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Tonight at 18.30 CET or 12.30 EST, join us via zoom by following the instructions in the Facebook event description on School of Materialist Research (SMR) 's Facebook page or watch us streaming from the YouTube channel of SMR youtube.com/watch?v=iFyxB6… with Daniel Tutt , Greg Michaelson and Paul Cockshott

Looks like George Kerevan called it back in July for Conter conter.scot/2024/7/24/the-…

BBC News - AI artwork of Alan Turing sells for record $1.3m at auction - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The Blackening—a pre-wedding custom common in rural areas—is one of many traditions still practiced in Scotland. On 12 December, discover the work of oral historians and folklorists in documenting and interpreting these important parts of Scotland's past: bit.ly/December24Lect…

Hard back copies of our book Defending Materialism arrived today

I'm delighted that Northwords Now has published my tale of archaeology and mourning: northwordsnow.co.uk/issue45/Grave-…

The Archaeological Review from Cambridge is pleased to invite submissions for our next issue (40.2), titled: Shall We Still Write? Text and Knowledge Production in Decolonial Archaeology. Those who are interested should submit their abstracts of 250 words by 28 February, 2025.

Yukang Xie is presenting his research at TFP 2025 in Oxford. Draft paper title: "KappaMutor: A Compact Structured Combinator Processor for Haskell" Yukang is a PhD student on our EPSRC HAFLANG project.

Early registration deadline has been extended until this Friday, 20th December for Trends in Functional Programming in Oxford in January. 28 contributed talks, three keynotes, plus Trends in FP in Education! trendsfp.github.io/index.html

Remembering Mark today.

Email me if you want more details. Should be very good! Greg Michaelson

That moment when your book appears on Amazon and it begins to feel real! Solstice, written with @gjmichaelson is a follow-up to Equinox; we launch in Edinburgh on June 17th! Scottish Book Trust The Bookseller tinyurl.com/mppknhnp

Proud authors! Ruth Aylett also bluesky and mastodon.scot Stairwell Books

Posting a relatively old article of mine critiquing the policy of the current CPGB theorist McNair drive.google.com/file/d/0B8RH-5…

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Many thanks to the brilliant Jonathan Fardy for reviewing our book and to Marx and Philosophy for publishing the review! marxandphilosophy.org.uk/book/22272_def…

From the review: The sheer scope and ambition of Defending Materialism is startling. It proposes nothing less than a wholesale recommencement of materialism, but of a kind that one would have thought to be dead as a dog: mechanical materialism. We know well enough the history of

📷 Do come to the Glasgow launch of Ruth Aylett also bluesky and mastodon.scot's and my novel Solstice, from Stairwell Books, on Sun 7th Dec, 2pm-4pm, Garnethill Multicultural Centre, with Carol McKay, Olga Wojtas and Sally Evans. eventbrite.co.uk/e/solstice-lau…