Javier Padilla
@javierpadillar.bsky.social
writer, professor — Books: *Dodecadencias* (@Valparaisoed, 2023) *Revolutionary Poetics: Decolonial Poetry and the Time of Liberation* (forthcoming, @SUNYpress)
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‘The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned against both.’
Hal Foster on the Surrealists and anti-fascism.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster on the Surrealists and anti-fascism.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster · Tightrope of Hope: Surrealism v. Fascism
The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
‘The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned against both.’
Hal Foster on the Surrealists and anti-fascism.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster on the Surrealists and anti-fascism.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Went to the library to pick up a book, ended up checking out 10 books.
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Went to the library to pick up a book, ended up checking out 10 books.
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STATIC FORMS: WRITING THE PRESENT IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST, by Shir Alon, is one of many amazing new books in Middle East studies from @columbiaup.bsky.social. Use the discount code MESA and save 30%. buff.ly/RMtSmQ9 #MESA2025 #ModernistLatitudes
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 AM
STATIC FORMS: WRITING THE PRESENT IN THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST, by Shir Alon, is one of many amazing new books in Middle East studies from @columbiaup.bsky.social. Use the discount code MESA and save 30%. buff.ly/RMtSmQ9 #MESA2025 #ModernistLatitudes
We have a book description 👀
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 PM
We have a book description 👀
the go to diagram to explain Kant
November 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
the go to diagram to explain Kant
Derrida criticizing Foucault:
“The misfortune of the mad... is that their best spokesmen are those who betray them best; which is to say that when one attemps to convey their silence itself, one has already passed over to the side of the enemy, the side of order.”
“The misfortune of the mad... is that their best spokesmen are those who betray them best; which is to say that when one attemps to convey their silence itself, one has already passed over to the side of the enemy, the side of order.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Derrida criticizing Foucault:
“The misfortune of the mad... is that their best spokesmen are those who betray them best; which is to say that when one attemps to convey their silence itself, one has already passed over to the side of the enemy, the side of order.”
“The misfortune of the mad... is that their best spokesmen are those who betray them best; which is to say that when one attemps to convey their silence itself, one has already passed over to the side of the enemy, the side of order.”
I hear you like allegories, so I put an allegory in your allegory
November 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I hear you like allegories, so I put an allegory in your allegory
“Adorno surely had it right when he wrote – in Minima Moralia (1951) – about those who recirculate received opinion: ‘only what they do not need first to understand, they consider understandable; only the word coined by commerce, and really alienated, touches them as familiar.’”
November 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
“Adorno surely had it right when he wrote – in Minima Moralia (1951) – about those who recirculate received opinion: ‘only what they do not need first to understand, they consider understandable; only the word coined by commerce, and really alienated, touches them as familiar.’”
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‘Capitalism within the British Empire created in Ireland a society especially vulnerable to the effects of crop failure.’
Niamh Gallagher reviews 𝘙𝘰𝘵 by Padraic X. Scanlan.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Niamh Gallagher reviews 𝘙𝘰𝘵 by Padraic X. Scanlan.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Niamh Gallagher · Carrion and Earth: Ireland’s Great Famine
Although Ireland had endured earlier famines – including one in the 1740s that, proportionally, claimed more lives...
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November 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
‘Capitalism within the British Empire created in Ireland a society especially vulnerable to the effects of crop failure.’
Niamh Gallagher reviews 𝘙𝘰𝘵 by Padraic X. Scanlan.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Niamh Gallagher reviews 𝘙𝘰𝘵 by Padraic X. Scanlan.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
A Hunger Artist
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
A Hunger Artist
800 pgs of autofiction
November 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
800 pgs of autofiction
'The possibility that language may be sourceless, baseless, not modelled on any mind divine or human, but rather coercively modelling them, appears when two different coherent languages struggle for domination within a single mind' (Miller)
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
'The possibility that language may be sourceless, baseless, not modelled on any mind divine or human, but rather coercively modelling them, appears when two different coherent languages struggle for domination within a single mind' (Miller)
close-reading close reading
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
close-reading close reading
Rorty describing Stanley Fish’s ‘cracker-barrel” style.
November 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Rorty describing Stanley Fish’s ‘cracker-barrel” style.
they jazzified frankenstein
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
they jazzified frankenstein
My article on decolonization and temporality: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
My article on decolonization and temporality: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Feeling “Thrown” after teaching students about “Thrownness.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Feeling “Thrown” after teaching students about “Thrownness.”
In awe after rewatching Mulholland dr. Never has a film examined the violence and eroticism of artifice so effectively.
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
In awe after rewatching Mulholland dr. Never has a film examined the violence and eroticism of artifice so effectively.
Terrible attempt at explaining logocentrism:
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Terrible attempt at explaining logocentrism:
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‘Who wrote this story for you?’
Boris Lojkine’s film ‘L’Histoire de Souleymane’ explores the role of truth and storytelling in a Guinean refugee’s search for asylum.
Michael Wood reviews:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Boris Lojkine’s film ‘L’Histoire de Souleymane’ explores the role of truth and storytelling in a Guinean refugee’s search for asylum.
Michael Wood reviews:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Michael Wood · At the Movies: ‘L’Histoire de Souleymane’
The title seems a little tame if you haven’t seen the movie. L’Histoire de Souleymane: Souleymane’s Story (or...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
‘Who wrote this story for you?’
Boris Lojkine’s film ‘L’Histoire de Souleymane’ explores the role of truth and storytelling in a Guinean refugee’s search for asylum.
Michael Wood reviews:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Boris Lojkine’s film ‘L’Histoire de Souleymane’ explores the role of truth and storytelling in a Guinean refugee’s search for asylum.
Michael Wood reviews:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
semiotics but make it marxist
October 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
semiotics but make it marxist
“The night sky: once proof of the existence of god, now evidence of his disappearance.”
October 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
“The night sky: once proof of the existence of god, now evidence of his disappearance.”
scared at the vet:
October 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
scared at the vet:
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Johanna (@johannawinant.bsky.social) and I believe that close reading is for everyone. So a few months ago I wrote this essay for @defector.com, in anticipation of our book, thanks to the incredible editor @brandyjensen.bsky.social, "Close Reading Is for Everyone" defector.com/close-readin...
October 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Johanna (@johannawinant.bsky.social) and I believe that close reading is for everyone. So a few months ago I wrote this essay for @defector.com, in anticipation of our book, thanks to the incredible editor @brandyjensen.bsky.social, "Close Reading Is for Everyone" defector.com/close-readin...
Grayness beckons:
October 21, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Grayness beckons: