sara-maria sorentino

let's talk about sci fi at the next AAR! have you read Gene Wolfe?

As Fanon himself once remarked, explaining that he could not sometimes fully explain passages in his work that seem obscure, but that there is a productive, indeed almost sensual, pleasure in his difficult and quizzical formulations, “I find myself incapable of escaping the bite of a word, the vertigo of a question mark.”

love to see it. curious which unions will respond

One Year Ago, Israel Buried Me Alive. I’m Still Clawing My Way Out. By Mohammed R. Mhawish (Photo of a toy on rubble)

After I was pulled free, the first thing I saw was my son’s face. His wide, tear-streaked eyes locked on mine, filled with a terror I had never seen before. His small body was wrapped in dust, his hair matted with sweat and grime. He wasn’t crying anymore — he was too scared and in much pain that he was unable even to do that. I wanted to pull him into my arms, to hold him so tightly that neither of us would ever feel afraid again. But I couldn’t. My arms, my legs, my entire body had already given up. They carried him to me and placed him on my arm, and I could feel his tiny heart racing like a trapped bird’s. I whispered his name over and over, trying to reassure him. “Baba’s here,” I said, though my voice was broken. But the truth was, I wasn’t there. Not entirely. Part of me was still under the rubble, still suffocating in that endless dark.

Thank you @defector.bsky.social for publishing this piece, which broke my heart over and over again defector.com/one-year-ago...

With What Must Slavery Begin? — differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies This book’s immanent critique of slavery suffers, as with Marx and Hegel before it, from a problem of “beginnings,” which, Marx writes, “are always difficult in all sciences.” In assessing slavery’s...

"Race and slavery cannot be easily integrated into Marx’s understanding of capitalism without his method, and its undergirding metaphysics, undergoing a significant shift" — read @s-msorentino.bsky.social's "With What Must Slavery Begin?" on our online forum: differencesjournal.org/writing/with...

CFP: Special Issue on “Marx and Revolution” | Political Theology Network The journal Political Theology announces a call for papers for a special issue on "Marx and Revolution," guest edited by Sara-Maria Sorentino and Mikkel Flohr. Proposals are due December 15.

“The critique of religion is the prerequisite of all critique,” according to Marx, but what comes after? CFP for special issue on “Marx and revolution” for the journal Political Theology edited by Sara-Maria Sorentino and myself. Deadline for abstracts 15. december. #Marxsky