Des Fitzgerald

@desfitzgerald.bsky.social

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Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/

An LRB article about James Joyce's politics by Terry sodding Eagleton
A hand holding a hardback of the Faber edition of Didier Eribon's biography of Foucault.
Mourinho "if i speak" meme
Simpsons "there will be no orphanage, I'll tell the children" meme
Argentina’s President is extreme enough and the people are obsessed enough with the Falkland Islands that this football match, could become a catalyst for another conflict if it becomes anymore controversial during the match. Think I’m exaggerating, think on.
A river scene with some industrial infrastructure (a tall chimney) in the greenery and the roof of a Victorian institution behind it.
Increasingly coming to the view that the Harvard referencing system is the death of stylish academic writing. Flow as a reader is impossible when the text is littered with regular occurrences of (Boggins and Zuglinsky 2022).
I can't help imagining that there was a cleaning lady in the home Raymond Aron grew up in, and that when he saw her it never occurred to him that she was "conscious of belonging to a social group" that wasn't the one he belonged to; that he was taking tennis lessons while she ironed his shirts, washed the floor, and cleaned the bath-rooms, following his mother's orders; that as he was following an educational trajectory leading to further study in prestigious places, her children, the same age as him, would soon be starting work at a factory, or had already done so. When I see photos from his childhood, with his family, what I see is the bourgeois world on display in all its self-satisfaction (a self-satisfaction of which it is surely fully conscious). And yet he is unaware of this? Even retrospectively? And can still call himself a sociologist?
I am rooting for whoever is playing Argentina. That is all.
God, I was so worried FIFA wouldn't get the final four sides it wants (France, Spain, Argentina, and England) that I can't tell you how thrilled I was when in a 1-1 game 75 minutes in a Swiss player was given a red card That was a near escape, we almost had a real tournament
A Jacobin tweet: The far right spent a century claiming the Vikings. Norway's World Cup team — horned helmets, runes, a viral row-chant and all — just took them back.
Irish team hanging out with John Paul 2 during Italia 90
My only take on Erling Haaland hype is that he grew up under Democratic socialism in Norway which boosts one of the highest happiest indexes of any country globally & I can’t but feel that come across in his attitude both as a player & human. He seems to be having fun. Like many whose needs are met.
a list of books, four of which are various doctor who adaptations, the ast of which is a swerve into "gender ideology"
A child's handwritten menu in orange card: "carits with soop or pork with carits and grave, For dsrt iss Qrem."
the first page of Szasz's 1963 paper on transference
A tweet by sepp Blatter: Red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies. If a U.S. President intervenes with the FIFA President — and a player is suddenly cleared before a World Cup knockout match — the question is unavoidable: Quo vadis, FIFA? Football must never become a playground for political power. #FIFA #WorldCup #GianniInfantino #DonaldTrump
From an article in The Athletic: "But the uncomfortable paradox of it all is that the face of the controversy, Balogun, and the team that many around the world will now turn on are blameless."
A woman holding two freakishly large oysters
Some guy accusing people upset the the onion's dumb anti-Irish "joke" article of not understanding jokes.
Princess Leia from star wars. Text says "help me Mexico, you're my only hope."
Meme of gobshite who came third over-celebratinf
Text from a novel that reads: "in his bathroom he took a shit that came out hit and thin as filter coffee."
are you a robot? please confirm you are a human
Big fascist golden eagle on the white house
A post that says "Europe lost, Football won."
“If you want to hate America, watch the news. If you want to love America, drive through it” ~German World Cup fan
a series of posts about how europeans think about ac, in which one of the posters revels his source for europeans quasi-theological view of the phenomenon is having lived in germany for 6 months
A series of deeply silly posts that argued using the new economy "turkiye" also suggests that we should call Germany "Deutschland"
Headline ad standfirst from an irish times report on he england game: "Harry Kane goes AWOL as football seems to get lost on its way home Dundalk man Greg Whately keeping the pitch in tip-top condition at Boston Stadium"
