Kate Spowage

Kate Spowage

katespowage.bsky.social

Critical interdisciplinary sociolinguist working on the politics of language, capitalism, and colonialism. Shamelessly plugging Language as Statecraft, which thinks about all those things. Lecturer at the University of Leeds. Own views, reposts ≠ agreement

👤 Joined on 16 November 2024

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02 October 2026 12:46

South Korea's UBI pilot shows major success 1 year. Local businesses grew by 2,000 and rural population went up 4.7%. Most of the money was spent, causing "an increase in new businesses in essential services such as restaurants, cafes, supermarkets, and hair and beauty salons."

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Teaching a digital media class this semester and have some students interested in videogames, including scholarship on signs in videogames, so wanted to re-up this really interesting thread and article on the #LinguisticLandscape of videogames! Very interesting scholarship here!

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09 September 2026 12:42

An article I really enjoyed writing is now out with Capital&Class

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This got a big response yesterday and I appreciate everyone’s kindness. Rest assured I have much thicker skin than some dweeb like this can get under. Anyway, back to work.

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Second day of the Descartes Lectures in Tilburg. With keynote lectures by @serenekhader.bsky.social and responses by @kdpham.bsky.social , @nescio13.bsky.social and Lorna Finlayson. All talks on oppression, decolonization, and political philosophy! All been amazing so far 😁

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