adam searle

i am running a FREE Walkthrough and creative writing session at Nottingham Contemporary on 18 November, for Sarah Cunningham’s exhibition “Midnight Sun,” exploring the influence of feminist SF and critical fabulation on her practice book below 👇🏻 www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/whats-on/wal...

📢UNIVERSITY WIDE STRIKE TOMORROW Join us on the picket line as we stand united in solidarity against the attacks our management has taken against the university. Let's show them what strength looks like!

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

To my friends in the Toronto area, you're invited to the launch for The Broken Machine, this Wednesday 21 October. ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/book-.... Join us for refreshments and complimentary copies of the book while they last. @mitpress.bsky.social @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

very excited that my new book is now available to BUY!! (and will be #openaccess in early December). 'Animated Urbanism' is a critical examination of the digital imagery that mediates smart urban life. @uminnpress.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social www.upress.umn.edu/978151792206...

📢 We are not done yet! The Forum on Tech Oligarchy keeps on giving! 📜 In "Nerd goes macho: meat, the manosphere, and a new tech oligarchy’s recombinant masculinity," Anna Jabloner investigates the persistent gendering and toxic masculinity of the tech manosphere! 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

ICYMI: Sasha Engelmann, 'Elemental Memory: The Solid Fluidity of the Elements in the Nuclear Era' - explores the mnemonic capacities of materials through a focus on the detritus of thermonuclear explosions. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Many constituents have contacted me, devastated by the University of Nottingham’s decision to approve plans to close modern languages and music degrees, cut support services and end one-to-one personal tutoring.

Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

41% staffing cuts in the Faculty of Arts at UoN. We're entering a wilderness of creativity and critical thinking.

Solidarity with @uonucu.bsky.social members once again striking against compulsory redundancies and course closures. Such an outcome would devastate workers, students, and our city, as well as UK research. I urge the university leadership to do the right thing and protect jobs and courses.

Nottingham today. Everywhere tomorrow. 2,700 staff put at risk. 600+ jobs targeted. At least 48 courses facing closure. What happens here sets the template for the sector. Stand with Nottingham.

i legitimately wonder if it’s just being ill-informed and naive on AI, but when i see so many of these orgs reaching out to cultists like Nate Soares instead of left tech critics to make sense of this, i feel we’re seeing the problem of a business model that relies on sensationalism to drive traffic

Our members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.

Thanks to Aya Nassar, Sterling Johnson, Paroj Banerjee and AbdouMaliq Simone for their reviews of For a Liberatory Politics of Home @dukepress.bsky.social in @dialogueshg.bsky.social In my response, I focus on the inner violence of our institutional homes journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

From the Archive: Eva Giraud and Gregory Hollin, 'Care, Laboratory Beagles and Affective Utopia' - focuses on the ambivalent role of care within the first large-scale experimental beagle colony at the University of California, Davis (1951–86). (2016) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

'In the most notable case, the University of Nottingham’s University and College Union (UCU) branch has declared strike action of 67 days, expected to last for the majority of the autumn term, as the institution looks to cut 600 full-time equivalent jobs.'

When blackshirts are marching through the streets of Dover and Portsmouth, the focus shouldn’t be on the disruption they cause, but on their fascist ideology and deliberate intimidation of migrants and people of colour. [1/2]

Do your interests lie at the intersection of climate change, nature and human wellbeing? We invite researchers, policymakers, practitioners and independent experts to submit proposals for discussion papers on our new programme ‘Humanity, Climate & Nature’. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4hH2qlA

Now do everywhere else www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

📢 Another addition to our Forum on Tech Oligarchy! 📜 In "Rite to mine: Bitcoin, ritual, and oligarchy," Owen Marshall examines crypto-mining as a foundational ritual practice of tech oligarchy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

excellent article journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

that was fast LOL

The sec of state who has seen at least 15000 academics lose their jobs just said this. Out loud. Mercy me. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

#newbookalert Daniele Valisena's "Italian Lives, Belgian Coal: An Environmental History of Labour and Migration" will be published this fall with @upittpress.bsky.social #envhist 👇 upittpress.org/books/978082...

Working in partnership with the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, the Food Museum, the Glasgow Life Museum, the Hastings Museum & Art Gallery and the Museum of Free Derry, the Migration Museum (London) is seeking 10 Community Curators. Might this be you?

In the new article, ‘Digital fire technologies and community networks’, Jennifer Gabrys, Paula Tiara Torres and Pablo González Rivas analyse how digital technologies influence fire prevention, response, and recovery in La Araucanía, Chile: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I strongly believe in giving the man a chance. But keeping Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary suggests the vicious attacks on immigrants and refugees, and self-defeating attempts to outrun the far right, are likely to continue. Which is pretty damn depressing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Before the Luddites and the arrival of capitalism, it wasn’t just workers pushing back against technology; governments did too. This week @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how refusal of technology has a very long history. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/337_...

'Students’ positivity about all aspects of UK higher education courses has increased despite the problems facing the sector, according to the latest National Student Survey (NSS) results.' 80.9% positivity, up from 78.4% last year. So go on, sack us. 1/3

'Politicians from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages have told the university’s executive “in the strongest possible terms to reconsider” the plans, in a letter seen by Times Higher Education.' 1/3

New York City’s Summer of Ludd festival is teaching people how to live offline amid the suffocating presence of Big Tech.

Join our #FAccT2026 CRAFT session on resistance to & refusal of AI this Sunday, June 28 at 2:15pm! panel discussion w Renée Sieber @cyberlyra.bsky.social @ali-alkhatib.com @jordant.bsky.social @stoopt.bsky.social @hagenblix.bsky.social & collage workshop to explore resistance together

new episode of is it a satirical plotline from Venomous Lumpsucker or real life just dropped

As the Trump administration moves to weaken endangered species protections, it's backing an effort to build a national biobank for endangered and threatened species. My latest for @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/coloss...

Second day of 'The Fetal Archive' workshop today in London with curators, biologists, philosophers, geographers, geneticists, historians & sociologists from 7 different countries. We're looking at how we understand, interpret, display & analyse, historic fetal & embryological remains.

I don't feel sorry for Starmer. I feel for the Palestinians whose slaughter he enabled, for the trans people and refugees he's victimised, and my colleagues who've had their careers wrecked by Labour's assault on universities. A record to be ashamed of.

He didn’t even pay for his own spectacles … he only ever saw the world through the lenses of a plutocrat.

having heard @jamesrpalmer.bsky.social present this work a few weeks ago, I am really excited to read this critical work which seems at its heart a discussion of how technology and infrastructure affect what counts as a “good life,” and I suppose how this might be resisted at the micro scale