Mid Theory Collective @mid_theory
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For the first installment of our "Hold Up" feature, Sophia Marie Niang revisits Jean Vigo’s 1933 film ZERO FOR CONDUCT and what teaches us about the rebellious lives of children and the possibilities of forging comradely solidarity with them. mid-theory.com/2025/09/18/hol…
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MTC first reading group on the award-winning translated stories HEART LAMP by Banu Mushtaq will take place tomorrow Sept. 18 at 5pm ET. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
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MTC is running two reading groups this fall. The first starts later this month. We will be reading HEART LAMP, a collection of short stories in translation and the first meeting is September 18. Get your books now and join us!! Sign up below docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
You know it's there, but you can't play it! For MTC, Emily Naser-Hall revisits the VHS tape and its haunting resurgence in the present. A perfect, perfectly haunted piece of cultural criticism to start off your spooky season 📼 mid-theory.com/2025/09/04/con…
For MTC, Nikhil Pandhi reviews A. Revathi's recent memoir REVATHI: A LIFE IN TRANS ACTIVISM, translated from Tamil by Nandini Murali. A remarkable book about the power of trans-labor & poetics. Happy Women in Translation Month. @TiltedAxisPress mid-theory.com/2025/08/28/ten…
August is Women in Translation Month! To celebrate we asked critics, scholars, and translators: what are some of your favorite works written and/or translated by women? Here are some of their recommendations. mid-theory.com/2025/08/29/mix…
In case you missed it Maz Do surveys “Cambridge’s most openly horny public space” for MTC: the new romance bookstore on Harvard Square. mid-theory.com/2025/08/17/liv…
Our second job material workshop will be tomorrow 8/8 @2pm EST. Sign up below docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Our second job material workshop will be tomorrow 8/8 @2pm EST. Sign up below docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Where has summer gone?? Well, for MTC a large junk of it was spent in and on Praiseworthy. Our final meeting on the book will take place tomorrow afternoon, August 6 @5pm ET on Zoom. Sign up below! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
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For MTC, @harmlessfires thinks about boredom's potential both narratologically and politically. "Boredom is a universal motor and product of social being in capitalism, yet its formal make-up contains a (negatively felt) kernel of the future." mid-theory.com/2025/07/24/sto…
Molly Keran on Colleen Hoover, Jennifer Crusie, contemporary romance, and what happens when genres get adventures. mid-theory.com/2025/07/29/gen…
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