Aaron Scott

Are You Not Weary of Ardor
-James Joyce

originalpoems.com/poem?id=165

Why DO large language models hallucinate? The Henrietta Chronicles continue, guest starring Harry Shearer

This is a great piece on how AI easily makes mistakes - and it also explains very well how exactly AI works:
garymarcus.substack.com/p/why-do-lar...

It was a pleasure to read and review Sebastian Klinger's excellent new book, Sleep Works. A refreshing interdisciplinary study which covers modernist (re)considerations of sleep as a political and philosophical matter.

As someone who was welcomed into Kent's anthropology department reading groups and research seminars while doing my PhD in English this is heart-breaking stuff to read.

Jeanette Winterson on Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. (The rest of her post is well worth a read.)
jeanettewinterson.substack.com/p/mrs-dalloway

"When money’s tight and hard to get
And your horse has also ran
When all you have is a heap of debt
A pint of plain is your only man..."

Flann O'Brien who died on this day 1966

Introduction: the state of the university, the university and the state Today the purpose of a university education is under question Should it provide technicians and workers for productivity and international competition Should it be a liberal education,…

In a new thematic collection published in the Journal of the British Academy, Fellows reflect on recent course closures and threats of further cuts across the Humanities and Social Sciences.

YouTube video by Dundee UCU We Are The 632: University of Dundee staff speak out

632 job cuts have been proposed by the executive team at the University of Dundee.

Today we launch our first full-length video that highlights the devastating impact this news is having on staff, and how this will affect Dundee.

Please share to amplify our voice. #WeAreThe632

youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI

Kent @ucu.org.uk will be engaging in strike action for 5 days from the 24th March. We demand that University management agrees to rule out compulsory redundancies for all our staff. We also demand an extension of the voluntary severance scheme for all staff subject to the impending restructure.

A Decade of Crisis The UK's universities are in crisis. Dave Hitchcock on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be understood as an interdependent system.

UK universities are in crisis.

Dave Hitchcock (@davehitchcock.bsky.social) on how the sector became 'broken' and why it must be approached as an interdependent system.

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This beautiful painting 'People Are Most Themselves When Suddenly Woken' by Annabel Carington is inspired by the work of Elizabeth Bowen.

#ElizabethBowenSociety #elizabethbowen #atimeinrome #annabelcarington #artandwriting

What a day you're having! 🎧

An act of grotesque vandalism is taking place in British universities The entire arts and heritage sector in the UK will be irreparably damaged

The incomparable Kate Lister (@k8lister.bsky.social):

"I am old enough to remember when it was important for a university to just have a history department and somewhere to study literature, and I’m not that old."

Kinch, by Careful Crossings track by Careful Crossings

Making writing music to soundtrack the final few months of my thesis. Bonus points for identifying the Joyce-inspired song titles! 🎶

carefulcrossings.bandcamp.com/track/kinch

YouTube video by Álex Hernández-Puertas David Lynch, on being an artist

"You do the work for the doing, not the fruit." RIP to the big weirdo David Lynch www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kz2...

@flannobriensoc.bsky.social

About as succinct as it gets

It’s Dec 1st and you can open the first window of our online secular calendar of refugee tales at 28for28.org and the first window is Jeremy Irons reading The Prologue. Don’t miss! www.28for28.org/videos/prolo...

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Haven't seen one yet so wanted to make a starter pack for modernist studies organisations (and related platforms) as more migrate to Bluesky. Do help us out by letting us know who to add & do share so we can get connected!

go.bsky.app/VAe3Wb1

Canterbury Christ Church University axes literature degrees The course will continue for students currently in their first or second year, the university says.

More cuts in Higher Education. The bad news just keeps rolling in. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As there are lots of new people around, a good moment to big up this feed I made: it harvests every post from the last 7 days that mentions anything relating to modernism in all its aesthetic forms. I've found it really helpful for prompting research ideas and finding interesting accounts to follow.

You know what used to create world-class talent? The post-war Keynesian consensus that saw properly funded art schools, regional theatres, and arts labs, and a reasonable social safety net that meant working class people could take risks and not starve or become homeless.

I’ve never heard a Labour leader speak about the arts like Keir Starmer – now I hope words become action | Charlotte Higgins He has signalled a return to old Labour values: that everyone, no matter their background, should have access to temples of high culture, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins

“Starmer was speaking without a hint of embarrassment about things from which Labour has often flinched. He spoke about playing the flute in his childhood – of all the effete-sounding instruments! – and talked about the arts as something enriching, personal, transformational.”

Let’s not forget that this was where Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the Novel Prize for Literature 2021, taught.

Great, thank you! I will send over an email shortly :)

Hi! I would be very interested in being involved, if there is still space?