Sarah Comyn
@sarahcomyn.bsky.social
Associate Professor in UCD School of English, Drama, Film & Creative Writing.
Research Ireland, Starting Laureate: Imperial Minerals. She/her. Views mine.
Research Ireland, Starting Laureate: Imperial Minerals. She/her. Views mine.
'Refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future'. 'Just say no!'
Amazing, powerful statements.
Amazing, powerful statements.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 PM
'Refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future'. 'Just say no!'
Amazing, powerful statements.
Amazing, powerful statements.
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You can also listen to Assoc. Prof Tom Nurmi's brilliant keynote which opened the symposium. In his paper, Tom engages closely with previous Minerals roundtables and provides a philosophical exploration of minerals in our contemporary era through Emerson's poetry
imperialminerals.ie/podcasts/qua...
imperialminerals.ie/podcasts/qua...
December 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
You can also listen to Assoc. Prof Tom Nurmi's brilliant keynote which opened the symposium. In his paper, Tom engages closely with previous Minerals roundtables and provides a philosophical exploration of minerals in our contemporary era through Emerson's poetry
imperialminerals.ie/podcasts/qua...
imperialminerals.ie/podcasts/qua...
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Read @gigitang.bsky.social reflection on the brilliant Critical Minerals symposium she & Katie Donnelly organised for the Minerals project. The symposium was generously supported by UCD College of Arts & Humanities seed funding & @ucdhumanities.bsky.social imperialminerals.ie/2025/12/19/c...
Imperial Minerals — Critical Minerals Symposium Reflections
imperialminerals.ie
December 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Read @gigitang.bsky.social reflection on the brilliant Critical Minerals symposium she & Katie Donnelly organised for the Minerals project. The symposium was generously supported by UCD College of Arts & Humanities seed funding & @ucdhumanities.bsky.social imperialminerals.ie/2025/12/19/c...
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💪🏽💪🏽
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Later this morning if anybody’s free + interested. One thesis: sustained acts of creative attention are deeply countersystemic. Spaces for such activity are tiny + under attack, which means that thinking is itself political & spaces for doing it must be defended together &slowly, tactically expanded
Very excited and honored to be doing an online book conversation about *Action without Hope* at @greenhouseuis.net next Monday, December 8th, at 10 am Eastern / 4 pm Central European — Zoom link below. Would be so psyched to see people there, if you can make it 🌿
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...
![Book cover, Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse, Nathan K Hensley [Detail of Turner watercolor showing wash of gray, blue, orange, yellow, and red]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:m52czdgn43hqqylkdhrwxs5e/bafkreiehmynodhyolkh3xfywdfjpqukr7ymjbtbt5qyl4ce3ldzdiujcby@jpeg)
December 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Later this morning if anybody’s free + interested. One thesis: sustained acts of creative attention are deeply countersystemic. Spaces for such activity are tiny + under attack, which means that thinking is itself political & spaces for doing it must be defended together &slowly, tactically expanded
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We're hosting a zoom info session today at noon ET! Registration info in the doc below!
Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"
December 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
We're hosting a zoom info session today at noon ET! Registration info in the doc below!
I'm giving a public talk at Universistät Konztanz's ZKF on Wednesday at 5:30pm. I'll be talking about my @researchireland.ie Imperial Minerals project, Illicit Diamond Buyers, Zama Zama, Koleka Putuma, William Kentridge, and more. You can join online! 👇
www.uni-konstanz.de/forschen/for...
www.uni-konstanz.de/forschen/for...
ZKF Public Talk: The Carceral and Geopower Logics of South Africa’s Mining Imaginary
www.uni-konstanz.de
December 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I'm giving a public talk at Universistät Konztanz's ZKF on Wednesday at 5:30pm. I'll be talking about my @researchireland.ie Imperial Minerals project, Illicit Diamond Buyers, Zama Zama, Koleka Putuma, William Kentridge, and more. You can join online! 👇
www.uni-konstanz.de/forschen/for...
www.uni-konstanz.de/forschen/for...
