Daniel Hadas

Pleased to announce the launch of 𝘊𝘢𝘧𝘦́ 𝘈𝘮𝘦́𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘦, where I am managing editor. You will find articles to interest, entertain and provoke you. Do try it out!

Coming up at Verdurin: Out of Print, or the problem of literacy Where does literacy begin and end? We take the Iliad to be the foundation of literary culture, but such texts stem from an oral tradition, embodied and mutable. Writing a ‘definitive’ version brings permanence, but does the artefact thus become a monolith, effectively spelling the word’s end?  In reading, words stand apart from their everyday significance. Already in the fourth century, Augustine found Saint Ambrose reading silently startling. The evolution of writing techniques — from Gutenberg to HTML — only fuels their continued abstraction. Technology gets the blame today for us no longer reading enough, not writing well, and, worst of all, failing to parse the written word. Yet already in the nineteenth century, Nietzsche bemoaned mass literacy. AI read-write tools make authenticity a premium, while the Chinese state is investing in the promotion of reading as a geopolitical tactic. Are reading and writing, therefore, a battleground of both our tastes and resources? These questions are the haunting of language itself. With contributions from Edmund King @ghostofchristo1, Alison Brady, @kitwilsonwriter, @danielhadas2, and aesthetic interruptions, Out of Print will examine the ostensible crisis of reading in our age in literary, philosophical, historical, and sociological forms. 📅 20 June, 2-6pm 🎟️ verdur.in/event/out-of-p…

Who Want To Be An Academic? cafeamericainmag.com/hunting-for-he…

And editor Elena Louisa Lange responds critically to my Israel/Palestine article on "genocide" vs "antisemitism", with her case against seeing both sides in the conflict as equally at fault. cafeamericainmag.com/why-both-sides…

New this week in @CAmericain_mag — @FOMO_sacer on his hopes and fears for theater in America. ... cafeamericainmag.com/make-american-…

Too much treacle from George Eliot? cafeamericainmag.com/village-angels/

Is there a way off the "who's the real Nazi?" merry-go-round? cafeamericainmag.com/nazi-against-n…

And Lottie Muir on now "identity fusion" places activism at the core of the self. cafeamericainmag.com/the-erosion-of…

New this week in @CAmericain_mag — @casertron3000 on Hanta as Covid's lacklustre second season. ... cafeamericainmag.com/enjoy-the-hant…

The @KingsCollegeLon Latin play is back — performed in the original Latin. tickettailor.com/events/ahevent…

The two Bertie Woosters— cafeamericainmag.com/a-fool-in-para…

William Blake's romantic gnosis. cafeamericainmag.com/god-man-or-man…

And @drianpace extends his evaluation of evaluation to his own personal and professional experience. cafeamericainmag.com/the-art-of-jud…

New this week in @CAmericain_mag - @aziz0nomics introduces the music of 1970s Lebanese originals Ferkat Al-Ard. cafeamericainmag.com/beirut-nostalg…

Studying correlations is linked to brain-rot. cafeamericainmag.com/links-to-nothi…

Hate the speech, but love the speaker - cafeamericainmag.com/debate-and-hat…

New this week in @CAmericain_mag — editor Elena Louisa Lange on Marx vs Madonna. cafeamericainmag.com/you-owe-it-all…

From philosophy to philology - cafeamericainmag.com/scholars-and-s…

The gender drop-down menu. cafeamericainmag.com/plastic-progre…

And @drianpace defends the much maligned quality of being "judgmental" (part 1 of 2). cafeamericainmag.com/the-art-of-jud…

New this week in @CAmericain_mag — @Musenfreund asks whether Freud's "death drive" can help understand the current trajectory of the left. cafeamericainmag.com/on-the-politic…