Rebecca Bramall

The Politics of Feeling and this Conjunctural Crisis A workshop on the politics of feeling in this conjunctural crisis, with Anna Secor, Ben Anderson, Will Davies, Jeremy Gilbert.

London people come discuss and celebrate with us! A launch event for The Politics of Feeling on 25th November at the October Gallery, with @will-davies.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social. Eventbrite link below! 🥂
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

Reform UK's migration plan 'abhorrent beyond words', says Royal College of Nursing The Royal College of Nursing says that thousands of migrant nurses would lose their jobs under Reform UK’s plan to end indefinite leave to remain and that this would be abhorrent. Nicola Ranger, its general secretary and chief executive, said:

‘Enchanted’ organisations, in Davies (2017: 23) terms, such as trade unions or guilds offer forms of authority that have no connection to ‘markets, calculations or individual choice’

tl;dr - Trade unions can call out your shit.

"Bad state" can mean different things to different people. To some, it could mean that the area's been devastated by austerity and underinvestment. To others, it could mean that some black or brown people have moved into the neighbourhood.

💷 💷 💷 NEW: Polling for Compass reveals that a majority of the public support taxing the vast wealth of the UK's richest.

If Labour fails to listen to the country on taxing wealth and surrenders the resources that this would unlock, a decade of national renewal is a nonstarter.

INTERVIEW with Jason Hickel: "Degrowth is a gateway into socialist thought for the 21st century" Jason Hickel on the last five years of debating degrowth.

I joined @andrewonearth.bsky.social for this interview reflecting on degrowth, socialism, & political power.

"Our governments are not dealing with the ecological crisis because they are capitalist. So, it is capitalism that must be overcome."

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Degrowth should be understood as an element within a socialist transformation, as a corrective to certain productivist strains of socialist thought that are inadequate for our current moment."

YouTube most popular first TV destination for children, Ofcom finds One in five young viewers go to platform first when they turn on TV, as older people also watch more of its content

It's Ofcom Media Nations Day! The annual state of the nation report on the UK's media habits. This year the stand-out finding is that most kids start with YouTube. www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Quick 🧵 on how the presentation of these findings is a good example of what's up with media policy

UK university staff: keep signing!

Open letter: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. Please sign and share ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

There is so much wrong with Labour's comms. But I think this ad, in many ways sums them up. It's not just a really shit ad - 13 words that make your eyes bleed, dissociated from the image they're clunkily slapped across. That's just shit execution.

Jacqueline Rose · On Cora Kaplan There is a world which is at times – and today even more – regressive and frightening; cultural analysis must never...

‘Cora, in her work and person, always gave a unique gloss to the feminist slogan that the personal is political, which defined so much of the spirit of those heady early years.’

Jacqueline Rose remembers the feminist critic Cora Kaplan: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This is one of those situations where having been surveyed before is really useful to interpreting survey results.

My strong hunch is that: these people don't think this. But when you are answering questions, you are aware that the data is going to be interpreted! So in your head when...

Well, so many people are, right now, on their bikes delivering things without labour protection.

A happy person being presented with a tote bag by another happy person

Look how chuffed I am with my @jcultecon.bsky.social bag

Cheers @allartmarkets.bsky.social

people who receive child tax credit or universal credit are also “taxpayers”, of course

Great blog — plenty of evidence of ‘care stripping’ in our ongoing research on the social/welfare crowdfunding economy

AI is a force multiplier for scams, and there is SO much we' urgentlyneed to learn in order to know what to do about it

Book cover for Public Data Cultures (Polity, forthcoming 2025).

"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. 🌱📗✨🎊💜 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...

Screenshot of GoFundMe saying they were “refunding” my payment to a fundraiser in Gaza

Today I received another email from @gofundme.com saying they were “refunding me” - aka continuing to stop starving Palestinians in Gaza from accessing one of the only ways of accessing money to pay for food. Aiding & abetting genocide, in other words. We won’t forget.

Every "smash the gangs" reference, every Starmer op-ed blaming public service collapse on the tiny proportion of refugees who come to this country, every border externalisation and offshore "returns hub" deal, is Labour running Reform's campaign for them, gratis. That they can't see this is damning.

I remember at my very first Labour branch meeting after moving to the Cotswolds, I suggested the council look at increasing council tax on 2nd homes, at which point a Labour councillor turned to me with doe eyes and woefully said “oh no, because some of us just inherited our parents’ houses”

On Tuesday we are getting together to celebrate Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary.

The event will be on campus at Goldsmiths, and will feature conversation from editors and guests. Come along!

Sign up for free here -

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finance-ae....

Our last seminar or the semester tomorrow. London media types very welcome.

Economist James Meadway (@meadwaj.bsky.social) on how Labour is approaching growth in COMPLETELY the wrong way 👏

#Budget2025

Join us next week at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social to hear @jwyg.bsky.social & @lboungr.bsky.social of @publicdatalab.bsky.social share their work on developing collaborative methods for exploring public issues.

📅 Weds 2nd April, 16:00 - 17:30
🔗Register now at edin.ac/3DCDVEF

New polling shows overwhelming support for a wealth tax.

Call for papers

Grounded Futures: The Poetics and Politics of Soil in a Changing World

guest eds. @zeniakish.bsky.social and Eva-Lynn Jagoe

Abstracts due April 1

Full details: lwbooks.co.uk/call-for-pap...

I wrote a thing about the unreality of the debate on disability benefits, where it comes from and how it affects us. It cost a few spoons to do it, but I think it would have cost more not to. Have a read if you're interested: www.christineberry.net/2025/03/the-...