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Dr Ian McCormick

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English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. Archaic English. NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era. Prof. d'Emeritus. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · Dec 30

NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era
#drama #theatre #Shakespeare #performance #adaptation #appropriation #historicism #empire #culture #materialism #TeamEnglish #renaissance #bardolatry #postcolonial #woke #socialjustice #theory #queer
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DQYB2TS5

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

"The printed song, “As soon as day began to peep”, was written for a character called Monsieur le Prate, a French fop, in a 1691 play titled Love for Money, which lampooned a girls’ boarding school. Its author was Thomas D’Urfey, a frequent collaborator of Purcell."

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

BRAGGING: "you English have such fine faculty of bragging, dere is no Nation under the Sun, dat compare with your true Englishmen, for dat the French sneer, and make grimace, the Dutch belch, the Spaniard strut, the German huff, the Danes tope, & the Englishmen only brag, brag, brag ..."

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 4h

A pox upon your censorship!

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1h

inews.co.uk/news/badenoc...

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English

The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3h

Badenoch wins Brain of Britian

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 2h

One dares to hope?
#antifa

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 2h

Poor Neccccy!

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3h

Death by logic!

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3h

I want this to be real.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3h

Farage "Riots" Reform Gammon Ltd has already selected Danish?

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3h

A Plague of Hallucinations: AI Scholarship.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3h

Badenoch wins Brain of Britian

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3h

Google / AI ?!

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3h

Farage "Riots" Reform Gammon Ltd has already selected Danish?

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 3h

"According to Slavoj Žižek, the repressed is not so much a return of the past as it is paradoxically a return of the future. How is this possible? In a Lacanian world, meaning is never a truth that can be found; it is rather always an entity constructed." Google / AI ?!

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

"Lop off his fluttering pride and ill got grandeur, and pare him for their use like a Cork for a bottle."

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 4h

Democide in our times

Austerity, wage & public service cuts kill, but are govt policy.

Millions can't get good food, housing, education, healthcare, pension.

Men in poorer UK areas live 9.7 yrs less than those in least deprived areas. Women 8 years.

Govts silent on the human cost of fiscal rules

The government must ensure fair distribution of income

'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 4h

The infamous gateway to the pornographic: Lacan / Zizek.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 4h

A pox upon your censorship!

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 4h

BOOK COVER banned by LINKEDIN:
Plague of Fantasies by Slavoj Zizek (1997)

"After reviewing your post again, we found it doesn’t comply with our policy on adult nudity and sexual activity. We understand that this might not be the response you wanted ..."

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 2d

Our Institute’s Colloquium Program 2025–26 is now available online! This year we will be "Rethinking Time in the History of Science" 🕰️⌚️

📍 MPIWG & Harnack-Haus

🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check bit.ly/42Zq98m

#HistSci #DeepTime #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies

Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 4h

That would entail c. 8,000 FT university lecturer redundancies?

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 4h

Badenoch’s number caps plan would cut 100,000 university places.
#literature #language #English #HigherEd #University
#arts #sociology #anthropology
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenoc...

Badenoch’s number caps plan would cut 100,000 university places

Tory leader to use conference speech to attack ‘debt trap degrees’ and pledge more money for apprenticeships

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 4h

UK Tory Party Conference: Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch declares war on English degrees.
#literature #language #English #HigherEd #University

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta love God feeling the need to add that last sentence.

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