Warwick Anderson
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Warwick Anderson
@wombatscholar.bsky.social
Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
It's telling that an original work from an Anglophone scholar is first published in an Asian language, with no plans to publish it in English. The center of gravity in scholarship/publishing is shifting...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Wish they also had the Marxist summer school programs! I found a program for the Sydney History Dept's 1970 Marxist summer school in the papers of a president of the Royal Society (he'd participated). How times have changed

The details of these talks are in this poster:
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I have to say, it's making me terribly nostalgic....
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Turns out the posters for 81 and 82 were even more fetching. As Cathy says, they had to be alluring as the Sydney Marxists gathered in January, prime beach weather...
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 AM