I was asked to make a short video on research methods. Here it is. May Reviewer 2 choke on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqkx...

Nuff for-profit network thingies. I've resurrected an old blog. cultstud.blogspot.com

OMG

Fantastic stuff! Thanks to @physicalculture.bsky.social youtu.be/IF24tZEz8xM?...

In another demented twist, the very publicly Jewish intellectual Judith Butler is in the Trump regime's gunsights for ... (wait for it)... antisemitism. Yep. McTrumpyism, flooding the zone with evermore madness on the way to instituting Gilead. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So.... I've resurrected a very old blog. I've started putting some new stuff up there. cultstud.blogspot.com

Trying to get the attention of everyone in the room with this lecture section... maybe a kitten would have been better...?

Let's pick up this gauntlet: AI is neither the death of the humanities nor the human: it is rather the challenge that forces us to define and explore the 'extra' or 'other' that we think we are, or are about. piercesalguero.substack.com/p/why-ai-may...

From 1994 to '96 I did an MA in cultural studies at Leeds Uni. Now, 30 years later, I am going to be external examiner on that very same MA. Such a bizarre cluster of feelings. I did 3 degrees in Leeds, from 1989 to 2001, but I haven't actually been back to the city since about 2002...!

Why it's time to leave Academia.edu (if it's not already too late) substack.com/home/post/p-...

Increasingly desperate to quit Meta without throwing the baby out with the bathwater, I am now trying ProfBook, which is for academics. It’s mainly organised by thematic subject groups. Academic friends, join me in the Cultural Studies space. Let’s see if it’s any good. profbook.net/share/sT81s1...

So… I’m now an admin on the Cultural Studies space on ProfBook… So far it’s a very small group. Join me! profbook.net/share/sT81s1...

New martial arts studies group on the new network 'ProfBook': profbook.net/share/ESmgA0...

More reasons to leave Meta - or simply just hate ourselves for continuing to (be) use(d by) it www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Any academics on ProfBook? I’m giving it a trial profbook.net

I was invited to keynote a conference in the US. After wrestling with my conscience, I declined. This is to avoid any complicity with the idea that it is 'business as usual' in the US, when I believe we are seeing an attempted coup, one that is all too reminiscent of 1930s Germany.

On a routine 5.30am trawl of the Cardiff University library catalogue, I encountered the word 'evolvement'. Not a good pre-6am experience at all. Down with this sort of thing!

frases clave...

Most interesting thing I've learned this morning: the 'uncanny valley' effect. Initially used to describe people's freaked out response to robots that look uncannily (un)like humans, it has been expanded to describe reactions to juiced-up bodybuilders, and, I think, people with freaky duck lips

For me, the key takeaway from Musk's most recent pathetic failed attempt to incite violence in the UK is that, mercifully, no one actually listens to pathetic annoying pudgy twerps like him. They just wait for opportunities to copy their homework, steal their lunch money and give them wedgies

One of the paradoxes of US politics is that it is worse to be called a racist than to actually say racist things. This is reaching its culmination as people are being fired for simply quoting the racist things that Charlie Kirk has said, effectively calling him a racist.

Most interesting thing I learned today: Cauliflowers are fractal. Who ever thought maths could have a practical real-world vegetabliness!

Now would be a good time to remove his Fellowship of the Royal Society @royalsociety.org royalsociety.org/people/elon-...

For all his big boy talk about violence at Robin Snodgrass Yaxley Lennon’s hooligan-nostalgia-fest yesterday, I seem to recall that Elon Musk was too scared to have a fun-fight with Mark Suckerberg

Just in case anyone had forgotten that Elon Musk is a Nazi, he pops back up to incite racial violence in the UK.

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Good to see our @cujournmedcul.bsky.social study informing debates about impartiality. Be interesting to hear how Newswatch audiences think broadcasters should interpret due impartiality 👇

Good points, well made theconversation.com/national-anx...

Lecture writing. The point of knowledge in the corporate university of excellence

@livvygibbs.bsky.social Lecture writing

@dominicpettman.bsky.social Lecture writing

Farage's Brexit *caused* the small-boats crisis. Farage receives £73,000 p/a from the EU. Farage is actively involved in tax avoidance. Farage applied for a German passport immediately after Brexit. Anyone? Anyone? No? OK. Turkeys: meet Christmas.

Only if he suddenly becomes a northern working-class woman ...

@barthesstudies.bsky.social Lecture title: 'Roland the Barbarian'. Using Conan to teach Roland (and vice versa)

Something I wrote that may be of interest to martial arts researchers, affect theorists, ideology critiquers, people who like theory, people who like Indian clubs, and people who like words like 'exbodiment' (which is my new favourite) bowmanp.substack.com/p/imagined-s...

Amazing stuff, about the mysteries of octopus genius and of stupid people www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-evolut...

Exbodiment! Love it open.substack.com/pub/briankla...