The UK government has cancelled Kanye West’s permission to enter the country amid controversy over his planned headline appearances at London festival Wireless this summer over the rapper's previous comments about Jewish people and Hitler buff.ly/50WrjZW

So excited to be welcoming Joanne! Feel free to join us online or in person

Exciting ScotLit opportunity for someone!

None. Not even one.

I don't think I've seen a statement like this before: Why Warner University Stands Against Student Use of AI warner.edu/why-warner-u...

THREE lectureships available in the Music Department @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsmusic.bsky.social — see advertisements in the thread below.

Bought this on tape and I don’t think it left my Walkman for the whole of my 20th year.

Second excellent (and very different) new Brendon Moeller drop of the month. brendonmoellerechologistbeatpharmacy.bandcamp.com/album/soft-c...

Listened to the Flipper album today for the first time (I think) since I was a teenager. It’s every bit as good now as it was then.

Finally some sense. Maybe the government needs to hold a seminar to remind themselves what it means to be a free, tolerant, society. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is so good.

More seriously good stuff from Wah Wah Wino.

I once left Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot on a train and have never replaced and thus finished it. I had to return Omensetter’s Luck to the library because I was leaving the country. Never got a copy, so never finished it. This is the year of mopping up dropped classics.

There’s something very BC/R&S about Hard Wax descriptions. Utterly minimal but utterly precise.

First discovery of February. Engulfing, mesmerising drones and voices. Beautiful. morctapes.bandcamp.com/album/unfurl...

If you’re interested in attending, register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/en-joui-yo...

Join us on Thursday to discuss Lacan and Laruelle with Jeremy Smith. lacaninscotland.com?p=2185

Catching up on a few things and, wow, Wino-E is every bit as good as those folks over @boomkat.com said it was.

Eventually watched Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down and my big take away is that Paul Ready, who plays Kevin in Motherland, is a phenomenally good actor. I’m struggling to reconcile those two roles to the same body.

“On a sunny afternoon in Vienna, Emma Eckstein went to see a doctor. You won’t have heard of her.” Erm, unless you’re familiar with psychoanalysis, in which case you probably have. www.summerhallarts.co.uk/event/jackal...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen: Autechre Bill Orcutt Portishead Peter Brötzmann The Necks

Curious parking in Edinburgh

Why does this read like cream cakes don't actually exist?

Hugely excited to welcome Jeremy Smith to @LacanInScotland next Thursday to talk about Laruelle and Lacan. The event is free and open to all. Please join us. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/en-joui-yo...

So Research Gate allows me to request someone’s article but, when they send it to me, it won’t let me say thanks because they don’t follow me.

Does anyone know of a comprehensive, chronological King Tubby discography? @harrysword.bsky.social @funkentechno.bsky.social @boomkat.com

Saturday feeling.

Share what you consider to be a goddess tier album…

Actual album of the year.

That Terry Riley album is out of this world.

Los Thuthanaka are playing Glasgow and I’m out of the country. How annoying!

Stumbling across Werckmeister Harmonies with no context was one of my greatest cinematic experiences, that and watching The Turin Horse and then meeting Bela Tarr in 2011. What a magnificent filmmaker. What a loss, far too young.

Turning into my favourite Jakob Ullmann anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/solo-i...

Bingo!

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My albums of the year:

Last minute reminder of the perfect stocking-filler for the Lacan novice in your life. Now available in English, Greek and Korean.

I’m with Astrid Sonne on Consumed. Absolute goat.

I'm organising this hybrid training event on PhD thesis to book for @sgsah.bsky.social Literature+ Catalyst on Fri 16 January. Great speakers inc. Sarah Bernstein, @drjamesbailey.bsky.social, @hannahkateboast.bsky.social, @emilyalder.bsky.social. Please sign up! www.sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/dp/disci...

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

Reissue of the year.

My second book publication of the month: the Farsi version of my Ethics & Psychology: Beyond Codes of Practice.

Someone’s got the right idea.

Still haven’t listened to Ghosted III. Need to find a moment.

I know it’s all about end of year lists at the moment but I just rediscovered this gem from 2017. I’d forgotten how magnificent it is. uvb-76music.bandcamp.com/album/uvb76-...

Like getting rid of juries.

WIN! - a Norman World Exclusive copy of 'HAYWARDxDÄLEK' by HAYWARDxDÄLEK Like, share, and give our page a follow for the chance to win a copy of our limited exclusive of this class industrial hip-hop collab. @relapserecords.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2117...