{"id":1792,"date":"2021-09-15T14:12:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T13:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2022-02-01T15:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T15:04:18","slug":"page-breaks-22-september-douglas-coupland-on-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2021\/09\/15\/page-breaks-22-september-douglas-coupland-on-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Page Breaks &#8211; 29 September &#8211; Douglas Coupland on Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2021\/02\/08\/elon-musk-carbon-capture_wide-ad61ec5aa4b9c86c183c9bdb76d633b191a17075-s1600-c85.webp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Our next Page Breaks session will be on 29 September at 1 pm, and will consider Douglas Coupland&#8217;s recent take on Elon Musk in The Guardian. (Thanks everyone for the suggestion!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;And let\u2019s also be certain about something else: we all hate a goody two-shoes, so come on, what kind of perfect behaviour is it you expect from a person, any person, let alone Elon Musk?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Text (Reading)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Douglas Coupland, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/aug\/29\/the-smartest-person-in-any-room-anywhere-in-defence-of-elon-musk-by-douglas-coupland\">The smartest person in any room anywhere: in defence of Elon Musk<\/a>&#8216; (via <em>The Guardian<\/em>)<\/li><li>(Optional): I suppose I should have expected to do a lot of googling this week; I&#8217;ll almost certainly mention some of the content <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/human-interest\/2021\/09\/elon-musk-and-grimes-relationship-a-brief-weird-history.html\">here<\/a>.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Time&#8221; and &#8220;Place&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Wed 29 September, 1 pm<\/li><li>Zoom: <a href=\"https:\/\/bham-ac-uk.zoom.us\/j\/4690415237\">Link<\/a>&nbsp;(Password: pagebreaks)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking forward to seeing you all again soon! This event is run by Dorothy Butchard and Toria Johnson (d.butchard@bham.ac.uk and t.johnson@bham.ac.uk). Please email us if you have any questions, but you&#8217;re welcome to just turn up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Page Breaks is a (very) informal weekly reading group within the Department of English Literature. All welcome!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our next Page Breaks session will be on 29 September at 1 pm, and will consider Douglas Coupland&#8217;s recent take on Elon Musk in The Guardian. (Thanks everyone for the suggestion!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[246],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-lit","category-page-breaks","tag-page-breaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1808,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions\/1808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}