Category: General
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maureen
I can’t recall the first time I meet Maureen Kincaid Speller, but I assume (with some sense of certainty) that it would have been at one of the first few BSFA gatherings I attended in London, some time back in the Noughties. I found her an easy person to like, which is rarer than you…
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farvel Stavanger
Stimulating handful of days here in Stavanger for the Petrocultures conference, at which a bunch of us Climaginarians performed yet another instance of the increasingly sprawling Carbon Ruins extended cinematic universe. Lots of interesting panels and talks, obvs, plus the productive cognitive dissonance of enviro-critical scholars holding an event at a national oil museum… and…
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just stopped to get my bearings
This terrible visual pun brought to you from Stavanger, Norway.
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linguistic calculus
Yesterday’s XKCD has (if you’ll excuse the pun) particular resonance for someone still fighting to learn Swedish as a second language: That said, I dare say most Swedes would see this as a joke about (the) Danish.
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delete after writing
Greetings from the midst of what seems to be an enduring motivational slump, and/or a mismanaged case of burn-out which is still smouldering, and/or a resurgence of a well-entrenched fear of uncertainty regarding (un)employment which, while understandable in terms of its formation, is profoundly maladaptive nonetheless. I can’t write right now. I mean, OK, sure,…