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Not the former drummer with Roxy Music. Freelance researcher & writer with a PhD from St Andrews. Author: 'Masculinity in Lesbian “Pulp” Fiction: Disappearing Heteronormativity?' Mid-20c queer books. Queer spaces and phenomenology.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · Nov 15

#Scotland

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 6h

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An essay in 2011, led to a blog post in 2018, and later to a conference paper delivered in 2024. The latter was based more heavily on phenomenology, but I wonder if my blog post can encourage people on either side of the binary to think again.
whatthehellisart.wordpress.com/2018/12/11/w...

Who owns the Stones of Callanish?

Recently Al Jazeera ran an item about a request to the British Museum by Nigeria for return of the Benin Bronzes being met with an offer of a loan. That set me thinking once again about an issue I …

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 6h

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This article on the difficulties surrounding the removal of the Benin bronzes from museums is very interesting. It is an issue on which I have unorthodox views which do not fit comfortably into either of the binary arguments about museum exhibits...
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Restitution row: how Nigeria’s new home for the Benin bronzes ended up with clay replicas

The public display of artefacts looted by British colonial forces at the new Museum of West African Art was supposed to be the crowning glory of a decades-long restitution effort. What went wrong?

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 18h

I think you've just answered your own question.

a man is sitting in a chair clapping his hands .

ALT: a man is sitting in a chair clapping his hands .

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 18h

I was mulling that over in my mind as I read it. As a literature scholar (who sometimes looks at adaptations) I think that it could be "done" spectacularly but would miss all the important internal monologue. Adaptations are new creative works. Are we too used to horror as (movie) spectacle?

Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 1d

"When he returned to the White House on 20 January, a ceasefire deal not too different from this one was in place. When Netanyahu moved to break that ceasefire in March, Trump could have slammed his foot down then and said no. Instead, he gave him a green light."
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Trump wants a prize for the Gaza deal. But the real question is, why didn't he do it earlier? | Jonathan Freedland

The ceasefire in Gaza happened when the US president lost patience, but how much horror occurred, how many people were killed because he delayed, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 1d

One day your grandkids will ask you about this.

Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 1d

Good heavens - last time a saw a gob like that it had a hook in it!

Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 1d

Billy by a Highland mile!

Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 1d

Badumme tisse.

Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 1d

Can Proud Boys actually read?

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 1d

Can't wait for your tour of Scotland.

Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 1d

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James Brown performs "Please Please Please" at the TAMI Show (Live)

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 1d

You mean Star Trek makes it so?

Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 1d

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I look at the colonisation of, well, the whole world by European powers, and I ask (even though a lot of it was blessed by the Pope) whether it was not rather driven by rivalry over territory, resources, and riches at a time when naval technology and weaponry developed exponentially.

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Superficially, maybe. But was that what they were really about?
I look at the most costly battles in terms of lives of the last 200+ years - Waterloo, Gettysburg, the Somme, Stalingrad - and I ask what did any of those actually have to do with gods...

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, but could they have possibly added a sideways nod?

Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 2d

I'll see your wife's James Brown and raise her one Muddy Waters and one Ravi Shankar.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 2d

Tell you what. Let's all be a bit more James Brown.
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James Brown performs and dances to "Out of Sight" on the TAMI Show (Live)

YouTube video by James Brown

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 2d

True enough.

Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 2d

My generator apparently can't handle sepia. But at least I can play with the image afterwards.

Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 2d

I hope you don't mind my doing this. Please do say if it becomes tedious.
From my point of view it's giving me a few minutes of leisure at a busy time.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 2d

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 2d

The generator I'm using - not going to shame myself by naming it - often chooses to ignore parts of a prompt.

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Doc Paperback @docpaperback.bsky.social · 2d

I'm enjoying this. Beats working.

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