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I thought that @will-davies.bsky.social was the first person to get the term ‘Yookay’ into @lrb.co.uk but it turns out it is mentioned in a Raymond Williams piece from 1985 so … www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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You know the way you've always wanted to read a 5,500 word critical close-reading of the oeuvre of MrBeast? Well I have written exactly that www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ju...

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By friend of the account @neilscott.substack.com. open.substack.com/pub/neilscot...

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Brilliant article by @robhorning.bsky.social on what MrBeast does to subjectivity robhorning.substack.com/p/bananas-ar...

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New post: neilscott.substack.com/p/linder-dan...

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Nice to hear @helenlewis.bsky.social on Start the Week popularising the idea of Scenius. A drum I have been beating for some time! Will be interesting to see if the concept enters into mass culture. neilscott.substack.com/p/on-scenius

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In case your Poundland closes, there is an alternative.

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Linder ‘A kind of glamour about me’ @mountstuart.bsky.social

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New Adam Curtis sounds entertainingly bleak unherd.com/2025/06/adam...

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OPENS TODAY: Alasdair Gray: Works from The Morag McAlpine Bequest at Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum feat. book cover art works for @aowensarchive.bsky.social In an interview Morag said: "I think that we probably had quite lonely times before we met. And we now know the value of being together.’

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Love Luke Fowler's Two-Frame Films. Not least because it inhabits a Glasgow I recognise well. See here (4th image) @agrayarchive.bsky.social and Alasdair Roberts.

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Just two tickets left in the stalls to see David Byrne. £289.30 each! For that money, I would expect Talking Heads to cook me dinner, serve me wine, and play a set of my choosing.

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Sorry to hear about Geoff Palmer's death. What a lovely, humourous, clear-sighted man he was.

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speaking tomorrow at this conference to honour the centenary of Alexander Trocchi’s birth at Glasgow University. come watch me give my first, and most likely last, academic paper on Trocchi’s aesthetics and politics of failure.

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Thrilled to have been commissioned to write an essay for the current Street Level Photoworks show minigraph. Pick up a copy in the gallery today.

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Inspired by Paul Pieroni's article in the revived Variant magazine, yesterday I went to investigate Daniel Buren's artwork for @glasgowgardenfestival.org Read more here: www.paulpieroni.com/daniel-buren...

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I’m going to go out on a limb and say that nobody should be following 234,900 people on any social network.

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Nihilistic is the wrong word but there is certainly an end of history vibe to the art. At @glasgowfilmtheatre.bsky.social last night, Creed was showing his WIP—How to Live—a series of traumatic events from his childhood that had a Shandean quality.

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No one did nihilistic nineties Britart quite like Martin Creed

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Annoyingly, although there is a place between Glasgow and Paisley called Halfway (and bus routes!), there are very few street signs. This is the best I could find: neilscott.substack.com/p/halfway

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The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin is like a super-8 movie. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48411/...

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neilscott.substack.com/p/london

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