I've got a joke about Barthes. It's mythologising.

I've got a joke about F W Taylor. It's standardising.

I've got a joke about Weber. It's rationalising.

I've always genuinely wondered if Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco is about *the* Foucault.

I've got a joke about Honneth. It's recognising.

I've got a joke about Polanyi. It's civilising.

I've got a joke about Guy Debord. It's spectacular.

I've got a joke about Adorno and Horkheimer. It's enlightening.

I've got a joke about Althusser. It's interpellating.

I've got a joke about Lukacs. It's reifying.

I've got a joke about Baudrillard. It's simulating.

It's not you, it's me

Is it good that the entire media goes on a massive pants shitting screaming fit every time someone who disagrees with Thatcherism gets even vaguely within spitting distance of popularity?

躺平 with the vampire

"Statement by the Organisation of the Communist Alternative in Iraq regarding the life and struggle of the Communist leader Yanar Mohammed, a symbol of the emancipatory women’s struggle". workersliberty.org/story/2026-0...

"why teach students anything if they can just look information up in books?"

Renationalisation with no compensation

My Kitchens? of Distinction.

My Sleater? -Kinney

I'm afraid there'll be much, much more of this going forward. Prospective students and parents should check very carefully before applying to university courses that may not exist by the next autumn, and may be closed even while they're on them. www.itv.com/news/central...

Look at this absolute urnit

I used (or was about to use) 'naff' in a lecture the other day and then, grasping for contemporary equivalence, went for 'cringe'

The gigification of university. Utter disgrace.

I saw this and thought it might be a blood pressure monitor

I'm looking to interview a few people who have experience working in the US TV industry as research for my next novel. If you are or know such a person, please get in touch!

Interested in #photography? #writing? In or visiting London? My talented mate Ryan has organized this event featuring Geoff Dyer and Julian Stallabrass.

Tell you what, my intellectual project is such that when it comes to people like this... I'm not in danger

I suspect some institutions have already been shaped for acquiescence.

Where do we stand on academia?

During our demonstration against the planned 400 job cuts on Monday, Essex UCU reps were invited to meet with three members of the University Council. This is the first time we'd been able to meet with key decision-makers - all thanks to the pressure we've been putting on management. ⬇️ Summary:

Project 1000 Island

It's weird cos when a working class socialist northern woman accidentally does a thing she gets destroyed but if you're a right wing man you can do BASICALLY ANYTHING

And he's right, isn't he?

The MA in Gender & Sexuality at the University of Birmingham is a rare thing: a chance to explore cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in queer, trans, feminist, and gender studies, with a practical placement built-in. #queerhistory #womenshistory www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr....

If you could speak the language and live in any country in the world, which part of Italy would you choose?

Too real

Same with J R Hartley. Couldn't fit 'Fly Fishing' by Jazz Record Hartley on the front cover.

Reform’s Richard Tice avoided nearly £600,000 in UK tax. Complex plan used offshore trust in Jersey, three shell companies and a string of dormant businesses. His property company paid nothing in corporation tax on multimillion-pound profits for most of 2018 to 2021. archive.ph/c5EcY

Nationalise it.

Not now concrete dome holding [etc. etc.]

This is what AI is for

Same old playbook

Berlin pals, does anybody know of any cool, friendly profs at FU/HU working on Critical Theory/Adorno/English & American Lit who might be up for sponsoring me to be a visiting fellow next year?

fml

"It's more of a comment than a question"

Devious or... brilliant??

Watch what happens when capital decides it's had enough of Trump & Co.

Britain had a car industry... steel, chemicals, electronics, textiles, ceramics, shoes, bikes, kitchenware, watches, clothing, ships, appliances and more. Now the same sections of capital who wrecked everything are weaponising the social decay they created. Anything to undermine worker solidarity.

13-03-1830 USA: The term “rat,” referring to a worker who betrays fellow workers, first appears in print in the New York Daily Sentinel.

Roses are red, violets in haste