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Attention is All You Need

https://crookedtimber.org/2025/07/14/attention-is-all-you-need/

Published: July 14, 2025 08:12

One of my foundational theoretical commitments is that the technology of reading and writing is neither natural nor innocuous. Media theorists McLuhan, Postman, Ong and Flusser all agree on this point: the technology of writing is a necessary condition for…

Cultural theory was right about the death of the author. It was just a few decades early

https://crookedtimber.org/2025/07/11/cultural-theory-was-right-about-the-death-of-the-author-it-was-just-a-few-decades-early/

Published: July 11, 2025 10:48

There’s a great anecdote about Roman Jakobson, the structuralist theorist of language, in Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan’s book, Code: From Information Theory to French Theory. For Jakobson, and for other early structuralist and post-structuralist thinkers,…

Global science equity*

https://crookedtimber.org/2025/07/10/global-science-equity/

Published: July 10, 2025 12:33

Now that the Trump government is relentlessly attacking higher education and abusing its power at the border to arbitrarily refuse entry to scholars, many academics wonder whether it’s still possible to travel to the US for conferences or other research…

The mug

https://crookedtimber.org/2025/07/09/the-mug/

Published: July 9, 2025 07:06

I’ve owned this mug for twenty-five years now. Bought in the gift shop of the Metropolitan Opera in New York on my first ever trip to America, which I doubt I shall ever visit again. The mug, in art nouveau style, celebrates Pucchini’s La Bohème, which we…

Whatever happened to Romney Republicans?

https://crookedtimber.org/2025/07/08/whatever-happened-to-romney-republicans/

Published: July 8, 2025 04:16

Have they changed, or just become their worst selves While Trump is unpopular with a majority of Americans, his support among Republicans remains solid. That’s despite blatant corruption, fascist policies and a failure to deliver any of the economic…

The end of US democracy

https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/29/the-end-of-us-democracy/

Published: June 29, 2025 22:34

I’ve held off posting this in the hope of coming up with some kind of positive response, but I haven’t got one. When I wrote back in November 2024 that Trump’s dictatorship was a fait accompi there was still plenty of room for people to disagree. But (with…

Peaceful Terrorism?

https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/24/peaceful-terrorism/

Published: June 24, 2025 08:43

The UK government has signalled its intention to “proscribe” the protest group Palestine Action under anti-terrorism legislation. This will place it in the same legal category as Al Qaeda and Islamic State: it will be illegal to belong to the group, to…