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Matthew Symonds

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Matthew Symonds@polybiblion.com · 2d ago

got to the bit in [The] Buddenbrooks describing how poor little Hanno is a terrible disappointment to his idiot failure of a father and it’s almost impossible to read, Mann’s honestly a complete bastard to his readers from the start

Annalisa Nicholson@apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 3d ago

Flabbergasted, thrilled, honoured to have won SSEMWG Best First Book Prize! It's been 10 years since I started working on Hortense Mancini and her salon. It warms my heart to know the story of that salon - of exiles, of religious tolerance, of multilingual coexistence - resonates with others too. ❤️

CEMS KCL@cemskcl.bsky.social · 3d ago

Huge congratulations to Dr. Annalisa Nicholson (@apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social) for being awarded Best First Book prize by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender! Her book - A Salon-in-Exile: Hortense Mancini and the French Diaspora in Restoration London - was published last year.

James Cooray Smith @ Midday Matinées / Psychic Paper@cooraysmith.bsky.social · 3w ago

So, what can the censorship history of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in the UK teach us about the GLC, and devolution of powers more generally? Amazingly, it’s not nothing. Free to read on patreon, with free & £1 a month subscription options when you’re there. #yousavedthepcc

Midday Matinées@middaymatinees.bsky.social · 3w ago

When good news means a rewrite: This was scheduled as one of this week’s posts anyway: On @princecharlescinema.com’s history with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. A free post but if you like you can get a free or £1 a month subscription when there. www.patreon.com/MiddayMatine... #yousavedthepcc

Peter Kidd@mssprovenance.bsky.social · 4w ago

This looks very useful: a new online searchable version of Cappelli's _Dizionario di abbreviature_ reader.contubernalesbooks.com#/paleo/cappe... There is also a section on how to actually read a manuscript, which looks like a very useful teaching/learning tool: reader.contubernalesbooks.com#/paleo

Read Latin and Greek with help on every word

Seven books free, no account needed. Notes, scansion, facing texts and games built from each book's own words.

reader.contubernalesbooks.com

Nick Ames@nickames82.bsky.social · last mo.

Interview with Kieran McKenna - on leaving Ipswich, when & why he decided to put a stellar career on pause, and his vision for what comes next: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

‘I wanted to depart in the best way possible’: Kieran McKenna on Ipswich exit and future plans

In an exclusive interview, former Ipswich manager talks of his lasting affection for the club, savouring time out with family and friends and ideas for his next move

theguardian.com

Finch Collins@finchinthestacks.bsky.social · last mo.

The CFP for *Queer Bibliography: Taking Stock* is now open! Full cfp below and at bit.ly/QB2027CfP (Please feel free to circulate these graphics off Bluesky! They're sized for an IG story.)

call for proposals Queer Bibliography TAKING STOCK Manchester, UK and online 2-4 September 2027 details overleaf ❧ ❧ ❧call for proposals Taking Stock marks the fifth annual Queer Bibliography conference and is a chance to pause and reflect and to queerly attend to the many meanings of “stock” in bibliography. Where do we find ourselves and our work? How might we trace queer histories of queer bibliography? How can we imagine critical futures for bibliographical enquiry within and beyond its traditional academic locations? From the raw materials of books to the origins and shapes of personal, commercial, and institutional collections, how does "stock" participate in the production, articulation, and study of queer textuality and textual communities? What is queer about materiality, the ecology of books, and the processes of making and engaging with (collections of) physical textual objects? We invite participants to engage in stock-taking or to reflect on bibliographical stock, broadly defined. We welcome meta, theoretical, and historiographical work that takes stock of queer bibliography, and we welcome proposals that relate to “stock” in bibliography, book history, and reception studies. ❧ abstracts due 29 January ☙ full cfp: https://bit.ly/QB2027CfP
Sarah Pyke@sarahpyke.bsky.social · last mo.

Extremely excited to share the CFP for the ✨fifth✨ annual #QueerBibliography conference! bit.ly/QB2027CfP When? 2-4 September 2027 Where? Manchester, UK & online Theme: TAKING STOCK Deadline for abstracts: 29 January 2027 Decisions: by 12 March 2027 Submit here: forms.gle/WGjXKA1d6gWm...

Queer Bibliography Taking Stock Manchester, UK and online 2-4 September 2027 Call for Proposals Since the inaugural 2023 conference, queer bibliography has grown from an interesting concept to a burgeoning field. Our 2027 theme, Taking Stock, marks the fifth annual conference and is a chance to pause and reflect on genealogies of the field, the present state of queer bibliographical enquiry, and our senses of the future. How might we trace queer histories of queer bibliography? How can we imagine critical futures for bibliographical enquiry within and beyond its traditional academic locations? Where do we find ourselves and our work? Stock also has meaning in bibliography. While “stock” originally referred to a tree trunk or plant stem, and figuratively to the source of a line of descent or even a human torso, it later began to connote an aggregate of goods—in the context of bookmaking, one might own a stock of paper or pasteboard. Towards the mid-nineteenth century, “paper stock” began to connote the raw material of paper itself. “Stock” might refer to the inventories of booksellers, the process of beginning and curating an institutional or personal collection, and the supply and material characteristics of paper. From the raw materials of books to the origins and shapes of personal, commercial, and institutional collections, how does "stock" participate in the production, articulation, and study of queer textuality and textual communities? What is queer about materiality, the ecology of books, and the processes of making and engaging with (collections of) physical textual objects? We invite participants to engage in stock-taking or reflect on bibliographical stock, broadly defined. We welcome meta, theoretical, and historiographical work that takes stock of queer bibliography, and we welcome proposals that relate to “stock” in bibliography, book history, and reception studies.
Matthew Symonds@polybiblion.com · last mo.

London bus priority seats are for disabled people, pregnant people, people who are less able to stand, middle-aged blokes who had a big night last night and could do with the sit down, and shopping trollies.

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · last mo.

for those keeping track, the inevitable moment I had to stop myself heckling was: Emma Reynolds, in a panel about economic growth, talking about how brilliant it was that we had such great universities in this country

Matthew Symonds@polybiblion.com · 2mo ago

i mean, there’s loads to talk about on the subject of rationalism / effective atruism / AI alignment / the San Fran cult scene, but when these guys throw around titles like “greatest philosopher”, I get really interested in how much philosophy these guys read and how they read it

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is very senior OpenAI employee and unofficial OpenAI spokesman Roon. Roon's opinion of Yud is that 1) he is in and/or running a sex cult and 2) his opinions about AI are very important and should be taken seriously.

Colin Smith@colinsmith.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The first big exhibition of comics in the UK began at London’s ICA in Dec 1970. It was discussed not just in comics fanzines & the undergrounds, but in the “quality” press like The Guardian & The Times. I’ve seen few pics of it, so I was chuffed to find these Henry Grant photos at the London Museum.

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