{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"Micro.blog - Dougal McNeill","home_page_url":"https://micro.blog","feed_url":"https://micro.blog/posts/DougalMcNeill","_microblog":{"about":"https://micro.blog/about/api","id":"1910580","username":"DougalMcNeill","bio":"I teach in the English Literatures &amp; Creative Communication programme at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University Wellington. 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Then there should be a head-exploding moment of making connections between its different bits and perhaps bits of one’s own experience or stuff...</p> <a href=\"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/10/12/so-what-are-those-pleasures.html\">dougalmcneill.micro.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/10/12/so-what-are-those-pleasures.html","date_published":"2026-10-11T21:27:17+00:00","author":{"name":"Dougal McNeill","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F19%2F1910580.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"DougalMcNeill"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-11 21:27","date_timestamp":1791754037,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98780381","content_html":"<p>“Autofiction, first-person fiction, memoir, social media, and the personal essay compromise a continuum of auto-emission, indicating how much of literary production follows the human-capital ideology that makes of quotidian well-being a mandate to optimize one’s inner material and to actualize the self, and...</p> <a href=\"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/10/07/autofiction-firstperson-fiction-memoir-social.html\">dougalmcneill.micro.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/10/07/autofiction-firstperson-fiction-memoir-social.html","date_published":"2026-10-06T23:51:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Dougal McNeill","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F19%2F1910580.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"DougalMcNeill"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-06 23:51","date_timestamp":1791330714,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98670774","content_html":"<p>Reading: Hana Pera Aoake, writing in <a href=\"https://overland.org.au/2026/10/the-camera-is-a-patu/\"><em>Overland</em></a>, on the photography of John Miller. He “demonstrates what showing up and reciprocity looks like”.</p>\n","summary":"","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/10/05/reading-hana-pera-aoake-writing.html","date_published":"2026-10-05T02:07:18+00:00","author":{"name":"Dougal McNeill","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F19%2F1910580.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"DougalMcNeill"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-10-05 02:07","date_timestamp":1791166038,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"98442331","content_html":"<p>“The author is not dying a second time. The author is splitting into two distinct figures with increasingly divergent social functions. On the one side, the Administrative Author: the person who holds the institutional position, the copyright, the reputational stake, the liability, without necessarily having...</p> <a href=\"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/10/01/the-author-is-not-dying.html\">dougalmcneill.micro.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/10/01/the-author-is-not-dying.html","date_published":"2026-09-30T19:16:00+00:00","author":{"name":"Dougal McNeill","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F19%2F1910580.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"DougalMcNeill"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-30 19:16","date_timestamp":1790795760,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97883828","content_html":"<p>The accountability of language: <a href=\"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/09/21/the-accountability-of-language.html\">dougalmcneill.micro.blog</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/09/21/the-accountability-of-language.html","date_published":"2026-09-20T21:55:47+00:00","author":{"name":"Dougal McNeill","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F19%2F1910580.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"DougalMcNeill"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-20 21:55","date_timestamp":1789941347,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97598536","content_html":"<p>\"Did you ever love somebody?\": <a href=\"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/09/16/did-you-ever-love-somebody.html\">dougalmcneill.micro.blog</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/09/16/did-you-ever-love-somebody.html","date_published":"2026-09-15T21:59:21+00:00","author":{"name":"Dougal McNeill","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F19%2F1910580.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"DougalMcNeill"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-15 21:59","date_timestamp":1789509561,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97445937","content_html":"<p>Uncle Vanya: <a href=\"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/09/13/uncle-vanya.html\">dougalmcneill.micro.blog</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/09/13/uncle-vanya.html","date_published":"2026-09-13T03:58:35+00:00","author":{"name":"Dougal McNeill","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F19%2F1910580.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"DougalMcNeill"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-13 03:58","date_timestamp":1789271915,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97184083","content_html":"<p>End-times fascism - “with its fortressed borders, decimated foreign aid and fixation on grabbing the resources beneath Greenland’s melting ice” as “a twisted and sadistic form of climate-change adaptation.” Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor in<a href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/bd134250-00d8-4bfd-bf4b-d32479ac0fed\"> the FT</a>. “Now that the reality of planetary heating has become...</p> <a href=\"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/09/09/endtimes-fascism-with-its-fortressed.html\">dougalmcneill.micro.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/09/09/endtimes-fascism-with-its-fortressed.html","date_published":"2026-09-08T21:14:28+00:00","author":{"name":"Dougal McNeill","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F19%2F1910580.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"DougalMcNeill"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-08 21:14","date_timestamp":1788902068,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97127823","content_html":"<p>\"the whole point is to do things the hard way\": <a href=\"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/09/08/the-whole-point-is-to.html\">dougalmcneill.micro.blog</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/09/08/the-whole-point-is-to.html","date_published":"2026-09-07T21:14:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Dougal McNeill","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F19%2F1910580.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"DougalMcNeill"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-07 21:14","date_timestamp":1788815643,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"97076935","content_html":"<p>Dance-Floor Romance: <a href=\"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/09/07/dancefloor-romance.html\">dougalmcneill.micro.blog</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/09/07/dancefloor-romance.html","date_published":"2026-09-06T21:25:20+00:00","author":{"name":"Dougal McNeill","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F19%2F1910580.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"DougalMcNeill"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-09-06 21:25","date_timestamp":1788729920,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96384734","content_html":"<p>above all this, I wish you love: <a href=\"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/08/26/above-all-this-i-wish.html\">dougalmcneill.micro.blog</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/08/26/above-all-this-i-wish.html","date_published":"2026-08-25T19:24:02+00:00","author":{"name":"Dougal McNeill","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F19%2F1910580.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"DougalMcNeill"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-25 19:24","date_timestamp":1787685842,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"96330810","content_html":"<p>One of the pleasures for me in Emma Adler’s <a href=\"https://www.publicbooks.org/every-novel-is-boring-until-it-isnt/\">“Every novel is boring - until it isn’t”</a> (at <em>Public Books</em>) is how contrary it seems to my own experience. Adler writes of the “volta” in a novel, a turn that, unlike the sonnet’s, is much more subjective and experiential, “a shift to visceral enjoyment” after the...</p> <a href=\"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/08/25/one-of-the-pleasures-for.html\">dougalmcneill.micro.blog</a>","summary":"","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/08/25/one-of-the-pleasures-for.html","date_published":"2026-08-24T21:33:32+00:00","author":{"name":"Dougal McNeill","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F19%2F1910580.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"DougalMcNeill"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-08-24 21:33","date_timestamp":1787607212,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"95734182","content_html":"<p>Ways of Seeing! <a 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href=\"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/07/29/liking-lachlan-brown.html\">dougalmcneill.micro.blog</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/07/29/liking-lachlan-brown.html","date_published":"2026-07-29T04:28:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Dougal McNeill","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F19%2F1910580.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"DougalMcNeill"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-29 04:28","date_timestamp":1785299332,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94704590","content_html":"<p>Anti-social media: <a href=\"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/07/27/antisocial-media.html\">dougalmcneill.micro.blog</a></p>","summary":"","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/2026/07/27/antisocial-media.html","date_published":"2026-07-26T21:35:03+00:00","author":{"name":"Dougal McNeill","url":"https://dougalmcneill.micro.blog/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2026%2F19%2F1910580.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"DougalMcNeill"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-07-26 21:35","date_timestamp":1785101703,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"94620910","content_html":"<p>You can't lie still, pretending those are dreams: <a 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