Jan Mieszkowski
Professor of German & Comparative Literature at Reed College. Recently finished a book about the languages of botany.
- A friend has a student who constantly texts in class. Today she wrote to say that her phone is broken and she needs to miss class to get it repaired.
- A poem is a horde of destructions. –Wallace Stevens
- This is why you do the reading.
- Kant is never interested in the past; what interests him is the future of the species. –Hannah Arendt
- A masterpiece of literature is never anything more than a dictionary in disorder. –Jean Cocteau
- Cake en abyme.
- Pleased to have a piece in this new volume.
- "He thought that he had learned patience, but he had only lost impatience." –Maurice Blanchot, Awaiting Oblivion
- What are students taught in high school such that they worry that the most basic exegetical move may constitute "overreading"?
- Don’t you know that "No" is the wildest word we consign to Language? –Emily Dickinson
- I dwell in Possibility - A fairer House than Prose - More numerous of Windows - Superior - for Doors -
- Book Botany
- Sigh.
- Furcht vor der Nacht, Furcht vor der Nicht-Nacht -Franz Kafka, 18 Okt. 1917
- Recommended!
- It’s a genre?
- “Sound film as the limit for Kafka’s and Chaplin’s worlds.” –Walter Benjamin
- Reposted by Jan MieszkowskiRead Jan Mieszkowski's "Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions: The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's Der Proceß" in @mlnjournal.bsky.social on @projectmuse.bsky.social! @janm.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/945087
icymi: Jan Mieszkowski, @janm.bsky.social, Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions:The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's Der Proceß (via Proj Muse) muse.jhu.edu/article/945087 speech acts, rescission in contracts ... @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lpcprof.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jan Mieszkowskiicymi: Jan Mieszkowski, @janm.bsky.social, Uncommon Senses, Uncommunal Retractions:The Give and Take of Language in Franz Kafka's Der Proceß (via Proj Muse) muse.jhu.edu/article/945087 speech acts, rescission in contracts ... @law-and-humanities.bsky.social @lpcprof.bsky.social
- TFW you realize that the bookstore categories have passed you by.
- Required seminar wear.
- Reading between the lines.
- Reposted by Jan MieszkowskiI just bought the Virtual Sentence and I literally can’t wait for it to arrive!
