@alixbeeston

Writer and academic • Reader in Literature and Visual Culture @cardiffuni • Books: Incomplete (@UCPress) and In and Out of Sight (@OUPAcademic) • She/her

 Cardiff + Sydney
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Joined December 2014
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It came!!! This book is one of the best things I've ever done, the outcome of almost six years of collaborative work with @StefanSolomon7 and other pals, and I'm so so delighted to have it in my hands!!! Preorder #Incomplete with 30% off using code SAVE30: ucpress.edu/book/97805203814…
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Namwali@namwalienFeb 6
@alixbeeston's essay also up @parisreview, introducing Collins's unfinished novel, with the remarkable story of how the manuscript was discovered: theparisreview.org/blog/2026…

On Kathleen Collins’s “Blue Obstacles” by Alix Beeston

February 5, 2026 – “To reappraise women’s incomplete works can be to resist the exclusionary gestures—the refusals, rejections, and roadblocks—that all too often stymie and limit the public careers...

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Namwali@namwalienFeb 6
An incredible excerpt from an unpublished novel manuscript by Kathleen Collins (1942–1988) is up @parisreview! Toni Morrison called what she'd read of it "stunning"; she was an editor at Random House at the time but couldn't convince them to publish it: theparisreview.org/blog/2026…

from “Blue Obstacles” by Kathleen Collins

February 5, 2026 – “I discern everything in a Parisian way. Until the thought comes home that my hair is messy and I am too dowdily colored to look French. I am not even well-colored: just a layer of...

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Cool interview between Alix Beeston and Jonathan Eburne about his new book, Exploded Views. Lots of interesting discussion of his work with ASAP, especially around starting @ASAP_Journal podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcas…

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"Could AI improve the REF?" I've found the most cursed sentence
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It’s the start of a ‘new fight’ for the sector. novaramedia.com/2025/05/26/u…

University Workers Prepare to Take Fight Directly to Labour

The University and College union has voted for national strike action over a funding model that’s ‘cannibalising’ the sector. Polly Smythe reports.

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Nick Riemer@NickRiemer12 Jun 2025
Sydney Uni VC Mark Scott has just been given a big payrise, taking his salary to $1,343,000 💵 💵💰 – a reward for imposing policies on the uni over the last year that can only be described as coming from the *far-right*. Read this 🧵and see if I'm exaggerating. 1/12
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Petition: Impose economic sanctions on Israel. petition.parliament.uk/petit…

Petition: Impose economic sanctions on Israel.

We believe that there should be a higher tariff on products from the state of Israel in response to its actions in Palestine and Lebanon.

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Tom Cruise’s stardom seems of a different time: many fans choose to ignore the actor’s personal life, including his controversial involvement with the Church of Scientology. “He is grandfathered into modern Hollywood,” Tyler Foggatt writes. nyer.cm/AT6YZzO

Why Tom Cruise Will Never Die

When we watch the actor’s stunts, we are watching someone defy death, over and over again. It’s impossible to look away.

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The first European leader to state that Israel is committing genocide. The dam is breaking.
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez calls Israel a ‘genocidal state’ in Parliament today. He also stated that the Spanish government will NOT trade with Israel.
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Your password must contain two characters who talk to each other about something other than a man
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The existence of Chicago Pope implies the existence of MLA Pope and APA Pope
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Zena Hitz@zenahitz8 May 2025
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the AI catastrophe leads one way only: to great books and to face-to-face intellectual community
Zito@_Zeets7 May 2025
The kids are cooked
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Andy Williams@llantwit1 May 2025
A #mayday win today. Bittersweet, but a win. No compulsory redundancies in 2025. Promise of more partnership from management. Students (staff, too) won’t suffer the awfulness of a MAB. The struggle continues. ✊💖 @cardiffucu @ucu By @AbbieWightwick👇 walesonline.co.uk/news/educa…

Strike action at Cardiff University called off

The main union changed its mind after bosses agreed to no compulsory redundancies before the end of 2025

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Lucie Elven@lucieelven1 May 2025
I wrote about Janet Frame. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n08/…

Lucie Elven · Wouldn’t you like to be normal? Janet Frame’s Place

There were her nicknames: Nini with the nits at home as a child, Miss Educated in Seacliff psychiatric hospital, Waldo...

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The latest entry in our Visualities forum, ed. @alixbeeston and Pardis Dabashi, is John Lurz on Barthes's 'semiographic' work. Read "A Secret Practice: Roland Barthes and the Writing of the Visual" here: modernismmodernity.org/forum…
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John Ross@JohnRoss4930 Apr 2025
Australian universities could reduce or even eliminate the need for savage job cuts by curtailing their spending on consultants, marketing and travel, with some executives lavishing the equivalent of a lecturer’s salary on a year’s business class flights. timeshighereducation.com/new…

Universities’ spending on consultancy and travel ‘costing jobs’

Australian deficits fuelled by unnecessary costs, report argues, but universities say analysis lacks ‘financial rigour’

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Andy Williams@llantwit30 Apr 2025
Replying to @CardiffUCU
@CardiffUCU ahead of today’s ACAS-chaired talks @cardiffuni: “Our demand remains modest: a guarantee of no compulsory redundancies this calendar year. If this is not met, then our members may have no choice but to follow through with industrial action.” nation.cymru/news/first-day-…

First day of strike action called off at Cardiff University as talks over proposed cuts take place

Martin Shipton Members of the University and College Union have put off the first day of planned strike action against proposed cuts at Cardiff University after a meeting between both sides was...

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Alix Beeston@alixbeeston9 Apr 2025
I'm happy to be co-supervising a funded PhD project on the Valleys archive at @ffotogallery (especially at a moment when the funding landscape is so dire). Please share/consider applying: findaphd.com/phds/project/th… @CardiffJomec @CUEngCommPhilos

The Valleys Archive at Ffotogallery: Community, Photography & Democracy in South Wales, 1978-2028...

PhD Project - The Valleys Archive at Ffotogallery: Community, Photography & Democracy in South Wales, 1978-2028 at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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"The privileging of negativity in modernist studies is connected in various ways to the gendering of modernism." Read Lorraine Sim on her preoccupation with the question of modernism and happiness in our latest Print Plus article: modernismmodernity.org/artic…
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Brilliant review that doubles as one of the most constructive additions to the eternal "What is criticism now?" conversation @hubersamj  yalereview.org/article/andre…

Andrea Long Chu’s Problem with Authority

The critic's early essays were defined by risk and provocation, writes Sam Huber. Who is she speaking to now?

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