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Call for papers: special issue on the legacy of Vincent Mosco

Nicole Cohen @nicolecohen.bsky.social · Sep 2

Call for Papers: Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication. A special issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalization I'm co-editing w/ @ursulahuws.bsky.social, Leslie Shade, and Catherine McKercher wolg.wordpress.com/special-issu...

Special issue of Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation on Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication The theme When…

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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · Aug 27

I kid you not

Are we living in a Usurocracy?

Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · Aug 15

Interview with me about forthcoming book by Christine Evans Pughe www.howandwhy.com/ideas/are-we...

How the digital world is putting us all on a subscription leash

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Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · May 12

My winning entry in the 2015 "most boring limerick" competition at the Hall Writers' Forum (link to on-line booklet in the comments).

#poem #poetry #limerick #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #hwf #PromptCombo #TheLimerick

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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · Jul 26

Are we living in a Usurocracy?

How the digital world is putting us all on a subscription leash

www.howandwhy.com

Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · Jul 15

My latest blog post ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/h...

Help!

I found this image on Bluesky, where it was attributed to Von Bog Witch, to whom I offer huge thanks and appreciation. Unfortunately, despite several attempts, I was unable to find a way to communi…

Niebler & Soares Seto speak with U. Huws on how tech work is changing in the new global conjuncture

Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation @wolgjournal.bsky.social · Jul 1

Wide ranging conversation with Valentin Niebler and Kenzo Soares about changes in tech workers' identities and class consciousness in the current conjuncture (and some reflections on how this has changed over the last 50 years) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oow...

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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · Jun 25

My latest blog post looks, inter alia, at the question of choice in assisted dying ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/c...

Choice, coercion or a bit of both?

Recent debates in the UK parliament about the right to assisted dying, like other public discussions, for example about rights to abortion or freedom of expression, draw attention to the way that t…

The English country garden

Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · Jun 15

My latest blog post ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/06/15/t...

A couple of weeks ago, I listened to a discussion about the impact of clean energy policies on the British countryside on the BBC radio 4 Any Questions programme. Although the discussants, picked f…

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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · Jun 13

BBC Music - BBC Music - God Only Knows

A film to celebrate our love of music.

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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · Jun 4

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Ursula Huws on labor, technology, capital, telework, and gender

Ursula Huws on labor, technology, capital, telework, outsourcing, the OED, gender, and Jimmy Young You can read some of her work here: https://ursulahuws.wordpress.com/

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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · May 20

My latest blog post ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/h...

How the English language excludes and includes

It is now six months since Trump was elected president of the USA and I began writing daily clerihews to find a way to get through each depressing day of the unfolding transition to a new world ord…

Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · May 13

The Slough of Despond?

Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social · May 12

My winning entry in the 2015 "most boring limerick" competition at the Hall Writers' Forum (link to on-line booklet in the comments).

#poem #poetry #limerick #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #hwf #PromptCombo #TheLimerick

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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · May 13

The clerihews of Winter, 2024-2025 - How I made it through the transition to the new world order

"In her day job, Ursula Huws is a researcher, lecturer, writer and editor, based in London, who blogs at ursulahuws.wordpress.com. In November 2024, after the victory of Donald Trump in the US preside...

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Ursula Huws -- The Household in Marx’s 'Capital'

Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · May 9

reposted by request (the sound quality is not wonderful and the powerpoint slides are not shown) but this is one of the most concise summaries of what Ursula Huws has drawn from Marx www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ywv...

YouTube video by Marcello Musto

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Occasional writings about some of the contradictory aspects of life on this planet, viewed from 2010 to 2021 from Dalston and now from St Pancras.

Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · May 8

My latest blog post - on my troubled relationship with technology ursulahuws.wordpress.com

Ursula Huws's Blog

Expression and expropriation: The dialectics of autonomy and control in creative labour | Ephemeral Journal

Yordam Kitap @yordamkitap.bsky.social · Apr 4

TEKRAR BASIM | Küresel Dijital Ekonomide Emek

Ursula Huws, günümüz küresel kapitalist ekonomisinin farklı görünümleriyle ilgili kışkırtıcı analiziyle, son yılların iktisadi, kültürel ve siyasi olgularını bir araya getiriyor.
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Digital Culture + Media Initiative @dcmiatpsu.bsky.social · Mar 26

Classroom report:

This article by @ursulahuws.bsky.social can still strike the hearts of students learning to be creative workers (and of at least some of the teachers who teach them). It's also a crystal-hard model of dialectical thinking.

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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · Mar 20

My little book of clerihews is now published and available from www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/products/the...

The clerihews of Winter, 2024-2025

In her day job, Ursula Huws is a researcher, lecturer, writer and editor, based in London, who blogs at ursulahuws.wordpress.com. In November 2024, after the victory of Donald Trump in the US presiden...

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Researchers advised not to respond to US questionnaire - Leiden University

Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · Mar 20

Researchers at the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands have received a questionnaire from the US with questions that are an attack on academic freedom. The University of Leiden advises not to respond www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...

Researchers who have received a questionnaire containing political questions from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) or other American government funders such as NIH or ARPA are advised not to...

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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · Feb 28

My latest blog post ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/a...

A new spring!

It is the end of February. Tomorrow will be St David’s Day, when traditionally in Wales, you rejoice that any frail elderly people you know have made it through the winter and expect to spot …

Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · Feb 28

A clerihew for February 28, 2025

Villain or hero? Serious or phony?
You grasp the disputed status of Luigi Mangione
When you realise that in the US your life and health
Depend on your wealth.

Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · Feb 27

A clerihew for February 27, 2025

Born around the time Il Duco
Began his ascendancy in Italy, Michel Foucault
Devoted his career to studying power
Which made him quite the intellectual of the hour.

Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · Feb 26

A clerihew for February 26, 2025

Attracting acclaim at every turn,
Jacinda Adern
May have inspired high popular turnout
But eventually succumbed to emotional burnout.

Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · Feb 25

The big reversal in Germany’s election

Extreme right (AfD) gained every where but particularly in the poorest regions.

Social Democrats (SPD) lost everywhere but particularly in the poorest region.

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Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · Feb 25

A clerihew for February 25, 2025

As Volodymyr Zelensky
Knows, what’s at stake in this war is immense: key
To the outcome’s what’s under the soil.
What the oligarchs want is rare metals as spoil.

Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · Feb 24

A clerihew for February24, 2025

With a fortune made from blowing things up, what would impel
Dynamite mogul Alfred Nobel
To donate from his riches to further world peace?
Was he trying to rebuild it, piece by hurled piece?

Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social · Feb 23

A clerihew for February 23, 2025

Fittingly, since for hardness of heart few could match her,
‘No such thing as society’ Margaret Thatcher
Ended her life, as history admits,
Looked after by strangers in a suite at the Ritz.