john lennon

Author of *Conflict Graffiti: From Revolution to Gentrification* & *Boxcar Politics*. Tweets my own not necessarily views of employer.

[john lennon @hoboacademic]

@dougmaccash wasn't there a local neighbor or group that would clean up this Banksy from time to time? I remember them having a facebook page (I think)?

[Orlando Sentinel @orlandosentinel]

Lawmakers are too busy being anti-woke to address insurance crisis | Editorial https://t.co/EwoBLoQMuO

[john lennon @hoboacademic]

@DrOwenClayton very nice of you to say--although I owe you since you got me in to hang out with Billy Bragg. can't wait to read your book.

[American Association of University Professors @AAUP]

Does this surprise anyone at this point? 😢

#Florida higher education is in a tailspin.

[john lennon @hoboacademic]

@DrOwenClayton congrats!!!!!!!!!!

[Thomas Reis @peakaustria]

"No piece of art has ever emotionally affected me the way this robot arm piece has. It's programmed to try to contain the hydraulic fluid that’s constantly leaking out and required to keep itself running...if too much escapes, it will die so it's desperately trying to pull it back to continue to fight for another day. Saddest part is they gave the robot the ability to do these 'happy dances' to spectators. When the project was first launched it danced around spending most of its time interacting with the crowd since it could quickly pull back the small spillage. Many years later... (as you see it now in the video) it looks tired and hopeless as there isn't enough time to dance anymore.. It now only has enough time to try to keep itself alive as the amount of leaked hydraulic fluid became unmanageable as the spill grew over time. Living its last days in a never-ending cycle between sustaining life and simultaneously bleeding out... (Figuratively and literally as its hydraulic fluid was purposefully made to look like it's actual blood).
"The robot arm finally ran out of hydraulic fluid in 2019, slowly came to a halt and died - And I am now tearing up over a friggin robot arm 😭 It was programmed to live out this fate and no matter what it did or how hard it tried, there was no escaping it. Spectators watched as it slowly bled out until the day that it ceased to move forever. Saying that 'this resonates' doesn't even do it justice imo. Created by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, they named the piece, 'Can't Help Myself'. What a masterpiece. What a message."
Extended interpretations: the hydraulic fluid in relation to how we kill ourselves both mentally and physically for money just in an attempt to sustain life, how the system is set up for us to fail on purpose to essentially enslave us and to steal the best years of our lives to play the game that the richest people of the world have designed. How this robs us of our happiness, passion and our inner peace. How we are slowly drowning with more responsibilities, with more expected of us, less rewarding pay-offs and less free time to enjoy ourselves with as the years go by. How there's really no escaping the system and that we were destined at birth to follow a pretty specific path that was already laid out before us. How we can give and give and give and how easily we can be forgotten after we've gone.. How we are loved and respected when we are valuable, then one day we aren't any longer and we become a burden...and how our young, free-caring spirit gets stolen from us as we get churned out of the broken system that we are trapped inside of. Can also be seen to represent the human life cycle and the fact that none of us make it out of this world alive. But also can act as a reminder to allow yourself to heal, rest and love with all of your heart. That the endless chase for 'more' isn't necessary in finding your own inner happiness.”
- James Kricked Parr
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[UFFFAU @UFFFAU]

Listen to Andrew Gothard on NPR offering a cutting critique of the DeSantis anti-higher education agenda. Gothard rips into the awful state legislation from 18:55-32:10.

https://t.co/K4esnyfguk

[Brian Connolly @BrianConnolly74]

some of us are not that into the $340 million stadium USF plans to build
https://t.co/9zZcdC91zC

[john lennon @hoboacademic]

Listened to Curt from @KrogCodexGSU talk about his absolutely amazing archival project. Everyone should check it out if yr interested in graffiti or if yr a data person and want to know how to build an archive from ground up.

[john lennon @hoboacademic]

This is Florida in 2023 all so that a governor can try to get a Republican nomination for president.

[Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith @CarlosGSmith]

Florida’s state government regime is sending investigators into a public school to interrogate 5th graders about a Disney movie with a gay character they saw in class.

A full-fledged DeSantis inquisition of our children because of an LGBTQ person on TV.

Is it fascism yet?

[john lennon @hoboacademic]

@BrianConnolly74 Always be ready. Your time will come.

[john lennon @hoboacademic]

Rereading *Eureka Street* by Robert Wilson because somehow I’m going to write about this book. Started thinking about Belfast by picking up this book and as I’m ready to start writing about Belfast (still not sure what exactly), this book still guides me into weird spaces.

[𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗳𝗮𝗻𝗼 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗵 @StefanoBloch]

Graffiti is the official aesthetic of Los Angeles. The logo for the 2028 Summer Games.

[john lennon @hoboacademic]

@StefanoBloch this is absolutely wild.

[john lennon @hoboacademic]

In Dublin airport.
Checkout guy: How was your trip?
Old guy from Georgia: can’t understand you all at all. But you’re a Christian nation unlike the heathen left woke country I’m from.”
Checkout guy: would you like a receipt?
And scene.

[john lennon @hoboacademic]

While here in Belfast for graffiti and street art, had to pop over for May Day parade and speeches

[john lennon @hoboacademic]

Head all the way to Belfast pub and Jersey is staring me in the face

[john lennon @hoboacademic]

This is an amazing quote.

[lazz kinnamon @supervalentthot]

Silko on what to do when you can't write: write graffiti and paint murals on your house https://t.co/Uyj8dwbKxN

[john lennon @hoboacademic]

@rowbey We have to get that line into whatever article we are writing! I’ll see you, apparently hung over, tomorrow in Belfast. Congrats on the page proofs!