becimay
@becimay.bsky.social
Senior lecturer, Cymraes. Author of Granular Modernlsm (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (Forthcoming from OUP, 2025).
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Happy Wrong Thanksgiving to my neighbours in the melancholy republic to the south.
November 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Happy Wrong Thanksgiving to my neighbours in the melancholy republic to the south.
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Protest the BBC's cut to Bregman's Reith lecture
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November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Protest the BBC's cut to Bregman's Reith lecture
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November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Against critical sobriety 🙃
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Against critical sobriety 🙃
God is dead, Charlie Brown
History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake, Charlie Brown
About suffering they were never wrong, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
God is dead, Charlie Brown
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To mark the publication of my first book, join us online (or in-person) on 3rd Dec 2025 at 16:30GMT / 11:30EST
Everyone is welcome 😊
Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social @becimay.bsky.social @emmywaldman.bsky.social
Info: bit.ly/3LZXc6w
Everyone is welcome 😊
Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social @becimay.bsky.social @emmywaldman.bsky.social
Info: bit.ly/3LZXc6w
November 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
To mark the publication of my first book, join us online (or in-person) on 3rd Dec 2025 at 16:30GMT / 11:30EST
Everyone is welcome 😊
Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social @becimay.bsky.social @emmywaldman.bsky.social
Info: bit.ly/3LZXc6w
Everyone is welcome 😊
Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social @becimay.bsky.social @emmywaldman.bsky.social
Info: bit.ly/3LZXc6w
Look at this gorgeous thing I got given 😍😍😍😍😍
November 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Look at this gorgeous thing I got given 😍😍😍😍😍
‘What a night that was, on that soft-looking bed, encircled by sound, said the sky’ (Keston Sutherland, Jokes)
November 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
‘What a night that was, on that soft-looking bed, encircled by sound, said the sky’ (Keston Sutherland, Jokes)
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Scholars of Critical University Studies & related fields need to consider whether the Brandeisian "bigness is badness" formulation applies to schools, especially universities, & applies precisely because scale is what makes schools attractive to parasitical profit-seeking enterprises.
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Scholars of Critical University Studies & related fields need to consider whether the Brandeisian "bigness is badness" formulation applies to schools, especially universities, & applies precisely because scale is what makes schools attractive to parasitical profit-seeking enterprises.
Keston Sutherland on being close read (in Jokes (2025))
November 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Keston Sutherland on being close read (in Jokes (2025))
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I think it's likely that I look back on the book launch symposium for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century as one of the absolute highlights of my career
thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible
thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible
We are underway. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social delivers opening remarks at a packed “Close Reading For The 21st Centure” book launch symposium.
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I think it's likely that I look back on the book launch symposium for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century as one of the absolute highlights of my career
thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible
thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible
Speaking on Veriry Soott today, among these assorted geniuses 🤩
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Speaking on Veriry Soott today, among these assorted geniuses 🤩
‘try to cope with a woman who is not tantalised, who is actually extremely annoyed’ Anna Mendelssohn 🔥🔥🔥
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
‘try to cope with a woman who is not tantalised, who is actually extremely annoyed’ Anna Mendelssohn 🔥🔥🔥
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Just arrived and as orange as can be ❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡 !!!!
November 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Just arrived and as orange as can be ❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡 !!!!
Just arrived and as orange as can be ❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡 !!!!
November 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Just arrived and as orange as can be ❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡 !!!!
Writing about because …
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Writing about because …
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today’s #ModWrite is a slow return to a UK time zone, but reflecting on the wonderful papers at MSA 25 @moderniststudies.bsky.social & the joy of presenting strategic incompetencies with @becimay.bsky.social, @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social, @jamesreath.bsky.social, Megan Quigley & Jess Payn
Another Monday, another #ModWrite! Share what you are working on today with us using the hashtag 📚
October 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
today’s #ModWrite is a slow return to a UK time zone, but reflecting on the wonderful papers at MSA 25 @moderniststudies.bsky.social & the joy of presenting strategic incompetencies with @becimay.bsky.social, @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social, @jamesreath.bsky.social, Megan Quigley & Jess Payn
‘I think, although I have never thought it before writing it here …’ (Lauren Berlant)
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
‘I think, although I have never thought it before writing it here …’ (Lauren Berlant)
Come and hear me talk about Bad Competence this coming Saturday in Boston ❤️✨🖤
October 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Come and hear me talk about Bad Competence this coming Saturday in Boston ❤️✨🖤