Peter J. Maurits
@maurits_peter
Writing a book on African science fiction. 1st book on the Mozambican ghost story. 2*Sub-3h marathon. Likes to run far and up things.
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And here's me with the actual goods ☺️.
My book, the 𝘔𝘰𝘻𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, has been published @PeterLangOxford! It's argument is simple: A) I show the genre exists and what it looks like. B) I argue it registers primitive accumulation. Let me unpack (🧵1/17). tinyurl.com/Mozghost
Strava demanding third party app developer to use their watermark logo on all activities but suing Garmin for requesting the same. Who owns our fitness activities?
BREAKING: THE STRAVA FILES & SHARE AURA > On August 22nd, Strava emailed @zachpogrob to add a Strava watermark to all shares from Share Aura, 10 days after they launched, or they would cap new users permanently. > Zach says NO and removes Strava as a new integration to Share…
China Miéville's outstanding essay on consciousness, materialism and 'folk marxism' is now live. salvage.zone/beyond-folk-ma…
📣 Germany is close to reversing its principled opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private —& Signal—in the EU. Time is short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how…
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/germ…
sorry to spoil outrage party, but thats how US treats allies... remember when US shifted from Cold War financing/accommodating South Korea's developmental state to aggressive push for liberalisation that led to 1997 East Asian crisis, then unleashed IMF austerity on it?
This is, without exaggerating, one of the most extraordinary things a US Treasury Secretary ever said. It should be mandatory viewing for all citizens of US "allies", Europeans first and foremost. What Bessent is saying is that the US will now treat US allies' wealth as an…
Exactly 👇.
I’ve seen this before: it’s what happens when you were an academic that had to learn to use new technology in the 90s, but also think about structure. They just can’t make that extra leap to historicize the tech AS part of the move to defund education!!
Here is a link to an interview I did for my recent published monograph, 'Nigerian Speculative Fiction: Evolution sciencefictionruminations.com/2025/07/21/exp…
This is hilarious.
If you direct economic policy at the American Enterprise Institute, and you believe this, I think you should have to stand in front of the shop floor at an Amazon warehouse and say it to the workers there directly and see what kind of response you get.
Still a few days left to apply for this great opportunity, a PhD position on the research team of the project “Utopia and Eastern European Literature after 1989," with PI @Bekhta_n
I'm looking for a #PhD candidate for a funded 3-year position at Tampere to join a research project on utopia, Eastern Europe and world literature: tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_RJ…
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I'm looking for a #PhD candidate for a funded 3-year position at Tampere to join a research project on utopia, Eastern Europe and world literature: tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_RJ…
Finally, my book, 'Nigerian Speculative Fiction: Evolution', is out. Thanks to everyone, especially to Chloe Germaine, @Dr_Ilott, @bodhisatvac, @TaryneTaylor, Mark Bould and the two anonymous reviewers for your support. You can order a copy at routledge.com/Nigerian-Specu…
We join the rest of the world in mourning the demise of our alumnus, James Ngugi, popularly known as Ngugi wa Thiongo. Ngugi's celebrated writing career was honed at Makerere University, and we pride in that. Ngugi's 'minutes of glory' will forever be part of us.
Lol, this is amazing 🤩.
Coming soon: @dennismhogan guest hosting @thedigradio interviewing @dieworkwear!
Agreed.
Surely the funniest thing that has been or ever could be written about the desire to kill oneself because of ecocidal capitalism nplusonemag.com/issue-50/essay…
Tour de force review of John Ganz book and Substack writings by Richard Beck in the latest N+1. Here’s just a passing footnote : nplusonemag.com/issue-50/revie…
I.e., choose your fighter.
Adorno says that semicolons are a dialectical kind of punctuation. Kurt Vonnegut called them “transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing”.
Lol this is amazing.
i reviewed jonathan kramnick’s criticism and truth, which i take to be arguing, among other things, that close reading isn’t just for girls. unpaywalled link below
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