It was so moving and powerful.

marching for Gaza with over 100,000 people in Sydney today

Hell of a photo

This is terrible. Is literary studies safe?

It’s time to reconsolidate a counterculture and politics against this shit. Science, art, medicine, poetry, philosophy as the beautiful life, the fullness of human civilization, that they want to destroy. Humanism, not cynicism, not slop, not tech “””nerd””” culture

Selma Dabbagh | ‘How life is in there’ The British brought the system of administrative detention to Palestine when they were the mandatory power. The rules...

‘Al Jazeera reports that 14,500 Palestinians have been arrested since October 2023 in the West Bank (some since released). The testimony of those who have been released indicates that their treatment has never been so brutal.’

Selma Dabbagh on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

#skystorians 🗃️

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The Australian Health Dept needs to get it together on info campaigns & immunisation rates here for adults as well as kids: the US will soon be spreading to the world a lot of ‘old’ diseases that make babies & kids blind, deaf, miserable or dead.

Thanks for sharing - an excellent summary of our current predicament

Just catching up - love your work especially the older stuff

If you are in Sydney or close by please come along.

From the bottom of the image to the top there is a moving stream of thousands of Palestinians heading north. To the left is the sea and sand. The road is packed, 20-wide and people are seen as far as the eye can sea to the horizon. Photo credit to Omar Al-Qattaa for AFP via Getty Images

Photo of the Day. Taken by Omar Al-Qattaa for AFP.

A river of the displaced walking north towards Gaza City after crossing the Netzarim corridor from the southern Gaza Strip.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians returning to see if anything is left of their homes.

Peter Campbell · Diary: In the Print Shop I still work with print and play with words, but the sound of typesetting is now the tapping of a writer at a word...

If you need a break from the ongoing techbro apocalypse, consider this piece on the sound of typesetting. From the late Peter Campbell, designer of the @londonreview.bsky.social:

Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.

The Curran Fellowships – RSVP The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...

Curran Fellowships are now open for applications (due Jan 15, letters Jan 22), and they can be a big help to anyone researching any aspect of the 19th-c. British press. Topics pursued by past winners have ranged far and wide: rs4vp.org/awards/curra...
Details here: rs4vp.org/awards/curra... #19th

Beautiful! Enjoy every minute.

Gertrud Kauders, Jewish Artist from Prague (1883-1942): Surprises, Enigmas, Opportunities, 12/4/2024 YouTube video by Fritz Ascher Society

My talk about Gertrud

m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jhm...

Thanks for sharing Simon. This is a remarkable story.

Do you write about modernism? Do you have an article that's ready to go, but not sure yet where to send it? Try Affirmations: of the modern, the journal of the Australasian Modernist Studies Network. We'd love to review your work.

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Gaza Soup Kitchen Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun Killed by Israeli Drone Israel killed more than 200 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including 40 members of a single family. The official death toll in Gaza is now over 44,000, although experts believe that is a vast undercount...

"Targeted & Assassinated": Gaza Soup Kitchen Chef Mahmoud Almadhoun Killed by Israeli Drone

really? two words that hardly capture the mood of 2024.

Fascinating. Looking forward to seeing more discoveries

Good luck Elias!

Amazing! Was this a craze?

Hi Kristin
Can I join? Or are you full?

Sport may be a blunt tool of social change, but it’s time to take a stand against Israel | Jonathan Liew As the bombardment continues in Gaza, bodies such as Fifa and the IOC have evaded taking a stand. But fans’ solidarity with Palestinians is growing and should not be ignored

this week's column www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...

Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History at Lancaster University Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History on jobs.ac.uk!

The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r...
Please spread the word!!!!

We are pleased to announce that the Hamilton Prize winner for 2024 is Olivia Krauze for the essay "What is a Violent Emotion?" We look forward to publishing Olivia's essay in an upcoming issue. The runner up is Lucy Lawrence for an essay on "The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal (1895-97)."

I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you!
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