watch out for this, everybody! an *incredible* account of the coercion secreted away inside liberalism's fictions of consent —and the novel's capacity to mediate it. masochism! cannibalism! (!!) narrative form! congrats to @emmadavenport.bsky.social & @cornellupress.bsky.social 🎉🔥🎉🔥

Emma Davenport@emmadavenport.bsky.social · 4h ago

"Subject to Contract: Liberalism and the Victorian Novel" is now officially subject to a contract for publication with Cornell University Press! 📖 @cornellupress.bsky.social

FINALLY on holiday and read Lady C by @guywjc.bsky.social. A deliciously humorous romp through the reception & cultural afterlives of Lady Chatterley, Lady C wears its erudition lightly. Made me remember how much I loved DH Lawrence as a teen. Time for a revival, perhaps? @yalepress.bsky.social

🙌Join us to celebrate ‘Masqueraders’, a collection of powerful, unpredictable essays by Anthony V. Capildeo! 🗓Wed 05 Aug, 2026 🕠6.00 pm 📍National Library, POS 🆓️FREE & open to all 📚‘Masqueraders’ will be available for purchase from @paperbasedbookshop.bsky.social #bocas2026 @carcanet.bsky.social

Have read this: it's incredible. Capildeo is the most important poet of the last 25 years (sorry all). A necessary read for anyone who appreciates fiercely clever, playful, radical writing. And AUGBOOKS15 will get you some cash off, I think.

Carcanet Press@carcanet.bsky.social · 2w ago

This month we're publishing Masqueraders by Anthony V. Capildeo!🔮 Get 15% offwhen you use the code JULYBOOKS15: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017569... 📖: In Masqueraders, poet Capildeo's non-fiction début treats us to a selection from over a dozen years of scintillating essays, letters and columns.

At a difficult time in UKHE, good news needs celebrating whenever possible. So many congratulations to @tomhulme.bsky.social on his well-deserved promotion to full Professor as of yesterday!! 🎊👏🏻 pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/t...

Tom Hulme

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this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos

Nearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.

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Le capitalisme - fabrique des usines inflammables improprement appelées forêts - amplifie les conditions de l’embrasement en surproduisant des GES - détruit les moyens de lutte parce que sans profits immédiats - réserve la survie à certaines catégories … mais vous serez aimable de ne pas politiser

nemo@whynotnemo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Liste des services à bout de souffle : - Les pompiers - L’hôpital - L’école - L’assurance chômage - L’assurance maladie - L’aide sociale - La psychiatrie - etc, etc… Tous considérés par le pouvoir comme des rebuts à désosser. Reste les patrimoines, les ultra riches.

Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops. Food insecurity and higher prices would follow. Poor hit the hardest. Despite warnings, no plan for water shortages. Need reservoirs, water storage, better water management. Companies can't do national planning.

‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops

Growers in dismay after scorching weather and lack of rain affect yields, sending wholesale prices rocketing

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Today’s news includes an archive collection to be broken up and contents sold at auction, and academics to be laid off and replaced by hallucinating plagiarism machines. What a time to be alive.

moving house is yet another opportunity for my husband to prove what a patient and kind person he is. I become an angsty/ anxious/cranky hellhag. thanking my lucky stars.

Heat is deadly. In the 2020s, India regularly experiences temperatures in the high 40s; in the 2030s, so will Northern Europe #NomadCentury

‘The heat took him from me’: India’s death toll rises amid escalating heat crisis

As extreme heat claims the lives of workers in India’s poorest areas, many fear the true mortality rate is being dangerously undercounted

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Gaia Vince@wanderinggaia.bsky.social · last wk.

Half the world’s on fire, the other is in deluge. The four horsemen of the Anthropocene: fire, floods, heat and drought. We are making our world increasingly unliveable. How is your government responding? How are you preparing for a disaster? #NomadCentury

'Strip away the grandiose language and a pattern emerges – some combination of fewer, larger modules, almost always wedges of 30 credits, an all-core or heavily prescribed first year, reduced optionality in later years, curated pathways instead of individual module choice... [cont.] 1/4

Curriculum reform is a wedge issue

With curriculum reform converging on fewer, larger modules across the sector, Jim Dickinson argues that consolidation solves institutional problems while reallocating regret onto students least able t...

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I also appreciate Emily Wilson as a woman in a male dominated role, by which I don’t mean translator or classicist or public scholar but rather “curmudgeon.”

Read my biography of Henri Bergson and: - wow your family and friends with your insights into pure durée - learn about the time Marcel Proust was best man at a wedding -access the immediate data of your consciousness - find out why a philosopher caused the first ever traffic jam on Broadway

starting to work on a summer chapter and discovered an email from Past Me, addressed to 'Future Me', 'with some suggested reading on elegy, over-living, gender, and extinction. Terribly polite and very useful, she signed off 'I hope you're well.' What a gem I was in 2024.

++BREAKING++ The Daily Telegraph has... *rubs eyes* ...published something sensible about climate change: "I’m coming to the view that the Online Right is going wrong, eschewing compassion or charm, talking itself into corners of angry irrelevance. Take climate change."

My favorite depiction of the Trojan Horse, and the earliest known version. I love the windows, like an airplane, and that the windows go up the neck too.

"The agency’s latest modelling suggests that by the middle of the century, Britain could endure long stretches of 40C days, with temperatures hitting 45C." www.ft.com/content/bde8...

Met Office chief Penny Endersby: ‘There is not going to be a usual summer’

The head of the UK’s national weather service on this year’s multiple heatwaves, the net zero backlash and why geoengineering is not a panacea

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More excellent book post in these parts: Tommy Leonard-Roy’s Writerly Hate in Eighteenth Century Britain, just out from OUP….on good hating and fun hating and the creativity of animosity in the #18thc literary marketplace. I ❤️ this book!

A mid-late 19th century waistcoat, embroidered with a design of cornflowers, daisies and roses on display at Sherborne Museum. #TextileTuesday #embroidery #museum

We are hiring a new Editorial Fellow who specialises in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe 🌍 👉 this 2-year fellowship runs from October 2026 - September 2028 👉 this role is paid and part-time (3 hours per week) 👉 the application deadline is Friday 7 August Please share widely!

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026

History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.

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New exhibition at the ARB 🖌️ 'Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity' 27 July-18 Sept Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP PV 27 July 5-7pm, all welcome!🍷 Five artists whose work is connected by acts of attention that reframe the world and renew vision for viewers https://bit.ly/4fBioMw

*** Lectureship in Creative Writing *** School of English, University of Leeds Salary £41,064 to £59,966 p.a. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

The last graduate from the University of Sheffield's once world leading Archaeology Department goes out showing respect to students and their families and a reminder to the Vice Chancellor that the "cultural vandalism" which culminated in the closure of the department won't be forgiven or forgotten.

CFP Marianne Moore 2027, an international conference @cam-english-fac.bsky.social. Deadline for proposals 1 Sept 2026. #modernism #poetry

Few people are familar with Evangeline Paterson's poetry these days, though she was an excellent exponent of the genre. In this terrific example, her tone might seem conversational at first, but then the poem starts to show us its layers...

Still Life with Vase of Red Hawthorn and Bowl of Cherries, Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872.

Continuing the London Stage Data-Sitters series, Ceilidh McCallum shares some additional research about the Harlequin afterpieces shown with The Beggar's Opera and the people who performed in them: blogs.uoregon.edu/londonstage/... #digitalhumanities #dh #18thcentury #theaterhistory #theatrehistory