Tom Geue

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 versobooks.com/en-gb/products…

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

How about taste?

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.

The US slaughtered all of those Iranian schoolgirls. Shame on all those who claimed it wasn't the aggressors responsible.

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.

Nearly 10 million people have effectively been subjected to a poison gas attack. And all with European support. A heinous act, historical evil

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.

Email me on tom.geue@anu.edu.au if you want to participate - will send you a copy of Ben's draft chapter to read in advance

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/studio/example…

Shortsighted decision to cut classical languages at u of Iowa. Petition here. c.org/ZVhdNSckD8

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/workshop

There needs to be a far, far stronger presumption against violence in international politics. It’s insane that leaders barely feel the need to make a moral, legal, or prudential case for bombing human beings.

Join us online for Page Dubois' lecture tomorrow - should be a riot!

Thanks to the Leverhulme Trust and the Australian Research Council for funding this research, and here's to feeling out the proportions of this 'Elephant in the Study' in every way possible slll.cass.anu.edu.au/elephant-study…

I stand convinced that the dependence of Latin literature on enslaved workers has huge implications for literary history, the history of authorship, and the history of world slavery - and this is the first of what I hope will be many attempts to work through those implications

Chuffed to have an essay out in the new issue of Representations, 'The Enslaved Muse: Apostrophe and Authorship at Rome'; accessible via this link for 30 days online.ucpress.edu/representation…

The Critical Antiquities Workshop is returning! See our schedule at criticalantiquities.org. On March 3/4, come online or in person @Sydney_Uni for our first event: Sara Brill, 'From the womb of capital itself: Commodity Fetishism, Reproductive Fantasy, and the Use of Birth.'

The Critical Antiquities Public Lecture is back in 2026. On February 24 (US/UK) or 25 (Australia), Page Dubois (UC, San Diego) will give her lecture entitled, 'Blind Spot: Marxism in U.S. Classics.' More details at our website (criticalantiquities.org) and in the attached flyer.