Chuffed to have signed a contract with Edinburgh University Press to co-edit a book with Michael Shaw (@glaikitscone) entitled 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥, 𝟏𝟖𝟖𝟎𝐬–𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟎𝐬.

On its homepage, the The New York Times website currently has four (4) prominently-displayed pieces about American college protests and zero (0) pieces about the nearly 300 bodies (some with their hands and feet bound) found in a mass grave at a hospital in southern Gaza.

25 years of the Scottish Parliament: What's next? 📢

As Scottish Parliament reaches its 25-year milestone, we're bringing together parliamentarians and academics to reflect on its role in public life and the challenges ahead.

Monday 13 May, 12.30pm - 4.30pm
🎟️ bit.ly/25YearsScotParl

it's not you it's anomie

folks we have a winner

Please come! 26 April. May interest U of G Scottish Literature Society, IASSL, Association for Scottish Literature (sign up via the link below)

I'm sick of the computer. It seemed cool at first.

Please come! 26 April. May interest U of G Scottish Literature Society, IASSL, Association for Scottish Literature (sign up via the link below)

This review by Sarah Brouillette is a masterclass in the genre--generous, incisive, committed to situating the books in a larger milieu (one might read it as an 'Intro to Lit Sociology' text rather than just as a review of 2 books!), and richly productive.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

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The government spent more than £23k on legal services related to Michelle Donelan’s letter to UK Research and Innovation about members of an advisory panel, bringing the total cost of the incident to the government & UKRI to more than £60k.

researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-pol…

over to you bourdieu: willing to spend half a truck payment to send my children to Hamilton, too mean/cool to go myself

Nat-slayers assemble... Wrote this in 2021 on the queasy collapse of union-ism within pro-union politics (here extended to its crowning achievement, devolution itself) newstatesman.com/world/uk/2021/…

Looking forward to joining our friends and colleagues Books & Borrowing, 1750-1830 for the forthcoming launch of their much anticipated, AHRC-funded Books and Borrowing Database! 📚

Friday 26th April, 4-6pm, University of Glasgow. Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/books-and-bo…

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Packaged Living

I've got a book out.
Vol. 1 of 2 covering Scotland's Independent music scene. Part 2 covers Glasgow's 90's bands and this one covers Shop Assistants, BMX Bandits, Soup Dragons, Jesse Garon, FiniTribe, Vaselines, TFC + A LOT more
1000 pages over two volumes
found.ee/PostcardsFromS…

Rancière and Latin America: A Dialogue on Politics, Culture, and Social Struggle

University of Stirling (Campus Central 3.04)

A funded event of the Society of Latin American Studies (SLAS)

I feel crazy that all of this stuff was reported on at the time, filmed and everything, by Palestinians, and yet now it's a scoop because NBC reports on it months later.

Gone a bit quiet on mags but the wheels are turning! Here's a taste of work in progress from a former editor

I wrote about Adam Phillips, British psychoanalysis, and the benefits of “giving up” for The Baffler thebaffler.com/salvos/good-en…

does any one know where i could find some Unsolicited advice? preferably from people with weird personality disorders who dont know anything