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In case you missed it, Kerry Brown wrote a book that plagiarized Shelley Rigger’s classic book title.

I, along with others who were asked to review Kerry’s manuscript, said verbatim to change the title.

In the most tacky and unprofessional fashion, he stole her title anyway.

We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

call for abstract: for those interested in the interface between social ontology & anthropology, we're hosting a workshop in Cambridge (UK). deadline Aug 21.

Documenting demolition: the spectral space in Cong Feng’s Stratum 1 This article examines Cong Feng’s enigmatic Stratum 1: The visitors (Diceng 1: Laike, 2012), a work that has been underexplored within academic discussions of the Chinese independent documentary fi...

my paper on Cong Feng is out now (pivoting to digital)

A bit of planning ahead--for colleagues and friends who will be in London in Jan, please mark this for your diary. I will give a book talk on The Time Inheritors @sunypress.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social SOAS China Institute on 26 January 2026 at 5 pm. See you!

www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Jameson and cavell

A real Mario v Wario situation this week

Venn diagram Left: Peter Stuyvesant in 1664 Right: Tom Thibodeau in 2025 Middle: Knickerbocker leader surrendering to a superior force

He’s right and he says it well, but also,

Diddy calls himself frank black

Every New York hip hop figure w the sole exception of 50 cent is so incredibly corny. Christopher walken’s frank white is also his worst role. Possibly ever. Yes, I want all the smoke.

signing off my response to reviewers anonymously "best, xx"

losing to a bunch of cuny art historians week after week is… something else

Ronald just homered

After two months of getting smoked in my fantasy league we are so back

Being bad during Ramadan: Temporality, historicity and the refusal of coevalness in the anthropology of Islam Wary of the ‘denial of coevalness’ associated with earlier anthropology, anthropologists at the turn of the millennium increasingly emphasized how sharing not just space but also time is constituti...

I've tried to theorize this impulse as a "refusal of coevalness." I think anthropologists are often especially bad at dealing with this for reasons that have a lot to do with the way we justify the legitimacy of our methods. But we should take it seriously:

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!

‘My Dear Chi’: Love Letters at the Dawn of the Mao Zedong Era On 23 March 1953, Armi wrote a letter from Helsinki to her fiancé in Paris, whom she referred to as Chi, informing him of their banns of marriage made at the church the day before. Armi and Chi had me...

What can a box of old love letters reveal about history, hope, and migration? In this essay, Suvi Rautio reflects on 1950s correspondence between her Chinese grandfather and Finnish grandmother—intimate artefacts that trace a cross-border romance and the idealism of a shared socialist future.

The idea that the bishop of Rome, the holy father, the supreme pontiff, head of the universal church, apostolic successor to St Peter, would
"fire shots" directly towards American Evangelicals in his first homily is American exceptionalism

These days you too can go viral for summarizing the Wikipedia page for “city upon a hill” in very convoluted fashion

Crazy ass antecedent in this conditional statement icl

lmao I didn't even read the thread

I'd wager one hundred doubloons this guy is an oxbridge midwit. on the contary! we cannot solve the big LLM crisis by making everyone wear a gown and locking them in a room

MCC to address gender divide at AGM in push for more women as members The MCC is set to formulate plans to drastically increase the number of women among its membership in an effort to address "ridiculous" gender inequality.

Can we please stop covering this anachronism of an organisation?

There is so little coverage of the domestic game

I'd much rather read about Leicestershire's start to the season than their self-serving machinations

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/...

YouTube video by 黑道纪录 表现主义1220

reporting back from the crevices of Youtube:《表现主义》by 徐若涛

middlesex stream quality so good I ended up watching it at lords (frozone's lair)

edge lord ass post

whats the over/under on the total number of people in a canonically irregular traditionalist Catholic priestly fraternity that shall not be named praying a rosary for this to happen rn (the answer is 2.5)

happy feast of st Cyril of Turaŭ to whom is dedicated the coolest church in all of England (intercede for Belarus)