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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Aug 13

p.s. just realised his name is spelt “Rubin”, like Dave and Rick but not at all like the sandwich

Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Aug 13

not so hot take: Ruben Colwill is very good at football

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Aug 13

hot take: confused by shouts of McGregor for POTM, he looked rusty to me and didn’t seem to be moving well, especially in the first half, when he was all at sea. granted, he improved in the second half

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Aug 13

POTM has to be Princewill - he’s fast, strong, has quick feet, and ran his socks off… honestly can’t remember the last time i was this excited by a debut performance

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Aug 12

first half was characteristic of our season so far: shapeless, aimless, ineffective

second half was more like we want to be: determined and resilient with smatterings of quality

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Aug 10

good morning @maxrushden.bsky.social, long time @footballweekly.bsky.social listener here. i don’t “skeet” often, but i just came here to gloat. your boat rowers took one hell of a beating yesterday. i fear that Ryan Loft may need some of Mrs Holloway’s sage if you are to reach your lofty ambitions

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Aug 3

well, football never really went away did it? a dog darn shame about the result though

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · May 6

Aritz Aduriz, surely?

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · May 6

didn’t Wilson lose the 1970 election on the back of Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” and outwardly racist anti immigration sentiment?

Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · May 2

Please do come along if you find yourself in London.

Sign up below 👇🏻

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Soup and sunflowers: the unwilling role of art history in climate activism

This seminar session explores the role that art history might play in understanding the targeting of works of art as a form of protest.

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · May 2

Next Thursday (6-7pm) I’ll be chairing an important discussion between Esme Garlake and Dr John Paul Stonard on art history and climate activism. The event is being hosted by @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social and promises to be a fascinating discussion.

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · Apr 21

On 10 January 2024, Pope Francis received a private audience with a delegation of people who had been participating for several years in a dialogue between Marxists and Christians. Michael Löwy, who was in attendance, recounts the experience in detail.

To the Vatican with Red Flags

In 2014, Pope Francis met Alexis Tsipras and Walter Baier, representatives of the European Left, along with Franz Kronreif of the Christian Focolare movement. With Bergoglio’s agreement, a process of ...

www.versobooks.com

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Apr 13

the securitisation of waste… a reality in Lagos, Accra, Dar es Salaam, and now Birmingham

solidarity with striking bin workers

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Birmingham bin strike latest: Army experts called in to help

The government says office-based military experts will help because of the

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Apr 9

very grateful for the wonderful contributions to “Burning Matters” @forarthistory.org.uk, papers addressing contemporary Canadian art and indigenous rituals of fire, Piero di Cosimo’s wildfire paintings, Steve McQueen and the Grenfell Fire disaster, and photography and forged wildfire narratives

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Apr 7

Benjamin Mehigan, Royal College of Art

“Forging Wildfire Narratives”

Esme Garlake, University College London

“Representing fire with animals: Piero di Cosimo’s The Forest Fire (c.1505)”

Hope to see you there!

Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Apr 7

Speakers:

Joëlle Dubé, Concordia University

“Burnt Matches and the Performed Refusal of Audie Murray in Token Generosity (2024)”

Clara de Massol, Kings College London

“Slow Violence and Toxic Geographies: Commemoration, Hauntings and Grief in Grenfell by Steve McQueen (2023)”

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Apr 7

These papers will address modern and contemporary or historical topics including but not limited to the aesthetic politics of fire, fire and non-human agency, fire and environmental politics, fire and conflict, the language of fire and burning, and burnt matter as art and/or testimony.”

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Apr 7

What does studying burnt matter and fire-affected objects reveal about the wider social causes of disaster, both contemporary and historical, and what challenges do they present to the art historical method?

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Apr 7

How do artworks conflict with and appease the boundaries of representation? Is it possible for burning to be a generative and transformative process, as well as a destructive one?

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Apr 7

This panel considers the role of representation in a “world on fire.” When the flames abate, they leave behind a world changed, but this change needs nuance. How are images of fire deployed in art and media and what are the limits of these images in representing this new reality?

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Apr 7

(…) crucial to understanding a world caught in the throes of environmental crisis and unrest.

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Apr 7

“In the context of rising global temperatures, raging wildfires, blazing conflict in the Middle East, and ever more incendiary political speech in Western liberal democracies, the politics and aesthetics of fire have become an increasingly important area of study (…)

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Apr 7

if you’re coming to the @forarthistory.org.uk conference in York this week do join Elsa Perryman Owens and I for “Burning Matters: The Limits of the Image in a World on Fire” (9 April) where we’ll be discussing the role of art history in grappling with present day and historical fire disasters

Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk · Mar 25

Are you attending our Annual Conference 9 - 11 April in York (pictured)? Here are some of our day one sessions you can look forward to!

Programme: loom.ly/1owNoO4

#ForArtHistory2025

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Apr 6

likewise Eva! was a pleasure

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Jacob Badcock @jacobisaac.bsky.social · Apr 5

wrote this short essay on sanitation, urban space, and state violence in Accra for The Polyphony, a really neat platform for research in the critical medical humanities based out of @durhamimh.bsky.social. check it out 👇🏻

The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Apr 3

Jacob Badcock elucidates the parallels between 19th century colonial notions of sanitation and urban space and the recent demolition of an e-waste scrapyard in Accra (Ghana).

thepolyphony.org/2025/04/03/a...

Agbogbloshie: Resonances in the Colonial Archive

Jacob Badcock elucidates the parallels between 19th century colonial notions of sanitation and urban space and the recent demolition of an e-waste scrapyard in Accra (Ghana).

thepolyphony.org

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