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ianhunt

@ianhunt@mastodon.green

Former Higher education worker at Goldsmiths | #GPEW | writer on art/sometimes architecture and social housing | reader -- ecology, environment, literary modernism & -wasm, contemporary poetry | mind-wandering | London, UK | he/him

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ianhunt, to climate
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See you in court. 'The UK is one of 32 countries being taken to the European court of human rights on Wednesday by a group of Portuguese young people. They will argue in the grand chamber of the Strasbourg court that the nations’ policies to tackle global heating are inadequate and in breach of their human rights obligations.' https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/23/uk-one-of-32-countries-facing-european-court-human-rights-action-over-climate-stance

pvonhellermannn, to random
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My mother still sends me newspaper cutouts (❤️). Just opened this after returning from a long work trip this morning (perhaps more on this later):

“Can you even fly at all any more? “

i’ve intensely struggled with too much flying these last few weeks; to be honest it’s really thrown me, i feel i can’t say anything to anyone anymore. Not sure whether it will help but I look forward to reading this; and it’s so nice that my mother is trying to engage.

ianhunt,
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@pvonhellermannn 💚 this thread. Relationships with others and research made possible by air travel are real and precious. Of course we should take this conversation elsewhere, beyond those of us who broadly agree and are working on how and what to change (and you do, I know). In the meantime, I am happy to read about your travels in and your conversations.

gutenberg_org, to books
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"La chair est triste, hélas ! et j'ai lu tous les livres."
Poésies (1899)

Stéphane Mallarmé died in 1898. He was a major French symbolist poet, and his work anticipated and inspired several revolutionary artistic schools of the early 20th century, such as Cubism, Futurism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. via @wikipedia

Books by Stéphane Mallarmé at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1547

Title page of Pages by Stéphane Mallarmé which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4688

ianhunt,
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@gutenberg_org strangely, I am not finding my way through to the texts of Mallarmé in your links to any of these files; just the Gutenberg introductory pages. Would you mind checking?

ianhunt, to random
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I missed on sunday (a small group of plant noticers here do this on Sunday evenings, European times). Here is some Sneezewort, Achillea ptarmica -- rubbishy photo but I was glad to find it in a meadow I have observed over several years (London/Herts borders) which this year has been cut a bit later than usual, perhaps allowing it to flower. Perhaps it has been here all along and I have missed it. If one thing matters, everything matters, as Wolfgang Tillmans says.

ianhunt,
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Sneezewort, Achillea ptarmica, I find out, is drought-tolerant. This is growing on a heavy clay meadow that is usually waterlogged most of the winter. So perhaps the plant's unexpected presence here is a sign of climate change.

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Weird article in the about . Basically swallowing raw the claims of the president's own staff that he is very popular - without mentioning that he was a hereditary dictator, whose dynasty was in power for 56 years. And explicitly claiming that his regime was a democracy.
I know nothing about the coup makers, but going all in behind the Bongo dynasty seems... strange.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/30/ousted-ali-bongo-was-on-track-to-win-gabon-election-polling-shows about .

ianhunt,
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@Loukas @oysteib is the actual Africa editor at the Guardian and is someone I have read for years with interest. He takes a more nuanced line in relation to interpreting the coup in (and other coups) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/30/why-gabons-coup-plotters-can-count-on-popular-support

vicgrinberg, to random
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Heute ist so ein Tag, wo ich verstehe, warum Orte, die sich auf positive Nachrichten konzentrieren, manchmal wichtig sind. Weil alles andere - vor allem was so an politischen Nachrichten auf Deutschland kommt - macht mich gerade zu fertig :(

ianhunt,
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@vicgrinberg yes, I know that feeling, though the news I am reading reflects the troubles of a diffferent country. A couple of news-free hours to start the day can help to find some place in the world, and the day . . .

ianhunt, to pakistan
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Sign in my local shop, Kentish Town, London.

choyer, to nature en-gb

Come and join Elsica.Social, your cosy fedi-home with a thematic focus on , , , , & , nature , and . If you know Latin names of random , get up at 3am to walk into remote valleys to take , spend all day in your , like reading books or watching the latest about the of Patagonia, you will feel at home here! Please share! elsica.social/

Photo: Evening in Richmond Park, London, UK, 2017. A path through ferns leads to a meadow, mystically covered in fog.

ianhunt,
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@choyer good ideas -- the nature people are starting to link up here without it feeling the same as elsewhere/replacing existing ways of recording, sharing, discussing.

ianhunt, to books
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Was alerted to this list of recommendations (not all 'new' books) by Sascha Akhtar -- whose translations of Hijab Imtiaz Ali are included. Reminder that I needed to read Kim Hyesoon, among others . . . https://wordswithoutborders.org/read/article/2023-08/translators-recommend-women-in-translation-wwb/?src=mailchimp&mc_cid=27d6befe28&mc_eid=a220de40b0&fbclid=IwAR2gxxlpbyKT2Vlg4MIDeLdZfuaFjcPofCDj9b4-gbTwql3qN_ddbAocx_o

gutenberg_org, to books
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Fredrika Bremer was bon in 1801.

She is regarded as the Swedish Jane Austen, bringing the realist novel to prominence in Swedish literature. In her late 30s, she successfully petitioned King Charles XIV for emancipation from her brother's wardship; in her 50s, her novel Hertha prompted a social movement that granted all unmarried Swedish women legal majority at the age of 25 and established Högre Lärarinneseminariet, Sweden's first female tertiary school.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1775

Title page of Strife and Peace by Fredrika Bremer which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20156

ianhunt,
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@gutenberg_org Interested to find out about Fredrika Bremer. Thanks for your presence here, too.

