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Benedict Douglas
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Law Lecturer. Trying to work out the nature of being human, sometimes by looking vacantly into space. Unique spellings©
https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/benedict-douglas/
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Jeanette Winterson beautifully foreseeing the problem with AI art and in student essays in 1995
I do not want to argue here about great artists, I want to concentrate on true artists, major or minor, who are connected to the past and who themselves make a connection to the future. The rue artist is connected. The true artist studies the past, not as a copyist or a pasticheur will study the past, those people are interested only in the final product, the art object, signed sealed and delivered to a public drugged on reproduction. The true artist is interested in the art object as an art process, the thing in being, the being of the thing, the struggle, the excitement, the energy, that have found expression in a particular way, The true artist is after the problem. The false artist wants it solved (by somebody else). Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery (Johnathan Cape 1995) 12
June 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Reskeeting for my UG Intro to Law class who had to do a problem question on whether Tintin could claim as a secondary victim if he suffered psychiatric injury if he saw Snowy injured in an accident.
Tintin and his immediate family member snowy (who is a also dog).
June 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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I'm giving a magic little paper tomorrow at 3pm:

"NO JUSTICE, JUST US: Death & Love in Terry Pratchett's Discworld"

Drop me a message me if you'd like a link
April 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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A cropped version of a WWI recruitment poster saying "England Expects Every Man to Do His Duty" Picture Credit IWM (Art.IWM PST 11343)
November 27, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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October 31, 2024 at 8:23 PM
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In honour of which, this from today's lecture on precedent
Captain Kirk exclaiming Denning!
October 24, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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October BY ROBERT FROST O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the forest call; Tomorrow they may form and go. O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow. Make the day seem to us less brief. Hearts not averse to being beguiled, Beguile us in the way you know. Release one leaf at break of day; At noon release another leaf; One from our trees, one far away. Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst. Slow, slow! For the grapes’ sake, if they were all, Whose leaves already are burnt with frost, Whose clustered fruit must else be lost— For the grapes’ sake along the wall.
October 22, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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So excited to take the @ukconstitutionzine.bsky.social to its first zine fair in Leeds today!
Flyer for Leeds zine fair, 12 Oct, 12-5pm, 2 Regent st, LS27QA Picture of goddess of Justice with scales and sword in a low fi resolution wit the words Law Zines next to it
October 12, 2024 at 8:34 AM
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October 8, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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September 2, 2024 at 6:05 AM
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First set of zines @ukconstitutionzine.bsky.social being released into the wild!
Box full of Zines explaining the UK constitution. Like little A5 beavers.
August 22, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft: Please fill out this survey on contact with extra-terrestrial intelligence to help my colleague Professor Michael Bohlander's research: tinyurl.com/y99c7tw8
A quote from Philippe Gaulier, The Tormentor: My Thoughts on Theatre (trans Ewen Maclachian, Editions Filmiko 2006) saying "the honour of teachers. Honour orders you to search where no one has dared go before."
July 24, 2024 at 10:44 AM
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@nigelslater.bsky.social made your quiche ❤️
January 14, 2024 at 9:33 PM
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Up there with ‘Bat News’ as an excellent membership magazine!

Clarion Club also great for socialist principles and a v competitive deal on cycling 3rd party liability insurance.
November 23, 2023 at 1:20 PM
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Handy tyranny vs law metaphor you've got there!
A hungry tyrannosaurs rex looking at the statute of justice from on top of the old bailey, justice has a speech bubble saying "Come at me bro..."
November 16, 2023 at 11:07 AM