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Jonathan Culler, former editor, current advisory board member, and author of Diacritics, will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Paris 8 on March 26.

In SubStance, Florian Cord explores the emergence of "the reparative" mode of theorizing, which is focused on pain and possibility in the face of present crises to salvage sustenance from the world Read free in @ProjectMUSE through 31 March tinyurl.com/cu65x3fe

Diacritics author Federico Zappino will introduce "Fungorum More," the essay he co-authored with Brunella Casalini for our most recent issue, at Birbeck University of London on Wednesday, February 26. See here for more information on this event: bbk.ac.uk/events/event/4…

Read Juan Manuel Garrido's "The Poetry of the World" (translated by Vanessa Doriott Anderson) from a 2015 issue of @read_diacritics muse.jhu.edu/article/630994

>> New Issue of Diacritics (51.4) Read it here on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53362

New on the blog: D. Bret Leraul on Chile’s Universidad de Artes y Ciencias Sociales and the archives surviving the ruin(s) of a university. Read it here on the Diacritics blog: diacriticsjournal.com/unarchive-9-in…

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

"Maternal writing is a way of keeping the world." - Lette Bragg

Diacritics contributor Lucas Ferraço Nassif will be speaking about his new book "Unconscious/Television" on January 21, 2025 at Colégio Almada Negreiros. Find more information about the book here: shop.becoming.press/products/uncon…

How you can sign up for a virtual chat with the Diacritics editorial team on Wednesday, January 15 #MLA25

CfP: IWBS 25 ‘Southern Benjamin. Mourning, Play, Revolution’, Rome, 17-20 September 2025, organised by the @AssociazioneWB Please send all application material to: Benjamin2025-Rome@gmail.com deadline submission 15/02/25: walterbenjamin.info/event/cfp-iwbs…

W.E.B. Du Bois’s Last Message Du Bois left us so much to learn from and build upon.

New on the blog: Gil Anidjar and Lette Bragg in dialogue about their new monographs and maternity at the limits in "Keeping the World: On the Maternal Conversation." Read it here on the Diacritics blog: diacriticsjournal.com/keeping-the-wo…

New on the blog: Junting Huang writes about the memory of coral reefs in the 8th part of our Unarchive series. Read it here on the diacritics blog: diacriticsjournal.com/unarchive-8-ho…

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The exhibition hall at #ASA2024 is now open! Stop by the Hopkins Press booth to say hello — and treat yourself to a 30% discount on orders for books and journal subscriptions!

"Always define a term when you introduce it for the first time. If you do not know the definition of a term, avoid using it. If it is one of the principal terms of your thesis and you are not able to define it, call it quits.” thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/umberto-eco-ho…

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