John Dewar is the most destructive VC in recent history. An architect of the disastrous Melbourne Model, the grim reaper of LTU and now laying waste to UoW. No doubt he'll get his million dollar paycheck and move on to more hapless victims in the tertiary education sector.

Even getting one of the ultra prestigious, ultra competitive ARC fellowships that **pay your salary** isn’t enough to escape the destruction

JUST IN: Hundreds of NTEU members at UOW have overwhelmingly endorsed a NO CONFIDENCE motion towards VC John Dewar and University Council. Staff are calling on management to drop the proposal to slash 137 jobs, and for genuine consultation 🔁 share in solidarity with UOW staff

Finally got onto this!!

Fucking he’ll

The gotta ban kids from email too Ban adults while we’re at it as well

Current tbr stack count: 121 My little bedside bookcase is full, can’t get any more books until I’ve cleared some out

Guess I’m just not going to use the internet then

Once again people are gonna talk about how Trump can’t read

Same guy, different place

In today's back-from-hiatus essay Maks Sipowicz reflects on the posthumous legacy of Vivian Maier and on the possibility of making her work "available to everyone, away from the necromantic urges of capital accumulation at the expense of a dead artist." overland.org.au/2024/11/art-an…

Delighted to be published in Overland Journal once again, huge thanks to Giovanni Tiso for the edits!

The beautiful folks at Overland Journal published my essay on posthumous fame yesterday - have a read! overland.org.au/2024/11/art-an…

They rebranded the Gay Science because of woke

My latest in Meanjin Quarterly - calling for literary prizes to go to more ambitious and difficult books Huge thanks to CT6000 for comissioning and helping whip this one into shape! meanjin.com.au/books/how-nove…

Hugely excited about this one being out - huge huge huge thanks to CT6000 for supporting this

Late to Maks Sipowicz, but what a line to have dug up: “it’s in the giving of lit prizes that the cult of the middlebrow seems now to have established itself”! I can see it both ways: the NP must be tons of work,+all 3 pubs have to agree!meanjin.com.au/books/how-nove…

Shocked, thrilled, stunned, confounded - somehow I made it to the shortlist. Huge thanks to the judges and the lovely folks at Overland Journal