La Doleur Exquisabella
@minxmarple.bsky.social
a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • refusenik • moon gardener
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So. I am on a book-buying ban for 2025, so I am going to make a screenshot list here of everything I’m tempted by. I have a few pre-orders coming, but no subscriptions, though I am open to swapsies and arcs (😂). I’m a slow reader and have a backlog so let’s see.
this is the weekend i want
We're going to run away together tonight, after we steal some of Fanny's fruit cake and mug a big burly policeman with twinkling eyes.
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
this is the weekend i want
she wouldn't recognise christian if it bit her on the arse.
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 PM
she wouldn't recognise christian if it bit her on the arse.
The 3ams. You know.
November 28, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The 3ams. You know.
Still pink from my walk, i have to put this chilling contraption on for half an hour.
November 27, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Still pink from my walk, i have to put this chilling contraption on for half an hour.
My gossip circle rustles a goodnight, go to bed, stop remembering how you looked at me.
November 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
My gossip circle rustles a goodnight, go to bed, stop remembering how you looked at me.
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the arc of tension throughout- from the beginning to the end - of Lisa Robertson’s The Baudelaire Fractal:
“It was the month of June in 1979. I was looking for Beauty. I didn’t exactly care about art, I simply wanted not to be bored and to experience grace. So I thought I would write.”
“It was the month of June in 1979. I was looking for Beauty. I didn’t exactly care about art, I simply wanted not to be bored and to experience grace. So I thought I would write.”
November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
the arc of tension throughout- from the beginning to the end - of Lisa Robertson’s The Baudelaire Fractal:
“It was the month of June in 1979. I was looking for Beauty. I didn’t exactly care about art, I simply wanted not to be bored and to experience grace. So I thought I would write.”
“It was the month of June in 1979. I was looking for Beauty. I didn’t exactly care about art, I simply wanted not to be bored and to experience grace. So I thought I would write.”
I’m at a Postgrad open evening for about another hour and I desperately need distraction as I’m struggling to stay awake. What you got, Bluesky?
November 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I’m at a Postgrad open evening for about another hour and I desperately need distraction as I’m struggling to stay awake. What you got, Bluesky?
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I wrote a book about mythography, or being lost with the gods, or close reading, or thereabouts. It would be an excellent festive gift for a smart girl, or someone who'd like to twist the current frenzy for retelling myths. it's available here mabibliotheque.cargo.site/Isabella-Str...
November 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I wrote a book about mythography, or being lost with the gods, or close reading, or thereabouts. It would be an excellent festive gift for a smart girl, or someone who'd like to twist the current frenzy for retelling myths. it's available here mabibliotheque.cargo.site/Isabella-Str...
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'Who can afford to work at scale?' I ask at @artreview.bsky.social. Featuring @minxmarple.bsky.social
artreview.com/the-inequali...
artreview.com/the-inequali...
November 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
'Who can afford to work at scale?' I ask at @artreview.bsky.social. Featuring @minxmarple.bsky.social
artreview.com/the-inequali...
artreview.com/the-inequali...
in my new faculty, they do love to reply-all.
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
in my new faculty, they do love to reply-all.
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I'm no Luddite - far from it - but the ways in which in this development has been spoken of seem blind to, or completely uninterested in, what cannot be machine read and searched for: the pounce, sweat marks, soot, or wax; the non-semantic yet semiotically rich substrate that OCR strips away.
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
I'm no Luddite - far from it - but the ways in which in this development has been spoken of seem blind to, or completely uninterested in, what cannot be machine read and searched for: the pounce, sweat marks, soot, or wax; the non-semantic yet semiotically rich substrate that OCR strips away.
Homeward bound, honestly can’t wait to take everything off and shove my head in a bucket of tea.
November 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Homeward bound, honestly can’t wait to take everything off and shove my head in a bucket of tea.
Peeping at the moon through the Senate House window during In The Time of the Library.
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Peeping at the moon through the Senate House window during In The Time of the Library.
REF presentation done, tutorial done, lecture done, new module intro done, now on my way to London (eating my breakfast out of a jam jar) for this afternoon’s event.
November 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
REF presentation done, tutorial done, lecture done, new module intro done, now on my way to London (eating my breakfast out of a jam jar) for this afternoon’s event.
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Tiny delicate frost frill in low light.
November 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Tiny delicate frost frill in low light.
This morning I am presenting on practice research for REF. I *may* suggest we should spend less time worrying about the research definition and more about the practice definition. But first I need many shots of caffeine.
November 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
This morning I am presenting on practice research for REF. I *may* suggest we should spend less time worrying about the research definition and more about the practice definition. But first I need many shots of caffeine.
This is the kind of enquiry I can get behind. Shimmering forever.
I will be spending today trying to figure out if, in English, one shimmers *with* something or *from* something, if there’s a difference, and if we have to choose:
November 26, 2025 at 8:07 AM
This is the kind of enquiry I can get behind. Shimmering forever.
Today! It’s sold out unfortunately but just know how much I’d enjoy showing you the filthy books.
Tomorrow: In The Time of The Library, Senate House, London 4-7pm. As part of this wonderful event, I’ll be talking about hunting desire in the catalogue and the erotics of the stacks. Come! as Lacan would doubtless insist.
November 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Today! It’s sold out unfortunately but just know how much I’d enjoy showing you the filthy books.
Tomorrow: In The Time of The Library, Senate House, London 4-7pm. As part of this wonderful event, I’ll be talking about hunting desire in the catalogue and the erotics of the stacks. Come! as Lacan would doubtless insist.
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Tomorrow: In The Time of The Library, Senate House, London 4-7pm. As part of this wonderful event, I’ll be talking about hunting desire in the catalogue and the erotics of the stacks. Come! as Lacan would doubtless insist.
Sometimes, when you are a bit drunk and yearny, you just have to go out for a long walk in the sparkling cold night, and see how the light falls so.
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Sometimes, when you are a bit drunk and yearny, you just have to go out for a long walk in the sparkling cold night, and see how the light falls so.
Oh hey, that’s me!
For some artists, bigger is better. But who can afford to size up? artreview.com/the-inequali...
The Inequalities of Scale
For some artists, bigger is better. But who can afford to size up?
artreview.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Oh hey, that’s me!
Good morning to blue as expectation and thirst only.
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Good morning to blue as expectation and thirst only.
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This isn’t just food, this is a bid for affection on the eve of a murder…
November 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This isn’t just food, this is a bid for affection on the eve of a murder…
Delighted to say I’ll be speaking at @forarthistory.org.uk
annual conference in Cambridge in the Spring, on writing about art and the crisis in criticism.
annual conference in Cambridge in the Spring, on writing about art and the crisis in criticism.
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Delighted to say I’ll be speaking at @forarthistory.org.uk
annual conference in Cambridge in the Spring, on writing about art and the crisis in criticism.
annual conference in Cambridge in the Spring, on writing about art and the crisis in criticism.