Julia Bell
@juliahbell.bsky.social
Writer, educator. Works at Birkbeck. Books, essays, poems. Agent Rebecca Carter
On Wednesday I gave my Inaugural Lecture and today I published an edited extract of it on my Substack. Also here’s a sneak preview of the new cover for Radical Attention - coming in Sept with a new foreword by Grace Blakeley. open.substack.com/pub/professo...
On Radical Attention
An edited extract from my Inaugural Lecture, ‘On Radical Attention,’ given at Birkbeck, University of London, on 27 May 2026.
open.substack.com
Superb talk by @juliahbell.bsky.social: 'AI leaves us with the one thing that was always the point: creativity, which is a self attending to the world, responding to the world from its own territory, from its own space, from its own circumstances, something that cannot be copied by anybody but you.'
Writers Online@writersonline.bsky.social · 3mo agoHappening TOMORROW! We aren't just talking algorithms - we’re exploring the craft. How do you protect your unique voice? And in a world full of automated text, what does it actually mean to write as yourself? Get your ticket. https://writ.me/CreativeWriting
A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.
Five million in donations buys you this ….
Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · 3mo agoAmong other bits I’m hearing from voting in London… lots of people complaining they never received their postal ballots… Lewisham polling booth signs telling people to vote twice in a FPTP mayoral election… and Reform buying (ht @darryl1974.bsky.social) the cover of the Standard’s print edition.
Publication day for Between the Lines - why coming together to listen to each other is the most urgent and radical thing we can do right now.
