For those wanting to know more about Iran and voices from inside the country (rather than the fash-y monarchists outside), Naghmeh Sohrabi has been translating pieces from folks inside on her blog:
truethings.naghmehs.com
crucial coverage from The Guardian that features our collaborative, movement-building website
against-a-i.com
My flat’s a few mins’ walk away and sounds of trains rolling into Glasgow Central come every few minutes. Today their absence I am noticing repeatedly. I can’t yet face walking to see the burnt building. One burnt building; no injuries. Elsewhere US and Israel pound urban landscapes to oblivion
Sally Rooney: "By standing in solidarity with Palestine, we are learning how to fight for life on earth"
Sally Rooney: "I would like to ask my fellow writers & artists.. not to dwell too exclusively on what we stand to lose. There is another more important side to the story. To join in something greater than ourselves, to participate in.. a struggle for human liberation"
My lecture will include discussion of @hamayel.bsky.social Abdaljawad Omar’s “Can the Palestinian Mourn?” rustedradishes.com/can-the-pale...
I’m lecturing on mourning and melancholia to my honours’ students this week and in the midst of writing my lecture I read Haley Mlotek’s essay in @thenation.com on Duras and on grief www.thenation.com/article/cult...
I remember the feeling of the day in late 2023 on which I read Nadia Bou Ali's 'Ugly enjoyment' when it was published in English in @parapraxismag.bsky.social www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/ugl...
'Why do people resist?...staying with where pain refuses to soften. Keeping vigil with the unbearable, enduring the night where all the cows are black'
Always read Nadia Bou Ali communispress.com/dispatches-f...
I wasn’t surprised to read, given how much Oxford has been crowing about its preeminence in embedding AI (eg www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-09...), that the workshop is being run by a member of the “AI Competency Centre” at University of Oxford, which supports the deployment and adoption of AI across Oxford
This full-day workshop will equip researchers with practical skills and conceptual understanding for integrating generative AI into the research lifecycle. The session will explore AI across three dimensions: as a personal productivity and ideation assistant for literature reviews, research design, and project management; as a research tool for qualitative data analysis and hypothesis generation; and as a subject of research investigating the capabilities of Large Language Models.
Just declined this invitation my university just sent me for a full-day workshop. Push back against the relentless reduction of socially necessary labour time
A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
oh. yes. you're right
Same in Glasgow. Having just taught a seminar on Freud’s essay on the uncanny I am feeling particularly unsettled
And just look at how Adam Tickell, economic geographer and vice-chancellor, has chosen to word his attack here: 'getting access to the student loan book', 'investing money in people who are not really capable of graduating'
“What began as an attempt to alter the regional balance may instead hasten the erosion of the order that presumed it could interfere with impunity”
Mark Fisher and reimagining postcapitalist geographies Callum Sutherland Abstract In this paper, I outline the spatial imaginaries of the late radical thinker Mark Fisher (1968–2017). I begin by explaining Fisher's focus on culture and desire as forces that must be addressed if an effective postcapitalist politics is to be formed and underscoring that so far in postcapitalist geographies, the roles of culture and desire have been relatively overlooked. I then delineate three spatial imaginaries threaded through Fisher's work, which I call 3D hauntology, grotesque stratigraphy, and acid topology, demonstrating how they offer fresh ideas at the nexus of postcapitalist geography and political strategy. To conclude, I argue that postcapitalist geographers must urgently foster cultural and political experiments that wager on latent popular desire for a future characterised by a reimagined communism.
Teaching Mark Fisher this morning and making sure the students also read @callumsutherland.bsky.social on Fisher’s spatial imaginaries in @dialogueshg.bsky.social
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This is not a substantive engagement with the economy of Dubai but Caitlín Doherty's short piece in Sidecar is worth a (re)read newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Such an incredible essay by Nazanin Shahrokni on what practising solidarity as relation really entails spectrejournal.com/who-speaks-f...
All photos taken in Inveraray. Bus from Glasgow takes under 2hrs and it’s a beautiful route. Costs £23 return
‘This dossier starts from a basic question. How did we arrive at a moment in which imperialist powers that have waged war across the region and enabled Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, can appear as plausible agents of “freedom for Iran?”’
I know @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social will have lots of suggestions
Not very helpful, but I think so much depends on how the editor has set out what the edited book aims to do. Sometimes writing a chapter can feel very similar to writing a research article for a journal, and other times, as you suggest, seems to require a more synoptic approach
Shingle beach in foreground; 18th century houses making up a village as the shore curves. The loch is still. The blue of the sky and the grey of the clouds press on the land
The oystercatchers and curlews are calling (but not visible in this photo)
Looking down from a steep hill into the loch with the harbour (which featured in last photo) in the distance. Huge sky with puffy clouds and sun
Look at those cloud reflections
Loch with hills and stone bridge in background, boat moored in foreground. The water is still and there is blue behind the clouds
They said the sun would come out so I took a bus out of Glasgow
So many condolences @jacquelinebest.bsky.social. It was so clear, as someone outside of the political science department at JHU, how profound his mentorship and intellectual comradeship was for so many.
My many condolences to you @bonniehonig.bsky.social & everyone else who knew & loved him - and of course his family. Such sad news. Though I didn't take a class with him, my time at Hopkins features so many memories of him. He was so clearly such an important mentor for so many
I love teaching @abbieboggs.bsky.social’s and Nick Mitchell’s crisis consensus essay to Master’s students. Never fails to open up the most extraordinary discussions in the classroom about what the university might be and the shapes it might be pressed into www.jstor.org/stable/10.15...
I didn’t contribute to the almost 70 million instances of servers at my university accessing AI in 2025
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2588713...
