Dr James O'Leary
@jamesoleary.bsky.social
Art & Architecture: Kreider + O’Leary
Associate Professor: The Bartlett, UCL
Co-Author: UNGOVERNABLE SPACES (Bloomsbury 2025)
www.kreider-oleary.net
Associate Professor: The Bartlett, UCL
Co-Author: UNGOVERNABLE SPACES (Bloomsbury 2025)
www.kreider-oleary.net
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UNGOVERNABLE SPACES
Community Formation & the Poetics of Resistance
by Kreider + O’Leary
What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Four case studies examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence.
Community Formation & the Poetics of Resistance
by Kreider + O’Leary
What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Four case studies examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence.
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Not enrolled in Joyce because I have already studied it quite a lot (not formally) but I have secured the reading list so I will be reading along in my own time for fun …
Have been listening to this again which is quite wonderful -
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Have been listening to this again which is quite wonderful -
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Ulysses - listen to the epic RTÉ dramatisation
James Joyce's 'Ulysses' is one of the most important works of modernist literature. The book chronicles the passage of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom through Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June ...
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October 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Not enrolled in Joyce because I have already studied it quite a lot (not formally) but I have secured the reading list so I will be reading along in my own time for fun …
Have been listening to this again which is quite wonderful -
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
Have been listening to this again which is quite wonderful -
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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UNGOVERNABLE SPACES
Community Formation & the Poetics of Resistance
by Kreider + O’Leary
What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Four case studies examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence.
Community Formation & the Poetics of Resistance
by Kreider + O’Leary
What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Four case studies examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence.
May 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
UNGOVERNABLE SPACES
Community Formation & the Poetics of Resistance
by Kreider + O’Leary
What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Four case studies examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence.
Community Formation & the Poetics of Resistance
by Kreider + O’Leary
What does it mean to be governed and what does it mean to resist? Four case studies examining how communities form amidst social and political turbulence.
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The EU long championed the idea of "responsibility to protect": that bystander countries should act to prevent atrocities such as genocide happening elsewhere.
It instructed its diplomats on what to watch for and what to do.
So what went wrong?
My piece:
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
It instructed its diplomats on what to watch for and what to do.
So what went wrong?
My piece:
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
Why is EU deadlocked on Israeli sanctions over Gaza?
A group of former EU ambassadors and senior staff have begun pressuring member states to take national action
www.irishtimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The EU long championed the idea of "responsibility to protect": that bystander countries should act to prevent atrocities such as genocide happening elsewhere.
It instructed its diplomats on what to watch for and what to do.
So what went wrong?
My piece:
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
It instructed its diplomats on what to watch for and what to do.
So what went wrong?
My piece:
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
People ask the strangest questions!
August 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
People ask the strangest questions!
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John Hume’s life provides lessons for addressing Palestine-Israel conflict
John Hume’s life provides lessons for addressing Palestine-Israel conflict
Five years after his death, the empathy, analysis and laser logic of Hume’s approach to achieving peace in Ireland apply to the Middle East today
www.irishtimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
John Hume’s life provides lessons for addressing Palestine-Israel conflict
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New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation
August 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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It's time to #ChuckZuck! Join us this month by deleting one of your Zuckerverse accounts -- #Facebook, #Instagram, #WhatsApp, #Oculus or #Threads -- and spread the social movement to #reclaimcontrol from #toxictech !
Here's how to disentangle: www.optoutproject.net/social-media...
Here's how to disentangle: www.optoutproject.net/social-media...
Day Ten: Leave Social Media
A social, not just technical, toolkit There are a lot of posts out the on the internet that will teach…
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August 3, 2025 at 5:36 AM
It's time to #ChuckZuck! Join us this month by deleting one of your Zuckerverse accounts -- #Facebook, #Instagram, #WhatsApp, #Oculus or #Threads -- and spread the social movement to #reclaimcontrol from #toxictech !
Here's how to disentangle: www.optoutproject.net/social-media...
Here's how to disentangle: www.optoutproject.net/social-media...
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TRANSITION? WHAT TRANSITION?
Wind and solar, pet hates of the populist right, will meet >90% of global electricity demand growth to 2026, helping renewables topple King Coal's reign as the world's top power source
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Wind and solar, pet hates of the populist right, will meet >90% of global electricity demand growth to 2026, helping renewables topple King Coal's reign as the world's top power source
www.carbonbrief.org/...
July 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
TRANSITION? WHAT TRANSITION?
Wind and solar, pet hates of the populist right, will meet >90% of global electricity demand growth to 2026, helping renewables topple King Coal's reign as the world's top power source
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Wind and solar, pet hates of the populist right, will meet >90% of global electricity demand growth to 2026, helping renewables topple King Coal's reign as the world's top power source
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Go for a long walk people. It will do you the world of good. Epic stuff here from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social
An overnight walk from Kirk Sandall to Goole, via the River Don Navigation, the New Junction Canal, the Aire and Calder Navigation and the Dutch River, 6.30pm Friday 25 July to 5.30am Saturday 26 July.
An improvised, illustrated thread of uncertain length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/
An improvised, illustrated thread of uncertain length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/
July 31, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Go for a long walk people. It will do you the world of good. Epic stuff here from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social
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A grim, truth-telling interview of two decent people, standing up to their own society and calling out its crimes
“Leaders of B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel say they're taking this step because "Denial is what allows these atrocities to continue.”
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“Leaders of B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel say they're taking this step because "Denial is what allows these atrocities to continue.”
