Jonathan Owen Clark
@jonathanoclark.bsky.social
Welsh academic living in London. Professor of Aesthetics and Arts Practice at Trinity Laban. Interested in art, aesthetics and phenomenology. Personal page: http://trinitylaban.academia.edu/JonathanOwenClark
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Introductory post. Like many, Twitter refugee. Hope this place is better than the last one became. Interested in #art #philosophy #phenomenology #AI #music
This was amazing. Thank you Sean for your words.
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- Empty Spaces
Poet Sean Lìonadh explores Glasgow’s abandoned Govan Docks and the echoes of lost industry
▶️ Relisten on BBCSounds
#TheEssay
- Empty Spaces
Poet Sean Lìonadh explores Glasgow’s abandoned Govan Docks and the echoes of lost industry
▶️ Relisten on BBCSounds
BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Empty Spaces, Sean Lìonadh - Govan Docks, Glasgow
Poet Sean Lìonadh explores Glasgow’s abandoned Govan Docks and the echoes of lost industry
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This was amazing. Thank you Sean for your words.
Howard Hodgkin, Pitzhanger Manor Gallery, London. Well worth a visit.
October 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Howard Hodgkin, Pitzhanger Manor Gallery, London. Well worth a visit.
Seriously NYT Spelling Bee: ‘hotdogging’ is not a word
September 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Seriously NYT Spelling Bee: ‘hotdogging’ is not a word
It’s like changing the rules at half-time in a football match, so that no goals scored with headers count. Except we still don’t know the rules.
Sigh. So no guidance for 3 months but no extension 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/pause-t...
Current REF Managers....
Current REF Managers....
a man wearing a blue sweater is sitting in front of a window .
ALT: a man wearing a blue sweater is sitting in front of a window .
media.tenor.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
It’s like changing the rules at half-time in a football match, so that no goals scored with headers count. Except we still don’t know the rules.
As thousands of other jounalists don’t write rubbish like he does- I have to ask why Simon Jenkins?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As thousands more teenagers scramble for university places, I have to ask – why? | Simon Jenkins
Student debt increasing, graduate salaries dropping, high-skilled jobs thin on the ground – higher education in the UK is a mess, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
www.theguardian.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
As thousands of other jounalists don’t write rubbish like he does- I have to ask why Simon Jenkins?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It hurts as a Welshman, but that BBCNOW Mahler 3 I just attended was ropey (at best).
August 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
It hurts as a Welshman, but that BBCNOW Mahler 3 I just attended was ropey (at best).
Indeed. Amongst all the stupid claims for gen-AI made recently, this is the stupidest.
A new definition for AGI just dropped, and it is a bad one.
lord grant me the courage to write with the confidence a mediocre white man
July 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Indeed. Amongst all the stupid claims for gen-AI made recently, this is the stupidest.
Probably unpopular opinion: Glastonbury, which is a weird UK obsession, operates with a weird kind of musical dynamic nominalism, whereby good bands become bad ones just because of the imperative to exist only to play at Glastonbury. Examples: Wolf Alice; Arctic Monkeys.
June 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Probably unpopular opinion: Glastonbury, which is a weird UK obsession, operates with a weird kind of musical dynamic nominalism, whereby good bands become bad ones just because of the imperative to exist only to play at Glastonbury. Examples: Wolf Alice; Arctic Monkeys.
ChatGPT can’t even do the NYT ‘Spelling Bee’ game. In fact, it’s almost farcically useless at it. Like it is at chess.
June 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
ChatGPT can’t even do the NYT ‘Spelling Bee’ game. In fact, it’s almost farcically useless at it. Like it is at chess.
Thanks to British chess GM Jonathan Mestel today for the (lost) simultaneous game at Imperial College Open Day. A lot of fun. Never played a GM before.
June 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Thanks to British chess GM Jonathan Mestel today for the (lost) simultaneous game at Imperial College Open Day. A lot of fun. Never played a GM before.
Rhossili Bay, Wales. I’m the speck in the distance.
June 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Rhossili Bay, Wales. I’m the speck in the distance.
