Tom Clark
@tom_cl_rk
Researcher + curator + writer. Art and Infrastructural Cultures. AHRC-funded PhD, Goldsmiths UoL (2024). Lecturer Manchester Met. @tmclrk.bsky.social
Co-convening a panel with @claire_staunton, for the @forarthistory AAH 2025 Conference "The Infrastructural Turn? Alternative Infrastructural Imaginaries of/through art and curatorial practices." Propose a paper here: forarthistory.org.uk/conference/202… DL (1-11-2024) : )
This is a great formulation. We socialise the costs of ageing, and privatise the costs of children.
I agree. But it makes zero economic sense for the costs of producing future taxpayers - i.e. having babies - to be almost fully privatised, while the funding of old age is completely socialised. It is either your responsibility to provide for yourself and your family or it isn’t.
Welcome to the Siemens turbine factory in Hull, BRITAIN, Richard. Skilled BRITISH labour manufactures the largest handmade objects in the world there. Wind power alone directly provides 20,000 jobs in BRITAIN, against 26,000 for the whole of oil and gas. Have some shame man.
“Green” jobs = Chinese jobs No British jobs nor British Steel in Chinese wind turbines digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/2256/read…
Everywhere I’ve been or lived with these recommendations is much nicer
Rain makes visible a lovely example of why buses, especially British double decker buses, need so much more operating subsidy than good rail-based transit. The bus grooves ground into the road throughout Leeds reveal the old iron tram lines which they cannot grind through.
Huh
There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system. Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts Spending is controlled
Nice bubble there
This is a very good essay, which suggests that the era of Western post-war prosperity was an exception and not a norm and that the Western ideal of endless progressivism in terms of which each generation lives better than the previous one has come to an end. The essay suggests…
I joined @AaronBastani for this wide-ranging discussion on capitalism, imperialism, ecological crisis and what the future may hold. Have a look and see what you think --> youtube.com/watch?v=bjlqWH…
“The idea isn’t to convert the French to Marxism…but to regain a taste for life, and to say to ourselves: we can do great and beautiful things again.’ There’s a reason Melenchon revived the French left. What a line, and what a guy.
Rail passenger numbers have been released for 2023-2024 and as predicted by literally everyone who knows anything about transport, they have already surpassed pre-Covid figures. Birmingham’s passenger growth second only to London.
Basically the same the day before
£110 to go to Manchester, the train is so packed, you can’t move, I’m sat on the floor, it’s boiling. Broken Britain. Wonder what @CrossCountryUK profits were last year.
Yes we need concerted action against illegal & hazardous parking in Birmingham but we can't shy away from underlying issue: sheer volume of vehicles in city of many Victorian/Edwardian suburbs not built for cars. Mass transit & active travel are solution. birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-…
Shocking thing about the left at the moment is complacency. People & organisations on autopilot, banging on about “austerity” and “neoliberalism” as if it’s still 2012. Gravest weakness is the failure to apprehend climate change as a real, material factor in people’s lives now.
See the tree lined grass track central reservation? Birmingham pioneered these in the early 20th century. It’s why so many arterial routes in the city have wide grassed central areas to this day.
Dijon is not the only French city that’s been positively transformed by the #TramRenaissance -let’s hear it for Orleans 🇫🇷
supply chains being very visible
This made me smile this morning. I hope these guys benefit from the discovery. A mountain collapse in Katanga, DR Congo, has exposed massive quantities of copper.
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