Across the Universe by Natan Last

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illustration of a night-blowing cereus flower and the words SAID THE GRAMOPHONE BEST SONGS OF 2025.

it's december! life is sometimes bleak! here are my 100 favourite songs, and a man's fumbling swerves about why he loves them so much.

www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/bes...

The End of Palestine in English • Protean Magazine Rawad Wehbe writes with an extended critique of the shallow representationalism and tokenization that have marked the orientation of leading Western media spaces towards Palestinian poetry. Rather tha...

"The suppression, erasure, and eradication of 'Palestine' and 'Palestinian' in the English language, through blatant and nefarious means, is a threat to the very idea of language itself."
proteanmag.com/2025/10/05/t...

When I read things like this, I'm reminded of how the play and poetry of language — even punctuation! —  are ABSENT from most of the purely functional discussions of "why + how we write" precipitated by LLMs. I wish students could see the fun, freedom + productive friction in the process

my colleague+comrade, M.A. King, and I are organizing a roundtable at ACCUTE 2026 on poetry, capital's abstractions and antagonism, and registers of political resistance -- come thru! submit! "abstracts" are due nov 21: accute.ca/accute-2026-...

Claire-Louise Bennett - Big Kiss, Bye-Bye

Good morning

Geology and its figures are surfacing across the humanities: fields including political ecology, Black studies, critical Anthropocene studies, and the energy humanities have recently incorporated or interrogated geologic language and methods. Such breadth of engagement with this branch of earth science evinces a recognition of what Kathryn Yusoff names the “grammars of geology”—the figurative and formal techniques that subtend geology’s reproduction of racial capitalism. Meanwhile, geology also circulates through a popular rhetoric that calls upon textuality to make its objects meaningful: Colin N. Waters, chair of the Anthropocene Working Group, notably appealed to literary technique in his invitation to engage sites of geologic significance by “[reading] the stories that they tell you.” What is at stake in this figuration of geology as textual? How can literary studies contribute to a critical unearthing of geology’s grammars? And how might an attention to geology in literature reroute what Tiffany Lethabo King calls the “grammar of conquest” that grids modern relation to dispossession and death? This panel invites papers that address geology’s literary and theoretical figurations with particular attention to their imbrication with histories of racialization and conquest. Possible topics may include: the geologic grammars of postcolonial studies and Black studies; the poetics of ground, earth, or extraction; literature and the metabolic rift; literatures of geology and empire; or geology and deconstruction.

I'm happy to be organizing a panel for ACCUTE 2026 in Montreal titled "Literature and the geo-logics of conquest."

The submission deadline is Friday, November 21. Please share with anyone who may be interested!
accute.ca/2026-call-fo...

Live Like The Sky, by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 11 track album

Live Like the Sky is released. A sound track for all of those out fighting genocides, facism and colonialism. 💕🍉. On all the streamers. Cds & Vinyl on Bandcamp.

[Speculative Life Speaker Series] Malcom Ferdinand: Loving Ourselves the Earth: Undoing the Colonial Inhabitation - Milieux Join us for the fourth talk in the 2025 Speculative Life Speaker Series! This new lecture series brings together five distinguished speakers to engage with a range of thought-provoking topics […]

Very excited that Malcom Ferdinand will be visiting Concordia next month to share work from his recent book S'aimer la terre: Défaire l'habiter colonial

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thank you for reading! :)

I'm happy to have a short review of Jordan Abel's remarkable novel Empty Spaces in the new issue of The Goose: scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol...

Very excited to be back at ACLA this year! I'll be presenting as part of this seminar on "relation" and its attendant logics—see you there?

Wanda Nanibush Reading List — O BOD MAGAZINE Sharing the ongoing visionary work of Anishinaabe-kwe image and word warrior, curator, and community organizer Wanda Nanibush

The editors of O BOD magazine, supported by the Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia, have collected a reading list to share and celebrate the work of Wanda Nanibush:

"I choose to take the heat. I choose peaceful disobedience."
www.obodmag.com/issue-4/wand...

No Human Being Can Exist | Saree Makdisi What we are not allowed to say, as Palestinians speaking to the Western media, is that all life is equally valuable. That no event takes place in a vacuum. That history didn’t start on October 7, 20...

"How can a person make up for seven decades of misrepresentation and willful distortion in the time allotted to a sound bite?"
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...