I can recommend doing academic admin while listening to Palestrina. #productivityhack
June 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I can recommend doing academic admin while listening to Palestrina. #productivityhack
The Labour Party’s assault on immigration, and hence also care work and universities, is only the latest iteration of the Freudian death drive, after Brexit, Johnson, and numerous other UK examples. Literally doing yourself harm, despite ‘knowing’ the potential harm.
May 11, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The Labour Party’s assault on immigration, and hence also care work and universities, is only the latest iteration of the Freudian death drive, after Brexit, Johnson, and numerous other UK examples. Literally doing yourself harm, despite ‘knowing’ the potential harm.
The rhetoric here from a ‘change guru’ is a hitherto unimaginable level of complete bullshit. Wales, and HE generally in the UK, needs much better than this.
nation.cymru/news/change-...
nation.cymru/news/change-...
Change guru tells Cardiff University staff that proposed cuts could 'break' it
Martin Shipton The transformation guru behind Cardiff University’s controversial cuts programme has warned staff that the proposals it unveiled in January could “break” the institution. Dr David Langl...
nation.cymru
April 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The rhetoric here from a ‘change guru’ is a hitherto unimaginable level of complete bullshit. Wales, and HE generally in the UK, needs much better than this.
nation.cymru/news/change-...
nation.cymru/news/change-...
Ideally yes, but I suspect there are too many people gaming the market fluctuations for this to happen. Speaking as ex- trader.
The EU should continue to keep its retaliatory tariffs in place until #Trump drops his 10% tariff on EU goods as a precondition for negotiating a free trade agreement. #TrumpTariffs #TradeWar
🚨🚨Great @politico.eu report on EU proposed response to Trump #tariffs revealing the ingenuity among trade nerds in @ec.europa.eu in adopting a less aggressive than expected but still painful counteroffer likely to stir bad mood in the Trump administration.🧵
www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...
www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...
April 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Ideally yes, but I suspect there are too many people gaming the market fluctuations for this to happen. Speaking as ex- trader.
I’m completely bored of Boulez now @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social. And I actually like Boulez.
March 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I’m completely bored of Boulez now @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social. And I actually like Boulez.
@bbcradio3bot.bsky.social - could you please improve or preferably bin the clearly imported ‘news’ at 1pm and 6pm? The reason why is simply because it’s usually complete bullshit.
February 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
@bbcradio3bot.bsky.social - could you please improve or preferably bin the clearly imported ‘news’ at 1pm and 6pm? The reason why is simply because it’s usually complete bullshit.
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I swear, there are so many bots in my DMs saying 'Hello', it's like the opening lyrics of Smells Like Teen Spirit in there.
February 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I swear, there are so many bots in my DMs saying 'Hello', it's like the opening lyrics of Smells Like Teen Spirit in there.
Signed.
An open letter to the President of the @royalsociety.org – time to stand up for your values. occamstypewriter.org/scurry/2025/...
An open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values | Reciprocal Space
occamstypewriter.org
February 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Signed.
Hysteria surrounding Wales Rugby Team. All sports teams have historical good/bad periods. Get a grip. Worry about Welsh universities, the NHS, and encroaching fascism in Wales, fuelled by disinformation instead.
February 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Hysteria surrounding Wales Rugby Team. All sports teams have historical good/bad periods. Get a grip. Worry about Welsh universities, the NHS, and encroaching fascism in Wales, fuelled by disinformation instead.
Cardiff seemingly surplus to requirements, whilst UK Government pumps money into already asset-rich Oxbridge. We need the Senedd to act. Or what’s the point of devolution.
January 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Cardiff seemingly surplus to requirements, whilst UK Government pumps money into already asset-rich Oxbridge. We need the Senedd to act. Or what’s the point of devolution.
“Libraries gave us power”. Well not anymore.
January 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
“Libraries gave us power”. Well not anymore.
Brilliant.
[Žižek voice] And what is it the hippos were hungry for? The empty, white sphere of fantasy, onto which they—and the children who controlled them—could project their desire. Once captured, each hippo releases this desire, unconsumed, into a pen to contain it, before beginning the search for more.
January 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Brilliant.
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January 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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