Mike Classon Frangos
@mfrangos.bsky.social
Associate professor, English literature, based in Växjö and Stockholm, comics, speculative fiction, the Arctic, utopia/dystopia
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Hammer and Hope Issue #12 is out now, available for free in its entirety here. A short thread featuring a few of the articles:
hammerandhope.org
hammerandhope.org
Hammer & Hope
A magazine of Black politics and culture
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October 6, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Hammer and Hope Issue #12 is out now, available for free in its entirety here. A short thread featuring a few of the articles:
hammerandhope.org
hammerandhope.org
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From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
September 29, 2026 at 7:51 PM
From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
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my book is out now 🫶 💗
$18 with coupon code E26CNTNT
enjoy!!!??? :)
$18 with coupon code E26CNTNT
enjoy!!!??? :)
Content Machines: Reading and Writing in the Platform Era
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September 28, 2026 at 1:06 PM
my book is out now 🫶 💗
$18 with coupon code E26CNTNT
enjoy!!!??? :)
$18 with coupon code E26CNTNT
enjoy!!!??? :)
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This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
September 24, 2026 at 2:42 PM
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Our Plant Perspectives special issue on "Global more-than-human histories of palms" is out! Immense gratitude to my co-editors Sophie Chao and Pilar Egüez Guevara for their time, trust, and brilliance!! www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index
September 16, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Our Plant Perspectives special issue on "Global more-than-human histories of palms" is out! Immense gratitude to my co-editors Sophie Chao and Pilar Egüez Guevara for their time, trust, and brilliance!! www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index
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Dr. Anna Peppard pays tribute to the late Gloria Steinem with a look at how the feminist icon viewed another feminist icon: Wonder Woman.
An imperfect hero’s imperfect hero: On Gloria Steinem and Wonder Woman
Dr. Anna Peppard pays tribute to the late Gloria Steinem with a look at how the feminist icon viewed another feminist icon: Wonder Woman.
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September 14, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Dr. Anna Peppard pays tribute to the late Gloria Steinem with a look at how the feminist icon viewed another feminist icon: Wonder Woman.
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My new essay—on prosopopoeia, late liberalism, nuclear colonialism and imperialism, and sexual difference—is out in the Sept. issue of @differences.bsky.social. With readings of Albert Serra's Pacifiction, Anohni's Hopelessness, and an ecodrama by Ontroerend Goed. A taste of the big-book-to-come.
Calamity as Defacement
Abstract. Prosopopoeia defines legal and discursive efforts to cognize, and to exempt ourselves from, extinction. The figure of the Anthropocene, for instance, fits a human mask onto the modulation of...
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September 10, 2026 at 3:08 PM
My new essay—on prosopopoeia, late liberalism, nuclear colonialism and imperialism, and sexual difference—is out in the Sept. issue of @differences.bsky.social. With readings of Albert Serra's Pacifiction, Anohni's Hopelessness, and an ecodrama by Ontroerend Goed. A taste of the big-book-to-come.
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Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...
September 8, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...
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"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis."
Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.
Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.
The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
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September 2, 2026 at 2:01 PM
"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis."
Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.
Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.
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Radhika Krishnan (IIIT Hyderabad) is presenting her work on coal mining and labour in India in our seminar series tomorrow at 14:15-16:00. Send a message for the zoom link:
'Red’ and ‘Green’ Imaginations: Rethinking Technology, Identity and Ecology in Labour Narratives
www.lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
'Red’ and ‘Green’ Imaginations: Rethinking Technology, Identity and Ecology in Labour Narratives
www.lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
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September 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Radhika Krishnan (IIIT Hyderabad) is presenting her work on coal mining and labour in India in our seminar series tomorrow at 14:15-16:00. Send a message for the zoom link:
'Red’ and ‘Green’ Imaginations: Rethinking Technology, Identity and Ecology in Labour Narratives
www.lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
'Red’ and ‘Green’ Imaginations: Rethinking Technology, Identity and Ecology in Labour Narratives
www.lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
After two weeks of sick leave with pneumonia I’m wondering if I even remember what my job is or how to do it?
August 31, 2026 at 6:41 AM
After two weeks of sick leave with pneumonia I’m wondering if I even remember what my job is or how to do it?
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thank you the new yorker and françoise for having me do this cover for the late, great dolly parton
August 28, 2026 at 5:53 PM
thank you the new yorker and françoise for having me do this cover for the late, great dolly parton
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My article on reading mining and degrowth in South African literature for a special issue of Textual Practice is now online 🎉 And I think there are a few free eprint links available:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
White ants and mining: reading degrowth in South Africa
South Africa has an abandoned mines problem. These mines pose serious risks to lives and the environment and raise questions of what degrowth may look like in parts of the Global South that are con...
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August 25, 2026 at 7:18 AM
My article on reading mining and degrowth in South African literature for a special issue of Textual Practice is now online 🎉 And I think there are a few free eprint links available:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Robber Time: @ckunzelman.bsky.social on Joanna Russ in the Archives
The Robber Time: Joanna Russ in the Archives
Cameron Kunzelman In my life as a critic and academic, I am often fortunate enough to go places, read things, and generally have experiences with no expectations around them. I just want to learn w…
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August 18, 2026 at 4:22 PM
The Robber Time: @ckunzelman.bsky.social on Joanna Russ in the Archives
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New cluster, new cluster!! 🚨💡 💌 💫 💌 💡 Come to post45.org/contemporari... to read "Asian American Mass Culture," edited by Leland Tabares and Timothy K. August! post45.org/sections/con...
