Adam Stock
@sztockmann.bsky.social
Book nerd interested in utopia/dystopia, SF & modernism. Senior Lecturer in English Lit. Currently thinking about deserts (& usually also dessert) ✡️🌈He/him
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1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
November 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution.
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵
“When a day you happen to know is a Wednesday starts off sounding like a Sunday…”
I had lots of fun on @everyscififilm.bsky.social talking about the 1963 film of John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
I had lots of fun on @everyscififilm.bsky.social talking about the 1963 film of John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
The Day of the Triffids: Wyndham vs Sci-Fi Spectacle
Podcast Episode · Every Single Sci-Fi Film Ever* · 26/10/2025 · 59m
podcasts.apple.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“When a day you happen to know is a Wednesday starts off sounding like a Sunday…”
I had lots of fun on @everyscififilm.bsky.social talking about the 1963 film of John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
I had lots of fun on @everyscififilm.bsky.social talking about the 1963 film of John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...
This looks amazing
Out today, on what would’ve been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 96th birthday, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin edited by Sarah Shin and @suchmayer.bsky.social.
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
With thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation @ursulakleguin.com 💙
www.silverpress.org/collections/...
October 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
This looks amazing
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New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Gaza is free to read, share and download until the end of September 2025. #OpenAccess @jich.bsky.social
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● Raz Segal, "Settler Colonial Genocide" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)
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● Raz Segal, "Settler Colonial Genocide" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)
Israeli Settler Colonial Genocide
The article examines the combined violence of settler colonialism in Israel and the US in two parts. The first part discusses the Jewish supremacism at the heart of Israeli settler colonialism, foc...
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August 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Gaza is free to read, share and download until the end of September 2025. #OpenAccess @jich.bsky.social
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● Raz Segal, "Settler Colonial Genocide" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)
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● Raz Segal, "Settler Colonial Genocide" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)
In “The Nature of Fascism”, Roger Griffin argues that generic to all fascisms is a paligenetic myth of national renewal or rebirth. Starmer’s plan for “patriotic national renewal” is another dangerous signal of how close to fascism he is prepared to tread, effectively preparing a path for them
The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.
September 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
In “The Nature of Fascism”, Roger Griffin argues that generic to all fascisms is a paligenetic myth of national renewal or rebirth. Starmer’s plan for “patriotic national renewal” is another dangerous signal of how close to fascism he is prepared to tread, effectively preparing a path for them
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We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
August 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
I’m travelling from Assen to Utrecht tomorrow (1hr 34minutes) for €21 for a ticket on any train between 9-12pm. 1.5hours from Newcastle will get you to Leeds on a good day, but it’s £74 at 10am tomorrow on the cheapest train. Is the Dutch network highly subsidised or is the UK network just very bad?
August 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I’m travelling from Assen to Utrecht tomorrow (1hr 34minutes) for €21 for a ticket on any train between 9-12pm. 1.5hours from Newcastle will get you to Leeds on a good day, but it’s £74 at 10am tomorrow on the cheapest train. Is the Dutch network highly subsidised or is the UK network just very bad?
Looking forward to listening to this one!
Here it is, episode 14. An interview with scholar Athira Unni about, among other things, postcolonial dystopias (particularly from South Asia and the Caribbean) and social reproduction theory. Please consider subscribing, reviewing, and rating the pod. open.spotify.com/episode/3cbZ...
Episode 14: Athira Unni, Postcolonial Dystopias and Social Reproduction Theory
open.spotify.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Looking forward to listening to this one!
A fitting tribute to a lovely man and a wonderful scholar.
Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.
August 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A fitting tribute to a lovely man and a wonderful scholar.
This site encourages mass follows to try to amass follow backs, especially by American Democrat boomers. It gets annoying.
Case in point: I just got followed by a gubernatorial candidate for Arkansas.
Me, whenever I see the word Arkansas: youtube.com/shorts/U7X7c...
Case in point: I just got followed by a gubernatorial candidate for Arkansas.
