Adorno on the need for "a precise and undiluted knowledge of Freudian theory." From the paper "On The Meaning of Working Through The Past."

Peter Campbell: At The Heart Of A Mad Movement Come to the online launch of Peter Campbell: At the Heart of a Mad Movement. Janine will read some of Peter's poems at the event.

This friday FREE launch of new book about survivor activist and movement founder Peter Campbell
book here 5pm this Friday online

janinebooth.com/event/peter-...

21 April 14:30 BST Online

Theorizing from Lived Experience: Feminist and Queer Theory

A roundtable with:

Jo Littler (Goldsmiths) @jolittler.bsky.social
Billy Holzberg (KCL)
Nicola Smith (Birmingham)
Lois McNay (Oxford)

Free and open to all. To register, follow the link tinyurl.com/4dw285x6

The perfect millenial phishing scheme does not exi-

brain donors of the firm giving it all away and paying for the privilege

I muse on what it is about Palantir's business model that triggers my spidey sense ... backofmind.substack.com/p/brain-dono...

The silent coup How AI captured Westminster

Interesting piece about how AI is actually being used in govt

www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...

Excited to see that @labour-hub.bsky.social has published a review of In Solidarity, Under Suspicion!

Mike Phipps: "there is a lot here that could teach us how to help build contemporary social movements."

labourhub.org.uk/2026/04/05/w...

@evansmithhist.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social

Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction Buy Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction by Chapman, Robert, Fletcher-Watson, Sue (ISBN: 9780198876519) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

Hurrah!

This has just been published - my copy is in the post!

Neurodiversity: A Very Short Introduction

by @drrobertchapman.bsky.social & @suereviews.bsky.social

Oxford Uni Press:
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or:
amzn.eu/d/0gvTGhGE

All that supremacist stuff about autistics being inherently more honest than everyone else etc. was always going to end here.

The silent coup How AI captured Westminster

www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...

Some useful details in this.

The Missing Guidebook to Neurodiversity Studies (and Why We Wrote It) Introducing a Very Short Introduction

I've written a brief post about our new book, why its important to me, and what we hope to achieve with it.
open.substack.com/pub/neurodiv...

Cheatbot as public good

It's wild watching them use the anti trans playbook to target adhd etc.

It couldn't be more obvious.

Children ‘incentivised’ to get ADHD and autism diagnoses Eleanor Hayward - Health Editor , Max Kendix - Political Correspondent Children and young adults are “incentivised” to get an ADHD or autism diagnosis and there has been a “medicalisation of distress”, a government inquiry has concluded. The interim report commissioned by Wes Streeting, the health secretary,found there were incentives to seek a diagnosis because it is the “gateway” to unlock access to special adjustments at school and work. There was “credible evidence of increasing psychological distress” behind a rise in mental health diagnoses, it said, but normal difficulties may also “increasingly be interpreted primarily through a medical lens”. Nearly one in ten young adults “self-identify” as autistic and there has been a particular increase in diagnoses among girls when they move to secondary school. The report said common childhood behaviours such as restlessness were being medicalised. “Historical analyses show that behaviours in children once regarded as within the range of normal variation, or even as something to be welcomed in some contexts, are now more often interpreted as requiring intervention or treatment,” it said.

"Children and young adults are “incentivised” to get an ADHD or autism diagnosis and there has been a “medicalisation of distress”, a government inquiry has concluded." [Times front page]

StateX

Almost too on the nose that political scientist come far right firebrand Matt Goodwin used genAI to hallucinate the following quote:

“’The most dangerous experiments’ warned the economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek, ‘are those conducted on entire societies.’”

This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame

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Treasury Committee have sent out a short consultation survey regarding student loans people can fill in.

MLA, ACLS, and AHA lawsuit reveals use of ChatGPT in illegal termination of grants by DOGE. Motion for summary judgment asserts violations of the First Amendment; violations of the Equal Protection Clause; and violation of the separation of powers. mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit

The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a motion for summary judgment in our lawsuit to restore the NEH. Discovery documents reveal that DOGE rather than the acting chair led grant terminations and targeted grants using ChatGPT. More at mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit

Summer School: The Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence | King's College London Labour, Power and Capital Accumulation; 16-19 June 2026

How does AI reshape labour, power and capital accumulation?

Apply to the Summer School “The Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence”

📍 King’s College London | 16–19 June 2026
🎓 PhDs & ECRs welcome | 💷 No fees
⏰ Deadline: 17 March

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/summe...

People criticizing Carney for hypocrisy but in the narrow technical sense of globalism, he’s perfectly consistent: transgressions of international economic law are more concerning than other violations. Protecting free trade and capital rights are the prime directives for guardians of world order.

I get that nothing matters until the NY Times reports it, but some of us more independent outlets had this story a month ago...

www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

I love watching people use LLMs in public. They’ll reply to a breaking news article and say “@grok is this true?” Babe where do you think it’s about to pull its answer from

Book launch - Warda Farah Join us for the online launch of White System, Black Therapist: Racism, Resistance and Reimagining Speech-Language Therapy by Warda Farah.

On Tuesday 17th March from 4.00 to 5.15pm, I'll be having a virtual book launch

We are keeping the event small so that it can feel more intimate and conversational, which means there will be a limited number of tickets available.

Register below

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White System, Black Therapist: Racism, Resistance and Reimagining Speech and Language Therapy In this book, Warda Farah brings a fresh perspective to the field of Speech and Language Therapy, challenging traditional approaches and opening crucial conversations about race, culture, and neurodiv...

Reading an advance copy of White System, Black Therapist by @wardasworld.bsky.social. Cannot recommend it highly enough: for understanding speech therapy, education, colonial institutions, and more. Its so well written and filled with great personal insight theoretical nuance. Preorder and read!

Ah, another of Prof. Uta's regular, "The world moved on & I don't like it" articles, claiming that autism is a disease, & inferring most autistic women are likely misdiagnosed - not autistic, that if you can manage a conversation you're not autistic, & there's no such thing as masking.

Oh dear.

feels like what happens if the manosphere seized control of the Pentagon

come to this FREE Mad Studies launch
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#AcademicFreedom | We have written to The @openuniversity.bsky.social to express our profound concern about the university’s response to a letter from the UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) regarding the use of the term ‘#ancientPalestine’.
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