#forthcoming

[frangipani-wanderlust]

And now we find out just how lazy I got on my vacation.

[arablit]

Arabic Lit in Translation: Forthcoming in 2025

The list of Arabic works forthcoming in English translation often shifts through the year; this is why we also have lists at start of each month. This list — of more than 30 titles — represents what translators and publishers have told us about what’s coming in 2025. Note that not all have finished covers available. If you have more to add, please tell us in the comments or at…

[anthonyopal]

MY FIRST VISION WAS OF GABRIEL STANDING IN A FIRE by Joshua Edwards

(Fall 2023)

theeconomypress.com

[catbowserauthor]

Since I’m trying to get better at planning ahead, I have a release date for next year for my first sci fi novel “We Are All Stardust.” I call it a love letter to Star Trek.

And just like all my other release dates, it’s significant to the book.

So…anyone wanna take a guess at why I chose September 8th?

[maliarachel]

your lips say nothing, / but you kiss showers of rain, / of every spoken word.

Rachel, Malia. The Moon Misses You. Forthcoming, Sparks Collective, 2025.

[closelyrelatedkeys]

Listen/purchase: Permcat, Ки́їв by Ben Frost

[someplace-that-is-else]

GOOD EVENING, LIKERS!!! How are you doing so far this week? I was...???

The past two weeks have been a #lot. And for every moment, that life would get normal, there would be a moment when feelings would come up. Such was when you have to deal with grief.

Like yesterday, I got an unexpected #gift. Still...it was a nice reminder that 1) life does go on and 2) that good people still exist. Usually when you least expect it.

But in the spirit of life going on...it's time for EDITING, TYPING, AND WRITING.

EDITING. Well, I had to give up my research books. #cries

But I planned on getting them back. I was also planning on using my time a little wisely. But would it work?

TYPING. Nothing to see here. Move along.

WRITING. For obvious reasons, I haven't done a lot of it.

Writing.

Well, I didn't meet my quota for the week. And that was sad. It could not be helped.

Now? #now I feel like writing will probably keep me going. It definitely distracted my mind from....other things as of late.

Not helped by my characters calling to me. lol. The last few times I've worked on my #forthcoming horror WiP, the words and writing have just flown. And when I have not been writing, my mind has been on individual character arcs within the main plot of the novel.

Methinks that a bit of echoing was about to happen. But you know what? I also thought that I needed to sort out some internal stuff. Or #friendships and identity...lol.

And that was how the week was looking...

[hiphopraisedmetheblog]

Ye Reveals Cover Art for Forthcoming Album ‘Bully’

Ye Reveals Cover Art for Forthcoming Album ‘Bully’ On October 24, 2024, the artist known as Ye took to Instagram to unveil the cover art for his anticipated album, Bully. This reveal signifies not only Ye’s return to the music scene but also a deepening of his artistic collaboration with culture and visual arts. The cover art, attributed to renowned Japanese photographer Daidō Moriyama, invites…

[eligalilei]

Aion Notes, pt a.1.a..

1.The Ego First concept: The Self contra the Ego;

& the locus phenomenologicus Ich/Ego contra & as phenomenological ‘origo’

[1] The Self is the entire being considered psychically: the entirety of the psyche. It is supraordinate to the Ego, which is that which experiences. Consciousness is, as such, presentation to the Ego, which Jung also relates to the ‘empirical personality,’ which it is insofar as it is the subject of ‘personal acts of consciousness.’

I was initially confused by the wording: my comments are still, to a degree relevant, but Jung does not, here, actually identify the ‘empirical personality’ with the Ego, at least at this point, but rather is stating that the Ego is identifiable therewith so far as ‘personal acts’ of consciousness are concerned: ‘she sees the dog’: ‘the dog appears to her Ego.’ She is also, and this may be an effect of language, or at least Logos, or thought, then also identified with her personality, as it is known by me. But in truth, hereaccording to Jung, I can only identify the act of seeing with her Ego. This is not, however, of course, divorcible from the personality; attempts to disentangle or determine the nature of the referent here, is complex.Really, what is meant is more to limit reference: if I refer to the seer, I refer to a conscious being, minimally, i.e., an Ego.

There is a second level of objection here, which is that, and this has, I think, by now been proven, though it was perhaps not in Jung’s time, though I feel he could have figured it out… that we can perceive without awareness. This is seen, for instance, in the notion of the ‘frame,’ and also, arguably, the entire realm of ideas of language, and even tool use, in which something has, indirectly, an effect on the Ego, but is not perceived as such, so far as the centre of consciousness and even recollection are concerned. 

