Stu Hatton

From ‘the uncontested’, a poem in my latest book, In the Not-too-distant Present. This poem was first published in the one-and-only Otoliths (ed. Mark Young). Books & tricks available here: linktr.ee/stuhatton

from Zen Forest: Sayings of the Masters (compiled & translated by Sōiku Shigematsu)

Spring by Giacomo Balla, 1911 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137517

Can't even

Franz Kafka, though a writer, is also a kind of literary philosopher, whose works probe humanity’s greatest questions. In an interview, Aaron Schuster explains how the writer’s work turns philosophy into “an object of wonder for itself.” Read more: thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/wondering-at...

Agreed, agreed!

I’m trying to remember this, and these days it isn’t easy. (From “Meister Eckhart’s Book of the Heart”)

Such a joy to re-read this: #poetrysky #poetry #jackspicer #poem #tiredpoem #lorca #poets

“The Igbo people say, If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place.” —Chinua Achebe buff.ly/99MA3Nj

Kazuo Ishiguro

"Alicia made art the way I did when I first started: from need, love, and naivete. When the feelings are as big as the information is chaotic, you put it into physical form in order to better see it, rearrange it, and maybe change it." - Fiona Alison Duncan, Exquisite Mariposa

What a perfect way to turn the reader back to the world, the ending of Gary Snyder’s epic _Mountains and Rivers Without End_ (1996). Pure bounty in release, triggered by a kind of infinitesimal ending (“drawn to a point”), a collapse into plenty.

Reading this incredible book for the second time, this time as part of my Masters coursework (but should also be relevant for my thesis). Dare I say I’m learning more on the second reading … #psychoanalysis #philosophy #sex #sexuality #lacan #freud #deleuze

Macabrescu’s photography inhabits a strange threshold where reality seems to reveal a hidden interior. The mystical does not escape the real; it emerges from it—through silence, decay, bodies, shadows, and fragile gestures. Her images make the familiar uncanny, as if reality itself were dreaming.

🔥 #poetrysky #poetry #poets #love

Alenka Zupancic, from her book Disavowal #disavowal #climatechange #psychoanalysis #freud #lacan #whattoread

www.e-flux.com/notes/678351... Zupančič challenges the idea that crisis is merely a temporary interruption of normality. Perhaps the interregnum is the regnum itself: instability is not an exception but the very logic of contemporary political life.

#currentlyreading #psychoanalysis #freud #lacan #deathdrive

this, too, is self-sabotage

This is worth a listen … #philosophy #psychoanalysis #autism #lacan

This is the way … #poetrysky #poetry #poetics

I grow gnomic. It is the last phase. - #SamuelBeckett

Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.

Today would have been Michel Foucault's 100th birthday. In honor of his Centennial, and our own, we're offering a wide variety of free content related to the great philosopher on our blog. Books, chapters, & articles will be open access until Dec. 15, 2026. #DUP100 #Foucault buff.ly/H2nyiVZ

Jakobson's genius was in his knack for building scholarly communities wherever he landed. My article covers how he turned phonology into a universal key for culture and why he studied aphasia. gorky.media/context/stya... #RomanJakobson #structuralism #linguistics #phonology #formalism #poetics

Has to be one of Peter Gizzi’s best poems … #poetrysky #poem #poetry #poets #petergizzi

This! #poetrysky #poetry #petergizzi #poetics #poetryquotes #writing

may or may not be good hangover reading #ymmv #hegel #philosophy #logic #dialectics #PhilSky #PhilosophySky

I feel I work within the antagonism between poetry and anti-poetry. Poetry is something I both love and hate. I love its possibilities, its impossibilities. #dialectics #poetry #poetrysky #antipoetry

Had an excellent conversation with Daniel Tutt about some of the topics included in my book The Inexorable Fall youtu.be/LSpYlK0qkuI?...

Wild is the music of the autumnal wind Among the faded woods. Wordsworth, The Excursion

a plea from me, a lowly book editor, in the form of a (human written) haiku: Please stop sending me, AI-written proposals, My brain is melting. for entertainment purposes only!! I swear!! it's fine everything's fine I'm fine 😅

Definitely got that impression reading Neruda’s poetry … #poetrysky #booksky #fictionsky #poetry #writing

Jack Gilbert

Recent sighting in our garden. 💜 #iris #flower #plantphotography #beardediris #purple

Could’ve been a different 9 on a different day, etc. #my9albums #3x3 #albumsky #musicsky #top9

The deeper history of literally everything can be assumed to have been like this, can it not?

Matta, Black Virtue, 1943 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1124170

Music is the a̶n̶s̶w̶e̶r̶ question. #music #musicsky #NowPlaying #house #tribalhouse #dj

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

“I write to find out what I think about something.” —Anne Carson buff.ly/GMlbtvA

Diane di Prima

Rumi, tr. Barks

Oh you know, just doing my homework: contemplating the role of the unconscious (and the return of the repressed?) in psychedelic experiences. #psychedelics #psychedelicresearch #psychoanalysis #theunconscious #returnoftherepressed #freud #lacan

Delighted & honoured to have been accepted into the MA in Psychoanalysis program at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies #GCAS. My proposed research involves applying psychoanalytic and dialectical thinking to psychedelics.

“All prediction is conservative: it demands that we be as we are in whatever future it constructs.” — Paul Valéry, “Unpredictability” (1944)