Francisco Robles

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Sticker reading "Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace", pablum ascribed to "Jane Austen."

Pope Francis raising, as though it were the host, the DVD of the Keira Knightley Pride and Prejudice.

For complex pedagogic reasons (but also in a spirit of FUN and FRIVOLITY), I give away Jane Austen stickers in my undergrad Jane Austen class. But, prepping today, I found that there is so much more dross for sale than there used to be. Examples:

Glad to see Wally’s taking a firm stand against Amtrak and the Penn Station raids

“Don’t Let Me Fly”: on Intimacy and Fame in BTS’s Map of the Soul: 7 – Post45 When it comes to the worldwide significance of Korean popular culture right now, the seven-member group BTS (or, 방탄소년단) naturally comes to mind — they are, by almost every measure, one of the most pop...

As BTS comeback season inches closer, I’m thinking again about one of my fave nonfiction pieces I’ve written over the last few years—“‘Don’t Let Me Fly’: on Intimacy and Fame in BTS’s Map of the Soul: 7,” for the @atpost45.bsky.social Hallyu Project issue, ed. by Yin Yuan

post45.org/2023/02/dont...

March 2025, woo!

C.D. Wright: University Poet – Post45 Thinking on the work and career of the poet C.D. Wright, I return, in my own elliptical fashion, to two quotes (and one idea) from two writers who write about the nature of literary production at the ...

Thanks to @aliciawright.bsky.social for all her hard work in getting this cluster together! What a joy to get to work with you!

And thanks @franciscondine.bsky.social for all your editorial & technical work! The cluster looks beautiful!

@atpost45.bsky.social

post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...

I've got an article in this cluster on C.D. Wright—look at the gorgeous company it's in!

This is an incredible cluster for a truly wonderful poet! What a dream team of contributors, and what a balm on a wild, windy Midwestern November Wednesday.

Great work @aliciawright.bsky.social & co!

Contemporaries – Post45 Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...

✒️ 📔 Today's the day of our C.D. Wright cluster!

Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social

ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet!

post45.org/contemporaries

Red tree flowers with frost and twigs

The late, great CD Wright is going to be honored at Post45 Contemporaries with an incredible, moving, expansive cluster of essays edited by @aliciawright.bsky.social . We are SO excited for this cluster, and we’ll be debuting it this week. Stay tuned for these pieces!

Texas smells like muggy Arizona?

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of language, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching

Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more-punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white, a new study shows.

If only someone could have seen this coming! @wolvendamien.bsky.social

Mute Compulsion - Public Books The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are actually parallel formations, reveals “The Guest.”

my pleasure to write this short piece about trauma plots, #metoo, mute compulsion of economic relations, what is love, et cetera

(h/t @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social & @sorenmau.bsky.social whose title I shamelessly copied)

so sick of hearing about AI initiatives in academia.

Instead, why don’t we invest in more TT jobs, student scholarships, research support, etc.

Overhearing a loud Zoom conversation where social scientists are casually talking about methods for massaging their data 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’m v glad to be in the humanities

It’s true: Pod45 is back after a brief hiatus! Here we have an episode based on our Samuel Delany cluster, ed. @blakestricklin.bsky.social . The podcast ft. Stricklin in conversation w @franciscondine.bsky.social, Y Howard, Christopher Breu, Rebekah Sheldon, & @kirinwgrene.bsky.social !

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.

It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies

But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

My So-Called Teen Dramas - Post45 I came into adolescence in the age of the supernatural teen drama. Spanning across novels, television, and film from the mid-aughts through the 2010s, the likes of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight, The CW’s...

i am so proud & honored to have gotten to write about My So-Called Life and the genre of the teen drama (& to put all of the hours of my life burned away watching teen TV to use) for the @atpost45.bsky.social cluster on MSCL, edited by the brilliant @dfmorgan.bsky.social! post45.org/2025/05/my-s...

Check this out! What a blast to read, write, edit, and think about My So-Called Life 30 years after it went off the air too soon.

Such a thrill to write about My So-Called Life and Winnie Holzman for @atpost45.bsky.social!

This essay was a blast to write! Thanks to @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social for recommending me as a contributor, to @dfmorgan.bsky.social for being a fabulous editor, and to @carlospescador.bsky.social for his expert feedback.

My So-Called Life at 30! Edited by the amazing @dfmorgan.bsky.social and with an essay by one of my favorite practitioners of the art of overanalysis @cmceleney.bsky.social

That’s right! Come thru at post45.org/contemporaries to see this magnificent cluster, edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social !

MY SO CALLED LIFE at 30! new on Post45! post45.org/sections/con...

Contemporaries - Post45 Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...

New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!

portrait of young people distorted through a watercolor filter

🗣️ *My So-Called Life* turned 30 (1994-1995) this year! We've got a cluster for you, stay tuned—

Ed. by @dfmorgan.bsky.social, & ft. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social, Steven T. Gravatt, @cmceleney.bsky.social, @elishacohn.bsky.social, @mythrijega.bsky.social, @ehl.bsky.social, @oliviastowell.bsky.social

“Media analyst & Bluesky user” 😏

IN THEORY, DARLING is out in the world today!

my book-length ode to queer theory & to the life & legacy of theorist, José Esteban Muñoz.