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Felicity Callard
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Geographies & histories of what we have come to call “mental health” | the university | daydreams & fantasies | Freud | Marx

Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18d
I wrote on psychic life and Palestinian resistance

– to ensure more people read Abdaljawad Omar @hamayel.bsky.social.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
For the Palestinian people, psychic life is just as much a site of struggle for liberation as social life. Palestinians are persistently refused psychological amplitude, characteristics easily granted to those who are never worried they might fall out of what is constituted as the category of the human. Abdaljawad Omar’s writings in English published since October 7, 2023 (as well as writings by other Palestinians, other Arabs, and those of Palestinian descent) offer means of understanding material resistance in relation to the terrain of the psyche. Omar offers distinctive accounts of mourning, loss, and ruins, as well as of how settler colonialism reorganizes experiences of time and relations between past, present, and future. The article reads Omar’s writings against other accounts of mourning and of psychic phenomena that are indebted to psychoanalysis. Omar’s analyses of Palestinians’ resistance to unfreedom and annihilation open up other ways of understanding the psychic vicissitudes of those who suffer, grieve, and struggle to exit a colonial condition characterized by the colonizer’s repeated attempts to break psychic worlds as well as erase bodily life. Understandings of psychic life that do justice to how Palestine is redrawing the world are central to the work of ‘cracking history open’.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 12h
John Plotz’s essay on W or the Memory of Childhood in @publicbooks.bsky.social also very much worth reading www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-geor...
B-Sides: Georges Perec’s “W, or the Memory of Childhood” - Public Books
One of the strangest, most devastating works of Holocaust literature is about games.
www.publicbooks.org

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 12h
Read Perec’s W or the Memory of Childhood a few mnths ago. Had no idea it signalled end of his analysis with Pontalis (had no idea he was analysed by Pontalis). Paul Keegan’s essay on Perec & Pontalis adds many more layers to what I’d thought perec’s book might be doing
granta.com/the-perec-ca...
The Perec Case
‘Perec went into analysis because he suspected that the ludic bent of his writing was in fact blocking an approach to his life story.’ Paul Keegan on Georges Perec’s psychoanalytic sessions with Jean-...
granta.com

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 16h
Read Ruth’s post and then take action by 22 April
notrightruth.bsky.social Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 1d
New post: LABOUR'S SECTION 28 IS HERE - ACT NOW.

I explain how the Labour government's proposed revisions to the guidance on "keeping children in education" are designed to erase trans children in England. But it's not a done deal - there is plenty we can do to oppose this.
Labour’s Section 28 is here – act now
In May 1988, the Conservative government introduced Section 28. This legal measure outlawed support for “homosexuality as a pretended family relationship” across Britain, especially in …
ruthpearce.net

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 17h
City St George’s VC spoke at event last week www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve... focused on 2nd report of Sullivan Review (SR2).

@jaytoddgla.bsky.social and I want everyone to be clear about who & what SR2 positions as “threats to democracy” rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
UK Government). SR2 presents adherents to a binary model of sex as possessing 'ordinary mainstream views about the reality of sex' (SR2, 32) that align with 'scientific and scholarly norms which are essential to the production of knowledge' (SR2, 12). SR2 construes 'some aspects of gender-identity theory [as lying] outside of truth-seeking norms', and it describes 'threat[s] to the norms of the reality-based community'— which it contrasts with the 'norms of propaganda and disinformation'—as a 'threat to democracy' (SR, 31). SR2 also recommends universities consider 'paring back the scope and power of ethics committees' in various ways (SR2, 16-17).

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 17h
The vice-chancellor of City St George’s, University of London has publicly lent his support to the Sullivan Review.

