Tommaso Sabbatini
@tommsabb
Writer, music historian, volunteer lock-keeper. Pour le pain, la paix, la liberté. Book: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9780197267738;
You can succeed in the marketplace as a humanities researcher! By telling other humanities researchers that they can succeed in the marketplace. (Yes, I've listened to enough @ifbookspod.bsky.social episodes to know that the One Weird Trick to make it is selling other people your One Weird Trick.)
If by ‘unordered’ you mean less obviously ordered than letters and figures, you could use footnote exponents:
If you think that Bridget Phillipson has ‘performed well’, you've never talked to trans people, higher education workers, and families of SEND children. Or, worse, you don't care. The Guardian has definitely entered the bunker phase of White Middle Class Pasokified Labour.
TIL that (a) they have polenta in Romania, and (b) Montserrat Caballé moonlighted as a Romanian-polenta model.
Higher education is an investment in your human capital, your value is determined by your usefulness to your employer, and too many young people go to uni. Brought to you by our definitely non-ideological public broadcaster.
I was there last week and I absolutely love how dystopian they look from the hanging gardens above the Périph'.
Manuscripts should be formatted as illuminated vellum presentation copies and follow the Carthusian Manual of Style. #academicspam
Are you familiar with Coolhaus, the absurdly hipster but pretty decent American ice cream line that used to name its flavours after starchitects? They've since switched to more anodyne names, I think.
Oh, look, it only took two years for the media to smell something fishy (Birmingham Mail, Reach group).
There you are (I was at the supermarket earlier and couldn't pull out my manuscript):
The people who survive the current purge of UK research will soon either have an epiphany (‘Oh, no! They've come for the blue-haired “curiosity-driven” researchers and the humanities, and now there's no one left to speak for me’) or go fascist.
The BBC story lacks the detail, found in Le Monde, that Shabana Mahmood is scheduled to visit the site of a future deportation centre near Dunkirk today. We're going to be treated to another sickening photo op like the one she staged in Denmark.
For a second I thought Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869) had a cat named ‘Pokémon’.
Looking forward to finding out from David Attenborough what kind of creature keeps pooing in my back garden.
Précisément, le problème n'est pas qu'il faut «faire des efforts», c'est la façon dont ces efforts sont distribués. On demande toujours plus à ceux qui ont le moins de pouvoir: bien sûr que le monde est ainsi fait, mais à gauche, on devrait essayer de ne pas reproduire les inégalités de la société.
Grégoire parle de «respect [pour ses] électeurs». Le non-dit, c'est qu'il y a un électorat de gauche qui mérite le respect, et un autre (moins blanc, moins vieux, moins bourgeois) qui ne le mérite pas, et auquel on peut tranquillement demander de renoncer à être représenté.
Starmer: ‘We must unite this country, understand that to be British is to be tolerant, reasonable, compassionate and diverse, and fight for it against the toxic division of Reform’. Meanwhile:
I wrote a book about féerie, thé highly spectacular, music-heavy, unabashedly commercial French stage genre, at the fin de siècle. Singing vegetables, space travel, and it's free to download, what's not to like? library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
Oh, no, I've chosen the alternative to socialism and turns out it's barbarism? Who could have predicted that?
I'm sure our Better Things Aren't Possible government is the envy of pundits worldwide. Curiously it polls very poorly, no one is sure why.
Nope, no lessons to be learned, according to the Guardian's analysis.