Harry Burson
@harryburson.bsky.social
Teaching film at University of Illinois Chicago. PhD in Film & Media from UC Berkeley.
Sound, digital media, space, etc. 🔈🎧
Sound, digital media, space, etc. 🔈🎧
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Agents said "hit them" before deploying tear gas, Ellis says, and then they lied about it under oath.
This calls into question their account of everything happening in the Chicago area.
This calls into question their account of everything happening in the Chicago area.
November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Agents said "hit them" before deploying tear gas, Ellis says, and then they lied about it under oath.
This calls into question their account of everything happening in the Chicago area.
This calls into question their account of everything happening in the Chicago area.
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I urge everyone to stay safe, stay vigilant, record any activity you see from a distance, and call the @icirr.bsky.social Family Support Network hotline at 855-435-7693 if you spot ICE, CBP, or other federal agents, or if you are in need of assistance.
October 31, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I urge everyone to stay safe, stay vigilant, record any activity you see from a distance, and call the @icirr.bsky.social Family Support Network hotline at 855-435-7693 if you spot ICE, CBP, or other federal agents, or if you are in need of assistance.
ICE just rammed a vehicle at Oakton and Asbury in Evanston. They left the damaged car in the middle of the street and appear to have taken the driver. This is less than a block away from Oakton Elementary
October 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
ICE just rammed a vehicle at Oakton and Asbury in Evanston. They left the damaged car in the middle of the street and appear to have taken the driver. This is less than a block away from Oakton Elementary
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On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back
Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.
newrepublic.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:56 AM
On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.
Excited that my article "Ears in the Cloud" has been published in October! All about Christina Kubisch's sound art and the ways in which digital media has been imagined in sonic terms. I write about politics of listening to infrastructure and historicize the 'sonic turn'
doi.org/10.1162/OCTO...
doi.org/10.1162/OCTO...
Ears in the Cloud: Fantasies of Networked Perception
Abstract. This article examines Cloud (2017), a sound art installation by Christina Kubisch that aims to make digital infrastructure audible. In works such as this one and the similar Electrical Walks...
doi.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Excited that my article "Ears in the Cloud" has been published in October! All about Christina Kubisch's sound art and the ways in which digital media has been imagined in sonic terms. I write about politics of listening to infrastructure and historicize the 'sonic turn'
doi.org/10.1162/OCTO...
doi.org/10.1162/OCTO...
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Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025
We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...
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October 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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South Shore residents returned to their ransacked apartments after an ICE raid. "It looks like hell." blockclubchi.co/4gV8ODq
October 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
South Shore residents returned to their ransacked apartments after an ICE raid. "It looks like hell." blockclubchi.co/4gV8ODq
Catch me a the first panel of SIGCIS 2025 tomorrow morning. :D
September 24, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Catch me a the first panel of SIGCIS 2025 tomorrow morning. :D
I 'm really enjoying the vibe at Uncommon Senses at
@concordiau.bsky.social. Can't wait to discuss the intersection of sensory studies and media studies tomorrow at what should b a fantastic roundtable!
sites.events.concordia.ca/sites/concor...
@concordiau.bsky.social. Can't wait to discuss the intersection of sensory studies and media studies tomorrow at what should b a fantastic roundtable!
sites.events.concordia.ca/sites/concor...
SESSION 4.2.7 Roundtable. Media and Hierarchies of the Senses | Schedule | Uncommon Senses V
Uncommon Senses V: Sensing the Social, the Environmental, and Across the Arts and Sciences will be taking place at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada this coming May. We are pleased to be welcomin...
sites.events.concordia.ca
May 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I 'm really enjoying the vibe at Uncommon Senses at
@concordiau.bsky.social. Can't wait to discuss the intersection of sensory studies and media studies tomorrow at what should b a fantastic roundtable!
sites.events.concordia.ca/sites/concor...
@concordiau.bsky.social. Can't wait to discuss the intersection of sensory studies and media studies tomorrow at what should b a fantastic roundtable!
sites.events.concordia.ca/sites/concor...
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I'll also be chairing a roundtable called "Media and Hierarchies of the Senses" with an awesome group of junior scholars like @harryburson.bsky.social , @kcforcier.bsky.social , Chelsea Ward, and Júlia Irion Martins.
May 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I'll also be chairing a roundtable called "Media and Hierarchies of the Senses" with an awesome group of junior scholars like @harryburson.bsky.social , @kcforcier.bsky.social , Chelsea Ward, and Júlia Irion Martins.
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Beautiful piece on Linda Williams (1946-2025 💔) in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/a...
Linda Williams, Who Introduced Pornography to Academia, Dies at 78
One of the first to write seriously about a fraught subject, she also played a major role in developing the field of film studies and feminist film theory.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Beautiful piece on Linda Williams (1946-2025 💔) in the NY Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/a...
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I somehow just became aware of this great essay by my department head :D
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
www.nplusonemag.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I somehow just became aware of this great essay by my department head :D
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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1/7 It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of Linda Williams, a pioneering scholar whose fearless work transformed film and media studies. Over her remarkable career, Williams challenged scholars to take seriously popular and often marginalized genres,
March 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
1/7 It is with deep sadness that we mourn the passing of Linda Williams, a pioneering scholar whose fearless work transformed film and media studies. Over her remarkable career, Williams challenged scholars to take seriously popular and often marginalized genres,
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I called Rep. Quigley's office. Got through immediately and left this message to the friendly person on the other end. I haven't seen any templates circulating around this issue, but here's what I said if it's helpful:
March 10, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I called Rep. Quigley's office. Got through immediately and left this message to the friendly person on the other end. I haven't seen any templates circulating around this issue, but here's what I said if it's helpful:
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WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?
March 6, 2025 at 3:11 PM
WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?
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9 degrees, mighty colleagues, fighting for science and service!
public research IS public health!
uic united faculty, carl rosen of united electrical, radio,+ machine workers, uchicago aaup, northwestern postdocs, depaul, in it to win @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @uaw.org
public research IS public health!
uic united faculty, carl rosen of united electrical, radio,+ machine workers, uchicago aaup, northwestern postdocs, depaul, in it to win @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @uaw.org
February 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
9 degrees, mighty colleagues, fighting for science and service!
public research IS public health!
uic united faculty, carl rosen of united electrical, radio,+ machine workers, uchicago aaup, northwestern postdocs, depaul, in it to win @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @uaw.org
public research IS public health!
uic united faculty, carl rosen of united electrical, radio,+ machine workers, uchicago aaup, northwestern postdocs, depaul, in it to win @higheredlabor.bsky.social @aftunion.bsky.social @uaw.org
FWIW I just called my senators and rep to voice my extreme displeasure at their lack of a response to *everything*. Maybe you should too?
February 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
FWIW I just called my senators and rep to voice my extreme displeasure at their lack of a response to *everything*. Maybe you should too?
I'm already in Chicago, but I will also be at SCMS. See you there!
November 25, 2024 at 10:20 PM
I'm already in Chicago, but I will also be at SCMS. See you there!