Des Fitzgerald
@desfitzgerald.bsky.social
Radical Humanities, Medical Humanities, Urban Studies, Science & Tech Studies - https://linktr.ee/des_fitzgerald
I think I'm the only person in Cork who likes what they've done here, so it's lucky I've written an entire book about why I'm right and everyone else is wrong.
November 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I think I'm the only person in Cork who likes what they've done here, so it's lucky I've written an entire book about why I'm right and everyone else is wrong.
Everyone in Ireland rn
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Everyone in Ireland rn
Ginger recognises ginger
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Ginger recognises ginger
"structural inequalities" is doing some amount of heavy lifting here
November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"structural inequalities" is doing some amount of heavy lifting here
This book, Jesus.
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This book, Jesus.
Today it didn't rain for about fifteen minutes and I got a cool rainbow pic.
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Today it didn't rain for about fifteen minutes and I got a cool rainbow pic.
Yes, we are in Belfast.
November 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Yes, we are in Belfast.
Cork people, I will be doing a guest lecture, ;The Biopolitics of Urban Green Space' at the Cork Centre for Architectural Education, Monday the 10th, from 1 to 2. Open to all comers as far as I know.
November 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Cork people, I will be doing a guest lecture, ;The Biopolitics of Urban Green Space' at the Cork Centre for Architectural Education, Monday the 10th, from 1 to 2. Open to all comers as far as I know.
Hard to say why exactly, but "British matters of sex" is such a funny way to talk about the UK anti-gender movement.
November 4, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Hard to say why exactly, but "British matters of sex" is such a funny way to talk about the UK anti-gender movement.
Off to the UK again (boo) but what a view of cobh and spike island on the way out.
November 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Off to the UK again (boo) but what a view of cobh and spike island on the way out.
Watching baby shark hospital with the air of someone at an unusually rich lacan seminar
October 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Watching baby shark hospital with the air of someone at an unusually rich lacan seminar
I genuinely think in Ireland we're much to chill about how much the political and media establishment of the neighbouring state desires bad things for us. #speirgorm
October 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I genuinely think in Ireland we're much to chill about how much the political and media establishment of the neighbouring state desires bad things for us. #speirgorm
A post - and post style - so insufferable that I'm now kind of pro closing the universities.
October 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A post - and post style - so insufferable that I'm now kind of pro closing the universities.
Tfw you start reading a first year sociology essay and you know it's not going to be good. #speirgorm
October 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Tfw you start reading a first year sociology essay and you know it's not going to be good. #speirgorm
The mighty Saul Williams with Carlos Niño & Friends at St Luke's, Cork. "Please speak to your relatives in the US who are in the police and now joining ICE."
October 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The mighty Saul Williams with Carlos Niño & Friends at St Luke's, Cork. "Please speak to your relatives in the US who are in the police and now joining ICE."
Beneath contempt, as always.
October 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Beneath contempt, as always.
Actual photo of me trying and failing to talk coherently about th*mas h*atherwick's book -_-
October 22, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Actual photo of me trying and failing to talk coherently about th*mas h*atherwick's book -_-
Friends, I regret to inform that we are no longer in Italy, and find ourselves now in a much darker place.
October 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Friends, I regret to inform that we are no longer in Italy, and find ourselves now in a much darker place.
I'm about to tell a roomful of about 200 urbanists and 'city makers' about the fascist roots of "urban nature." This can only go well.
October 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I'm about to tell a roomful of about 200 urbanists and 'city makers' about the fascist roots of "urban nature." This can only go well.
Outing myself as a tourist by sitting outside, beaming at the balmy evening, while the Italian lads walk past in big coats and scarves.
October 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Outing myself as a tourist by sitting outside, beaming at the balmy evening, while the Italian lads walk past in big coats and scarves.
Action shot of me in Italy reading about the orange rain warning in Cork
October 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Action shot of me in Italy reading about the orange rain warning in Cork
It's unfortunate about the lurid title and presentation because this book - which is a sort of magical realist history of geological fracture, environmental toxicity, and murderous violence in the Pacific Northwest - is really something.
October 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It's unfortunate about the lurid title and presentation because this book - which is a sort of magical realist history of geological fracture, environmental toxicity, and murderous violence in the Pacific Northwest - is really something.
Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.
October 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.
Incredible to have a grand total of four posts on twitter and two of them are "I won the nobel prize" and "also fuck victor orban."
October 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Incredible to have a grand total of four posts on twitter and two of them are "I won the nobel prize" and "also fuck victor orban."