here for it 💯

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A century after his death, BBC R3 have produced a special feature on the composer Erik Satie, the subject of Ian Penman's latest book. Listen to the episode here and find ERIK SATIE THREE PIECE SUITE on our website: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Achille Mbembe calling it like six years ago

RAF squadron targeted for a repaint by Palestine Action does not belong to the RAF. ultimately owned by Polygon Global Partners LLP, a Hedge Fund. How much of the RAF is owned by hedge funds, private equity? Finance sector benefiting from wars? A nation's defence outsourced without any debate.

What thrills me the most about this win—I honestly can't stop reading up about it from across a continent and an ocean—is the prospect that leftist policies CAN find voters and the world CAN change

the plan is to distract and deflect and overwhelm and numb until everyone is dead. and then they will say it’s in the past, and they will move into Gaza, and the western machinery will roll on as it always has. hard not to see proscribing Palestine Action is part of this plan

❤️❤️❤️ finally some good news

The best ( @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social ) is here to clear up a very confused discourse

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was feeling like writing this book was killing me, but now thanks to the AI discourse I’m like actually I love being inside this long thought, nothing can replace it or do it except me, nothing can replace this process, its swerves & fruitful errata & and an internal music has settled inside me

there’s a man who plays his flute to his dog when he walks it at night in the park next to my house. Can hardly see him in the gloom & his flute sounds like Totoro’s flute. I am convinced he is the Totoro of Croydon

Western leaders call for diplomacy, but they won’t stop this war – they refuse to even name its cause | Nesrine Malik

It’s difficult to leave the cycles of outrage & disbelief about Starmer & Labour’s genocidaire neoliberalism & warmongering etc. But the thing is, they are serving their class interests. Appeals to morality or sense won’t work. The work needs to start w this www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Looking forward to this ~ going to be in conversation w @olibasciano.bsky.social about his new book Outcast @faberbooks.bsky.social at The Margate Bookshop on 3 July. Come along! Tickets free but need to book on eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/outcast-wi...

This entire thread is illuminating.

Kim Hyesoon reads from Autobiography of Death, trans. Don Mee Choi & in conversation w Will Harris @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk ✨

"When global consulting firm Nous Group arrives at a university, the company blueprint is always the same: weaken the academe, centralise power and cut staff." Purely accidental that that's happening here, obviously. After they deemed Schools' autonomy a 'problem' nousgroup.com/case-studies...

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Congrats to @olibasciano.bsky.social on the launch of his brilliant book OUTCAST @faberbooks.bsky.social ✨

Great article from Christian Lorentzen ‘Democratic donors love Cuomo, especially landlords. Fix the City, the Super PAC […] has raised $13 million, including $1 million from the online food delivery service DoorDash and six-figure sums from various construction and www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Helen Bessette’s novel Lili Is Crying beautifully translated by Kate Briggs @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social is one of my new favourite books ever & it could be one of yours too

‘It’s a template for distressed UK infrastructure: Load it with debt Strip it for yield Wait for collapse Let the creditors in Repackage the remains Sell it on’ ~ This is also what university senior management teams do

😂 couldn’t make this up honestly

‘Just hours after Lammy’s statement, another RAF surveillance plane took off towards Gaza to provide intelligence to Israel; and days later, UK trade envoy Lord Austin visited Israel to, in his words, “drum up business for Britain”’ www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-r...

beautiful sumoud convoy is the future 💖

"At its heart the Trump Administration is violently divisive, isolationist, and segregationist, and solidarity is our first duty and most profound rejection of that agenda." for this insight, Solnit has been suspended from fb www.meditationsinanemergency.com/some-notes-o...

This is the way: a way forward that recognizes and responds to the real reasons why people are being radicalized by the far right, and offers a better alternative.

You can buy a copy of The Age of Olive Trees here: outspokenldn.com/shop/haia All proceeds go to support the poet in Gaza.

All paramedics in this photo were killed tonight by lsrael in Gaza.

Adv. Hadeel Abu Salih (Adalah Legal Center) told +972 Magazine and @mekomit that the whereabouts of the activists from the Madleen flotilla, as well as the next steps the Israeli authorities are planning, are currently unknown.

the UK govt won’t comment on the Madleen as if it is minor but the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development office (FCDO) have now dedicated an entire phone line option to it, plays you an automated message and hangs up. That is the #1 option on their phoneline right now for consular assistance

Moving towards a trade dispute with the Secretary of State for Education! UCU Congress voted to support a national trade dispute with the government over the Higher Education funding crisis. Motion & further info: lu.ma/a0vv0sjb?tk=... JOIN to discuss next steps 3 June, 6pm: lu.ma/zs6bklhz 🧵

Wow - this looks so good!! ‘In recent decades, a critical turn to infrastructure across the humanities and social sciences has taken place at the same time as the infrastructures of emancipatory knowledge production have been steadily annexed, disciplined, and dismantled….’

Maria Eagle, Minister of State for Defence Procurement and Industry spoke at a private event hosted at the British Museum on Wednesday for Israel Independence Day and was filmed saying the UK “stood with Israel, with the RAF conducting surveillance flights over the Eastern Mediterranean”. #r4today

UK threatens sanctions & still exports arms to Israel. Has been lying about not exporting arms. Aiding on every level. Vilifying protestors. Starmer & lab cabinet need to be prosecuted for abetting war crimes & this is a pathetic and blatant charade. Nobody is buying this ‘liberal’ shit anymore

Announcing Issue 06: Resistance, now available for pre-order. Essays by Fady Joudah, Jamieson Webster, Dylan Saba, Yasmin El-Riafe, Ussama Makdisi, Mary Turfah, Hannah Proctor, & more. For full TOC: www.parapraxismagazine.com/magazine To pre-order: www.parapraxismagazine.com/store/p/para...

This week, as the government defends in court its sale of F-35 parts used in Gaza — and as famine threatens a starving population — it blocked my bill to suspend arms sales to Israel. The reckoning will come. Ministers will be held accountable for their complicity in genocide.

“Everything goes the wrong way. I don’t know how happy people do it. I wanted to make something happen. I’d had enough. Enough. And so I left. I swapped one master for another.” From Lili Is Crying, which will be published next month by New Directions. buff.ly/Zexyoeg

I wrote about close reading. What it is, why it matters, and what John Guillory gets right and wrong in his recent On Close Reading. Offers a sneak peek of a little of what @johannawinant.bsky.social and I are up to in our forthcoming Close Reading for the 21C www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Digital galleys are HERE for Close Reading for the 21C, which I co-edited with @johannawinant.bsky.social. You know you want it, want to review it. Write to barbara_tonetti [at] press [dot] princeton [dot] edu. Look at that gorgeous slate of contributors! Get it!

v excited abt this wonderful trip thank you @miayou.bsky.social 💖

💚💚💚 @prototypepubs.bsky.social have printed beautiful folders of 8 x poster poems, limited edition print run of 75. Each set is £15 🌀🍃 Under the theme of Renewal these explore ecology & interconnectedness ~ you can buy them here 🌿 prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/rene...

Please share this Open Call for submissions far n wide. The selected writers will get their first book made by the extraordinary Book Works, edited in collaboration with me. We’ll aim to prioritise writers from low income backgrounds whose work would be hard to place in conventional presses