Daniel Butt

@danieljamesbutt.bsky.social

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Oxford political theorist. https://users.ox.ac.uk/~wadh1010/ Paul the Psychic Octopus Memorial Award Winner 2019.

Arthur Turner’s Lovechild
The Unbelievable Truth
A table showing the results of the Oxford Chancellor Election 2024, with Peter Mandelson in 4th place and Dominic Grieve in 5th.
A copy of the new Stereolab album, "Instant Holograms on Metal Film", which has just come in the post.
The poster for the film "6-Headed Shark Attack", featuring a shark with six heads.
Me looking cold in a matching scarf and BIAPT hat.
18 festive CDs in the Christmas Tree formation.
Two images of a white Christmas tree in an academic office.
A Christmas tree in Balliol College Lodge in Oxford
Snow is falling in Oxford
The speakers at the seminar.
A copy of Summer Moonshine by PG Wodehouse, once of Parkhurst Prison Library.
An enormous abstract statue of Martin Luther.
Text accompanying Chapter 7 of G.A. Cohen's "If you're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So rich?". The text reads: "Ways That Bad Things Can Be Good - A Lighter Look at the Problem of Evil. Lecture 7 could not be reproduced here. That is because it was a multimedia exercise: the audience accepted my invitation to sing with me, to the accompaniment of tapes, a set of American popular songs that illustrate how bad things can be good. Persons familiar with baseball will know about the sev-enth-inning stretch, when the crowd is asked to rise and sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," usually to the strains of a loud organ. Ten lectures are, I considered, more demanding than nine baseball innings, partly because they are ten, but mainly because they are lectures. So I thought my audience would, like baseball fans, appreciate a moment of respite; but the respite that I laid on cannot, alas or otherwise, be embodied in mere print."
Me in a high vis jacket
The Scan and Deliver machine
An old typewriter
A row of map cabinets