what is full stack feminism? new @dhquarterly.bsky.social piece by Caroline Bassett, Kylie Jarrett & @swebb.bsky.social on intersectional feminist #digitalhumanities ✨ dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/3/000... #dh @fullstackfeminism.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social @sussexdigitalhums.bsky.social

the second is a conference paper that I was lucky enough to share earlier this summer in Germany at the Communities and Technology Conference. In this one, I investigate the now infamous TikTok exodus to Rednote that happened this past January. Read more about that here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Singing, playing an instrument, attending a concert, going for a walk with a playlist on etc - all lovely and good things one should do. Does this mean music is good for mental health? It can be but no. Could it be the budgetary justification that's needed to ensure widespread provision? Also no.

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

pretty lit issue all around

hello friends, loved ones, and haters, I wrote a long piece about the last 25 or so years of "indie," inspired by @chrisdeville.bsky.social's fine new book open.substack.com/pub/ericdhar...

This was fun and only slightly hectic. Looking forward to finding out what I said!

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

I remember the speaking clock 😬

Fantastic read with some juicy archival footage and audio to match.

For those of you in London, a reading on 4 November commemorating the 30 year anniversary of Gillian Rose’s death. Coorganised by my brilliant PhD student, Rosie Woodhouse. I look forward to it. Join us?

Oh this is sad. In tribute I recommend wandering round Soho with Nonstop Erotic Cabaret loud in the headphones.

Do other academics do this at open days? Do historians stride into yr8 humanities going "Ask me anything about the Battle of Agincourt" while GCSE English gets disrupted by impromptu ecocriticist decolonial readings of An Inspector Calls & respected physicists graffiti "DISPROVEN" on wall displays?

Do other academics do this at open days? Do historians stride into yr8 humanities going "Ask me anything about the Battle of Agincourt" while GCSE English gets disrupted by impromptu ecocriticist decolonial readings of An Inspector Calls & respected physicists graffiti "DISPROVEN" on wall displays?

Going round secondary schools recently for my kid, I'm obviously paying most attention to Sociology & Media Studies. Got a bit excited yday seeing a teacher write on the board "WHAT IS STUART HALL'S REPRESENTATION THEORY?" Took huge restraint not to burst into the class all "ME, I KNOW MISS, ASK ME"

👀 Our Review symposium - Marion Fourcade & @kjhealy.co 'Tales of light and darkness: a response to comments on The Ordinal Society' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

K. Verlag have published Bernard Stiegler’s final work: The Immense Regression: What is Called Caring? Volume 1 kverlag.com/collections/... You can read and download translator Daniel Ross’s introduction here: drive.google.com/file/d/1kWj2...

Tooze on the economics of the Frankfurt Book Fair. To be paired with @clairesquires.bsky.social and @bethdriscoll.bsky.social highly readable book on the subject: www.cambridge.org/core/books/f... open.spotify.com/episode/58hx...

Keep music live and local!

In this essay, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee argues that China no longer mirrors Western modernity but transforms it from within, forcing us to rethink the very categories through which we understand capitalism, socialism, and the modern world, and to confront the limits of the West's theoretical imagination.

Screenshots on culture and economy scholarship from our very own @tgpb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1753... conversation piece with @mazzucatom.bsky.social & Justin O’Connor

The editors are thrilled to hear that economists are continuing to discover culture. open.substack.com/pub/worksinp...

A fantastic episode. The art of talking about a big, complex book is perfected, by host and author, to an unbelievable degree.

Our latest issue just out and, we think we can say this, it is a banger. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c... feat. @philiproscoe.bsky.social @ulissess.bsky.social @cibled.bsky.social @maijutanninen.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social &&

This article is great! It offers a contribution to conceptualisations of "real abstraction" by asking how music helps us come to *feel* exchange value. MORE IMPORTANTLY it genuinely provides an answer to this age-old question:

This article is great! It offers a contribution to conceptualisations of "real abstraction" by asking how music helps us come to *feel* exchange value. MORE IMPORTANTLY it genuinely provides an answer to this age-old question:

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“While each approach contributes to an economic sociology of the far right, the article contends that the materialist approach is central for articulating these findings with those of broader far-right studies.”

