Distinct from the opportunistic ‘indigenous’ claims of the far right, and informed by the struggles of colonised Indigenous peoples, I read ‘liberal indigeneity’ as a white fantasy of ancestral belonging that attempts to negotiate the racial legacies of empire. 2/2

How does race figure in writing on nature, landscape, and environment? This new open-access article in @theoryculturesociety.org charts the rise of ‘liberal indigeneity’ as an expression of nativism in postimperial Britain. 1/2 doi.org/10.1177/0263...

In this blog for @theoryculturesociety.org I parody the hand-crafted woodcut style of popular books on nature, folklore, and the distant past 'decorated with fluttering leaves, distant hills, perhaps a Morris troupe or a charismatic megalith or two'. www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/imagini...

7) Pursue digital sovereignty: universities should collaborate to create the software and platforms they need, and not rely on the fascistic and extractive tech sector.

Will witter on about this more when I’m back at work but this one tries to get to grips with the racial politics of stone circles, folk, foraging, and weird walks.

Just catching up with this wonderful news. Daniella did her PhD with us @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social and will be fantastic in this role.

⚡ While we wind down the year – and draw our ten year celebrations to a close – we’re spotlighting innovative thinkers in our 10 year essay collection. Today take inspiration from @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social, who is working for a world where tech works for 8 billion people not eight billionaires

Do you have a Guernica on your wall? Post a picture and tell me how you came by it and what it means to you.

I have this theory that the Labour right's strategy of precisely engineering electoral defeats for their party so as to achieve political objectives is an extension of the neoliberal impulse to achieve public policy objectives through targeted tax cuts as opposed to the state actually doing anything

I just delivered a seminar in this department and can confirm that staff & students are delightful. A nice job for someone.

This report is how I have channeled my rage as the tech industry has grown in wealth and power at the expense of workers, communities, and the environment. The old mechanisms of reform aren’t sufficient in a time of AI ascendance and data center accelerationism datasociety.net/library/turn...

Free child care for all asap. Housing. Schools. Medical care. All of it free, asap. All the money pouring into these systems can develop actual and real supports for people. ChatGPT isn't free.

History Workshop Journal’s 100th Issue: a celebration 31 Jan 2026, 2.00pm, Bloomsbury, London Speakers include former and newer editors, and friends of the journal. To join us, book here HWJ100.eventbrite.co.uk @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

capital flight is less of a risk than people think -- most of it thats gonna fly is already /in/ tax havens and comparable jurisdictions

The first episode, impeccably hosted by @philiproscoe.bsky.social & @addiemcgowan.bsky.social featuring @tgpb.bsky.social @allartmarkets.bsky.social & Simone Pollilo, goes live tomorrow. We expect you'll all be featuring in your 2026 Wrapped. www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...

To read more about our vision for the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life - and to explore & apply for our 7 research fellow positions, see leverhulmecal.webspace.durham.ac.uk/call-for-fel... and get in touch if you have questions #MachineLearning #Algorithms #Interdisciplinary #postdoctoral

Could 2026 be the year of public interest technology? @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social and @jamestplunkett.bsky.social have co-authored a blog on what it would take for 2026 to see public interest / civic tech realise its full potential. We'd love to know what people think. medium.com/@jamestplunk...

The really interesting thing @rfbramall.bsky.social sowed in the back of my mind yesterday is: what if the welfare state, predicated on the post-WW2 settlement - is a thing of the past? Nostalgia has such a grip on our conception of the state; what does it mean to really consciously look ahead?

Joint book launch at King’s 🌟 Featuring: • @jwyg.bsky.social, Public Data Cultures • @nsrnicek.bsky.social, Silicon Empires • @mayameme.bsky.social, Auto-Correct In conversation with @noortjem.bsky.social & @joannazylinska.bsky.social 📅 3 Dec, 19:00-21:00 www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...

Spoiler alert: no. 🤣🤣 In all seriousness, though, what fun to write this with @jsnyder.bsky.social, @martinlukk.bsky.social and Eric Schneiderhan, and to be in dialogue with so many wide-ranging and excellent responses to our piece. Thanks to all who contributed!

