The John Parish productions playlist has left Spotify and is now on Tidal - tidal.com/playlist/b33...

To celebrate the recent relaunch of Visual Culture in Britain, we are delighted to announce an ESSAY PRIZE for original research articles @vcib.bsky.social For more information please visit: www.tandfonline.com/journals/rvc... Thank you for sharing!

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

I’m off to Basel soon for this:

Just listened to @alicelovejoy.bsky.social on this podcast and her new book sounds brilliant (and very close to my interests) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

Doing my index- it’s a funny portrait of the book- here are some entries under p…

I had a fantastic time at the terra.falmouth + sustainable darkroom conference “Sustainable Photography?” Last week- most relaxing conference I have ever been to possibly because of this location

We’re hiring! The Dept of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool is looking for a fixed-term (1yr) f/t Lecturer in Media, Politics and Society (cover for a research fellowship). 1/

Just marked 2 excellent essays, with made-up quotes, probably AI generated and now I feel hollow and gutted.

A sneak preview of Eileen Perrier's show A Thousand Small Stories at Autograph, London. We're very lucky to have got Eileen for an online talk this Wednesday 28th May at 3pm BST- it’s free, book here - www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

A sneak preview of Eileen Perrier's show A Thousand Small Stories at Autograph, London. We're very lucky to have got Eileen for an online talk this Wednesday 28th May at 3pm BST- it’s free, book here - www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

Coming up soon! We are very excited that on Weds 28 May photographer Eileen Perrier will be doing an online talk for the CCEL at the University of Liverpool. Her exhibition “A Thousand Small Stories” is currently on at Autograph, London– talk is online only (Zoom) – full details and book here ...

Coming up soon! We are very excited that on Weds 28 May photographer Eileen Perrier will be doing an online talk for the CCEL at the University of Liverpool. Her exhibition “A Thousand Small Stories” is currently on at Autograph, London– talk is online only (Zoom) – full details and book here ...

This is tonight and looks great! Unfortunately I can’t go as we have Yannis Tzioumakis’s inaugural professorial lecture in Liverpool. Which I am also looking forward to… but I wish I could do both.

Really excited to present with the brilliant James Thompson and @michellehenning.bsky.social tomorrow at the @qmcbs.bsky.social conference. Details of panel below:

This Weds- 3-5pm!

This Weds- 3-5pm!

This is a really worthwhile read…

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

Two upcoming events being disorganised by me: 1/Weds 30 April – writer Melissa McCarthy – “Absolutely Nebulous: Fog, Fuzzy Edges and Vagueness in Photographic Fields” University of Liverpool /online – full details and book here - www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

Two upcoming events being disorganised by me: 1/Weds 30 April – writer Melissa McCarthy – “Absolutely Nebulous: Fog, Fuzzy Edges and Vagueness in Photographic Fields” University of Liverpool /online – full details and book here - www.ticketsource.co.uk/school-of-th...

I have a book cover! Cover image is by Wolfgang Suschitzky of a woman jumping a puddle on Charing Cross Rd in 1937. Cover b/w and silver. Details of book now on @uchicagopress.bsky.social at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants scheme is now open for applications. This opportunity allows postdoctoral – or equivalent – scholars in the humanities and social sciences to apply for funding to support their research projects. Learn more: buff.ly/BrfBwSt

I am doing a talk! Online (via zoom) on 24th April at 6pm CEST (Essen) which is 5pm GMT (Liverpool) or 12pm EDT (New York). Please email [email protected] for the zoom link. Everybody is welcome!

Luxury communism

University of Derby faces mass job cuts as management plans to make half of senior academics redundant. Please spread the word. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1398...

In the park this morning- someone knows how to chill.

When you should be doing marking but you are distracted because your book design has come through and it looks lovely (thanks University of Chicago Press…)

📢📢 WE ARE RECRUITING PARTICIPANTS📢📢 If you are interested in Dungeons and Dragons or TTRPGs more generally and would like to be involved in research seeking to create accessible and inclusive games and resources for players and GMs then check out this #CFP @commmedia.bsky.social

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

📢ACTUAL ACADEMIC JOB🚨 Tell the ECRs in your lives that we have full-time, 12-month teaching fellowship @livunienglish.bsky.social So, while the world continues to burn, they can at least be paid properly to teach books and in a friendly department that is 75% human (10% Witch; 15% miscellaneous)

Feeling very honored to have been invited by Hito Steyerl and Francis Hunger to give a lecture on »Dreamworlds of Platform Capitalism« for their »Emergent Digital Media« class at AdBK Munich. Join us if you are in Munich on May 14! generativemedia.net/event/dreamw... #PlatformRealism

📈 Today rail fares rise by 4.6%. ✈️ Rail trips are on average twice as expensive as domestic flights. 🚆 We could tax air travel fairly, raising billions to invest in our railways and bring down fares, making the green option the easiest and cheapest option.

A major Norwegian fuel company is refusing to provide fuel to U.S. warships after the “shitshow” in the White House yesterday over Ukraine. This is the way. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/norwegian-fu...

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

Timothy Snyder on Newshour tonight, about the Oval Office debacle today. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

Now confirmed

🎙️ Please enjoy! These two are so generous and brilliant in conversation: pca.st/episode/183d...

“We know who we are, at least in part, by finding the words — messy, imprecise, unexpected — to tell others, and ourselves, how we see the world.” On AI and the necessary work of writing to think. So good fr @margaretrenkl.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/o...

It’s tomorrow!

Kompromat

Forget the word “trump”- call him Krasnov from now on…

It's not just fdr. One of the things the epa did not long after it was formed was document the nation's pollution via photography. That can seem frivolous, but generations of Americans have no idea why the EPA was necessary. This broke a million views when we published it in 2017

Our PhD Placement Scheme is BACK! Call for applications for 3-6 month placements at The British Library. All current PhD students registered with a UK university are eligible. Deadline 21st Feb, 5pm. For more information, & how to apply, please see our temporary website: www.bl.uk/more/researc...

New acquisition!