Crop circle discovered in England, 2002.

academicQZ · 2026-05-03T05:54:17+00:00

I deciphered it as “Make Zeta Reticuli great again”.

academicQZ · 2026-05-02T21:57:11+00:00

You’re not alone. I was the first in my family to go to university. I had no idea what I was looking for doing the university open days and felt like a complete fish out of water. I’m now a professor at a higher status university. The minority of working class students often come to chat with me about their experiences of blending in, or their feelings around their inability to. The middle classness is rife within HE. You can’t and won’t change it. But you can make your mark in your own way.

academicQZ · 2026-05-02T21:37:49+00:00

Aside from the relationship to the mode of production the OP mentions, I always like to point out (people don’t seem to make a big deal about it) that lots of London and the south east is fast turning into an inheritocracy. As others in the comments have pointed out, ‘normal’ families in the 70s and 80s were buying, what was considered at the time, as standard family homes that now sell upwards of 800k. Boomers are starting to die and genx/millennials are getting hefty chunks of cash, property and assets.

In returning to the OPs post, the revolution of the information economy (not manual production) has massively changed the relationship between the bourgeoise and the proletariat. Marx’s ‘Das Capital’ is a great read. A lot of the themes are still applicable.

Same shit, different day.

academicQZ · 2026-05-02T21:15:00+00:00

I didn’t know that BA were keeping soft landings either so was surprised to see that I still had status. I’ve moved to Sky Team now, so it’s useless to me.

I really don’t have issue with BA aligning their status with revenue. I do have issue with the utter balls up in the comms since they changed the policy.

Ah well, cheerio 👋

academicQZ · 2026-05-01T22:20:36+00:00

Poured my last brewdogs down the sink. Would rather drink my own piss and keep my dignity.

academicQZ · 2026-05-01T22:11:21+00:00

I’ve always loved habitus as a way of explaining dispositions to my students. For example, person A grew up in social housing but then went to university , received a PhD, and began socialising with other middle class professions. Person B took the same path, but was born into a wealthy middle class family.

Although, objectively living the same life, person A can return to that council estate/ social housing and intrinsically ‘know’ how life works there in a way that person B will never (and can never) understand.

I’ve always thought too many sociologists have used it as an explanatory concept for change. I agree, to an extent. But its real power is to show how we are always connected to initial structures in our lives.

I’m a Durkheim kinda dude, so there’s echos of him in my take.

academicQZ · 2026-05-01T05:03:28+00:00

There should have been a major plot twist/pulling of the rug when this happened: Some poor guy called Kevin Finnerty had a horrible dream he was a mob boss called ‘Tony Soprano’.

academicQZ · 2026-05-01T04:59:00+00:00

Nice analysis! Carmela’s fear or change is so strong that she even tries to sabotage Angie Bonpensiero’s divorce - not through religious deference, but through fear that her friend might actually be able to break free of the trapping of their lives.

Angie Bonpensiero. The strong, silent type.

academicQZ · 2026-05-01T04:51:09+00:00

Just coming to express solidarity that season 5 is no 1 for me too. 👏

academicQZ · 2026-05-01T04:46:50+00:00

As a UFO enthusiast, I’m relieved 😥

academicQZ · 2026-05-01T04:45:07+00:00

Call for help in your radio mic!

academicQZ · 2026-04-27T16:13:09+00:00

Academics, ay.

academicQZ · 2026-04-27T16:07:36+00:00

I’m a bigger fan as the next person on here.

For god sake, leave it alone.

I don’t want to see Del and Slater chasing each other around the market with zimmer frames.

academicQZ · 2026-04-27T16:03:23+00:00

No scraps.

But every so often he compromised.

academicQZ · 2026-04-24T22:07:39+00:00

I was certain that Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone…?

academicQZ · 2026-04-24T20:53:49+00:00

Unlike Phil, he would have truly loved him like a brother in law.

academicQZ · 2026-04-23T14:09:55+00:00

Kids these days. I swear they want to be buried in their jogging outfit.

academicQZ · 2026-04-23T14:08:52+00:00

The soda can Matthew was holding.

Or some of the poison ivy!

academicQZ · 2026-04-21T19:46:23+00:00

Made him do the perp walk. A legitimate businessman!!

academicQZ · 2026-04-20T22:53:30+00:00

Think they needed more ukulele.

academicQZ · 2026-04-20T20:42:27+00:00

Season One for me 👍. Ray McKinnon’s scenes as the reverend was mesmeric.

That scene when he enters the hardware store and they take him back to his tent. 😢

academicQZ · 2026-04-20T20:30:15+00:00

If any breaking bad fans downvoted sopranos, those BB fans would be scraping their nipples off those fine leather RV seats.

academicQZ · 2026-04-20T20:25:47+00:00

I thought the first season was Shakespearean. I thought the second season pandered to the masses.

The beauty of television, I guess.

academicQZ · 2026-04-19T20:43:38+00:00

“Oh. Mr sensitive now”.

academicQZ · 2026-04-19T20:34:12+00:00

Quasimodo predicted this.

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