Joshua Mostafa

Joshua Mostafa is the editor of poetry journal New Trad and co-founder of independent music label Inna Riddim Records. His stories, essays, reviews and poems have appeared in various publications, including Ambit, Oblong, Flash, Litro, Island, Sketch, Overland, Abraxas and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Works By Joshua Mostafa

Mud
The me that writes the first fragment of a piece is different in significant ways from the me who decides, at some more or less arbitrary point months or years later, that the collection of scrawls and scribbles across multiple notebooks constitut...
4 May. 2020
The Revolution Will Not Be Automated
For the social psychologist Shoshana Zuboff, the meteoric rise of the tech industry brings with it worrying developments that should worry us – the general public – a lot more than they do, and the fact that most people are blas√© about them is it...
23 July. 2019
The View From Nowhere: Forget English! & Born Translated
‘The idea of world literature, taken as a whole rather than divided into many national or linguistically based literatures, is a paradoxical one. How can we speak of a “literature” that encompasses far too many languages to master in a single life...
3 Mar. 2016
Philosophy in the round: Globes by Peter Sloterdijk
Much of Globes is concerned with questions of scale. Human societies are not static in size. What changes or deformations, Sloterdijk asks, must occur in a society when it grows from one of the smallest units – the tribe or clan in which everyone
15 May. 2015
Crowds vs Clouds: Who Owns the Future? & Digital Labor
Eisenlauer identifies a number of predefined paths into which Facebook channels its users’ activities – status updates, comments, ‘likes’, shares – and suggests that in doing so, Facebook moulds the interactions between people to such an extent th...
2 May. 2014
Quand même: Against World Literature by Emily Apter
The central concept of Against World Literature is the ‘Untranslatable’: a word or other semantic unit that cannot easily be rendered from one language to another, an ‘intransigent nub of meaning that triggers endless translating in response to it...
13 Aug. 2013

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Joshua Mostafa

Works By Joshua Mostafa

Mud

The Revolution Will Not Be Automated

The View From Nowhere: Forget English! & Born Translated

Philosophy in the round: Globes by Peter Sloterdijk

Crowds vs Clouds: Who Owns the Future? & Digital Labor

Quand même: Against World Literature by Emily Apter