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Dr James O'Leary

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Art & Architecture: Kreider + O’Leary Associate Professor: The Bartlett, UCL Co-Author: UNGOVERNABLE SPACES (Bloomsbury 2025) www.kreider-oleary.net

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Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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.
Book Cover of UNGOVERNABLE SPACES - Community Formation & the Poetics of Resistance

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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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...
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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
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Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
People ask the strangest questions!
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 07/08/2025
John Hume’s life provides lessons for addressing Palestine-Israel conflict
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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
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Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
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Reclaim Control @reclaimtech.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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...
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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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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 31/07/2025
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/...
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Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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...
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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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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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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The Great Distractor — Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 30/07/2025
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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📺 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
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C20 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.
Image credit: Iain Masterton
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
French 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
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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
omg this totally worked. FREE AT LAST. tenbluelinks.org
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How to Turn Off Google AI Overview and Set "Web" as Default
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jon 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"
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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.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/07/2025
The god of small things: celebrating Arvo Pärt at 90
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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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sepoy @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?”
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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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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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...
A screenshot of my "Walking Method" Arena channel, featuring thumbnails of each resource
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madoc cairns @madoc.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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 🧵🔽
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Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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 worldarchitecturefestival.com/WorldArchite...
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Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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...
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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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Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
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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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 03/07/2025
David Shulman on the second Nakba, now in full gear in the West Bank
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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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MIT 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."
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The Most Powerful Medium Has No Rulebook
Video 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?
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 02/07/2025
Sometime 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.
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The Dennis Hopper Photograph That Caught Los Angeles
The actor stopped at an intersection, took out his Nikon, and made history.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
IDF 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/...
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'It's a Killing Field': IDF
Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid
IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes
Nir Hasson, Yaniv Kubovich and Bar Peleg Jun 27, 2025 6:03 am IDT
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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Sixty 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.
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Rethinking the Interstates
A 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.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month theintercept.com/2025/06/27/i...
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Israeli Soldiers Killed at Least 410 People at Food Aid Sites in Gaza This Month
The U.S.-backed system for food aid in Gaza is a “tactical intervention in humanitarian wrapping,” per an Israeli professor.
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Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Iconic and emotional set by #Anohni and the Johnsons at #Glastonbury, interspersed with clips of climate scientists mourning the loss of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Spellbinding set by #Anohni and the Johnsons at #Glastonbury.
Shots of set by #Anohni and the Johnsons at #Glastonbury. Shots of set by #Anohni and the Johnsons at #Glastonbury.
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London 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...
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Kathleen Jamie | At the Canongate Wall
The Canongate Wall is a feature of the Scottish Parliament building in Holyrood, Edinburgh. Designed by Soraya Smithson...
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Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Total respect to the artist doing the live oil painting projections for #FloatingPoints set at #Glastonbury.
Artist doing the live oil painting projections for #FloatingPoints set at #Glastonbury. Artist doing the live oil painting projections for #FloatingPoints set at #Glastonbury. Artist doing the live oil painting projections for #FloatingPoints set at #Glastonbury. Artist doing the live oil painting projections for #FloatingPoints set at #Glastonbury.
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Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Total respect to the artist doing the live oil painting projections for #FloatingPoints set at #Glastonbury.
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Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Wrote 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?
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Hooray, 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...
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Le Plasker in Plouharnel (fifth millennium cal BC): a newly discovered section of the megalithic complex of Carnac | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Le Plasker in Plouharnel (fifth millennium cal BC): a newly discovered section of the megalithic complex of Carnac
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The 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.
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“Happy Days,” by Han Ong
Why shouldn’t Matthew Lim play Winnie? Inside his body, the role would be no spoof at all but the purest of incarnations.
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
NEW 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
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Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Proper Osakatecture!
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Better 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...
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Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
No need to hold onto the files just as the official enquiry is around the corner. Oh no. #Orgreave www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Northumbria police destroy Battle of Orgreave and other miners’ strike files
Force says it disposed of papers last year despite forthcoming inquiry into scenes of violent policing in 1984
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Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This is great. Steve Reich started so much that we now take for granted in sonic arts. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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This Cultural Life - Steve Reich - BBC Sounds
Composer Steve Reich reveals his formative musical influences.
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Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Map for a journey. #WestCork
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Dr James O'Leary @jamesoleary.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Art & the Book exhibition at the Warburg Institute is well worth a look. @warburginstitute.bsky.social warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/art-a...
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
It's #Bloomsday
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Irit Katz @irit-katz.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Lethal 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...
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Lethal humanitarianism: why violence at Gaza aid centres should not come as a surprise
The aid plan supported by Israel and the US has more to do with control than compassion.
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The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
London 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...
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PJ 🇮🇪☘️ @knotweed-ireland.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Sunset Ireland (May 30th) Cam 2 Time-lapse - West Field #Sunset #Ireland #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #Timelapse #Photography
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Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The TS Eliot memorial toilets - or, as I like to call it, The Human Waste Land.
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