Jacob Badcock
@jacobisaac.bsky.social
art historian
swindon town fan
swindon town fan
good morning @maxrushden.bsky.social, long time @footballweekly.bsky.social listener here. i don’t “skeet” often, but i just came here to gloat. your boat rowers took one hell of a beating yesterday. i fear that Ryan Loft may need some of Mrs Holloway’s sage if you are to reach your lofty ambitions
August 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
good morning @maxrushden.bsky.social, long time @footballweekly.bsky.social listener here. i don’t “skeet” often, but i just came here to gloat. your boat rowers took one hell of a beating yesterday. i fear that Ryan Loft may need some of Mrs Holloway’s sage if you are to reach your lofty ambitions
well, football never really went away did it? a dog darn shame about the result though
August 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
well, football never really went away did it? a dog darn shame about the result though
Next Thursday (6-7pm) I’ll be chairing an important discussion between Esme Garlake and Dr John Paul Stonard on art history and climate activism. The event is being hosted by @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social and promises to be a fascinating discussion.
May 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Next Thursday (6-7pm) I’ll be chairing an important discussion between Esme Garlake and Dr John Paul Stonard on art history and climate activism. The event is being hosted by @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social and promises to be a fascinating discussion.
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On 10 January 2024, Pope Francis received a private audience with a delegation of people who had been participating for several years in a dialogue between Marxists and Christians. Michael Löwy, who was in attendance, recounts the experience in detail.
To the Vatican with Red Flags
In 2014, Pope Francis met Alexis Tsipras and Walter Baier, representatives of the European Left, along with Franz Kronreif of the Christian Focolare movement. With Bergoglio’s agreement, a process of ...
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April 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
On 10 January 2024, Pope Francis received a private audience with a delegation of people who had been participating for several years in a dialogue between Marxists and Christians. Michael Löwy, who was in attendance, recounts the experience in detail.
the securitisation of waste… a reality in Lagos, Accra, Dar es Salaam, and now Birmingham
solidarity with striking bin workers
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
solidarity with striking bin workers
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Birmingham bin strike latest: Army experts called in to help
The government says office-based military experts will help because of the
www.bbc.co.uk
April 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
the securitisation of waste… a reality in Lagos, Accra, Dar es Salaam, and now Birmingham
solidarity with striking bin workers
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
solidarity with striking bin workers
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
very grateful for the wonderful contributions to “Burning Matters” @forarthistory.org.uk, papers addressing contemporary Canadian art and indigenous rituals of fire, Piero di Cosimo’s wildfire paintings, Steve McQueen and the Grenfell Fire disaster, and photography and forged wildfire narratives
April 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
very grateful for the wonderful contributions to “Burning Matters” @forarthistory.org.uk, papers addressing contemporary Canadian art and indigenous rituals of fire, Piero di Cosimo’s wildfire paintings, Steve McQueen and the Grenfell Fire disaster, and photography and forged wildfire narratives
if you’re coming to the @forarthistory.org.uk conference in York this week do join Elsa Perryman Owens and I for “Burning Matters: The Limits of the Image in a World on Fire” (9 April) where we’ll be discussing the role of art history in grappling with present day and historical fire disasters
Are you attending our Annual Conference 9 - 11 April in York (pictured)? Here are some of our day one sessions you can look forward to!
Programme: loom.ly/1owNoO4
#ForArtHistory2025
Programme: loom.ly/1owNoO4
#ForArtHistory2025
April 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
if you’re coming to the @forarthistory.org.uk conference in York this week do join Elsa Perryman Owens and I for “Burning Matters: The Limits of the Image in a World on Fire” (9 April) where we’ll be discussing the role of art history in grappling with present day and historical fire disasters
wrote this short essay on sanitation, urban space, and state violence in Accra for The Polyphony, a really neat platform for research in the critical medical humanities based out of @durhamimh.bsky.social. check it out 👇🏻
Jacob Badcock elucidates the parallels between 19th century colonial notions of sanitation and urban space and the recent demolition of an e-waste scrapyard in Accra (Ghana).
thepolyphony.org/2025/04/03/a...
thepolyphony.org/2025/04/03/a...
Agbogbloshie: Resonances in the Colonial Archive
Jacob Badcock elucidates the parallels between 19th century colonial notions of sanitation and urban space and the recent demolition of an e-waste scrapyard in Accra (Ghana).
thepolyphony.org
April 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
wrote this short essay on sanitation, urban space, and state violence in Accra for The Polyphony, a really neat platform for research in the critical medical humanities based out of @durhamimh.bsky.social. check it out 👇🏻
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Jacob Badcock elucidates the parallels between 19th century colonial notions of sanitation and urban space and the recent demolition of an e-waste scrapyard in Accra (Ghana).
thepolyphony.org/2025/04/03/a...
thepolyphony.org/2025/04/03/a...