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Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
November 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Not doing Black Friday because I'm against the creeping Americanisation of Irish life and can't afford to as a small artist, but WILL be doing Vengeful Hag Friday where for every piece of art you purchase from www.ciaraioch.com/artprints I will fervently wish bad cess to your enemies
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Just ordered! At $20.97 this works out to LESS THAN $1 AN ESSAY for, e.g. @asheeshksi.bsky.social on "Board of Trustees"; @cnewf.bsky.social on "Degree"; @dennismhogan.bsky.social on "Endowment": & (one I read in draft) @andyhines.bsky.social, @kaibosworth.bsky.social et al on "Sustainability" 💥
everyone is talking about getting copies of University Keywords (or other JHU Press books) for all their friends, students, and comrades for the holidays, especially when it is 40% off with the code HHOL25.
November 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Just ordered! At $20.97 this works out to LESS THAN $1 AN ESSAY for, e.g. @asheeshksi.bsky.social on "Board of Trustees"; @cnewf.bsky.social on "Degree"; @dennismhogan.bsky.social on "Endowment": & (one I read in draft) @andyhines.bsky.social, @kaibosworth.bsky.social et al on "Sustainability" 💥
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I am looking for a Senior Researcher (at least 2 years postdoctoral exp.) for the LivePlatforms project into how people make livelihoods in the platform economy; a 5-year FT post based in the School of Info and Communication Studies at UCD. Do share widely!
universityvacancies.com/university-c...
universityvacancies.com/university-c...
Senior Researcher, UCD Information&Comms Studies,Temp 56 months | University Vacancies Ireland
universityvacancies.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I am looking for a Senior Researcher (at least 2 years postdoctoral exp.) for the LivePlatforms project into how people make livelihoods in the platform economy; a 5-year FT post based in the School of Info and Communication Studies at UCD. Do share widely!
universityvacancies.com/university-c...
universityvacancies.com/university-c...
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Jobs 👇in English/Film!
Some more job listings!
Assistant Professor in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Early-Career Research Fellow (Fixed Term), Cambridge (Faculty of Divinity) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/53175/
Lecturer in Creative Writing, Kent jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Assistant Professor in Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Early-Career Research Fellow (Fixed Term), Cambridge (Faculty of Divinity) www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/53175/
Lecturer in Creative Writing, Kent jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Jobs 👇in English/Film!
My shadow CV is working overtime this month 😅
November 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My shadow CV is working overtime this month 😅
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Same #Planning narrative in UK (& other places), to remove citizens & democratic participation from environmental decisions
“to put ministers “in the driving seat” & allow them to force through developments quickly even with local opposition.. council leaders said it would erode local democracy”
“to put ministers “in the driving seat” & allow them to force through developments quickly even with local opposition.. council leaders said it would erode local democracy”
The housing secretary will take the ability to veto local objections and speed up planning delays, but councils see it as an attack on local democracy ⬇️
Councils to lose power to block large housing developments
www.thetimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Same #Planning narrative in UK (& other places), to remove citizens & democratic participation from environmental decisions
“to put ministers “in the driving seat” & allow them to force through developments quickly even with local opposition.. council leaders said it would erode local democracy”
“to put ministers “in the driving seat” & allow them to force through developments quickly even with local opposition.. council leaders said it would erode local democracy”
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Do they mean white straight Anglo American masculinity?
2020 Scottish gay man
2021 South African man
2022 Sri Lankan man
2023 Irish man
2024 Woman
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
2020 Scottish gay man
2021 South African man
2022 Sri Lankan man
2023 Irish man
2024 Woman
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the Booker prize winner: putting masculinity back at the centre of literary fiction | Editorial
Editorial: David Szalay’s Flesh breaks from a decade of female-centred interiors and reopens a genre many thought closed to men
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Do they mean white straight Anglo American masculinity?
2020 Scottish gay man
2021 South African man
2022 Sri Lankan man
2023 Irish man
2024 Woman
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
2020 Scottish gay man
2021 South African man
2022 Sri Lankan man
2023 Irish man
2024 Woman
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
5 Academy in Exile Fellowships-Deadline Extended, 30 November 2025. Eligibility: scholars with PhD in the humanities, social sciences, law, who are at risk because of their academic work/civic engagement in human rights, democracy, & the pursuit of academic freedom. www.academy-in-exile.eu
Academy in Exile
www.academy-in-exile.eu
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
5 Academy in Exile Fellowships-Deadline Extended, 30 November 2025. Eligibility: scholars with PhD in the humanities, social sciences, law, who are at risk because of their academic work/civic engagement in human rights, democracy, & the pursuit of academic freedom. www.academy-in-exile.eu
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"There was Bovino with the grenade. Pulls the pin."
