@robbhawkes
Money happens; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social editorial collective; credit @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social; Past Chair @modernistudies.bsky.social; researching literature, money, and trust; he/him; https://linktr.ee/robhawkesMotL
Official lettering for the Office of Budget Responsibility.
Bye-bye OBR, hello OER.
It’s time to replace the Office for Budget Responsibility with something better – an Office for Economic Responsibility.
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Periodic reminder that there is no way out of fascism absent a reclaiming of the public—including, most fundamentally, public finance.
"Establishing a public bank that regularly purchases municipal debt, we argued, would not only significantly expand a city’s fiscal capacity to support its communities and environs, but also reclaim regional public finance from a parasitical and punishing bond market."
I need to get myself a set of these!
for today's #ModWrite I'm digging around in the archives for some work on Evelyn Waugh and radio, and enjoying the number of times Waugh sent the BBC one of these pre-printed rejection postcards.
Monday is here, so you know what that means - it’s time for another #ModWrite! Let us know what you’re working on using the hashtag 📚
Thank you so much to all of our contributors, we hope you enjoy reading this issue! #TheModernistReview
Ending with a creative piece by Yuhan Chen, titled 'Eveline: After the Escape' which explores the various possibilities for Eveline's life, with a universal spiritual paralysis portrayed through an engagement with modernist sensibilities modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6406
Mattia De Luca www.linkedin.com/in/mattia-de... brings us a review of John G. Peters' 'Joseph Conrad and the Narration of Silence' (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6426
Next up, Shangming Zhang x.com/ShanmingZh2ibw considers issues of form in a review of Jonathan Najarian's 'Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture' (University Press of Mississippi, 2024) modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6419
@pollyhember.bsky.social reviews Jesse Wolfe's 'Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History' (Bloomsbury, 2023), exploring the lasting legacy and influence of Bloomsbury modernists modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6401
Next, @woganchris.bsky.social 's review of John McCourt's 'Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland' (Bloomsbury, 2022), an insight into the shifting response to Joyce's epic modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6397
First up, we have an article by James Rodker: 'Gilding the Glimpse: Charles Demuth and the Figure 5 in Gold' modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6392
We are pleased to share #TheModernistReview59 ! Check out our latest issue, exploring a wide range of topics in modernist studies: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6439 we hope you enjoy reading it!
Graduate students! Are you planning to attend the BAMS/ MSA conference in Loughborough. See below for a great opportunity.
Love this! You could say that there’s an element of trust here too 😉
"Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air"
-Shakespeare, The Tempest
Everyone is already part of the world, so the politics of job creation cannot be separated from the politics of citation, recognition, and reparations. These are not different struggles but linked questions of participation and repair.
Is there anyone capable of imbuing the task of equitable monetary design and public finance with more philosophical creativity, poetic sensibility, and sheer imaginative firepower than @greenbackbetter.bsky.social? Will is a must-follow.
A flyer for ‘Where Credit's Due: Making Money for Ecosocial Justice - Reimagining Public Credit and Building Intersectional Solidarity in Boro’. Workshop 2 at the Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough, on Saturday 7 March 2026, 10.30am-12.30pm. Flyer also reads: ‘Does Middlesbrough and do the people and places of Teesside deserve more credit? Could new ideas about money transform our town? Join us to tell new stories about money and give credit where credit's due.’ Alongside the flyer is a ‘bank note’ which reads ‘I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of 1 Dorman Dollar’ and some pin badges featuring the Where Credit’s Due and Money on the Left logos.
Two colourfully decorated ‘Dorman Dollar’ bank notes.
Who wants to make some money with us at the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough this weekend?
@wherecreditsdue.bsky.social @moneyontheleft.bsky.social
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Aimed at PGRs and ECRS, but open to all, this panel hopes to feature 3-4 speakers from a range of career stages and backgrounds, covering topics including applying for postdoctoral awards, publishing your first monograph, and careers beyond and adjacent to academia.
Please share widely!
📣Call for speakers! The PGR Reps for BAMS and MSA @moderniststudies.bsky.social are chairing a graduate panel, ‘What’s Next - Life and Work After Submission’, at Weird Modernisms. See below for more details.
If you are interested in being one of our speakers, please email info@bams.ac.uk.
✨New!!!✨
Suksawat & Ferguson defend their plan to mobilize public banks for municipal finance against claims of "shadow banking." They argue for moving public credit into the "light" of regulated banks in order to activate municipal democracy & provision the common good.
Please read 👩💻 & share 🙌 !
Tyler & I wrote a follow-up piece, clarifying how our plan to mobilize public banks for municipal finance actually drives public credit away from, rather than deeper into, the anti-democratic & crisis-prone shadow banking sector.
Six pin badges, six of them featuring the Where Credit’s Due logo (two trees in the shape of Middlesbrough’s iconic transporter bridge) and three with the Money on the Left logo
Our next workshop is at the Dorman Museum in Middlesbrough this Saturday morning and we have a few spaces left - come for the chat about inclusive monetary design, stay for the pin badges!
Book here: wherecreditsdueboro.wordpress.com/events
The Weird Modernism of Twin Peaks • Jamie Stephenson (Independent Scholar) • Michael Shallcross (Independent Scholar • Ryan Coogan (Independent Scholar) Abstract This interdisciplinary panel explores the weird modernism of Twin Peaks, David Lynch's seminal television series (1990-91; 2017) and feature film (1992), via comparative analysis of an eclectic range of modernist and modernist-adjacent cultural artefacts: the avant-garde musical compositions of Pierre Schaeffer, the popular detective fiction of G.K. Chesterton, the poetry of Mina Loy, and the performance art of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven.
Chuffed to have had this panel proposal accepted for @modernistudies.bsky.social Weird Modernisms conference, alongside @audioontology.bsky.social and @theothercoogan.bsky.social.
I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.
Looks like cannibalism will be on the program for the joint @moderniststudies.bsky.social and @modernistudies.bsky.social conference this July!
Sooo happy our panel was accepted 😁
The first #ModWrite Monday in March (try saying that three times fast!). We would love to know what you are working on today - share with us using the hashtag! 🌞🌷
We are thrilled to introduce our three new PG Reps, @hettiegarnham.bsky.social, @vedikaushal.bsky.social, and @xyzhao.bsky.social! Please give them a very warm welcome! 👏👏
