Martin

Theatre academic and lighting designer.

Performance and Political Economy Research Collective

he/him

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

New article published in TDR on labour, digital memory, and stage lighting.

https://t.co/4CiqDRHCsX

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

@brechtfast No it's Creep.

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

I just googled a critical term to check I'm using it right and the AI Overview gave me a summary scraped directly from something I myself published years ago. Loathsome experience.

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

Huge news.

[shane boyle @brechtfast]

My book 'The Arts of Logistics' is out today.

It tells the story of how the supply chain became the chief organizing form of capitalist production and the role art played in this history. It's also about blockades, the pitfalls of repurposing logistical infrastructure, & more.

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

The first outing of the Commercial Performance project! Exciting!

[Kirsty Sedgman @KirstySedgman]

Very excited to be hosting the following @TaPRA_ interim event prior to #TaPRA2024 – a brilliant panel discussion on commercial live performance!

When? 27 Aug, 5-6.30pm UK time
Where? On Zoom
Who? All welcome!

Register free here: https://t.co/3PGFWnunm3

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

'It is worthwhile to question what the picket intends to achieve and how that something is (purportedly) achieved – to question whether the picket is mere spectacle, an antidote to spectacle, or something in between ...'

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

I enjoyed @sebjectivisms's new article on the performative qualities (and political utility) of picket lines. https://t.co/YbwDvi1Y1X

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

Why do historians have this weird tic of talking about the past in the present tense? I just listened to someone on a podcast say "the City of London is the most heavily policed part of Great Britain" and took a beat to twig that he was referring to the 1750s.

[sara lebow 🫡 @SlebowSays]

really good honest reporting coming from the nyt this morning

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

@brechtfast Big up!

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

Hate to admit it but the category of people making the most positive contributions to public discourse this election cycle is blokes who played Hamlet.

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

"Thank you to my dresser, you dressed me on Equus... Oh no, you DIDN'T dress me on Equus!"

[Deadline @DEADLINE]

Daniel Radcliffe wins and his Merrily We Roll Along co-star Jonathan Groff is overwhelmed with emotion 🥹🥲 #TonyAwards

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

The perfect prompt to go and read my boy @whatartmad's article "Volunteer Labor and Theatrical Community in Emma Rice's A Midsummer Night's Dream" in @ShaxBull! https://t.co/bz8iIZgX2A

[Shakespeare’s Globe @The_Globe]

Happy #VolunteersWeek ❤️

We want to say thank you to our 750 Volunteers and 30 Access Ambassadors, who support us and our visitors here!

⭕ Meet some of the team and find out more: https://t.co/Ezq4Qcafq6

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

My class interest is: I want my own water bills to go up so that the private utilities company my pension is invested in remains profitable.

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

The emotional experience of being in this union veers wildly from the righteous anger of the picket to the petty indignation of a shareholder.

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

@JasiBP Fantastic news, Jaz!

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

@izzy_stuart You might get woken up on flights if there's a medical emergency.

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

The thing about headlines like this is that they threaten that everything's about to fall apart when it's already happened. Universities effectively *have* ground to a halt. We have surpassed some of the "alarmist" forecasts of collapse made in years gone by.

[UCU @ucu]

Both staff and students will feel the disastrous impact of these cuts 👇

“Staff will be so stretched that parts of university education that students really value will have to be removed”

https://t.co/g31sjQd1DO

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

@DanRebellato Maybe he's congratulating then on their ability to fill out the basic paperwork necessary to run?

[Martin @MartinLXYoung]

This goes hard.

[Escalate Network @readytoescalate]

This statement from Emory University protestors is incredible.