Peter Spooks
@paulewart23
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Researcher at Sussex. Published on Mark Fisher in Critical Theory Today (Palgrave). Working on Popular Modernism & Fordist Melancholia @paulewart.bsky.social.
Brighton, England
Joined September 2016
In 1955, the American sociologist Edward Shils wrote an essay in Encounter on British intellectuals. Everywhere, conservatism and apathy reigned. "Never," wrote Shils, "has an intellectual class found its society and culture so much to its satisfaction.".
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RT @Seinfeldism1: August 31st? Where did the summer go? . This was supposed to be the Summer of George! . #Seinfeld #Costanza
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RT @jeremycorbyn: Up and down the country, there is enormous appetite for a new kind of political party — one that belongs to you. Thanks….
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RT @gem_ste: 50 years of noisily and stridently supporting a political economy that empties the UK of productive capacity . How can we not….
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RT @BeddoesTL: @paulewart23 @SolHughesWriter Labour Together have always been quite explicit about who their 'target voters' are. And their….
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Oh no, it's an anti-semitic cat!.
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RT @fromarsetoelbow: We know from the Windrush scandal that there isn't a clear, dividing line between citizen and non-citizen. And that is….
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In a climate of fear, everyone is at risk of mistreatment – just look at the States
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RT @MarkSeddon1962: As an un-related addendum, his father the 2nd Baronet was a Nazi sympathiser, briefly put under house arrest at Kinners….
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Peer who appeared on I’m a Celebrity denies charges of rape and sexual assault at Westminster magistrates court
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RT @Knox_Harrington: Increasingly of the view that Yvette Cooper watched Children Of Men and saw it as utopian.
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Purchase of snowmobiles, timeshares and furs prohibited, despite asylum seekers receiving only £9.95 a week
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RT @fromarsetoelbow: I see we're still pretending that this govt has some sort of "mission" beyond merely occupying the ministries so that….
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Decisions about direction as well as personnel are needed to get the government out of a hole
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RT @FisherAndrew79: I would have thought a former human rights lawyer might know that those seeking asylum have a legal right to claim prot….
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