Striving to make bad Latin poetry interesting to ever fewer readers. All views an awkward assimilation of that LRB article. Vulgar marxist. Mullet on horizon.
Canberra/Sydney
Joined June 2013
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My book on Sebastiano Timpanaro is now out!
Timpanaro was one of the great intellectuals of the post-WWII European left. He made a host of expansive contributions on materialism, classical philology, Leopardi, Freud, and linguistics
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PhD scholarship opportunity for anyone interested in writing a thesis somewhere in the overlapping areas of authorship/intellectual production and Roman slavery! Full info: study.anu.edu.au/scholarship…
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I want an Odyssey adaptation (and an Odyssey translation) that makes you feel in your bones how profoundly different the archaic Greeks were from us. Basically space aliens. Nolan is just fundamentally not interested in that kind of estrangement.
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I’d love it if you’d sign this. It might not prevent me and my colleagues losing our jobs, but it will draw attention to the ideological vandalism being perpetrated by the wealthy execs running our university. Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter c.org/6BTyL4mcG2
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Carlo has passed away, but don't just mourn him. Reading his essays and books disciplines the mind.
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Come join our dream team at the Centre for Classical Studies at ANU! We got a level A associate lecturer role open to those with a right to work in Australia. Closing date 25 May. jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/associa…
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On Wednesday evening, over 600 nautical miles from their own country, the Israeli Navy violently boarded our ship that was sailing with the Sumud Flotilla in international waters. The Israelis said they would shoot us if we didnt stop the boat and give them conrol. They evebtually seized 21 ships and kidnapped over 180 people.
While they kidnapped us, they physically harrrased and beat us, as they stole our phones, money, and clothes. When i asked if we were being detained and why, i was told "i dont speak English."
The Israeli Navy intercepted 21 vessels altogether, and then took us to a Frigate, which was outfitted with shipping containers where we were forced to live the past two days. Israeli forces kept us in stress positions throghout, under floodlights. They fed us once with bread. Israeli forces took away some people one by one to beat and torture them; the Israelis dislocated the shoulder of a person on my ship, beat the face of a captain to a pulp, and gave severe concussions to at least two people.
I dont have a phone or money, but this is my update for now.
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I think everyone involved in this project should go to prison
No teachers, just AI: A new elementary school is opening in Chicago this fall. The school says students can master core subjects in two hours a day. Researchers say the evidence for replacing teachers with tech is still shaky
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Our great Crusader mission to open the Strait that was open before the war; un-sanction Iranian oil, thus reducing oil prices to 2x their prewar level; & restore the popular legitimacy of the Islamic Republic—for the low price of a few hundred billion $ & many thousands of lives
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Was the bombing legal? no. but was it moral? also no. did they anticipate the Iranian response? not really. but did they at least manage their alliance relations? again no.
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The US slaughtered all of those Iranian schoolgirls.
Shame on all those who claimed it wasn't the aggressors responsible.
Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people — was the result of a targeting mistake. nyti.ms/47G2uw2
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The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.
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I don’t think you understand how catastrophic the oil refinery bombing in Tehran is.
Burning petroleum releases sulfur and nitrogen oxides that mix with rain to form sulfuric and nitric acid, essentially turning rainfall toxic.
When Saddam burned Kuwaiti oil wells in 1991, the fallout contributed to what became known as Gulf War Syndrome, with veterans developing chronic illness and cancer decades later.
The difference now: this isn’t a desert battlefield, it’s a city of 10 million people, most of which women and children.
Our inaugural Studio for Critical Antiquities event is coming up fast - Tuesday 17 March 18.30 New York time, Wednesday 18 March 9.30 Sydney time. Pumped to host Ben Radcliffe on his current project, 'Sensing Labor in the Iliad'. Details here: criticalantiquities.org/stud…
Email me on [email protected] if you want to participate - will send you a copy of Ben's draft chapter to read in advance
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Shortsighted decision to cut classical languages at u of Iowa. Petition here. c.org/ZVhdNSckD8
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The 2026 Critical Antiquities Workshop kicks off this Wed morning (Sydney time) with Sara Brill’s paper, ‘“From the womb of capital itself”: Commodity Fetishism, Reproductive Fantasy, and the Use of Birth.’ For more details and to register, go to: criticalantiquities.org/work…