Malcolm Quinn
@malrog.bsky.social
Professor of Cultural and Political History UAL, Honorary Professor Bentham Project UCL. Thinks about anti-aesthetics. Read a chapter of my academic work for free:
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10096746/1/Bentham-and-the-Arts.pdf
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10096746/1/Bentham-and-the-Arts.pdf
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Malcolm Quinn
@malrog.bsky.social
· Aug 31
'If Bentham unsettles our faith in aesthetics while appropriating aesthetic forms, if he uses his knowledge of visual culture to compare Treasury officials to automata and has his portrait built in an anatomy theatre, which aspects of utilitarian thought are being developed?'
UCL Laws 24 July 2025
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The film also encouraged me in the belief that there was money to be made drawing buildings. Which there was - just not very much.
Love this soundtrack so much: one of Nyman’s best works:
The Draughtsman's Contract (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture) [2004 Remaster] by Michael Nyman on Apple Music
Album · 2004 · 7 Songs
music.apple.com
December 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The film also encouraged me in the belief that there was money to be made drawing buildings. Which there was - just not very much.
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Where the world’s electricity comes from. Looking forward to the update including 2025.
December 26, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Where the world’s electricity comes from. Looking forward to the update including 2025.
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Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan https://theonion.com/cat-clinging-to-side-of-christmas-tree-admits-that-was-1849899567/
December 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Cat Clinging To Side Of Christmas Tree Admits That Was Extent Of Plan https://theonion.com/cat-clinging-to-side-of-christmas-tree-admits-that-was-1849899567/
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Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:
Populists attack London because it is ‘progressive and successful’, says Sadiq Khan
Rightwing attacks on one of the world’s most visited cities at odds with reality, says mayor
www.ft.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:
Memories of trying to get rid of Ulster Bank notes come flooding back.
Heart warming steps towards Scottish independence this morning in a Northampton corner shop. I was told only 'British money' was acceptable. A stranger Good Samaritan bought my milk, and advised I 'might be able to change my money in town'
December 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Memories of trying to get rid of Ulster Bank notes come flooding back.
The far-right prefer His Majesty King Mob.
King Charles III urges courage and reconciliation in a divided and uncertain world in Christmas message https://cnn.it/4az08la
December 26, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The far-right prefer His Majesty King Mob.
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Norwegian Christmas Tree Dressed for the Boxing Day Party, drawing by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1934.
December 26, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Norwegian Christmas Tree Dressed for the Boxing Day Party, drawing by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1934.
Make a Bond movie casual
Rumbleball
Rumbleball
Make a Bond movie casual
Live and Let Live
Live and Let Live
Make a Bond movie casual
Dr Nah
Dr Nah
December 26, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Make a Bond movie casual
Rumbleball
Rumbleball
If you want to know what AI is doing, don’t look at the engine, look at how its representations become part of our world.
Study the mass psychology of AI by all means, but don’t assume that humans have much control over their desire for what is good enough.
December 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
If you want to know what AI is doing, don’t look at the engine, look at how its representations become part of our world.
Fresh as a daisy this morning. Booze is weird.
Well I think all that Bollinger has done me a lot of good. Looking forward to tomorrow’s Barbaresco.
December 26, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Fresh as a daisy this morning. Booze is weird.
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”Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife...”
Thomas Gray, poet, scholar, born #OTD 1716; author of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published 1751, later illustrated by William Blake.
Portrait by John Giles Eccardt, c. 1748, National Portrait Gallery
Blake illustration, Yale British Art
Thomas Gray, poet, scholar, born #OTD 1716; author of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published 1751, later illustrated by William Blake.
Portrait by John Giles Eccardt, c. 1748, National Portrait Gallery
Blake illustration, Yale British Art
December 26, 2025 at 5:57 AM
”Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife...”
Thomas Gray, poet, scholar, born #OTD 1716; author of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published 1751, later illustrated by William Blake.
Portrait by John Giles Eccardt, c. 1748, National Portrait Gallery
Blake illustration, Yale British Art
Thomas Gray, poet, scholar, born #OTD 1716; author of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published 1751, later illustrated by William Blake.
Portrait by John Giles Eccardt, c. 1748, National Portrait Gallery
Blake illustration, Yale British Art
Well I think all that Bollinger has done me a lot of good. Looking forward to tomorrow’s Barbaresco.
December 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Well I think all that Bollinger has done me a lot of good. Looking forward to tomorrow’s Barbaresco.
Apex decadence - pudding and a glass of heavily discounted Bolly from Berry Bros&Rudd.
December 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Apex decadence - pudding and a glass of heavily discounted Bolly from Berry Bros&Rudd.
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UK social media campaigners among five denied US visas.
Trump happily admits fascists and racists to the US.
Visas used as a tool for dominance, intimidation; extract trade and tax concessions; silence critics.
Compliant Govts risk domestic ridicule.
Trump happily admits fascists and racists to the US.
Visas used as a tool for dominance, intimidation; extract trade and tax concessions; silence critics.
Compliant Govts risk domestic ridicule.
UK social media campaigners among five denied US visas
The Trump administration bans five people who have called for tech regulation from entering the country.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Cool present from our daughter’s boyfriend. If he is trying to get on my good side, it is working.
December 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Cool present from our daughter’s boyfriend. If he is trying to get on my good side, it is working.
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Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Carol of the Bells in #
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
Kyiv subway.
Voices of the Embassies of Germany, France, and the United Kingdom came together to perform Shchedryk in the Kyiv metro as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine.
Thankful to everyone who stands with us!
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If you're on your own and fancy a blether today. Just message us on here. We'll be around all day.
December 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
If you're on your own and fancy a blether today. Just message us on here. We'll be around all day.
The established path for tomorrow is champagne with scrambled eggs and smoked salmon for breakfast, followed by champagne in the park with friends. Long may it continue.
December 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The established path for tomorrow is champagne with scrambled eggs and smoked salmon for breakfast, followed by champagne in the park with friends. Long may it continue.
Family outing to see ‘Into the Woods’.The standing ovation was thoroughly deserved.
December 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Family outing to see ‘Into the Woods’.The standing ovation was thoroughly deserved.
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A patently stupid and self-destructive idea, pushed by very entitled people who had nothing to lose and Putins disinformation machine and voted for in large part by bigots who thought it would make this country great again.
All to the colossal detriment of the UK.
F*** them all a million times.
All to the colossal detriment of the UK.
F*** them all a million times.
Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.
December 24, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A patently stupid and self-destructive idea, pushed by very entitled people who had nothing to lose and Putins disinformation machine and voted for in large part by bigots who thought it would make this country great again.
All to the colossal detriment of the UK.
F*** them all a million times.
All to the colossal detriment of the UK.
F*** them all a million times.
Also the only Christmas film that features magic mushrooms. As far as I know.
We watched David Lowery’s ‘The Green Knight’ again last night. A film about the chivalric code, with the emphasis on code: ‘it’s only a game’.
December 24, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Also the only Christmas film that features magic mushrooms. As far as I know.
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No one has taken capitalism as seriously as Trump.
December 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
No one has taken capitalism as seriously as Trump.
Trump should adopt ‘All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned’ as his personal motto.
"It cannot possibly be completed on the schedule Trump announced. I’ll go a step further: It is unlikely that any of these ships will ever be built. This is vaporware."
Trump-Class Battleships Are the Navy’s Trump Ballroom
Trump Steaks. Trump University. Trump Coins. Why not? Let’s do this and be legends.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Trump should adopt ‘All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned’ as his personal motto.
We watched David Lowery’s ‘The Green Knight’ again last night. A film about the chivalric code, with the emphasis on code: ‘it’s only a game’.
December 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
We watched David Lowery’s ‘The Green Knight’ again last night. A film about the chivalric code, with the emphasis on code: ‘it’s only a game’.