Stephen Shapiro
@stephenshapiro.bsky.social
Edinburgh based:
read my scholarly books below!
I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
read my scholarly books below!
I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
Pinned
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January 10, 2026 at 11:57 AM
January 10, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Did Peter Handke lay the cultural ground for neo-fascism?
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January 10, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Did Peter Handke lay the cultural ground for neo-fascism?
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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Hamburg is one of the great European cities.
Hamburg is one of the great European cities.
January 10, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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Hamburg is one of the great European cities.
Hamburg is one of the great European cities.
January 10, 2026 at 11:22 AM
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Our very first post! Wondering if @theguardian.com still accepts comments on this so we can tell them about management actively removing of this article from corridors, and how that illustrates the further escalation of the kind of authoritarian #UKHE management style outlined in the piece…
Is this thing on?
How better to debut in the Blueskies than with a brilliant piece in a national newspaper about how QMUL encapsulates the downward spiral of Higher Education and 'the good jobs'?
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How better to debut in the Blueskies than with a brilliant piece in a national newspaper about how QMUL encapsulates the downward spiral of Higher Education and 'the good jobs'?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The miserly tale of how a university took its staff’s wages – and the public paid the price | Ad...
Even Scrooge would marvel at Queen Mary’s pay-docking over a marking boycott. No wonder higher education is in turmoil, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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January 10, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Our very first post! Wondering if @theguardian.com still accepts comments on this so we can tell them about management actively removing of this article from corridors, and how that illustrates the further escalation of the kind of authoritarian #UKHE management style outlined in the piece…
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Reposted by Stephen Shapiro
Of all the Jim Thompson film adaptations The Grifters remains probably the best, but none really surpasses the text.
There's something about the pulp form that still operates better as text, rather than televisual, esp. for Thompson, whose books often work by the confusion of what's described.
There's something about the pulp form that still operates better as text, rather than televisual, esp. for Thompson, whose books often work by the confusion of what's described.
January 9, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Of all the Jim Thompson film adaptations The Grifters remains probably the best, but none really surpasses the text.
There's something about the pulp form that still operates better as text, rather than televisual, esp. for Thompson, whose books often work by the confusion of what's described.
There's something about the pulp form that still operates better as text, rather than televisual, esp. for Thompson, whose books often work by the confusion of what's described.
no one half-attuned to reality would believe this will happen
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www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
Jacqui Smith: tuition fee increase could stem language course cuts - Research Professional News
Skills minister rules out change to strategic priorities funding to help ailing discipline
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January 9, 2026 at 4:58 PM
no one half-attuned to reality would believe this will happen
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
If you're willing to bracket things, this Israeli show is actually very good, and renewed for season 4
January 9, 2026 at 4:12 PM
If you're willing to bracket things, this Israeli show is actually very good, and renewed for season 4
Of all the Jim Thompson film adaptations The Grifters remains probably the best, but none really surpasses the text.
There's something about the pulp form that still operates better as text, rather than televisual, esp. for Thompson, whose books often work by the confusion of what's described.
There's something about the pulp form that still operates better as text, rather than televisual, esp. for Thompson, whose books often work by the confusion of what's described.
January 9, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Of all the Jim Thompson film adaptations The Grifters remains probably the best, but none really surpasses the text.
There's something about the pulp form that still operates better as text, rather than televisual, esp. for Thompson, whose books often work by the confusion of what's described.
There's something about the pulp form that still operates better as text, rather than televisual, esp. for Thompson, whose books often work by the confusion of what's described.
the regime won't last a month now
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Iran’s supreme leader signals harsher crackdown as protest movement swells
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls protesters ‘vandals’ and ‘saboteurs’ and blames the US for instigating the unrest
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
the regime won't last a month now
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
rushing to the bank before it closed on Friday to get cash.
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Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 2:17 PM
rushing to the bank before it closed on Friday to get cash.
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