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Paul Allatson

@PAllatson

Cultural critic, writer, academic editor based in Sydney on Gadigal land. Industry Fellow UTS. PhD Latinx Studies. New book: Elián González Goes Pop!

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Joined November 2023
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New book (available soon): Elián González Goes Pop!: The Cultural Afterlives of a Cuban Child Icon (Palgrave Macmillan, Springer) link.springer.com/book/97830…
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Bringing back this banger poem by Sally Wen Mao
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Hugo (@HugoMashburn115) profile pictureHugo@HugoMashburn115Oct 27
Oysters when they want to make a pearl
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Book of the day: Mr. Kafka, and other tales from the time of the cult, Bohumil Hrabal. "Every morning my landlord enters my room on tiptoe. I can hear his footsteps. The room is so long that you could ride a bicycle from the door to my bed. My landlord leans over me, turns, signals to someone in the doorway and says: "Mr. Kafka's here."
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interpretation@materialcriticOct 27
Julio Cortázar named his cat Theodor W. Adorno. He was always referred to by his full name.
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Book of the day: Novels in Three Lines, Félix Fénéon (1861-1944)
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Zygote in action, spectacular
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John Coltrane "Naima"_Archive INA.
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Book of the day: Burning Bright: Stories, by Ron Rash
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Arundhati Roy: Artificial Intelligence Is Capitalism’s Final Destination democracynow.org/2026/10/23/…
Arundhati Roy: Artificial Intelligence Is Capitalism’s Final Destination

Arundhati Roy: Artificial Intelligence Is Capitalism’s Final Destination

Part 2 of our conversation with Arundhati Roy talking about AI and her new essay, “Apocalypse Now and Then: Artificial Intelligence Is Capitalism’s Final Destination.”

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Britain had about 30 million hedgehogs in the 1950s; we've got under 875,000 today. The population has dropped by about 97%. Shocking.
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Budi Darma, in his own words: aminef.or.id/budi-darma-en-2…
Budi Darma

Budi Darma

Before receiving a Fulbright scholarship, Budi Darma, born in Rembang, Central Java, in 1937, received an East-West Center scholarship to study in Hawaii. “I lived there for one year in 1970 to...

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Book of the day: Olenka, short stories by the Indonesian writer of absurdist realism, Budi Darma. A Penguin Classic, English translation by Tiffany Tsao.
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Mocking Jay@AmbivalentRantsOct 22
Lydia Davis, for how long have I loved and lived your poem.
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I am so SICK of this! Google should be ordered to fund the conservation of the entire countries forests now. 😡 Too many big companies are clearing forest because the ‘fine’ or consequence is just a small business cost for them. Absolutely disgraceful and happening worldwide! 😤
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it's worse than that. google cut down the forest WITHOUT A PERMIT because they know they're too big for small countries like ours to fight. they got off with a "oops haha sorry lol"
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The Paris Review
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“Call it precious and go to hell, I believe a story can be wrecked by a faulty rhythm in a sentence.” —Truman Capote buff.ly/E88Pakp
Truman Capote, The Art of Fiction No. 17

Truman Capote, The Art of Fiction No. 17

“The short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant.”

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Book of the day: and why not, since Essays one is so compelling? Essays two, by Lydia Davis.
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Oliver’s poem is perfection; it’s also perhaps the single best writing advice out there not only explaining how but why.
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Mike Amezcua@DrMikeAmezcuaOct 22
Happy to share my new article, “The Reach of Latino Capitalism,” out today in History of the Present (@DukePress), which offers a new account of NAFTA’s origins. doi.org/10.1215/21599785-125…
History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History

ALT History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History

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Rude, high-handed and unashamedly intellectual. Twenty years on from her death, what would the world think of Sontag today? artreview.com/the-monstrous-…
The Monstrous Susan Sontag

The Monstrous Susan Sontag

Rude, high-handed and unashamedly intellectual. Twenty years on from her death, what would the world think of Sontag today?

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Lydia Davis, interview from 2013: magazine.032c.com/magazine/s…

LYDIA DAVIS: Storytelling, a Strange Impulse | 032c

LYDIA DAVIS does not do interviews anymore, as she told me in an interview. She does not like to give a lot about herself away, and, as evidenced by her agreeing to meet at a café near New York...

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