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Money happens; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social editorial collective; credit @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social; Past Chair @modernistudies.bsky.social; researching literature, money, and trust; he/him; https://linktr.ee/robhawkesMotL
Another of Thatcher’s famous (yet false) claims was: “There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.”
In truth, “there is such a thing as public money and public money belongs to everyone.”
One of Thatcher’s most insidious refrains was “there is no alternative”, but, as Cory Doctorow likes to point out, what this really meant was “stop trying to think of an alternative.” Four decades later, imagining ways beyond the status quo is a more vital task than it’s ever been.
As @carolinelucas.bsky.social recently wrote for @univeng.bsky.social #EnglishCreates, “political failure can be seen as […] a failure to imagine that a better world is possible.” I agree re the present govt but don’t think we can let the way things are today limit our horizons of possibility.
“Anything we can actually do, we can afford.”
Now is the moment to think boldly and creatively about the financing of British universities.
Spoiler alert… it absolutely is.
It doesn’t have to be this way, though. We could redesign the system tomorrow if we chose.
Important conversation. Thank you @moneyontheleft.bsky.social
Zack Polanski’s Bold Politics Requires an Even Bolder Economic Vision: The Case for Democratic Public Finance
We can do more than cuts-only budgets and at the same time recapture the public imagination.
Well, happy #WeirdPride night, folks! It's been a lot of fun, in the midst of a difficult time for much of the world.
The What's Happening page has been updated to What Happened, with links to various discussions and writing posted today. Doubtless some stuff got missed!
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The more that genuine political economic authority—actionable investment and credit creation powers—spreads across public institutions at all scales, the harder authoritarian consolidation becomes
Developing local and regional fiscal capabilities is essential to democracy surviving.
It’s building institutional depth.
Brilliant reading of the money-ness of the Mamdani campaign’s Zcavenger hunt and Zetro card: “The question is not whether these practices are really fiscal governance in disguise…They make participation legible, and they can later help make other kinds of fiscal action feel actionable… 1/
Brilliant, brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
Have you, like me, read @moneyontheleft.bsky.social's proposal for Democratic Public Finance with great interest but also wondered: "So, how do we actually make it happen?"
To me, this piece basically answers that question.
Bye-bye OBR, hello OER.
It’s time to replace the Office for Budget Responsibility with something better – an Office for Economic Responsibility.
open.substack.com/pub/frapacio...
Periodic reminder that there is no way out of fascism absent a reclaiming of the public—including, most fundamentally, public finance.
"Establishing a public bank that regularly purchases municipal debt, we argued, would not only significantly expand a city’s fiscal capacity to support its communities and environs, but also reclaim regional public finance from a parasitical and punishing bond market."
I need to get myself a set of these!
for today's #ModWrite I'm digging around in the archives for some work on Evelyn Waugh and radio, and enjoying the number of times Waugh sent the BBC one of these pre-printed rejection postcards.
Monday is here, so you know what that means - it’s time for another #ModWrite! Let us know what you’re working on using the hashtag 📚
Thank you so much to all of our contributors, we hope you enjoy reading this issue! #TheModernistReview
Ending with a creative piece by Yuhan Chen, titled 'Eveline: After the Escape' which explores the various possibilities for Eveline's life, with a universal spiritual paralysis portrayed through an engagement with modernist sensibilities modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6406
Mattia De Luca www.linkedin.com/in/mattia-de... brings us a review of John G. Peters' 'Joseph Conrad and the Narration of Silence' (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6426
Next up, Shangming Zhang x.com/ShanmingZh2ibw considers issues of form in a review of Jonathan Najarian's 'Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture' (University Press of Mississippi, 2024) modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6419
@pollyhember.bsky.social reviews Jesse Wolfe's 'Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History' (Bloomsbury, 2023), exploring the lasting legacy and influence of Bloomsbury modernists modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6401
Next, @woganchris.bsky.social 's review of John McCourt's 'Consuming Joyce: 100 Years of Ulysses in Ireland' (Bloomsbury, 2022), an insight into the shifting response to Joyce's epic modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6397
First up, we have an article by James Rodker: 'Gilding the Glimpse: Charles Demuth and the Figure 5 in Gold' modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6392
We are pleased to share #TheModernistReview59 ! Check out our latest issue, exploring a wide range of topics in modernist studies: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com?p=6439 we hope you enjoy reading it!
