Today is Against Affect Publication Day, coinciding with April Fools' Day in the UK. Is it foolishly optimistic to call for a redistribution of reason in an age of febrile, emotive tribalism? Perhaps. But fools have long told uncomfortable truths.
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🎉New SI of Paragraph published! 🎉

Modern Languages as a discipline has been targeted too hard & too long in the UK for a range of nefarious, anti-intellectual, xenophobic cultural reasons. Sign the petition against the outrageous proposal to close languages programmes @ University of Nottingham, a sector leader.

Paragraph Prize-Winners 2023-2024 announced:

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

I do love a bargain! Paragraph "Special Issues as Books" titles reduced from £26.99 to £16.99, including my edited Critical Freedoms (2023)
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New SI of @ParagraphEUP 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.

Honoured to see “self-fulness” featured in this poem by @natasharoses87

I'll be speaking at this conference in Vienna on female rage. (2-4 April.) My argument that anger, while valid, is less politically effective than often claimed, will borrow from the anti-affective thesis in my (forthcoming) book Against Affect. ifk.ac.at/kalender-detai…

Anyone wishing to hear all/ part of the event will find a Zoom link at the URL.

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…

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!

Greetings of the season, Xers.

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.

I am, by the way, simultaneously over at the other place...
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It's beginning to feel a lot like.... the season when I put Freddie Mercury on the top of my tree.

In the reception of @ceu.

An absolutely fantastic discussion after my lecture at @ceu today. What an amazing group of colleagues and students!

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…