Incredible conversations about #Vwoolf2025 and religion happening this year! including a panel on Sunday (feat. one annoying Irish guy), and a fabulous roundtable on the upcoming Edinburgh UP #Woolf2025 & Religion Handbook. Really exciting stuff!!!

Reading Virginia Woolf’s 3-page essay ‘Gas’ - one of my favourite pieces of writing in the English language - over and over again, using the excuse that I’m preparing for #Woolf2025. It would be selfish to keep this dramatic reading of it to myself: drive.google.com/file/d/1yMBg...

i was an interloper at a mostly Catholic literature & theology event at the weekend was really struck by the recurring theme of the tensions that theology attracts within secular fields - & the echoes in recent “secular” rel. studies, raising Qs. around what the humanities are, & are allowed to do

reading H.D.’s description of doing solo séance sessions in lonely moments during World War 2, I can’t help but think of the parallels to AI… 👻 🔮 👀

A striking outburst in William James’ Principals of Psychology. After outlining the problems with all available solutions to the mind-brain problem, James suddenly attacks both Hegelian dialectics and Herbert Spencer’s agnostic scientism as “spiritual chlorophorm”.

After spending a year and a half proselytising about Jason Josephson-Storm’s The Myth of Disenchantment, the inevitable has finally happened and a friend requested the copy I’d gotten from the library. At least transferring over all my annotations gives me a fun chance to read it again.

I’m in one of the “new“ colleges (Hughes Hall, est. 1895) and my supervisor’s in one of the Old Fancy Ones so I’ve developed a tradition of taking a selfie in Trinity’s Great Court every time I get feedback on a piece of work, to celebrate not being told that I’m actually an evil fraud

Brendan & I have been having some great conversations with contributors to the first issue of "Metamodern Theory and Praxis." Here’s a fantastic interview with Lene Rachel Andersen about her article on polymodern economics. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBxV...

a REALLY exciting CfP for a conference on the modernist long poem in Northeastern University, London!!!! (of particular interest to those working on anything Richard Adlington-adjecent!)

barely a page into rereading Eros the Bittersweet and I’ve already been seen…

heyiz me and Virginia Woolf are out at the george for her birthday, u coming out?? we’re in the smoking area out the back x if you’re coming grab us one of those three jagerbombs for a tenner deals, they’re all for her xxx

@marika.bsky.social Hi! This is bit of a random question, but: I’ve been thinking a lot about apophasis and desire in relation to your book on failure, and was wondering if you were familiar with William Desmond’s work on metaphysical perplexity?

This is the poem I referred to in the Irish Times piece, which may be unfamiliar to some people here.

6:30am and I’m already thinking about the vegan haggis I’m gonna have for dinner 👀 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 youtu.be/-rwAU0zNMEk?...

@yanotes.bsky.social going by your profile, any chance you’re working on H.D.? It’s not part of my PhD thesis, but I have a little piece forthcoming on epic and apocalyptic as competing modes in Trilogy and Helen in Egypt.

Hilma af Klint Tree of Knowledge

this #ModWrite, I checked my spam folder only to discover an acceptance for this year’s #Woolf2025 conference in KCL and Sussex! hours later, I got accepted for an exciting new edited collection with a proposal on D. H. Lawrence and the Unknowable, exploring the links between Spencer & Blavatsky!

The incredible diversity of expression of human religiosity continues to evolve 🍅

I'm in love with this cartoon "The Octopus" from the Moody Bible Institute Monthly, December 1925

Here’s the cover of my new book. It will come out this spring.

today’s serendipitous charity shop find: Simon Critchley’s new book on mysticism!

Beyond Burns Currently on the BBC iPlayer: Alistair Heather takes a tour of Scotland’s modern poetry of place – revealing that the Scots language is alive & thriving, from the works of Taylor Dyson in post-industrial Dundee to the sci-fi Orkney poetry of Josie Giles www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

babe wake up a SHWEP interview with Charles Stang and Jason Josephson-Storm on the role of Theosophical Society on the formation of the discipline of Religious Studies just dropped (!!!!!!!!) open.spotify.com/episode/3FnK...

#DHLAWRENCE ON THE REAL PRACTICE OF #DIVINATION "If you live by the cosmos, you look in the cosmos for your clue. If you live by a personal god, you pray to him. If you are rational, you think things over. But it all amounts to the same thing in the end.

Here is a link to the article: muse.jhu.edu/article/947733

this #modwrite I’m posting niche D. H. Lawrence memes while procrastinating for my real task: polishing off a belated chapter draft before the end of the year, on how Lawrence’s readings of Spencer and Blavatsky dramatise what I dub “the battle for the Unknowable” in late-19th/early-20th c. thought

Here, in time, we are celebrating the eternal birth which God the Father bore and bears unceasingly in eternity, because this same birth is now born in time, in human nature. - #MeisterEckhart

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Theologian: It’s an ineffable mystery.

collected the indexes to The New Age journal from 1907 to 1922 into a single PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1yX9U... PDFs of the journals themselves available at modjourn.org/journal/new-...

Delighted to announce I've signed the contract for my monograph MYSTIC BLAKE, with Palgrave! This is my first book, based on my PhD & subsequent research. The book examines the origins of Blake's reputation as a 'mystic', from his c18th spiritual community to his reception by the Yeats circle.

Knotty by Nature: An unearthed live recording from 1966 shows us two jazz titans in glorious transition, with an adventurous rhythm section in tow. spectrumculture.com/2024/12/05/m...

delighted to see a talented colleague in my department tweet celebrating passing her viva w/o corrections. but it’s incredibly grim to see her then get dogpiled by thousands of artificially-boosted right-wing blue check accounts, starting with misogynistic jeering and escalating to violent threats.

This #ModWrite, I’m brushing back up on my early H.D. for the first meeting of the Whichcote Society’s year of H.D.-related events!

a dozen bands to get to know me Current 93 Legendary Pink Dots The Locust Senyawa The Dresden Dolls Coil Full of Hell Gentle Giant Xiu Xiu Siouxsie and the Banshees Fugazi Nurse With Wound

It’s time to dive into the early mystical and science fiction work of Evelyn Underhill, a monumental spiritual pioneer of the 20th century.

1902 depiction of 'Intense Anger' obscuring an astral body - artwork by Maurice Prozor, & copied for print by Gertrude Spink, for the Theosophical Society

"The map uses the latest data from HESA & shows that, on current trajectory, we may be at risk of subjects like French, theology, & anthropology becoming the preserve of students with higher grades or students who are more able to travel farther away from home to study" wonkhe.com/blogs/there-...

Convinced that the Penguin/Pelican Freud Library was one of the most ambitious and impressive editorial projects of its kind aimed a general readership. They managed to organise the Standard Edition down to individually useful, thematically coherent volumes, while still being incredibly thorough.

#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking about 1) PhD on religious/secular/esoteric concepts of the 'unsayable' and 'unknowable' in modernist literature 2) industrial music as late modernism (?)

Whichcote Society meetings— come along! A field trip to the British Museum is also planned for the coming year: where H.D. and Ezra Pound met.

absolutely no idea idea if I'm going to use bluesky at all, but at least this'll maintain some of my contacts for whenever twxttxr utterly collapses

17. William James could not believe how good Bergson's 1907 book Creative Evolution was. Soon after it was published he wrote to Bergson: "O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy"