Simon Kővesi
@kovesi.bsky.social
Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow
Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures.
Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
Seems important to add, son of a political refugee.
Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures.
Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
Seems important to add, son of a political refugee.
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“Teach western civ”
“So the Ancient Greek philosophers thought…”
“No not like that”
“So the Ancient Greek philosophers thought…”
“No not like that”
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
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surreal times
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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January 7, 2026 at 12:50 PM
“Teach western civ”
“So the Ancient Greek philosophers thought…”
“No not like that”
“So the Ancient Greek philosophers thought…”
“No not like that”
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Happy Birthday to us! 🎉
The University of Glasgow is 575 years old today. We have been changing the world since 1451!
This year we will be celebrating the centuries of impact of UofG, while looking towards to the future, with our #TeamUofG community around the world.
#UofG575
The University of Glasgow is 575 years old today. We have been changing the world since 1451!
This year we will be celebrating the centuries of impact of UofG, while looking towards to the future, with our #TeamUofG community around the world.
#UofG575
January 7, 2026 at 9:51 AM
Finally deleted Twitter accounts. Feels good.
January 7, 2026 at 12:43 PM
Finally deleted Twitter accounts. Feels good.
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Scottish universities PhD students in English and associated subjects, please come along to this a week on Friday! Signup at link in quoted tweet.
I'm organising this hybrid training event on PhD thesis to book for @sgsah.bsky.social Literature+ Catalyst on Fri 16 January. Great speakers inc. Sarah Bernstein, @drjamesbailey.bsky.social, @hannahkateboast.bsky.social, @emilyalder.bsky.social. Please sign up!
www.sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/dp/disci...
www.sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/dp/disci...
University of Glasgow - Events and Training - Discipline+ Catalysts - Discipline + Catalyst Events
www.sgsah.ac.uk
January 6, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Scottish universities PhD students in English and associated subjects, please come along to this a week on Friday! Signup at link in quoted tweet.
Did you miss out the John Clare session?
John Clare: Forms of Contemporary @ 2026 MLA Annual Convention mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...
John Clare: Forms of Contemporary @ 2026 MLA Annual Convention mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...
John Clare: Forms of Contemporary
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January 1, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Did you miss out the John Clare session?
John Clare: Forms of Contemporary @ 2026 MLA Annual Convention mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...
John Clare: Forms of Contemporary @ 2026 MLA Annual Convention mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...
Cracking paragraph from William Morris (et al), "The Manifesto of The Socialist League" (1886).
So full of purpose & ideal: "we seek a change in the basis of Society - a change which would destroy the distinctions of classes and nationalities" - imagine that.
So full of purpose & ideal: "we seek a change in the basis of Society - a change which would destroy the distinctions of classes and nationalities" - imagine that.
December 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Cracking paragraph from William Morris (et al), "The Manifesto of The Socialist League" (1886).
So full of purpose & ideal: "we seek a change in the basis of Society - a change which would destroy the distinctions of classes and nationalities" - imagine that.
So full of purpose & ideal: "we seek a change in the basis of Society - a change which would destroy the distinctions of classes and nationalities" - imagine that.
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Are Tests Biased Against Students Who Don't Give A Shit
December 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Are Tests Biased Against Students Who Don't Give A Shit
Three nieces, three novels, boom.
December 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Three nieces, three novels, boom.
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via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
December 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon
TFW you submit a book manuscript after about 5 years of mucking about.
a cartoon of the peanuts characters dancing on a stage
ALT: a cartoon of the peanuts characters dancing on a stage
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December 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
TFW you submit a book manuscript after about 5 years of mucking about.
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From "The Dawn of Day" by Friedrich Nietzsche - on the importance of SLOW reading. He didn't know it, but this is the opposite of LLM, AI, ChatGPT etc etc - the fast, shallow, abbreviated, inattentive slop of reading (and writing) in an online world.
Slow. Down.
Slow. Down.
December 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
From "The Dawn of Day" by Friedrich Nietzsche - on the importance of SLOW reading. He didn't know it, but this is the opposite of LLM, AI, ChatGPT etc etc - the fast, shallow, abbreviated, inattentive slop of reading (and writing) in an online world.
Slow. Down.
Slow. Down.