Ghana trading at 5c on polymarket
The sign over a supermarket aisle. It said impulse minerals, stationary. On the right is a fridge of drinks.
A hand holding the novel "I want you to be happy" by Jem Calder. In the background are yellow flowers and a white wall.
An overhead shot of the civic centre in Cardiff.
Young Danny Dyer in human traffic.
A stupid post by some yank suggesting that America should invade the UK
Scots liking our slides. Germans liking our weed. Frenchmen loving our waffles. We may be a failed state ruled by a tinpot dictator, but American soft power remains undefeated.
The red front door of Lycee Henri IV, Paris
Although the axe has mainly fallen on the humanities (and to some extent the social sciences), the natural sciences have also suffered from the corrosive effects of the funding system and of misplaced commercialism. Undergraduate degrees in chemistry have fallen by 25 per cent since the 2019-20 academic year, according to a Financial Times analysis of official OfS figures; several universities have entirely closed their chemistry departments
A bar in Paris. The sign reads "french theory."
A man left with a very 90s-looking white and black Nike running show.
A hand hold an alarmingly orange coloured bottle of wine.
"des Fitzgerald was drawn Iran"
Mustachioed man wearing a navy jacket with red and blue patches on the shoulders.
Two swans and their cygnets on the River Lee in cork, with st Vincent's bridge in the background
Ufc octagon outside the white house
Germany built the twentieth century's greatest car industry and is now betting everything on reinventing it for the twenty-first. #Volkswagen is investing € 180 bn in electrification through 2028 the largest single corporate investment in EV technology in history www.reuters.com/business/aut...
Research.com Dear Desmond J. Fitzgerald, We'd like to inform you that Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, has just released the 2026 Edition of our Ranking of Best Scientists in the field of Medicine. I am sure you will be very happy to learn that you have ranked 26 in Ireland and 9894 in the world.
Text describing the New Schools Centre for American Experience: At a moment of profound democratic challenge and polarization, the center brings together the university's historic dedication to critical inquiry with a deep commitment to public engagement and transformative education. At its core, CAE is nonpartisan, dedicated to resisting the politicization of education and creating an environment in which pluralism, dialogue, and fearless debate can thrive. Building on The New School's legacy of cultural pluralism as articulated by philosopher Horace Kallen -one of the founding members of the University in Exile in 1933-and its enduring commitment to intellectual freedom, CAE embodies the university's interdisciplinary and creative traditions. Overseen by the provost, guided by a distinguished global advisory board, and led by a historian and a media sociologist, the center advances pluralism in perspective, participation, and imagination.
A beautiful ginger cat on a wall z surrounded by plants
You will also find attached your hotel reservation confirmation for two nights at Hôtel des Grands Hommes.
A man in a green t-shirt and navy shorts sitting in a lift.
A page work advice for a "teenage party." Image depicts a girl holding a tray with plates and a boy playing a guitar. Both are very geekily costumed.
A page with a recipe for ice cream clowns. The image has a lurid ice cream gave with an inverted cone forming a hat.
A hand holds the QUINNSWORTH BOOK OF CHILDREN'S PARTY cooking. The cover depicts a cake in the shape of a pirate ship.
An extract from the papal encyclical Magnifica Humanitas: "Underlying narratives: transhumanism and posthumanism 115. In an attempt to shed light on the cultural assumptions accompanying the ongoing digital revolution, I would now like to turn our attention to certain currents of thought that interpret progress as surpassing the human condition, and which are often grouped under the labels of transhumanism and posthumanism. These perspectives form the ideological background present in some centers of technological power and occupy the collective imagination in a simplified form, especially in the media and on social networks. They tend to foster enthusiasm for new technologies through a futuristic vision of an “enhanced human being” or “human-machine hybrid.”
"Each City Had It's Own Story 31.2% Limerick 26.5% Makers of Food, Grain Milling Dublin Hawkers, Printers and Bookbinders, Tinsmiths Cork Boot and Shoemakers Waterford Chemist Shops, Nuns, Pig Dealers"