Baby chaos: why I’ve been absent on here 🤍

Co-editing a special issue of ASAP/Journal (with David James) on Forms of Care, bringing together some joint research focus of late. Essay deadlines 31 Jan 2025. CFP in the latest issue of the journal & coming to the journal website soon!

Having the benefit of being married to the editor, I can tell you this is a magical little book.

Please consider signing this petition to prevent catastrophic job cuts at Oxford Brookes.

Arts & humanities are besieged as a consequence of policy changes, among other things. Brookes won't be the last to go through this. Solidarity is essential.

https://t.co/mNbElDKP5k

Normalise sending flowers to workplaces. These are from my PhD student who passed with no corrections a couple of weeks ago 🤍

“Abstractions help us get beyond psychic reality even if they are born there—Jacqueline Rose has staked her oeuvre on this insight from psychoanalysis.”

Gorgeous essay by Hannah Zeavin.

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/dea...

Reading Mieko Kanai’s MILD VERTIGO makes me want to bring back my module on art novels…

I also strongly agree with Chris Newfield's point around 58:00 that the reason humanities are less "collaborative" than other fields is "not psychological": it's not funded!! Thank you!! Collaboration is not free. It means more emails, more meetings, more time to work out consensus.

Even though the vagaries of the American higher ed sector differ dramatically to the UK’s in *some* important ways—NZ, too—we’re all affected by similar economic & ideological threats to our profession, research funding, & jobs like we’re seeing with WVU. Super relevant listen!

The Association for the Study of the Arts of the present has written an open letter to Gordon Gee condemning the cuts at WVU and asking the administration to reverse course. (Alt text in thread below!)

Late to the party, as always ✌🏼