Agbogbloshie: Resonances in the Colonial Archive
Jacob Badcock elucidates the parallels between 19th century colonial notions of sanitation and urban space and the recent demolition of an e-waste scrapyard in Accra (Ghana).
thepolyphony.org
April 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Jacob Badcock elucidates the parallels between 19th century colonial notions of sanitation and urban space and the recent demolition of an e-waste scrapyard in Accra (Ghana).
thepolyphony.org/2025/04/03/a...
thepolyphony.org/2025/04/03/a...
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You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
well, this was great! learned so much from the audience. it was great to hear from grass roots activists, people who run electronics repair/reuse workshops, and other climate concerned residents with all kinds of other knowledge and expertise (from plastics, to mining, to water quality)
Next week I am speaking as part of the Highworth Climate Talks. Do come along if you’re local!
(www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/e-waste-th...)
(www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/e-waste-th...)
March 19, 2025 at 12:14 AM
well, this was great! learned so much from the audience. it was great to hear from grass roots activists, people who run electronics repair/reuse workshops, and other climate concerned residents with all kinds of other knowledge and expertise (from plastics, to mining, to water quality)
a case of what could have been these past few weeks…
March 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
a case of what could have been these past few weeks…
Next week I am speaking as part of the Highworth Climate Talks. Do come along if you’re local!
(www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/e-waste-th...)
(www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/e-waste-th...)
March 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Next week I am speaking as part of the Highworth Climate Talks. Do come along if you’re local!
(www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/e-waste-th...)
(www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/e-waste-th...)
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What a fascinating talk by @michellehenning.bsky.social, linking photography to chemical warfare via Benjamin's aura & Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia. Really looking forward to Henning's forthcoming book A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The first speaker in the Photoecologies Study Group online seminar series is Michelle Henning, 25 February 2025, 5-6.30pm GMT. Please register to attend this talk here: www.eventbrite.com/e/michelle-h... .
February 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
What a fascinating talk by @michellehenning.bsky.social, linking photography to chemical warfare via Benjamin's aura & Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia. Really looking forward to Henning's forthcoming book A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog, and Empire press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
About a month ago, I presented my lecture, Conserving ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’: Nature, Urbanism, Technology, at Bern Academy of the Arts for the inaugural Natureculture Lab
For anyone interested, you can now watch my lecture (from 42:00) on the link below ⬇️
youtu.be/u4kyl5lExC0
For anyone interested, you can now watch my lecture (from 42:00) on the link below ⬇️
youtu.be/u4kyl5lExC0
February 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
About a month ago, I presented my lecture, Conserving ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’: Nature, Urbanism, Technology, at Bern Academy of the Arts for the inaugural Natureculture Lab
For anyone interested, you can now watch my lecture (from 42:00) on the link below ⬇️
youtu.be/u4kyl5lExC0
For anyone interested, you can now watch my lecture (from 42:00) on the link below ⬇️
youtu.be/u4kyl5lExC0
computers are made from rocks.
February 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
computers are made from rocks.
didn’t see a single fan in an Aussie hat today. “Morfini” out
February 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
didn’t see a single fan in an Aussie hat today. “Morfini” out
people in academia often snigger or seem bemused when i tell them that i live in swindon and travel into london for work… despite the fact that this would make sense in basically any job that you rarely have to be in the office for
February 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
people in academia often snigger or seem bemused when i tell them that i live in swindon and travel into london for work… despite the fact that this would make sense in basically any job that you rarely have to be in the office for
so this was very cool! met so many wonderful people in Bern working at the interaction of natural and cultural heritage conservation (+obligatory “i gave a paper” snap)
February 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
so this was very cool! met so many wonderful people in Bern working at the interaction of natural and cultural heritage conservation (+obligatory “i gave a paper” snap)
guten abend from Bern, i see the paul glatzel fan club has set up a branch here
January 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
guten abend from Bern, i see the paul glatzel fan club has set up a branch here
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the fog followed me from the venetian lagoon to the streets of swindon town
quite literally one of the most unwatchable games of football i’ve ever seen
quite literally one of the most unwatchable games of football i’ve ever seen
January 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
the fog followed me from the venetian lagoon to the streets of swindon town
quite literally one of the most unwatchable games of football i’ve ever seen
quite literally one of the most unwatchable games of football i’ve ever seen
greetings from Venezia 👋🏻
January 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
greetings from Venezia 👋🏻
took a splendid december social media break to return and find, to my disappointment, that there is very little transfer window silliness on bsky
January 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
took a splendid december social media break to return and find, to my disappointment, that there is very little transfer window silliness on bsky
and again, fair play Ollie. only a tin pot cup but i was impressed with the pressing and energy levels tonight
have done my fair share of swindon town related moaning on here already. so i suppose that i ought to say that Holloway got his team selection spot on yesterday and that we were much better for it. long may it continue
December 10, 2024 at 10:45 PM
and again, fair play Ollie. only a tin pot cup but i was impressed with the pressing and energy levels tonight