David Fearn

Roll on another successful Warwick Classics offer holder open day!

Homer, Iliad 15.80-3? Platonic phantasia? Either way, terrifying.

Deus in Machina: AI and Divine Rhetoric “The urgent message from history concerning the process of forcing the metaphorical deus into his machina is that social domination readily takes up the language of philosophy or religion when seeking...

I have a new essay out today with the North American Conference on British Studies about the oligarchical urge to say that AI is going to become God

www.nacbs.org/post/deus-in...

My general feeling is that every summary tool shortcuts the library shelf. In grad school there were few things I adored more than finding a book on the shelf bc I inevitably found six or seven other books on proximate shelves that I didn’t even know I needed! Process is the point!

Truly honoured indeed. Kleos aphthiton!

Introducing LEGO Prof. David Fearn on this special #ILCD10, in honour of today's host, the @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Department of Classics and Ancient History. The real David Fearn is Prof. of Greek and Head of the Department. #InternationalLEGOClassicismDay

Obvs truly honoured!! Amazing.

OMG...! Lol 😍

Our official host for the day, the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick, tells us all about their participation over the years in ILCD.
See link to there special web-page: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/cla...

New report on The State of Geography in UK Higher Education UK universities are facing a financial crisis, with over 40% of institutions experiencing deficits. Others will likely face similar challenges.

Shout out for the learned societies keeping a beady eye on the state of the disciplines that university senior managers are so swiftly dismantling. Keep an eye on the state of UK university Geography with the help of the @rgs.org 's new report, published this week.

'leech-like to their fainting country cling...'?

We hear way too much about angry Britain, blue-red Britain. What about the Britain of Save the Children, Oxfam, the RSPCA, the RNLI, popular environmentalism, the Britain of London's absolute triumph since its 80s nadir, its civic universities, the Britain of volunteering, giving, hoping?

Mario Telò's powerful book 'Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis'

A concluding from Telò, Resistant Form, on Aristophanes, Frogs.

Tracey Emin on unashamedly luddite resistance to gross-dude Big Tech.

Partly in prep for the visit of our wonderful friend & colleague Mario Telò to Warwick Classics & IAS in now less than a fortnight, I have been reading this (the Frogs chapter is mindbogglingly good, btw) - and, also, serendipitously, this (the legendary Tracey Emin, in today's Guardian).

Non-Classicists finding out about Thomas Hubbard because he turned up in the Epstein Files was not on my 2026 bingo card… and yet here we are.

Today's #otd photograph is of the island of Orasaigh - the subject of a unique collaboration between @steveeely.bsky.social and myself. Poetry and photography combined in a completely new way.

You can pick the book up from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

See more here👇

www.ansolasoir.com/orasaigh

Portrait of my left hand, low light against a dark blue background Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux-M at f/8 Leica M11 handgrip Gitzo 3540LS + Arca Cube GP Leica Fotos App on phone for remote shutter release

Portrait of a gathering of road cones Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux-M wide open

Portrait of white vents, bright purple wall, and orange smoke vents control pane, multi-storey carpark Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux-M

More pics from today.

Hand Portrait 2
Cone Club
Purple Smoke Vent

#leica

Here is a photo of a wild Great Grey Owl I photographed 18 years ago. Zero clue why I'm posting this today.

The unstartling conclusion is that the present is being run by a bunch of actually not very smart people.

Get rid of the consultants mentality and use your actual brains and experience.

Look out of the window: if it's raining, it is raining.

Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux-M at f/1.4 Manual exposure, natural light, white balance at 5500k Leica M11 hand grip Gitzo 3540LS Tripod+Arca Cube Head Leica Fotos on iPhone 13 Pro Max for preview, focus, shutter release, camera at head-height

Washing-up after breakfast

Low-light self-portrait of hand against an unreflective dark-blue background Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux M at f/1.4 Manual exposure, natural light, 5500k white balance 12 second self-timer Leica M11 hand grip Gitzo 3540LS tripod +Arca Cube tripod head Leica Fotos on iPhone 13 Pro Max for preview, focus, shutter release

Low-light Hand Self-portrait

#Leica #SelfportraitDetail

Times Magazine cover preview, Peter Mandelaon at home in his Wiltshire kitchen, with dog. "I've had a lot of bad luck, no doubt some of it my own making."

Feel like I'm going mad.

Oh good lord. I've just seen my first in-play rugby ad. Commentary audio interrupted. This nonsense will have to stop. Plus: ITV will be sure to screw this up even more badly and miss a crucial moment, rendering their coverage totally pointless.

Cheers Jim, Mario 🥂

Def Leppard Hysteria

#legends #drivetime

Service corridor in multi-storey carpark/shopping centre, with associated retail detritus (bins, barrows, trolleys) Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux-M, shot at f/1.4

Service Corridor 2

#Leica #Carparksihaveknown

75 lux my most-used lens on M11 so far, clearly indicative of fact that I've most often been seeking out the details in all things. As usual...

Discarded Oasis drink bottle Cyan-green label on bottle matching the soft cool cyan-blue reflected light of concrete floor and wall, a gloomy February afternoon in a carpark-gulag. Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux-M

Oasis

#Leica #carparksihaveknown

The Best Eco Thrillers The best 'eco-thrillers'—as selected by Manda Scott, author of bestselling books including the Boudica: Dreaming series

"We don’t need extra help in imagining how bad it’s going to be, and it doesn’t change anyone’s behaviour: if it did, we wouldn’t be in the current mess."
fivebooks.com/best-books/e...

Detail photograph dry riser pipe (steel with golden and red fittings), red wall sign, garish mauve wall colour, harsh electric lighting Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux-M

Dry riser outlet in mauve

#Leica #carparksihaveknown

Photograph of a steel dry riser pipe with golden and red fittings and wall notice, against a bright blue wall, with green fire exit sign, harsh electric lighting Leica M11, 75mm f/1.4 Summilux-M

Dry riser outlet in blue

#Leica #carparksihaveknown