Not going to link to it, but the disciplined, silent response to Braverman and GB News is just wonderful. A refusal to perform and consent to the fiction of their legitimacy, and a way of trying to disrupt through silence and absence of affection the right’s outrage politics

The entirety of the U.K. state should be given to the team who designed the U.K. passport renewal process - it actually works! (the lowering of expectation that happens alongside the crumbling state is performed in the flash of surprise that something works)

I didn’t handle it, but this paper is a good example of why I enjoyed editing The Geographical Journal. I’m a big believer that excellent, important geographical work comes in a multitude of styles, even if they are different to my own styles of theorising and researching

New Polygraph issue is out on Narrative and Crisis with pieces by Fredric Jameson, Joshua Clover, Sianne Ngai, Anna Kornbluh, Sarah Brouillette and others.
polygraphjournal.com/issue-29-narra…

More than 100 staff at Durham have signed an open letter supporting the student encampment so far Durham Student Protest Durham UCU #CeasefireNowInGaza forms.gle/da1yvJExyGf617…

It's official! Hot Mess is in press and forthcoming this September Fernwood Publishing
fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/hot-mess

The RGS-IBG will soon be advertising for a new editor/editors and I’d really encourage people to get involved. The GJ is a genuinely international journal, you have scope to shape the journal, and the team of editors and people at the RGS are wonderful to work with!

As a friend has pointed out, I might be the only person right now who is in an indoor skatepark on an industrial estate reading a book on Winnicott, whilst it’s the most beautiful day of the year (today was the day for the boiling indoor skatepark my son and friends decided)

I wrote for the London Review of Books about crackdowns on student protest, universities, open letters, and free speech.

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Waking up to all the Aurora Borealis photos when I slept through the entire thing #NorthernLights

This is an absolutely fantastic paper - on governing feeling in relation to climate politics

One under-discussed aspects of senior admin roles is how much writing you do - policies, proposals for courses, briefing documents etc. Tens of thousands of words annually. There are links, but the genres are different to research writing, and it can be hard to shift between them

When narrative CVs/resume for researchers with requirements that vary by funding call came up as an idea, did anyone point out that this is just more work than a standard, interchangeable short CV? (which can have space for info on career breaks, caring responsibilities, etc etc)

i really love Macklemore’s Hind’s Hall💯—but let’s not forget it was a Black rapper named Redveil who was the 1st artist to name all children killed in Gaza, call for a ceasefire & say “Free Palestine!” during a live concert

he was 19 & it was nov 12th

Really fascinating, and a wonderful title. Looking forward to seeing this

When College students take on a big American university, what kind of power are they struggling with?
Chartbook Newsletter 279 dips a toe into the political economy of Columbia University Univ.
adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-27…

Good god, the Zionist project is over-spilling with what Said called negative hallucinations
Aside from being a joke, sinister implications of this thinking in the context of the destruction of Gaza’s universities