Alessandro Nai
@alessandronai.bsky.social
Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, ASCoR @ascor.bsky.social
Dark politics, Political communication & psychology, Negative campaigns, Leader personality
Editor-in-Chief at EJPR @ejprjournal.bsky.social
http://www.alessandro-nai.com
Dark politics, Political communication & psychology, Negative campaigns, Leader personality
Editor-in-Chief at EJPR @ejprjournal.bsky.social
http://www.alessandro-nai.com
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
November 25, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
#51
Tokyo Decadence (Ryū Murakami, 2016)
Fifteen short stories about the “seedy underbelly” of Tokyo, filled with heart and loneliness and a diverse cast of improbable characters. Come for the thrill, stay for the often sweet window into Japan of the 90s. A good intro to Ryū Murakami
#booksky 📚🖋️
Tokyo Decadence (Ryū Murakami, 2016)
Fifteen short stories about the “seedy underbelly” of Tokyo, filled with heart and loneliness and a diverse cast of improbable characters. Come for the thrill, stay for the often sweet window into Japan of the 90s. A good intro to Ryū Murakami
#booksky 📚🖋️
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
#51
Tokyo Decadence (Ryū Murakami, 2016)
Fifteen short stories about the “seedy underbelly” of Tokyo, filled with heart and loneliness and a diverse cast of improbable characters. Come for the thrill, stay for the often sweet window into Japan of the 90s. A good intro to Ryū Murakami
#booksky 📚🖋️
Tokyo Decadence (Ryū Murakami, 2016)
Fifteen short stories about the “seedy underbelly” of Tokyo, filled with heart and loneliness and a diverse cast of improbable characters. Come for the thrill, stay for the often sweet window into Japan of the 90s. A good intro to Ryū Murakami
#booksky 📚🖋️
#50
The Anthropologists (Aysegül Savas, 2024)
A gem of a book, delightful and enchanting. Unfolds as a series of vignettes in the life of young couple living in a foreign city, as they look for a new home. Simple, sharp prose, beautifully written. Touching and fresh. Wonderful
#booksky 📚🖋️
The Anthropologists (Aysegül Savas, 2024)
A gem of a book, delightful and enchanting. Unfolds as a series of vignettes in the life of young couple living in a foreign city, as they look for a new home. Simple, sharp prose, beautifully written. Touching and fresh. Wonderful
#booksky 📚🖋️
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
#50
The Anthropologists (Aysegül Savas, 2024)
A gem of a book, delightful and enchanting. Unfolds as a series of vignettes in the life of young couple living in a foreign city, as they look for a new home. Simple, sharp prose, beautifully written. Touching and fresh. Wonderful
#booksky 📚🖋️
The Anthropologists (Aysegül Savas, 2024)
A gem of a book, delightful and enchanting. Unfolds as a series of vignettes in the life of young couple living in a foreign city, as they look for a new home. Simple, sharp prose, beautifully written. Touching and fresh. Wonderful
#booksky 📚🖋️
Waseda is not messing around
November 18, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Waseda is not messing around
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Hard to select one - below quite the stellar triptych
Hard to select one - below quite the stellar triptych
November 17, 2025 at 6:40 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Hard to select one - below quite the stellar triptych
Hard to select one - below quite the stellar triptych
Any sane human being: two-factor authentication crushes my soul
Authenticator app: love us? Give us a good rating!
Authenticator app: love us? Give us a good rating!
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Any sane human being: two-factor authentication crushes my soul
Authenticator app: love us? Give us a good rating!
Authenticator app: love us? Give us a good rating!
#49
Intimacies (Katie Kitamura, 2021).
After moving to The Hague for a new job at the Criminal Court the protagonist, an interpreter, faces challenges that are both very intimate and universal. Solitude, finding your place, revealing yourself to people around you if you can. Masterful
#booksky 📚🖋️
Intimacies (Katie Kitamura, 2021).
After moving to The Hague for a new job at the Criminal Court the protagonist, an interpreter, faces challenges that are both very intimate and universal. Solitude, finding your place, revealing yourself to people around you if you can. Masterful
#booksky 📚🖋️
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
#49
Intimacies (Katie Kitamura, 2021).
