Miguel
@miguelrivera.phd
PhD in English. Lacan scholar, newsletter writer, and sometimes data science guy. Read Paradox Newsletter: https://www.paradoxnewsletter.com/
@brutal-melo.bsky.social Shout out Puerto Rico. Maybe we need a speedrun marathon in PR.
July 12, 2026 at 12:46 AM
@brutal-melo.bsky.social Shout out Puerto Rico. Maybe we need a speedrun marathon in PR.
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Watch yakuza movies on July 5th. Yakuza Graveyard and Graveyard of Honor, Kinji Fukasaku and Takashi Miike.
June 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Watch yakuza movies on July 5th. Yakuza Graveyard and Graveyard of Honor, Kinji Fukasaku and Takashi Miike.
Using my custom domains to their fullest potential between this handle change and @paradoxnewsletter.com
June 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Using my custom domains to their fullest potential between this handle change and @paradoxnewsletter.com
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Caged (1950) and George Jackson are a productive combination: www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-385-...
Issue #385: Orthodox Mysteries, Unorthodox Subjects
George Jackson meets film noir; Japanese 'orthodox' mystery novels use unconventional form to create texts for both solving and interpreting.
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June 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Caged (1950) and George Jackson are a productive combination: www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-385-...
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The world is enjoying Severance. You can read about it, the Freudian unconscious, and shounen manga in this week's issue of the newsletter: www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-364-...
Issue #364: Narrative Traps and the Unconscious in Severance
This week, writing about Severance and Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story
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January 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The world is enjoying Severance. You can read about it, the Freudian unconscious, and shounen manga in this week's issue of the newsletter: www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-364-...
Robert Eggers must be stopped
January 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Robert Eggers must be stopped
This past week I wrote about the plight of literary studies, bad faith scapegoating, and Mike Tyson www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-354-...
Issue #354: Fights, Physical and Intellectual
This week, I write about Mike Tyson's legacy, Joji Morikawa's Hajime no Ippo, and the misunderstanding of what ails literary studies.
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November 23, 2024 at 3:39 PM
This past week I wrote about the plight of literary studies, bad faith scapegoating, and Mike Tyson www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-354-...
Haven't posted here since 2023, but there are some pretty compelling reasons to do so. The newsletter is still going strong: www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-353-...
Issue #353: A Fritz Lang Double Feature Changed My Life
Fritz Lang made two of the greatest movies of all time in Human Desire (1954) and The Big Heat (1953). Now, celebrating so-called "noirvember," I unleash my prodigious critical capacity to analyze the...
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November 12, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Haven't posted here since 2023, but there are some pretty compelling reasons to do so. The newsletter is still going strong: www.paradoxnewsletter.com/p/issue-353-...
Bluesky seems like it’s kinda poppin. Here’s another week’s newsletter: miguelrivera.substack.com/p/issue-294-... inside:
1) Jawan and SRK’s abs
2) Youth of Today live at the Rockpile 1986
3) Announcement that last 2 weeks of Kaiji writing will be followed by 2 more
4) Kamau Brathwaite
1) Jawan and SRK’s abs
2) Youth of Today live at the Rockpile 1986
3) Announcement that last 2 weeks of Kaiji writing will be followed by 2 more
4) Kamau Brathwaite
September 27, 2023 at 1:13 PM
Bluesky seems like it’s kinda poppin. Here’s another week’s newsletter: miguelrivera.substack.com/p/issue-294-... inside:
1) Jawan and SRK’s abs
2) Youth of Today live at the Rockpile 1986
3) Announcement that last 2 weeks of Kaiji writing will be followed by 2 more
4) Kamau Brathwaite
1) Jawan and SRK’s abs
2) Youth of Today live at the Rockpile 1986
3) Announcement that last 2 weeks of Kaiji writing will be followed by 2 more
4) Kamau Brathwaite
Finally I can promote my newsletter with links. Lots going on this week, including a brief evaluation of the American fast casual soft drink landscape: miguelrivera.substack.com/p/issue-289-...
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August 22, 2023 at 5:39 PM
Finally I can promote my newsletter with links. Lots going on this week, including a brief evaluation of the American fast casual soft drink landscape: miguelrivera.substack.com/p/issue-289-...