Read @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical article to understand the full stakes of this Review rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

(Covered by the THE)
City v-c backs Sullivan Review on gender question in research Failure to use biological sex as 'basic variable' will make research 'weaker and less reliable', says City St George's head Anthony Finkelstein Published on February 13, 2026 Last updated February 13, 2026 Jack Grove

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18h
Thank you for reading and for these comments. Honouring Abdaljawad’s writings on resistance is exactly what I was trying to do

Reposted by Felicity Callard

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 1d
@melindacooper.bsky.social

“Epstein’s victims experienced the rule of master and servant not just as economic but sexual violence. They were the first to name and resist our emergent political order.”
Thanks to our growing insight into Epstein’s world, we have gained a clearer picture of the psychic and economic logic of the contemporary far right. Just as Epstein wanted to close off all escape routes to his female victims, Trump and his tech reactionaries want to shut down all alternatives to the household economy and turn the presidency into a founder-controlled family firm. Attacks on the administrative state, the public sector and unions, and the transformation of border control agents into a personal militia can be understood as parts of a broader programme to extend the rule of master and servant to the entire economy. Perhaps if we all become Uber drivers, Amazon third-party sellers, trade contractors to real estate moguls, or academic supplicants to billionaires then the founder will be safe from collective sacrifice? Epstein’s victims experienced the rule of master and servant not just as economic but sexual violence. They were the first to name and resist our emergent political order.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 1d
Brilliant, indispensable, chilling from
@melindacooper.bsky.social

www.equator.org/articles/eps...
Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
www.equator.org

Reposted by Catherine Baker, Felicity Callard, Nick Hubble

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 1d
New post: LABOUR'S SECTION 28 IS HERE - ACT NOW.

I explain how the Labour government's proposed revisions to the guidance on "keeping children in education" are designed to erase trans children in England. But it's not a done deal - there is plenty we can do to oppose this.
Labour’s Section 28 is here – act now
In May 1988, the Conservative government introduced Section 28. This legal measure outlawed support for “homosexuality as a pretended family relationship” across Britain, especially in …
ruthpearce.net

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 1d
Marking the startling and brief return of the sun by walking the coastal path between Arbroath and Auchmithie. De'ils Heid sea stack in the far distance
A coastal path with a weak sun in the background. The coastal vegetation is still in winter garb. In the background is a sea stack: the De'ils Heid

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 1d
Strongly recommend reading this interview with @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social as a counter to so many brittle, binarised accounts circulating about Iran

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 1d
This is an incredible victory for UC workers who actively and collectively fought back (cf pusillanimous university leaders) — a lesson for us all bsky.app/profile/aaup...
fishkin.bsky.social Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 1d
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.

The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
www.latimes.com

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 1d
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.

The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
www.latimes.com

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
Poor Jess. This must have been very distressing to find. I wonder if anyone has yet written on this particular twist of the LLM-fuelled scamming/cheapening/rubbishing machine

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
Just awful (and geographers: look closely at what's happening here)
benpatrickwill.bsky.social Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2d
Who benefits from publishing totally fake papers then attributing authorship to real people? My good friend and colleague Jess shared today a paper she did not write, in a different field, and appears to be about life/death medical matters. Is this the "AI revolution" in science in action? Well...
Screenshot of a paper titled "Emergency Department Antibiotic Treatment: The Best Prescription is in Fact the Optimal Prescription" by Jessica Pykett - though she did not write it.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
with a first sentence like this, you've got to keep reading

(Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social' in the current issue of NLH)
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Provincializing Modernism; or, Criticism After the End of Aesthetic History Eric Hayot Abstract: This essay argues that understanding the current situation of the aesthetic, about which Fredric Jameson was as right in 1984 as he would be were he to publish the “postmodernism” essay again today, requires scholars to let go of the forms of historiographical expectation and valuation that they have inherited from previous periods.

Reposted by Felicity Callard, Michael H. Whitworth

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2d
Who benefits from publishing totally fake papers then attributing authorship to real people? My good friend and colleague Jess shared today a paper she did not write, in a different field, and appears to be about life/death medical matters. Is this the "AI revolution" in science in action? Well...
Screenshot of a paper titled "Emergency Department Antibiotic Treatment: The Best Prescription is in Fact the Optimal Prescription" by Jessica Pykett - though she did not write it.