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She’d forgive you! It’s Agnes Owens’ centenary in May 2026 and there’s going to be reissues of her Collected Stories and her o/p Collected Novellas. Her archive has also now found a home at the Alasdair Gray archive in Glasgow
@agrayarchive.bsky.social
@aowensarchive.bsky.social
@agrayarchive.bsky.social
@aowensarchive.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 7:08 AM
She’d forgive you! It’s Agnes Owens’ centenary in May 2026 and there’s going to be reissues of her Collected Stories and her o/p Collected Novellas. Her archive has also now found a home at the Alasdair Gray archive in Glasgow
@agrayarchive.bsky.social
@aowensarchive.bsky.social
@agrayarchive.bsky.social
@aowensarchive.bsky.social
No you don't have to, but you should mate.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 22, 2025 at 1:27 AM
No you don't have to, but you should mate.
From "The Dawn of Day" by Friedrich Nietzsche - on the importance of SLOW reading. He didn't know it, but this is the opposite of LLM, AI, ChatGPT etc etc - the fast, shallow, abbreviated, inattentive slop of reading (and writing) in an online world.
Slow. Down.
Slow. Down.
December 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
From "The Dawn of Day" by Friedrich Nietzsche - on the importance of SLOW reading. He didn't know it, but this is the opposite of LLM, AI, ChatGPT etc etc - the fast, shallow, abbreviated, inattentive slop of reading (and writing) in an online world.
Slow. Down.
Slow. Down.
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I really liked this Substack on the virtues of curiosity/carrying on going out and seeing and doing things if you are Of A Certain Age open.substack.com/pub/anniemac...
The Cure For Age-ing...
I apologise to all the people who are older than me reading this because you know this already, but it’s worth stating for personal documentation purposes, that 2025 is the year I finally realised tha...
open.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I really liked this Substack on the virtues of curiosity/carrying on going out and seeing and doing things if you are Of A Certain Age open.substack.com/pub/anniemac...
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Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (1621):
What a company of poets hath this year brought out... what a catalogue of new books all this year... who can read them?... we shall have a vast chaos & confusion of books, we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
What a company of poets hath this year brought out... what a catalogue of new books all this year... who can read them?... we shall have a vast chaos & confusion of books, we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
December 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (1621):
What a company of poets hath this year brought out... what a catalogue of new books all this year... who can read them?... we shall have a vast chaos & confusion of books, we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
What a company of poets hath this year brought out... what a catalogue of new books all this year... who can read them?... we shall have a vast chaos & confusion of books, we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (1621):
What a company of poets hath this year brought out... what a catalogue of new books all this year... who can read them?... we shall have a vast chaos & confusion of books, we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
What a company of poets hath this year brought out... what a catalogue of new books all this year... who can read them?... we shall have a vast chaos & confusion of books, we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
December 20, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (1621):
What a company of poets hath this year brought out... what a catalogue of new books all this year... who can read them?... we shall have a vast chaos & confusion of books, we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
What a company of poets hath this year brought out... what a catalogue of new books all this year... who can read them?... we shall have a vast chaos & confusion of books, we are oppressed with them, our eyes ache with reading, our fingers with turning.
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Reposting again, but now with an image, London placard men by George Scharf, 1830s:
December 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Reposting again, but now with an image, London placard men by George Scharf, 1830s:
Party time in East End pub, from Pierce Egan's "Life in London", 1821. One to share with your racist Reform UK-inclined family at the winterval dinner table.
As Egan puts it:
"All was happiness, -every body free and easy, & freedom of expression allowed to the very echo. The group motley indeed".
As Egan puts it:
"All was happiness, -every body free and easy, & freedom of expression allowed to the very echo. The group motley indeed".
December 17, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Party time in East End pub, from Pierce Egan's "Life in London", 1821. One to share with your racist Reform UK-inclined family at the winterval dinner table.
As Egan puts it:
"All was happiness, -every body free and easy, & freedom of expression allowed to the very echo. The group motley indeed".
As Egan puts it:
"All was happiness, -every body free and easy, & freedom of expression allowed to the very echo. The group motley indeed".
pecq feat. Kate Ireland - no more trouble (Official Video)
YouTube video by pecq
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December 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Tobias Smollet’s warm account of Glasgow in his 1771 tour of England & Scotland, “The Expedition of Humphry Clinker”. Smollet studied @glasgow.ac.uk c. 1730s.
December 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Tobias Smollet’s warm account of Glasgow in his 1771 tour of England & Scotland, “The Expedition of Humphry Clinker”. Smollet studied @glasgow.ac.uk c. 1730s.
Cat picture for no reason.
December 10, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Cat picture for no reason.