1. I’ve seen tons about it on here 2. It’s not fascinating

Fascinating! I learned from Marina MacKay that Watt’s entire intellectual project was also profoundly conditioned by the brutality of WW2 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I have an article about Watt & Adorno appearing shortly in Modern Language Quarterly, in @johannawinant.bsky.social & @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social ’s special issue on Close Reading!

While in California, Ian Watt asks Theodor Adorno how his day went

these things need torching

Vico, sending free copies of his books out and about, into the social desert, where only media darlings deserve acknowledgement of receipt-of-book

Happy to have received the latest issue of seventh quarry, where I have two poems published

Read bits of thomas carlyle today ... there's a guy who can't exist now

Fairly sure mps are being briefed to use psychodrama as a word that means 'drama about people going craaazy'

Really like this Richard Crashaw poem, pubd. 1652

Brigid Brophy wrote 7 novels and these are the most recent editions:

I have a song that goes 'siarad cymraeg fel majic' on repeat in my head and I do not even siarad cymraeg

World's stupidest cat hits new devastating low

used to be that there were literary bots for random lines, then they just started only quoting the most notably dramatic ones and now they select them to directly comment on current affairs. game’s gone.

Does anyone know any good academic literature that discusses how Hildegard of Bingen became popular during the New Age movement and due to second-wave feminist interest in women’s spirituality or Goddess theology?

The cat has cheekily tricked us into giving her two dinners. From now on she is to be referred to as Leo two dinners

Manuel Felguérez (1928-2020), serpentine celosía or lattice screen, 1964, Museo Nacional de Antropología in conjunction with architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez

The state shot &killed people in the uk for decades, colluded with citizens to kill & has frustrated justice in uk courts ever since. Sean Browns widow awaits her day in the Supreme Court. THAT has been a warning siren ringing for decades - the colonial attitude of us being lesser stops them hearing

There's a lot of spectacular photography for today's theme. This is not one of them, but I thought it was fun anyway. This poor Coot was struggling to keep hold of food on the ice.. For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #FoodFinds. #Birds #Wildlife #Nature #BirdPhotography #UKBirds

One thing about 'tomorrow never knows' as an album closer is that you'd be forgiven for being worried that your favourite band the beatles were just never going to make a pop song again ... which is great

I'm in New York. Climbed up the Statue of Liberty yesterday. Here's the inside of her face.

Japanese copywriting still reigns supreme

A liverpool fan asked how to feel about the fulham goal. The wise man bowed his head and said: Inside you at all times are two football fans. One is a deranged partisan who cries for blood and the other is a bizarre aesthete who says 'hmm the beautiful game'. The true sage will not watch football

Dad. Loves Dogs. Up the Blues. Gyre Widener at Misery Factory. Views my own

Pro tip: If you're following the BBC's coverage of the Maduro abduction, it's worth googling the guests to see if they are Venezuelan defence industry entrepreneurs

This is confusing because clearly there is some sense in which something called "Grok" produced text which expresses these sentiments in the first person. Here's the right way to understand this. There are two distinct things that are both called "Grok": a language model and a fictional character.

The tunes-posting will continue youtu.be/RqMmGa0p5sU?...

fantasy RPG idle chat

I can't stop thinking about the hunger strikers - I am so moved by their courage and devastated that we are here. I have taught both militant suffrage and the 1981 Irish hunger strikes in the last month and the long thread of British state violence is chilling.

Ignore this post entirely, let's all focus on the real news, which is the word 'story' has become really offputting to me, precisely because of these cheesy associations.... I'm not a cozy child!!!

25 albums I liked from this year

Time for my annual close-reading-the-carol-sheet question: what does the "Away" in "Away in a Manger" actually mean?

Startled to find a portrait of me in my partner's learner's welsh book

feel like pure shit just want the Liverpool Overhead Railway back

Gillian Rose - a few links for the thirtieth anniversary progressivegeographies.com/2025/12/09/g...

Manchester City Council announces new paving slab that shoots even more water up your trouser leg when stepped on - "We've listened"

The evils of the world are because of people not taking enough humanities classes. More people should be like Alex Karp, who has a bachelor's degree in philosophy, a JD, and a PhD in social theory.

Lenora de Barros. Poema, 1979

Liverpool #pain

*need* to find a copy of the austrian adaptation of At Swim-Two-Birds www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hvb...

Forced my students to admire this sentence in Araby: 'Through one of the broken panes I heard the rain impinge upon the earth, the fine incessant needles of water playing in the sodden beds.'

Lot of creative deaths in the tales of the elders of ireland, but the one I enjoy at this point in time is 'He put his face to the earth and did not raise it again, and thus died from shame'

Whoever wrote in the blurb for this edition of Edward Said’s Out of Place that the book reveals “an unimaginably rich world of colorful characters and exotic eastern landscapes” desperately needs to read some Edward Said

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