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
“It was won because of the people on the streets, people holding the signs, the people disobeying the law”
saulstaniforth.bsky.social Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d
"Its a huge, huge victory.. its brilliant to be vindicated in the courts"

Huda Ammori talking to Novara Media

Reposted by Felicity Callard

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d
"Its a huge, huge victory.. its brilliant to be vindicated in the courts"

Huda Ammori talking to Novara Media

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
In July 2025 @arablit.bsky.social published Alaa Alqaisi on being starved by Israel

'And when the world finally turns the page—if it ever does—let it not say that Gaza was silent. Let it not imagine we vanished without speaking. We spoke with mouths filled with dust...' arablit.org/2025/07/23/b...
Beneath the Howl of Hunger
“And though the world may have looked away, let this much be remembered: we named the hunger. We bore it. We endured. Let that remain.” – Alaa Alqaisi
arablit.org

Reposted by John Hogan

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
Finally caught up with Alaa Alqaisi's essay on Palestine and the geography of vanishing. Never not read Alaa Alqaisi www.thenation.com/article/worl...
What Edward Said Teaches Us About Gaza
On Palestine and the geography of vanishing.
www.thenation.com

Reposted by Felicity Callard

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Netpol @netpol.org · 2d
May Labour's Yvette Cooper, the former Home Secretary, be remembered always as the politician who imposed the ban at the behest of Britain's powerful weapons industry, so it could continue to profit from the deliberate massacre of the people of Gaza

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 2d
“Every assignment is now an unverifiable collaboration between a stressed undergrad & a VC-backed robo-parrot. Detecting “authentic” student thinking is technically possible, but prohibitively expensive. Think about it: We would need to pay real human faculty to interact with real human students”
mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 3d
"Rather than building courses through faculty expertise or disciplinary knowledge, faculty gather complaints from alums now trying to get real jobs, feed those complaints into AI, and allow the system to revise the course accordingly."
The Next Innovation in Higher Education: Vibe-Teaching™
As the associate vice provost for the Office of Asynchronous Online Courses for Student-Centered High-Impact Learning (OAOCSCHIL, an office we crea...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 3d
"Rather than building courses through faculty expertise or disciplinary knowledge, faculty gather complaints from alums now trying to get real jobs, feed those complaints into AI, and allow the system to revise the course accordingly."
The Next Innovation in Higher Education: Vibe-Teaching™
As the associate vice provost for the Office of Asynchronous Online Courses for Student-Centered High-Impact Learning (OAOCSCHIL, an office we crea...
buff.ly

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
It will go back to Derby after the NG exhibition where I see it is on long-term loan derbymuseums.org/news/two-rar...
Two rarely before seen Joseph Wright paintings unveiled at Derby Museum and Art Gallery - Derby Museums
On long-term loan, they join the largest collection of works by world renowned artist. Two rarely before seen ‘candlelight’ paintings by world-famous artist Joseph Wright have been unveiled at Derby M...
derbymuseums.org

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
Can’t stop seeing this painting — part of the National Gallery’s Wright of Derby exhibition — at the edges of my consciousness when I turn corners, turn off lights. My phone can’t remotely do it justice
Two boys fighting over a pig’s bladder: the bladder is huge and shining out at us and the boy in the foreground is in silhouette. Their fight is intense: the second boy’s face is red and expresses pain. Two Boys Fighting Over a Bladder, by Joseph Wright, c.1767 – 1770, oil on canvas. Private collection, UK

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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 3d
For our winter issue, Granta goes to therapy. Read the issue for free online for the next five days.

granta.com/products/gra...

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Benjamin Braun, Felicity Callard

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 3d
New piece for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, written with @jacktaggart.bsky.social and @tomchodor.bsky.social! It's an attempt at grasping the dismantling of multilateral global governance, in light of intensifying geopolitical rivalries, resurgent state capitalism, and hegemonic crisis. Link below:

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 3d
will the dogs that ate the dead bodies of the martyrs turn into humans?
الكلاب التي أكلت جثث الشهداء هل ستتحول إلى إنسان will the dogs that ate the dead bodies of the martyrs turn into humans? no. but humans, daily, eat the living. and they do not gnaw nor bark. they sign executive orders. they sleep in white sheets and dream of borders. men have always envied beasts, their guiltless hunger.

Reposted by Alison Phipps, Felicity Callard

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 3d
❗️The revelation that over 2,000 Britons served in the IDF during genocide raises major legal questions for the UK.

The International Court of Justice has advised all states they are obligated to refrain from helping Israel maintain its occupation.

www.declassifieduk.org/over-2000-br...
Over 2,000 Britons served for Israel amid Gaza genocide
Exclusive: Declassified obtained data on the number of UK nationals in the IDF. We are publishing it for the first time
www.declassifieduk.org