@n_hold Absolutely bleak IME. Not just time and competing pressures but a institutional socialisation towards reading in narrow bands of interest and for instrumental takeaways. My reading groups are not just normal academic activity but actual resistance to this.
1/ The world is facing a 'ticking time bomb' from its supply of oil, according to a briefing note from JP Morgan. Physical scarcity of oil is about to unfold across the globe, spreading sequentially through April from east to west, causing major economic disruption worldwide. ⬇️
people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as close to the sun as we want now
“The committed writer is a movement writer … [they know] that they know very little, and that the way to remedy that ignorance is through solidarity with people in struggle.”
For PEN Melbourne, André Dao on how a writer can make the world more free.
https://t.co/vIQkN62PxY
@alex_usyd Nice one. Imo her Uses of Literature is an even better book. Funny that post critique was so trendy in mid 2010s and has now fizzled out in lit theory. My RG read Felski alongside Stuelke's Ruse of Repair...
merry christmas to the radical left, the Marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters, and the people who - in many instances - have absolutely no clue what they are doing
BREAKING: scientists confirm global warming is likely at the high end of projections with extreme and unsurvivable conditions now anticipated in the next 2 decades