Ruth Unsworth
@ruthunsworth.bsky.social
Lecturer, University of Glasgow. Interested in new materialisms and (shh!) a smidge of Lacan on the side.
Thinking about bridges and liminality. #newmaterialism #bitesizephilosophy #Blanchot
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Bridges as liminal spaces
What do you doodle when your mind wanders and your body can’t wander with it? I doodle bridges. Always bridges. I think my obsession with bridges possibly began when I was a teenager in the industr…
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June 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Thinking about bridges and liminality. #newmaterialism #bitesizephilosophy #Blanchot
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Books and existence rhubarbandrobin.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/b...
#newmaterialism #materialculture #latour #STS
#newmaterialism #materialculture #latour #STS
Books: fiction and human existence
I was visiting a friend’s house yesterday (a serious book-lover) and we fell into our usual routine: she put the kettle on whilst I fondled the latest books in the pile next to the sofa. Handling a…
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June 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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#newmaterialism #materialculture #latour #STS
#newmaterialism #materialculture #latour #STS
An excellent place to ponder/escape world events, and possibly a door to a better world. dreamerygardens.co.uk#northwoodtrail #placeconnection #educationyork
June 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
An excellent place to ponder/escape world events, and possibly a door to a better world. dreamerygardens.co.uk#northwoodtrail #placeconnection #educationyork
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Save 30% on #NewBook "Magic's Translations" by @margaretjwiener.bsky.social , which examines how the concept of magic emerged out of historical struggles between Europe and the rest of the world. #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies
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May 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Save 30% on #NewBook "Magic's Translations" by @margaretjwiener.bsky.social , which examines how the concept of magic emerged out of historical struggles between Europe and the rest of the world. #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies
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'The Lacanian Teacher. Education, Pedagogy and Enjoyment.'
Out in July with the Palgrave Lacan Series link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Out in July with the Palgrave Lacan Series link.springer.com/book/9783031...
The Lacanian Teacher
This book provides a reading of Lacan and education with powerful implications for a rethinking of the figure of the teacher.
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June 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
'The Lacanian Teacher. Education, Pedagogy and Enjoyment.'
Out in July with the Palgrave Lacan Series link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Out in July with the Palgrave Lacan Series link.springer.com/book/9783031...
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"The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony," writes Luiz Pessoa, author of "The Entangled Brain":
How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon Essays
The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony
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June 5, 2025 at 3:52 AM
"The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony," writes Luiz Pessoa, author of "The Entangled Brain":
Blogginess on objects and stuff (academic overspillings rather than seriousity) rhubarbandrobin.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/o...
#STS #newmaterialism #research #subjectobject #educationresearch (maybe) #tea #blogsaboutlife
#STS #newmaterialism #research #subjectobject #educationresearch (maybe) #tea #blogsaboutlife
Objectivi-tea
Freshly made mint tea, Atlas mountains, Morocco. As you do. There are some things that need explaining. The object. The ivit. The tea (Ah, the tea, the tea!). I shall start with the easy one. These…
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June 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Blogginess on objects and stuff (academic overspillings rather than seriousity) rhubarbandrobin.wordpress.com/2025/06/03/o...
#STS #newmaterialism #research #subjectobject #educationresearch (maybe) #tea #blogsaboutlife
#STS #newmaterialism #research #subjectobject #educationresearch (maybe) #tea #blogsaboutlife
Last week I had the privilege to work with brilliant colleagues and friends at Uppsala & Mälardalens Universities, exploring Latour’s modes of existence and HE pedagogies. An inspiring trip; I look forward to our continuing work. #STS #educationresearch @iterc.bsky.social
@pragmarxist.bsky.social
@pragmarxist.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Last week I had the privilege to work with brilliant colleagues and friends at Uppsala & Mälardalens Universities, exploring Latour’s modes of existence and HE pedagogies. An inspiring trip; I look forward to our continuing work. #STS #educationresearch @iterc.bsky.social
@pragmarxist.bsky.social
@pragmarxist.bsky.social
An important paper on Russell Group universities and public intellectualism through the digital sphere www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#educationresearch #highereducationresearch
#educationresearch #highereducationresearch
The digital public sphere, universities and intellectualising the public
This article explores the role of universities in fostering public intellectualism in the rapidly developing digital public sphere. Specifically, the paper asks: Is there a viable role for universi...
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May 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
An important paper on Russell Group universities and public intellectualism through the digital sphere www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#educationresearch #highereducationresearch
#educationresearch #highereducationresearch
A chance to explore global perspectives in teacher education and challenge the standard education model. Promises to be an interesting space for open debate and thinking otherwise. www.bera.ac.uk/event/global...
#teachereducation #education #educationresearch
#teachereducation #education #educationresearch
Global Perspectives in Teacher Education: Challenging the Standard Education Model
Leeds Beckett University, in association with the British Educational Research Association, invite you to participate in our inaugural international conference entitled Global Perspectives in...
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January 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
A chance to explore global perspectives in teacher education and challenge the standard education model. Promises to be an interesting space for open debate and thinking otherwise. www.bera.ac.uk/event/global...
