Lecturer, & author of Granular Modernism (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (forthcoming from OUP, 2025). Email: b.carver2@exeter.ac.uk.
Joined August 2015
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Mar 3
Book published today & my 1st email of the day 🩷🩵
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Jun 13
‘there is no inherent contradiction between the individual and the collective’ (Geo Maher)
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Jun 12
Happy end of term everyone & welcome if you too are a little bit drunk 🥂
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Jun 10
Thinking about these two passages together, by Stefan Collini and Geo Maher, and wondering whether we should be forming communes 🤔
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Jun 10
Vs Keston Sutherland in ‘Instincts on Trump University’: ‘That it has come to this is your fault’ 🔥
Jun 10
“Poets are not to blame for how things are.”
―Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson
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Jun 9
Weird that the ancients invented democratic citizenship yet are thought to have had no notion of the individual self …
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Jun 9
Sleepily submitted a grant proposal today and my collaborator noticed in the nick of time that I’d said I worked in China
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Jun 9
‘Shakespeare is, in every play he ever wrote, a profoundly political poet. It doesn’t take any unraveling or stretching of the concept to see that. It’s unmistakable right at the surface.’ (Keston Sutherland)
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Jun 8
Ah man it’s such an immense relief to be alone and at home after almost a week spent almost continuously in public ❤️
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Jun 8
Overheard someone say into his headset: ‘People say, are you missing the feeling or the person?’
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Jun 7
Kafka on reading, via The Calstle’s Landlady: ‘You take everything the wrong way, even a silence. You can’t help it.’
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