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Felicity Callard
@felicitycallard.bsky.social
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Mental health | the university | daydreams and fantasies

I’m a human geographer and also work in the medical humanities and history of the human sciences

Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 1h
“What I find striking about the ucs processes through which some Arab leaders and their aligned publics have resolved the shame of abandoning the Palestinian cause is…the swiftness with which they have displayed shamelessness in their support of Israel & vilification of the Palestinian resistance”

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3h
Nouri Gana on melancholia, mourning & Gaza — via his reading of Crimp’s turn to *melancholia* (not mourning): “the fight to retain the right to mourn is bound with a more profound refusal to mourn the demise of pre-AIDS gay culture” @criticalinquiry.bsky.social critinq.wordpress.com/2026/01/09/m...
Melancholia and Moralism in the Wake of Gaza
Nouri Gana More than three decades ago, in the wake of the AIDS epidemic, Douglas Crimp wrote a well-known essay against melancholia and moralism for October, which he edited from 1977 to 1990. I w…
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Faisal فيصل @faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 5h
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Good time for people who haven’t to listen to @thedigradio.bsky.social 5 part series on the political and social history of modern iran with @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social and golnar nikpour
Iran
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 17h
"Ultimately, peer review didn’t transform Nature’s standing so much as protect it, converting exclusivity that might have seemed arbitrary into gatekeeping that appeared meritocratic."

Nice piece by Robert Reason on the prestige of Nature www.asimov.press/p/nature
How Nature Became a 'Prestige' Journal
Since launching in 1869, Nature has evolved from a periodical offering commentary on pigeons to the prestige journal in science. But how did Nature build its reputation, and can it last?
www.asimov.press

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Ordinary Unhappiness @unhappinesspod.bsky.social · 1d
🚨UNLOCKED🚨 As a coda to our series on projective identification, we're unlocking the brilliant @lilyscherlis.bsky.social, @counterfactual.bsky.social, and Dan talking “group relations" in general and for leftists in particular, the legacies of Bion, and much more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...
UNLOCKED: 117: Experiences in Groups feat. Lily Scherlis - Ordinary Unhappiness
Unlocked Patreon episode. Support Ordinary Unhappiness on Patreon to get access to all the exclusive episodes. patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappinessHappy New Year! We’re off this week taking a belated holid...
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 1d
The latest vicious hounding of my university’s rector fails.

Dr Abu-Sittah ‘accused the organisation UK Lawyers for Israel, which brought the matter to the attention of the GMC, of “trying to destroy my life”’

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 1d
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For the Palestinian people, psychic life is just as much a site of struggle for liberation as social life. Palestinians are persistently refused psychological amplitude, characteristics easily granted to those who are never worried they might fall out of what is constituted as the category of the human. Abdaljawad Omar’s writings in English published since October 7, 2023 (as well as writings by other Palestinians, other Arabs, and those of Palestinian descent) offer means of understanding material resistance in relation to the terrain of the psyche. Omar offers distinctive accounts of mourning, loss, and ruins, as well as of how settler colonialism reorganizes experiences of time and relations between past, present, and future. The article reads Omar’s writings against other accounts of mourning and of psychic phenomena that are indebted to psychoanalysis. Omar’s analyses of Palestinians’ resistance to unfreedom and annihilation open up other ways of understanding the psychic vicissitudes of those who suffer, grieve, and struggle to exit a colonial condition characterized by the colonizer’s repeated attempts to break psychic worlds as well as erase bodily life. Understandings of psychic life that do justice to how Palestine is redrawing the world are central to the work of cracking history open. Keywords: Abdaljawad Omar; Gaza; mourning; Palestine; psychoanalysis; resistance

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 1d
Statement on the Israeli army’s invasion of Birzeit University

We call on universities and international institutions worldwide to condemn this onslaught against the production and dissemination of knowledge in Palestine.

criticaltheoryconsortium.org/announcement...
ICCTP Statement on the Military Invasion of Birzeit University on January 6, 2026 - International Consortium of Critical Theory
The Board of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs condemns the Israeli army’s invasion of Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank. We consider this act of violence as a contin...
criticaltheoryconsortium.org

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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 1d
79 authors have withdrawn from Adelaide Writers Week now, that we know of - others are rumoured to have done so without declaring so publicly, if you’re wondering why different numbers are floating around. More than half of the festival gone. sakr.substack.com/p/the-road-t...
Authors Who Have Withdrawn From the Apartheid Adelaide Writers Festival Percival Everett, M. Gessen, Zadie Smith, Michelle de Kretser, Yanis Varoufakis, Helen Garner, Hannah Kent, Melissa Lucashenko, Evelyn Araluen, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Larissa Behrendt, Laila Lalami, Trent Dalton, Kathy Lette, Robbie Arnott, Amy McQuire, Walter Marsh, Bernadette Brennan, David Marr, Angie Faye Martin, Jane Caro, Jennifer Mills, Paul Daley, James Bradley, Nikos Papastergiadis, Amy Remeikis, Hannah Ferguson, Laura Tingle, Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts, Peter Greste, Mike Ladd, Alisa Ahmed, Tasma Walton, Bri Lee, Chelsea Watego, Emily Lighezzolo, Clare Wright, Chris Hammer, Kenneth Roth, Micaela Sahhar, Emma Shortis, Madeleine Gray, Peter FitzSimons, Chloe Hooper, Sarah Krasnostein, Kate Mildenhall, Drusilla Modjeska, Ren Wyld, Dominic Guerrera, Marieke Hardy, Jonathan Green, Vincenzo Latronico, Francesca Wade, Molly Murn, Susie Anderson, Eoin McNamee, Danny Nour, Emilie Zoey Baker, Grace Yee, Richard King, Sam Guthrie, Cam Wilson, Jacinta Parsons, Jacqueline Maley, Andy Jackson, Sue Turnbull, Lyn Dickens, Courtney Jaye, Ariel Bogel, Natasha Lester, Sonia Orchard, Louise Milligan, Mathew Hooten, Tim Ayliffe, Lucy Nelson, Lainie Anderson, Roisin O'Donnell, Michael Veitch, Lance Richardson. sakr.substack.com

