Peter Venables

Literature teacher.

[Peter Venables @venablespj]

@Ravenatadesk Incredible work - @KaySocLearn would be a contender I would imagine!

[Peter Venables @venablespj]

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'.

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

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, [+]

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

“I should spend my life alone and meditate incessantly on Time.”

New Year’s Eve entries from the notebooks of E.M. Cioran.

[Yoon @nicoscosc]

“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

[Peter Venables @venablespj]

@dreamsofbeing_ Thank you for making me aware I'll forget next time it happens.

[WordsWithoutBorders @wwborders]

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). https://t.co/1B2ssb0lmN

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

"That things 'just go on' is the catastrophe."

— Walter Benjamin

[Nostos @NostosLit]

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

[Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother]

📻 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: https://t.co/dh3dLq1pfP

[Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother]

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:

[Learning and Skills Research Network @LSRNetwork]

The last of this year’s national online LSRN Research & Development sessions is Wednesday 31st May.

This one is hosted by convenor @JoyceIHuiChen1 in partnership with @cwa_college @unicwa

Register to attend:

https://t.co/Sul8EVtVAK

Keep up to date with LSRN news - see bio.

[Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk]

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! https://t.co/9Yk2oujdog

[Peter Venables @venablespj]

@LouMycroft YES. ❤️

[Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother]

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

[Peter Venables @venablespj]

@LSRNetwork @laura_kayes Ofc! I will send it over.

[Peter Venables @venablespj]

Thank you to @LSRNetwork 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!

[Learning and Skills Research Network @LSRNetwork]

That’s a wrap!

#LSRN23 #LSRN2023

[Peter Venables @venablespj]

@nyshachantel @LSRNetwork @laura_kayes So wonderful to meet you, Nysha!