Me, whenever I see the word Arkansas: youtube.com/shorts/U7X7c...
"So I Am Confusion"
YouTube video by Shane “Xicon” Brown
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July 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
This site encourages mass follows to try to amass follow backs, especially by American Democrat boomers. It gets annoying.
Case in point: I just got followed by a gubernatorial candidate for Arkansas.
Me, whenever I see the word Arkansas: youtube.com/shorts/U7X7c...
Case in point: I just got followed by a gubernatorial candidate for Arkansas.
Me, whenever I see the word Arkansas: youtube.com/shorts/U7X7c...
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It’s good he’s acknowledging these events are a genocide but I feel compelled to point out the inherent supremacy of a piece which does not cite any Palestinian scholars or journalists. This is a version of what Miranda Fricker calls “testimonial injustice” and Kristie Dotson “epistemic oppression.”
A powerful essay by @omerbartov.bsky.social that concludes, with care and precision, that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Others have reached this conclusion too. Bartov's piece explores some deep and important questions. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/o...
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
www.nytimes.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:41 AM
It’s good he’s acknowledging these events are a genocide but I feel compelled to point out the inherent supremacy of a piece which does not cite any Palestinian scholars or journalists. This is a version of what Miranda Fricker calls “testimonial injustice” and Kristie Dotson “epistemic oppression.”
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This is an important piece from a senior Holocaust scholar (who grew up in Israel and is an IDF veteran), and it’s important that it’s published in the NYT.
July 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
This is an important piece from a senior Holocaust scholar (who grew up in Israel and is an IDF veteran), and it’s important that it’s published in the NYT.
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New issue of Apocalyptica Vol. 3, No. 1 (2024) heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/apo... #openaccess @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @prisjo.bsky.social @sztockmann.bsky.social
July 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
New issue of Apocalyptica Vol. 3, No. 1 (2024) heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/apo... #openaccess @uniheidelberg.bsky.social @prisjo.bsky.social @sztockmann.bsky.social
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A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
July 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
Publication day for my article “Desert Settings and How to See the Apocalypse”! heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/apo...
Come for the George Miller putdowns, stay for the analysis of deserts as visual fields.
#academicsky
Come for the George Miller putdowns, stay for the analysis of deserts as visual fields.
#academicsky
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2024)
| Apocalyptica
heiup.uni-heidelberg.de
July 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Publication day for my article “Desert Settings and How to See the Apocalypse”! heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/apo...
Come for the George Miller putdowns, stay for the analysis of deserts as visual fields.
#academicsky
Come for the George Miller putdowns, stay for the analysis of deserts as visual fields.
#academicsky
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And now the British Medical Association suspends links with the Israeli Medical Association, seeking to remove the IMA from the World Medical Association:
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
July 1, 2025 at 1:45 PM
And now the British Medical Association suspends links with the Israeli Medical Association, seeking to remove the IMA from the World Medical Association:
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...
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I'm humbled and delighted by this most thoughtful and generous review of my book on Janelle Monáe's queer Afrofuturism 🙏🏻💜
Utopian Studies 36.1 out now, with articles by Jack Halberstam, @sean-seeger.bsky.social & @alothian.bsky.social which I'm excited to read. Oh, plus my review of @danhf.bsky.social Janelle Monáe's Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/utopian... #academicsky
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June 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I'm humbled and delighted by this most thoughtful and generous review of my book on Janelle Monáe's queer Afrofuturism 🙏🏻💜
Utopian Studies 36.1 out now, with articles by Jack Halberstam, @sean-seeger.bsky.social & @alothian.bsky.social which I'm excited to read. Oh, plus my review of @danhf.bsky.social Janelle Monáe's Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/utopian... #academicsky
scholarlypublishingcollective.org
June 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Utopian Studies 36.1 out now, with articles by Jack Halberstam, @sean-seeger.bsky.social & @alothian.bsky.social which I'm excited to read. Oh, plus my review of @danhf.bsky.social Janelle Monáe's Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/utopian... #academicsky
Nothing speaks more to passive aggressive hostilities in literary studies than this sign in the Lit&Phil library. There’s a whole campus novel waiting to be written (and critically panned) about how this sign came into being.
