Author & Professor @unibirmingham | Edits @ParagraphEUP | Author: The Subject of Murder, Selfish Women & more | Against Affect out w/ Nebraska UP, 1 April '26.
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Today is Against Affect Publication Day, coinciding with April Fools' Day in the UK. Is it foolishly optimistic to call for a redistribution of reason in an age of febrile, emotive tribalism? Perhaps. But fools have long told uncomfortable truths.
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Today is Against Affect Publication Day, coinciding with April Fools' Day in the UK. Is it foolishly optimistic to call for a redistribution of reason in an age of febrile, emotive tribalism? Perhaps. But fools have long told uncomfortable truths.
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Mar 18
🎉New SI of Paragraph published! 🎉
**New Paragraph Special Issue**
49:1: "Temporalities of Refusal: Fugitivity, Imagination, Radical Futurities" guested-edited by David Ventura & German Primera.
Free-to-read "Glitching Colonial Radio History" by Luc Marraffa. euppublishing.com/journal/PA…
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Lisa Downing retweeted
🎉Paragraph Prize 2026🎉
The editors are pleased to announce that a prize will be awarded for an outstanding article submitted for publication before 30 Sept 2026. Articles can be on any topic appropriate to the journal’s remit: to explore critical theory & its applications.
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7 Nov 2025
Modern Languages as a discipline has been targeted too hard & too long in the UK for a range of nefarious, anti-intellectual, xenophobic cultural reasons. Sign the petition against the outrageous proposal to close languages programmes @ University of Nottingham, a sector leader.
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham! - Sign the Petition! c.org/FPt7bYhVSL via @UKChange
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10 Oct 2025
Paragraph Prize-Winners 2023-2024 announced:
🎉Paragraph Prize Winners🎉
The editors are delighted to announce 2 joint prize-winners of the 2023-24 prize:
Tobias Barnett (@TobiasLDBarn)
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Thomas Waller (@thomasowaller)
Both prize-winning articles are free to read - links in the next message (downthread).
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3 Sep 2025
Publication is still 6 months away but we have pre-orderability and a cover design. nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebras…
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8 Jul 2025
I do love a bargain! Paragraph "Special Issues as Books" titles reduced from £26.99 to £16.99, including my edited Critical Freedoms (2023)
edinburghuniversitypress.com…
🫰💰 SALE💰🫰
Some titles in the Paragraph "Special Issues as Books" series, which ran until 2023, are currently on sale - selected titles slashed from £26.99 to £16.99.
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2 Jul 2025
New SI of @ParagraphEUP on "Thinking Care in the 21st Century" now published. The SI is dedicated to the memory of Isabelle McNeill and Isabelle's article is the free-to-read one.
My article on "reactionary feminism" and why we need *more* not *less* female freedom is also here.
🌟Just published🌟: 48:2, SI on "Thinking Care in the 21st Century" ed. Jasmine Cooper & Katie Pleming.
This issue is dedicated to the memory of Isabelle McNeill who is very profoundly missed. Isabelle's article is the free-to-read article at the link. euppublishing.com/toc/para/4…
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29 Jun 2025
Honoured to see “self-fulness” featured in this poem by @natasharoses87
29 Jun 2025
With reference to the book Selfish Women by @ProfLisaDowning
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Lisa Downing retweeted
The Paragraph editors are pleased to announce that a prize will be awarded for an outstanding article submitted for publication before 30 Sept. 2025. Submissions can be on any topic in our remit: to explore critical theory & its application to literature, arts & culture.
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23 Mar 2025
I'll be speaking at this conference in Vienna on female rage. (2-4 April.) My argument that anger, while valid, is less politically effective than often claimed, will borrow from the anti-affective thesis in my (forthcoming) book Against Affect. ifk.ac.at/kalender-detail/al…
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23 Mar 2025
Anyone wishing to hear all/ part of the event will find a Zoom link at the URL.
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3 Feb 2025
The latest attack on the humanities, and especially the discipline of Modern Languages, in #UKHE is the thread of closures at Cardiff. Please sign and share this petition. change.org/p/save-mlang-at-c…
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31 Dec 2024
Wishing all my friends, near and far...
A very happy new year!
Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!
Boldog új évet!
¡Feliz Año Nuevo!
Bonne Année!
Un an nou ferecit!
С Новым Годом!
Frohes Neues Jahr!
Sťastný nový rok!
Feliz Ano Novo!
Честита Нова Година!
Gott Nytt År!
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!
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1 Dec 2024
I am, for now, on both Bsky & X. The reason? I joke about being "the perfect centrist" - & there is no centrist echo chamber. I don't want to see only "Left" or "Right" viewpoints. How centrist am I? Here's the result of a test I did. I'm *that* dot. Right in the middle.
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I am, by the way, simultaneously over at the other place...
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1 Dec 2024
It's beginning to feel a lot like.... the season when I put Freddie Mercury on the top of my tree.
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Lisa Downing retweeted
🥳Just published! SI: 47:3 "Post-Deconstructive Thought and Biological Theory” ed. Ian James. 🥳
Articles: Francesco Vitale, Eszter Timár, Erin Obodiac, @MancheSolange, @gvnnmngll, Ian James.
editor's intro & article by @BenBGDalton free to read.
euppublishing.com/toc/para/4…
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