Delighted to attend Stoke 's inaugural Book Festival at the weekend and speak with SOT's Poet Laureate
Steven Beattie and acclaimed Potteries author Dave Proudlove, amongst others, & local lit lovers as well as independent publishers. Hopefully first of many expanded SBFs to come
Wonderful to attend Jonas Patrick Marvin's Breaking of English Working Class book launch at @dropcitybooks last Friday 18th & speak with JPM as well as SOT-creatives, new Bread and Roses group etc regarding challenges & resources of hope. Check out BOEWC, as well as DC Books :)
Had fascinating time at Stoke's #Summitsup on Wednsdy, including meeting a number of creative practitioners, the current work of Stoke Creates, Appetite (along with likes of WildEdge) in the Six Towns, and considering how to manifest #Prideinplace as more than restrtve nstlgia
New (extended) draft article on Lisa Blower's Sitting Ducks, Fisher, Psychedelic Laughter and a lot more: acidhauntclass.com/blog/psyc…
Posted a new reflection on Simon Winlow's Living in the Ruins article (from the recent Journal of Working-Class Studies) acidhauntclass.com/blog/read… Hope to add more 'critical engagements', in addition to ongoing reflections on class from the existing research, soon!
Dr Martin Goodhead retweeted
Completely insane. Management at the University of Exeter is threatening 85% of its staff in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences with redundancy. What do these people even think universities are for? Solidarity with members of the EUCU.
Reflections on Cartwright's The Cut and Class (including material I wasn't able to get to in the Thesis) acidhauntclass.com/blog/pers…. More on Class and the present conjuncture soon....
Returning to the Blog, now marking's done (for the moment!). Here I discuss aspects of the class 'signal' and 'transmission', leading on from my Thesis acidhauntclass.com/blog/tran…. More to come soon
Thesis 'Three Types of Egress: Working-Class agency in British Fiction' now published shorturl.at/49U1e (monograph & accompanying projects in process...)
acidhauntclass.com/blog/acid… New post where I give something of an overview of Acid Comm in relation to my project. More to come
New blog post up. Some initial thoughts (expanding on Thesis) on the relation between Egress and Lacan. acidhauntclass.com/blog/port…
acidhauntclass.com/blog/clas…
My first research blog - providing an overview of class and the project. More to come soon!
Launching my research hub & blog on contemporary class & literature, movements, exits etc @ acidhauntclass.com. Posts on close-readings, egressal-formations and overview of AC to come in Nov'25 +
Dr Martin Goodhead retweeted
At the BBC we've had a whole independent review which made it very clear we shouldn't use profoundly misleading household finance analogies for the public finances. But now the Labour front bench keeps doing it. And it's not the first time: theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Dr Martin Goodhead retweeted
Justin Welby won't meet with a pastor from Bethlehem because he shared a platform with a democratically elected MP.
But he allegedly wanted Paula Vennells, former Post Office CEO, to become the Bishop of London.
Sums up the British establishment so spectacularly well.
Dr Martin Goodhead retweeted
You have to treat these think tanks telling you the UK is suddenly a poor country as like a bank robber on his way out of the door telling you it’s suddenly a poor bank
Paul McNamara, "There is no money, be honest about it. In fact, the Institute of Fiscal Studies said, whoever wins the next election will inherit the worst financial situation for 70 years"
What a legacy for 14 years of Conservative party rule #C4News
