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Everything we do is making the future youtu.be/IH0Uli5tto4 #arts #culture #future #hope #ai #humanities #media #criticism #CriticalThinking

Artun Faliro 3h ago

“Despite years of #literary #criticism seeking to undo the idea of the inscrutable Other, here we were. . . .”

Lina Abushouk
20 May 2026
https://africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-to-read-postcolonial-writing

I enjoyed reading this article which I thought offered nuanced, critical, historical & contemporary insights. Here it is.

“how elite, metropolitan #literary #institutions have read—and misread—writing from the postcolonial world.”

“aesthetic #assumptions so thoroughly #institutionalized that they can be reproduced from #within.”

How to read postcolonial writing

The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive, and primitive.

Stan Carey 4h ago

Reading this slim but substantial collection. I had read the title essay and a couple of others over the years, but some are new to me. The one on Virginia Woolf and criticism is amazing.

#books #essays #RebeccaSolnit #criticism

Kpop News Hub 20h ago

"I Jerked Off" — ITZY Fan's Confession Draws Criticism, But Not Toward Them #Confession #Criticism #Draws #Fans #ITZY #Jerked
https://kpopnewshub.com/i-jerked-off-itzy-fans-confession-draws-criticism-but-not-toward-them/?fsp_sid=30110

"I Jerked Off" — ITZY Fan's Confession Draws Criticism, But Not Toward Them - KpopNewsHub – Latest K-Pop News, Idols & Korean Entertainment

They did WHAT at Seoul Station?!

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Osna.FM 1d ago

Michelle Hunziker recently offered heartfelt reflections about her former colleague, Thomas Gottschalk. Meeting him again led her to share how happy she was to... https://news.osna.fm/?p=47646 | #news #amid #career #criticism #defends