A dose of Stuart Hall for what ails us.

This is a great article

@stuartelden.bsky.social is a master of the illuminating microstories of intellectual history; this one on how Bourdieu's translation of Panofsky shaped his and contemporary French thinking is a gem progressivegeographies.com/2025/09/14/p...

"the rise of reactionary politics is an epochal trend that reshapes markets and capitalist systems in depth" @theobourgeron.bsky.social in @jcultecon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎨 The art of the public: cultural economy and cultural policy IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social co-authored a paper alongside Justin O'Connor & @tgpb.bsky.social‬‬, arguing for a new and more dynamic valuation of art as a public good. ✍️ Read the paper: buff.ly/9OA9eVo

Meanwhile I'm seeing a lot of small and under-resourced organisations really ploughing their ingenuity into rethinking how tasks work with genAI - in this context it seems to me that genAI is really an austerity technology, something small orgs turn to when there are few other options

This is an excellent and underappreciated observation. (Some) AI tools offer a fun-ish new way of approaching the boring task (for a while). They don't do away with the need for the boring task to be completed. So much 'innovation' fuelled by the fantasy of an escape from admin...

On the EASE Digest, we highlight the new book from @samuelmoore.org tackling the infrastructures and integrity of the open access research publishing landscape. ease.org.uk/2025/09/publ... #EASEdigest #OpenAccess

Will no doubt be a crucial resource.

"The trouble with having a skip outside your house", they said, "is that people treat it like a public bin". And while this is true, and it's pretty disgusting, it also means you sometimes end up with a big carrier bag full of ragga and dancehall cassettes. Reasonable trade-off in my eyes.

Warren Brodey, one of the most fascinating and mysterious figures of recent tech history, passed away on August 10th. He was 101. A complex man who went from mentoring Nicholas Negroponte at MIT to becoming a Maoist in Norway and China www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/t...

"Personally, I am a paper clip man." Stuart Hall reviews the "Manual of Public Relations" in 1969.

This is maddening of course. But it's not unique to the AI moment - it aligns with the longer cultural industries trajectory I set out in my book (re: music). It's why I think we need more attention on systems and shouldn't conflate the exploitation of WORKS with the exploitation of WORK.

The colloquial meaning of the term "intellectual property" - however well meant against AI scraping etc - seems to get ever more expansive and maximalist. Not every scrape of thought or writing is intellectual property. More private property is not the good defence that people thing it is.

The book (under contract with Palgrave) is entitled 'Progressive Politics, Popular Culture, and Public Memory in Contemporary Britain', and will look how 'progressive' stories of the past have been told through the realm of popular culture since the 90s, as I explained in greater detail here.

Is the argument that we assume students want to be "financially better off" and are being misled? Or is it a more normative one that producing "financial betterment" *should* in fact be the core function of universities - so students pursuing subjects they love are making bad consumer choices?

"Personally, I am a paper clip man." Stuart Hall reviews the "Manual of Public Relations" in 1969.

Happened upon an old documentary about Eric Hobsbawm on the @lrb.co.uk website and am now bingeing his back catalogue. I have so much respect for his attempt to be evenhanded even about things he finds pretty despicable--so rare these days. And his prose is a joy.

I applaud this initiative but have to say I laughed out loud in British academese when I saw the suggestions for the semester ahead included "assignment ideas" - in mid-August! Can you imagine? Semester 1 2026 maybe...

What and where is Cultural Studies today? What is it becoming? What should or could it become? What is its meaning? What is at stake as we assess the ongoing development and maturation of Cultural Studies as field?

Re-upping this for the Friday crowd: My piece on Postman Pat: Special Delivery Service and the reimagination of postal work in the wake of privatisation and digitisation. All reposts (and subscriptions) much appreciated. x

Piracy is back, apparently. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...