Berthold Schoene
@profberty.bsky.social
Lit Prof Manchester Met UK | interested in trees doing the human (or indeed just themselves at their own sweet pace) | the ruderal imagination | degrowth aesthetics | pursuits involving Marnie & Grace and their sighthound pals …
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Universities: investing millions so students ”develop literacy in the language of AI”
Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages
Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages
December 6, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Universities: investing millions so students ”develop literacy in the language of AI”
Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages
Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages
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An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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A first look at our new series design for Fictional Objects!
Common by Nikolai Duffy follows its main character as he comes to terms with the circumstances of his life - a reflection on solitude, freedom, responsibility, and the repeated attempt to transcend the legacies of the past.
Common by Nikolai Duffy follows its main character as he comes to terms with the circumstances of his life - a reflection on solitude, freedom, responsibility, and the repeated attempt to transcend the legacies of the past.
July 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A first look at our new series design for Fictional Objects!
Common by Nikolai Duffy follows its main character as he comes to terms with the circumstances of his life - a reflection on solitude, freedom, responsibility, and the repeated attempt to transcend the legacies of the past.
Common by Nikolai Duffy follows its main character as he comes to terms with the circumstances of his life - a reflection on solitude, freedom, responsibility, and the repeated attempt to transcend the legacies of the past.
Brave New HE www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Brave New HE www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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"Denial is not an idiosyncracy or private pathology, but a certificate of membership in this particular society, a kind of credit card necessary for moving around in it and accessing its commodities and living without going nuts"
- Prof. Andreas Malm
youtu.be/fVYO7w6UHi8
- Prof. Andreas Malm
youtu.be/fVYO7w6UHi8
Andreas Malm's Public Lecture, October 10, 2025, Audio Only
YouTube video by Bao Nguyen - Grad. Admin Comparative Literature
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October 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
"Denial is not an idiosyncracy or private pathology, but a certificate of membership in this particular society, a kind of credit card necessary for moving around in it and accessing its commodities and living without going nuts"
- Prof. Andreas Malm
youtu.be/fVYO7w6UHi8
- Prof. Andreas Malm
youtu.be/fVYO7w6UHi8
Autumn colours 🍁
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Autumn colours 🍁
Blown over (!) by HELM. (Porter’s is next.) I love this Prize which rediscovers the novel afresh every year.
We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist.
Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!
Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists!
Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
October 3, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Blown over (!) by HELM. (Porter’s is next.) I love this Prize which rediscovers the novel afresh every year.
I “migrated” to this slightly offshore country 35 years ago today — one day before German Reunification, which I watched on TV in a bedsit on Glasgow’s Great Western Road. I remember my mouth being sore from speaking English all day 😂
October 2, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I “migrated” to this slightly offshore country 35 years ago today — one day before German Reunification, which I watched on TV in a bedsit on Glasgow’s Great Western Road. I remember my mouth being sore from speaking English all day 😂
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With classes underway, I’ve switched from essays to exams. But with the death of the student essay (RIP, slain by ChatGPT), there’s a larger human tragedy: an erosion of critical cognition and the creation of two sharply divided classes of people: those who learn how to think and those who don’t:
The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
www.forkingpaths.co
September 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
With classes underway, I’ve switched from essays to exams. But with the death of the student essay (RIP, slain by ChatGPT), there’s a larger human tragedy: an erosion of critical cognition and the creation of two sharply divided classes of people: those who learn how to think and those who don’t:
Marnie, optimising summer’s long goodbye
September 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Marnie, optimising summer’s long goodbye
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'A poet's death fills other poets with dread.' Harrison was on roaring form here.
www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/feb/...
www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/feb/...
Laureate's block
I'm appalled to see newspapers use my name as 'widely-tipped' for a job I'd never seek. Swans come in Domestic, Mute, and Tame and no swan-upper's going to nick my beak
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
'A poet's death fills other poets with dread.' Harrison was on roaring form here.
www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/feb/...
www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/feb/...
Cookie politics
September 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Cookie politics
Never read anything by Pym before: is this what’s meant by “middle brow”?!
