p.s. just realised his name is spelt “Rubin”, like Dave and Rick but not at all like the sandwich

not so hot take: Ruben Colwill is very good at football

hot take: confused by shouts of McGregor for POTM, he looked rusty to me and didn’t seem to be moving well, especially in the first half, when he was all at sea. granted, he improved in the second half

POTM has to be Princewill - he’s fast, strong, has quick feet, and ran his socks off… honestly can’t remember the last time i was this excited by a debut performance

first half was characteristic of our season so far: shapeless, aimless, ineffective

second half was more like we want to be: determined and resilient with smatterings of quality

Aritz Aduriz, surely?

didn’t Wilson lose the 1970 election on the back of Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” and outwardly racist anti immigration sentiment?

Please do come along if you find yourself in London.

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Benjamin Mehigan, Royal College of Art

“Forging Wildfire Narratives”

Esme Garlake, University College London

“Representing fire with animals: Piero di Cosimo’s The Forest Fire (c.1505)”

Hope to see you there!

Speakers:

Joëlle Dubé, Concordia University

“Burnt Matches and the Performed Refusal of Audie Murray in Token Generosity (2024)”

Clara de Massol, Kings College London

“Slow Violence and Toxic Geographies: Commemoration, Hauntings and Grief in Grenfell by Steve McQueen (2023)”

These papers will address modern and contemporary or historical topics including but not limited to the aesthetic politics of fire, fire and non-human agency, fire and environmental politics, fire and conflict, the language of fire and burning, and burnt matter as art and/or testimony.”

What does studying burnt matter and fire-affected objects reveal about the wider social causes of disaster, both contemporary and historical, and what challenges do they present to the art historical method?

How do artworks conflict with and appease the boundaries of representation? Is it possible for burning to be a generative and transformative process, as well as a destructive one?

This panel considers the role of representation in a “world on fire.” When the flames abate, they leave behind a world changed, but this change needs nuance. How are images of fire deployed in art and media and what are the limits of these images in representing this new reality?

(…) crucial to understanding a world caught in the throes of environmental crisis and unrest.

“In the context of rising global temperatures, raging wildfires, blazing conflict in the Middle East, and ever more incendiary political speech in Western liberal democracies, the politics and aesthetics of fire have become an increasingly important area of study (…)

likewise Eva! was a pleasure