Julia Polyck-O’Neill

I tried a ‘fashion’ yesterday. Felt nice!

I've seen some talk about how we are witnessing the end of the professoriate as we know it and this may be true, but I think it's bigger: it's the decimation of the mission-oriented profession.

Want to make a middle-class living serving the public good? Capitalism doesn't want that for you.

Burlington Contemporary - Journal - Spiritually overqualified: Robert Rauschenberg and ‘The Happy Apocalypse’ commission For a few days in June 2023 the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, was illuminated by an uncanny amber glow. Outside, an orange sky hung heavy with particulate matter and the atmosphere was haz...

Very pleased to share my text “Spiritually overqualified: Robert Rauschenberg and ‘The Happy Apocalypse’ commission” in Burlington Contemporary now available online in issue 12 with a number of other interesting essays. contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/jour...

Also, fellow academics, if you're rehashing an argument you've made (at length) in a previous publication in a new article, how do you handle this? I don't want to self-plagiarize but I have already done this work quite painstakingly elsewhere!

Relatedly, any good books on public art on your dashboard?

Thoroughly enjoying writing this article about public art. It's funny how topics that are peripheral to what sometimes feels like the 'real work' (eg the book; the teaching) feel like a clever form of cheating the system.

It might seem like a thinly veiled complaint but this is real advice! The expression "herding cats" is often bandied abt in academic admin and there's good reason!

Want a career in academia? You might consider working as an RA or other contract worker doing some combo of communications/organizational/editorial work. It chips away at the ego just enough that when you organize anything later in your career, nothing will surprise or bother you!

I love this idea.

BRAG POST:
I wrote almost a thousand (academic) words today! And it's a Monday!

rude lol

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Also, it feels sooo good to return to my work after a few weeks of not having my time be my own. Oh wait, and also the last year of all new preps and f/t teaching. A relief to discover that I can still think and read and write, perhaps even better than before -- or at least in a new way.

Working on a book chapter about public art, memory, place, and the archive. A set of ideas I've been playing with for a few projects, always in different configurations, applied to different cities I've known. Feels poetic. The Newfoundland breeze is passing through my office as I write abt Toronto.

I am never complaining. I love writing! But, there are several people in my life who likely mean well enough, but assume that I have the summer off. No! Summer is for writing and research and conferences and preparing my courses for the Fall!

Just in case you imagine me enjoying naps and long walks on the beach, please know that this submission is perfectly alinged with a new deadline for revision for another article lol.

I And now for my favourite part of article submission:

The 👯‍♀️ C L O S I N G of the T A B S 👯‍♀️

haha, thank you, friend! :)

C'est moi!

And it's in! :))))

It’s amazing how creating a lil surveillance environment for yourself can help force you to focus on yr work! I’m almost done 🥹

Bonjour, friends. I am posting for accountability: I am not allowed to clean anything until this article is 98% finished. My microwave, fridge, bathroom, and laundry are immaculate tho.

This was the conference. The recorded talks will be available on YouTube and I can't wait to watch them!

A big thank you to the organizers of the 2025 @redico.eu conference! It's an impressive task to organize across continents and time zones. Great conversations and ReDICo is such an interesting project!

Wow. What a fascinating moment we're living thru.

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5 yr Postdoc at Edinburgh - how and why digital participation is transforming experience of warfare. Data Viz, NLP, text & data mining, principally related to Russian war against Ukraine.

Julia Polyck-O’Neill : Poems, Attention, Unthought : How does a poem begin? How does a poem begin?           First, it might be useful to know that poems are objects. For me, these objects roll around, ...

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C'est moi!

congratulations!!

When Trump attacked Canada, millions turned to #CBC — because we knew we could trust it.

Now Poilievre wants to axe it. Not reform it. Not improve it. Destroy it.

In normal times, that would be reckless.
In these times, it feels like treason.