Ruth Unsworth

Bridges as liminal spaces What do you doodle when your mind wanders and your body can’t wander with it? I doodle bridges. Always bridges. I think my obsession with bridges possibly began when I was a teenager in the industr…

Thinking about bridges and liminality. #newmaterialism #bitesizephilosophy #Blanchot

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Books: fiction and human existence I was visiting a friend’s house yesterday (a serious book-lover) and we fell into our usual routine: she put the kettle on whilst I fondled the latest books in the pile next to the sofa. Handling a…

Books and existence rhubarbandrobin.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/b...
#newmaterialism #materialculture #latour #STS

An excellent place to ponder/escape world events, and possibly a door to a better world. dreamerygardens.co.uk#northwoodtrail #placeconnection #educationyork

Cover of Magic’s Translations: Reality Politics in Colonial Indonesia by Margaret J. Wiener. The design features a textured blue background with the faint outline of a large tree. The title appears prominently in white. Below the title, the subtitle is displayed, and the author's name is positioned in the upper right corner. In the lower right corner the words "with an Afterword by Isabelle Stengers" appear. The overall aesthetic conveys a sense of mystery and historical depth.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Magic's Translations" by @margaretjwiener.bsky.social , which examines how the concept of magic emerged out of historical struggles between Europe and the rest of the world. #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies
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The Lacanian Teacher This book provides a reading of Lacan and education with powerful implications for a rethinking of the figure of the teacher.

'The Lacanian Teacher. Education, Pedagogy and Enjoyment.'

Out in July with the Palgrave Lacan Series link.springer.com/book/9783031...

How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon Essays The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony

"The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony," writes Luiz Pessoa, author of "The Entangled Brain":

Objectivi-tea Freshly made mint tea, Atlas mountains, Morocco. As you do. There are some things that need explaining. The object. The ivit. The tea (Ah, the tea, the tea!). I shall start with the easy one. These…

Blogginess on objects and stuff (academic overspillings rather than seriousity) rhubarbandrobin.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/o...
#STS #newmaterialism #research #subjectobject #educationresearch (maybe) #tea #blogsaboutlife

Last week I had the privilege to work with brilliant colleagues and friends at Uppsala & Mälardalens Universities, exploring Latour’s modes of existence and HE pedagogies. An inspiring trip; I look forward to our continuing work. #STS #educationresearch @iterc.bsky.social
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Well, that’s the next book cover sorted…. Thanks Stockholm! 😎

Two benches facing each other next to Stockholm’s archipelago waters.

The digital public sphere, universities and intellectualising the public This article explores the role of universities in fostering public intellectualism in the rapidly developing digital public sphere. Specifically, the paper asks: Is there a viable role for universi...

An important paper on Russell Group universities and public intellectualism through the digital sphere www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#educationresearch #highereducationresearch

Global Perspectives in Teacher Education: Challenging the Standard Education Model Leeds Beckett University, in association with the British Educational Research Association, invite you to participate in our inaugural international conference entitled Global Perspectives in...

A chance to explore global perspectives in teacher education and challenge the standard education model. Promises to be an interesting space for open debate and thinking otherwise. www.bera.ac.uk/event/global...
#teachereducation #education #educationresearch

ECER 2025, Belgrade. Learn about the Keynote Speakers (https://buff.ly/4gfs4uf) and find the Call for Proposals and how to submit to #ECER2025 (https://buff.ly/4gfOHhA). Submission deadline: 31 January

The Call for Papers for the annual Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference is open. See ethnographyandeducation.org
Conference dates: Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th September 2025
#ethnography #education #educationresearch

Job Opportunity at York St John University: Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education (Primary) Full time permanent Location: YorkSalary: £47,874 to £58,596 per annum About YSJYork St John is an ambitious, modern university at the heart of historic York and there has never been a more exciting t...

ITE Senior Lectureship in the north of England open for applications. jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

#teachereducation

Hot off the press! ‘Teacher Education and Its Discontents: Politics, Knowledge, and Ethics’. A unique collection of essays from researchers and teacher educators from around the world, presenting innovative approaches to education theory and practices. #educationresearch #education #teachereducation

An excellent role model of stodgy beige politics (…sorry, food) at the most prosperous of times.

What is meant by place?
Campus smells of lavender
Place is brain honey.

Ah, the start of a new semester…

#haiku #yorkstjohn

‘We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless “information” that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility.’ This is ‘reverence for the infinite connectedness’ in complex human-nonhuman relations. #STS #education #poetry #goodreads

Book cover for ‘Au Temps des Catastrophes’ by Isabelle Stengers.

“What we now know is that if we grit our teeth and continue to trust in growth, we are heading, as they say, 'straight into a wall'.” Isabelle Stengers (2009)

Yay! There you are.

Two weeks later and I’m still existing on the intellectuel fuel of #ECER2024. Towards a Weak Ontology of/for Education symposium photo, with ITERC colleagues. Can we shift the ITERC social media over to here too @pragmarxist.bsky.social?

Well this promises to be rather fabulous. Pre-ordered. #goodreads

Today a senior exec from Taylor & Francis replied confirming that T&F journal articles *are* and will continue to be provided to its AI partners for model training, with *no opt-out*. Guess we know where we stand now - academics are creators of data for value generation by Big AI and publishers

O dear o. I can see the obvious practical point for student teachers, but there is so much else they can think with. How’s about a healthy open conversation about belonging/longing (Tim Ingold) or the way physical environments include/alienate/mediate?

Sounds like a plan 😎.

Yes it is! I’ve lost track of which chapter we are on… is it [FIC]? Or should we begin with instauration and Vassili’s fab glossaries?

I am rather partial to Aramis - I love the different ‘voices’. Laboratory Life with Woolgar is still my favourite of Latour’s (mostly because I love the behind the scenes ethnographicness of it all). Although the more I read of AIME, the more it is becoming the way I see the world.

Oh ace! I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it. I’ve got to the philosophical section of Towards a Theory of Higher Education and like it a lot. More books on my wish list now… Trying out this social media gig for size - feel free to point me in interesting virtual directions.