, which to be fair is a lot more than I expect to contribute to society at age 88) + just an extremely lucid career retrospective
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I went to pay homage at Thomas Bernhard's grave in Vienna. A few minutes later, I was locked in the cemetery and had to try to flag down the caretaker to let me out. It was pitch black aside from the many candles guttering on the graves. I was unnerved, but I expect TB thought it hilarious.
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 AM
I went to pay homage at Thomas Bernhard's grave in Vienna. A few minutes later, I was locked in the cemetery and had to try to flag down the caretaker to let me out. It was pitch black aside from the many candles guttering on the graves. I was unnerved, but I expect TB thought it hilarious.
New Rafael Toral is beautiful and strange AND a perfect cosy season album rafaeltoral.bandcamp.com/album/travel...
Traveling Light, by Rafael Toral
6 track album
rafaeltoral.bandcamp.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
New Rafael Toral is beautiful and strange AND a perfect cosy season album rafaeltoral.bandcamp.com/album/travel...
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Thrilled to share that Killing Children in British Fiction has been jointly awarded the @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 2025. Thanks to judges; huge congratulations fellow winner @dremmaparker.bsky.social and shortlisted @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social.
bacls.org/news/187/
bacls.org/news/187/
News - BACLS Monograph Prize 2025 Winners
bacls.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Thrilled to share that Killing Children in British Fiction has been jointly awarded the @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 2025. Thanks to judges; huge congratulations fellow winner @dremmaparker.bsky.social and shortlisted @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social.
bacls.org/news/187/
bacls.org/news/187/
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The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration.
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
March 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration.
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
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Then there was the famous exchange between Bill Gates and Terry Pratchett in 1996(?) when clearly only one of them understood where human nature would take the Internet, and it wasn't Mr. Microsoft.
October 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Then there was the famous exchange between Bill Gates and Terry Pratchett in 1996(?) when clearly only one of them understood where human nature would take the Internet, and it wasn't Mr. Microsoft.
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Been thinking a lot about Raymond Williams’s “Culture & Technology” essay where he critiques the liberal account of technological disruption: organic progress, rather than conscious choices by capital.
Just imagine if the money we are flushing into data centers went to railways or solar panels.
Just imagine if the money we are flushing into data centers went to railways or solar panels.
September 30, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Been thinking a lot about Raymond Williams’s “Culture & Technology” essay where he critiques the liberal account of technological disruption: organic progress, rather than conscious choices by capital.
Just imagine if the money we are flushing into data centers went to railways or solar panels.
Just imagine if the money we are flushing into data centers went to railways or solar panels.
This is great. 'A refusal of AI in creative work begins with a refusal of that product’s ideological packaging'
“An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the artificial intelligence industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny.” Out from behind the paywall: the Editors on the literature of AI resignation.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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September 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This is great. 'A refusal of AI in creative work begins with a refusal of that product’s ideological packaging'
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Post-feudalism 🤝 neo-feudalism
September 18, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Post-feudalism 🤝 neo-feudalism
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I’m very proud to be running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. You can read my full statement here:
jencalleja.com/writing/
jencalleja.com/writing/
September 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I’m very proud to be running to be elected to the Management Committee of the Society of Authors. You can read my full statement here:
jencalleja.com/writing/
jencalleja.com/writing/
Love this album so much
'Devonté Hynes returns to England with a jolt on the first new Blood Orange LP for 6 years. Essex Honey isn’t about England, it’s about the mourning Hynes experienced there. If there’s anything more complicated than country, it’s that.'
Blood Orange - Essex Honey
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Blood Orange - Essex Honey
buff.ly/bi8GJvC
September 1, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Love this album so much
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People keep doing things in order to demonstrate to the UK's government that their repressive law against protest is absolute authoritarian lunacy and the UK government just responds with a "Yes, and your point is?"
August 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
People keep doing things in order to demonstrate to the UK's government that their repressive law against protest is absolute authoritarian lunacy and the UK government just responds with a "Yes, and your point is?"
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Sally Rooney putting her money where her mouth is (figuratively of course). Bravo.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
August 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Sally Rooney putting her money where her mouth is (figuratively of course). Bravo.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Thirty-seven years after the fact, the drum machine, doom-klezmer moves of Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows" remain an astonishingly radical gesture. From the crypt-keeper vocals to the reverse-Sermon-On-The-Mount-sentiment, it's the sound of Satan trying out his stand-up act and absolutely killing.
