@readalanread

Writer (sometime Professor of Theatre, King's College London & UC Berkeley). Arguments mine, no 'views' to speak of, from Essex after all.

 London, England
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Joined December 2012
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Peter Apps@PeteApps6 May 2025
Anatomy of a Firetrap: Will broadcast on Radio 4 at 8pm tonight. Available on BBC Sounds now: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002bs… Sneak peak here:
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A new work on Proust that I happened to find on sale. It looks excellent so far
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On #WorldWetlandsDay2021 listen to Soul Estuary @BBCRadio4 to hear @readalanread range from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to Joe Cocker singing Cry Me a River via the Wall of Death and SS Richard Montgomery bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07npx3… @ThamesEstPart @Tidal_Thames95 @iantokelove
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Profiles from the English picket: @readalanread • priority = lack of security for ECRs • believes in university w/out walls • passion: working to resist cultural cruelty @KCL_UCU #UCUstrikesback
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The Labour referendum option is terrifyingly reasonable. Commentators will die as they tell us about it. They’ll choke on it. Nightmare.
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Grenfell Impact - 26 September. Call for abstracts. Details below. #Grenfell Source: m.facebook.com/almanaarmchc/…
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Big day in the High Court - before he died, Prof Stephen Hawking was taking Jeremy Hunt to court to protect the NHS from Hunt's back-door privatisation – that case is being heard today – thank you to all on the case & good luck! #JR4NHS #KeepOurNHSPublic xitter.cf/doctor_oxford/status/9…
Dr Rachel Clarke
@doctor_oxford22 May 2018
Prof Hawking cared so much about protecting our NHS from private hands, he decided to take Hunt to the high court. Tomorrow, that case will be heard. Thank you, @jr4nhs, for fighting to keep our NHS public. Good luck 💥👊bbc.com/news/health-42871081

Stephen Hawking to take Hunt to court over NHS

A judicial review is granted over government health policy plans.

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Conference announcement & CFP: "Genres of the Human: On Sylvia Wynter," June 7-8, 2018, King’s College London @KingsCollegeLon #Wynter #SylviaWynter #conferences #human
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On a day that has seen us recognised by the UK art world, and as we commit ourselves to support the communities around #GrenfellTower in their pursuit of justice and accountability, it is indeed fitting that we reserve our last thoughts today for Khadija Saye, a lost talent. xitter.cf/readalanread/status/98…
Alan Read@readalanread26 Apr 2018
Commitment of @ForensicArchi to exposing illegality including Grenfell fire brings deserved recognition by Turner Committee. FA's @weizman_eyal call out now for Khadija Saye as Grenfell resident who would have been eligible too, one day, but no longer, due to criminal neglect.
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'Queer Marxism synthesises Marxist concepts like class, reification and totality with performativity, homonationalism and intersectionality.' Historical Materialism's 'Queer Marxism reading list: historicalmaterialism.org/re…
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The evictions continue at #ZAD for the second day - riot police using armoured bulldozers and vehicles to destroy houses. Huge clouds of tear gas. Our love and support goes out to the brave Zadists.
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Helping to organise a conference on the brilliant Sylvia Wynter at KCL on June 7th and 8th, event details are in the link below. If you'd like to apply, send abstracts to [email protected] by May 1st. facebook.com/events/45797151…
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‘Imagination is everything’: Paul Gilroy chats to The JRB about race, land and South Africa’s role in overthrowing the racial order johannesburgreviewofbooks.co… via @joburgreview

'Imagination is everything': Paul Gilroy chats to The JRB about race, land and South Africa's role...

The JRB's Academic Editor Simon van Schalkwyk spoke to UK academic, historian and philosopher Paul Gilroy, who was in Johannesburg recently for a conference at the Wits Institute for Social and...

johannesburgreviewofbooks.com
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Really enjoyed meeting the students @KingsCollegeLon & @readalanread @royalcourt yesterday. Lovely peeps x Had fun preparing talk on writing for different landscapes, walking and art. Think we managed to reference Blake, Virginia Woolf, Dickens, Jehst & Kendrick #BlackMenWalking
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Housmans would like to thank the family of Doreen Massey - radical geographer, feminist, theorist and political activist - for the donation of a significant part of her personal library. All books available at £1 or £3. More info: housmans.com/blog/?p=2841
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Judgment in Goldscheider v Royal Opera House really satisfying. It’s time we had some clarity in the rights of employed musicians to be protected from noise injury. See my Linked In post and BBC coverage. Thanks again to @FryLegal (Chris and Sami) and my fab junior Jon Clarke!
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Alan Read retweeted
Fry Law@Fry_Law_Ltd28 Mar 2018
Permission to appeal has been refused. #Goldscheider #Musician #AcousticShock
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Alan Read retweeted
Chris Fry@FryLegal28 Mar 2018
Acoustic Shock is now a recognised compensatable condition, and the music business is now officially on notice that artistic output is still ‘noise’ and regulated. Thanks to Theo Huckle QC Sami French and Jon Clarke at Old Square for your incredible work. frylaw.co.uk/archives/articl…
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Today is the 34th anniversary of the first street performance by Platform. ‘Corny Exchanges’ was an anti-privatisation & anti-gentrification campaign in Cambridge. platformlondon.org/about-us/…
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Theatres of loss, the impossibility of compensation and the sinkholes of dark law with the erudite @readalanread in solidarity with the students of #kclstudentoccupation #lawinthelimelight Las/In/As Perfmormance
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