Reposted by Dr James O'LearyDr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 09/05/2025UNGOVERNABLE 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. 292
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyNaomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 02/09/2025The 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...irishtimes.comWhy 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 24223
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 07/08/2025John Hume’s life provides lessons for addressing Palestine-Israel conflictirishtimes.comJohn Hume’s life provides lessons for addressing Palestine-Israel conflictFive 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 221
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/08/2025This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza 17046923342
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyReclaim Control @reclaimtech.bsky.social · 03/08/2025It'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...optoutproject.netDay Ten: Leave Social MediaA social, not just technical, toolkit There are a lot of posts out the on the internet that will teach… 1107
Reposted by Dr James O'LearySimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 31/07/2025TRANSITION? 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/... 211350
Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Go for a long walk people. It will do you the world of good. Epic stuff here from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social 1101
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyAidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 31/07/2025A 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...edition.cnn.com‘We are doing it with a heavy heart:’ Israeli rights groups accuse government of genocide | CNNLeaders of B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel say they’re taking this step because “Denial is what allows these atrocities to continue.” 21310
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyJames Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 30/07/2025On 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...mediatechdemocracy.comThe Great Distractor — Centre for Media, Technology and DemocracyJames Bridle 183
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyTim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 30/07/2025A healthy, non-predatory social media world is possible. Here is a four minute video introducing the fediverse: news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-vi...news.elenarossini.com📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social MediaA 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with it 111
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyC20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 30/07/2025💥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. 424252
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyThe Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 30/07/2025French government adopts bill for restitution of colonial-era objects – The text will be submitted for a vote in the senate on 24 September buff.ly/CfPyL5w 0127
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyCourtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 24/07/2025omg this totally worked. FREE AT LAST. tenbluelinks.orgtenbluelinks.orgHow to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default 4426182
Reposted by Dr James O'Learyjon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 25/07/2025"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"wsj.comExclusive | White House Seeks Payments From Other Universities—Including Harvard—After Columbia Deal Sets PrecedentThe Trump administration is in talks with several schools about future funding following allegations of antisemitism. 60327164
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/07/2025The god of small things: celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90theguardian.comThe god of small things: celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90The Estonian composer’s music of simplicity, spirituality – and silence – is universally appealing and enduringly rewarding. We pay tribute ahead of his milestone birthday 115842
Reposted by Dr James O'Learysepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025"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?”theguardian.comRevealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publicationAs 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 028290
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 07/07/2025We'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... 5579
Reposted by Dr James O'Learymadoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Ahead 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 🧵🔽 10491312
Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 04/07/2025So 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 worldarchitecturefestival.com/WorldArchite... 010
Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Some 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.comWorld 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... 000
Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 04/07/2025Very sad news. I love Brian’s work, which vibrates between the transcendent and the hallucinatory. A sad loss to the Art world. 030
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyThe New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 03/07/2025David Shulman on the second Nakba, now in full gear in the West Bankbuff.lyNetanyahu’s War | David ShulmanEngineering 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… 11011
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyMIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 03/07/2025"The real project of this administration is to sever the public from reality itself — to plunge Americans into a TV-led and TV-fed collective psychosis."thereader.mitpress.mit.eduThe Most Powerful Medium Has No RulebookVideo is the most consequential medium of our time. So why do we still lack the tools to cite, dissect, and challenge it like we do with print? 0197
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 02/07/2025Sometime between the fall of 1963 and the late summer of 1964, the actor and photographer Dennis Hopper stopped at an intersection in L.A., took out his Nikon, and made history.newyorker.comThe Dennis Hopper Photograph That Caught Los AngelesThe actor stopped at an intersection, took out his Nikon, and made history. 301291225
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyDr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 27/06/2025IDF officers and soldiers tell Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/... 27783303
