One week until this fantastic piano programme by @ianpace.bsky.social - Gaspard de la nuit, new Japanese works and Boulez's stonking 2nd Sonata (which I last heard him play at my book launch in May 2024): www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

So - here is my *second* post on Tracey Thorn/Everything But the Girl Fascination. Now a re-reading of it from the perspective of the beloved and the former lover, revealing a pattern of possessiveness and control approaching the coercive.

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'Fascination' and the non-metabolisation of jealousy There is a whole spectrum of what I might call ‘negative emotions’ – viewed as such because of their potential for harmful consequences.

My Substack post analysing in detail the song ‘Fascination’ by @traceythorn.bsky.social and Everything But the Girl, and considering its representation of corrosive jealousy in the context of a wide range of thinkers on the subject.

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So - here is my *second* post on Tracey Thorn/Everything But the Girl Fascination. Now a re-reading of it from the perspective of the beloved and the former lover, revealing a pattern of possessiveness and control approaching the coercive.

open.substack.com/pub/ianpace/...

'Fascination' and the non-metabolisation of jealousy There is a whole spectrum of what I might call ‘negative emotions’ – viewed as such because of their potential for harmful consequences.

On Friday I posted this piece about Tracey Thorn/Everything But the Girl ‘Fascination’. I re-read and realised something was missing - later today will post a second article re-conceiving it in terms of possessiveness and coercive control.

open.substack.com/pub/ianpace/...

'Fascination' and the non-metabolisation of jealousy There is a whole spectrum of what I might call ‘negative emotions’ – viewed as such because of their potential for harmful consequences.

My Substack post analysing in detail the song ‘Fascination’ by @traceythorn.bsky.social and Everything But the Girl, and considering its representation of corrosive jealousy in the context of a wide range of thinkers on the subject.

open.substack.com/pub/ianpace/...

Hoping @traceythorn.bsky.social might be interested to read this! An incredible song making extremely refined use of resources.

'Fascination' and the non-metabolisation of jealousy There is a whole spectrum of what I might call ‘negative emotions’ – viewed as such because of their potential for harmful consequences.

First proper Substack post - an essay on the song 'Fascination' by @tracey_thorn /Everything But the Girl, a mixture of musical analysis and wider contextualisation through authors who have dealt with jealousy. @carolinefrmus.bsky.social

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Is anti-extremism a threat to liberty on campus? In conversation with Michael Ben-Gad - Living Freedom This event is now fully subscribed. Extremism on campus is back in the headlines. In the long shadow of October 7, one recent survey found half of students had heard … Continue Reading

Tonight - still some places. Come and hear my inspiring colleague Michael Ben-Gad.

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Mike Westbrook obituary Acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader who was one of the most significant figures in the history of British jazz

Very sad to hear about the death of great jazz pianist Mike Westbrook.

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What’s Emotional Labour Got to Do With It? On the Indefensibility of a Sociological Concept

The published version of my article on emotional labour is now fully open access. The concept as often used, both sociologically and informally, reveals above all a huge sense of entitlement on the part of both sexes.

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What’s Emotional Labour Got to Do With It? On the Indefensibility of a Sociological Concept

The published version of my article on emotional labour is now fully open access. The concept as often used, both sociologically and informally, reveals above all a huge sense of entitlement on the part of both sexes.

cafeamericainmag.com/whats-emotio...

.@ianpace.bsky.social offers a heartfelt tribute to Michael Finnissy at 80 on Gramophone today: www.gramophone.co.uk/content/blogs/a-tribute-...

Don't miss our releases from pianists Da-Hee Kim, Isabelle O'Connell, and Ian Pace in the @prestomusic.bsky.social New Release Round-Up!

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My article ‘What's Emotional Labour Got to Do With It? On the Indefensibility of a Sociological Concept’, published recently in Café Américain, is now available open access here - openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/37...

My article ‘What's Emotional Labour Got to Do With It? On the Indefensibility of a Sociological Concept’, published recently in Café Américain, is now available open access here - openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/37...

Radicalisation, Capture & Subversion … disrupting critical thinking

Radicalisation, Capture & Subversion … disrupting critical thinking … the pressures on the conditions for reason ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/radicalisa... #CriticalThinking #InstitutionalIntegrity #Governance

What’s Emotional Labour Got to Do With It? On the Indefensibility of a Sociological Concept

‘Entitled narratives with regard to sex and partnership, whether from the manosphere or from some claiming the mantle of feminism, mostly reveal all too vividly exactly why the writers in question remain single.'

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What’s Emotional Labour Got to Do With It? On the Indefensibility of a Sociological Concept

‘One view says that men are emotionally stunted and women do all the emotional labour;...the manosphere claims that women demand endless attention and validation and men do all the emotional adjustment'

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What’s Emotional Labour Got to Do With It? On the Indefensibility of a Sociological Concept

‘customers do not pay solely for e.g. transport, information, or an abstract legal transaction; they equally pay for reduced uncertainty, reassurance, tact, confidence cues, de-escalation, and other aspects of an emotional atmosphere.'

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What’s Emotional Labour Got to Do With It? On the Indefensibility of a Sociological Concept

‘Much of what I play in live concerts involves conveying intense emotional experiences...Yet I would never dream of calling this “emotional labour” in a pejorative sense...why should many other professions be treated as fundamentally different?'

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What’s Emotional Labour Got to Do With It? On the Indefensibility of a Sociological Concept

‘If all forms of adaptation are a form of alienation...then most forms of adult life can be framed as oppressive. Grievance can then be switched on at a whim, with a smile rendered as coercion, patience as exploitation'

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What’s Emotional Labour Got to Do With It? On the Indefensibility of a Sociological Concept

'selective expression, calibration, suppression, tact, ritual and role-play all play significant roles in social interactions..The urge to defend an “authentic” real self only truly makes sense if one lives in a state of isolation akin to that of a hermit.'

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What’s Emotional Labour Got to Do With It? On the Indefensibility of a Sociological Concept

My new piece for Café Anéricain - interrogating the concept of ‘emotional labour’ both as formally used in sociology, and in journalistic writing, including from frustrated single columnists of both sexes.

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Kurtág on stage again after his second big birthday concert with its conductor, András Keller

Very pleased to read that a settlement has been reached in the Martin Speake case and that views which do not coincide with those of the ‘woke’ on racial issues are recognised as protected.

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"[W]e do live in systems that reward conformity, discourage awkward questions and quietly reshape categories so that certain answers no longer appear..." Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein, President of City St George's, University of London, on ideological conformity in academia.

The Soviet Census of 1937 ... a story of truth, lies, and consequences

When power demands validation, truth becomes dangerous. Terrific piece by Anthony Finkelstein: open.substack.com/pub/profseri...

City v-c backs Sullivan Review on gender question in research Failure to use biological sex as ‘basic variable’ will make research ‘weaker and less reliable’, says City St George’s head Anthony Finkelstein

Failure to use biological sex as ‘basic variable’ will make research ‘weaker and less reliable’, says City St George’s head Anthony Finkelstein

#highered #academicsky

Very moving performance of #Messiaen Quatuor tonight Madeleine Mitchell @ianpace.bsky.social @antoineami.bsky.social & Joseph Spooner