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Want to help #SaveBirkbeck from job cuts? Use our email template to voice your opposition to Birkbeck, University of London management! Template here: docs.google.com/document/d/1Kd…

Best known for his collaborations with David Lynch (including TWIN PEAKS, BLUE VELVET, and MULHOLLAND DRIVE), famed composer Angelo Badalamenti has passed away. (1937-2022)

Our #SaveBirkbeck Fundraiser Tickets are now LIVE 🚨 January 21st (5-11.30pm). With poetry organised by the incredible the87press, live music, DJs and much much more! Bailando venceremos! 💃 eventbrite.co.uk/e/savebirkbeck…

Grateful for this - terrifying! - opportunity to share reflections around how we can draw upon the depth of research available in the humanities to think through the challenges we are facing in Further Education settings. Deepest of thanks for the kind and graceful responses!

Thank you to Learning and Skills Research Network for putting together an inspirational conference, highlighting the effort, energy and passion that exists within FE. Wonderful to see familiar faces in-person for the first time, and, ofc, to be back in Birmingham!

'A narcissistic sideshow put on by obscenely wealthy men'. - Jacqueline Rose on Bezos, Branson, and the owner of this place. From her new Fitzcarraldo Editions essay collection, 'The Plague':

Oh this is very exciting - the long-delayed volume “W G Sebald - Shadows of Reality” - a fully-illustrated catalogue of Sebald's photographs, is coming this September from the Boiler House Press! boilerhouse.press/so/fbOW68CxH?l…

The last of this year’s national online LSRN Research & Development sessions is Wednesday 31st May. This one is hosted by convenor Dr Joyce I-Hui Chen 陳怡卉 (她/Her) in partnership with @cwa_college @unicwa Register to attend: eventbrite.com/e/lsrn-researc… Keep up to date with LSRN news - see bio.

Jacqueline Rose on Simone Weil and her initial reluctance to support the allied cause in WWII because of the crimes of French colonialism, before working for the Resistance. And on how colonialism and the Holocaust can be analysed together - without reducing one to the other:

📻 Weekend listening 📻 - Jacqueline Rose on her new book, The Plague. We talked about the relationship between Covid-19 and the Ukraine war, Simone Weil and her opposition to 'heroic innocence' during WWII, and Freud's encounter with a global pandemic: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/pol…

Kurosawa's heartfelt story on watching Solaris together with Tarkovsky.

"That things 'just go on' is the catastrophe." — Walter Benjamin

To celebrate the upcoming anniversary of W.G. Sebald’s birth, we’re letting ourselves get pulled into this propulsive travelogue, translated by Anthea Bell (and first published in WWB in 2005). buff.ly/3R56bSU

“Our concern with history … is a concern with preformed images already imprinted on our brains, images at which we keep staring while the truth lies elsewhere, away from it all, somewhere as yet undiscovered.” — W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz

“I should spend my life alone and meditate incessantly on Time.” New Year’s Eve entries from the notebooks of E.M. Cioran.

From Sebald’s Austerlitz: “I feel more and more as if time did not exist at all, only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form of stereometry, between which the living and the dead can move back and forth as they like, [+]

Sebald: 'The inexorable rise of the myth of progress'. Ernaux: 'Yet they never stop talking about progress, seen as an inexorable driving force which cannot and must not be opposed'.