chrisbogle.bsky.social
Practice PhD candidate in fine art @ Northumbria Uni
Writer | Filmmaker | Dad with #ADHD
Reimagining a post capitalist road novel as auto-text. Interests: class transgression, speculation, rebellious AF research
www.chrisbogle.com
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Great, thanks for the info!
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I mean, this was in the nineties, I hope things have moved on. My son is learning Midsummer Night's Dream in middle school and loves it... they're doing things like writing their own short adaptations and performing it.
I learned to love it through the theatre too - right where it belongs :)
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So relatable. It was made utterly dry & impenetrable for me at school, stripped of its intense creativity & then intellectualised. I still find Shakespeare daunting to approach, it's a frustrating & irrational 'muscle memory' from education.
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Tricky one. City has easier run in than Villa but I reckon both get 9 pts min. Draw means we’d need 11-12 points for top 5 (I think?). Personally prefer villa over city but on pts permutations City winning gives us better odds of CL but still up to us whatever
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Hehe I turned down a ticket in the Millburn because my son's away and I didn't want to go on my own :(
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Maddest… but also the most steady. Just a slow build, few iOS and downs, but nothing that’s upturned the boat. We look and feel like an elite outfit. I’m sticking a tenner on the league next year
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Not sure, but was v disappointed Katy Perry & Lauren Sanchez weren’t also ejected from low orbit
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I started my business in 2008, just as the run on NR began. My uncle said ‘if you make it a year you’ll be ok’. 20 years later was still going strong
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Solidarity ✊
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I think there was enough narrative tension in the opening of that box for another book! Congratulations, Tom!
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I thought the whole Adam & Eve saga was right in their wheelhouse...
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I don't know. If he's a trolley then he's being careened about the store by ideologues like Vance and Musk. The implications of giving an inch in return for domestic policy concessions is terrifying, & worse, the longer we placate them, the more tangled & isolated from our close peers we'll become
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Outside pure economics it puts Starmer/liberals in a political bind, no? If Trump demands favourable tax policy next week (eg digital platforms) & threatens say 20%, suddenly the low tax/regulation headbangers have a big stick to beat the govt with. That 10% seems like leverage over our public realm
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Nor is it guaranteed to last a week before changing for the better/worse if Trump decides he wants to leverage it against a bit of UK policy. Feels awfully like we've just stumped up the equivalent of protection money to a bunch of racketeers
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dear god, "political opinons" 🤦
What a rotten society we are that denies these poor men the right to incite racial and gendered violence because their truths are 'unfashionable'.
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or rather capital wants us to think it's a sea. Fisher answers: "we need to develop strategies against a Capital which presents itself as ontologically, as well as geographically, ubiquotous" i.e. acknowlege that its an illusion & think our way out. A call to arms, not a capitulation.
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I don’t think it was meant as defeatism, though, rather to illustrate the absolute immanence of capitalism and the way it has become the sea in which we all swim. I always took Mark Fisher’s version of it as a challenge to overcome, rather than a statement of fact.
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This is the argument I use when people complain about Saudi money. Saudi regime is aborrent but which voter in Benwell's going to complain about regional investment + jobs when there's a total vacuum of investment by our own govt?