Des Fitzgerald
@desfitzgerald.bsky.social
Radical Humanities, Medical Humanities, Urban Studies, Science & Tech Studies - https://linktr.ee/des_fitzgerald
This book, Jesus.
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This book, Jesus.
Today it didn't rain for about fifteen minutes and I got a cool rainbow pic.
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Today it didn't rain for about fifteen minutes and I got a cool rainbow pic.
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For those that missed this truly excellent review of my book.
‘In pursuing its goal of globalising the story of slavery, the Maritime Museum has inadvertently enabled some (white) Liverpudlians to reduce the city’s own role in transatlantic slavery to, as one resident put it, a “mere footnote”.’
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite · Holed below the Waterline: Liverpool’s Losses
Liverpool’s explosive growth followed the construction of a deep-water port in 1715. Soon it was a centre of the...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
For those that missed this truly excellent review of my book.
Yes, we are in Belfast.
November 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Yes, we are in Belfast.
I don't think I've been in a single European city where buses were free, let alone it being a "given." This smug fantasia from an increasingly fascist continent is honestly bizarre. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I don't think I've been in a single European city where buses were free, let alone it being a "given." This smug fantasia from an increasingly fascist continent is honestly bizarre. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Absolutely the best, most civilised thing about Ireland is displaying people's full names above their seat reservations on the train. Can't understand the manics who opt for ticket number instead.
November 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Absolutely the best, most civilised thing about Ireland is displaying people's full names above their seat reservations on the train. Can't understand the manics who opt for ticket number instead.
It's cool that Mamdani studied humanities but also JD Vance has a philosophy degree and Stephen Miller studied politics, so we must nonetheless conclude that it is possible - maybe even likely - to study humanities and still be a cruel, venal asshole who visibly hates humans.
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It's cool that Mamdani studied humanities but also JD Vance has a philosophy degree and Stephen Miller studied politics, so we must nonetheless conclude that it is possible - maybe even likely - to study humanities and still be a cruel, venal asshole who visibly hates humans.
Experiencing what it was like to an Irish person in the 1950s by becoming actually quite a big fan of the pope.
“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Experiencing what it was like to an Irish person in the 1950s by becoming actually quite a big fan of the pope.
*cough* www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
November 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM
*cough* www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
Cork people, I will be doing a guest lecture, ;The Biopolitics of Urban Green Space' at the Cork Centre for Architectural Education, Monday the 10th, from 1 to 2. Open to all comers as far as I know.
November 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Cork people, I will be doing a guest lecture, ;The Biopolitics of Urban Green Space' at the Cork Centre for Architectural Education, Monday the 10th, from 1 to 2. Open to all comers as far as I know.
Hard to say why exactly, but "British matters of sex" is such a funny way to talk about the UK anti-gender movement.
November 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Hard to say why exactly, but "British matters of sex" is such a funny way to talk about the UK anti-gender movement.
Why is every English Lit monograph: (1) brief introduction of fascinating conceptual issue; (2) six chapters discussing novels or poems no one cares about; (3) brief reprise of fascinating conceptual issue.
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Why is every English Lit monograph: (1) brief introduction of fascinating conceptual issue; (2) six chapters discussing novels or poems no one cares about; (3) brief reprise of fascinating conceptual issue.
Off to the UK again (boo) but what a view of cobh and spike island on the way out.
November 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Off to the UK again (boo) but what a view of cobh and spike island on the way out.
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Well look who’s in pride of place at the Barbican gift shop! Nice work @desfitzgerald.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Well look who’s in pride of place at the Barbican gift shop! Nice work @desfitzgerald.bsky.social
Scrolling through academics' posts about dressing as reviewer 2 for halloween
a man in a blue shirt is sitting in front of a brick wall and looking at the camera .
ALT: a man in a blue shirt is sitting in front of a brick wall and looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Scrolling through academics' posts about dressing as reviewer 2 for halloween
Watching baby shark hospital with the air of someone at an unusually rich lacan seminar
October 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Watching baby shark hospital with the air of someone at an unusually rich lacan seminar
I genuinely think in Ireland we're much to chill about how much the political and media establishment of the neighbouring state desires bad things for us. #speirgorm
October 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I genuinely think in Ireland we're much to chill about how much the political and media establishment of the neighbouring state desires bad things for us. #speirgorm
I'm basically anti-Haraway these days, and yet every year am reminded that I've never encountered a more generative text to teach to undergrads, that I assign no reading more visibly mind- and horizon-expanding as we work it through together in class, than the cyborg manifesto
October 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
I'm basically anti-Haraway these days, and yet every year am reminded that I've never encountered a more generative text to teach to undergrads, that I assign no reading more visibly mind- and horizon-expanding as we work it through together in class, than the cyborg manifesto
Being an irish person online is hard because we're not interested in baseball *or* lily allen
October 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Being an irish person online is hard because we're not interested in baseball *or* lily allen
It's actually amazing how being widely known as an extremely shitty person does /nothing/ to dent someone's standing in the elite "critical theory" industrial complex.
October 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It's actually amazing how being widely known as an extremely shitty person does /nothing/ to dent someone's standing in the elite "critical theory" industrial complex.
A post - and post style - so insufferable that I'm now kind of pro closing the universities.
October 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A post - and post style - so insufferable that I'm now kind of pro closing the universities.
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Are cities bad for us, or are we just telling the wrong story about urban life?🌆
Join us for @desfitzgerald.bsky.social’s public lecture, The City of Today is a Dying Thing, exploring the complex relationship between cities, health + the environment.
📆 Mon 3 Nov
📍 @york.ac.uk
🎟 buff.ly/z4D0Jv4
Join us for @desfitzgerald.bsky.social’s public lecture, The City of Today is a Dying Thing, exploring the complex relationship between cities, health + the environment.
📆 Mon 3 Nov
📍 @york.ac.uk
🎟 buff.ly/z4D0Jv4
October 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Are cities bad for us, or are we just telling the wrong story about urban life?🌆
Join us for @desfitzgerald.bsky.social’s public lecture, The City of Today is a Dying Thing, exploring the complex relationship between cities, health + the environment.
📆 Mon 3 Nov
📍 @york.ac.uk
🎟 buff.ly/z4D0Jv4
Join us for @desfitzgerald.bsky.social’s public lecture, The City of Today is a Dying Thing, exploring the complex relationship between cities, health + the environment.
📆 Mon 3 Nov
📍 @york.ac.uk
🎟 buff.ly/z4D0Jv4
Unpopular maybe, but we should firmly resist this kind of banal medicalization of cultural and aesthetic experience. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Picture of health: going to art galleries can improve wellbeing, study reveals
Viewing original works of art can relieve stress, cut heart disease risk and boost immune system, first study of its kind finds
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Unpopular maybe, but we should firmly resist this kind of banal medicalization of cultural and aesthetic experience. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Yet another "gender critical" book coming out from Polity - this is really becoming a theme for what's still generally regarded as a mainstream, left-adjacent social science publisher. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Hounded: Women, Harms and the Gender Wars
Hounded: Women, Harms and the Gender Wars, A shocking expose of the human cost of defending women’s rights by award-winning poet and essayist Jenny Lindsay, whose own ‘hounding’ offers a unique perspe...
www.politybooks.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Yet another "gender critical" book coming out from Polity - this is really becoming a theme for what's still generally regarded as a mainstream, left-adjacent social science publisher. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Tfw you start reading a first year sociology essay and you know it's not going to be good. #speirgorm
October 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Tfw you start reading a first year sociology essay and you know it's not going to be good. #speirgorm