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Ruari P-A

@rulapeep.bsky.social
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PhD at Cambridge University on 'Outsider music,’ listening, intimacy across time & radical creativity - convenor of Ambivalent Archives - queer utopian & abolitionist always 🇵🇸 They/them

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sasha @2damntrans.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Ten years since Jo Cox was assassinated and one thing is clear: her assassin’s politics have, more or less, triumphed, and with the connivance of Cox’s own party no less.
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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"Inframetropolitan Systems: music as a mode of conjunctural analysis and cognitive mapping." If you're in London, check out these sessions -- supported by an Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grant -- on musical production, space and memory, sound and politics...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 08/06/2026
‘The REF has now morphed into a hugely expensive, attention-engrossing status marker. Few things would improve the intellectual culture of universities more quickly than the complete abolition of this flawed and coercive exercise.’ Stefan Collini on higher education. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
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Ruari P-A @rulapeep.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
My first solo article is out for early view: ‘TRANS-TEMPORAL INTIMACY, OR, NEGATING TIME AS WE KNOW IT’. I would be immensely grateful if you were to read it and share it with whoever might be interested. I hope it’s useful! capaciousjournal.com/article/tran...
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Trans-Temporal Intimacy, or, Negating Time as We Know It | Capacious
This article is an exploration of “trans-temporal intimacy” as a methodology, a sensibility, and a desire. Trans-temporal intimacy could be understood as a closeness, a proximity, an intimate engageme...
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cass @cassiusa.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The New School announces a faculty and staff bloodbath
This spring we will make a difficult but necessary further workforce reduction of approximately 15% across faculty and staff.
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Mark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 09/03/2026
Evil. Absolute, unadulterated evil. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed
Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
this is so ghoulish and disgusting
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Ruari P-A @rulapeep.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Well written and important article www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/hiri...
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Hiring established scholars to junior Oxbridge roles imperils disciplines
As lay-offs continue elsewhere, postdocs’ inability to land permanent roles will block the pipeline of future faculty, Cambridge academics argue
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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I doubt we’ll even have much time to really notice how radically the world has changed for the worse in just the last few years. It won’t be long until it’s always been this way.
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Sam @spinebusterkeaton.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/03/2026
Israel closes Gaza’s Rafah crossing amid attacks on Iran aje.news/oe589h
Israel closes Gaza’s Rafah crossing amid attacks on Iran
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Mark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 01/03/2026
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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Reminder that the IOF used LLMs to generate infinite pseudo-legitimate targets in Gaza with the guidance of the Biden admin
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts." massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...
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Rio Police Chief & Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Rio Councilwoman Marielle Franco
The court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were responsib...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
shame is back on the menu boys
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Sara-Jane Vigneault @sjvigneault.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The Ambivalent Archives programme for this term has just dropped! ✨ Starting this week strong with talks by @arthurasseraf.bsky.social and Ned Allen on Radio & Archival Production! For more information: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47934/ @crasshlive.bsky.social
Oct. 16. Radio & Archival Production with Arthur Asseraf and Edward Allen

Oct. 30. Reading Group - Ambivalent Archives X CRASSH Lauren Berlant Reading Group, with Orlaith Darling

Nov. 13. Reading Group - Archives & Periodicals: Clipping and Scrapping

Nov. 27. Listening Session - Shira Small’s The Line of Time and the Plane of Now…

For more information, see https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/research/networks/ambivalent-archives/#1-programme-2025-2026
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Ruari P-A @rulapeep.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
My first article is out (!!!) it’s a collaborative piece I wrote last year with @sophiemng.bsky.social about moments of recorded excess, laughter, fuck-ups and longing gazes. It’s a short epistolary article and I’d love for you all to read it. I’m so excited to have it out in the world!
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Ayman Makarem @aymanmak.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Two of these trucks just had body bags.
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Ruari P-A @rulapeep.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This morning I woke up to an email from my college in Cambridge (King’s) saying they will divest from companies involved in occupation, weapons companies and companies that produce key or dedicated parts of such weapons. It is possible.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This is not war btwn two states, or just about Modi. India is occupying Kashmir. There is no evidence that Pakistan was behind Pahalgam, but Indian imperial expansionism and Islamophobia drives this jingoism. Most impacted regions are lands of struggle - partioned Panjab & esp Kashmir. Free Kashmir
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/05/2025
A victory for Rümeysa Öztürk! She will be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont while her case is heard—including a hearing for potential release on bail this Friday. FULL OPINION: ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/is...
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Ruari P-A @rulapeep.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
We need some Glaswegians to turn up to this on Friday morning…
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Ruari P-A @rulapeep.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
“Hollywood is the Bollywood of America”
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
"They looked suddenly like they’d just been served ortolan, like they needed to hide from God their ghoulish glee at disappearing a college student who, it was later reported, was walking to break Ramadan fast with her friends." www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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What Will You Do?
What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 26/02/2025
We condemn the University of Cambridge's attempt to place legal restrictions on all pro-Palestine protests. Alongside @pscupdates.bsky.social and @libertyhq.bsky.social we call out this application to the High Court for an injunction what it is: a shameful attack on basic democratic rights.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
my beautiful subscribers I have written something for you about Shinichi Sawada, a Japanese ceramicist I love, and about the contentious genre of "outsider art" holapapi.substack.com/p/shinichi-s...
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Shinichi Sawada’s Creatures
On outsider art and launching a new series
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/01/2025
Palestinian child Nadia Mohammed al-Amoudi was killed, and several others were injured when Israeli forces opened fire on a horse cart as they traveled through the Gaza Strip, reports Wafa news agency. 🔴 LIVE updates:
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Palestinians returning to north Gaza find destroyed homes, some turn back
Israel’s army opens roads to the war-battered northern Gaza Strip as mass movement home to the unknown gets under way.
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Ruari P-A @rulapeep.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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Ruari P-A @rulapeep.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Putting it out there that ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down’ is the most effective piece of propaganda ever made
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