Agents pepper sprayed a 1-year-old. She was taken to a hospital. But reps said it didn't happen.
abc7chicago.com/post/immigra...
Agents pepper sprayed a 1-year-old. She was taken to a hospital. But reps said it didn't happen.
abc7chicago.com/post/immigra...
Federal agents pepper spray 1-year-old girl in Cicero after Little Village clashes, dad says: VIDEO
DHS says Border Patrol agents entered a Cicero parking lot shortly after deploying crowd control measures on Little Village residents. However, there was no explanation as to why video showed a 1-year...
abc7chicago.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"There was Bovino with the grenade. Pulls the pin."
Agents pepper sprayed a 1-year-old. She was taken to a hospital. But reps said it didn't happen.
abc7chicago.com/post/immigra...
Agents pepper sprayed a 1-year-old. She was taken to a hospital. But reps said it didn't happen.
abc7chicago.com/post/immigra...
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Have an op-ed bubbling up about yesterday's results or an essay on Eugene Debs or a blog post on the concept of "hope" that you just have to write but don't know where to pitch it?
Head over to our Pitchables page to find over 50 public publications, sites, and podcasts open to pitches:
Head over to our Pitchables page to find over 50 public publications, sites, and podcasts open to pitches:
Pitchables - Black and White and Read All Over
Resource list of sites, blogs, magazines, and podcasts open to accepting pitches for public scholarship, essays, reviews, and expertise.
blackwhiteandread.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Have an op-ed bubbling up about yesterday's results or an essay on Eugene Debs or a blog post on the concept of "hope" that you just have to write but don't know where to pitch it?
Head over to our Pitchables page to find over 50 public publications, sites, and podcasts open to pitches:
Head over to our Pitchables page to find over 50 public publications, sites, and podcasts open to pitches:
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disregulated oligarch power got a resounding rebuke last night, from Silicon Valley to Conyers, Georgia to NYC!
to learn more about our political+economic conditions, join InterCcECT for a miniseminar with guest Prof Matt Seybold on the "neofeudal hypothesis." interccect.com/2025/11/02/s...
to learn more about our political+economic conditions, join InterCcECT for a miniseminar with guest Prof Matt Seybold on the "neofeudal hypothesis." interccect.com/2025/11/02/s...
Serfs Up
Is too-late capitalism evolving a new mode of production? A new mode of accumulation? Or just a new political and ideological dispensation of the main forces and relations that have defined moderni…
interccect.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
disregulated oligarch power got a resounding rebuke last night, from Silicon Valley to Conyers, Georgia to NYC!
to learn more about our political+economic conditions, join InterCcECT for a miniseminar with guest Prof Matt Seybold on the "neofeudal hypothesis." interccect.com/2025/11/02/s...
to learn more about our political+economic conditions, join InterCcECT for a miniseminar with guest Prof Matt Seybold on the "neofeudal hypothesis." interccect.com/2025/11/02/s...
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The big excitement in Paris today is the opening of a fast fashion retail shop. There are news crews everywhere and lines out the door. So grim.
November 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The big excitement in Paris today is the opening of a fast fashion retail shop. There are news crews everywhere and lines out the door. So grim.
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A District Judge has cleared Tommy Robinson on a terror charge because he found Robinson had a protected belief. How does that pass the 5th limb of the Grainger test?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
![Grainger criteria
To qualify as a 'philosophical belief' under the Equality Act, the belief must satisfy the five criteria set out at para 24 in Grainger plc v Nicholson [2010] and mirrored in the Equality and Human Rights Commission Code of Practice 2011. These are that:
The belief must be genuinely held
The belief must not simply be an opinion or viewpoint based on the present state of information available
The belief must concern a weighty and substantial aspect of human life and behaviour
The belief must attain a certain level of cogency, seriousness, cohesion and importance
The belief must be worthy of respect in a democratic society, not be incompatible with human dignity and not be in conflict with the fundamental rights of others.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:noqaydlcbia5upq6va2p2znw/bafkreidbknxirxpcidqg6kgd7ejugwdwzncsxcm7foh6wxc5rf5qbs6pny@jpeg)
November 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A District Judge has cleared Tommy Robinson on a terror charge because he found Robinson had a protected belief. How does that pass the 5th limb of the Grainger test?