September 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Never read anything by Pym before: is this what’s meant by “middle brow”?!
We’ve renamed the house in honour of these two blue wonders 🤩🥰❤️
September 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
We’ve renamed the house in honour of these two blue wonders 🤩🥰❤️
Wrote about this over 25 years ago & it continues to be one of my absolute favourite Bildungsroman novels journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Wrote about this over 25 years ago & it continues to be one of my absolute favourite Bildungsroman novels journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Mount Fuji, on arrival
September 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Mount Fuji, on arrival
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'If you're experimenting with things, you're always writing against the culture'
Goldsmiths Prize 2017 winner Nicola Barker talks to @tanjilrashid.bsky.social about piecing the novel back together again after H(A)PPY, and much else . . .
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Goldsmiths Prize 2017 winner Nicola Barker talks to @tanjilrashid.bsky.social about piecing the novel back together again after H(A)PPY, and much else . . .
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Author Nicola Barker:
Podcast Episode · The New Statesman: politics and culture · 30/08/2025 · 38m
podcasts.apple.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:53 AM
'If you're experimenting with things, you're always writing against the culture'
Goldsmiths Prize 2017 winner Nicola Barker talks to @tanjilrashid.bsky.social about piecing the novel back together again after H(A)PPY, and much else . . .
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Goldsmiths Prize 2017 winner Nicola Barker talks to @tanjilrashid.bsky.social about piecing the novel back together again after H(A)PPY, and much else . . .
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Whixall (May 2020)
August 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Whixall (May 2020)
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"Can I read you some of my poetry?"
August 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"Can I read you some of my poetry?"
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In the spirit of syllabus season, here’s a link to an extinction studies course of the #envhist #envhum variety. From the dodo to dire wolves...Please borrow, adapt, share!
drive.google.com/file/d/1SzKp...
cc: @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social!
drive.google.com/file/d/1SzKp...
cc: @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social!
August 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In the spirit of syllabus season, here’s a link to an extinction studies course of the #envhist #envhum variety. From the dodo to dire wolves...Please borrow, adapt, share!
drive.google.com/file/d/1SzKp...
cc: @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social!
drive.google.com/file/d/1SzKp...
cc: @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social!
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... “A rollercoaster kind of excess” — hugely looking forward to this when it comes out next week. About time too: it’s been a while since the last Nicola Barker novel!
TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker review – satire that sees right through you
This brilliantly over-the-top comedy about an unworldly heckler explores art and authenticity – being tripped up by it is part of the fun
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... “A rollercoaster kind of excess” — hugely looking forward to this when it comes out next week. About time too: it’s been a while since the last Nicola Barker novel!
A radical new take by @angelariviz.bsky.social on “the green man” and British men’s writing in the Anthropocene, envisioning futures “in which masculinities may rot, sprout, and become otherwise” doi.org/10.1080/0011...
Androdecentrism in the Anthropocene: Weirding Masculinities in the Work of Max Porter, Martin Macinnes, and Matt Hill
In an era marked by ecological collapse and accelerated technological transformation, the human subject, and especially the masculine subject, can no longer be imagined as sovereign, stable, or aut...
doi.org
July 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM
A radical new take by @angelariviz.bsky.social on “the green man” and British men’s writing in the Anthropocene, envisioning futures “in which masculinities may rot, sprout, and become otherwise” doi.org/10.1080/0011...
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a decade ago poet Angela Rawlings had an idea: Snæfellsjökull glacier for president of Iceland. now that idea has snowballed into a full-blown campaign with a team of 50 people www.theguardian.com/world/2024/a...
Bid to secure spot for glacier in Icelandic presidential race heats up
Idea Angela Rawlings had a decade ago for Snæfellsjökull has snowballed into a full-blown campaign with a team of 50 people
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2024 at 6:21 AM
a decade ago poet Angela Rawlings had an idea: Snæfellsjökull glacier for president of Iceland. now that idea has snowballed into a full-blown campaign with a team of 50 people www.theguardian.com/world/2024/a...
Aberffraw Beach at dawn
July 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Aberffraw Beach at dawn