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
Ah wonderful! I so look forward to reading the rest of the symposium. I took Kirstie’s political theory courses as a geographer and she made of course an indelible impression on me as she taught, in her interventions at guest seminars — and through her conversations at the Charles Village Pub

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
Wendy Brown’s reflections are striking in how they remember and honour someone and their life without idealising/freezing them or brushing aside their psychic complexity

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
Johns Hopkins in the 1990s I can’t really think about without bumping into memories of Kirstie McClure, inside and outside the seminar room

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
“Besides being a ball of intellectual fire, Kirstie’s arrival was marked by something else unknown to Princeton or most of academia in the late 70s,
namely her out lesbianism & easy warmth in inducting others into accepting queerness as a simple matter of desire”. Beautiful words on Kirstie McClure

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
The blazing intensity with which I laughed & laughed — with the condescension that only a slightly older sibling can display — at my younger sister for imagining there might be a way someone could pause the moving image on the screen we were watching while she left the room to go to the toilet
thereal3ccentric.bsky.social 3ccentric @thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · 3d
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d
Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2575360...
Rector of Scottish university cleared of antisemitism and terror support
THE rector of the University of Glasgow has been cleared of misconduct by medical watchdogs over alleged antisemitism and support for Hamas in his…
www.thenational.scot

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Megan Gallagher @megangallagher.bsky.social · 2d
Wendy Brown's comments at a memorial for Kirstie McClure, organized by Davide Panagia back in 2024, are now available. #poltheory www.pdcnet.org/pga/content/...
Kirstie McClure - published on January 9, 2026
I offered these remarks about Kirstie McClure on September 6, 2024, at an informal memorial for her at the American Political Science Association’s Annual Conference. The venue was the Bank and Bourbo...
www.pdcnet.org

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
I really recommend Eoin Fullam’s book

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
You have to read this brilliant essay in @eflux.bsky.social on “The Crisis of Masculinity” crisis by @weakanalogy.bsky.social
www.e-flux.com/journal/159/...
What Fuentes and Carlson offer is not a rollback but a doubling-down on cisness in the face of its heightened contradictions. Even on the left it is often said that men have "lost" something-privileges, job security, role models, etc. But, consciously or not, men like Fuentes and Carlson sense that there is no actual historical past they could revert to-that, per scholar Miri Davidson, it's impossible to "split off one kind of capitalism from another." The mythic object of this loss will have to be carved out, just like the testosterone levels that will have to be artificially supplemented so that order is restored. The counterrevolution will be injected too.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
What an incredible essay by @weakanalogy.bsky.social Thank you for alerting us to it

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3ccentric @thereal3ccentric.bsky.social · 3d
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
Chatbot Therapy by Eoin Fullam
www.routledge.com/Chatbot-Ther...
Chatbot Therapy: A Critical Analysis of AI Mental Health Treatment
Chatbot Therapy: A Critical Analysis of AI Mental Health Treatment examines automated mental health therapy in the form of therapy chatbots, taking a critical analysis of this new technology. Drawing ...
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
Eoin Fullam’s Chatbot Therapy: A Critical Analysis of AI Mental Health Treatment is being launched at Birkbeck on 15 January (I am one of the discussants, along with Ian Parker and Evan Sedgwick-Jell). www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Book Launch: Chatbot Therapy: A Critical Analysis of AI Mental Health Treatment
Book Launch and Discussion
www.bbk.ac.uk

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 3d
On Tuesday, the Israeli military invaded Birzeit University, attacking students with live ammunition.

Israel's scholasticide is a core part of its attempt to obliterate the collective life of the Palestinian people.

We have written to Yvette Cooper urging the British government to take action.
Letter from the University and College Union (UCU), dated 8 January 2026, from general secretary Dr Jo Grady to the UK foreign secretary. The letter condemns Israeli military attacks on Palestinian education, including a raid on Birzeit University, calls these actions “scholasticide,” and urges the UK government to hold Israel to account through diplomatic, military and economic sanctions.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 4d
One of the proscribed Plato passages is from Aristophanes’ speech in The Symposium.

I first read Aristophanes’ speech in a “reading freud” class — and no doubt about it both that passage from Plato and Freud’s reading of that passage in Plato fundamentally transformed my world

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States of Precarity @statesofprecarity.bsky.social · 4d
Register:
www.rgs.org/events/upcom...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 4d
“Birzeit reiterates its call on international organizations, human rights institutions, and media outlets to assume their moral and legal responsibilities by taking immediate action to expose these ongoing violations against Palestinian higher education …”

www.birzeit.edu/en/news/stat...
Statement from Birzeit University on the Israeli military invasion of its campus and shooting of students
As part of its ongoing assault on Palestinian life and institutions, the Israeli occupying army carried out a military invasion of Birzeit University during official working hours, at a time when the ...
www.birzeit.edu

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AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter @tamu-aaup.bsky.social · 5d
From an email to one of our faculty members....

Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 5d
Israel’s scholasticide continues
aljazeera.com Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5d
Israeli forces raided Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, firing live ammunition to disperse students during a protest and film screening. At least three students were injured as troops entered the campusand classrooms.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5d
Israeli forces raided Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank, firing live ammunition to disperse students during a protest and film screening. At least three students were injured as troops entered the campusand classrooms.