Juliette Binoche’s new movie, Queen at Sea, and she herself are in London. 🎊
Dr Hanife Schulte
@hbschulte.bsky.social
Scholar and practitioner of theatre and performance Researching the arts, politics, the city, and audiences through ethnography
🚨The world —here and there— has been showing, at an alarming speed, more and more examples that there is no clarity, no understanding, no thinking, no seeing, no learning, no prevention, and no care with definitions.🚨
In the city, you may walk the streets to go to the theatre; in the country, you may hike the cliffs to go to the theatre.
Back to Hanya Yanagihara! Hope she is writing another 700-page novel that gives the reader a perfect break from hell.
Only ✨RARE✨ “educators want students to understand what it means to have agency over their own learning.” thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/can-the-clas...
Can the Classroom Ever Be Automated?
Long before AI, teaching machines promised to make education more efficient. Their forgotten history reveals why that dream keeps falling short.
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Secondhand books come with memories. The Women in Black by Madeleine St John came with a handwritten postcard from July 18, 2013: “Thanks for […] sharing your London. See you soon in Melbourne.”
"Don't bow to people's predictions as if they were facts." "Predictions are never facts. Facts belong to the past." www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS4w...
Beware the Power of Prediction | Carissa Véliz | TED
YouTube video by TED
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IT IS THEIR FREEDOM! We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm.
Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
notinourname.org.uk
✨This International Women’s Day✨, read my article, ‘Responding to Election-Time Misogyny’, or read it to someone because: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30...
Brecht‘s journal entry for 22 April 1941 in Finland…
What a book! 💙 It is not an overstatement that it “makes you glad to be alive.” And it begins with Brecht.
History repeats itself and doesn’t remain in the same context! “They don’t want women to excel—especially by their own rules. Right now, young women are being told to forgo all ambition, marry young, stay at home, and have as many children as possible.” jessica.substack.com/p/alysa-liu-...
The Unstoppable Alysa Liu
Watching a young woman be free was the joy I didn’t know I needed
jessica.substack.com
🌟ALWAYS REMEMBER🌟 makes me forget all of my favorite books. It‘s deep as philosophy books, poetic as poetry books, beautiful as works of art, and so sophisticated with such a simple approach! You can be 8, 18, 80, whatever, and whoever. Just re/read it to feel something in a heartless world!
A wise human, a few months ago, told me ‘they’re busy hating each other to prove their points’. An unfortunate answer, and I wish it weren’t true.
Dr Rosie Hampton@rosiehampton.bsky.social · 10mo agoI wrote ‘Where is the Left?’ for the New Internationalist and have been really heartened by how much it’s resonated with people organising across a wide range of groups and in such a vast array of different places You can read the article here newint.org/protest/2025...
Why would students want to be taught by AI? Clearly, they don't! www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
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The Brecht Yearbook 50 is out. It feels great holding a copy of it and seeing my article in it. The Mother in 1930s Berlin was not just a play, it was a political movement. And Elisabeth Hauptmann and Helene Weigel played significant roles in it. 🌟🌟
Our next Quorum event is this Wednesday (29th Oct) when we'll be presenting a talk by Professor Nicholas Ridout on theatre and the presence of the dead in modern life. (Spooky!🎃) Starts 5.30pm, either in-person at QMUL's Mile End campus or online. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nicholas-r...
Nicholas Ridout: "The dead are always with us, or the theatre of modernity"
Quorum welcomes Nicholas Ridout, Professor of Theatre at Queen Mary University of London, for a seminar on the topic of theatre and death.
eventbrite.co.uk
J should write more letters to dismantle definitions and to show definitions create more categories without helping better understand anything.
Karl Jacoby@karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12mo agoProud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.
My favorite actress is human, Juliette Binoche, laughing at the guy whose "favorite actress is not human."
I’m imagining a book a painting a play a song an aria a poem a novel a story a film a dance piece a sculpture a photograph a drawing a stage performance a recorded performance a site-specific performance a durational performance called TYLENOL. You take one, and pain goes away!