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Wayne Bradshaw

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Literary critic in a library. Scholarly publishing, egoism, manifestos, and modernism. My book, The Ego Made Manifest, is available from Bloomsbury. Views my own and mostly on the other one. https://x.com/NonwayneWayne?t=8_wAuQkxi3mzXY2lgoWUbQ&s=09

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Wayne Bradshaw @nonwayne.bsky.social · May 29

This might be the last hurrah for my book, as the paperback is now out! I had absolutely no luck getting it reviewed anywhere, so here is my last ditch attempt to market my odd book about Max Stirner, modernism and manifestos:
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The Ego Made Manifest

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 13d

You luv to see it: @roffwrites.bsky.social’s Here Are My Demands is fiction-book-of-the-week in the Age/SMH! “meticulously constructed speculative fiction, which shows off a command of novelistic structure & form..philosophical ambit & sharp insights (of his debut)” www.theage.com.au/culture/book...

From serial-killer chiller to the history of play: 10 new books

Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction titles

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Christopher Satoor @nieaufgehenderrest.bsky.social · 13d

It was really amazing today to hear Prof. Dr. Siegbert Peetz speak on Schelling's System of the Ages of the World. Dr. Peetz's paper was titled 'Aionische Theophanie – Schellings Transformation der Metaphysik in seiner Vorlesung „System der Weltalter.“

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Wayne Bradshaw @nonwayne.bsky.social · 17d

They show too much monster in that series and it got too silly too quickly

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 19d

What the absolute fuck is this

Also, I still cannot understand how Bill Shorten has not been widely condemned as ratting on the labour movement for taking up a managerial position where he sits in opposition to the union (also looking at you Grant Robertson at Otago)

Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 19d

Absolutely horrific concepts for the university sector from Bill Shorten, now VC of the University of Canberra. A vision for the utter decimation of higher education

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 19d

Labor rat whose job now requires him to thwart the NTEU wants to eviscerate higher ed and turn it into something that could scarcely even be called a TAFE? A small man with a smaller mind

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 19d

If it’s 1994, the opening shot is tree-height over a busy street, and the orchestra is hitting that diminished fifth, we’re in for some hijinks

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Koen Stapelbroek @stplbrk.bsky.social · Sep 5

Our 8th 'Studies in North Queensland History' retrospective for
@austhistassoc.bsky.social #AHA2025 @jcucase.bsky.social
@jcuofficial.bsky.social is @sophieloywilson.bsky.social on "Topsawyers: The Chinese in Cairns 1870-1920", by Cathie R. May: jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2025/09/tops...

Topsawyers: the Chinese in Cairns, 1870-1920

This year James Cook University celebrates its proud legacy in historical research, writing and publishing through the Studies in North Que...

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Robbie Moore @robbiemoore.bsky.social · 23d

Have people read the original tale of the Monkey’s Paw from 1902? Because it slaps (the story, not the paw) www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1...

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 27d

Late to this, but it means: that's it, isn't it? Game over red rover... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Gareth Evans scolds ‘bone-headed’ Meanjin publisher as imminent closure sparks protest

Critics want Melbourne University Publishing to transfer ownership of Meanjin rather than dissolve it. But CEO says ‘the journal is not for sale’

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Danny Kingsley @dannykay68.bsky.social · 28d

JOIN US for a free online event “Beyond Certainty – what does ‘Discovery’ mean in an open and artificial intelligent world?"
Wed 8th Oct, 9:45am - 3:45pm AEDT
Register today! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/beyond-cer...
Contributor details here www.linkedin.com/posts/dannyk...

Beyond Certainty – what does ‘Discovery’ mean in an open and AI world | Danny Kingsley

Please join us for a free online event: *Beyond Certainty – what does ‘Discovery’ mean in an open and artificial intelligent world?* Wednesday 8th October, 9:45am - 3:45pm AEDT Premise In a world s...

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Wayne Bradshaw @nonwayne.bsky.social · Sep 9

Stigmatization is the only way. Sorry but detectors are bunkum

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · Sep 6

symptoms of an illiterate society

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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · Sep 6

Lost two jobs this year due to so-called "AI" bollocks. Publishing is basically turning into a vehicle for venture capitalists to make books a front for tech. Doesn't help that VCs are the most impunitous rubes who pay everyone around them so they never hear the words 'no, that's fucking stupid'.

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · Sep 6

great collection of essays, including one by me on Saint Max!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Sep 5

Just sat through a session where it was suggested that one potentially effective use of AI is to have students feed their illegal, non-consensual, undisclosed recordings of my lectures into the giant plagiarism machine to provide summaries of class sessions, & I am going to become The Joker 🤷‍♂️

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Aug 5

Again, this - not the fascism, or the budget cuts, or the neverending bureaucratic creep - is what will eventually drive me & many others out of academia/into retirement

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American Historical Association @historians.org · Aug 5

The AHA has published Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education, offering a disciplinary approach to AI that focuses on the specific needs and challenges of history educators. 🗃️

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Wayne Bradshaw @nonwayne.bsky.social · Sep 4

Actual photo of me in the Mabo Library

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Wayne Bradshaw @nonwayne.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm going to say the quiet part out loud: James Cook University's Roderick Centre would be a really great home for Meanjin, particularly since Clem Christesen was born in Townsville. You know I'm right!

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James Ley @jamesley.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is fucked

www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing

Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

www.crikey.com.au

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Wayne Bradshaw @nonwayne.bsky.social · Sep 4

Unlike modern universities, which are net negatives for culture!

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · Sep 4

Emmett Stinson: “Like, if the University of Melbourne does not see value in the second-oldest running literary journal in Australia, then who (i.e. among potential funding institutions) is going to see the value in them. They are--to be clear--enormously valuable culturally and socially” #Meanjin

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · Sep 4

Well, this sucks arse:

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing

Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

www.crikey.com.au

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · Sep 4

Depressing news. Meanjin hardly posed a significant call on the University of Melbourne's finances: its annual budget was no more than a third of the VC's salary. To shut it down diminishes the University of Melbourne and leaves a large hole in Australia's already threadbare cultural landscape

Crikey @crikey.com.au · Sep 4

Exclusive: Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, Meanjin, is being shut down today for "financial" reasons, Crikey can reveal.

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing

Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

www.crikey.com.au

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Alison Croggon @alisoncroggon.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is shocking news. Literary magazines - and all the other small orgs now under pressure or closing or gone - are the bedrock of culture and their ongoing costs are barely a blip in any institutional budget. Melbourne University ought to be ashamed www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing

Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

www.crikey.com.au

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · Sep 4

I have had a DVC say to my face that it is much better to invest in capital works than in faculty because people leave while buildings don't. This echoes in my head every time I see a university make yet another anti-intellectual, anti-community decision

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Wayne Bradshaw @nonwayne.bsky.social · Sep 4

If you still needed any evidence that UNIVERSITIES ARE THE ENEMY OF CULTURE and populated by SYCOPHANTS and PARASITES this is it. The cultural sector should turn its back on universities. They are ANATHEMA. Put them to the SWORD

www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing

Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.