Happy Pretending-that-university-rankings-are-a-useful-reflection-of-the-social-value-we-all-create-and-not-the-industry-damaging-neoliberal-attack-on-higher-education-they-really-are Day to all who celebrate it.

‘Some late Victorian anatomists and physiologists believed that all the brain’s thoughts influenced the hand, and early 20th-century phenomenologists liked to say that “the hand is the visible part of the brain.”’ Steven Shapin on a new account of the hand. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

“Boredom terrifies our screen-addicted culture… Before Twitter, artists refused to talk their ideas to death, guarding them like seeds in winter. Our culture, by contrast, flings them into the dopamine void—where they perish on contact.” www.oxfordsour.com/p/the-art-of...

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This INSANELY good site has catalogued the signage from 115 of Europe's underground stations. So much typographic eye candy, not to mention tiles and colours. ubahn.photos

Got a new piece out, for those of you interested in urban warfare and military epistemics doi.org/10.1080/2469...