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Anna Secor @ajsecor.bsky.social · 11d

London people come discuss and celebrate with us! A launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social. Eventbrite link below! 🥂
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

The Politics of Feeling and this Conjunctural Crisis

A workshop on the politics of feeling in this conjunctural crisis, with Anna Secor, Ben Anderson, Will Davies, Jeremy Gilbert.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 18d

‘Enchanted’ organisations, in Davies (2017: 23) terms, such as trade unions or guilds offer forms of authority that have no connection to ‘markets, calculations or individual choice’

tl;dr - Trade unions can call out your shit.

Reform UK's migration plan 'abhorrent beyond words', says Royal College of Nursing
The Royal College of Nursing says that thousands of migrant nurses would lose their jobs under Reform UK’s plan to end indefinite leave to remain and that this would be abhorrent. Nicola Ranger, its general secretary and chief executive, said:

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Bad state" can mean different things to different people. To some, it could mean that the area's been devastated by austerity and underinvestment. To others, it could mean that some black or brown people have moved into the neighbourhood.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · Aug 28

36% of Reform UK voters say of their local area that it is in a bad state, is worse than 10 years ago, and will get worse still in the next 12 months

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

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Compass @compassoffice.bsky.social · Aug 24

💷 💷 💷 NEW: Polling for Compass reveals that a majority of the public support taxing the vast wealth of the UK's richest.

If Labour fails to listen to the country on taxing wealth and surrenders the resources that this would unlock, a decade of national renewal is a nonstarter.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · Aug 11

I joined @andrewonearth.bsky.social for this interview reflecting on degrowth, socialism, & political power.

"Our governments are not dealing with the ecological crisis because they are capitalist. So, it is capitalism that must be overcome."

breakdownjournal.substack.com/p/interview-...

INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century"

Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth.

breakdownjournal.substack.com

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · Aug 11

Degrowth should be understood as an element within a socialist transformation, as a corrective to certain productivist strains of socialist thought that are inadequate for our current moment."

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · Jul 30

It's Ofcom Media Nations Day! The annual state of the nation report on the UK's media habits. This year the stand-out finding is that most kids start with YouTube. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Quick 🧵 on how the presentation of these findings is a good example of what's up with media policy

One in five young viewers go to platform first when they turn on TV, as older people also watch more of its content

www.theguardian.com

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · Jul 29

UK university staff: keep signing!

Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Jul 29

N.B. Please don't be concerned if your name isn't added to the list below immediately. At the time of writing (18:00 UK time on 28/7/25), we have almost 2000 signatories, and have not been able to update the version of the list below quickly enough. - it will update in the next days with signatures

Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Jul 27

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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@nasarmeer.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social · Jul 27

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. Please sign and share ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · Jul 27

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

docs.google.com

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Rebecca Bramall @rfbramall.bsky.social · Jul 24

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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · Jul 23

There is so much wrong with Labour's comms. But I think this ad, in many ways sums them up. It's not just a really shit ad - 13 words that make your eyes bleed, dissociated from the image they're clunkily slapped across. That's just shit execution.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jul 9

‘Cora, in her work and person, always gave a unique gloss to the feminist slogan that the personal is political, which defined so much of the spirit of those heady early years.’

Jacqueline Rose remembers the feminist critic Cora Kaplan: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Jacqueline Rose · On Cora Kaplan

There is a world which is at times – and today even more – regressive and frightening; cultural analysis must never...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Luca Tiratelli @lucatiratelli.bsky.social · Jul 8

This is one of those situations where having been surveyed before is really useful to interpreting survey results.

My strong hunch is that: these people don't think this. But when you are answering questions, you are aware that the data is going to be interpreted! So in your head when...

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Jul 7

More than a quarter of people think MPs expenses are one of the top three costs for government. A higher % than think the same for pensions or education.

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · Jul 8

Well, so many people are, right now, on their bikes delivering things without labour protection.

The Scotsman @scotsman.com · Jul 8

🔴 BREAKING: Lord Norman Tebbit - the ex-Tory Cabinet minister who once famously said “get on your bike” in a keynote speech - dies aged 94
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Norman Tebbit - former Tory Cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher - dies aged 94

Lord Norman Tebbit - known as a key member of the Cabinet under former prime minister Margaret Thatcher - has died.

www.scotsman.com

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Rebecca Bramall @rfbramall.bsky.social · Jun 2

Look how chuffed I am with my @jcultecon.bsky.social bag

Cheers @allartmarkets.bsky.social

A happy person being presented with a tote bag by another happy person

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Rebecca Bramall @rfbramall.bsky.social · Jun 1

people who receive child tax credit or universal credit are also “taxpayers”, of course

James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · Jun 1

David Blunkett has obviously heard that my preferred parlour game is 'Rank New Labour Home Secretaries in Magnitude of Evil', and has decided to secure his position.

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Rebecca Bramall @rfbramall.bsky.social · May 22

Great blog — plenty of evidence of ‘care stripping’ in our ongoing research on the social/welfare crowdfunding economy

Rob Sharp @robsharp.bsky.social · May 22

Authors of Care Manifesto on ‘Care Stripping’ www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

Care-stripping: Beyond the Pretence of Care

Five years ago, we published The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence. It was a small volume that provided a large overview of what we described as the ‘structural carelessness’ of our worl...

www.versobooks.com

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Lana Swartz @lanalanalana.bsky.social · May 21

AI is a force multiplier for scams, and there is SO much we' urgentlyneed to learn in order to know what to do about it

Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · May 21

📣 Just published! This primer by @lanalanalana.bsky.social, @alicetiara.bsky.social and Kate Larson maps what we know about generative AI’s role in scams, the communities most at risk, and the broader economic and cultural shifts at play. 1/4 datasociety.net/library/scam...

The title of the primer “ScamGPT: GenAI and the Automation of Fraud,” by Lana Swartz, Alice E. Marwick and Kate Larson, surrounded by line drawings of a dreamy-looking woman, a man holding a phone, fish hooks ensnaring various technological objects, and a hand holding a phone displaying an AI program alongside some cash.

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · May 15

"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. 🌱📗✨🎊💜 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...

Book cover for Public Data Cultures (Polity, forthcoming 2025).

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · Apr 30

Today I received another email from @gofundme.com saying they were “refunding me” - aka continuing to stop starving Palestinians in Gaza from accessing one of the only ways of accessing money to pay for food. Aiding & abetting genocide, in other words. We won’t forget.

Screenshot of GoFundMe saying they were “refunding” my payment to a fundraiser in Gaza

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · Apr 30

Every "smash the gangs" reference, every Starmer op-ed blaming public service collapse on the tiny proportion of refugees who come to this country, every border externalisation and offshore "returns hub" deal, is Labour running Reform's campaign for them, gratis. That they can't see this is damning.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · Apr 14

I remember at my very first Labour branch meeting after moving to the Cotswolds, I suggested the council look at increasing council tax on 2nd homes, at which point a Labour councillor turned to me with doe eyes and woefully said “oh no, because some of us just inherited our parents’ houses”

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Goldsmiths Press @goldsmithspress.bsky.social · Apr 3

On Tuesday we are getting together to celebrate Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary.

The event will be on campus at Goldsmiths, and will feature conversation from editors and guests. Come along!

Sign up for free here -

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finance-ae....

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · Apr 2

Our last seminar or the semester tomorrow. London media types very welcome.

Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · Jan 21

3 April. CAMRI Seminar with Maria Sourbati.

On Ageing in the Smart City.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/smart-mobi...

Smart Mobility and Artificial Intelligence

CAMRI Research Seminar with Maria Sourbati (University of Brighton)

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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