Yes, we are in Belfast.

I don't think I've been in a single European city where buses were free, let alone it being a "given." This smug fantasia from an increasingly fascist continent is honestly bizarre. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Absolutely the best, most civilised thing about Ireland is displaying people's full names above their seat reservations on the train. Can't understand the manics who opt for ticket number instead.

It's cool that Mamdani studied humanities but also JD Vance has a philosophy degree and Stephen Miller studied politics, so we must nonetheless conclude that it is possible - maybe even likely - to study humanities and still be a cruel, venal asshole who visibly hates humans.

Experiencing what it was like to an Irish person in the 1950s by becoming actually quite a big fan of the pope.

*cough* www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

Cork people, I will be doing a guest lecture, ;The Biopolitics of Urban Green Space' at the Cork Centre for Architectural Education, Monday the 10th, from 1 to 2. Open to all comers as far as I know.

Hard to say why exactly, but "British matters of sex" is such a funny way to talk about the UK anti-gender movement.

Why is every English Lit monograph: (1) brief introduction of fascinating conceptual issue; (2) six chapters discussing novels or poems no one cares about; (3) brief reprise of fascinating conceptual issue.

Off to the UK again (boo) but what a view of cobh and spike island on the way out.

Well look who’s in pride of place at the Barbican gift shop! Nice work @desfitzgerald.bsky.social

Scrolling through academics' posts about dressing as reviewer 2 for halloween

Watching baby shark hospital with the air of someone at an unusually rich lacan seminar

I genuinely think in Ireland we're much to chill about how much the political and media establishment of the neighbouring state desires bad things for us. #speirgorm

I'm basically anti-Haraway these days, and yet every year am reminded that I've never encountered a more generative text to teach to undergrads, that I assign no reading more visibly mind- and horizon-expanding as we work it through together in class, than the cyborg manifesto

Being an irish person online is hard because we're not interested in baseball *or* lily allen

It's actually amazing how being widely known as an extremely shitty person does /nothing/ to dent someone's standing in the elite "critical theory" industrial complex.

A post - and post style - so insufferable that I'm now kind of pro closing the universities.

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Unpopular maybe, but we should firmly resist this kind of banal medicalization of cultural and aesthetic experience. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Yet another "gender critical" book coming out from Polity - this is really becoming a theme for what's still generally regarded as a mainstream, left-adjacent social science publisher. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Tfw you start reading a first year sociology essay and you know it's not going to be good. #speirgorm

The mighty Saul Williams with Carlos Niño & Friends at St Luke's, Cork. "Please speak to your relatives in the US who are in the police and now joining ICE."

Super interesting piece on the graphics and design-work behind the Connolly campaign, especially the use of hand-printed rural shop fronts as a visual language. www.thejournal.ie/designing-a-...

It looks like the main thing we'll learn today is the size of the extremely paranoid/racist online cult on facebook and what used to be "Irish twitter." #Aras25

Here we go! #aras25

Beneath contempt, as always.

Anyway who thinks the white house destruction is ethically challenging for the architecture should really google "the history of architecture." commonedge.org/would-you-wo...

This is like me trying to become head of state of the UK, in that I dont live in the UK, and also I'm very widely disliked there. #aras25 www.thejournal.ie/bob-geldof-p...

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You don't truly understand the issue with microplastics until your kids get into friendship bracelets, huh.

Actual photo of me trying and failing to talk coherently about th*mas h*atherwick's book -_-

<possibly worth *also* not losing site of the fact that the white house is a horrible building whose design - and the city beautiful plan that contains it - is explicitly aimed at overwhelming/subduing the masses at home while projecting imperial ambitions abroad>

Come for the "corbyn candidate" headline; stay for the opening sentence crying because Connolly "has described England and America as warmongering countries." #aras25 #speirgorm www.thetimes.com/article/a93a...

History of the Human Sciences announces its 2025-26 ECR Prize. All details (including previous winners) on our para-site histhum.com. Deadline: 30 January 2026. Also! Follow the journal on Bluesky at @histhum.bsky.social www.histhum.com/early-career...

Cab driver says he's voting for Catherine Connolly because "she's highly intelligent and speaks Irish." This election is done! #Aras25

Friends, I regret to inform that we are no longer in Italy, and find ourselves now in a much darker place.

I'm about to tell a roomful of about 200 urbanists and 'city makers' about the fascist roots of "urban nature." This can only go well.

<me after 18 hours in Italy> I now live in Italy.

Outing myself as a tourist by sitting outside, beaming at the balmy evening, while the Italian lads walk past in big coats and scarves.

Action shot of me in Italy reading about the orange rain warning in Cork

It's unfortunate about the lurid title and presentation because this book - which is a sort of magical realist history of geological fracture, environmental toxicity, and murderous violence in the Pacific Northwest - is really something.

They got chatgpt to write a chapter of their book about chatgpt! What a bold and daring provocation that would have been three years ago. www.hepi.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

This weekend I'll be at the Utopian Hours festival in Turin, to talk about the politics of green urbanism: www.archdaily.com/1034043/utop...

It's increasingly clear we're in for some very bad years of self-proclaimed provocative theoretical engagements (or 'entanglements') with AI.

Looking forward to this RHL, @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social & ISS21 event with Prof Elizabeth Bernstein!

TIL that Hervé Juvin, MEP for Marine Le Pen's National Rally, environmental guru to the European neo-fascist movement, is also a *Verso* author. www.abebooks.co.uk/Coming-Body-...

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Do people genuinely not know that much of the UK left (including TU leadership) supported brexit on the basis of decades-old opposition to the broadly 'open-market' orientation of central EU institutions/actors? It seems weirdly parochial to be surprised by this. #Aras25

My son, who has improbably confused the words "massage" and "moustache," tonight came up behind me, gently placed his hands on my shoulders, and said quite seriously, "would you like a moustache?"