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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"Some people may perceive one category up from another one as only a "little" bit stronger. Like earthquake scales, the hurricane intensity scale increases logarithmically. That means a doubling of wind is not a doubling of damage. It actually results in a 256-fold increase in possible damage."
Writing is my coping mechanism when I am worried about a weather situation. As an unprecedented storm like #HurricaneMelissa approaches Jamaica, I feel helpless, so I write. My Tuesday morning thoughts on the storm.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
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Hurricane Melissa Is The Strongest Storm On Earth In 2025
The strongest storm on Earth in 2025 is about to hit Jamaica. Here's what you need to know about Hurricane Melissa before its first landfall.
www.forbes.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
"Some people may perceive one category up from another one as only a "little" bit stronger. Like earthquake scales, the hurricane intensity scale increases logarithmically. That means a doubling of wind is not a doubling of damage. It actually results in a 256-fold increase in possible damage."
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Where are the red-blooded American patriots who‘d die for these spacious skies and amber waves of grain? How does poisoning the land contribute to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, even for wealthy white conservatives?
“‘Over the next three years or so, unless Congress steps in, the Park Service will be pretty seriously damaged, you might almost say dismantled,’ says former NPS director Jonathan Jarvis, who served as the agency’s head from 2009 to 2017…
What’s the Trump Administration’s End Game for the National Parks?
We saw it in Yosemite. But you have to look beyond the bathrooms.
www.republic.land
October 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Where are the red-blooded American patriots who‘d die for these spacious skies and amber waves of grain? How does poisoning the land contribute to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, even for wealthy white conservatives?
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Please, if you use AI, don't.
This is the horrendous environmental impact it has, regardless of where it's situated. Not to mention the unethical use of artistic copyright breaches the companies have used to train these systems.
This is the horrendous environmental impact it has, regardless of where it's situated. Not to mention the unethical use of artistic copyright breaches the companies have used to train these systems.
Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year
The volume of tap water used by Scotland's data centres has quadrupled since 2021, figures show.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Please, if you use AI, don't.
This is the horrendous environmental impact it has, regardless of where it's situated. Not to mention the unethical use of artistic copyright breaches the companies have used to train these systems.
This is the horrendous environmental impact it has, regardless of where it's situated. Not to mention the unethical use of artistic copyright breaches the companies have used to train these systems.
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ahem there is finally going to be a zoom launch on US time and it's next Sunday, 5 October, at 2 p.m. Central (3 Eastern, 1 Mountain, noon Pacific, 8 p.m. UK/Ireland, 9 p.m. CET, please extrapolate elsewhere from there)
usd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
you'd be very welcome
bring a short poem you love
usd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
you'd be very welcome
bring a short poem you love
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Launch Pattern-book in the US!. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Join us for readings, discussion, and effervescence as Nina MacLaughlin (Wake, Siren; Summer Solstice; Winter Solstice) launches Éireann Lorsung's newest collection, Pattern-book (Carcanet, 2025).
Ab...
usd.zoom.us
September 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
ahem there is finally going to be a zoom launch on US time and it's next Sunday, 5 October, at 2 p.m. Central (3 Eastern, 1 Mountain, noon Pacific, 8 p.m. UK/Ireland, 9 p.m. CET, please extrapolate elsewhere from there)
usd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
you'd be very welcome
bring a short poem you love
usd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
you'd be very welcome
bring a short poem you love
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CBS News will now be a megaphone for the country's most vicious crusader against free speech, and the most relentless propagandist of far-right disinformation.
Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.
Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.
October 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
CBS News will now be a megaphone for the country's most vicious crusader against free speech, and the most relentless propagandist of far-right disinformation.
Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.
Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.