Lette Bragg

I am thrilled to announce that my book, The Ruins of Solitude: Maternity at the Limits of Academic Discourse, is under contract @punctum_books

Here I am being lost. All my writing comes from my disability, and yet I kept myself from myself.

Ah...Let me be ethical: “I am nondisabled and sharing pursuant to disabled-first copyright.” ojs.scholarsportal.info/ontariotechu/i…

BORG.DIEM is published (@InclDisability), and it is beautiful! Check it out and listen to @JillianWeise talk about the dictionary on Many Academies ojs.scholarsportal.info/ontariotechu/i…

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Gil Anidjar (Columbia University) will present his new book, On the Sovereignty of Mothers: The Political as Maternal next Thursday, March 20th, 2025, from 3:30 PM -4:45 PM at the Anatol Center, California State University, Long Beach.

To quote: “I have never taken that distance from the real, which would have allowed me to move possessively towards it.”

One of their fascinating arguments is that, for all three artists, their opacity is not a performance of the difficulty of their work so much as a refusal to play the authoritative role of ‘artist as one who reveals’.

DON'T MISS IT! Book launch for Heavy Processing on January 23rd at 7 pm at Another Story Bookshop. See you there!

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@punctum_books I am quoting Gil Anidjar. He gave us this idea of "keeping the world."

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

Nothing is more admirable than completely eviscerating a form at the outset, while staking meaning on the expectation of that form still holding meaning, which is to say postscripts should always be written on envelopes or skirts.

Foucault in a 1982 interview (in English): “You see, I hate to say it, but it’s true that I am not a really good academic. For me intellectual work is related to what you could call aestheticism, meaning transforming yourself. … I know that knowledge can transform us, [+]

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May his progeny grow up filled with loathing and disgust for him. May the planet’s curses bind together to destroy his empire. May we live to see it and laugh. Also, may he have 7 months of diarrhea! Just for kicks!

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Having a blast 💥 at #mla25!

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…

In "The Time beneath the Concrete," Nasser Abourahme argues that settler colonialism in #Palestine is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. Read the introduction for free now. buff.ly/3BwdKyr

We did not all reluctantly conclude once again that we couldn’t advance the resolution. @estherlallen and I resigned on Dec 6.

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Spread the word! @proffwolff and I have extended the deadline for submissions for our special issue on the American novel at the turn of the 20th century for Arizona Quarterly. New date is Jan. 2nd. azq.arizona.edu/call-papers-0