'Personally, I find it ridiculous that Eilenberger gives this sophomoric pseudo-Nietzschean space in a book devoted mostly to much more subtle women. Her endless blethering in the imperative mood like Jordan Peterson on a bad day, about will, selfishness, the worthlessness of altruism and the moral foundation of capitalism, is very hard to take. And yet, I suppose, it is important to realise that Rand, though the feeblest of the thinkers here, was the most successful: as of 2020 her terrible novels had sold 37m copies, and her thoughts have underpinned the barbarous project of neoliberalism, inspiring former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, the Republican Tea party and, arguably, Trump’s low-tax and anti-regulation policies. Former British cabinet minister Sajid Javid, he of the “Tory power stance”, is a fan.'
@pivic@SteveClough@Talia@bookstodon Yes; if you're selling something that gives someone an advantage and makes them feel good about it, they'll buy eagerly
#CfP for the "Brill Companion to the #Literary History of the Early Anthropocene", which will "offer a historical overview of both canonical and non-canonical early anthropocene literature from a broad geographical perspective".
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If you're in #Massachusetts, please join me at the Writers' Loft's annual #literary extravaganza and winter bazaar on Saturday 12/2/2023! I'll be there starting around noon to celebrate the launch of the #poetry anthology I participated in called #GnomesAndUngnomes and to pick up some #gifts for the #kids in my life from #local#authors and #illustrators.
The address:
The Writers' Loft
43 Broad St.
Suite B404B
Hudson, MA
The virtual "Panel Discussion: #Promethean Creation or Post-Promethean Agency? The Role of #Literary and Cultural Studies in Thinking about the Future of Work and Technology" will take place on November 29, 2023.
#CfP for the Sapienza-Silesia Graduate Forum 2024 "After Shock: New Perspectives in #Literary Studies and Linguistics" which will take place on June 10-11, 2024.
#CfP for the #workshop "Waterways and #Literary Channels of the Pre-Modern World", which will take place at Ghent University (#ugent) on April 4-5, 2024.
The #conference "#Literary and Cultural #Disability Studies. British and Continental Perspectives" will take place at the Universität Freiburg (Switzerland) on November 2-4, 2023.
#CfP für "Journal of #Literary Theory Bd. 19, Nr. 1 und 2 (2025)", das auch "freie" Artikel ohne Bezug zu Themenschwerpunkten einzelner Hefte veröffentlichen wird.
#CfP for "Swiss #Literary#Multilingualism: A Challenge to the Monolingual Paradigm", which will be the subject of the 02/2025 special issue of the Journal of Literary Multilingualism.
The University of Basel (#UniBasel) is offering "Two Start-up Grants of the Doctoral Program in #Literary Studies (30,000 Swiss francs each)" beginning April 1, 2024.