Loukas, (edited ) to random
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🧵I think one problem we in the rich world face, in fixing our societies, is that we have a problem of historical memory.

WW2 obscures the social history of our time and acts as a breach in memory.

The 1950s era in USA and Europe was not some kind of natural equilibrium that we can get back to by practising stability. It was a way for the powerful to make peace with the often revolutionary movements that had been building since at least the 1880s.

ianhunt,
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@Loukas a large part of C19 state formation in Europe arose from urbanisation, was led by local concerns and municipal (benign as well as coercive) structures. Schools, and in C20 mass housing for general need were pre-eminently a part of a world to come. I find this thread interesting for provoking thoughts on what part of 'the state' (a necessary but frustrating shorthand term) I think are most amenable to change from social movements and do-gooders.

Loukas, to random Swedish
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Come on Nigeria 🇳🇬

ianhunt,
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@Loukas yes they would definitely deserve it

ianhunt, to random
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Clematis vitalba, in Buttercup family, with a honeybee. In a small park by a church on the way to the shops.

ianhunt, to pakistan
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Pakistan floods, one year on. 'Speaking at the launch of the report in Islamabad, Waseem Ahmad, chief executive of Islamic Relief Worldwide, stated: “No amount of financial aid can compensate those who have lost loved ones and seen their homes and everything they own destroyed. But we need to see climate justice, where the biggest polluters pay for the damage and destruction caused by climate change.' https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/aug/05/a-year-on-the-devastating-long-term-effects-of-pakistans-floods-are-revealed

Loukas, to random Swedish
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British emigrant things: I don't even know whether Spud U like exists any more.

ianhunt,
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@Loukas Long time since I've seen a Spudulike -- which my mother once pronounced, uncomprehending what it was, as a Greek name -- spud-oo-lik-ay

stancarey, to folklore

An old folk belief in Ireland held that there are 12 different winds and each has its own colour

Also (from a different source) pigs can see the wind

https://archive.org/details/smallersocialhis00joycuoft/page/528/mode/2up

ianhunt,
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@stancarey have a feeling the interesting poet Trevor Joyce descends from Patrick Weston Joyce -- just checked, yes, he does.

ianhunt,
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@stancarey Trevor is a varied and surprising writer. Not sure if he's made it here yet, he probably will. On another subject: do you know Gerry Loose's book of Ogham translations/versions, The Great Book of the Woods? it's simply stunning. I keep giving it to people. It's a book you can see through as you read, into an entire worldview. https://www.corbelstonepress.com/product-page/the-great-book-of-the-woods

malkintrash, to random

Finally de-activated my Twitter account. Any recommendations for UK political journalism accounts on here that are a) not toxic & b) regularly updated? :ablobderpy:

ianhunt,
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@malkintrash @Loukas is wide-ranging, sparky! & informed -- and based mostly here.

Loukas, to random Swedish
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I went for an early morning walk at the edge of Stockholm. No filters.

A small house with a chimney on a hill with wild flowers, with the light making the image blurred
A narrow path through woods and a hedge
A pine tree with red bark in front of a block of flats of red brick

ianhunt,
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@Loukas The is a big, capable, warm and welcoming place, or class -- but yes, it has a door policy which excludes certain billionaires

ianhunt,
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@Loukas I didn't, I think Drew Milne (lively poet, thinker & lichen enthusiast) has something to do with it, and I will ask him, but he isn't hanging out here enough yet . . . . https://mastodon.green/@GlamFuzz@zirk.us

ianhunt,
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@Loukas about -- I asked Drew Milne and he says that the term was proposed by Stephen Collis in 2014: here's the original blgopost, 'Notes Towards a Manifesto of the Biotariat' https://beatingthebounds.com/tag/stephen-collis/

ianhunt,
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@Loukas I was glad to read this manifesto too -- it brings together the radical history traditions of Linebaugh with a wider rethinking of life. If I were to pick up on something it's the trick of 'we' again -- 'a stage in which “we”—all of life—are in the same desperate and drunken boat'. It's provocation rather than a manifesto that says everything, but aside from his awareness of indigeneity it needs more acknowledgement of the ways in which class, race and history do and don't coincide.

ianhunt,
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@Loukas yes -- sorry, I mean pick up on in the sense that it can be questioned, and should be -- this lapse into saying 'we' when the we position of we is both desperately needed but not actually experienced or seen or understood as shared. On that 'all in the same boat' question - a book I'm still recommending is Malcom Ferdinand's Decolonial Ecology, which begin each chapter with incredible evocations and redescriptions of the names and voyages of slave ships. I'll do a Ferdinand thread soon.

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Here's William Davies (in the Guardian) setting out on why the marketisation of was never really going to work as its architects intended, drawing Govt. into a regulatory 'fine tuning' that makes a mockery of the idea that operate in a market

As he concludes: 'what greater confirmation could there be that marketisation has failed than a government getting to stipulate how many students are permitted to take a given university course?'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/19/rishi-sunak-rip-off-degree-courses-education-crackdown

ianhunt,
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@ChrisMayLA6 You may also have seen this analysis, with some other long-term perspectives on 'The looming financial crisis at universities' https://www.ft.com/content/0aca64a4-5ddc-43f8-9bba-fc5d5aa9311d

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