The editors of Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (palgrave.com/gp/journal/412…) seek expressions of interest / nominations for two additional editors to join the Counterspace team. Details below 👇

It’s not over until it’s over.

If Goldsmiths - with a very strong & active union - can get away with sacking nearly 100 people for spurious financial reasons, then I shudder to think about what's next for other universities. Please send messages of support to Goldsmiths UCU & donate to gofundme.com/f/help-goldsmi…

Well this is just superb! Blame it on the tories! 🎶👏🏼

Tories: on 131 seats. Obliterated. Just for a moment - time to savour the moment. The Tories trashed the country. Not a single achievement even on their own terms. The worst government in British democratic history. Smashed to pieces: finally, some sweet sweet justice.

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, who blamed parents of disabled children for the state of the SEND system, loses her seat. Thank you voters of Chichester

We've just sent out our summer 2024 network update, call for participants in the 2024-25 programme, and for organisers to join our friendly organising committee. If you'd like to get involved, please get in contact with us! queerencounters.org/queer-encounte…

Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all Routledge Books data to Microsoft to train their AI. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-intensive extractivism...

Surprise, surprise: Kevin Roberts, architect of Project 2025, has close ties to radical Catholic group Opus Dei theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

I was in a bookstore and they were throwing my novels around. Couldn't figure out why. Then IT hit me.

📣 New publication International Journal of Cultural Studies ‘What eating disorders are really like’ - Dynamics of lived experience and repetitive aesthetics on TikTok journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Our book Media and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Introduction is currently on sale from Karnac Bookshop karnacbooks.com/product/media-…

Doppelrezension: Für's ND habe ich die Bücher "Swipe, Like, Love" von Johanna Degen und "Zwischen Eskalation und Selbstkontrolle" von Jacob Johanssen besprochen. Beide Bände erschienen in der neuen Reihe "Gegenwartsfragen" des Psychosozial-Verlag nd-aktuell.de/artikel/118468…

Freue mich über die Rezension meines Psychosozial-Verlag Buches im nd.Aktuell + Johanna Degens Buch wird auch besprochen: nd-aktuell.de/artikel/118468…

Registration open for the APPI congress - "What's up with the other?" Keynotes by Nina Krajnik and by myself plus fab programme: eventbrite.ie/e/appi-annual-…

Disability Studies third edition ... inspection copies available at this link below uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/disa…

Kia ora academic colleagues. Please share far and wide, we are hiring at University of Otago Media, Film and Communications dept. 2 Positions: L/SL in Communications Studies seek.co.nz/job/78454026?c…