Wayne Bradshaw

From serial-killer chiller to the history of play: 10 new books Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction titles

You luv to see it: @roffwrites.bsky.social’s Here Are My Demands is fiction-book-of-the-week in the Age/SMH! “meticulously constructed speculative fiction, which shows off a command of novelistic structure & form..philosophical ambit & sharp insights (of his debut)” www.theage.com.au/culture/book...

It was really amazing today to hear Prof. Dr. Siegbert Peetz speak on Schelling's System of the Ages of the World. Dr. Peetz's paper was titled 'Aionische Theophanie – Schellings Transformation der Metaphysik in seiner Vorlesung „System der Weltalter.“

They show too much monster in that series and it got too silly too quickly

What the absolute fuck is this

Also, I still cannot understand how Bill Shorten has not been widely condemned as ratting on the labour movement for taking up a managerial position where he sits in opposition to the union (also looking at you Grant Robertson at Otago)

Labor rat whose job now requires him to thwart the NTEU wants to eviscerate higher ed and turn it into something that could scarcely even be called a TAFE? A small man with a smaller mind

If it’s 1994, the opening shot is tree-height over a busy street, and the orchestra is hitting that diminished fifth, we’re in for some hijinks

Topsawyers: the Chinese in Cairns, 1870-1920 This year James Cook University celebrates its proud legacy in historical research, writing and publishing through the Studies in North Que...

Our 8th 'Studies in North Queensland History' retrospective for
@austhistassoc.bsky.social #AHA2025 @jcucase.bsky.social
@jcuofficial.bsky.social is @sophieloywilson.bsky.social on "Topsawyers: The Chinese in Cairns 1870-1920", by Cathie R. May: jculibrarynews.blogspot.com/2025/09/tops...

Paw

Have people read the original tale of the Monkey’s Paw from 1902? Because it slaps (the story, not the paw) www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1...

Gareth Evans scolds ‘bone-headed’ Meanjin publisher as imminent closure sparks protest Critics want Melbourne University Publishing to transfer ownership of Meanjin rather than dissolve it. But CEO says ‘the journal is not for sale’

Late to this, but it means: that's it, isn't it? Game over red rover... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Stigmatization is the only way. Sorry but detectors are bunkum

symptoms of an illiterate society

Lost two jobs this year due to so-called "AI" bollocks. Publishing is basically turning into a vehicle for venture capitalists to make books a front for tech. Doesn't help that VCs are the most impunitous rubes who pay everyone around them so they never hear the words 'no, that's fucking stupid'.

great collection of essays, including one by me on Saint Max!

Just sat through a session where it was suggested that one potentially effective use of AI is to have students feed their illegal, non-consensual, undisclosed recordings of my lectures into the giant plagiarism machine to provide summaries of class sessions, & I am going to become The Joker 🤷‍♂️

Actual photo of me in the Mabo Library

I'm going to say the quiet part out loud: James Cook University's Roderick Centre would be a really great home for Meanjin, particularly since Clem Christesen was born in Townsville. You know I'm right!

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

This is fucked

www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

Unlike modern universities, which are net negatives for culture!

Emmett Stinson: “Like, if the University of Melbourne does not see value in the second-oldest running literary journal in Australia, then who (i.e. among potential funding institutions) is going to see the value in them. They are--to be clear--enormously valuable culturally and socially” #Meanjin

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

Well, this sucks arse:

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

Depressing news. Meanjin hardly posed a significant call on the University of Melbourne's finances: its annual budget was no more than a third of the VC's salary. To shut it down diminishes the University of Melbourne and leaves a large hole in Australia's already threadbare cultural landscape

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

This is shocking news. Literary magazines - and all the other small orgs now under pressure or closing or gone - are the bedrock of culture and their ongoing costs are barely a blip in any institutional budget. Melbourne University ought to be ashamed www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

I have had a DVC say to my face that it is much better to invest in capital works than in faculty because people leave while buildings don't. This echoes in my head every time I see a university make yet another anti-intellectual, anti-community decision

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

If you still needed any evidence that UNIVERSITIES ARE THE ENEMY OF CULTURE and populated by SYCOPHANTS and PARASITES this is it. The cultural sector should turn its back on universities. They are ANATHEMA. Put them to the SWORD

www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

This is how I write my tweets btw

I'm so sorry, Amy!

Part 2 is now published, time for the debates to begin!

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For Labor Day, Mark Twain's paean to the Knights of Labor:

Power, when lodged in the hands of man, means oppression - it means oppression always: not always consciously, deliberately, purposely; not always cruelly, or sweepingly; but oppression, anyway, & always, in one shape or another.

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culture industry without culture