james watson

historian | postdoctoral fellow @TheAusInstitute | honorary research fellow @historyANU | he/him

[Joni Mitchell @jonimitchell]

55 years of ‘Blue’ 💙

Celebrate by revisiting the album here: https://t.co/OlfGlhf9yB

Photo by Tim Considine

[Carly Rae Jepsen @carlyraejepsen]

It’s a double album baby! You guessed it right. Day and Night arrives September 18th and I couldn’t be more proud. We kick things off this Friday w our first single On Wires. https://t.co/VNC5tO6zhB

[Pop Base @PopBase]

55 years ago today, Joni Mitchell released ‘Blue.’

[Bec Shaw @Brocklesnitch]

BUT…he’s gay! I mean, he's gay, excuse me, he's blind

[Frank Bongiorno @fbongiornoanu]

Me on Hanson at the Press Club. Once a Liberal, on Inside Story https://t.co/H2cvmoNFoJ

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

Anthony Trollope, prophet of gerontocracy https://t.co/YhKkYjnAbr

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

On Gena Rowlands's birthday, word on Faces and Love Streams, the alpha and omega of the most important collaboration in cinema history—she and John Cassavetes became themselves together:
https://t.co/iYxYGhhHFr
https://t.co/zOaSRHxmMg

[Jeff Weiss @Passionweiss]

RIP Tay Keith, whose generational run transformed a whole genre – stripping down, polishing, and modernizing classic Memphis tear-the-club up crunk without leaning on nostalgia or sacrificing any rawness. A master of negative space & nuclear 808s. An all-time producer tag too.

[R J Dent @RJDent]

Henry James's writing desk, Lamb House, Rye, England.

[CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlorentzen]

Gorky v. Tolstoy, featuring Chekhov & Lenin, by Thirlwell. https://t.co/wLXANaBLQs

[pxt @paulxt]

Tay Keith was one of one https://t.co/RaUhUDtAE6

[M S Krishna Prateek @mskp_29]

and then there is Roy Andersson's Living trilogy, wherein most shots/tableaux evoke backrooms for a proper thematic reason of these lonely depressed souls

[Instituto, a mais braba @institutoamais]

Fassbinder's Backrooms

[Matthew Sitman @MatthewSitman]

"Same-sex love annoyingly poses the question of what the meaning of desire is—in itself, not considered as instrumental to some other process, such as the peopling of the world. We are brought up against the possibility not only of pain and humiliation without any clear payoff, but, just as worryingly, of nonfunctional joy—of joy, to put it less starkly, whose material 'production' is an embodied person aware of grace." (Rowan Williams, "The Body's Grace")

[Ahmed/The Ears/IG: BigBizTheGod 🇸🇴 @big_business_]

All this at 29 years old is nuts

[Denzel Curry @denzelcurry]

Rest Up Tay Keith

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Grammy-nominated producer Tay Keith found dead in Nashville apartment, police confirm https://t.co/1qQcDuPvI0

[Sheilagh Ogilvie @SheilaghOgilvie]

The University of Oxford is advertising a 2-year Teaching Fellowship in Economic and Social History starting 1 Sep 2026. Applications close 1 Jul 2026.
https://t.co/hBVvAc6KTt

[Spectre Journal @JournalSpectre]

https://t.co/Gfkgm0NvCa

Interview with Alberto Toscano translated by the folks at Communis Press.