After moving to The Hague for a new job at the Criminal Court the protagonist, an interpreter, faces challenges that are both very intimate and universal. Solitude, finding your place, revealing yourself to people around you if you can. Masterful
#booksky 📚🖋️
Intimacies (Katie Kitamura, 2021).
After moving to The Hague for a new job at the Criminal Court the protagonist, an interpreter, faces challenges that are both very intimate and universal. Solitude, finding your place, revealing yourself to people around you if you can. Masterful
#booksky 📚🖋️
Sweet potato crème brûlée - religions have been founded on less
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Sweet potato crème brûlée - religions have been founded on less
Not too shabby the view from the office tonight
November 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Not too shabby the view from the office tonight
#48
Hunchback (Saou Ichikawa, 2023)
Introspective peek into the life of a woman suffering from a severe congenital muscle disorder (like Ichikawa herself). She studies online, writes erotica, and muses about her body. An unflinching, explicit, and important book. Akutagawa prize 2023
#booksky 📚🖋️
Hunchback (Saou Ichikawa, 2023)
Introspective peek into the life of a woman suffering from a severe congenital muscle disorder (like Ichikawa herself). She studies online, writes erotica, and muses about her body. An unflinching, explicit, and important book. Akutagawa prize 2023
#booksky 📚🖋️
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
#48
Hunchback (Saou Ichikawa, 2023)
Introspective peek into the life of a woman suffering from a severe congenital muscle disorder (like Ichikawa herself). She studies online, writes erotica, and muses about her body. An unflinching, explicit, and important book. Akutagawa prize 2023
#booksky 📚🖋️
Hunchback (Saou Ichikawa, 2023)
Introspective peek into the life of a woman suffering from a severe congenital muscle disorder (like Ichikawa herself). She studies online, writes erotica, and muses about her body. An unflinching, explicit, and important book. Akutagawa prize 2023
#booksky 📚🖋️
#47
The Innocent (Ian McEwan, 1990)
A spy-cum-political thriller that also doubles a psychological exploration into love and arrogance (and youth), set in post-war Berlin. As always with McEwan the characters are nuanced and emotions run deep under their skin. Recommended
#booksky 📚🖋️ #litfic
The Innocent (Ian McEwan, 1990)
A spy-cum-political thriller that also doubles a psychological exploration into love and arrogance (and youth), set in post-war Berlin. As always with McEwan the characters are nuanced and emotions run deep under their skin. Recommended
#booksky 📚🖋️ #litfic
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Your daily dose of zen
November 8, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Your daily dose of zen
Tokyo doing its thing
November 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Tokyo doing its thing
🚨 New piece out at @thejop.bsky.social w awesome @cvargiu.bsky.social & D Garzia
If incivility means breaking norms, & norms are person- and context-dependent, *does incivility even exist*?
In the stage-2 registered report we investigate what drives perceptions of incivility
tinyurl.com/4h5u4y8y
If incivility means breaking norms, & norms are person- and context-dependent, *does incivility even exist*?
In the stage-2 registered report we investigate what drives perceptions of incivility
tinyurl.com/4h5u4y8y
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🚨 New piece out at @thejop.bsky.social w awesome @cvargiu.bsky.social & D Garzia
If incivility means breaking norms, & norms are person- and context-dependent, *does incivility even exist*?
In the stage-2 registered report we investigate what drives perceptions of incivility
tinyurl.com/4h5u4y8y
If incivility means breaking norms, & norms are person- and context-dependent, *does incivility even exist*?
