Yuliya Komska
@ykomska
German prof, writer about the material things that metaphors hide 📚The Icon Curtain; Linguistic Disobedience • 2026: On a Wire above the Abyss: Walking the Tightrope thru the Rise & Fall of Nazism • next: bio of Curious George • ❤️ in E. Europe • 🐰,🍄,🪡
This book should come with a warning that halfway through it, mice might appear in *your* house in some kind of insane-making reality bleed
I wrote a book that’s part bio of the troupe behind this photo, part Germany’s history fr above, part reflection on how we relate to risk & ruin. Preorder now from the wonderful @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social & support small publishers that give it their all secure.cabinetmagazine.org/store/produc...
Truth about the reference letter requirement—and a shame that more haven’t followed MacDowell in suspending it
🔥 People should give less of a damn about recommending books in English—bring it all on. Also, love the breathlessness of this!
Fire thunderstorms after wildlife fires sound as terrifying as fire storms after bomb air raids, and more powerful (via FT)
A theory of what AI is doing with/to language? Sign me up www.upress.umn.edu/978151791932...
July 23. The time of the cricket—and the countdown to the end of summer—has begun. Kitagawa Utamaro, Earthworm (Mimizu); Cricket (Kōrogi), from the Picture Book of Crawling Creatures, 1788
Why support “life sciences”—which they can’t even define—when you can get behind death sciences? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...
A peerless silent film shot--I swear the attrition of the circus began with the talkies. (E. A. Dupont, "Variety," 1925)
Gagosian London has a stunning-looking exhibit of Chriso and Jeanne-Claude wrapped air gagosian.com/exhibitions/...
This paragraph on not being driven by fear of right-wing resurgence/backlash is esp good
I’ve seen some strange circus contraptions while researching my book, but the strangeness of this German nasal corrector, patented in 1894 for un-circusey uses, surpasses all of them www.vanleestantiques.com/product/zell...
MC Escher and Giulietta (Jetta) Umiker on their wedding day. “The ceremony was not particularly impressive,” Escher's father wrote in his diary. Bless escherinhetpaleis.nl/en/about-esc...
Hen of the woods/maitake is such a mystery. You find it and then it doesn’t come back to the same spot in over a decade. And then, suddenly—bam, there it is again. So nice to see you, friend 🐔🌳🌲🌳. I stick around just for you
Why stop at environmental humanities if you can get rid of ALL because your financial modeling, probably constructed with AI (though I’m speculating), told you to do so prophylactically. When you take university out of corporate, you’re left with just corporate
A klepbroek pattern handy from the Fashion Museum, somewhat unhelpfully missing any sense of measurements modemuze.nl/collecties/p...
Love this museum collection of Dutch klepbroek, so clever and so now www.zuiderzeecollectie.nl/object/colle...
Would love to read a good essay about these fantastic socially critical 1960s garment labels—a movement? an art project? who? where? why did they stop?
wishing for a more stylish decadence in this declining empire fortune.com/2026/06/22/k...
Arguably the best cold cuts portrait, by the genius Jan Brusselmans (Still Life, 1936). En face!