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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾
@drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social
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Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on UK progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️ Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 14d
I've written a new piece on Eddington and its blackly comical depiction of political ideology, polarisation, and violence in contemporary America. A few reflections on the film... 🧵

#filmsky #polisky #skystorians🗃️
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This portrayal of a small New Mexico town at the outset of the pandemic meditates on how individual self-interest, ambition, and resentments fuel political ideology, polarisation, and violence.
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Ian Wright @ihwright.bsky.social · 20h
If you have opinions on this and are on the club's mailing list there was an e-mail sent out today surveying fans about attitudes towards their brand partners.

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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d
ICYMI: My piece on Eddington’s depiction of radicalisation and polarisation in the age of COVID and smartphones.

All reposts (and subscriptions) much appreciated. x
Eddington
This portrayal of a small New Mexico town at the outset of the pandemic meditates on how individual self-interest, ambition, and resentments fuel political ideology, polarisation, and violence.
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Katharina Röder (she/her) @katandthetexts.bsky.social · 21h
Excited to share the poster for our conference - we're accepting submissions until 10 October!
A poster for the conference Contemporary Reading Cultures with a picture in the style of a bookstagram post. The text on the picture reads "Contemporary Reading Cultures, International Conference, 29-30 January 2026, TU Dortmund, IBZ, Emil-Figge-Straße 59".
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 21h
Let’s not forget the good work done by Pikachu in opposing AKP authoritarianism in Turkey.
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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 23h
I wrote something on my time on returning to Goldsmiths as an associate lecturer, 17 years after graduating with my first degree. It’s a plea to Frances Corner’s successor to learn from mistakes made over the last 6 years and change course. #UCU #UKHE

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Cutting Corners: a message to the next Vice Chancellor at Goldsmiths
On 1 October 2025, a short announcement was put on Goldsmiths’ website to say that Vice Chancellor Frances Corner was stepping down with immediate effect. This came off the back of an announcement …
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UCU Commons @ucucommons.bsky.social · 23h
The first issue of our fortnightly newsletter has landed!

Featuring @markpendleton.bsky.social’s discussion paper to this Friday’s HEC, @hagenilda.bsky.social’s plea to Frances Corner’s successor and other interesting links and news. #UCU #UKHE #AcademicSky

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UCU Commons newsletter #1
A new fortnightly round-up of union and sector specific news
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Ann Powers @annkpowers.bsky.social · 2d
Since y'all enjoyed yesterday's synth pop hit of yore here's another one that defines bop www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdTj...
Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
YouTube video by Scritti Politti
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d
It almost feels perverse to say Hellfire because Frollo is so hateful but nothing in the Disney oeuvre can top it for me, it’s such a chilling musical sequence and accurate depiction of misogyny and racism masquerading behind religious self-righteousness.
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d
Can’t wait to read this Vaughn. My favourite Disney film, and maybe my favourite soundtrack of any musical film.
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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 4d
This week for the first in my Spooky Season Monster Mash series, I watched a movie with the scariest monster I can think of: Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame in which the monster wraps himself in unjust laws and bible quotes to commit genocide and assault.
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Poster for the animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). From the top of the bell tower, we see between the bells down into Paris blazing in orange. Quasimodo sits on the ledge reaching out for a dove.
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d
ICYMI: My piece on Eddington’s depiction of radicalisation and polarisation in the age of COVID and smartphones.

All reposts (and subscriptions) much appreciated. x
Eddington
This portrayal of a small New Mexico town at the outset of the pandemic meditates on how individual self-interest, ambition, and resentments fuel political ideology, polarisation, and violence.
academicbubble.substack.com
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d
Oooh, this sounds great.
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 1d
Country day for 7yo’s class today: she went as Japan so she could wear her Pikachu t-shirt and bring a Pokémon book with her. My suggestion to her she honour her mother’s heritage, go as Guyana, and bring in a copy of Walter Rodney’s ‘How Europe Underdeveloped Africa’ instead received short shrift.
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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 2d
Stamford Hill exists and co-exists because Handsworth exists and co-exists. Stamford Hill is only safe if Handsworth is safe too.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 2d
Britain’s Natural Party of Government has basically memed itself into chasing the Far Right vote. Proposals that once existed in the darker recesses of X have leapt via substacks and op-Eds into mainstream policy positions, in under a year.
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 2d
I remember when our eldest was three and him absolutely fuming because the 43 bus was on diversion due to roadworks, and I’m standing on the bus holding his buggy and arguing with him about it, and finding myself retorting “Well you’ll just have to take that up with Islington Council.”
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 2d
Black & White & Read All Over, the site @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social & I have created! It'll feature a lot of our own work, from my #ScholarSunday threads to both of our blogs. But ...

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Black and White and Read All Over
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 2d
we hope it can be a platform for y'all's work as well. You can start by sending your news of all kinds our way for the Announcements page, please!

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Announcements – Black and White and Read All Over
This space is reserved for you! If you have a talk coming up, a book on its way, a podcast trailer to drop, or an accomplishment to celebrate, we want to help you share it! Please contact us to share ...
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 2d
Stephanie's essay on D. A. Miller on Jane Austen is, alone, worth the price of admission! It's how I'm closing out my grad seminar on close reading this semester, paired with her Norton Library edited edition of Sense and Sensibility.

All to say: buy the book! It's shipping!
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Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social · 2d
Truly think this volume is great, and I can’t wait for you to read it!
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 2d
I did tell him pickling his DVD collection in vinegar wasn’t a sound preservation strategy.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d
Bad movies: is Ridley Scott right to say that 60% of films stink?
Bad movies: is Ridley Scott right to say that 60% of films stink?
Napoleon director Ridley Scott has declared the history of film to be overwhelmingly rubbish – with a few notable exceptions
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 2d
If the Shadow Chancellor eventually runs for the Conservative leadership, he could set up his own one-man support network called ‘Stride for Stride’.
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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 2d
Three tickets left - if you're interested in #sevendials #London or #20s30s culture they might be the hottest ones in town.
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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 22d
The launch of my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book Songs of Seven Dials will be at 6pm, Tues 21 Oct, at Waterstones Covent Garden. I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @julialaite.bsky.social.

Please do come along. Free tickets, but register in advance

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An advertising banner for Matt Houlbrook's book Songs of Seven Dials: An Intimate History of 1920s and 1930s London. The banner includes an image of the front cover of the book (a blue map on a pink background) and a blurb from the historian Julia Laite, which describes Songs of Seven Dials as 'a poetic exploration of London's most iconic neighbourhoods'.
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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 2d
Ok, so I think we need a rundown of Conservative economic theory and why the party cannot get its head around any coherent stance.
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 2d
(It’s a bop tbf)
I ANIXI - SOPHIA VOSSOU (Greece 1991 – Eurovision Song Contest HD)
YouTube video by Eurovision OLD
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social · 2d
No, you’re walking around campus whistling Greece’s 1991 Eurovision entry.
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