August 16, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Thirty-seven years after the fact, the drum machine, doom-klezmer moves of Leonard Cohen's "Everybody Knows" remain an astonishingly radical gesture. From the crypt-keeper vocals to the reverse-Sermon-On-The-Mount-sentiment, it's the sound of Satan trying out his stand-up act and absolutely killing.
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Also, like, there’s a lot of sublimating of Sub-Sp!ked patter that the cause of the Brexit vote or Trump or Reform polling was due to the attitudes of sneering of metropolitan liberals and guys it really wasn’t, it’s nearly always about - sorry to say, because I find it depressing - immigration
do think Political Social Media Brain makes people assume that they have to act as little politicians and not loathe anyone/always try to convince people and understand where they're coming from when actually, as a normal person: you do not have to do that, you can just hate them, it's fine
August 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Also, like, there’s a lot of sublimating of Sub-Sp!ked patter that the cause of the Brexit vote or Trump or Reform polling was due to the attitudes of sneering of metropolitan liberals and guys it really wasn’t, it’s nearly always about - sorry to say, because I find it depressing - immigration
Bring Her Back surely the greatest exponent of A24 slop so far? Toothless, with the whiff of the focus group hanging over it, as aesthetically bland and derivative as you can get -- the image not language but merely an empty husk
August 12, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Bring Her Back surely the greatest exponent of A24 slop so far? Toothless, with the whiff of the focus group hanging over it, as aesthetically bland and derivative as you can get -- the image not language but merely an empty husk
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#ALL50RTS #22
David Bowie - A New Career In A New Town (1977)
The overwhelming yearning of this song is beyond words, instead we have these Saxophone phrases ripped straight from the heart, and later echoed on Blackstar.
youtu.be/kZssy0IiyMA
David Bowie - A New Career In A New Town (1977)
The overwhelming yearning of this song is beyond words, instead we have these Saxophone phrases ripped straight from the heart, and later echoed on Blackstar.
youtu.be/kZssy0IiyMA
August 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
#ALL50RTS #22
David Bowie - A New Career In A New Town (1977)
The overwhelming yearning of this song is beyond words, instead we have these Saxophone phrases ripped straight from the heart, and later echoed on Blackstar.
youtu.be/kZssy0IiyMA
David Bowie - A New Career In A New Town (1977)
The overwhelming yearning of this song is beyond words, instead we have these Saxophone phrases ripped straight from the heart, and later echoed on Blackstar.
youtu.be/kZssy0IiyMA
Such a great, underrated album -- Live Lid is one of my fave Stars of the Lid pieces
'Music For Nitrous Oxide isn’t their most influential album, but it is the record where they can be heard most directly evoking the process of the brain unspooling, and all the darkness and light that might be freed'
Reissue of the Week: Songs For Nitrous Oxide by #StarsOfThe Lid
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Reissue of the Week: Songs For Nitrous Oxide by #StarsOfThe Lid
buff.ly/ovJlBbE
August 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Such a great, underrated album -- Live Lid is one of my fave Stars of the Lid pieces
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A little tale about Dorothy Richardson and her use of ellipses in Pilgrimage.
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asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...
August 2, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A little tale about Dorothy Richardson and her use of ellipses in Pilgrimage.
asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...
asterismbooks.com/product/pilg...
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you see this basic dynamic all over, where the right identifies a real issue and exploits it in bad faith, and then dupes in media and politics take them at their word, as if they are sincerely concerned about the problem and offering solutions.
August 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
you see this basic dynamic all over, where the right identifies a real issue and exploits it in bad faith, and then dupes in media and politics take them at their word, as if they are sincerely concerned about the problem and offering solutions.
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Thank you for sharing this @equintero.bsky.social!
And thank you to @carlhendrick.substack.com for the thought-provoking essay: "Deep reading..trains us in the moral dispositions that public life requires: attention, imagination, restraint." substack.com/home/post/p-...
And thank you to @carlhendrick.substack.com for the thought-provoking essay: "Deep reading..trains us in the moral dispositions that public life requires: attention, imagination, restraint." substack.com/home/post/p-...
July 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Thank you for sharing this @equintero.bsky.social!
And thank you to @carlhendrick.substack.com for the thought-provoking essay: "Deep reading..trains us in the moral dispositions that public life requires: attention, imagination, restraint." substack.com/home/post/p-...
And thank you to @carlhendrick.substack.com for the thought-provoking essay: "Deep reading..trains us in the moral dispositions that public life requires: attention, imagination, restraint." substack.com/home/post/p-...
Truly awful news for people whose death drive manifests itself as the urge to watch terrible television and enjoy the discourse around it aka me
August 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Truly awful news for people whose death drive manifests itself as the urge to watch terrible television and enjoy the discourse around it aka me