@PAllatson

Cultural critic, writer, academic editor based in Sydney on Gadigal land. Industry Fellow UTS. PhD Latinx Studies. New book: Elián González Goes Pop!

 Sydney
profiles.uts.edu.au/Paul.Allatson
Joined November 2023
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New book (available soon): Elián González Goes Pop!: The Cultural Afterlives of a Cuban Child Icon (Palgrave Macmillan, Springer) link.springer.com/book/97830…
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Zygote in action, spectacular
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John Coltrane "Naima"_Archive INA.
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Book of the day: Burning Bright: Stories, by Ron Rash
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Arundhati Roy: Artificial Intelligence Is Capitalism’s Final Destination democracynow.org/2026/10/23/…

Arundhati Roy: Artificial Intelligence Is Capitalism’s Final Destination

Part 2 of our conversation with Arundhati Roy talking about AI and her new essay, “Apocalypse Now and Then: Artificial Intelligence Is Capitalism’s Final Destination.”

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Britain had about 30 million hedgehogs in the 1950s; we've got under 875,000 today. The population has dropped by about 97%. Shocking.
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Budi Darma, in his own words: aminef.or.id/budi-darma-en-2…

Budi Darma

Before receiving a Fulbright scholarship, Budi Darma, born in Rembang, Central Java, in 1937, received an East-West Center scholarship to study in Hawaii. “I lived there for one year in 1970 to...

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Book of the day: Olenka, short stories by the Indonesian writer of absurdist realism, Budi Darma. A Penguin Classic, English translation by Tiffany Tsao.
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Mocking Jay@AmbivalentRantsOct 22
Lydia Davis, for how long have I loved and lived your poem.
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Nick Volpe
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I am so SICK of this! Google should be ordered to fund the conservation of the entire countries forests now. 😡 Too many big companies are clearing forest because the ‘fine’ or consequence is just a small business cost for them. Absolutely disgraceful and happening worldwide! 😤
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it's worse than that. google cut down the forest WITHOUT A PERMIT because they know they're too big for small countries like ours to fight. they got off with a "oops haha sorry lol"
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The Paris Review
@parisreviewOct 22
“Call it precious and go to hell, I believe a story can be wrecked by a faulty rhythm in a sentence.” —Truman Capote buff.ly/E88Pakp

Truman Capote, The Art of Fiction No. 17

“The short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant.”

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Book of the day: and why not, since Essays one is so compelling? Essays two, by Lydia Davis.
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@LovandfearOct 23
Oliver’s poem is perfection; it’s also perhaps the single best writing advice out there not only explaining how but why.
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Mike Amezcua@DrMikeAmezcuaOct 22
Happy to share my new article, “The Reach of Latino Capitalism,” out today in History of the Present (@DukePress), which offers a new account of NAFTA’s origins. doi.org/10.1215/21599785-125…
History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History

ALT History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History

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ArtReview_@ArtReview_Oct 22
Rude, high-handed and unashamedly intellectual. Twenty years on from her death, what would the world think of Sontag today? artreview.com/the-monstrous-…

The Monstrous Susan Sontag

Rude, high-handed and unashamedly intellectual. Twenty years on from her death, what would the world think of Sontag today?

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Lydia Davis, interview from 2013: magazine.032c.com/magazine/s…

LYDIA DAVIS: Storytelling, a Strange Impulse | 032c

LYDIA DAVIS does not do interviews anymore, as she told me in an interview. She does not like to give a lot about herself away, and, as evidenced by her agreeing to meet at a café near New York...

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Book of the day: Essays One, Lydia Davis.
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The mass migration of Australia's Bogong moths confuses the nation's weather radar: smh.com.au/national/nsw/clou…

Clouds, but no rain? Moth swarms bamboozle the weather radar

The extraordinary phenomenon could help save one of Australia’s most infamous insects.

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Synekura Audio
@synekura_audioOct 19
An excerpt from a debate on postmodernism featuring Gayatri Spivak, 1984
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Book of the day: The Underground Man, By Mick Jackson.
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