Across the Universe by Natan Last
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Across the Universe by Natan Last
⬜️⬛️⬜️⬛️ @natanlast.bsky.social
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 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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ibgrnntulywfrnaj3qnreu6c/bafkreihaukztqdp3am25qwfmm25zwxzew33s7kizmssdymzzpqihc5s6ly)
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 is released. A sound track for all of those out fighting genocides, facism and colonialism. 💕🍉. On all the streamers. Cds & Vinyl on Bandcamp.
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
milieux.concordia.ca/event/specul...
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?
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...
"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/...