Dr Karen Crawley

Very pleased to finally see this out in the world.... all my fave scholars doing the cultural legal studies thing... routledge.com/The-Routledge-…

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

My original plan

“do not eat all of your easter chocolates at once, your tummy will hurt”

1/ The world is facing a 'ticking time bomb' from its supply of oil, according to a briefing note from JP Morgan. Physical scarcity of oil is about to unfold across the globe, spreading sequentially through April from east to west, causing major economic disruption worldwide. ⬇️

Powerful words from University of Pennsylvania students against their university's headlong rush to embrace of AI:

people misunderstand the icarus story. the problem was not that he flew too high. it's that the wings were made of beeswax, which offered very little resistance to heating. with modern materials he would have had no problems. we can fly as close to the sun as we want now

micro dosing hell by staying informed and educated

“The committed writer is a movement writer … [they know] that they know very little, and that the way to remedy that ignorance is through solidarity with people in struggle.” For PEN Melbourne, André Dao on how a writer can make the world more free. overland.org.au/2026/03/the-ro…

@alex_usyd Nice one. Imo her Uses of Literature is an even better book. Funny that post critique was so trendy in mid 2010s and has now fizzled out in lit theory. My RG read Felski alongside Stuelke's Ruse of Repair...

Lots of great academic books out there. This is rarer: a necessary one. It shows how the humanities can be positive, productive, and joyful — not just critical and suspicious. If we’re going to make the field attractive again, it’ll be through books like this. A++

Years of personal growth can be unraveled in 2 days at your parents house

merry christmas to the radical left, the Marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters, and the people who - in many instances - have absolutely no clue what they are doing

doctor said they found hundreds of poems in my brain

Marx describes sleep as ‘a dosage of vital force’ 🔥

BREAKING: scientists confirm global warming is likely at the high end of projections with extreme and unsurvivable conditions now anticipated in the next 2 decades

incredible the difference mere hours after the child social media ban. Four boys on my street started a journey from their treehouse to find the body of a missing kid in the wilderness. Along the way, they're learning about themselves, & the meaning of friendship. Great to see

Asad Haider wrote a wonderful essay on Stuart Hall for @thepointmag. It is well worth revisiting, and not only as a testament to how much we have lost with his untimely passing. My condolences to Haider’s family and friends. thepointmag.com/politics/polit…

60.000 SIXTY THOUSAND. That's the latest estimation of the number of people who were slaughtered in El Fasher by the RSF these past weeks. The people of Sudan 🇸🇩 are suffering from genocide and the world is letting it happen. theguardian.com/global-develop…

today i emphasize with donald trump because i too before have attached myself to an attractive man who absolutely fucking hates me

Excellent, probing piece today in Crikey by Catriona Menzies-Pike on the closure of Meanjin crikey.com.au/2025/09/08/mea…