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyPlaces Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Sixty nine years ago today, President Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act, authorizing construction of the Interstate Highway System. A new series in Places considers how the Interstates — the largest public works project in US history — might be creatively adapted for the 21st century.placesjournal.orgRethinking the InterstatesA four-part article series about how the Interstate Highways — a monument to federal technocratic expertise — might be reimagined for an era defined by climate crisis. 1163
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyNick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month theintercept.com/2025/06/27/i...theintercept.comIsraeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This MonthThe U.S.-backed system for food aid in Gaza is a “tactical intervention in humanitarian wrapping,” per an Israeli professor. 29437182
Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Iconic and emotional set by #Anohni and the Johnsons at #Glastonbury, interspersed with clips of climate scientists mourning the loss of the Great Barrier Reef. 082
Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Spellbinding set by #Anohni and the Johnsons at #Glastonbury. 0110
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/06/2025‘Stone suits the poetry. Or perhaps it’s the other way round. I think poetry suits stone, more than it suits paper, certainly more than it suits a screen. The poetry releases something latent in the stone.’ New: Kathleen Jamie visits the Canongate Wall in Edinburgh. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...lrb.co.ukKathleen Jamie | At the Canongate WallThe Canongate Wall is a feature of the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Designed by Soraya Smithson... 1177
Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Total respect to the artist doing the live oil painting projections for #FloatingPoints set at #Glastonbury. 011
Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Total respect to the artist doing the live oil painting projections for #FloatingPoints set at #Glastonbury. 020
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyChristabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Wrote this on the big problem that the hard right have with London - if ethnic diversity and high levels of migration really are the major causes of decline in the UK, then why is the region with the greatest diversity and largest number of migrants, doing so well? 59638
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyDr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Hooray, dates for a Carnac region stone row! Fascinating excavation of a tomb, aligned standing stones & cooking pits at Le Plasker shows that the stone alignments were built piecemeal c.4680-4250 cal BC, and the tomb was built on the site of Mesolithic occupation: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgLe Plasker in Plouharnel (fifth millennium cal BC): a newly discovered section of the megalithic complex of Carnac | Antiquity | Cambridge CoreLe Plasker in Plouharnel (fifth millennium cal BC): a newly discovered section of the megalithic complex of Carnac 67919
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 25/06/2025“He told her about his own reason for living: to play Winnie in ‘Happy Days.’ Not that he was dying—not that he needed a reason.” Read a new short story by Han Ong.newyorker.com“Happy Days,” by Han OngWhy shouldn’t Matthew Lim play Winnie? Inside his body, the role would be no spoof at all but the purest of incarnations. 0151
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyThe Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 25/06/2025NEW EPISODE | A brush with...Hew Locke The artist talks to Ben Luke about about his influences and the cultural experiences that have shaped his life and work—from a tutorial with Paula Rego to Hans Haacke’s German pavilion at the Venice Biennale Download the full episode: buff.ly/HibpuiP 051
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyResearch Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Better governance ‘could have avoided mass university job cuts’. Philip Augar proposes union representation on governing boards and vice-chancellor pay reforms. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u... 04121
Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 24/06/2025No need to hold onto the files just as the official enquiry is around the corner. Oh no. #Orgreave www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comNorthumbria police destroy Battle of Orgreave and other miners’ strike filesForce says it disposed of papers last year despite forthcoming inquiry into scenes of violent policing in 1984 010
Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 22/06/2025This is great. Steve Reich started so much that we now take for granted in sonic arts. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...bbc.co.ukThis Cultural Life - Steve Reich - BBC SoundsComposer Steve Reich reveals his formative musical influences. 021
Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 16/06/2025Art & the Book exhibition at the Warburg Institute is well worth a look. @warburginstitute.bsky.social warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/art-a... 051
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyIrish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 16/06/2025It's #Bloomsday 622859
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyIrit Katz @irit-katz.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Lethal humanitarianism: why violence at Gaza aid centres should not come as a surprise My short piece at @theconversation.com I've discussed parts @refugeestudies.bsky.social in January Now its more horrific than anyone then expected Please share theconversation.com/lethal-human...theconversation.comLethal humanitarianism: why violence at Gaza aid centres should not come as a surpriseThe aid plan supported by Israel and the US has more to do with control than compassion. 042
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyThe Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 04/06/2025London Gallery Weekend 2025: our critics pick their top shows From a stolen portrait of Francis Bacon to encromancy, here's our selection of outstanding shows to see in the UK capital www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/06/03/l... 021
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyPJ 🇮🇪☘️ @knotweed-ireland.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Sunset Ireland (May 30th) Cam 2 Time-lapse - West Field #Sunset #Ireland #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #Timelapse #Photography 1244242
Reposted by Dr James O'LearyJon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social · 30/05/2025The TS Eliot memorial toilets - or, as I like to call it, The Human Waste Land. 810212