#teachereducation #education #educationresearch
#teachereducation #education #educationresearch
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ECER 2025, Belgrade. Learn about the Keynote Speakers (https://buff.ly/4gfs4uf) and find the Call for Proposals and how to submit to #ECER2025 (https://buff.ly/4gfOHhA). Submission deadline: 31 January
January 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
ECER 2025, Belgrade. Learn about the Keynote Speakers (https://buff.ly/4gfs4uf) and find the Call for Proposals and how to submit to #ECER2025 (https://buff.ly/4gfOHhA). Submission deadline: 31 January
The Call for Papers for the annual Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference is open. See ethnographyandeducation.org
Conference dates: Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th September 2025
#ethnography #education #educationresearch
Conference dates: Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th September 2025
#ethnography #education #educationresearch
Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference
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January 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The Call for Papers for the annual Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference is open. See ethnographyandeducation.org
Conference dates: Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th September 2025
#ethnography #education #educationresearch
Conference dates: Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th September 2025
#ethnography #education #educationresearch
ITE Senior Lectureship in the north of England open for applications. jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#teachereducation
#teachereducation
Job Opportunity at York St John University: Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education (Primary)
Full time permanent Location: YorkSalary: £47,874 to £58,596 per annum About YSJYork St John is an ambitious, modern university at the heart of historic York and there has never been a more exciting t...
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October 1, 2024 at 12:43 PM
ITE Senior Lectureship in the north of England open for applications. jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
#teachereducation
#teachereducation
Hot off the press! ‘Teacher Education and Its Discontents: Politics, Knowledge, and Ethics’. A unique collection of essays from researchers and teacher educators from around the world, presenting innovative approaches to education theory and practices. #educationresearch #education #teachereducation
September 20, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Hot off the press! ‘Teacher Education and Its Discontents: Politics, Knowledge, and Ethics’. A unique collection of essays from researchers and teacher educators from around the world, presenting innovative approaches to education theory and practices. #educationresearch #education #teachereducation
What is meant by place?
Campus smells of lavender
Place is brain honey.
Ah, the start of a new semester…
#haiku #yorkstjohn
Campus smells of lavender
Place is brain honey.
Ah, the start of a new semester…
#haiku #yorkstjohn
September 19, 2024 at 4:15 PM
What is meant by place?
Campus smells of lavender
Place is brain honey.
Ah, the start of a new semester…
#haiku #yorkstjohn
Campus smells of lavender
Place is brain honey.
Ah, the start of a new semester…
#haiku #yorkstjohn
‘We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless “information” that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility.’ This is ‘reverence for the infinite connectedness’ in complex human-nonhuman relations. #STS #education #poetry #goodreads
September 17, 2024 at 5:57 PM
‘We need the languages of both science and poetry to save us from merely stockpiling endless “information” that fails to inform our ignorance or our irresponsibility.’ This is ‘reverence for the infinite connectedness’ in complex human-nonhuman relations. #STS #education #poetry #goodreads
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“What we now know is that if we grit our teeth and continue to trust in growth, we are heading, as they say, 'straight into a wall'.” Isabelle Stengers (2009)
August 29, 2024 at 5:06 PM
“What we now know is that if we grit our teeth and continue to trust in growth, we are heading, as they say, 'straight into a wall'.” Isabelle Stengers (2009)
Two weeks later and I’m still existing on the intellectuel fuel of #ECER2024. Towards a Weak Ontology of/for Education symposium photo, with ITERC colleagues. Can we shift the ITERC social media over to here too @pragmarxist.bsky.social?
September 11, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Two weeks later and I’m still existing on the intellectuel fuel of #ECER2024. Towards a Weak Ontology of/for Education symposium photo, with ITERC colleagues. Can we shift the ITERC social media over to here too @pragmarxist.bsky.social?
Well this promises to be rather fabulous. Pre-ordered. #goodreads
In "Poor Things," @lendavis.bsky.social writes about “poornography”: distorted narratives of poverty written by and for the middle and upper classes. Read the introduction for free now: assets-us-01.kc-usercontent.com/f7ca9afb-82c...
September 11, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Well this promises to be rather fabulous. Pre-ordered. #goodreads
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Today a senior exec from Taylor & Francis replied confirming that T&F journal articles *are* and will continue to be provided to its AI partners for model training, with *no opt-out*. Guess we know where we stand now - academics are creators of data for value generation by Big AI and publishers
As a T&F journal editor - where we publish a lot of critical work on AI - I think it's ethically essential the publishers - all of them - get fully transparent about their AI training partnerships with Big Tech cos fast. It's an awful situation because academic authors are truly locked in... (1/2)
I will continue working on this and try to make sure HAS NOT also translates into WILL NOT/WILL NEVER. I have asked for an official statement of this which I can share with journal editors, who are worried about the possibility of boycotts.
September 9, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Today a senior exec from Taylor & Francis replied confirming that T&F journal articles *are* and will continue to be provided to its AI partners for model training, with *no opt-out*. Guess we know where we stand now - academics are creators of data for value generation by Big AI and publishers
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Fancy £10k for humanities or social science research? We’ve opened the call for our small research grants. Do share.
Awards will be allocated through partial randomisation - awarded randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold
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Awards will be allocated through partial randomisation - awarded randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold
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British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants
The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...
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September 6, 2024 at 6:35 AM
Fancy £10k for humanities or social science research? We’ve opened the call for our small research grants. Do share.
Awards will be allocated through partial randomisation - awarded randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
Awards will be allocated through partial randomisation - awarded randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
Great week at ECER2024, talking Latour, AIME and instauration.
September 6, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Great week at ECER2024, talking Latour, AIME and instauration.