If the empirical personality is the subject of personal acts of consciousness, it cannot but be so in time, and thus recollection: seeing-as, anticipation, retention: from a past (level 1 & 2 Ucs), unto a future, by which phenomena are (at) all given. There is no Ego, as personality, function of unification, organizist/re-memberer, without time, and thus not without the Un-Conscious, (and, we can prove theoretically without much effort, then, in multiple senses, the Other: not only so far as it denotes the unconscious, but also by that history, by which I mean the development of theoria, by which the term is given us to be used in this instance.)

The ‘empirical personality’ cannot but refer to the Other’s personality, i.e., as described by a viewer, insofar as empiricism takes as its subject sense experience… 

however, this is, of course, an issue, insofar as this then indifferentiates the alter Ego from the alter’s Unconscious, the Other of the other (or contrariwise?), or, to think in terms of family systems and networks, demons, souls, viri as identities and their transduplications, simple Freudian mimesis &c., to whom you are speaking (this being so more visibly at limit cases, but still generalizable)?

(I will in the bulleted summaries [almost entirely] discard resort to the ‘origo,’ and utilize entirely Jung’s nomenclature)

The Self is obviously translable as the divided subject, or at least it must ultimately be dissolved in it, or contrariwise: we seek an amalgam (is it, perhaps, the agalma, even?).

The Self, is, of the Ego, a supraordinate concept. It is, of it, incluse. (Does the divided self 'include' the Ego? It is, perhaps, among, and perhaps as well by, other things, divided by the Ego, which it determines.... perhaps my hesitancy here relates to Lacan's pronouncement that 'there is no whole')

At any rate, it is quickly asserted that the Ego is 'that factor to which all conscious experience is related.' It is clear that this needs a term.... I would, perhaps, be more inclined to mint a sense of 'Origo' hererfor. The Ego includes functions, by my understanding, which are not conscious, and it is an act of the Subject or Self.... but Jung here designates the subject as that to which all conscious material must be presented. One might need to look here at the German used for 'Subject.'

The relation of a psychic content to the ego forms the criterion of its consciousness, for no content can be conscious unless it is represented to a subject. [1]

Curiously absent is any definition of ‘consciousness,’ or ‘subject.’

[in sum: the Origo is merely the subjective pole of perception alterioris, and corresponds mostly to Husserl’s transcendental subject, or that after bracketing/epoche, and is thus perhaps even (that) problematic e(g)o ipso, if only after a sort of amnestic wash ever incomplete]

[lkeke35]

Ooh, Look! Some More Trailers I Like

Gladiator II I’m Not gon’ lie. When I first heard about this movie I thought it was going to be one of those wishful thinking/fake trailer type things. Over time, I came to realize this was, in fact, a real movie, despite the fact that half the cast was dead by the end of the original film. Oh well! Anyway, I’m looking forward to watching this, but I probably will not see this in the theater. I…

[moviesandmania]

SSSSSTONER SNAKE Mr MeatHook's alien sci-fi comedy horror - crowdfunding

Ssssstoner Snake is a forthcoming comedy sci-fi horror film about a snake-like alien that ingests marijuana and becomes a killer. The movie was written by and will be directed by Daryl Hook, who is known on YouTube and TikTok as Mr MeatHook. Daryl’s bio on IMDb states that he “is a lifelong fan of low-budget, backyard, and shot-on-video horror movies. He has made it the goal of his later life to…

[admiralbrand]

BREAKING NEWS UNITED AUTOWORKERS ARE OFFICIALLY ON STRIKE!!!

[arablit]

New Books in October: An Egyptian Prison Novel, a Lebanese Comic, & More

Book publication dates shift, and thus we are supplementing the annual list of forthcoming literature in translation with monthly lists, which we hope are more accurate. If you know of other works forthcoming this month, please add them in the comments or email us at info@arablit.org. The House of the Coptic Woman, by Ashraf El-Ashmawi, tr. Peter Daniel (Hoopoe Fiction) From the publisher:…

[maliarachel]

after every death and rebirth of myself, / i still yearn to be seen / in impossible ways— / like resurrection.

Rachel, Malia. The Moon Misses You. Forthcoming, Sparks Collective, 2025.

[bell-honey-well]

Forthcoming

Crunch the leaves

Beneath my feet

As the autumn breeze

Advances.