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.
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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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Need the Pope to release an encyclical against Teams calls
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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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Tom Geue retweeted
Mar 26
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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Mar 20
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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Mar 14
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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Tom Geue retweeted
Mar 11
The US slaughtered all of those Iranian schoolgirls.
Shame on all those who claimed it wasn't the aggressors responsible.
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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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Tom Geue retweeted
Mar 9
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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Mar 8
Nearly 10 million people have effectively been subjected to a poison gas attack. And all with European support. A heinous act, historical evil
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RT @arianajasmine__: I don’t think you understand how catastrophic the oil refinery bombing in Tehran is.
Burning petroleum releases sulf…
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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…
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Mar 2
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…
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Tom Geue retweeted
Feb 28
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.
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Join us online for Page Dubois' lecture tomorrow - should be a riot!
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.
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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
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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
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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/elephan…
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