Contemporaries – Post45
Post45 seeks to reinvigorate the erstwhile convention of academic critics not only describing past traditions but also actively intervening in current tastes. It provides a forum for writers to conver...
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August 14, 2026 at 4:27 PM
New cluster, new cluster!! 🚨💡 💌 💫 💌 💡 Come to post45.org/contemporari... to read "Asian American Mass Culture," edited by Leland Tabares and Timothy K. August! post45.org/sections/con...
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Please share! My department is searching for a postdoctoral fellow for two years. Also, stay tuned for more news from ND English. This is going to be a year!
joblist.mla.org/job/2001161/...
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College of Arts and Letters Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, 2027-2029 - Notre Dame, Indiana (US) job with Notre Dame English Department | 2001161
The Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the English Department at the University of Notre Dame seek a postdoctoral fellow for 2027-29 AYs.
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August 10, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Please share! My department is searching for a postdoctoral fellow for two years. Also, stay tuned for more news from ND English. This is going to be a year!
joblist.mla.org/job/2001161/...
joblist.mla.org/job/2001161/...
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Zines appeal to artists and organizers because they sidestep digital surveillance and reach people in real life. https://bit.ly/4fUv6Fk
Can zines help us resist the slop overtaking the Internet? - Chicago Reader
Zines appeal to artists and organizers because they sidestep digital surveillance and reach people in real life.
chicagoreader.com
August 5, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Zines appeal to artists and organizers because they sidestep digital surveillance and reach people in real life. https://bit.ly/4fUv6Fk
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The introduction to my book is now available online, thanks @dukepress.bsky.social 🫶 The official pub date is in October www.dukeupress.edu/content-mach....
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August 7, 2026 at 1:41 PM
The introduction to my book is now available online, thanks @dukepress.bsky.social 🫶 The official pub date is in October www.dukeupress.edu/content-mach....
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Today is the official publication day for the new book. I haven't received my own copies yet, and it's way too expensive for humans to buy, but if you can order it for your local library, that'd be great! www.routledge.com/Geocritical-...
Geocritical Cosmopolitanism: Space, Literature, and the Sense of the Global
Is the world a place? As its inhabitants, we belong to the world, with its increasingly interconnected systems and cultures, but the cosmopolitanism of our daily lives is often hidden from view. In th...
www.routledge.com
August 5, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Today is the official publication day for the new book. I haven't received my own copies yet, and it's way too expensive for humans to buy, but if you can order it for your local library, that'd be great! www.routledge.com/Geocritical-...
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“We humans have a moral obligation to reconfigure how we relate to nonhuman animals.”
New at PB: David Peña-Guzmán on the inner lives of nonhuman animals.
New at PB: David Peña-Guzmán on the inner lives of nonhuman animals.
The Wonderful Capacities of Other Animals - Public Books
“As dogs, cats, horses, and probably all the higher animals, even birds have vivid dreams, we must admit that they possess some power of imagination.”
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August 1, 2026 at 1:35 PM
“We humans have a moral obligation to reconfigure how we relate to nonhuman animals.”
New at PB: David Peña-Guzmán on the inner lives of nonhuman animals.
New at PB: David Peña-Guzmán on the inner lives of nonhuman animals.
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I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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July 27, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Läste nyligen Ola Hellstens utmärkta intervjubok Gen Zerier, som fick mig att fundera över hur serietecknare egentligen betalar sina räkningar.
www.expressen.se/kultur/ar-li...
www.expressen.se/kultur/ar-li...
ROBERT AMAN: Är Liv Strömquist den enda med lön i Sverige
Svenska serietecknare håller världsklass och har prisats internationellt. Robert Aman lyfter fram en baksida i det svenska serieundret: få kan betala sina räkningar.
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June 28, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Läste nyligen Ola Hellstens utmärkta intervjubok Gen Zerier, som fick mig att fundera över hur serietecknare egentligen betalar sina räkningar.
www.expressen.se/kultur/ar-li...
www.expressen.se/kultur/ar-li...
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NEW ESSAY — Richard Fallon on arguably the first work of fiction to feature a Tyrannosaurus rex, Louis Pope Gratacap’s The New Northland (1915), a “lost world” novel at once kaleidoscopic, mischievous, fascinating — and exhausting... publicdomainreview.org/essay/gratac...
June 17, 2026 at 2:22 PM
NEW ESSAY — Richard Fallon on arguably the first work of fiction to feature a Tyrannosaurus rex, Louis Pope Gratacap’s The New Northland (1915), a “lost world” novel at once kaleidoscopic, mischievous, fascinating — and exhausting... publicdomainreview.org/essay/gratac...
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NEW: In an interview with The Xylom, climate journalist @meerasub.bsky.social reflects on a new graphic nonfiction book she co-authored, A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis, and what gives her hope in the face of a warming world.
www.thexylom.com/post/global-...
www.thexylom.com/post/global-...
‘We Didn’t Name It A Better World Is Probable’: Meera Subramanian on Hope in a Climate Crisis
Meera Subramanian reflects on a new graphic nonfiction book she co-authored, A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis, and what gives her hope in the face of a warming…
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June 6, 2026 at 6:19 PM
NEW: In an interview with The Xylom, climate journalist @meerasub.bsky.social reflects on a new graphic nonfiction book she co-authored, A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis, and what gives her hope in the face of a warming world.
www.thexylom.com/post/global-...
www.thexylom.com/post/global-...
She died of sadness, what a devastating loss
June 4, 2026 at 1:47 PM
She died of sadness, what a devastating loss