A worrying development. Check your publication contracts’ t&cs.

I am looking forward to talking about Against Affect at Central European University, Vienna, in a couple of weeks' time...events.ceu.edu/2024-10-18/aga…

I will be giving this talk at CEU later today. Vienna is just beautifully cold and sunny today. events.ceu.edu/2024-10-18/aga…

An absolutely fantastic discussion after my lecture at Central European University today. What an amazing group of colleagues and students!

In the reception of Central European University.

🥳Just published! SI: 47:3 "Post-Deconstructive Thought and Biological Theory” ed. Ian James. 🥳 Articles: Francesco Vitale, Eszter Timár, Erin Obodiac, Dr Solange V. Manche, Giovanni Menegalle, Ian James. editor's intro & article by Benjamin Dalton free to read. euppublishing.com/toc/para/47/3

It's beginning to feel a lot like.... the season when I put Freddie Mercury on the top of my tree.

I am, by the way, simultaneously over at the other place... bsky.app/profile/profli…

I am, for now, on both Bsky & X. The reason? I joke about being "the perfect centrist" - & there is no centrist echo chamber. I don't want to see only "Left" or "Right" viewpoints. How centrist am I? Here's the result of a test I did. I'm *that* dot. Right in the middle.

Greetings of the season, Xers.

Wishing all my friends, near and far... A very happy new year! Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! Boldog új évet! ¡Feliz Año Nuevo! Bonne Année! Un an nou ferecit! С Новым Годом! Frohes Neues Jahr! Sťastný nový rok! Feliz Ano Novo! Честита Нова Година! Gott Nytt År! Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!

The latest attack on the humanities, and especially the discipline of Modern Languages, in #UKHE is the thread of closures at Cardiff. Please sign and share this petition. change.org/p/save-mlang-a…

The Paragraph editors are pleased to announce that a prize will be awarded for an outstanding article submitted for publication before 30 Sept. 2025. Submissions can be on any topic in our remit: to explore critical theory & its application to literature, arts & culture. 1/3

Honoured to see “self-fulness” featured in this poem by Natasha Sanders-Kay

New SI of Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory on "Thinking Care in the 21st Century" now published. The SI is dedicated to the memory of Isabelle McNeill and Isabelle's article is the free-to-read one. My article on "reactionary feminism" and why we need *more* not *less* female freedom is also here.

I do love a bargain! Paragraph "Special Issues as Books" titles reduced from £26.99 to £16.99, including my edited Critical Freedoms (2023) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-critical-…

Publication is still 6 months away but we have pre-orderability and a cover design. nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/97814…

Paragraph Prize-Winners 2023-2024 announced: