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Peter Salmon

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An Event Perhaps, my biography of Jacques Derrida, is out now!

Joined January 2011
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'I hope you've read Peter Salmon's biography, it might change your mind about him.' - @stephenfry puts @jordanbpeterson in the loop about An Event Perhaps, out today in paperback from the good people at @VersoBooks Fly my pretty fly!

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Only 'about' right.. Dylan sees the opportunity to parse that statement over 15 verses.

Saw Nick Cave in Paris recently at the Accor Arena and I was really struck by that song Joy where he sings “We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it the time for joy.” I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right.



As the cover says, here is me ion the bizarre history of blood transfusion...

Want a sneak peek at the cover of our next issue? Out next week, we're exploring the weird ideas of the tech elite - and how they're finding their way into politics. Subscribe now to get a copy delivered to your door: newhumanist.org.uk/subscribe

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An’ here I sit so patiently Waiting to find out what price You have to pay to get out of Going through all these things twice —Bob Dylan


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past 48 hours on twitter

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Desperately need some more podcasts to let me know how things stand #Election2024


Great news!

Legendary Melbourne poet π.O. (Pi.O.) has been announced the winner of the 2024 Patrick White Literary Award! He will receive $20,000 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Australian literature. giramondopublishing.com/pi-o-wins-2024…

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jameson ephemera... his list of films for a class on road movie, circa late 90s

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"The pauses by Pinter. The words by Beckett. The deconstruction by Derrida. Maybe this was a masterpiece after all and we just hadn’t realised it. Keir included." Nice to see Derrida get a shout out in this piece by @JohnJCrace theguardian.com/politics/2024/…


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Narrative [is the] imaginary resolution of a real contradiction. - Frederick Jameson, by way of Althusser and Levi-Strauss


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my fave memory of Fred Jameson was seeing him use a computer. he was pushing the mouse around with two hands. like a ouija board. RIP to the king


More D H Lawrence. Paging Dr Freud!

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D H Lawrence in three sentences.

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THIS WINS THE DAY!!!!


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🔁Things we learned in the latest issue of New Humanist: Since 1979, 202 UK MPs have left their party while retaining a seat in parliament. Buy a copy now to read @petesalmon on why political defections feel so wrong newhumanist.org.uk/subscribe


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Donald Trump's 'Eating The Dogs' transcribed for trombone.


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With an eye on the #UKelection results, @MichaelRosenYes looks at the meaning of the word “landslide”, @petesalmon explores why political defections feel so wrong, and @Natasha_Walter considers the future of refugee rights...


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This is genius 🤣🤣🤣 and also why again do some people want this guy to be president???


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