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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Its been so nice co-running a radical bookshop with @benbowsher.bsky.social and @emilywebz.bsky.social the last few days since opening. Lots of interest, support, gratitude and solidarity. Will write more about it at some point but for now am just extremely busy and not very online.

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you're in Newcastle, go check out this new radical bookstore - Books from Below - and cafe that was just launched by @emilywebz.bsky.social , @drrobertchapman.bsky.social , and @benbowsher.bsky.social.

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Opening this Sunday, things are manic but hopefully will have a peaceful yet vibrant space for people to buy books and printed goods, sit down for a coffee, and start to build coherent leftwing community. Please drop by or give this a share.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Weird little guys of Barcelona vol. 1

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Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This coming Thursday night I'll be talking to @kojokoram.bsky.social about his new book for LORT BURN SPECIALS #4, at the Old Coal Yard in Newcastle. There'll be readings from other writers too, and tunes, and pints. Tickets are free but you'll need to pre-book: www.eventbrite.com/e/lort-burn-...

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Lort Burn Specials: Kojo Koram + support

Newcastle's greatest radical culture night returns with Kojo Koram, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Malya Bhattacharya, Sam Telford and more

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Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

HE job adverts: "Remember to make sure you have addressed all the essential criteria, a 30 point list of subtly differently worded versions of the same five questions, divided according to vibes, in your cover letter. Cover letters that do not do this will not be progressed. You have 2 sides."

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 22/08/2026

Combining a research project on "the future of liberalism" with "race realism" and "the heriditarian revolution." If that combination sounds confusing, I've got a reading recommendation!

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Books From Below, Newcastle’s upcoming radical bookstore just found itself a home. Give me a message if you are able to help in any of the ways listed below! If you can’t help, no worries just give this post a like and repost it, thank you!

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We’re still taking financial donations. If you missed the Books From Below crowdfunder but still want to support us, donate at PayPal.me/booksfrombelow If you don’t want to or can’t, that’s totally cool, any like and repost is appreciated! #newradicalbookshop #radicalbookshop #newcastleupontyne

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Linking county-level data on the proportion of enslaved people in 1860 with structural inequality indicators from 1990 to 2000 and mortality outcomes from 2010 to 2020, we find that historical slavery is robustly associated with contemporary racial mortality gaps..."

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Historical slavery predicts contemporary disparities in mortality between Black and White Americans | PNAS

We tested whether contemporary Black–White mortality disparities in the United States may be rooted in the historical legacy of slavery and perpetu...

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

in case anyone missed it, my first article is out now in Progress in Human Geography: The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... FFO: posthumanism, postfoundational politics, Anthropocene Please share!

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Posting my article again in hopes of finding you! Dear reader who is interested in posthuman theories and radical politics! If this isn’t ‘you’, please share until I find the right ‘you’. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge - Ben Bowsher, 2026

This paper responds to debates over the politics of knowledge in the Anthropocene, which often centres on affirmational and negative approaches to posthuman the...

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I should say that this piece also references my first article and it’s been a while since I’ve posted about it, so here’s a link to it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Give it a read if you’re thinking about critique, affirmation, negativity, and environmental crises!

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The poetics of knowledge in the Anthropocene: Rancière and the politics of posthuman knowledge - Ben Bowsher, 2026

This paper responds to debates over the politics of knowledge in the Anthropocene, which often centres on affirmational and negative approaches to posthuman the...

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c... Good summary from @jemgilbert.bsky.social and @profafinlayson.bsky.social on what’s been happening with universities, has allowed me to make clearer sense of why I am where I am right now.

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Universities in Crisis (part 1)

Podcast Episode · Culture, Power, Politics » Podcast · 16 July · 1hr 14min

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Something very “let them eat cake” about this bizarre rationalisation of climate change. Whilst he luxuriates with more barbecues than ever before, the working classes sweat their way to an early grave.

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It’s funny that you can be entirely correct about oncoming events in Britain with a very rudimentary set of Marxist tools and a giant dose of cynicism.

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It’s almost certainly trite to say that “He-Man smacks of gender”, especially because it doesn’t take itself too seriously. But man, the new Masters of the Universe does read as desperately trying to refound a positive masculinity with already exhausted materials.

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

It is remarkable that the Labour analysis of the problem with Starmer is that the general public, rather than being constituted by various desires and interests that Starmer didn’t satisfy, just didn’t like him. Stick a popular northern guy in his place and VOILÀ

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Destroying neoliberalism and solving the cost of living crisis by saving us £3.75 a month on our leccy bills… ok sure.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

CABO VERDE CABO VERDE CABO VERDE

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Trying hard not to buy into the FIFA Argentina conspiracies but fuck me

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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It could never come home, the rent is too high and the rail replacement bus to get to it has broken down.