June 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Nothing speaks more to passive aggressive hostilities in literary studies than this sign in the Lit&Phil library. There’s a whole campus novel waiting to be written (and critically panned) about how this sign came into being.
I've just realised that by putting the video for Janelle Monáe's PYNK on the same week of an environmental humanities module as the C19th sonnet Ozymandias I can legitimately use the pun "if you try to grab this Percy, this Percy'll Bysshe you back", so now I'm packing up and finishing for the day.
June 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I've just realised that by putting the video for Janelle Monáe's PYNK on the same week of an environmental humanities module as the C19th sonnet Ozymandias I can legitimately use the pun "if you try to grab this Percy, this Percy'll Bysshe you back", so now I'm packing up and finishing for the day.
My internal examiner, Prof Simon James has passed away. He was a wonderful, kind, lovely person who was very generous with his time for me ever since my viva. His work was a pleasure to read and he’ll be sadly missed.
June 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
My internal examiner, Prof Simon James has passed away. He was a wonderful, kind, lovely person who was very generous with his time for me ever since my viva. His work was a pleasure to read and he’ll be sadly missed.
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Modern Fiction Studies has joined BlueSky! We'll be posting CFPs and announcing new issues.
Our Spring 2025 issue is now available and open-access on Project Muse! Look for us there, or check out our newsletter here: vr2.verticalresponse.com/emails/48378...
Our Spring 2025 issue is now available and open-access on Project Muse! Look for us there, or check out our newsletter here: vr2.verticalresponse.com/emails/48378...
May 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Modern Fiction Studies has joined BlueSky! We'll be posting CFPs and announcing new issues.
Our Spring 2025 issue is now available and open-access on Project Muse! Look for us there, or check out our newsletter here: vr2.verticalresponse.com/emails/48378...
Our Spring 2025 issue is now available and open-access on Project Muse! Look for us there, or check out our newsletter here: vr2.verticalresponse.com/emails/48378...
A coastal shelf of tamagotchis
Get your own doomy Keir Starmer sound bite by combining a geographical feature and a late 20th century object of moral panic.
An island of strangers.
A peninsula of video piracy.
A fjord of repetitive beats.
An archipelago of chip pan fires.
An island of strangers.
A peninsula of video piracy.
A fjord of repetitive beats.
An archipelago of chip pan fires.
May 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
A coastal shelf of tamagotchis
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume.
Me: Archives are not a minute-by-minute recording of everything that ever happened, and nor are they neutral; they are the result of choices. Archival silences abound, and the silences often have more to teach us than the documents themselves.
Me: Archives are not a minute-by-minute recording of everything that ever happened, and nor are they neutral; they are the result of choices. Archival silences abound, and the silences often have more to teach us than the documents themselves.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume.
Classicist: why yes, that was the age of gold, when folks free from care lived out their lives in gentle leisure. The earth too was free from harm, not touched by a rake nor wounded by any plows, but gave everything of her own accord.
Classicist: why yes, that was the age of gold, when folks free from care lived out their lives in gentle leisure. The earth too was free from harm, not touched by a rake nor wounded by any plows, but gave everything of her own accord.
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Egyptologist: why yes, that’s the Fourth Intermediate Period, when I labored without Ma’at…
Egyptologist: why yes, that’s the Fourth Intermediate Period, when I labored without Ma’at…
May 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume.
Me: Archives are not a minute-by-minute recording of everything that ever happened, and nor are they neutral; they are the result of choices. Archival silences abound, and the silences often have more to teach us than the documents themselves.
Me: Archives are not a minute-by-minute recording of everything that ever happened, and nor are they neutral; they are the result of choices. Archival silences abound, and the silences often have more to teach us than the documents themselves.