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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 17h

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 17h

Incredible to have a grand total of four posts on twitter and two of them are "I won the nobel prize" and "also fuck victor orban."

A screenshot of all four twitter posts of László Krasznahorkai. One is in Hungarian. One expresses happiness. One thanks but insists on opposition to Victor Orban and one announces receipt of the Nobel prize for literature.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 23h

(also just incredibly weird to hold this event in Berlin, where mentioning the contemporary world's most obviously hellish urban space will get you beaten up by the local fascist cops)

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 23h

"The City as Environmental Hell" is a pretty good epitaph for the deeply counter-urban & revanchist affect that animates so much of the urban political ecology lit. berlinergazette.de/projects/kin...

Kin City · Reimagining Urban Space within Ecological Limits · October 17-19 · ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics

Conference · Artistic Interventions · Workshops with Debora Darabi, Pepe Dayaw, Sandra Huning, Constanza Mendoza, Cata von Noxen, Svjetlana Nedimović, Claudia Núñez, Sara Petrolova, Model Y. Schrottki...

berlinergazette.de

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2d

I've seen it (not fully complete) in the flesh and it is no more impressive.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2d

Like, obviously Oxford is an awful institution and can do whatever it wants, but there's something grotesque about yoking what the humanities 'can do' to the infrastructural whims of an obscenely wealthy one-time Trump appointee. Maybe the humanities can do better than this actually??

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2d

Lol it shows what a £200m gift from the Blackstone group can do.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/oxfords...

Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’

New building which brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2d

It does - thanks!

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 3d

TuneIn appears to have killed BBC radio in Ireland which means I might make it to 8am without hearing two British people have an unexpectedly transphobic conversation.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 3d

Guys I think the UK might be done

Text from an article by Renewal. It reads "Remember that guy who put little flags in dog poos? This is the essence of Mr Blobby Patriotism. A grudging but somewhat uplifting patriotism that is housed in the smallest actions of our fellow citizens."

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 3d

Entirely this!

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 4d

There was obviously a moment when not dismissing self-evidently bad popular art - such as the music of Taylor Swift - was original/interesting, but surely that moment is now long gone, and an insistence on seriousness, judgement, aesthetic value &c. has become the useful or unconventional position.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 5d

"of course we saw King Charles lay on the plámás with a trowel during trump's visit to the UK* lol #aras25

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 5d

People can kid themselves all they like that the flag is inclusive and about national pride but who is using it and how is important. When cheap replicas are being placed high up poles it feels not very far from my experiences of growing up in the North and similar gaslighting about what it meant.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 6d

Screenshot with alt text because those links are always bad/weird

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 6d

Unfortunately I discovered this because today is "national potato day" in Ireland.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 6d

Assistant professor (permanent post!) in sociology at the excellent University of Limerick. Expertise sought in one of soc of racisms, cultural soc or criminology. my.corehr.com/pls/esbsheul...

my.corehr.com

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 7d

ah no, that would have ruined it.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 7d

"definitely ahead of the catholics here" is an instance of such pure, undiluted england-brain that you can really only stop and admire it.

A post from James Ball. The text is: "The Church of England have taken more than a year to replace the Archbishop of Canterbury – getting somewhat out to shame on the speed front by the Catholic Church on that front.

But they’re definitely ahead of the Catholics here: it’s a woman!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0r0201jgdlt"

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 7d

So there's an EU-funded campaign to get millenials to eat potatoes and - I swear to Jesus I'm not making this up - it's slogan is: "Europe's favourite since 1536."

A screenshot of a website that says "DISCOVER THE TASTY VERSATILITY OF POTATOES! Europe's favourite since 1536." banner ads say "funded by the european union" and "enjoy - it's from europe."

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 7d

Lol this is actually almost certainly going to be the case!

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 7d

Well there is that!

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 7d

This is like if the Duke of Westminster was called, like, Shaymie Dennehy or something, and they just tried to casually style it out.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 7d

It's at least a bit funny that the head of the Anglican communion is going to have as extraordinarily Irish a name as *Mullaly.*

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 7d

Don't worry, they got you

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