Oliver Davis
@oliver_j_davis
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Professor of French at UCC ~ radical democracy ~ political technologies ~ queer ~ policing and drug policy ~ psychedelics ~ a personal account
Cork, Ireland
Joined July 2020
There’s a new pod about this very interesting book (yes, the tittle comes from Rancière’s Hatred of Democracy). Can we tame sex? Should we? Why is pleasure so disruptive? https://t.co/eYN2BvtWyp
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And we’re off! @maybenansi kicking off #SFPS2025 with a brilliant keynote on Fanon on the trigger of disenclosure
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@oliver_j_davis delivers a terrific paper at Social Pathologies conference at UCC @FrenchDeptUCC @CACSSS1
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Launching Inversion in Berlin this Friday, with Travis Jeppesen, @amir_naaman, and Ran Heilbrunn. 📅 5 December, 7.30pm 📍 Village, Berlin 🎟️ https://t.co/3GUm7s8jXL
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"It feels like it leaves the discomfort of reality open, resisting over-determination." ❤️
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Please join us for the launch of this great book on the phenomenology of psychedelic experiences this Thursday at UCC - am looking forward very much to hearing from Dr Danny Forde, its author, and colleagues in @uccphilosophy and to chairing the discussion. @CACSSSResearch1
Soonish I'll say stuff about a thing I did at this place.
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Do attend this week’s UCC Futures - Collective Social Futures Festival of Social Science 2025! You can find an overview of the social & research events here:
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Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
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Amazing opportunity here - please get in touch if you meet the eligibility criteria and want to discuss an application. @FranceModern
‼️ Postdoctoral opportunity ‼️ The Department hopes to support at least one outstanding applicant to the Research Ireland Pathway Programme - a prestigious postdoctoral award programme. Email Prof @oliver_j_davis (odavis@ucc.ie) for more information https://t.co/qX6Epon2Xz
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We are so excited to have Prof Martin Munro present at our research seminar series! All welcome! Paper title: The Further Adventures of MacFanon Date/time: 1st December, 5-6pm Venue: UCC’s ORB, 1:24 and online (email kate.hodgson@ucc.ie for Teams link) https://t.co/gkJGSBiDMw
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Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
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great discussion of the sanitising identitarian mystification of sodomy from @stephengadubato in this punchy new collection (& chimes with some of the discussion in Davis & Dean, Hatred of Sex)
'The invention of gayness as a “sexual orientation” required that sodomy be mystified.' Building on Foucault, @stephengadubato charts the emergence of gay identity in an excerpt from the new book 'Inversion' (ed. @verdur_in): https://t.co/OHYB2YFsMU
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This collection of provocative essays, edited by the wonderful @verdur_in and @amir_naaman, is now available! Mine discusses the little read French literary titan Renaud Camus, considers critically his reinvention of the (far-right, anti-migration) 'great replacement theory' and
INVERSION, Gay Life After the Homosexual Out now in paperback and eBook. Order at https://t.co/juGmOCEf4T With Blake Smith, @RogerLancaster, David Moulton @ComradeDoom1, @stephengadubato, @amir_naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez @verdur_in, Travis Jeppesen,
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suggestibility
Don't forget that just 12 days ago (5 shows back), Joe Rogan interviewed Dr Andrew Gallimore, who explained that aliens seem to be hacking human brains and enabling them to build vividly real alien contact experiences. Just a coincidence right? This is how real contact works.
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great succinct account of the Irish origins of this special day from a brilliant colleague @UCC
As we celebrate Halloween, or Samhain, @DrJennyButler, Ireland’s leading authority on the academic study of contemporary Paganism, shares the Irish traditions and background of the festival. Read here: https://t.co/TbmS4M1AqU
#HappyHalloween
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incisive and dignified analysis from one of my great new colleagues here @UCC
My @BBC @BBCRadioScot ‘thought for the day’ this morning on the recent graffiti vandalising Glasgow Central Mosque and reflecting on the deeper question of who is a Scot? Broadcast live from #Cork. @BBCScotland
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About to go on @LacanInScotland for a talk on Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism with @thomasowaller. Feel free to join and share your thoughts, too.
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My @BBC @BBCRadioScot ‘thought for the day’ tomorrow morning will be on the recent graffiti vandalising Glasgow Central Mosque and reflecting on the deeper question of who is a Scot? I’ll broadcast live from #Cork. @BBCScotland
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Glasgow Central Mosque said it was "deeply upset" to discover "Scots First" had been daubed on a wall outside the building
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Had a really good chat with Quique Autrey on his Psyche podcast this week talking all things Fanon and Psychoanalysis: https://t.co/8zLJom8np5
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