It also opens up the digital dimension, as by fixing the tree in time and place using CGI, they renew it as an essential part of British ontic space.

For more ruminations on this, check out what @ljste.bsky.social‬ and I wrote in @gsqjournal.bsky.social 🌳

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The Sycamore Gap Tree had a 'cameo' in 28 Years Later. It was recreated using CGI to show both the alternate timeline in the movie and as a tribute. Can't decide how I feel about this, but shows that even in death, the tree is abstracted from nature.

www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/2527209...

🚨New Article🚨

“The Once and Future Tree: Ontic Space, the Anthropocene, and the Sycamore Gap” by Lauren Rogers & Luke Stephens

Read OPEN ACCESS here:

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Delighted to see this out! It was a real pleasure to co-author this piece with the brilliant @annemhoude.bsky.social on the emotional (de)politicisation of the ‘Oxford’ vaccine and its significance for EU–UK relations. It’s open access - do have a look!

🔗: academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...

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Many thanks to our supervisors @oturner.bsky.social and @therealisthom.bsky.social for the many tree-related puns along the way, and to @gsqjournal.bsky.social for such a productive review process! 🌲🌳🌴

Luke and I wrote a paper!

Two years ago, the Sycamore Gap Tree was cut down in the dead of night. Responses to this "act of vandalism" made us think about the role of nature in ontic space, and dualism between human and non/human allows for destruction of nature.

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#OpenAccess from our new issue -

The positions of ontological (in)security in international relations: object relations, unconscious phantasies, and anxiety management - cup.org/3PSh0Yr

- @ngellwitzki.bsky.social

The politics of pen color in German bureaucracy is actually a fascinating subject. If you send green in you will see heads properly spin.

Doing a PhD in the UK means at some point writing something about Brexit. So I did!

First conference paper, first publication, first time crying over semicolons. And it's not even open access.

Anyway, enjoy: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

GIVEAWAY!

I'm going to give TWO lucky people five paperbacks of their choice - worth up to £50! There'll be one winner on here and one on twitter.

Simply retweet and follow by 8pm on Sunday 22nd October for your chance to win!

Here's what 5 paperbacks looks like, just in case.

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If you’ve not joined yet get in touch with me or @laurenrogers.bsky.social and we’ll get you signed up!

This looks great!

To inaugurate my bluesky status and also to underscore my ontological position in the polisky, here is a Kierkegaard meme.