In the stage-2 registered report we investigate what drives perceptions of incivility
tinyurl.com/4h5u4y8y
#46
Beast in the Shadows (Edogawa Rampo, 1928)
Century-old quirky detective/thriller story from Japan’s answer to Edgar Allan Poe (including the Japanese alliteration of the latter in the author's pen name). Fascinating because dated
#booksky #japanliterature 📚🖋️
Beast in the Shadows (Edogawa Rampo, 1928)
Century-old quirky detective/thriller story from Japan’s answer to Edgar Allan Poe (including the Japanese alliteration of the latter in the author's pen name). Fascinating because dated
#booksky #japanliterature 📚🖋️
October 28, 2025 at 6:39 AM
#46
Beast in the Shadows (Edogawa Rampo, 1928)
Century-old quirky detective/thriller story from Japan’s answer to Edgar Allan Poe (including the Japanese alliteration of the latter in the author's pen name). Fascinating because dated
#booksky #japanliterature 📚🖋️
Beast in the Shadows (Edogawa Rampo, 1928)
Century-old quirky detective/thriller story from Japan’s answer to Edgar Allan Poe (including the Japanese alliteration of the latter in the author's pen name). Fascinating because dated
#booksky #japanliterature 📚🖋️
#45
Vibrator (Mari Akasaka, 1999)
Part road trip-cum-love-story, part hallucinated stream of consciousness. Unmoored youth, yakuza, truckers, and the backroads of Japan at night. Packs a lot in a very small book Lyrical and at times beautifully written.
#booksky
Vibrator (Mari Akasaka, 1999)
Part road trip-cum-love-story, part hallucinated stream of consciousness. Unmoored youth, yakuza, truckers, and the backroads of Japan at night. Packs a lot in a very small book Lyrical and at times beautifully written.
#booksky
October 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
#45
Vibrator (Mari Akasaka, 1999)
Part road trip-cum-love-story, part hallucinated stream of consciousness. Unmoored youth, yakuza, truckers, and the backroads of Japan at night. Packs a lot in a very small book Lyrical and at times beautifully written.
#booksky
Vibrator (Mari Akasaka, 1999)
Part road trip-cum-love-story, part hallucinated stream of consciousness. Unmoored youth, yakuza, truckers, and the backroads of Japan at night. Packs a lot in a very small book Lyrical and at times beautifully written.
#booksky
Current administration keeping up with the trend of identifying wth the bad guys in blockbusters movies
October 24, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Current administration keeping up with the trend of identifying wth the bad guys in blockbusters movies
I like precision as much as the next Swiss, but this level of detail is a tad unnecessary
October 21, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I like precision as much as the next Swiss, but this level of detail is a tad unnecessary
Japanese neo brutalism taking no prisoners
October 19, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Japanese neo brutalism taking no prisoners
#44
The Siren's Lament (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1917)
Three stories about desire and obsession. Uneven, and certainly a bit dated, but at times engaging. Skip if pompous language is not your thing
#booksky 📚🖋️
The Siren's Lament (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1917)
Three stories about desire and obsession. Uneven, and certainly a bit dated, but at times engaging. Skip if pompous language is not your thing
#booksky 📚🖋️
October 19, 2025 at 4:12 AM
#44
The Siren's Lament (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1917)
Three stories about desire and obsession. Uneven, and certainly a bit dated, but at times engaging. Skip if pompous language is not your thing
#booksky 📚🖋️
The Siren's Lament (Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, 1917)
Three stories about desire and obsession. Uneven, and certainly a bit dated, but at times engaging. Skip if pompous language is not your thing
#booksky 📚🖋️
I feel like the original meaning was slightly lost in translation here
October 15, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I feel like the original meaning was slightly lost in translation here
#43
A Quiet Place (Seichō Matsumoto, 1975)
A bureaucrat’s wife dies suddenly in odd circumstances - what happened? Well crafted study on how mundanity can turn into destructive obsession, and fascinating window into corporate Japan of the 1970s. Recommended
#booksky 📚🖋️
A Quiet Place (Seichō Matsumoto, 1975)
A bureaucrat’s wife dies suddenly in odd circumstances - what happened? Well crafted study on how mundanity can turn into destructive obsession, and fascinating window into corporate Japan of the 1970s. Recommended
#booksky 📚🖋️
October 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
#43
A Quiet Place (Seichō Matsumoto, 1975)
A bureaucrat’s wife dies suddenly in odd circumstances - what happened? Well crafted study on how mundanity can turn into destructive obsession, and fascinating window into corporate Japan of the 1970s. Recommended
#booksky 📚🖋️
A Quiet Place (Seichō Matsumoto, 1975)
A bureaucrat’s wife dies suddenly in odd circumstances - what happened? Well crafted study on how mundanity can turn into destructive obsession, and fascinating window into corporate Japan of the 1970s. Recommended
#booksky 📚🖋️
"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
October 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"