Great new exbo at my place of work #LSBU on community activism in SE1 in 1970s @se1.news. Free to all so come along to Borough Road Gallery at 103 Borough Road, SE1 0EH 😊. #localhistory @chppc.bsky.social

London people come discuss and celebrate with us! A launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social. Eventbrite link below! 🥂 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

‘Enchanted’ organisations, in Davies (2017: 23) terms, such as trade unions or guilds offer forms of authority that have no connection to ‘markets, calculations or individual choice’ tl;dr - Trade unions can call out your shit.

"Bad state" can mean different things to different people. To some, it could mean that the area's been devastated by austerity and underinvestment. To others, it could mean that some black or brown people have moved into the neighbourhood.

💷 💷 💷 NEW: Polling for Compass reveals that a majority of the public support taxing the vast wealth of the UK's richest. If Labour fails to listen to the country on taxing wealth and surrenders the resources that this would unlock, a decade of national renewal is a nonstarter.

I joined @andrewonearth.bsky.social for this interview reflecting on degrowth, socialism, & political power. "Our governments are not dealing with the ecological crisis because they are capitalist. So, it is capitalism that must be overcome." breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...

Degrowth should be understood as an element within a socialist transformation, as a corrective to certain productivist strains of socialist thought that are inadequate for our current moment."

It's Ofcom Media Nations Day! The annual state of the nation report on the UK's media habits. This year the stand-out finding is that most kids start with YouTube. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Quick 🧵 on how the presentation of these findings is a good example of what's up with media policy

UK university staff: keep signing!

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. Please sign and share ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

There is so much wrong with Labour's comms. But I think this ad, in many ways sums them up. It's not just a really shit ad - 13 words that make your eyes bleed, dissociated from the image they're clunkily slapped across. That's just shit execution.

‘Cora, in her work and person, always gave a unique gloss to the feminist slogan that the personal is political, which defined so much of the spirit of those heady early years.’ Jacqueline Rose remembers the feminist critic Cora Kaplan: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This is one of those situations where having been surveyed before is really useful to interpreting survey results. My strong hunch is that: these people don't think this. But when you are answering questions, you are aware that the data is going to be interpreted! So in your head when...

Well, so many people are, right now, on their bikes delivering things without labour protection.

Look how chuffed I am with my @jcultecon.bsky.social bag Cheers @allartmarkets.bsky.social

people who receive child tax credit or universal credit are also “taxpayers”, of course

Great blog — plenty of evidence of ‘care stripping’ in our ongoing research on the social/welfare crowdfunding economy

AI is a force multiplier for scams, and there is SO much we' urgentlyneed to learn in order to know what to do about it

"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. 🌱📗✨🎊💜 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...

Today I received another email from @gofundme.com saying they were “refunding me” - aka continuing to stop starving Palestinians in Gaza from accessing one of the only ways of accessing money to pay for food. Aiding & abetting genocide, in other words. We won’t forget.

Every "smash the gangs" reference, every Starmer op-ed blaming public service collapse on the tiny proportion of refugees who come to this country, every border externalisation and offshore "returns hub" deal, is Labour running Reform's campaign for them, gratis. That they can't see this is damning.

I remember at my very first Labour branch meeting after moving to the Cotswolds, I suggested the council look at increasing council tax on 2nd homes, at which point a Labour councillor turned to me with doe eyes and woefully said “oh no, because some of us just inherited our parents’ houses”

On Tuesday we are getting together to celebrate Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary. The event will be on campus at Goldsmiths, and will feature conversation from editors and guests. Come along! Sign up for free here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finance-ae....

Our last seminar or the semester tomorrow. London media types very welcome.

Economist James Meadway (@meadwaj.bsky.social) on how Labour is approaching growth in COMPLETELY the wrong way 👏 #Budget2025

Join us next week at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social to hear @jwyg.bsky.social & @lboungr.bsky.social of @publicdatalab.bsky.social share their work on developing collaborative methods for exploring public issues. 📅 Weds 2nd April, 16:00 - 17:30 🔗Register now at edin.ac/3DCDVEF

New polling shows overwhelming support for a wealth tax.

Call for papers Grounded Futures: The Poetics and Politics of Soil in a Changing World guest eds. @zeniakish.bsky.social and Eva-Lynn Jagoe Abstracts due April 1 Full details: lwbooks.co.uk/call-for-pap...