Hehe I was going on how Jocelyn came across in his exchange with T - but that's a tiny fraction of the man no doubt! What do you think his politics were in general?!

The Critical Antiquities Public Lecture is back in 2026. On February 24 (US/UK) or 25 (Australia), Page Dubois (UC, San Diego) will give her lecture entitled, 'Blind Spot: Marxism in U.S. Classics.' More details at our website (criticalantiquities.org) and in the attached flyer.

Major Corrections Sebastiano Timpanaro (1923-2000) was one of the most original leftist thinkers of the 20th century. His thought spans a unique range of subjects, from materialism to classical philology, from the Enli...

How in the world did I miss this in January .... Tom Geue (@tomgeue.bsky.social), Major Corrections: An Intellectual Biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro (@versobooks.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians) www.versobooks.com/products/312...

We're still celebrating International Workers' Day May 1st marks International Workers' Day, a festival of working-class self-organization stretching back over 135 years. We're celebrating with a sitewide sale: take up to 50% off all Verso titles thro...

Till the end of 8 May, you can get you some Timpanaro cheap as part of Verso's May day sale. Sale details here: versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

And Major Corrections here: versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Timpo was a helluva thinker riding the crest of a great red wave - let's get back on it

City of Rome | Conference: ‘What’s in a name? The politics of anonymity and pseudonymity: crossdisciplinary approaches’ - bsr.ac.uk This conference, organised by BA Post-Doc Alessandra Tafaro, is part of the City of Rome programme, an intensive eight-week residential course coordinated by Dr. Christopher Stephen Siwicki, designed ...

Giving a talk online @ the BSR later today on the possible impressions left by enslaved secretaries on Latin literature; part of wonderful conference on the politics of anonymity organised by Alessandra Tafaro. Registration and timetable here: bsr.ac.uk/city-of-rome...

See ya Anon

Tom Geue – Major Corrections – Gleebooks.com.au

CAN co-director @tomgeue.bsky.social has published a brilliant book with @versobooks.bsky.social on an Italian Classical philologist and radical activist. See it launched @ Gleebooks April 10 with Tom, Tristan Bradshaw, Andrew Brooks and Frances Muecke. Register: gleebooks.com.au/event/tom-ge...

Could well be! Dialling @henrystead.bsky.social, whose new project on Red Antiquity has a huge soft spot and many pages for Jack Lindsay