Very tough week here in Nottingham. 40% of academic posts in my School are being made redundant and the numbers are even higher elsewhere - modern languages and music are being cut completely. The scale of the HE crisis in the UK is almost impossible to comprehend.

Rockabilly night

Great works of the 20th Century

Genuinely curious how long this can go on since white-collar labor arbitrage is an ideological project by the richest people in history

Beauty

NuZild music month

Chelsea cant

So anyway, a one-off screening of_Sorry To Bother You_ to help promote _I Love Boosters_? Sure! Boots Riley and LaKeith Stanfield in a Q&A after that? Excellent. Boots Riley also looking fucking amazing? Well of course.

‘The University Is a Site of Struggle’—A Roundtable with Faculty Organizers on Repression and Resistance on US Campuses

All about Ellie Greenwich in the Record Room this week. So many great songs. And vocals. And productions. Her name should come up in conversation more often. Patreon.com/bobstanley

"They Build to Dominate, or Fascism in the Age of Its Digital Reproducibility" by Alberto Toscano. Distressingly topical... Free PDF available here: aksioma.org/are-you-a-so...

Have been very slowly reading my way thru The Making of the English Working Class and I think Thompson’s take on the Luddites is lovely. Here he responds to the accusation that they were reactionary and driven solely by nostalgia

All of this 15 minutes plus

Julian Cope - The Armenian Genocide

Tracking

This is incredible. Like being in the room.

It's 3am eternal

Medicine

Greatest music video of the 21st century

Wrote about an Asha Bhosle filmsong here

French perspective

People are still being punished for the courageous stances they took protesting the genocide in Gaza--one that is still ongoing. Here is a fundraiser for two faculty members at UC San Diego who are being significantly penalized (suspended without pay) by the university. chuffed.org/project/lega...

The Communication, Culture & Critique editorial collective is proud to publish our first thematic issue: PALESTINE AS COMMUNICATIVE EPISTEMOLOGY academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/19/1

"Trying to 'engage' with fascism is like trying to have an intimate emotional relationship with a running chainsaw. The very act of framing fascism as a reasonable partner for dialogue is an act of propaganda that validates and normalizes fascism." Good read on the utter failure of corporate media: