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Who Can Afford to Fail? Vivienne Westwood, Malcolm McLaren and the Class Politics of Art School

love this, by Andrew Groves: fashion, feminism, finance, failure...

profandrewgroves.substack.com/p/who-can-af...

omg this is all in the last 3d?

publishing of the future (seen from 1989)

The 2026 Prize is judged by Claire-Louise Bennett, Ottessa Moshfegh and Joanna Walsh.

For a chance to get your work in front of their eyes, enter at: desperateliterature.com/prize

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I'd quite like to do some teaching... I miss it

i'm bored: suggestions for applications, residencies, new careers pls...

“Most people are still scrolling because there’s nowhere else to go”: An Interview with Joanna Walsh — Cristina Politano Joanna Walsh’s Amateurs!: How We Built the Internet and Why It Matters was recently published by Verso Books. In it, Walsh charts the ascendancy of a new kind of digital creative, one who mud…

“Most people are still scrolling because there’s nowhere else to go”: An Interview with Joanna Walsh — Cristina Politano minorliteratures.com/2026/02/10/m...

Monthly Dispatch #32 — ft. @yanisiqbal.bsky.social Michael Templeton, @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social @farsouthproject.bsky.social @djamelbouchenaki.bsky.social @kentkosack.bsky.social @stuhennigan.bsky.social @badaude.bsky.social @raviddice.bsky.social & more ...

out now:

minorlits.substack.com

gorgeous cover!

#gorse12 (Language is a virus) has just arrived in the house from the printers and I flick open on this illustration by @badaude.bsky.social! Lord, it must be a sign that the world will survive after all 😃

can also say more on chat but that would involve, y'know, chatting

ach... i'm so sorry... advice can just sound annoying & this may be completely inappropriate but if find letting a flat-toned laptop accessibility voice start reading you a long russian novel can either feel good or so irritating that you start wanting to do something just to make it stop...

yes congratulations stu!

ha - also beckett's handwriting was near-unreadable, possibly even to his closest friends...

5) the corner of a photo of the house in foxrock where beckett was born

a.k.a. texts for nothing...

4) the back of a photo of the house in rousillon where beckett spent part of wwii

3) the back of a note identifying a photo written on the reverse of a seemingly unrelated library card

2) a photocopy of the verso of a page of beckett's typed manuscript for watt

1) the cover of a folio containing a single handwritten sheet of the draft for the unnameable, encased in plastic

i spent the last week in the beckett archive at reading university as this year's samuel beckett creative fellow. it was intense, confusing, sometimes disturbing, sometimes boring, strangely exhausting, none of which are bad things. i couldn't photograph beckett's handwriting/manuscripts so here's:

La maison de repos — Djamel Bouchenaki 25 juin 2025 Aujourd’hui, Grand-père s’en va à la mer. Maman dit qu’il a besoin de calme, de récupération, alors on l’emmène dans une maison de repos à l’ouest d’Alger. Là-bas, il s’apaisera, proch…

last week @ minor lits ...

— @monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews @badaude.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2026/02/10/m...

— new fiction in French* from @djamelbouchenaki.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2026/02/12/l...

*with a translation by Jordan Barger

thank you so much! I tried to get in touch with Tea via her website but no reply so far - I don't know her outside that project and I'm sure a request from someone will work better... hope this leads to something 🤞

“Most people are still scrolling because there’s nowhere else to go”: An Interview with Joanna Walsh — Cristina Politano Joanna Walsh’s Amateurs!: How We Built the Internet and Why It Matters was recently published by Verso Books. In it, Walsh charts the ascendancy of a new kind of digital creative, one who mud…

"The demand for verified profiles…dismantles a valuable feature of the early web: the ability to step outside the boundaries of offline gender, class, racial categories and appear as pure language ..."

@monalisavitti.bsky.social interviews @badaude.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2026/02/10/m...

would be very grateful for a repost @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social @jamesosullivan.bsky.social @sarahtgold.bsky.social @gaiamarcus.bsky.social @karengregory.bsky.social @stacyewood.bsky.social @thedigitalhub.bsky.social @imogen-parker.bsky.social @bildoperationen.bsky.social

Today is the day! Record your day and be part of recording queer lives and histories in the UK. Sketch, type, write, or photograph your day. Even if you think your day isn't very interesting we'd still love to have it in our collection! All types of days, boring or brilliant are welcome #LGBTplusHM

IMPORTANT pls RT

My online novel seed-story.com is loading sporadically/not at all

The servers belonged to Google Creative Labs Sydney (now apparently defunct)

If anyone reading worked there/knows someone who did pls get in touch urgently so this pioneering work of digital literature can be saved

I've been invited by 3 UK universities to speak about Amateurs! and they've all had to withdraw their invites as departmental cuts mean they can't even pay expenses.

thx :)

« At its best it was around 20 years of people making works that altered the way art was made, who had access to make it, and the way it circulated and was received; works that changed the ways we see the world »

THIS 👆

Insightful interview with @badaude.bsky.social by @monalisavitti.bsky.social 😍

what an insult to every artist's work that they will have to reapply every 3 years for a lottery that, however hard they work, and however much they (as the statement emphasises) 'produce', they may never win