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Joanne Tatham @tathamjoanne.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

In response to the third restructure (ie more redundancies) Goldsmiths colleagues have been on full and indefinite strike since June. Support them here, and with a chance to win art: www.gucu-raffle.com

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Goldsmiths UCU ART RAFFLE 2026

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Disgusted that Newcastle University are marching the institution into fascism. Shameful. Fucking shameful.

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It would be objectively very funny if they could turn Ann Widdicombe into Horst Wessel

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David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

That spending on swords rather than ploughshares is less helpful for the country is hardly news, let alone a revelation that justifies an "exclusive", but it is interesting that this arrives in the wake of weeks of lurid nonsense from the arms lobby. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Infrastructure cuts to pay for defence will cost UK 10,000 jobs, analysis shows

Exclusive: Findings cast doubt on Starmer claims that reallocation of funds to MoD will boost British jobs

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Ms. Deathwish #Exist2Resist @msdeathwish.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This is the social murder of disabled people, and I really wish people who aren't disabled would shout about it as much as we do. WHY are we having to be the ones who have to be squeezed even more AGAIN.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Nanni Balestrini was born on this day in 1935. (Also the Commune website is still up) communemag.com/nanni-balest...

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Nanni Balestrini, 1935-2019 | Commune

In the great writer’s novels, style is the consciousness of a revolutionary class in formation.

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

"Many of us in the labor movement have felt strongly that more of our [political] leaders should be labor union members, should be organisers, and that that's an important part of a vision for doing politics differently." - @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social on the New York Primaries:

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Rainy FASCIST island alright, fuckin hell.

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... reported on as of it’s not completely racist to assume there’s something ‘special’ about white children struggling at school. The government hasn’t just let down white children, it has let down all children with eternal austerity, neoliberal education and privatisation.

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White working-class children 'failed by schools system'

The inquiry spoke to thousands of young people and their parents, as well as hundreds of teachers.

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Will it be Keir Starmer(original flavour) or Keir Starmer(Northern)

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/06/2026

The idea that every human is a life deserving of fundamental rights, dignity & care—irrespective of race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, gender identity, or ability—*is* the common ground. It is the ground of the universal. People opposed to this aren't interested in common ground.

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

"Anti-colonial leaders such as Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, Indonesia’s Sukarno, and Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah were a frequent focus of British propaganda operations." Available in EN, IT, HI and RU.

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Britain’s Secret ‘Black Propaganda’ Operations

Files reveal that the UK government’s covert propaganda unit, the IRD’s Special Editorial Unit, ran fake news agencies, forged documents, and manipulated journalists globally to undermine the Soviet…

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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Rest in power Marjane Sartrapi (1969-2026)

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The right in this country have totally lost it, a complete and utter collapse of any kind of cordon sanitaire with the far right in favour of gutter racism. It's been slow, but the grinding move from "anti-white racism is real" from far right agitprop to Times leader is complete.

Sky News: Henry Nowak's murder has highlighted tbe debate on whether the police are anti-white

Telegraph: Anti-white racism is real, and there')) be more Henry Nowaks until it is crushdd

Henry Nowak and the corrosive effect of DeI on policing

Spectator: why can we rage against George Floyd's death but not Henry Nowak's?

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Retweeting this for entirely neutral and altruistic motives

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Normal country where the alleged ‘paper of record’ carries water for the paranoiac victim fantasies of a growing fascist movement.

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Books From Below will have a stall at the Anarchist Book Fair on Saturday 30th March at the @starandshadow.bsky.social Cinema. We’ll be selling second hand books, tshirts, tote bags, and some prints! Hope to see you there!

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Thomas Dekeyser @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

8. Book review of E Thacker and D Pettman's Sad Planets - @benbowsher.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Sad Planets

Published in Social & Cultural Geography (Vol. 27, No. 5, 2026)

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 22/05/2026

#OtD 22 May 1968 footballers in Paris occupied the French Football Association headquarters declaring "Football to the Footballers." They issued a statement demanding the immediate dismissal of football "profiteers" and for football without profits shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

BBC here with an infinitely generous (and obfuscatory) reading of a contemporary fascist street movement

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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Why is the media calling on David Baddiel as an expert in politics and antisemitism? He’s just a shit comedian. Absolutely intellectually impoverished media ecosystem

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