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‘We are doing it with a heavy heart:’ Israeli rights groups accuse government of genocide | CNN
Leaders of B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel say they’re taking this step because “Denial is what allows these atrocities to continue.”
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July 31, 2025 at 6:46 AM
A grim, truth-telling interview of two decent people, standing up to their own society and calling out its crimes
“Leaders of B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel say they're taking this step because "Denial is what allows these atrocities to continue.”
edition.cnn.com/2025/07/30/T...
“Leaders of B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel say they're taking this step because "Denial is what allows these atrocities to continue.”
edition.cnn.com/2025/07/30/T...
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On the day that Ofcom releases a report advising the UK's broadcasters to work more with YouTube, maybe worth revisiting this piece on the roots of the attention economy, and what it means for children's media, as well as much else: www.mediatechdemocracy.com/all-work/the...
The Great Distractor — Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy
James Bridle
www.mediatechdemocracy.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
On the day that Ofcom releases a report advising the UK's broadcasters to work more with YouTube, maybe worth revisiting this piece on the roots of the attention economy, and what it means for children's media, as well as much else: www.mediatechdemocracy.com/all-work/the...
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A healthy, non-predatory social media world is possible. Here is a four minute video introducing the fediverse: news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-vi...
📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media
A 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with it
news.elenarossini.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:19 AM
A healthy, non-predatory social media world is possible. Here is a four minute video introducing the fediverse: news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-vi...
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💥The Bernat Klein Studio has been saved! This morning the coalition of Scottish heritage organisations secured the property at auction with a winning bid of £279,000.
The studio will now be restored and brought back into public use, creating a new venue for creative arts in the Scottish Borders.
The studio will now be restored and brought back into public use, creating a new venue for creative arts in the Scottish Borders.
July 30, 2025 at 11:58 AM
💥The Bernat Klein Studio has been saved! This morning the coalition of Scottish heritage organisations secured the property at auction with a winning bid of £279,000.
The studio will now be restored and brought back into public use, creating a new venue for creative arts in the Scottish Borders.
The studio will now be restored and brought back into public use, creating a new venue for creative arts in the Scottish Borders.
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French government adopts bill for restitution of colonial-era objects – The text will be submitted for a vote in the senate on 24 September
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July 30, 2025 at 4:30 PM
French government adopts bill for restitution of colonial-era objects – The text will be submitted for a vote in the senate on 24 September
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How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default
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July 24, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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"The administration is in talks with several universities, including Cornell, Duke, Northwestern and Brown... The White House hopes to extract hundreds of millions of dollars from Harvard, in a deal that would make Columbia’s $200 million payment look like peanuts"
Exclusive | White House Seeks Payments From Other Universities—Including Harvard—After Columbia Deal Sets Precedent
The Trump administration is in talks with several schools about future funding following allegations of antisemitism.
www.wsj.com
July 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
"The administration is in talks with several universities, including Cornell, Duke, Northwestern and Brown... The White House hopes to extract hundreds of millions of dollars from Harvard, in a deal that would make Columbia’s $200 million payment look like peanuts"
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The god of small things: celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90
The god of small things: celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90
The Estonian composer’s music of simplicity, spirituality – and silence – is universally appealing and enduringly rewarding. We pay tribute ahead of his milestone birthday
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July 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The god of small things: celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90
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"If the universities – or in this case a university press – are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?”
Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
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July 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"If the universities – or in this case a university press – are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?”
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We're going to start doing hiking interviews for our Library Field project, so I created a "Walking as Method" Arena channel www.are.na/shannon-matt...
July 7, 2025 at 5:46 AM
We're going to start doing hiking interviews for our Library Field project, so I created a "Walking as Method" Arena channel www.are.na/shannon-matt...
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Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽
July 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽
So glad that journalists are finally waking up to the reality of what has happened at the #Bartlett in the wake of the Howlett Brown Report. #UCL
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July 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
So glad that journalists are finally waking up to the reality of what has happened at the #Bartlett in the wake of the Howlett Brown Report. #UCL
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Some very valid questions being asked here by Paul Finch regarding the aftermath of the Howlett Brown Report. #Bartlett staff have been asking similar questions for some time without reply.
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World Architecture Festival 2025 - articles2 (cloned_2)
World Architecture Festival (WAF) is the largest global live awards event for architects and designers. It’s first edition took place in 2008. Running alongside WAF is WAF Interiors which celebrates t...
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July 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Some very valid questions being asked here by Paul Finch regarding the aftermath of the Howlett Brown Report. #Bartlett staff have been asking similar questions for some time without reply.
worldarchitecturefestival.com/WorldArchite...
worldarchitecturefestival.com/WorldArchite...
Very sad news. I love Brian’s work, which vibrates between the transcendent and the hallucinatory. A sad loss to the Art world.
C20 is saddened to hear of the death of architectural artist Sir Brian Clarke, a longtime friend and benefactor of the Society. His joyous, technicolour stained glass enlivened so many buildings worldwide.
As David Bailey has said: "The only man who could argue with God, then design his windows"
As David Bailey has said: "The only man who could argue with God, then design his windows"
July 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Very sad news. I love Brian’s work, which vibrates between the transcendent and the hallucinatory. A sad loss to the Art world.
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David Shulman on the second Nakba, now in full gear in the West Bank
Netanyahu’s War | David Shulman
Engineering a second Nakba and annexing the occupied territories are integral parts of Netanyahu’s war against the State of Israel’s democratic institutions, its social solidarity, and above all the…
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July 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
David Shulman on the second Nakba, now in full gear in the West Bank